Myself and John McSherry were down in Dublin yesterday, on RTE Radio 1’s ‘Arena’, presented by Horslips legend Jim Lockhart. We were promoting ‘The Wheels Of The World: 300 Years Of Irish Uilleann Pipers, out in a week or two. John recorded an exclusive solo bit of pipery for the show 20 mins before airtime – which sounds great. We got 12 minutes. If anyone’s interested, I think it only lasts on the RTE site for a day.
Pontifiicating pipers on air…
Great stuff Colin – many congratulations on getting this written published and out there; sounds really good.
(oh – and so that’s what Jim Lockhart is doing these days….)
Actually, he produces radio mostly, and has done for many years. He gets asked to stand in when presenters are on leave, as here. Arena is normally presented by a man called Sean Rocks. Obviously, I had to explain to the shows producers that Sean rocks, but Jim rocks harder.