I’ve always loved music.
I started playing piano when I was four, and I’ve picked up a few more instruments over the years. In school my friends were into music too and lots of them started playing in bands. (I played in some too but best not mention them.)
When I was fifteen I was supposed to be studying for my Junior Cert exams but I’ve always been a procrastinator. Instead I decided to organise a concert for my friends bands to celebrate the end of exams.
While running gigs in 2011-2012, we often has issues with venues. Lots of people didn’t want to deal with us and the only venues we that would take us were pubs, which is definitely not an ideal location for gigs for teenagers. All the while I had a pipe dream of opening our own venue.
One day I was walking home past a disused arthouse cinema and I saw a sign saying ‘Proposals invited’. The venue was perfect. City centre, detached on all sides, purpose built as an art venue, and with a name everyone in the city new, The Kino.
I figured what harm, and wrote up a proposal and sent it to the auctioneers. The auctioneer decided to meet with us and after less than a week later I had a set of keys and a five year lease. I was sixteen at the time and this is by far the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done.
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