Johnny McEvoy: ‘My father had no time for me… even during childhood, I used to feel like a shadow going around the house’

Johnny McEvoy: ‘My father had no time for me… even during childhood, I used to feel like a shadow going around the house’


The musician on his upbringing in Offaly, and then Dublin

Songwriter Johnny McEvoy has just released a new album. Photo: Mark Condren

It was starting to feel like that song by Little Richard, Keep a Knockin’ (But You Can’t Come In). At the appointed time of noon, I knocked seven or eight times on the door of Johnny McEvoy’s fifth-floor apartment in Greystones. Through the wooden door I could hear the voice of Long Before Your Time and The Boston Burglar talking to someone.

I was about to give up when the door opens suddenly – Darren, who turns out to be his manager, invites me in. Johnny is sitting at the kitchen table drinking a cup of tea.



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