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And it's only five euro per person, so a good amount to crack. And the Wi-Fi will be turned off just prior to the quiz starting, just in case any of you think you're going to be really, really smart, smarter than usual. But go along and help a good cause, McLean's Bar in Mal, this Friday night at 9 p.m. And thanks, Ally, as always, for getting in touch with us. But anyway, listen, we say hello, and we welcome for the first time the student, Sean Meaghan. Sean, good evening to you. Good evening, Paul. How are you? I'm good. So we quick introduction to yourself. You're Sean Meaghan, you're from Malinhead. That's right, yeah, Malinhead. And you've always loved Malinhead, haven't you? Oh well, always loved Malinhead, yeah. Good stuff. And songwriting, how long, or singing a big part in first? How long have you been involved in singing? Well, we've been singing and playing guitar really about nine years. And I started off with kind of trad music, playing the accordion and then the banjo, and got the trad. That's where I started off. And then I kind of... Why did you try it in the house? So I had my auntie play the button key accordion. She was a button key accordion player, so she kind of got me into that there. And then I kind of went on my own route then. Right away. Do you fall back to trad music? I do the odd thing, yeah. I love a bit of trad music. Of course, of course. And do you have a songwriter? I write a few songs yet. I write a few songs, but I haven't really recorded anything yet. Just a few ideas and a few riffs, but nothing too serious yet. Well, take your time. It'll come along. But anyway, as we always do, we get a quick talk and then we get a song. So, Sean, we're going to go straight into the piece of music and your first track up for us tonight, Crack and Tune, it is? Sweet Home Chicago. And well, listen, whenever you're ready, we're where they're here. That's great. Thank you. It's the same old place. Sweet Home Chicago. One of us two, six, two is eight. Come on, baby, before it's too late, hey, hey. It's the same old place. From Chicago to the south. Absolutely brilliant. Tell you what, your guitar works amazing. Thanks, Muggin. Oh my God. That's just a real crack and intro on that too as well. Tell me, are you a blues fan? Oh, I love the blues. Is that right? Even from a young age. And do you go back fire with your sort of knowledge of blues? Do you like the old stuff? Old stuff, Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson, yeah. Later stuff then like Muddy Waters and kind of Air Clapton's kind of stuff, just range of blues, range of blues. And that was amazing. Are you self-taught in the guitar shop? Most of it's self-taught, just off YouTube, you know. Well, Ann Byrne kind of taught me the originals and the basics. Okay. And then I kind of just learned myself then what I wanted to learn, you know, just the blues and I did all that off YouTube. That's amazing. Ah, it's great. It's a good outlet for people. Oh, that's fantastic. I've been on it loads of times. I still can't play guitar. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but anyway. The gig and why is it on? Do you gig much about? I do. I started gigging there last October. October past. Right. And I was gigging all over in Malntown, and carrying on on as far as Dairy Lake. And then I did a gig in Glasgow there last Christmas. I was playing in Glasgow last Christmas. What took you over to Glasgow? I don't mean obviously a boat or a plane, but what reason? There was actually one of my friends. He's from Belfast. He'd be a friend of the family. He'd have a friend over there that owns a pub, and she just wanted like a bit of music. So we went over and I played in a couple of pubs over there and went to Celtic Gaming. That was good fun. I've been wrapped up by. And how did you find that? How did you find that sort of different type of audience? Ah, it was kind of like, it was a Celtic bar. I was playing it. So it was kind of the same music I liked. Home from home. That's it. Ah, good crag. That's brilliant. It's nice to get out and do that. And does your sort of repertoire change if you go in the Celtic? Obviously, you have to play to that crowd. That's it. You can do that quite easy. I can do that because I have songs like Different Settlers for different kind of events, like from playing in a pub that just wants kind of rock and country and things like that. You can do that too. Yeah. And then if I'm playing in Glasgow and the Celtic bar, I want a bit of rebel and a bit of used tunes like so. Excellent. I changed it up. Good man. You have to get supposed to play to the crowd, you know, or you're restricting yourself. Ah. As I said earlier on songwriting, you do bits and pieces or? Bits and pieces, yeah. Bits and pieces. Just having really recorded the Celtic, just kind of getting there and kind of perfecting it before I record it. Would that be in your plans, kind of thing? Would you like to do that? I'd love to do it. Yeah. Well, you're studying at the