How Jack Lukeman Took The Road Less Travelled To Freedom

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Irish music legend Jack Lukeman ('Jack L') joined Jarlath for a fascinating conversation about his life, career and how 2020 has treated him. Jack speaks about leaving school at the tender age of 15 and the importance of learning how to work. Jack also tells the story of his move to Holland, how his performance style developed and how he plays every show as if it were his last performance. From his fondness for his hometown of Athy to handling creativity in the pandemic, his thoughts on the music business and much more, this is a thoroughly enlightening and charming conversation to listen to on Christmas week. This is just a taster. To hear this episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 400 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of an Irish man abroad with me, Jarlath Regan.
0:06.0	Happy Christmas to all of you, wherever you are in the world.
0:11.0	I want to give a big shout out to our shows and charity partner, as always, jigsaw.i.
0:15.0	Please check them out this Christmas.
0:18.0	They are saving lives as we speak and they need your support. So pop over to jigsaw.
0:22.3	org.i to support them.jigsaw.org. Our chosen charity partner, as always, well this week we don't
0:28.6	really have a Christmasy episode. What we have is an Irish music legend, Jack Lukeman.
0:34.5	He joins me for this fascinating discussion about his life and career and how
0:39.2	2020 treated him. And this is really one that I held on to because there's so much in it
0:46.4	and it kind of felt like an end of year piece that would resonate with you as you go on your
0:53.4	walk and think about things as we round out this
0:56.9	peculiar year. Jack speaks about leaving school at the tender age of 15, the importance of learning
1:03.9	how to work. And he also tells this incredible story of moving to Holland and how his performance
1:10.4	style developed as a result
1:12.2	and really how he plays every show as if it's his last.
1:16.4	I know that's a cliche, but if you've seen Jack, you'll understand that that's exactly
1:21.5	what he does.
1:22.9	We get into his fondness for his hometown, the legendary a Thai, and also how he handled creativity in the
1:31.5	pandemic, his thoughts on the music business itself, and much, much more to hear the full
1:37.9	discussion, the entire unabridged interview, as a further half an an hour of this chat and maybe a little bit of
1:45.4	change after that. On patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad, it's where our full archive exists.
1:52.4	This year's been big for us. This move to Patreon was how the podcast was to survive. And thanks to
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