Michael Moynihan: Cork record shop spinning a real sense of community spirit

Music makes emotional connections anyway — but a place like Music Zone leverages those connections in an organic way

Members of the Hothouse Flowers with the proprietor of Music Zone Ray O’Brien, third from left, before performing at his store in Togher in Cork. Picture: Noel Sweeney

This began when a pal of mine texted me the other evening and I couldn’t respond immediately.

I eventually texted back that I couldn’t talk, he texted back asking why, and I said I couldn’t go because I was bringing my research assistants to a Fontaines DC listening party out in the Music Zone record shop in Togher.