The shape I'm in - Liam Ó Maonlaí

MUSICIAN Liam Ó Maonlaí follows his own rhythms and in his own time. Anything else is an unwelcome distraction.

As a child who enjoyed improvising on the piano he didn’t take kindly to music lessons, which he attended for 10 years.

“I went to a lady down the road for piano — between ’72 and ’82. It was very much focussed on exams. I didn’t love it because I was very hungry for what I was doing myself and I just had lovely experiences on my own on the piano, deep experiences that stay with me to this day — a kind of an ether,” says the long-term member of Hothouse Flowers.