Christy Dignam Interview (2001)

I recorded this interview with Christy Dignam of Irish band Aslan while I was working on the WIT radio station way back in 2000. I don’t have the audio recording anymore, but I discovered the transcription below while going through some old backups.

Uncle Bill

My uncle returned from England in his twenties and moved back into his parent’s home. As my mother tells it, his heart had been broken by a woman he fell in love with over the water, so he had come home to lick his wounds. Twenty years later he was still living with his parents, and the scars were still fresh enough to influence the way he lived his life.

The ones who stayed behind

I’ve always had an idea of myself as a liberal, open minded person; but like many good ideas, what seems good in theory has proved somewhat difficult to put into practice.

McGregor’s Bull

To really understand, you just had to be there. To understand how it all came about, now that’s a different animal altogether. I don’t think anyone but Joe himself could tell you what the starting of the thing was, and Joe’s been in his grave these ten years and more come this July.

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