Jenny Greene on dropping out of school, Guinness World Records and wedding DJs

Ticket holders might come for the strings – but they stay for Jenny Greene. As the DJ returns to the Marquee with her genre-defying set with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, she chats to Kate Demolder about teenage success, perfectionism and that persistent inner critic

DJ Jenny Greene will bring her enormously popular collaboration with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to the Live at the Marquee concert series in Cork, in June. Pictures: Moya Nolan

Dark clouds burst open to reveal a cerulean sky the afternoon I meet Jenny Greene. Slight, beaming and wry, her energy precedes her. She rarely does interviews, she says, but given her obvious and palpable charisma, one might wonder why.

She bursts through the doors of the glamourous Shelbourne hotel, and caters to our interview, in a way only a skilled veteran can.