Glen Hansard

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559 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · Glen Hansard Interview - February 14th 2026 · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

you know, if nature follows through the way according to how it should go, I'll be gone soon enough.

So I need to look after my house and make sure that my son is okay.

And that's, you know, the...

Again, coming back to what we're doing on the road and all the rest and never wanting to bemoan or anything like that.

But it is getting hard.

The reason there are more and more bands on the road, the reason you see more and more gigs is because it's harder for bands to make money.

Because music is free, essentially.

Basically, yes.

You're making something, but very, very little.

And so those days of like, you know, millionaire musicians, I mean, it still happens, but it happens to a very rarefied few.

Most people are just grafting and most people are keeping down a job.

while they have a band.

And so, you know, it is an art choice.

You're doing it for, it's vocational rather than professional.

I absolutely did.

And I mean, it was easy for me to write my dad out.

My dad was a drinker, but he loved singing.

But, you know, there was a kind of a sense growing up that he loved drinking more than he loved his family and all of that.

But actually, when I come back to it, Colm actually reminded me of this recently.

For about five years there...

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