Glen Hansard

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

Glen Hansard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

And I often think that people get into kind of, I heard Victoria Clark describe Shane McGowan, her husband, as a cosmonaut.

Because he liked to go to places in his mind.

He liked to travel to distant places.

So he had this interest in being out of his mind.

So he would take a lot of drugs and go to these places.

And I felt like the lads in Ballet Monde had a similar thing of like, they were into great music, like Pink Floyd, The Wall or Luke Kelly or Bob Marley and all these people that these lads were into.

It was great music.

The world is kind of, the world is dissatisfying for them.

So they have to kind of, they're looking for other things.

I'm not saying that everyone's like that because there's a lot of sheep as well.

There's a lot of people that do it because their mates are doing it.

But a lot of the people I grew up around in Ballymone who were using drugs

They were smart.

Yeah, yeah.

And they were troubled, but they were smart.

So I... Frankie was like... So I told him I was into all this music and then I was able to name people who played bass on the album.

And he was like, wow, Glenn, you're really into music, aren't you?

And I was like... He said, would you bring in your guitar and play for me?

And so I brought in my guitar and he's like...

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