Mark O'Leary, Cillian Murphy, Marlon Brando (Johnny Depp)

 I had two students that were picked to star with Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp (always forget Depp...as well). I coached them a little bit besides the music, confidence building, tactics, and in that supplementary moment, 'do you have anything you wish to add', grabbing a guitar and a rendition with maximum impact, whereby after the first verse, "sorry kid, exactly when would you like to start work with Marlon Brando".. On a rainy, drab, innocuous saturday afternoon I was auditing new students in the Wright Music Centre on Castle Street and two new students arrived in to be assessed; Cillian and his friend Eoin. I'll never forget, Cillian was kind of, pardon the french, "who the fuck are you." "Well, I've got two students that are going to be starring with Marlon Brando"... "Yeah boy, yeah." "Oh Yeah boy, oh yeah" I retorted. An older lad in the class intervened and said he does, I'm in school with one of them. Suddenly Cillian elevated me into a position of hierarchial importance. He was astounded, but as the shawl wearing lady on cornmarket street used to iterate, talk is cheap.. This was in his first musical phase, he had three when I was teaching him, but when I could play and teach him the more intricate material he wanted to learn, like; Directions in groove, Tower of Power and later Zappa, that grabbed his attention, he was a dedicated and eager student, and transmogrified into a tasty guitarist. A holistic picture of an artist as a young man is important, the epistemological embryonics are also. Like my membership of Len McCarthy's superlative quartet, or the only guitar lesson I got before I went to America was from Ray, that is it.. As I said, I never really spoke about Cillian, I was never asked, I was kind of focused on my own stuff or they didn't know, but now they do. It's a funny one, like the Interference, it was a special moment, very early on in the music for me, again glossed over, but as I said, the demos I made with them are the demos they went to Dublin with to; air their wares and set out their stall, in their embryonic development its kind of important, but the axiom here is; it is the people who are current are the ones who grab the attention.