 Me and of course and a peaceful easy feeling old Eagles classic right It's just exactly half past nine in the Monday night. You're welcome along. You just joined us We welcome him for the first time in Monday night sessions. I think so at the first time I think it was did your McLaughlin. You're very welcome at long last Contracts are all signed and we got you Give me house things. Oh good. I'm good. I'm not too bad at all. You're busy. I keep going. Yeah And you're you're over with Tommy record always see you coming up with the dance tracks Aye, I would do a lot of dance music like the vocals for dance music doing that for good for years and I would record that over with Tommy and Fulton studios. Aye, he kind of keeps me right. Do you enjoy that? I do enjoy that. Aye, I do enjoy that kind of progressive house and Trans style vocals and stuff and then I started kind of getting back into some of my own stuff again this year So it's nice to get it right for yourself to Yeah, you're teaching and go away and teaching music. I don't go away Is it you didn't open it for this? No, I didn't. No, not today. No, I'm heading down again in the morning Oh, okay. I hadn't done it. I drive today. I drive but I'd be open down good but like I don't mind driving I like to drive. Do you like teaching? Aye, I do. I like teaching music. How long do you have to teach music and teaching maybe other subjects. I Qualified teaching I'd say 17 What took you to Galway? Is it just where work was? Is that basically? Aye, for work. I went to college down to Galway and I always liked it down there. I always liked Galway. That's a nice city. What's your music scene like down there? Pretty good. There's a lot of really good buskers, a lot of really good bands and punk gigs and stuff like. Definitely not a good scene for music. Well, we're going to go into a piece of music first before we chat and the first piece you're going to do for it is your Aye, this is one of my own songs I wrote there last year And it came out and I can't think November time. It's kind of like a it's a ballad kind of singer songwriter style Style vocalist. And you wrote this yourself? I wrote this myself. Do you write much, do you? I do. I do actually write a good bit. I write the dance stuff for a long time and then I kind of took a break from writing my own stuff And then I go back and write my own stuff again and I would kind of write like I might not write for a while and then I might get in the form for writing and then sometimes you don't feel like writing Sometimes you don't really feel inspired to write anything. Like I was over in the studio today and like being taught me We were working on something and I was like, I can't string a line together today. Just wasn't in the headspace for writing today And then other times you're just in a really good soul. You can just battle off. Well, this first track is called It's called Coming Home. Yeah, Coming Home. We'd love to hear it. Oh, okay. Super, super. Thank you It's hard. I guess that's a good place for me to start I was looking for your love always in someone else's heart I think it's time for me to mend this broken part Like a bird without a song Like a bird that's never flown I'm just sorry that I left you on your own Tearing at the seams From the weight of all my dreams I guess the only one who's me I'm coming home Like ash to dust Tearing down these walls I'm coming home Every pillar is stripped away Eighten days Now there's nowhere left Take the lessons like they're You can't have love Searching for me Couldn't see Who is this person staring It's your love that sends me free We speak the lighting sign And the missing piece I'm coming home to you I'm coming home to you Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you very much. The lyrics are all in that. Thank you. I was following the story of that. Oh, good, good. I'm glad you liked it. Thank you very much. Have any singles or have you released? Do you know any of them? Um, that's my first one there in a good few years. I knew ten years. Well, it's solely my own. It's not a collab. Uh-huh. So that's the first one I've done in a while. Do you get a chance to write much? Um, I do. I always be writing bits of pieces. But it'd be sporadic enough. Sometimes I would just get loads done. I might just get loads done a month and then I might not get anything done the next month and then, you know... Who kind of influences you as a singer? I always like singer-songwriter stuff growing up. I always like a Fleetwood Mac and stuff. I like current kind of stars such as Neal O'Connor's Grace was a great singer. I used to love Damien Rice when he was young when he was a teenager. I really like that kind of style