What Made Me? Mary Coughlan
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The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance. Now I'm joined by jazz, blues and soul singer Mary Coughlin for What Made Me. You're very welcome, Mary. Good morning.
Lovely to see you.
You're going to be busy again this summer.
Ah, stop it, lads. I have gigs in my diary until next May.
UK, Scotland.
UK, Scotland, yeah. Here, of course. Here, lots of going to the Olympia. pavilions most of the gigs coming up are sold out thankfully doing Galway then again next I haven't a clue I was going to bring them in no don't worry I probably have them we'll get them too many gigs my point is that you're still busy and you're still out there and you're still performing so you clearly love it oh god yeah I just came back from Australia and New Zealand and that was great but I Don't know if I'll go back again. It's a really long trip. It's not even the gigs. It's just the trip down, you know. I'm flying to places down there, you know.
But when you perform, you're kind of, you're just, you are the song. Like you're just gone. Just the song. But you are. You're just, you can see it. You're just, you're just gone. I remember that from way back seeing you on the Late Late Show. That you just, it was, it's part of the joy of watching you. That you just disappear into it. You're not there anymore.
You're gone. That would be merciful. I suppose, yeah, but oh God, I love it more than ever now. I used to be, when I look at videos of myself, that sometimes there's a guy that puts up archive stuff from RTE.
Online.
Yeah, online. I said, oh my God, look at the shoulder pads. Oh my God, look at the stage. Look at my hair, you know. I mean, still criticising myself like that, you know, but yeah.
Don't do it.
Put the hands in the pockets and close the eyes and gone. Mm-hmm.
Yeah. But you were 30 before you started singing like... Yeah, 39. 29. 29.
29. Um... Siobhan McHugh and what's his name? He passed away last year.
What experiences shaped Mary Coughlan's early life?
Shea Healy set up this thing called Sounds Promising and you had to send in a cassette of yourself singing two songs and we got picked. We came up to RTE, to this big studio in RTE and Gae Burn was walking by when they were mixing it and he said, who's that? And I said, it's a mother of three from Galway. And he said, can I pinch her for the Late Late Show?
And that was it. That was it? Yeah. Incredible. So it was really, I mean... Was that a life-changing moment? Oh, God, yeah. The Late Late Show, Gay Burn.
The whole business has been life-changing for me. I mean, I left Galway with the three kids. I had left my husband, Denny, my first husband, and... with the three kids under six. What was I thinking? I put them into the car, a few plastic bags of clothes and came up to Dublin.
You see, you probably didn't know what you were letting yourself in for. You know, when you look back at things like that and you go, if I'd have known what was ahead of me, I wouldn't make it.
Well, I don't know. I'm glad I did it though because I wrote a song a few years ago called In Another World, What Would I Have Done? Yeah. In any given situation, you know. And in another world, if you and I were still together, what would, you know, I had to leave, I think, to do it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:53
2
What experiences shaped Mary Coughlan's early life?
2:53–8:49
3
How did Mary Coughlan's career begin on the Late Late Show?
8:49–10:04
4
What challenges did Mary face as a mother and artist?
10:04–11:19
5
What inspired Mary Coughlan to write her latest songs?
11:19–11:35