moment, aren't you? You're actually doing the country and Germany's part of the world. That's right. In Corka. Uh-huh. Studying down there. I'm studying nautical science there. Oh. Training to be a ship officer, yeah. So down in Corka and Rignes-Giddy, in the Maritime College. And how far are you on that? This is my first year. My first year of college, so. How do you find it? I'm loving it. Very interesting course, I have to say. Very interesting. Well, is that, what's that? I'm just, I'm getting away from the music now because I'm an old-school kind of a book, you know what I mean? But what took, what took that road for you? Uh, well, I actually did a course there in Boncran a couple of years ago. It's like a Coastal Explorers program. Okay. So we went out tagging basket sharks and doing different things. Like, it was excellent. And kind of ever since that on, I decided I wanted to go down that road. Excellent. That's a lovely, that's a different, you know, I'm always curious when I'm talking to younger people to see what direction they're looking for now. And I think it's the first time. Who's it? Michael Gillespie? Is it Michael? I don't know, Charles and the Rise. Who's the, the, the charge of the ship? Queen Cassie. Aye. Charles, erm... Aye. His name's gone, aye? But he's the captain of the ship. He was up with us, singing here, too. Aye. The guitarist. Oh, his name's gone. He was in my head. But erm, it'd be good to cry if you're in this boat and you bring the guitar, will you? That's us. Is that the sort of plan and then they sort of just head away? Head out to sea, yeah, but always keep music on the side. Like, I'll always get some music on the side. That's great therapy. Charles, what about your accommodation in Cork? How's that going around? Well, there's a long story, kind of accommodation was hard to get in Cork like before we went to college. Yes. Just by chance, Mammy put something up on Facebook there. Yes. And we got back, this fellow's lovely fellow, like in episode of Big Time. He asked us, he offered his house then to us. So we're living on a dairy farm now in Cork. Away. Aye. And have you worked a bit like that? Oh, I worked. Have you been working the farm? I worked weekends. I mean, another fellow from Allen Heads down there. And you work on, is that cover the rent? Oh, covers the rent. Well, half of it anyways. That's a good idea. Oh, that's great. That's great. Malcolm, you've never done it before? Never done it before, but we soon learned. And tell me this, is it all working or you never get out for a bit of crackdown or a crackdown? Ah, sure. We'll get out the odd time. Ah, of course. Ah, of course you do. But it's a big farm. Aye, he's 180 cattle. So it's big enough. Big enough. You go from Allen Heads to Sturdy, then you're working on a farm. Aye, oh, it's... Do you know how to say? That's it. Do you know how to say? But you're so mechanical now. Aye, well, he's a mechanical pump, so it's just a matter of putting them on. Like, do you work all weekend? Or do you do? Ah, it just works. Bits on Saturday. Like, bits and pieces on a Saturday and Sunday. Like, it's nothing too serious. And are you up or are you on one's errand for this tonight? Sorry? Are you up on one's errand for this tonight? Should you be down on Cork? I should be down on Cork in the minute, eh? Well, I appreciate that. Thanks very much. No bother, no bother. It's a pleasure. That's very, very nice of you indeed. Sinead Boyle says you're brilliant, Sean. Thanks very much, Sinead. There you go, Sinead. And we would love to get another track from you now. And who... Before we go into this second track, you're saying... Who would be your kind of an inspirational thing of what? My inspiration, I think Pete Townsend would be a fantastic guitarist. Right. I love Pete Townsend. They're the classic kind of 70s, early 70s. Yes, yes. And then Sinead Weiss, I think Robert Johnson and the Blues Vocals and Muddy Waters, them boys. They'd be great inspirations for Eleg. More since the coming of YouTube and stuff, that's when I kind of went on to that. I want to say, I was blown away with it that the much archived stuff was there. A lot of history. These boys were trailblazers. They were just amazing. You know what they... And a lot of them died young and in trouble circumstances and... You know what I mean? There's not a controversy over that there. Oh, without a doubt. But Robert Johnson just something else. Like, there's no... You know, they hadn't much to go on music while he's there and they hadn't, you know, they hadn't got the sound systems and the... Some of them even made their own guitars out of cigar boxes. Definitely, I think. I got myself a cigar box guitar. Brilliant, you know. You're fantastic. They are... I love it just because there's six things in it. You can make some kind of noise out of it. That's it. But I love that how they really make music out of basically nothing because obviously they had nothing, but they still got the music out there. And there was a great... I love the harmonica and there's a great harmonica playing done on that time too. Do you ever try that? I never tried the blues harmonica. I've never tried it, but it's one instrument that is probably the sweetest of blues, like. