 Dig, you're very welcome now. Thank you very much for having us. We have Paul, Kieran, Aaron and Jordan. Hello to you all. Hello. So for people that aren't too sure of Dig, maybe you can give us a wee intro, Kieran. What would I call it? Neo-psychedelia, I suppose it's like a cover all genre. There's not really one thing that we stick to and I think that's the thing about it. And I wish that was by design, but it's kind of just whatever falls into it. That's the way it's went? The way it's went, yeah, just sort of whatever you get into at the time. Do you write much your own? Yeah, that's all the stuff we wrote. It's all original? Yeah. So together as a band, how long did you together? It's not that long really. A year and a half, maybe? It was probably a writing song for the band. Yeah, I was doing it as a Kieran's own project and he brought other people on to it at the end to flesh it out. So you had to sort it out yourself? I had tunes before the boys were involved and I recorded them and released them and then got an opportunity to play. Now them songs have come together as Dig. Are you happy with the final product? Yeah, of course. But it changed some of them completely as well. Is that right? Was the other's input, other people's input? Yeah, it changed the way I wrote tunes as well. I would be scared to get overly complicated with stuff like drums because I'm not an adequate sort of bass player, you know? But then I've had tunes for years that I just never bothered doing and then sure you had the boys, so get them done and see what we can do with them and they do change every time you bring them to them, you know? It's good you have other people's input on them too. It's good that you're able to take that on board. Some people will be very protective of their own music. I think I am as well at the same time. I think if I don't like something, I'll say. All right, so we're different players from the wings here. But then that was always set out from the beginning. It works as well because we're four of us. Well, there's actually five, Adam's not here, but we have all very different kind of styles of music that we like. Very good. So there's a nice blend that comes together. You get them five different genres, you know? You know, there's a lot of time you don't get that because as you say, a lot of bands sort of stick to the one format. But you have different genres coming in sometimes. It doesn't work so that's important. Good having an idea and being able to say to them and they're able to translate it easily with that. Right, Kearon, we're going to go into the first track first. OK, we're going to do Saloon Goon Boogie first. Yeah. OK, this is... Saloon Goon Boogie. And this is about... It's about being in the pub far too much. Right, right. And wishing those things would change. Well, from a man who was in a pub for a bit too long yesterday, I feel your pain. Right, we're looking forward to that when you're ready, let's. Thank you. Crack and tune, right, absolute crack and tune. The name, Dig, I probably asked you this before, Kearon, but my memories are bad. Where does that come from? Deeper down inside, you never know what you find and I don't know, it's sort of like exclamation, it's like... Yeah, so get you the exclamation. Get deeper, you know. Brilliant, well that's good enough. So, Oak Fast, is this your first time at Oak Fast? First time playing it, yeah, I worked the first one. I'm a sound engineer, so I did the first two days. And we did the sound for how many bands we did over the two days, yeah. But the stages were the big ones and the normal ones behind? No, the first year was just the one stage. One stage. And it was a big, like, you know, one in big tent, sort of thing. Yes, we've been at the most where I come from. So, yeah, it was, you know where the big stage is now? Yes, yes. Sort of, it was like there, but maybe a bit further up and where the one at the cafe wasn't there that year. Right, interesting. But I've been to every single one myself, actually, you know. And it's nice to get an opportunity to play at it. That's it, yeah, that was the goal of mine, actually, was just get to play it, you know. Play your own set, bring it. Get up there and do it, you know. Are you busy, gigging now? We're not so many, we were just in Manchester there. We had a gig in Manchester, yeah. You had a gig in Manchester? Yeah, we got asked by, what's the name? New Music Thursdays. New Music Thursdays. Olivia. Olivia. She asked us to come over and play. She didn't know we were based in Ireland. She'd heard your stuff and said, Well, I followed the page one day because I have a friend who lives in Manchester and I was in France and I got a message and I was like, yeah, we'll play. I said, you do know where we live in Ireland? She was like, no, is that a problem? I went, no, I'm sure we choose