Steve Garrigan: The Internal Battle

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jarlath is joined by Kodaline frontman Steve Garrigan for a one of a kind conversation about his life and career. Steve speaks frankly about the painful shyness that dominated his early years and how his parents tried to help him. Later Jarlath asks about the devastating effects of tasting fame in your Leaving Cert year and how he wrote Kodaline's hit single High Hopes at a time when he felt like he had hit rock bottom. From the hilarious accounts of his earliest roles as a Pokemon and making an absolute fool of himself in front of Tony Hawk (without whom Kodaline would not exist) as well as his sobering account of the terrifying panic attack he experienced at the age of 20 and much more, this is a fascinating conversation with one of Ireland's top musical talents. Steve's book High Hopes is available in all good bookstores and the list of cognitive distortions that is referenced in the interview can be found here https://positivepsychology.com/cognitive-distortions/ To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 500 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. 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	I got a call from somebody in the stage skills saying, hey, do you want to do something for
0:06.7	Pokemon? And I was thrilled. I was like, oh my God, amazing. Because I had never been asked to do
0:12.5	anything. I had never gotten a part in anything at this stage. So it was kind of my first,
0:16.7	the first thing for me. And I loved Pokemon. I was obsessed with it. So I went along and they ended up
0:24.8	putting me in this big, huge costume. Like, it was an adult-sized Pikachu costume. And my dad said
0:33.7	the other day, he remembers watching me and he just felt so bad for me because I was
0:38.7	struggling to stay standing and I was kind of wobbling, is he going to fall? Is he going to
0:43.9	fall? What? You know, like to each side left and right. And then when I eventually walked in
0:50.9	the parade, when the parade was over, I I took it off my dad helped me and I was
0:55.5	sweating like as if I jumped into a swimming pool it was quite tough you know but um but I but you
1:02.6	know I was sure I was chuffed to be asked to do it next week on Irish man abroad I'm joined by everybody's favourite on-site reporter Richard Chambers,
1:14.4	as he gives me the extended and inside look behind the scenes of the government entrusted with handling Ireland's COVID reaction.
1:23.4	You don't want to miss it.
1:24.7	The only way to hear the whole thing is at patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad.
1:31.6	Well, what an episode we have for you today with Steve Garigan, the lead singer, with the massively successful Irish rock band Code Line.
1:41.5	He makes his living standing up in front of thousands of people all over the world,
1:47.1	but little did we know that behind closed doors, he was privately struggling with his own demons.
1:53.1	You're going to hear the whole story here. And over on Patreon again, you'll get an extended
1:58.8	cut of this episode, including how he retreated
2:02.7	into music during this time to write some of the best codeline songs, how writing the book
2:08.3	was such a wrench for him. This book that he has out is called High Hopes, named after, of course,
2:13.7	the brilliant codeline song. But we talk a lot over there about you're a star, the TV show that first discovered the man
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