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. But I don't remember that. The next song you're going to do for Sean. It's going to be Fossum Prison Blues, Johnny Cash. Oh, are you a Johnny Cash fan? Ah, I love Johnny. Who doesn't, eh? That's it. Well, Sean, we're looking forward to hearing this, so... That's great. Whenever you're ready. Hold on, I know Jimmy's just going to... Oh, go ahead. Right, go ahead when you're ready. Well, I hear that train of coming. This rolling relevant. Then I had seen some chimes. I don't know where. Cause I'm looking for some prison. And time eats. Drag it on. For that train to keep from rolling. And I said, man, it's over. When I was just a baby. My mama told me, son, Always be a good boy and never play with guns. Flash out of Manorino. Just do what you got. What I hear there was so long. I hang my head and cry. Fancy dine and cries. Probably drinking my face. Smoking this guy. But I know I had it coming. I know I came from this prison. That railroad train is mine. I bet I'd move out of here. Further down the line. Drive from Folsom Prison. This where I'd want to. And I'd let them so much. Blow my blues away. So, you know, that's a different version. I hear the blues coming through that. Amazing. Absolutely brilliant. Oh, you're only slanted. But that's good. That was actually brilliant. Well done. Thanks very much. Kaira McGee, hello to you. Kaira said that. Unreal, Sean. And Kair McGonagall says class, Sean. Lad. Thanks very much. So, blues, obviously a very influential part of your of your music repertoire. Do you include that kind of twist in most of your songs? If you get a chance. If I get a chance to put it in, like things like Creedence Clearwater Revival had kind of put me onto us in that too, like. John Fogarty, class. It's funny, you know, you're talking to somebody that's so young that your style and the artists that you relate to are all kind of older artists, you know, or something. You know, it's not usually fine that. No. But obviously, it shows somebody can appreciate good music. And that's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. Brilliant. Right, we're going to take a quick outbreak. If you've just joined us, you can follow us live. I forgot to mention that you follow us live on hidingradio.com. 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But probably after Christmas I might think about doing gigs then. I was probably just doing that. College work and exams out of the road first then. Okay. Back to the gig. How long's the course last? Three years, but I'm actually, hopefully the way to see now in July coming. Oh yeah. Yeah. So you'd be away for, you have to a year see, James. So you'd be away for six months at a time like. And whereabouts would that take you? You don't know. You don't know. It could be Japan, it could be Singapore, it could be any place. As you do. As you do, actually. Where am I for the morning? I don't know. It could be Japan, it could be somewhere. That's it. It's interesting that I'm really interested. Brilliant. And the best to look at, I think that's an amazing choice of career. So well done indeed. As you say, you haven't recorded it, but would you be confident enough to say I have got a dozen songs here and I'll put them on an album? Probably if I did it about another two months at it, just steadily song-rated, probably could put an album together like for the stuff you already have. Put it right there. And have you ever, you've played solo mostly, you haven't played in the group or anything? No, I've played in the band when I was 15, I think that was really for about a couple of months, and then COVID hit then, so I stopped, and then after COVID then, I started going back into it, and then I just went by myself then solo. Well, you've definitely got a brilliant style, and I would have no doubt there'd be sort of good blues venues down about corks. Jeremy, wouldn't have been bound to be somewhere. And cork people are on the ball, you know, the middle age, thinking about everything. So your plans are anyway now just to sort of concentrate in this for a minute and then move on to further your career. Fantastic, Sean, from Yvonne minus Fantastic, Sean. All your proud Galway family listening in. Oh, we've got Galway connection to you. Oh, Galway connection to you. Oh, very good. Yeah, good family in Galway there. Yeah, that's handy for you when you're done to cork, just stop them out of there. Ah, that's very good. Sean, as I say, we've enjoyed your company, we've enjoyed your commitment to come up here, really, really appreciate that, because it's not an easy thing to do, you know. Fantastic music, Sean, listening in Coventry, a future star for sure. That's from Nana Grandav, Paul, Big D, Shale, Kira, Kian and Ellie. That's great. Thanks very much. And all the family over in Coventry. Hello to you listening in Coventry and