Lisa Hannigan does Apple ‘In-Office’

While visiting a friend who works at the Apple offices on Regent Street on Wednesday, I was confronted by Lisa Hannigan (of Damien Rice fame) wandering into the office carrying a guitar. Accompanied by a bare bones percussionist and second acoustic she set up and started playing in the middle of the office, as Apple employees bustled around her making tea. Surprisingly, a few of the iWorkers seemed mildly irritated, as if they’d had their fill of enormously talented artists serenading them at their desks and just wanted to get on. After three songs Hannigan packed up – off to sound check for a sold out show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire that night. The head honcho in the office thanked her rather lackadaisically, and joked that in the ten minutes she’d been playing she’d miraculously  jumped from 12th to 8th in the iTunes charts. It may not be far from the truth.

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