Mary Coughlan

Never.

I've never even done a warm up.

Eric Visser worked with Eric for years.

You know, we did the first album, first nine records together.

He has Parkinson's now and he's very, he's not great at the minute.

But he said, it seems every time I had a child, I dropped a tone.

Changed a bit, yeah.

And it's deep now and I can feel it when I'm singing.

like a vibration and not like I'm not a hippie.

I used to be a hippie, but I can actually feel, you know, it's weird.

No, I mean, I wrote most of the last two albums myself, which is great.

I never had the confidence to write before.

I've written a couple, but the last album is called Repeat Rewind.

And when I stopped drinking all those years ago, I couldn't sleep at night.

Mm hmm.

And I used to count sheep and I couldn't ever see the sheep or see, you know, didn't really make sense to me.

So one night I decided, I started thinking about Chantella and all of the people who lived on Ash Road.

And I would start at the bottom, then at Dooley's and I'd go all the way up to the top.

Named them all in your mind.

And then I started Mulvane's this side and go all the way down that side and name all the kids in all the houses.