 Just call Patterson and check him out, C-O-L, Patterson, Megan, Great Ripples and Great Music. Last year was a great year for him, but you never know, we might get him up here in Highland Radio some Monday night and Bedford Falls. Check him out on all his social media pages, for example his music's on Spotify, iTunes and the whole not. That's great, one of the great acts of 2022 and I've no doubt this year coming too, so we look forward to hearing him called live maybe sometime. Right, oh wait, 60, 25,000, welcome in if you've just joined us and we're delighted to welcome our first studio guest of the new year, live, playing live for us is JP Kennedy, Ardra, Born and Bread, I'm sure to say, but you're very welcome. Nice to be here, nice to be here Paul, so yeah. You're an Ardra man born and bred? Yeah, yeah, I grew up in Ardra, so was there for the first 20 odd years of my life and then I went, I left, I did various things, but a few years ago I ended up in Germany, so I've been there now just over 10 years actually, so yeah, yeah, yeah, I do a lot of... What took you to Germany? I went to study, I was doing a course in Ballyfairman in Dublin and then they had a connection with the school in Mannheim where I'm living and so that was it, me and another guy from Ireland, we both came over and after the year was finished, he went home and I stayed in Mannheim and I'm there since so... And had you, prior to going out, had you been singing here? Yeah, yeah, I started when around 2006 I'd say for the first time, when I was younger we had a band at school, it was going way, way back, but around 2006 or so I started doing solo material and I'd be kept busy over in Germany, there's plenty of Irish pubs and everything. Do you know what, you're talking about that, you wouldn't believe how many people come on here, we would talk in Germany, Holland and even Belgium and stuff, it seems to be an upsourge in Irish music or is it the Irish pub scene, is that what it is or? Well, yeah, I think so, whatever it is, it's Irish, to be Irish in Germany is kind of cool, I mean, you know. Oh, I know, I was there. It's popular, I never get a bad reaction and then you can't hear on C on the radio, I've got red hair in freckles and it's very typical, so they look at me and they think everybody looks like this but I don't tell them otherwise. We lived in, I lived in Germany for two and a half years, myself and me, and she is red hair. Right, where are we in Germany? We were all over, we spent a lot of time and born in Cologne, and then we moved down to Bavaria, down into a little place called Eggstad. Okay, very nice. And then we lived for about nine months on a small island off the North Sea called Borkum. Wow, there you go. That's impressive, okay, good. That is a place to see. I'd say so. Would Germans all go to holidays on the North Sea coast, as they call it, the North Sea coast, yeah. I love Germany. I know it's a great spot. And they have a great, they do have a great time for the... Oh, they love it. They love it, so yeah. Right, we're going to go into a song first, JP. Okay, play a song first, yeah. Well, we've got an album coming up and it's about the Wild West, it's called Road to Jerome, and it's about cowboys and Indians, Native Americans, and this time from the Wild West, basically. How many tracks are on this? They'll probably be 12, just finalizing that, but yeah, they're all original songs. All original songs. I've wrote most of myself, and I've had help with two or three, so it was a co-write in two or three, so good people to help. So the first song is again? The first one is going to be A Dan of Iniquity, this is where cowboys like to go to let off some steam. Okay, in your own time, thank you very much. JP, Kennedy, Lavin, studio. Not trying to put your voice to a particular name or anything, but I'm just trying to, there's a great sound there that I like and love it. Well done. Okay, great. Is this your first album to release? First album, yeah. I used to be in bands, and I was in bands for years in Germany as well, mostly hard rock bands and things like that, but just before the lockdown, I started writing a lot of these Wild West songs. It's based actually on my great grandfather who had a saloon in the Wild West in, where was it, Connell? It was in New Mexico and Arizona. Yeah, so we grew up on stories of his from our grandfather, his tales from the 1890s and 1880s. So your great grandfather went from here to America? Yeah, went to Arizona, went to New Mexico, I came back, he was back in holiday around 1900 and he met his wife, which would become our great grandmother, so he sent for his stuff and he never went back after that, so yeah. That was a story, and we have photos and everything, so there'd be photos on the artwork. Photos of America? Yeah, there's saloon and people in the saloon, it's like, yeah, we have a photo dated 1888. And is that sort of instilled your interest? I