John Spillane

They're doing a concert in, in the beginning of September.

And then we have, um, John Spillane is coming the end of October.

Oh.

Uh, like, we've a line of concerts-

Because I think we've all gone through a lot of stuff

It's like what I think it's like what John Spillane says when John Spillane is writing a song, he was told to write about what he knows.

And so he knows Cork and he writes songs about Cork.

So you have Michal been through, you know, massive changes in your life.

Stalled on the beach, the vehicles were vulnerable to pre-registered mortar and howitzer fire, as well as hand grenades tossed into the open troop compartments by Japanese troops on the other side of the barrier.

The crew chief of one vehicle, Corporal John Spillane, had been a baseball prospect with the St. Louis Cardinals organization before the war.

Spillane caught two Japanese grenades barehanded in midair, tossing them back over the wall.

A third grenade exploded in his hand, grievously wounding him.

Colonel David Monroe Shoup received the Medal of Honor.

Major Jim Crow and his executive officer, Major Bill Chamberlain, received the Navy Cross.

So did Lieutenant Colonel Herb Amey, posthumously, Major Mike Ryan, and Corporal John Spillane, the LVT crew chief and prospective baseball star who caught the Japanese hand grenades in midair on D-Day before his luck ran out.

Some of the senior officers in the division were jealous of Shoup's Medal of Honor, but Julian Smith knew full well whose strong shoulders had borne the critical first 36 hours of the assault.

And it really did look good, you know? Yeah.

Kevin Feige I saw him on Letterboxd then and they were going what are your four your top four and I was like gotta watch this what did he say yeah yeah and like so John Spillane by the way he also was in The Lighthouse and he got cornered by the top four by the Letterboxd guys and they're what's your top four and he's like oh my god and he's just freaking out he's like I didn't think this would happen I need to come up with something so he came up with four and then he came back later on and they asked he was like can I answer those again so he he like changed some of his answers so like this is how people take it and there's like a formula to it where it's like usually a lot of these people especially if you're into films okay it's like you want to choose like three sort of like

yeah I've sort of seen the rough format of like yeah you want one the golden age of cinema in america yeah you know what i mean you want one sort of french new wave or

yeah

what the f what do you want you know okay you give me four and adhere to the formula okay

yeah yeah yeah yeah because i actually because i i'm making fun but i do that as well that's exactly what my four are like my four it's a fun game yeah i love it because because you also like you are telling something about yourself where you're like you know oh you know it's bad but i like this or whatever you know like you're a normal person you don't want to be you don't have like you want to have like one normal in there you know what i mean yeah and then like Yeah, you fucking have to, I'm sorry.

But the, you should look up, people should look up John Spillane's, not because I think, wow, what a great selection, but more like, I like it because it seems representative of him.

It's like interesting to be like, I'm a comedy guy and these are my films, you know what I mean?

Oh, I did.

He did a lovely thing with John Spillane and Mary Coughlin and it was about love songs.

And he was saying, what makes a good love song? And Spillane was like, it's person and place.

So, you know, it's like your Galway girl, Nancy Spain.

The rest of it will fall into place for you, seemingly.

That adds up.

And it's when John Spillane said it, I was like, just fuck it, he's...

And Creedon either kind of agreed with him or Creedon maybe said it and then John explained it or vice versa, I can't remember.

And that particular song was from that concert live at Hamer Hall in Melbourne as well.

They did another concert apart from the Port Ferry one And John Spillane was the...

Yeah, he was the Irish folk singer behind that song.

And before that, we got to hear the great Dublin folk rockers, the High Kings, with two tracks.

you come from Balancholic.

Do you know the song Johnny Don't Go to Balancholic Because You'll Always Get So Disappointed? Is that Chrissie Moore? No, John Spillane.

John Spillane.

That's what I know about Balancholic.

It's a disappointing place.

It is about you.

John Spillane, I don't think there was a song came out of the hit factory that she didn't push for you.

Good morning.

Morning, PJ.

It's a long haul kind of situation, PJ.

Well, you know what? When you do, the Arts House will be here to help you to promote it, like Elmery always did.

John Spillane, thank you.

Now, she was the quintessential concert emcee for the orchestras of Cork.