Getting to know Eoin Glackin
Dublin born and raised, Eoin Glackin has a new album, Fires of Innocence, coming out in September. We asked him to tell us about himself:
I am… Eoin Glackin, proud owner of the most misspelled name in rock and roll. As of last night I’ve just finished rewatching the entire James Bond series. I’ve started at Daniel Craig’s ‘Spectre’ and worked backwards to Sean Connery’s ‘Dr. No’. Its been fun seeing which films stand up more than I thought they would (The World is Not Enough) and which ones don’t (Thunderball). Although even a bad James Bond film is still a grand way to pass a few hours in my humble opinion.
Fires of Innocence is… an album about confusion, frustration and change. There’s a sort of country rock thread throughout it but it splinters off into different territories too. I think you can hear all my influences somewhere, from Beck to Kris Kristofferson and even a little Meatloaf if you listen close enough. It was a joy to make and feels like a new beginning for me.
Home is… an ever-boiling kettle in the kitchen and a stone’s throw in any direction to a good pint of Guinness. Freedom to voice thoughts that I’m not quite sure of in conversations that leave me better off by their end. Bad jokes. Playing with my nieces. A place where I set my own pace and the ones who I have let in and have let me in feel comfortable enough to set their own too.
I spend too much time… lately? Watching James Bond films. I’ve also been cultivating a pretty serious obsession with retro video games. It’s as unhealthy a way as any to spend my money I guess. Original 8 bit Game Boy games in particular are magnificent. Nostalgia certainly plays a part but video games, like music, dont necessarily get better with technology and I enjoy marvelling at how intricate an idea came from such simple means.
I’ve never… been to Five Guys. Apparently that is note worthy.
It might surprise people to learn that… I’m a huge musical theatre fan. My mother reared me on Elvis, The Beatles, country music and stage musicals. We used to go see them all when they’d come to Dublin (the musicals, not Elvis or The Beatles). Usually somewhere in the back row but that didn’t matter. It was a great joy and something that was special to us. There is a whole crop of new shows in the last few years that I’ve fallen behind on but I’ll always love the classics. Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Live Concert Album is as important a record to me as anything else and I’ve maybe seen Seven Brides for Seven Brothers more than any other film. Now I think of it we were actually in the second row for Colm Wilkinson’s last ever performance as Jean Valjean in Les Mis. We booked the tickets over a year in advance when they announced it was coming to Dublin and didn’t listen to the CD once until the show, it was incredible.
In the future… I want to either play Jean Valjean on the West End or James Bond in 8 films… but I’d settle for Fires of Innocence affording me another few years of being able to stay on the road, gigging, meeting new people and enjoying life while I have it with both hands. Nothing’s forever, even time itself.
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