did, yeah. I mean, I had, I just happened to have a couple of songs in this theme anyway, and then I thought, well, you know what, there's a whole big story there, I might tell, if people are still listening to albums, I mean, I hope so, but yeah, so I just thought, why not give it a go and cracking story. That's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we won't tell you about the bear attack, but it's all in the album. It better not get into the bear attack, but it's a long. Had your great grandfather left any stories here, like for you to, you know, remember, talk about, did he, you know, did he instill a thing in your mind for you making the cut off brilliant, any, you know. Yeah, well, by the time we were born, he was a deceased, I'm afraid, but we got it from our grandfather. He died in 1999, so he's quite long dead as well. And then my father, and he would have passed on the stories to us, you know, and to our cousins as well in the family. So we're all pretty aware of it. That's unusual. Yeah, yeah. And they're old family house because it's Winslow, Arizona, the old family house now in our drads called Winslow house because my cousin, Mary and Sean are, are living there now. It's a family house. Yeah. It's been called Winslow recently. Great stories. The Clementine song, tell me about that. Oh God, Clementine. Oh, because the first time I heard it, I went totally unusual. Yeah, yeah. And I loved that, you know. It just came about. It was a song that I wrote and it was, it was not exactly about Clementine to begin with, but after a while working around with it, I was like, you know what? Yeah, I should make this the sort of response to the song. Oh my darling, Clementine, because I had learned that for shows and everything. And I just thought I'm going to do a response to that song and just give a wee clue to the tune at the beginning and then break into something different. And yeah, it's about, you know, Clementine, she drinks too much, she falls in the river and does the rest. Oh my darling. Yeah, yeah, she's lost. Tell me this. You recorded that yourself. Did you do all that work yourself or did you? No, no, I had a team with me. So I'd say Ashlyn Jarvis in Dublin, but she's got Dunnegal connections. We know Ashlyn well. You know Ashlyn, yes. You recorded with Ashlyn. Yeah, I did. She was the producer and her brother was on bass, Paul. Yes. And then I have an Ardraman on drums, Paul Cullum. Oh, there you go. And a guitarist from Bally Shannon as well. Have you recorded the entire album with them as well? Yeah, pretty much. Just waiting on a couple of songs to be mastered or mixed and mastered, but it's pretty much all done. Excellent. How did you enjoy that process? Oh, it took a while. It took a while to get everyone together, but I was kind of glad when it happened. Yeah. And I have unfiddled, yeah, I should say as well, my cousin Brian Cannon. Oh God. Yeah, yeah, I better not forget my cousin. Good job, you're there. Connell, keep it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. We're seeing a little Mazie Cannon early, said amazing JP. That's her. That's Mary. She lives in Winslow House. Excellent myth. Breedon O'Donnell, said brilliant JP. That's her sister. Oh, very good. Marie Cannon. Marie Cannon. That's their mother. Oh, great song, she said. That's good, the whole family. There she said again, up Winslow. Up Winslow all the way. Sean Cannon, early. Well done, JP. Okay, okay, very good. Thank you, Sean. Paul Gallower. Paul Gallower is the cousin of mine. Yeah, thank you, Paul. And King of the Road Ireland, said fair play. Oh, right. I can't tell you who that is. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I don't know them all. Best wishes to your cousin JP from Olivia O'Donnell. Thank you very much. Oh, wow, young Olivia. No problem. Great. Best wishes to JP from his biggest fan, Julian. Julian is a big fan. Yeah, and wishing JP all the best on the new album from his cousins Breedon and Pod. That's great. And great stuff from JP. You have to check out his recent video on YouTube, Clementine. There's a tough-looking old cowboy at the beginning of a Clint Eastwood watch out. Oh, yeah, that's my, that's my, yeah, that's my father. But Kevin and Levy knows, it knows them. They play in a guitar group together. You get your diamond. It's my dad, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it didn't have to, you know. Great to hear JP blasted out in Highland, Great Work, JP. If only he had moved from your number, if only he'd moved home from your number one fan in Clint East. Oh, I don't know. Flee. Flee, Flee. FLW? FLW, fly, fly. I know who that is. Yeah, yeah. The dog, the dog is called fly. I know, it's Bridget. Yeah. Okay, I got it. So, yeah, you have, have you, since you've went to Germany, haven't come back here to perform? Are you back? No, no, no, most of my shows would all be in Germany. And so we were thinking about, you