Mundy: 'The Lobby in Cork was the first place you'd plant your seed'

Mundy's musical pedigree and connections range from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack to supporting REM and Neil Young and working with Sharon Shannon

Mundy: “The Lobby was the first place that you’d plant your seed. It might have held 90 or a 100 people but your career grew from there by selling out the Lobby a few times and then you’d go to a bigger venue.”

MUNDY’S ties with Cork go back a long way. Over three decades, he’s played more than a dozen venues, at all angles of the compass, in the county. One of his first performances was at a festival in Noel C Duggan’s arena at Millstreet, but his strongest memory is from a gig at the Lobby Bar — an iconic live music venue in Cork City.

“In the early 2000s, there was a great Irish music revival with all these acts... The Frames, Damien Rice, Mic Christopher, Gemma Hayes; Josh Ritter and David Gray were a part of it, too,” he says.