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

beginning to kind of break into things, just getting into that slightly dodgy spot.

And that would have been easy, would it?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I was on that trajectory.

And then my uncle's guitar was left in our house for a while.

And a friend of mine, actually my girlfriend at the time, Gráinne's brother, gave me a cassette of Bob Dylan.

And I was about 12 and a half and I was, you know, kind of heading a rough road.

And I listened to Bob Dylan and everything, like it's like my whole world just went into the opposite, flipped.

I stayed in the bedroom.

I played Bob Dylan songs every day.

I learned my craft.

I decided music was all I cared about.

My uncle was a musician.

I wanted to be like him.

But I also, I kind of set every sail, every cell in my body.

I set sail towards whatever Bob Dylan was doing.

I want to be doing whatever that is.

It was just playing music and traveling and singing and

And so that was a real turnaround for me.

It was a life change.

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