know, spreading the tunes a wee bit over in Ireland first and get a sort of bass. And then, you know, we'll hit Germany then later in the year. That's the, that's the plan. And how did lockdown work out for you? Ah, it was all right. I mean, I didn't do an awful lot at the beginning of it, but eventually I made myself pick up the guitar and everything. And so, you know, there's, there's tunes on there that were... You didn't do the live session stuff and all that? The live session? I did a few, did a few, yeah, yeah. But after four or five months of doing it, I wasn't doing it anymore. So... It's not the same. Yeah, it is. It's not the same. No. Everyone can't beat a live show, but... I think people are doing it for their mental health more than anything, you know. Probably, yeah, but I just wasn't disciplined enough to do it every week and everything. Because you need new songs every week, so, yeah. Of course. Well, we're live in studio. JP Kennedy's with us. He has already sang one of his songs and we're looking forward to a couple more. We'll also be playing Clementine. Don't worry about that. If you're looking for Roman Darden and Clementine, it's on the way. Quick abrick, don't go away. The huge January sale is now on at Watson Men's Wear in Leverkenny. Get two pair of jeans for 70 euro. A selection of shirts, knitwear, jackets and suits at half price. With discounts on top labels like Superdry, Penguin, Mishmash, Remus, Umo and more. Don't miss out on big savings. 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Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads in her childhood. Back then, her complicity dishonored her life. But to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. We will be reviewing the book on my show on Sunday, the 5th of February. And as usual, if you'd like to take part in any of our reviews, email me genecurran at highlandradio.com It is, and you're very welcome back. JP Kennedy is with us in studio and a very popular guy, be all the counts here. Patrick O'Donnells is well done, JP K. And Emma Kennedy says, make up late and listening. Great stuff. Sorry, sorry, there you make off. Sorry, there you are. Oh, sorry, now you're going. Yeah, don't keep make up too late, Emma. Go over, can't do that. Aiden McHugh says, good man, JP, congratulations, well done. Thanks, Aiden. Yeah, that's great. You're proving a very popular man. So far, that's good. Yeah, you're. So, JP, we'd love to get this second song you're going to do for us now. Okay. And then we'll talk a wee bit about the album and the process. Okay. Well, this is this is a song called Highway Star. It's about a couple of bandits, father son bandits. It's about the father teaching his son the family business, which is Robbie. And yeah, yeah, yeah, it was popular back then. It wouldn't be so popular now. No, no, no, I don't recommend anyone to do it. No, no, no. So this is and it's called what? A highway star. Highway star. And we'd love to hear this. Okay. Fantastic. Here we go. My son was bought me till Zim. Then they took him away one high noon. Chew me into a toll booth. It's been 12 years, but I love that. Well done. Sing a songwriter, JP Kennedy. And was this in studio? How long have you been writing? I would say, God, going back, I think 20, 20 years odd, something like that, where I wrote with a band a lot and whatever bands I was in, I wrote songs with them. Tell me this, are your style changed? Well, I was always into hard rock and things like that. So it's maybe gotten a wee bit more mellow as the years have gone on. That comes with age. Maybe it does. I don't I don't do it, you know, on purpose, but perhaps it does. Yeah. What music did you listen to when you're growing up? On Nirvana, Sex Pistols. I loved Green Day when I was a teenager, Off Spring, Sign Garden, Peril Jam, The Smiths. Sex Pistols is unusual and funny enough, I wasn't thinking about punk rock. Okay. The other, during the weekend. Yeah. And I grew up in that era, right? And I couldn't stand it at the time. It was awful, right? But then all of a sudden, the Kenny makes a bit of sense. Now, as I'm getting older, I don't know whether my ears is listening differently than it did before. Okay. And you see now, it was what he called Johnny Rotten, maybe possibly. I know, it's unreal. I saw it a few days ago, and I thought it was a joke when I saw it. I was like, this is, is it April 1st? It's not a bad song, you know. No, I've listened to it a few times, though. I mean, it's unreal. It just be surreal if John Leiden comes out to represent Ireland in Liverpool. It would be great. I've heard, of course. And the thing about it, I know it's, I think it's, he said his wife wrote it or something. And about his wife, she's got Alzheimer's, yeah. And he's looking after her. So it was their last holiday together where she was still in good shape. Is that right? Yeah. So they went to Hawaii and the song is Hawaii. It'll