Following the success of RTÉ Radio 1's Pantisocracy, national treasure Panti Bliss is breaking out of lockdown with a new podcast, The Panti Personals, where she gets up close - two metres, anyway - and personal with someone, for an intimate conversation and a private performance.
Her first guest is a man of more hats than Philip Treacy - mindfulness and music man Niall Breslin, AKA Bressie. He performs two new spoken word pieces, Teen Spirit, inspired by the death of his teenage hero Kurt Cobain, and brand new piece Closing Time, a tribute to the saving grace of Tom Waits, with Cian Boylan on piano.
In a powerful and revealing conversation, Panti and Bressie talk love, life, anxiety and resilience, and swap stories on how physical and sexual abuse, witnessed during their school years, has stayed with them, and haunted them. Listen to the full episode here.
Listen to more from The Panti Personals here and in all major podcasting places.
