What does the music we listen to say about us? Cork native Ronan Leonard believes his life story lies in 30 songs. Leonard is a sort of Everymuso in his one-man performance Adventures Of A Music Nerd (Not Snob!), as he details the memories and connections evoked by 30 pre-programmed song clips – everything from MacArthur Park to Livin’ On A Prayer – which at play at random. It’s theatre with an iPod shuffle.

Knowledgeable and insightful about his musical passion, Leonard’s purpose here is not to champion his own tastes, but rather to construct a tender, and pun-heavy, narrative about how he shook off the snobbery of musical obsession and learned to embrace life in all its ordinariness.

Staging it on the top floor of a double-decker bus parked behind the Bernard Shaw may have seemed like a way to create a Magical Mystery Tour kind of camaraderie, but it only introduced distance between the performer and the audience, as the booths were cramped and the eyelines were poor. Yet Leonard’s sheer affability helps to overcome any awkwardness. He tells a simple story, but as recorded birthday greetings read out by Gay Byrne and his namesake, RTE 1 DJ Ronan Collins, suggest, the human bonds we forge through music often run deeper than we know.