of stuff. So anything soulful. Like Van Morrison too. Like Van Morrison. I really like Zac Brighton at the minute. I'm listening to a lot of him. I think he's brilliant. Who? Zac Brighton. He's like an American singer-songwriter. Yeah, really, really good. Young fantasy? He's kind of like... It's not a really American country, but it is a wee twist on it too. Are you good? I'm really, really good. Let's check him out. I like getting new names of people that don't know how to tell it. Hi! Van Morrison too. Hi. Yeah, it's when he's got my hand to him. Now she was wanting to learn his song guitar and that's when I looked him up and found him. Very good, very good. You play both the keyboard and the guitar. Hi. And tell me, are you booked up or are you looking for bookings? No, I'm getting bookings at the moment. Are you available for bookings? I am available for bookings. I'm getting bookings there at the minute now. I'm hoping this year I'll be busy because I took a break from gigging for a while so I hadn't really been gigging that much and now I'm kind of getting back into it. For this year. And Weddens would be a... I went to do Weddens too. So I do Weddens across Ken and Donnie Goll and Derry and Sligo sometimes. I've been to Sligo, Lytrum, Ken area as well. Keeps you busy. Northwest. It does keeps me busy. So I'm back in force again. A bit of weekends for Weddens and different things. And if people are looking to get in touch with you, what about... I Facebook, I suppose. Dears and Glocklin on Facebook. You get me there. I've a wedding webpage too. Wedden Music Donnie Goll Derry. Oh, very good. And then there's Instagram and stuff. Like it's what I be. Very good. The music's changed a lot this last while. You know, there's more... I see more solo acts coming through more... We better stay the song, right? And, you know, more personal it seems to be. Ah, you know, like... Individuals, you know, more so than groups coming out with stuff. There seems to be that... Maybe it's just the way it is that they want to put out. You know, the world of solo artists and young people, it's great. Yeah, I think there's a lot of, like, people kind of value honesty, like, in the truth. And I think you want to hear that. And music reflected in music. I think it has a great influence on young people, you know. Because we see it here, you get a lot of, you know, individual artists coming up and it's just amazing. I think a lot of them people that are out there, you know, they add shears and that as much as people knock them. But they are... They do bring a lot to the tables. I think they're... For songwriting, I think they do, you know. Yeah, I love singer-songwriters. I listen to a lot of singer-songwriters. I think it's great now. Are you self-taught in this? Ah, pretty much, yeah. Yeah, pretty much. I kind of... Yeah, I write just basically, kind of get chords and then I write together. And that's when they came out. I worked with my friend Paul Skelton and he wrote the, like, piano parts for it because he's amazing at piano. He's kind of like, he's a producer as well. So Tommy produced it in full-tile studios and Paul Skelton did the piano. So he did a great job. Why did you not do the piano yourself? I worked with him before, like, on a song called Fairy Tales. He's a producer. So we did it. It was kind of a dance track. We brought it out, I think, by three years ago on a label. I forget now what the label's called. I think it was on this label. But he's just so good at composing. He's, like, a whiz, like, a piano. He's amazing. It's good to do instrumentals and stuff. That's good for an artist yourself. I like collaborating with people. Appreciate that. I definitely do. I sent him on the song. Like, a cordial version of it. And he lyrics the melody. And I just said, what do you think of it? Would you want to write something for this? I can come back to it. Very good. Different ideas. Everyone brings something else to the table, like a different perspective on it. It's good that you acknowledge that. You know, rather than saying, no, this is my own thing. And I'm good. Brilliant. Yeah. You have a new single coming out now? Aye. It won't come out on 9th of February. No, it's kind of like very, like, it's kind of pop-y dance music. Really, I suppose it's kind of dubstep. Really, I always kind of wanted to do something dubstep for many years. And I ended up kind of putting it together. And it's a really kind of upbeat one. I'm looking forward to that. But you have different styles there, don't you? Aye, I do. I'd be influenced with the dance music as opposed to when I'm writing. You know, I would be like... What's your favourite type? Oh, geez, I like all kinds of music. Aye. I