good to have you with us on this fine Monday evening here in the Northwest. Right, Sean, we would love to get, I'm looking forward to this one because I have your playlist set list here in front of me. And this is the old Thinnessy classic. Whisk in the Jar. We had a few years ago, we had Eric Bell up here, just sitting by you where, who was one of the founder members of Thinnessy. And he actually does that guitar so well. And every time I hear that song now, I just think of him right away, you know. So I'm looking forward to your slant. Whisk in the Jar, whenever you're ready. Thank you. He was counting. It's amazing guitar work. It's excellent. I'm just looking at there and I'm total awe. Absolutely brilliant. Well done indeed, my God. Who sent a load at this time? Nobody or. Sean, lots of love from us listening in from Derry. That's Colin and Linda and Clara Cassidy. That's great. Thanks so much. I love you all. And we have another couple here. Where are we Jimmy? Fantastic. Always ready on that one. Last one. Yeah, aha. Here we go. Well done, Sean from Sophie, Katelyn, Ruri and Rushing. That's great. Thanks very much. You know them folks. I do that. Good stuff. So Sean, what are you playing next? Have you any lined up? Or what? Actually, if I get to do in Coventy there over Christmas. Okay. Yeah. So I'm heading over to Coventy there on the 23rd of December. And I'm doing a gig there in an Irish club. Excellent. So I'm going to go over there and playing in Annie's then on New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve and Annie's and all. Oh, well done. And is there a good Irish connection over there in Coventry? Coventry or there would be. There's a lot of Donegal and a lot of Irish over there. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Excellent. Well done. So if people want to get in touch with these social media ways. Social media. My Facebook page is just Sean Mehan. Then I've Instagram and I've Snapchat and all that like Sophie Bookings. I mostly just use my Facebook page. If anybody wants to book and get booking because if you want a good night entertainment and entertainment is. Do you know what I think we'll do? We would love to get another song. I know you've I know you're only getting paid for three, but the contract is for three. We would we would love to get another one. So we put you in the spot and that one if you don't mind. Excellent. Sean from Nellies and Balli Gorman. That's great. Thanks very much. And go on Sean. That's a man fair play to you from David. Good man, David. Good man, David. I saw big letters to capital letters. He must be shouting at us. He's not right. He's not right. He's not. Oh God. I've got help him to. Well done, Sean. Brilliant sir from David again. Good man, David. That's a week letter this time. Okay, smart yourself. Right, Sean. As I say, we put you on the spot now. One more tune. You know when you're looking to go home around. They go, one more tune. That's it. That's final one. We'll do Thunderstruck, basically. Do you need to retune or anything? No, no. Sure. That's the sign up. That's the sign up. Great position there. Take me straight on. Thunderstruck. You have a brilliant choice of stuff, you know. For us here at Effect from the Night. And Brilliant sir, well done. Right, I'm looking forward to hearing this. This is Thunderstruck. Sean Meakin on the Monday Night Sessions. And for people, if you're watching live, I'm sure you can appreciate the guitar work. Good man, Sean, from the Maddys. The Maddys. Thank you. Maddys is saying hello to you. Sean, what type of guitar is that if you don't mind me asking this? It's an Epiphone, Epiphone Big Jumbo guitar. Okay. Actually bought it off a man in my head. Michael Deary, he was another fabulous musician too. Excellent. He passed away there a couple of years ago. Wow. Yeah. Is this, have you more than one guitar or? I have a couple there, a couple of guitars, like a good few electrics and this is probably the best acoustic one I have. Is that right? Yeah. Lovely sound of it. Is it an old guitar? It looks so old. It is old. It is an old guitar, right? The old classics are the best. That's it, just. They're a proper mate. Absolutely. Sean, all we're going to do is wish you nothing but the best of success and your future going forward, of no doubt. It's going to be bright for you and I hope everything works out for the boats and whatever else. And good luck. As I say, we really appreciate the fact that you give up, you don't know fair, but you know, coming up here and stuff. Thanks very much for having me. Paul would keep them all night, Ali Farnsett. Good man, Ali. Oh no, it's good. See, great music and great artists. We could keep them here all night, listen to them. But no, it's been a lot of pleasure. Sean, making music or Sean, making on Facebook and social media. And if you want a professional artist for a night's entertainment, why don't you call them up? Sean, thanks very much. It's a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me. Monday night sessions in association with Blake