This week Miriam O'Callaghan meets singer songwriter Eleanor Mc Evoy and her partner, sound designer Mick O'Gorman.
Eleanor has been writing songs since she was six years old - originally in Irish and later in English. Unusually, she writes lyrics and music together and doesn't compose with an instrument in her hand. She performs a song she wrote for Mick called You'll Hear Better Songs (Than This) which will be on her next album Alone due to be released in September.
Mick is a sound designer and has worked on many large productions including Riverdance. His job is to work with the creative team to design a soundscape to enhance the audience's experience of a given production. He is English, but grew up in a household where his father, a make up artist in the movies, had aspirations to be Irish. These aspirations, with no foundation in fact, lead Mick to Trinity College Dublin as a student and he now lives and works here.
Eleanor and Mick met through work but their relationship didn't follow the traditional pattern of "eyes meeting across a crowded room" Mick had already been married and had children from earlier relationships. But they are together now and have a daughter. Sarah Jane has brought unexpected joy to Eleanor's life and influences the way she sees the world as a person and as a songwriter.
Eleanor performs A Woman's Heart and how it became a hit, exactly at the time she signed her first record deal. She describes how differences over her third album and a traumatic mugging lead herself and Mick to re think the way she managed her career. They now produce and release her records themselves - a change from international record deals!
Eleanor also tells the story of how her song Sophie became an anthem for young people with eating disorders. Given that music is so important to both Mick and Eleanor, she is very pleased to have written a song that seems to have helped many young people who have this disease.
Eleanor performs a cover version of Whistle for the Choir by the Fratellis. Both reflect on the impact that coming from such different backgrounds has had on their relationship. Eleanor reflects on the experiences she had growing up with very religious parents in Cabra. Over the years, Eleanor has encouraged Mick to listen to classical music, which he now really enjoys and he chooses a Chopin Nocturne Opus 9 Number 2.