What a thing it is to craft a song which stays in the minds of its listeners

What a thing it is to craft a song which stays in the minds of its listeners. Cork singer/song-writer John Spillane (right) has done it again and again. There's Johnny Don't Go to Ballincollig, that dark-hilarious warning to the fossilised Corkman on the bar-stool, there's Eist do Bheal, recorded so well by Sinead Lohan on the album, Eist, there's When You And I Were True, a shocking vision of post-relationship dustbowl, there's the glorious, cascading All The Ways You Wan- der, surely one of the loveliest songs ever written for a child. This headline gig at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Vicar Street will be a huge treat.