Shane Daniel Byrne - “I like the way songs can change meaning over the years”
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Who is Shane Daniel Byrne and why is he on the show?
I am joined now by comedian, actor and writer Shane Daniel Byrne, who is one of Ireland's most exciting new comedy talents. You might know him from his podcast Young Hot Guys, which he hosts with fellow comedians Cillian Sunderland and Tony Cantwell. You might know him from his turn as Glenn in These Sacred Vowels or his stand-up shows that are selling out across the country. Shane, thank you very much for coming in today.
Thank you very much.
And thank you very much for coming in yesterday. That is so something in your enthusiasm to come in.
I arrived bang on time, 24 hours early. But I was perfectly on time and ready to go. And you know what? I was kind of nervous because this is kind of a grown up engagement for me. And I'm allergic. I'm scared it might be serious. And I'm allergic to that. I'm scared of doing that. And then I was all revved myself up. I looked absolutely gorgeous.
And you look gorgeous today.
Thank you very much. Well, I was out last night at the comedy festival. So actually, it would have been ideal not to do this. But look, here we are. Good afternoon.
But here we are. You are welcome, doubly welcome to the show. And you are here today to delve into your record collection, to give us five songs that have soundtracked your life so far. And I wanted, first of all, to bring you back to your childhood days. I grew up in an all-girl household, four sisters. You grew up in an all-boy household.
All boys. Yes, four boys. And everyone said, you're a poor man. That's what everyone says.
I think they said that about my mum as well. People forget.
Yeah, I can imagine. That's a different type of battle. Yeah. But people forget that mams quite into sons. They like it. Let's not forget that. So she's happy enough. There is a young woman has now been born. She is about two weeks old and yesterday experienced rain for the first time. So hello to my lovely niece, Ayla, who was the first grandchild.
So congratulations and welcome into that. Was it a blokey house?
No. No, we're kind of like, we're boys with feelings, I think. And I think we're like, that's kind of who we were encouraged to be growing up, I think. And we're a family that debates. We talk about things. We watch the news, even though we didn't want to. But like, that's what your dad says. You're watching the news, even though Simpsons is on, on RG2. But anyway, Network 2 in those days, of course. But yeah, so I don't think we're kind of particularly blokey house. I mean, there's football, there's all those things, there's boy things, but I don't think we were like, we had scraps and all the rest, but we weren't like toxic maybe.
Was there a lot of music in your house growing up? Were you a musical family or what's your earliest recollections of music?
Yeah, it is. I mean, yeah, there was. It's so hard to pick these songs. It's like, you think like, and then if someone showed me the list of songs I've prepared, I'd be like, they're not, nothing to do with me. I don't know. Anyway, that's what came out. Yeah, we were, like, my parents were into music. They had, I remember, it was a lot of Neil Young when we were kids. And that was, my mother used to sing Neil Young when we were very small, going to sleep, that kind of thing. There would have been a bit of that. My brother, my older brother, Gary, he's very into music and plays guitar and has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things and knows about jazz, you know, this kind of thing. So he was very into music as a little kid.
So he kind of sets the tone because he's the oldest and he's in charge and that's how that works. So anything I learned about music, I absorbed from him.
A lot of my early sort of listen to music from your parents was sort of influenced by those long car journeys. You would go on and I think that's how I fell in love with Leonard Cohen because it was their choice rather than... That is real mum and dad music, isn't it?
Yeah, we had, we used to go, like any Dublin family, we have a relationship at Wexford. So my parents have a mobile home in Duncannon in Wexford.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Shane Daniel Byrne and why is he on the show?
0:00–7:07
2
How did Shane’s childhood and Wexford holidays shape his love of music?
7:07–12:51
3
Why does Shane think listening to whole albums on car journeys mattered?
12:51–16:28
4
What childhood memory makes 'Girl from Mars' so special to Shane?
16:28–27:46
5
How did youth theatre help Shane discover performance and confidence?
27:46–28:59