Mad day! Got interviewed for a podcast called "Nostalgia.mp3" about internet history and 2000s fan sites. The host, this woman named Siobhán from Dublin, asked me about building the shrine back in 2002.
Turns out I'm actually semi-interesting when I talk about it! Who knew? I was mostly self-deprecating the whole time — kept saying things like "it was just a lad with too much time and a domain name" — but Siobhán kept pushing back. She wanted to know about community, about why it mattered, about what the song meant to people back then.
When you put it like that, it's quite moving actually.
I talked about the early IRC channels, the people from all over Ireland who'd message me with their own verses, the sessions at Cruise's where fellas would request the full song. I talked about why the site went down — just life, you know? Started a family, got distracted, lost the thread — and why coming back felt right.
The weird part? When Siobhán asked what it means to resurrect something like this after so long, I got a bit emotional. Didn't realize I would! But it's true — the song was always there, the community never really died, and coming back feels like waking up from a very long sleep.
She asked if I thought I'd keep the site going. I said "yeah, I think I will. We've got something good here."
The podcast drops next week. I'm terrified and excited in equal measure.
Rattlin' the cat sat on my lap the whole time I was on the call. Very supportive.
—Seamus