Michael Sands is an actor from Cork, who is probably best known as Jock’s dad in
. He’s currently playing Professor Saxenfon, ‘the baddie’ in the pantomime at the Everyman in Cork, which runs until January.It’s got to be ‘
’ everybody has to read it and from what I can see everybody takes different meanings from it!Joker, it seems to be like Marmite love it or hate it. I liked it.
I’m a big rugby and Ross O’Carroll Kelly fan so I thoroughly enjoyed Breaking Dad at the Opera House.
I was driving a lot recently on tour and rediscovered the song ‘Overkill’, by Colin Hay from Men at Work.
In first or second class our teacher played Prokoviev’s ‘
’where all the characters are represented by musical instruments. It blew me away.Billy Joel supported by Peter Kaye at Croke Park. I love the two of them.
I love
and I’ll throw on a half hour of after the show before I go to sleep.Newstalk is constantly on in my house and car.
is a brilliant sports programme with cracking journalists.I met met Justin Hayward and his wife after a show I did in the states and we started chatting and had a few drinks. The best thing about him was he didn’t tell me who he was and I didn’t know it was only later I found out he had written ‘Forever Autumn’ and was in The Moody Blues. We are still friends. Legend!
I’d like to have been around the first time any of the famous operas were heard and performed for the first time in the lavish theatres.
Anything with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau... The Odd Couple ,The Apartment, Plaza Suite.
More money for the arts in schools, it’s been proven as such an important part of development in young peoples' lives.