Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Queens of the Irish scene remind me why I joined a band
Pillow Queens have produced one of the best Irish albums of the year.
I have been in a band all of my adult life. Actually longer, I’ve been in one for 72% of my life. All my major life events have been viewed through that lens: Weddings, funerals, births, big birthdays, illnesses, career moves. I’m not saying potential life partners have needed to meet the band’s approval, but they all like the current Mrs Dunne.
At times I feel I am in The Magnificent Seven. One minute I am with my family. It is an ordinary domestic day. But then a car pulls up outside. I put on a jacket I haven’t worn since the Pillow Queens were in school and leave. "Daddy has to go," I say cryptically, "don’t wait up."
