National Concert Hall

And that's really, that's a really powerful thing.

feeling to do that it's really human you know it's really like I love it we never really we did an acoustic tour with Dallarentos in 2015 or 2016 or something and we'd never done anything like that before our manager Dan pushed us to do what he thought it would suit us but we were still playing like the National Concert Hall and stuff like that you know like it was it was kind of big band acoustic versions, you know, whereas this is like just like at times just our vocals, you know, and it's really cool, but it feels really different, you know, like it feels really different to the Del Rento stuff.

And I'm really blessed to have that as well.

And I don't know, like, it's really funny, like, if Delorant is going to tour next year or play gigs next year, like, I just wonder how I will feel, you know, because we never told big stories in between gigs.

They did like Nosferatu.

So basically the haunted dance hall is like kind of an event put on by Foggy Notions, kind of a mini festival in the National Concert Hall.

They had like this, they played like the film Nosferatu.

But then they had, like, this, like, alternative score that someone was doing live.

Now, this was a unique production staged for just two performances, can you believe it, at the DLR Mill Theatre in Dundrum.

Inspired by Ireland's threatened bird species, they brought together members of the Elders, they're a Dublin-based theatre group for older people, and the Young Singers of Corn and Oak, the National Concert Hall's acclaimed youth choir, alongside musicians and visual artists in a powerful celebration of nature, creativity and conservation.

It's the afternoon of the 15th of May.

It's a beautiful afternoon, a little bit chilly, but it's a lovely spring afternoon with blue skies.

And that was taken...

in the back room in the National Concert Hall in the mid-1980s.

And Jim with the bottle of beer in one hand and the cigarette in the other.

That's the way we all lived back then.

just because you were taking a lot of inspiration from him

yeah most definitely and I went to a lecture he did here in the National Concert Hall and I got talking to him afterwards and then I met him he was speaking at the Pendulum Summit there one year and I showed him a few photographs from back at the North Pole Marathon and you know he enjoyed looking at them and it

was good But such a cool experience.

Yeah, yeah.

They were speaking about it.

And then I think kind of another major moment then was In the National Concert Hall, we did a big event.

It was a kind of a question and answers thing.

You hosted it with me and it was amazing.

And then on the other side, the reason we're all here is this guy got access to kids through sport, which we know is a story, you know, as old as time.

And, you know, Trish Carney, you know, who's written for us in the journal, I think one of the, it's not one of the more serious crimes, I think, but it's one of the most profound things on it.

Remember, she was at the National Concert Hall that night and she said it took her years to realise that.

that actually he had also taken competitive swimming away from her, something that she had loved.

And then coming up to events, we meet more often.

So at the moment, we obviously have, you know, this concert coming up on the 25th We also have our own concert in the National Concert Hall on the 8th of November.

And we've had two sold out concerts in the National Concert Hall last year and the previous year.

And this year, Rebecca Storm and Aslan are performing with us, which is amazing.

So, you know, for the last six weeks, really since Electric Picnic, which was another story.