Paul Brady’s live album is worth the wait
I WAS slightly anxious about speaking to Paul Brady. More than one journalist has staggered from an encounter with the doyen of Irish adult-orientated rock, shaken and incredulous. As a songwriter, Brady is endlessly smooth. In person, it is said, he has bite.
Such misgivings were misguided. Brady (67), whose hits include ‘The Island’, ‘Crazy Dreams’ and ‘Nothing But The Same Old Story’, will never be mistaken for ebullient. However, he is polite and thoughtful, that rumoured chip on the shoulder conspicuously absent. He turns combative just once, when asked how he juggles a career in music with a ‘normal’ life as a married Dublin suburbanite with two children. Here, he bristles slightly — wondering how anyone’s life could be described as ‘normal’. Each of us is extraordinary, in our own way.
