Home boy Ultan Conlon makes his musical mark

ULTAN CONLON has no idea how it happened. “A friend mentioned my music was on Spotify, so I checked. Sure enough, there it was,” he says with a phlegmatic shrug. “Seeing my songs up there was certainly news to me. I don’t actually know how the process works. It’s a mystery.”

The Galway artist is proud to call himself a luddite. He tends to listen to music on the antediluvian medium of CD and was only dimly aware of the world’s most popular streaming service, when it was pointed out that several of his records were on it.

“I did get a royalty cheque,” he smiles. “It was hilarious. There were so many zeroes after the dot. You literally could not buy anything with it. I won’t be getting rich quick, that’s for sure.”