like it all, aye. Yeah. If it's a good song, it's a good song. You know, I cannot. Excellent. And what do your students do you teach? Ah, primary schools. Primary schools. Primary schools, aye. So it could be like, the youngest would be four or five during your infants, like, and then... And it's music you teach them. House after school. It's house after school. So you start at half one and then you go on for the evening and then the final years come in to you then each hour. Their kids are lovely. Oh, I know that. Do you see any re-prodigies, re-natural people coming along? Oh, there is. Some of them pick it up. I think they were like, wee sponges that that is. They pick things up while quick. Oh, while quick. And just the crack good of them and the stuff they come out with. Like, they're just so funny. Well, that's like Jack was on there with us in the last band. He's only playing best like three or four years. You know what I'm looking at going to. I know. They pick it up quite fast. Well, yeah. Well, I'll do another one. What? This is one I'm writing at the minute and I haven't finished it. I started writing this before Christmas again. It's another kind of wee ballad one. Do you have songs something as I always say in the background there? Do I? I do stuff. Do you ever come back to them? Oh, I do. I because I'm kind of like sometimes a half right stuff and I'm like, I'll come back to that and then some of them you don't feel like coming back to it. And then just kind of sits there and it's there for, you know, maybe a year or two. Like if something's there a couple of years. Do you see when a song comes to you or is it the melody? The melody. I have a chord arrangement either on guitar or keyboard. And then it'll be the melody and then it'll be the words. But sometimes you might have an idea what you want to write about first. So maybe you might have a lyric or something in your head and you're trying to work that into the melody then. Is it your own experiences you're writing about? A hundred percent. I think it comes through you. So we could follow your mood down for your music? Yeah. Like the last one the coming home song I wrote that last year and last year was just like a crazy kind of beautiful heartbreak and transformative year and that's the song that kind of came out of it. Aye. Now that I think back like that was the song. Oh the coming home but really lovely lyrics. Aye it's about coming home to yourself like there's kind of a spiritual element to it there as well. Very good. Aye that's it. Our next song then? Aye this is the next one. This is called, I don't know what this is going to be called. I think I'm going to call it a woken. I'm just working on it at the minute so. I will finish it soon. This was the first time that we played on air then. Aye first one. We're probably. We're probably. Thank you. Whatever you're ready. Okay. Aye. It's beautiful. Thank you very much. That's lovely. Thank you. I will finish that. Aye it's just that's what it is so far. Probably need to add another version of the bridge to it for it to be done but I will get there with it. Aye you're no problem. It will come naturally like as they say. That's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you very much. Have you recorded you haven't done any albums or anything have you? No I done EP years going on. EP's aye. Five million songs and then the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the Have you pieed the songs there, Sutton? I do, I have a lot of dance stuff that I mean, I would need to finish. I have a dance track coming out now, this fella called Ciaran McCawley. And it's really nice. Again, a lot of the dance music just starts with piano and just vocals, and then the production then you'd be surprised what you can turn it into, you know. Yeah, like they really take shape then to a different kind of genre. Do you do voiceovers too and stuff? I did the jingles for the video. I did the jingles for the video, yeah. How long did you do it? Years ago. Years ago. Which one did you do? I think it's the long drawn out one. Oh, you did the single? I did that. Yeah, got roped into that. He was doing the jingles, he was like, need some vocals for this. Don't want you to do it. One nice fella, keeps me right with a lot of stuff. We were putting out that coming open song, like I hadn't breathed, because the record label does all the dance music stuff, so I'm not used to putting out drone stuff where you have to think about press releases, and you have to think about photos, and you have to think about, he shot the video and all for me too, and everything in the video, we made the video on Nards. But he's quite important to you. I have videos, you