Glen Hansard
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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We just, we go there every year and we camp out there and the winters are really cold.
No, no, we don't camp out.
We rent an apartment in the centre of Helsinki.
But they really, really understand insulation.
So it's like, now I grew up in Ballymun and Ballymun was, you could grow plants indoors.
You could dry your clothes, put your clothes on the floor and they'd be dry in half an hour because the heating all come up through the floor.
So you had these amazing apartments in Ballymun.
People often think of Ballymone as a super rough place, but it was free hot water, free heating all year round.
Although you didn't have any control over it.
The heating came on in September, whatever, and then it went off in April.
And so you just kind of had to, you know, if it was a cold April, you just froze.
But God, it was a great place to grow up.
And Helsinki's similar in that they do double glazing.
And also the cold there is a very honest kind of a cold.
It's bloody bitter cold, but if you wear the right clothes.
And I don't think, the funny thing with Ireland is that we haven't figured out architecturally how to get on top of humidity and cold, or we don't wear the right, I mean, you look at heads out, the sun comes out at all and they're wearing a T-shirt and it's Baltic outside.
We just have a very different relationship with weather, I think, here.
Oh, I love that aspect.
I mean, I think anybody who spent any time in the public realm, it would feel like a warm shower now to go somewhere where anyone...
gives a damn who you are or what you're... You know, the funny thing... It's a funny thing being kind of... Like having a face that people recognise.
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