Confessions of a youthful piano prodigy-about-town... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Cocktail Piano Teen Sensation by Conor Linehan above.
In the Summer of 1987, aged fifteen, I sat myself down at the piano in Dublin's Trocadero restaurant and struck up a jaunty, if callow, rendition of Cole Porter’s 'Let’s Fall in Love’.
So began my career as Ireland’s youngest barfly pianist, and nine years of interrupting peoples’ dinners.
Equipped, as I then was, with only ten tunes, my stint at the Troc was understandably short-lived. After all, no matter how lovely ‘Let’s Fall in Love’ might be, the prospect of birds, bees and even educated fleas doing it at half-hour intervals, proved too much for all but the most indulgent, drunk or deaf diners. I was gently let go after a month or so and resolved to expand my skimpy setlist...
Listen to Conor playing Cole Porter here, and listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
