Richard Brennan is a spoken word performer, originally from Dublin but now based in Tullamore, Co Offaly. He will perform as part of the Therapy Sessions in the Workman’s Club on 15 January.

He picks his go to feel-good songs for our Co-Motion event.

JJ Cale – Travelin Light

It could be any song from the Troubadour album, really. That record kept me company when I was in solitary digs in a new city – full of comfort tunes

Nick Drake – Northern Sky

The Bryter Layter album is the soundtrack to being in love without realising it. Pure and beautiful songs and the guitar makes me smile.

Van Halen – Secrets

My friend came back from visiting relatives in the States one summer with a suitcase full of records, including this one. Pure sunshine and hedonistic good times. I was 14. In many ways I still am. 

Sultans of Ping FC – Where’s Me Jumper?

For the dancin’

Our unique event – Co-Motion, a musical walking experience – takes place on Sunday, January 3 in the National Botanic Gardens in Glassnevin  at 2pm and on January 10 at the same time in St Stephen’s Green.

We’re asking people to come armed with their four-song playlist of “songs that get them through”, a set of earphones and a listening device (phone, ipod, etc). They’ll then be paired up with another randomly selected participant.

While the idea of putting a playlist together is pretty straight forward, the idea of bringing that playlist along to a specific location, pairing up with a like-minded stranger and walking around a park with them as you play your playlist for them while they then play theirs for you, is probably something many of us have never done before.

View more playlists and book FREE tickets to attend Co-Motion in the Botanic Gardens on January 3rd or St Stephen’s Green on January 10th here