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It’s the Vinyl countdown for a talking heads music festival on the May bank holiday weekend

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Kevin Shields talking about My Bloody Valentine’s forthcoming album; Martin Freeman discussing mod culture; Chrissie Hynde chatting about the Pretenders, and Sharon Horgan interviewing Tim Burgess of The Charlatans. For music fans of a certain age, the line-up at Vinyl, which takes place at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham over the May bank holiday weekend, is more than a little enticing.

Considering how close the event is, the man behind it sounds remarkably ...