a holiday. And when did you go over? About three weeks ago. Took the boat with all the gear and drove over and just went for the crack. I heard you feigned that. I heard you feigned that event. How did it go for you, like? Yeah, it went well, yeah. It was like, it was quite, it was upstairs and like a cocktail bar sort of things. It was quite a big bar and people started filtering in and all that sort of stuff and it was good for you about in the end, yeah. She said she'd have us back anyway, so. Yeah, well, that's good. It was nice to get like kind of crows like considering nobody knew who we were as well. You see, that's what I'm sort of daunting. I think I'd be terrified if we go and see. Yeah, you do have that fear, like when you do a gig, it's going to mean nobody had it at all. It was nice, like, you know, there was a good crowd at it. But it was like, I suppose it's like, there's no loss like if no one turns up. No, I don't know. I don't know. Going off the crack. You still would be, I would be. I was a nervous wreck the whole time. Everyone else was enjoying themselves, right? And I think I had two bottles of beer afterwards and I was like, I'm going to bed after I get the boat in the morning. Everyone else went out and just got smacked. As you do, as you do. Well, that's brilliant. So where did you land up? Oak Fest. I'm not sure yet. We might be doing the New Year's Eve thing in the baller again. I must actually talk to Connor. We did that last year. That was sold out as well. Oh, yeah. We'll be back on there again. I hope so. That's sold out. Last year it was sold out, yeah. Many acts were on that night. Three. There was us. There was Jason Derry and Rackus Roll. Yeah. They're on it. They're playing Oak Fest. Yeah. Jordan's in. Rackus Roll. And Adam's on it as well. And Adam is in Rackus Roll as well. It's kind of nice. One of the bands on this collective is that we just kind of chop and change and make bands within bands. Yeah. We do that gig in the cottage as well. That's right. We did a gig with Tommy Byron. When you're saying that, Jordan, do you find it difficult to change over times? No, not really. No, because we'll play drums and dig in Rackus Roll and then we'll play bass for Jason Derry most of the time. It'd be very different kinds of playing, you know what I mean? I think with care and stuff, I kind of have more free reign to focus on just drumming. Yes. But with the other band, because I'm kind of writing songs as well, you kind of focus on the whole thing. And I would kind of write deliberately to kind of not pop myself, like showing off or anything I got there. Just kind of write a good all-round song, you know what I mean? Good stuff. Whereas I'll write a tune and I'll say to Jordan, show off please. Make it better. No pressure. Where do you record? Where do you record? I do it all myself at home because I work in the baller as well and I can use that spot there to do a bit of drum recording and stuff when there's no shows on, obviously. Baller busy, isn't it? It was really busy this last week here at the musical. That was phenomenal. The young ones were amazing, wasn't it? It was actually really impressive how good they were and how short of a space of time they did it. They don't know their night. I think it was a Saturday night. I was in the band for that as well. So was Adam, I think. And I was a sound engineer. Adam's playing everybody. We had a dig on Saturday at Bale Holy Farm. We weren't talking dig in there. That's good. That group of young people, the energy, I sent them up here to the Saturday, Rory up here. I loved to see that in young people. It was brilliant. And the songs were, they wouldn't have had them. Songs, you know, the Dixie Cups and, you know, brilliant. Don't even mention all that, yeah. Well done. Right, we're going to take another song. After this next hour break, we'll come back with it. What's the next song? Boom, boom, boom. New Fear Unlocked. And that's about... It's about the fear of losing the person you love. Brilliant. Dig after this break. Don't go away. The new Corolla Hybrid Electric range is here. And the Corolla Cross SUV is the latest addition to the iconic family. Spacious and beautifully designed, it's perfect for growing families everywhere. And it's available to order now at Kelly's Toyota Letter Kenny among Charles. With exceptional electric drive time and no plugging in, the next generation is ready to take over. See the new Corolla Cross today at Kelly's Toyota Letter Kenny among Charles. Toyota, built for a better world. Terms and conditions apply. Transform your home with a visit to McGinley's Furniture Letter Kenny. Located at the Port Link Business Park, just off the Port Road. You'll find a huge selection of top quality suites, beds and mattresses. 