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I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.
I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Thinking about work because I’m responsible for people’s jobs.
When I first started at The Connaught, I bought a pair of antique diamond earrings at Fred Leighton in New York.
Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
Procrastination.
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