know what? Then he's great at making the videos. It really turned out really good. You can get over it, because it's not something you do very often. And you should definitely get into doing more of them as well. Well, come here, it's been an absolute delight having you here, and thanks for coming up. How far have you traveled to get home? Oh, two minutes over the road. Oh, that's dead on. Two minutes over the road. We're concerned about traveling tonight. We're going to get a final song. We're going to go for an outbreak. What are you going to come back with? I'll do a Springsteen song. I'll do a Springsteen song for my guitar. Oh, good. After this break. Of course, why not? Imagine Broadband's January sale is here. Grab our hero high-speed Broadband package for just 49.99 per month. Act fast. Sign up before January 31st to enjoy a massive 180 euro in savings. Head to imagine.ie or free phone us on 1-800-938-407 to upgrade to faster Broadband faster. Subject to location and availability, minimum 18 month contract. Activation fees and annual price increase of CPI plus 3% applies. See imagine.ie for full terms and conditions. Don't miss the BAFTA Award winning comedian Michael McIntyre's brand new show, Magnificent at the SSZ Arena Belfast on Friday the 31st of May, 2024. As always, Highland video make it easy for you as we look after all your needs. We will provide luxury transfers overnight stay at the Clinton Hotel Belfast on a B&B basis, your ticket to the show, shopping time in Belfast City Centre. For more information, go to the outlet at highlandvideo.com or give us a call on 07491-25000. Michael McIntyre in Belfast. Yeah, welcome back. It's 11 minutes in front of 10 o'clock on us. Well, that's because you say Saturday night. Yeah, that's the way it is. Roshan Roach says, well done, Deidre. Absolutely brilliant interview and singing and Daniel Sheridan says, absolutely brilliant. And Eichling Marie Galle said, lovely voice, lovely girl. Well done, Deidre. And hello from Deidre from John Wallace. Please say hello and good luck. And all the best to Deidre McIntyre with music in 2024. Thank you very much, folks. Thanks for the message. Thank you. It's very good. And as I say, the plans are just a couple of weddings and backgigging, if you can. Backgigging and a few songs to come out. Good. Well, we're looking forward to the release of the new single, Solace. We've got a start to put up a wee few clips of that. No, right? That's the way to do it. Very good. So this cover you're going to do Springsteen. Springsteen fan. I do like it. I'm going to gig him. I do like some of the songs. We're looking forward to going to see him now in May. I think I can't remember. I'll get away right in May. I'll come. He's coming to Belfast and Dublin. I'll say a great show. Well, I've seen him twice before. Now, he is brilliant. No doubt about it, you know. This is probably my last time. I'll get too old to stand on a football pitch watching somebody, you know. It's the atmosphere, isn't it? Ah, the atmosphere is right. Look at me. What's this track you're going to do? This is Dancing the Dark. Oh, brilliant. Dancing the Dark. Lovely. Lovely. Very strong. Distinctive. Maybe it's the word I'm looking for. Yeah, thank you. You kind of made that song your own. Do you know that? Brilliant. Well done. Thank you very much. Lovely cover indeed. Now I have to say... I just want to say thanks indeed for coming up. Thank you very much for having me. It's lovely to see you at the long last. I get it. And the best of luck. And the best of luck with the teaching and whatever else goes along. And the dance tracks. Lovely, yeah. A few more to come this year. Keep rockin' with Tommy over there. Definitely will, I. Does it take you as long to put a song, you know, with something to get together? No, do you know what? Not really. Like, sometimes he's just on the ball and everything comes very fast. Would Tommy have the main idea? We'd get kind of the chords and then kind of fill out the chords and then he would do all the production stuff like he's great at producing. Very, very good. Very good. Very versatile. That's Tommy over at Fault Health Studios there. Of course, no better man. Daderie, thanks very much indeed. Thanks very much for having me. I really loved having you here today. Daderie McLaughlin, oh, hang on a second. Fiona O'Neill, suggestion done. Lovely singing as always, Daderie. Love from your body, Fiona, Johnny and Bruce. Oh, thank you. And Mod McLean says the original ballad Daderie's song was only gorgeous. Can't wait to hear it again. Oh, lovely. Thanks very much for this one. There you are. Lovely. Thanks, Daderie. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me.