Love Is A Place I Dream Of ~ live performance at home

"Solitude is the most important ingredient for me in writing songs.
I think, it has to be ok to be alone for a long time to write songs."

First Light Of Spring ~ background music

Luka talking about growing up in Newbridge, moving to various cities, like Dublin and New York, spending some time in Holland and Germany... but then some years ago, he decided to build a little house in the country, returning to his roots...

Rainbow Day ~ live performance in his music room

Talking about the difficult time when he was ill and not able to work for a long time.

"...I had built this place for the purpose of my music and when the place was finished and I am here, completely all of the sudden I can't work anymore! It was very strange... but there was a good reason for it - because I needed to change..."

Perfect Groove ~ background music

At his "spiritual home", Bishop's Quarter Beach near Ballyvaughan in County Clare,
a very special place to him, where he has written a lot of songs...

Be Still Now ~ walking on the beach and singing the song

"It was the first time in my life that I wrote a complete song with no guitar, no pen, no paper. I just wrote this little song..."

"I walked up and down the beach for about 2 hours, just sing a line, then sing a second line, and then sing another line, and always listening to the sea and watching the heron... that song just came to me... it's a gift, it's a blessing from above, or from the sea, or maybe from the heron!"

Intro to The Fertile Rock ~ background music
Talking about writing the song and his performance at the Tivoli in Utrecht

Luka's sister Anne Rynne introducing the family...

Short clip of Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott singing "Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan...

Anne showing her office - calling it her "packing room" - and talking about her job, "selling her brothers' CDs and being part of their work"

Davoc Rynne playing the tin whistle, accompanied by Luka on guitar...

Luka talking about becoming "Luka Bloom"
    "...it's just a brand name, a nick name..."

Delirious ~ background music ~ showing some old photographs

I Am Not At War With Anyone ~ live performance at home

Luka and his nephew Niall Rynne talking about business issues...

Here And Now ~ background music

Talking about "being alone" and "being on the outside"

"...I hope that some of the feeling of being on the outside, looking in,at the world, at life, at Ireland, at relationships, at people, at experiences, I hope some of that is reflected in my songs..."

Here And Now ~ background music

The City Of Chicago ~ background music

"...I had to go away to feel a sense of belonging with my music and that somehow gave me the courage to try to come back home and to feel comfortable here. I've brought my songs home..."

Anne talking about their mother Nancy, and a special day in June 1992...
and singing the traditional song High Germany, accompanied by Luka on guitar

The Ceili Bandits and Luka playing a traditional tune at the Magnetic Music Café in Doolin.

Talking about finishing school, doing his first trip to Doolin in 1973 -

"for me, it was like arriving in a foreign country!" - and hearing the Russell brothers, Micho, Packie, and Gussie, playing the old Irish music at O'Connor's Pub.

Shores Of Lough Bran ~ a traditional song performed a cappella

Talking about his job, writing songs, making a record, going to the public and singing the songs...

June ~ live performance at the Doolin Café

"Every time I sit down to write a song, if I am completely honest about it,
I don't know where I'm going..."

I think, the songs that I write, that I really love, are the ones where I have a
feeling, I have a sense of something, but I have no idea how I want it to finish."

Exploring The Blue ~ live performance in his music room

"...I know there is a lot of vinegar in the world and if I only present the romantic
view of the world then I am denying the vinegar, and the vinegar is as important
in the world as the honey. So I don't always have a romantic view of the world.
Sometimes I have a very dark view of the world - and that comes through in some
songs - and sometimes I have a very light view of the world. It really depends on
the nature of the journey that I am going on. The journey ends with a song that
lasts for 3, 4, 5 minutes, but it might take me a month to complete that journey."

Talking about writing the song "The Man is Alive", and bringing it home to his family.

The Man Is Alive ~ live performance in his music room

"I feel that songs should say something...... I want to say something to people... I don't believe in the idea of music changing the world, I don't believe in songs changing the world, but I do believe in the power of a song to transform one person's life, and if one song I sing, affects one other person in some way or give them a different view of.

Instrumental intro to Cold Comfort...