be interesting to see how he does. Oh, it's unreal. I might not be watching the Euro song every year, but I'll be sure to watch it this time, yeah. But tell me this, the process of the album, what brought this on? Did you say, I want an album or your song? It was something like, I'm off certain age, now I won't tell my age, but I'm like, God, I had nothing to say. Like I had with band CDs, but I had nothing in my own to say, there's something that I made it all. And, you know, it's a wee document of your life or whatever. It's like an achievement. It's like writing a book or something. It really takes a lot of time and work and effort. Was it something you'd been thinking about for a long time, like? Yeah, but I just never got around to doing it. And then when I started writing these Western songs, I thought, right, I could be onto something here. And so then I, you know, played a few of the demos to my drummer and to Ashlyn, the producer, and came over loads of weekends to Dublin and we recorded there. You see from the, and I always ask this one, because I'm always curious about songwriters, because I love it so much, what way they work. Everyone's different. I just know for a minute when people, I see books about songwriting. I never read them because if you're going to follow that process, everyone's going to write the same song. The process for you as a songwriter, do you sit down and say, right, I'm going to do an album and I'm going to write 12 songs? Or do you have? No, it wasn't like that. There was more like about 20 songs and we recorded 16 of them, which are done and we'll pick 11 or 12. Okay. Because there's a few there now I don't even play, they've dropped off the radar. Maybe for now. For now, yeah, it might suit another time. A lot of people have been talking to, you know, have this habit of writing, you know, and leaving them and then they come back to them and they see them with a different light. Yeah, that's true. So they might fit into whatever, you know, whatever I'm doing afterwards. For new landed to Ashlyn and them to produce the album, from the moment you landed to the end product, has your song changed in any way? Yeah, they did. I mean, yeah. In a positive way for you. Good. And sometimes I would, you know, the song would all be done and then I would say, actually, you know, I want to change down and I have to go back and rerecord. So, you know, being a perfectionist sometimes with my lyrics as well, I mean, sometimes I wasn't 100% happy with the words and then I'd be like, no, you have to let me change that, please, please, please. Yeah. Do you pick a subject matter, like as a, you know, as a title? Not really. It'll come. The title will come to the song, you know, if you're there practicing playing and something will come out and it's usually the first thing you think of. And that can often be your song title. Okay. So like with Highway Star, the last one, I mean, I have that in mind the whole time. And so it was, then you built the song around that. So tell us about the video that comes with it with Clementine. Is it just the one you've done the video with? No, no, we've done. We've got the second one in the can and that's for the last song, which no, yeah, it's... Paradise. Oh yeah, that's the, that's the one I'm going to do now. Yeah. You have a video for that, have you? No, not for Paradise or the one I just did, which is blah, blah, blah, sorry. Highway Star. Highway Star, yeah, so I take your time, you're okay, all right. Highway Star, yeah, I've got a video for that really. It just has to be polished up, I think at the end and but it's, it's almost there. The whole thing is years, the whole process is several years. I'm sure I'll order people to quicker, but... No, well, you better do what you, the way you wanted. Yeah, it's taken a long time. Is, for you, is a video as important? You had a video, yeah. I mean, I hadn't done videos before, not with any sort of budget or with a proper crew or anything like that. So I got into it and I wanted it again. I wanted it to be right. I wanted people wearing the clothes from the era and stuff like that, you know. So it was and once we got into it, I mean, I was like, wow. How long took the video? How long took it? Two or three or four days to shoot that one because, you know, it was getting dark on one day and we had to go back the next day to do this whole scene again. What did you do to run our draw? Oh, no, no, no. It was, someone more exotic than our draw. It was Cyprus. Cyprus? Cyprus, yeah, yeah, we had a, yeah, a connection over there. My folks go there on holiday a lot. So, yeah, I had a connection there and it looks like the Wild West. So our draw doesn't look too much like the Wild West. No, it doesn't, but Cyprus does. Good luck to JP from the Swinney and Cassidy families on the whole head. Oh wow, that's great. And our draw. Brilliant, thank you. And who's that there? Can't, I'm not sure I