Episode Notes

This is a special bonus episode between Season 1 and 2 of the podcast.

This time last year I was editing a documentary about how a chance meeting in 2008 between Andrew Weatherall, the world-renowned DJ, producer and remixer, and Gerard Sheehy, a Co. Cork fisherman had inspired Weatherall to use the phrase “Fail We May, Sail We Must” as a personal mantra and get it tattooed on his arms. The documentary tells how the phrase, in turn has become an inspiration for thousands of others. It details how last year, on the first anniversary of Weatherall’s death, Sheehy was identified as the source of the phrase and tells how the two disparate worlds of the music and fishing industries collided. This documentary was first broadcast on UCC98.3FM, on 17 February 2022 – Weatherall’s second anniversary.

Recently this documentary was broadcast on Australian radio and at the end of this episode you’ll also hear me chatting to the Australian broadcaster Axel Moline all about its production.

For Further Listening/Reading:

Further information about the production of Fail We May, Sail We Must is available here.