Hank Wedel: 'I’m not preoccupied with death, but you become more aware of it'
Hank Wedel has a new album. Picture: Kieran Murphy
As an older man, Spiro Colovos, born in New York City to Greek immigrant parents, began to develop a terrible fear that he would be evicted from the home in Queens that he shared with his brother.
“You know that line in the Shane MacGowan song, ‘the wind blows right through you, it’s no place for the old?’,” Hank Wedel says. “New York is really like that. He was terrified of being evicted from the house he grew up in because it was prime real estate and there was pressure on to sell it. He really thought he would lose his shelter.” Colovos was a friend of Wedel’s father. As a child, and later on return visits from Cork to New York as a young man, Wedel recalls that when he would tell him his plans, he would always respond: “’Alright, dynamite!’ It was like an exhortation to the young, to youth,” Wedel says.