need to put the glasses on here. Hang on a wee second. Cam, yeah. Hello to you. She just says, wow. Okay. Okay, brilliant. Very good. Very good. Hang on. Another quality tune, JP. Can't wait for the album from Maisie. Okay, good. Marty Joyce's great stuff, John. Oh, I know this man as well. That's, that's Atlantis man. Oh, very good. Yeah, yeah. Have you performed much around here? Ah, no, not in ages, not since I was a teenager with my band, but that's a long time ago. So I haven't, I'm not been on a scene at all in Ireland really. I played in the beehive over Christmas. Kelly Gordon? Oh yeah, yeah, I know. The beehive in our draw. Our draw, yeah. And the guest house in our draw. But yeah, I, I'm more on the German scene, I'm afraid. All right. Well, in the German scene, do you, you know, I know you have to play to the audience at the time, but do you get an opportunity to put on your own music at the time? Yeah, well, I try to do the first half an hour of my own songs, just to kind of, yeah, to get them out there. And then you'll have to go into, you know, whisking the jar or whatever like that. Of course. Most of them, you get club gigs if you're supporting a band, something like that. Yeah. Like the rum jacks, rum jacks were playing there last night in the tree arena. And they were playing small stages. They were supporting dropping Murphy's last night. Okay. In the point, it's the point, the tree arena. Yeah. So I supported them several times on two different tours and, you know, that was great. And you see what level they're at now. I mean, oh, God, it's unreal. Well, it's good, it's good connection to make two as well. Yeah. You know, it's important. But I think you're right in what you say is important because I think if somebody comes on to support and they come out by covers, it doesn't, it's not the same. You know, and it's good to get an opportunity to play your own music in front of a big audience for such, you know. I usually get away with it for half an hour and then I don't easily push it anywhere. Right, right, right. The owner will be looking for you to ask him, where's sweet Caroline? You know, I know what you mean. Yeah. Leo, hello to Leo. He said, congrats, JP. Love the video. You have the best publicist. Well, that's my brother there. Oh, very good. I don't know. Yeah, that's Connell. And such. Sarah, hang on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Sarah canning O'Rourke, am I saying that right? Fair play to you. Cousin John, sometimes it's hard to be a John. I did say that a long time ago. Mick and Mama would be so very proud. Oh, that's my grandparents. That's lovely. And Hugh Osborne said, have you ever attempted writing a Christmas song? Oh, God, I did. I can make you for life. I know you're right. It's true. Fairytale, New York. I had a few. Pension. I had a few ideas, but I've never finished one. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So it's something I'm always having the back of my mind, but never get around. I need someone to put me under pressure and say, looking two weeks, I want this song. I want this song. Then I would do it, maybe. Wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it be nice, but it helps us. Oh, it's worth to get one. It's almost a closed shop. It's hard to get new songs into the Christmas markets. It is. Because we play the same songs every year. And tell me this. No, when did you hope to launch the album? Probably end of the summer. Right. That kind of time. Yeah, I hope so. That's a long time process. Well, no, this is the first single. So this Clementine is the first single. How did you find the response to that? I mean, really good. I mean, people in our draw and everything were brilliant. People saying it to me all Christmas that they'd seen the video and stuff. So it did relatively well. I was surprised. We got several thousand views in a few days. And so it's still going up slowly. You know, there's still people. It's doing OK. Slow but sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when did you head back to Germany? Thursday. Oh, this Thursday? Yeah, this Thursday, yeah. OK. So I stayed around so I could do this. Well, I appreciate that. No worries, no worries. No problem. I'm delighted that you did do that. So people want to get in touch with you, you know, on social media and stuff. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you get the songs. Clementine, Highway Star, Spotify. Yeah. JP Kennedy. What else have we got on YouTube, obviously? Instagram. Instagram. Well, it's me on Instagram. JPK. It's at JPK Music. I'm music with a K because it's a German spelling. That's a bit confusing sometimes. M-U-S-I-K at the end. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I wasn't early enough to get the one with the C at the end. Oh, very good. But people will guess you, aren't we? Yeah. And Twitter, Twitter or Facebook. All those things. Ah, you're on everything else. Yeah. And you have to be, don't you? Um, yeah, yeah, and I'm not the best at that, but my brother's sort of kicking me. Good stuff. My bum to do it. It takes someone to do it. It does, yeah. You need somebody to do it. Well, you have to know, JP, if you're taking serious, it's all part of the package really, isn't it? You know what I mean? No, big time. No, but it takes you to another level. When you release a video, a decent video, it takes you to a higher level. It's like, oh, now you're a real artist, well. And what about radio play? How do you find that throughout the country? Have you pushed that? No, it was great that Highland Radio played. I mean, I'm happy with that, but we haven't gone to the regional ones really yet, or to 2FM or anything like that. I haven't even done it yet, but I need to get on a specific show late at night, I think. I don't even know who's now doing these shows anymore. So we have to get into that. And local radio, I can get it in Germany. I know that much. Your music deserves to be played in all radio stations. Oh, well, it will be great. It will be great. It definitely does. And I think there should be more of that done. And supporting Irish music. And it's great to see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's great that you guys are supporting it too. I mean, Lucas. You look at me here, I'm just sitting back, relaxed, there's no hard work. You know, it's used people, and that's what we love about it. It's always, you've never stopped, been surprised with the talent that we get up here, and it's just amazing. Especially when it's from our own county. Great song, JP, from Porrick Gallagher. Oh, fantastic. Okay, thank you. Maria Lenin. Hello, Lenin, a big part. So proud of a great Ardra artist. Yes. Killing his JP. Well, doing my very best. Doing my best. Great stuff. And Maria is calling you. Leo says Maria. Maria. Must be what? Maria Carey. Is it Maria Carey? She hasn't been in touch now in a long time. No, I wouldn't agree. She just doesn't return my calls. No, I wouldn't go there. I wouldn't borrow her. She's had four of herself, huh? She's sitting there now, waiting to check to come from Christmas. Yeah, well, I can't sing as many notes as Maria Carey can. No, you're dead on. Well, listen. Let me just say, I forgot to say, Kieran Crossen is my guitar player from Bali, Shannon. Well, good man. Yeah. Good man, Kieran. And Sophie Vardigan is half German, half English, but she's also kind of Irish. She plays a lot of Irish folk music and everything. So I had two fiddle players. I had her and I had my cousin Brian Cannon as well. Because Sophie was playing all the tunes of me over in Germany. Okay. So she knew a lot of the songs as well. When you play in Germany, how many do you play with? Usually alone, but sometimes there'll be a gang, it's like an Irish band thing. Is there a good contingent of Irish over there? There is. In the music scene there? Oh, sorry, no. There's a few that are playing in the Irish pubs. There's a few, but in my area, there's not many. In Holomannheim, there might be 30 Irish people in the whole place. Where is that? Is that in the middle of Germany? It's south of Frankfurt. South of Frankfurt. Near even Strasbourg on the French border. It's not that far away either. So, yeah. Beautiful scenery over there. Oh, lovely, yeah. Lovely. Do you plan to stay there? Ah, who knows. Who knows? Well, that's a fairly... Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'll come home eventually, I presume, but you never know. Whenever, whatever. Yeah. Well, listen, we wish you the very best with the album. We're really looking forward to it coming out. Oh, thank you. You might get a copy. Well, we'd like to thank you for that. You can sign it now, first of all. All right, yeah, okay. But the album process now is totally different, isn't it? You know, CDs, will you be putting it on CD format? I'd say so, yeah. First of all, it'll be for streaming, and then I would like to have a CD and have a LP as well at the show, but you know, that's going into a very niche market then. I know. I mean, I still buy CDs. That's the only CDs I have is the ones I buy at People's Concerts, because you don't buy them in the shops anymore. No, you can't. Yeah, so I buy them at People's Concerts to support the... All right. Do you, as an artist yourself, you know, I know everybody has their different views on Spotify and all these streaming sites, because there's not a lot of money in it for the artist. I know, it's definitely not about... But does it balance... I'm not saying financially, does it balance out, but does it balance out in your mind that the fact that you're getting out to a wider audience, does that play part of it? Yeah, I mean, I've only narrowed with my new chains, been up on Spotify about three weeks or something like that. So if you want to log on, give me a like or follow or whatever it is on Spotify. I get the numbers up, it would look better. But yeah, that's a whole new world now, I mean. So it's just everything is done different. Patrick Rapp said, out in the open, finally, great interview. Oh wow, that's from Germany, that one. Is that from Germany? Yeah, he must be tuning in. Yeah, he's turning... Yeah, it's his 50th birthday today, that man. It is not. You'll have to wish him... Right. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Patrick. Happy birthday to you. Hey, yeah, boy. Yeah, Patrick played on the album as well. Oh, did he? Actually, he did a lot of guitar and he did backing vocals and things like that. So that's great that he's tuned in. I thought he'd be out partying tonight. No, no, it's not all about partying, but once you had 50, your local thing's differently. Oh, well, yeah. You have to think of the next morning or night. Yeah, well, that's true. And let me have a look here. Sean Cannon early said, oh, where'd it go? Be great to have it on a vinyl LP, a vinylist class. Yeah, yeah, well, that's something... It is, yeah. So that's something to think about when it's at that stage. We're not quite there yet, but yeah. Hello, Paulie Gellherts is hello to Maria and Connell Sr. And Emma and Connell Jr. Oh, that's Connell Jr. is here. Great video. And Hugh Osborn said, hip, hip, hurry. Okay, fantastic. Good man himself. There you go. All joining in, you see. Great, great. There's a great support from our drag, and I'm fairly to them all. It's brilliant, yeah. Yeah, of course. Well, listen, the pleasure's been ours. Yes. And we're delighted you came up on the conditions that's on the road tonight. We totally appreciate it. Yeah, well, I hope we get back. And I hope you do. I hope you do. But you can stay here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a room out here. Don't be worried about it. It's going to win. We'll get the crack going. We'll get a lot of our drink and shit. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Right, the final song is from your fourth common album. No place in paradise. Give us a wee background to that one. No place in paradise. It's about a man, a fighting man who's been to war, and it's him looking back and saying, oh my god, you know, that was hard times, you know? Was it all worth it, you know? So it's a man looking for redemption. You've got great stories behind all these. It's all Wild West stuff, you know? So there's a lot of shootouts in those days. And things like that. Oh, count up, count it in. It's a head of batty. Right, JP, on your own time, this is JP Kennedy, and this is a track, his third song to play for us tonight live here in Island Radio, and it's called No Place in Paradise. I lived my life in certainty that what I did just had to be to fight and kill another for this land. I gave my life up to the cause, a battle-hardened man o' war, maybe a place amongst our heroes of the past. Sense in this world, I shot a man dead in the night, another gun down in broad daylight. I turned before their bodies hit the floor, a time in a county jail amongst my fellow Agitants. You were having me. We're, you know, listening to your vocals or, you know, without any production, your vocals could carry that song and as a furnished production without anything added on, you know? So I'm really excited about looking forward to this song, genuinely. Well, give us... I'm not speaking again if you don't send us a cabway, so... No, I'll be back if I'm welcome back. You're absolutely welcome back. Aiden Fisher said, listen to you here in London. Very good. Well, there you go. There you go. That's a cousin as well. I'm not a cousin. Thank you very much indeed. No worries. Just before we go, have you a name for the album? Yeah, it's called Road to Jerome. Road to Jerome. Yeah, because one of the stories from my great-grandfather, he was... His cousin out there at the time was also a Kennedy and him and another man were going to Jerome to find work. They left their wives and they left their kids at home and they went to look for work. On the second day, it was a bear attack, you know? It's about the rest of the journey there. That's what it's about. Very good. Well, listen, all I can say is best to look with it. Have a safe journey tonight and have a safe journey back to Germany. Are you kicking this weekend or such? I am. That's why I'm going back playing on Friday and Saturday, so that's the reason. Well, the pleasure's been ours, J. OK, well, thank you guys. And, Connell, thank you very much for making the connection and your charge of P.O., so we'll be expecting the album whenever it's ready. And to everyone who texted and messaged on tonight for J.P., thank you very much indeed. Clementine's the one we're going to go out with. Great day. Yeah, well, that's the current single. That's the one you need to go on Spotify. You need to go on YouTube. Here it is. Here it is. This is Spotify. J.P. County, thank you very much. No problem. Thank you.