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I remember saying to Jordan, just go crazy and you were doing this thing where you were following the you were doing the strumming pattern and I go, do everything, do anything but that and I didn't know what that meant and then what he did was just crazy so it turned out to be the what I had in my head anyway. It's kind of, I don't know, that song we just played there that was very much, I think I had it all in my head what I wanted in it. There was no, so I wrote the bass part for it, the guitar I wrote that riff as well and I wanted the drum to be just really simple and then other times you can bring another song we have, it changes sometimes it's, the change is good when you bring it to you go, ah, that's good you just keep that when you start messing around Do you stick to one style? No. You just check, you can check. I listen to all sorts of stuff anyway. So where do you, you know, how, what's your process as regards, you know, how does it start? Sometimes it's like other songs and you go, ah there's a lyric there or that's, I like that style or there's a pop song so like like the Supremes or something, I go into the Supremes there for ages and every, me and Jordan was listening to T-Rex for ages and then I was like, oh yeah T-Rex and then the sort of, I had that riff but it wasn't in that style so I was like, I will do it in the style of T-Rex and make it a bit more glam-rocky and sort of Do you think that Mark Bourne and Lever are sort of a lasting legacy of music? Definitely, 100%, yeah like he's, I think he's underrated as well I've always said that, because I loved him when he was, you know when he was alive, I remember his music coming out and the suddenness of his death and stuff and I always said that he was underrated I put that down to the fact that there were more of a singles band and like, Bowie was like the making of an album sort of thing and they were like the same time and I don't know I think they were seen as like, oh, the next single no one goes, you don't go what's the best T-Rex album, you go what's the best T-Rex album, you know there's people talking in terms of Bowie and he's like, do you look at some of his songs now like, she has a pure class even though, you know Cosmic Dance, it gets me all the time and it's a masterpiece, it really is Do you yourself, Paul, you're big into the songwriting era? Yeah, dude, we put on my own stuff as well Nothing out yet, Kieran does help me, I had a riff it's actually rubbed on like a lot of synths so we'll try and see if we can do something like that there, bring that to the table now and get it done like and bring it? Yeah, so that'll be nice I only have a riff pattern and I've got no lyrics for it so you can work as well I think you said to me one day you guys, you take that and do your words I always intrigued I'm always intrigued by every person that writes and performs writes different things you know, different things, sparks things in their heads, some people write it down some people talk it into a recording device and I'm always amazed some of the greatest songs start so simply, you know and what about yourself, Aaron do you touch the songwriting? Just very, in a very small way it's more of a personal quiet thing that I do myself I haven't recorded much, but I do a small bit of it a couple of e-fiddley bits that I've accumulated over the years that haven't made it out yet Do you bring them forward to us? No, I haven't actually brought it You're too scared to say so Aaron's got it wrapped up nicely but now with a good view of recording that at some stage, whenever the songs come together and whenever I'm honest I put some lyrics on them and things like that Do you find that songwriting therapeutic? Definitely It can be frustrating as well I was working on a song today and I'm banging my head against the wall we might play it now, but the recording of it is doing my head in So as I say do you write songs I think I can get the right words if there's a situation in your life or something you know, saying something's happened do you write songs about your feelings and then you get sort of comfort from it? That new fear unlocked is about me, the fear of one day I woke up with this pang of anxiety about losing for some reason I thought my girlfriend was going to leave me not for any real reason, I was like what happened with that, that's a terrible thought and then I was like that's a new fear unlocked and I was like that's a good little title for a song actually and then you write a poem based on that and then add a chord progression and then you work the melody into you find a melody trying to jigsaw the words into it sometimes they don't work and then you have to change them around so it's a process but it's like when it clicks it's a good feeling songwriters groups they have some people go songwriters sessions or whatever I know there's one