When every band you've ever been in has rocked and delighted tens of music lovers from Dublin to San Francisco, been offered contracts from major and minor labels and, in the end, dissolved because the singer broke a nail, you figure, "Feck it, I'll do it myself". Then you realise how hard it really is to write seriously good pop songs...
early talker is Simon McCourt, co-songwriter/guitarist in more bands than you've had hot dinners, all of them tragically brilliant but ultimately unsuccessful.