I know the feeling, Fibula ...

My da got caught up in the 60s folk revival and started a band called The Bordermen who played mainly in counties Armagh and Monaghan. (I'm originally from just outside Lurgan.) From time to time I mention musicians in passing to my ma and she goes - "Oh aye, your da played with them" at such and such a place or "Your da knowed them." or "He cowped here one night when your da and him was the worse for drink, the pair of them!" (And her that only listens to Charlie Landsborough or Daniel O'Donnell these days!)