what's his name guy who's a very good songwriter, Kieran Lavery he does ones up in near Belfast he's an amazing songwriter but I don't know how I could sit in another room with someone else eyeball to eyeball whenever I'm trying to put my feelings down on the page or something that would be a bit weird it's like a counselling sort of thing isn't it exposing yourself a bit how are you feeling today and it's like well you'll find that one this might be sitting obviously going Jesus enough to have a hero I'm going to be agnominous I don't know what to say Jordan yourself do you do that songwriting just with the other band Rackett's Rule we're called we want to start doing a collaborative writing with each other five of us in the band two of my brothers are part of it we just came up with the idea well me two brothers we wanted to start a band with another fella John Claes isn't he we've just been good friends we always got to talk about the idea let's just start a band and then one day we were just sitting in the cottage we decided we're just going to do it and stop chatting about it but in that band you just have like three different songwriters that John's style is different to your style very very different so we're playing Oak Fest or Oak Fest and even I could point out the songs that Josh has written, that I've written and that John's written it really is there is such a contrast such a different status just of all the different influences that we have it does I know for the listener like myself I'm actually looking forward to hearing you know both bands just to see you know the difference and that's great, right enough chatting could we get another song if you don't mind yep what's this one called I need to get the lyrics here because I keep forgetting them take a time there's no big rush this one's before anyone else totally different song again than the first one totally different style yeah and it's one of them songs you know like a Bowie type thing you can go on I'm going to say go on, I mean in a positive way your instrumental part on it is equally important there's like a mantra sort of thing brilliant will that be part of your playlist on that's going to be Oak Fest, yeah how long has it been I don't actually know is it, yeah I just tuned in it's Digg who will be performing on the Saturday the 9th of September at Oak Fest and as I said earlier on the lineup was just something else, it's going to be a brilliant weekend and let's see someone was someone sent a text in saying love that style of music and they remind me of the 70s music which I love compliment without a doubt right we're going to love to get a final song and the final one is after me break that's not the name of the song I have to think about it well you think about it we'll take a nap break well Grace, how are you today I'm good, I've just been down to the mid to measure fireplaces showroom in Chrysler they have an incredible selection of over 40 colours for kitchen work tops and guess what, for a limited time they're offering a 40% discount on any electric fire when you purchase a work top there 40% that's an amazing deal Grace absolutely and trust me if the discount alone doesn't sway you they're a huge selection of fireplaces stoves wood pellet burners beams and stone cladding certainly well contact mate to measure fireplaces Chrysler on 074 91 38 365 on Facebook, Instagram and on mtmfireplaces.ie that's Andre and Casemoda all with 20% off choose from a selection of shirts, holos and t-shirts with up to 50% off suits also up to 50% off and many more great savings throughout in the big summer sale now on at Watson men's wear Main Street, Letter County and at Watsonmen'swear.com I don't remember a band from Sixies County County, I yeah yeah not that kind of a rock, what do you call it road trip sort of rock maybe I'm wrong they don't swing up the country yeah, swing up the country refrance but loads of stuff they had but that's kind of a road trip rock I get maybe I'm wrong we're all in the snug listening to dig all the way where's the snug snug's in Sonora above keys good stuff yourself Joe Neal thanks for the shout out do you know he's in there do you know he's in there he just told me he's been in there a bit too long well don't watch what else should be doing in the morning that's absolute pleasure brilliant music really looking forward to this this set in Oak Fence Saturday the 9th and dig will be live so we just want to say Paul and Kieran and Aaron and Jordan thanks very much indeed people want to get in touch with you on social media Instagram Facebook all the usual spots run Spotify and Apple and streamers everywhere, YouTube and all that stuff the full ten yard as I say thanks very much indeed and we're looking forward to the session and the set in Oakfield Park and Oak Fest thank you very much that is dig thank you