'We played Prince’s club in Minneapolis, and the crew were from that gig in Cork'

As Stockton's Wing return with a new album, Mike Hanrahan talks music, food and those support slots for Prince and Michael Jackson

Mike Hanrahan, left, and the other members of Stockton's Wing have just released Hometown.

There is one upside to making an album during a pandemic. With so much empty time, you can spend forever filling in the details and obsessing over the minutiae of the recording, says Stockton’s Wing’s Mike Hanrahan.

“It was a blessing in disguise. We actually spent more time mixing the tracks than Def Leppard took to record an album,” laughs Hanrahan from his home in Deansgrange in Dublin. “We were very privileged to have that.”