 as always that's our text and what's up you want to say hello to anyone or you just want to say hello to us whatever you want. You're more than welcome. Well I say hello to our first studio guests and they come on to the name the banner of M15 Renaissance and I'm joined by Paul and Aaron and Jordan and Kearn and Jason did I leave someone out? Adam sorry my apologies for that Adam. I didn't want you to take it back but listen Kearn first of all you're very welcome on everybody thank you very much. Thanks for having us. It's great to see you up here on a wet night like this but I'm delighted you're here. The M15 Renaissance Kearn give us a kind of insight into this. What's the project or what's it about? It's a music collective basically born at the idea of me and Jason had the idea where he was I'd made an album mixed it mastered it all myself and he was up with me getting help mixing and stuff like that and it would be a great idea if we could have a group of musicians that all sort of like chipped in together and release music and recorded each other's music so we all help each other out with how we do this. Is there all songwriters? Are we all? Yeah pretty much. Yeah we all have our own little avenues. Okay so the project started with yourself and Jason and another guy Callen Gordon as well he was in with us in the beginning as well he released under Deep Psyche. Yeah so you are two bands respectfully yourself and Jason. We also help each other out which was that the whole thing kind of spawned from a drunken conversation. Manager thing has. Usually nothing comes of it. We just decided if we all put our resources together and you know try to help each other out build each other up it would be just a better way of doing things you know. Okay so what is the what is your looking for in general just to get one particular sound? Is it a sound you're looking for collectively? No it's like whatever goes whatever you're into if we think it's good we'll all chip in. I'd say we all have our own unique styles. Your stuff Cairn would be more kind of heavier than my stuff would be more acoustic. And how would you fit in with that if there's something that's not your style? Does it connect with you or what? Well we all kind of learn each other's songs just in case you know somebody can't make a gig or something and can't slot in and play his songs. That happened last year? Last year yeah I played bass. And so Jason hopped in on the bass. We all know each other's songs so you're never stuck you know on a night. I like all kinds of music anyway just my own music that I write happens to be a certain kind of genre but I listen to all kinds of music and same with Cairn and same with all the labs. Probably beneficial in this like you can have an appreciation of. And by playing another person's music you might come up with something yourself like you wouldn't have necessarily done by yourself. It's funny I find that sometimes when somebody would say something about a particular band and you go nah I'm not listening to my scene. And then maybe by the time you're listening it all of a sudden you get a second chance. It grows in you. Appreciation of music. Well I tell you we're going to get on the music first anyway and Cairn your own band first. Yes. And empty juices just surnames and everything here. Names okay so we've got Paul Curran on the guitar. Adam Hannigan on the keys behind me. Aaron McCormick. I was calling him MC sorry. Aaron McCormick on the bass and Jordan Hannigan on the drums. Good stuff. And this first track you're going to do for us. Breathe. As your own. Yeah this is our own tune. Bring it whenever you're ready. Okay. Part of this is this part of this. This is part of it yeah but this was done before that it was had nothing to do during lockdown and that I'm making tunes by myself in the room and they have you recorded that on a that's on yeah that's on the last album there. That's the places to go to. Well done. That's from Demian Daugherty. That's a lot of Celtic fans. Come on the lads. Adrian Fez. Very yeah. There's a member. Absolute quality. Bridget Lynn Johnson. Thanks so much for sharing. You're welcome. I forgot to mention that you can. We are streaming this live on our social media pages tonight. As always on www.highlandredewed.com and click the button to watch live. Can anybody can any other artists contact you regarding this or what? Yeah definitely. If they want to get involved they can shoot us off an email at m15resonance at gmail.com. If I've got tunes get a demo send them to us and if we like what we hear we'll you know we'll work with each other you know. That's one of our long-term goals actually is just for even you know younger bands and people who might not necessarily know how to produce music or what way to go about recording it. You know we're very open to if people are serious about releasing their music and putting it out there. We could take up some of the slack for them and help them put the music out there because there's not a lot of help offered especially around this part of the country. There's not. For people if they want to push their own music out there and do their own thing. So we're kind of learning as we're going along. Yeah of course. We have a couple of other groups as well. The boys here have a group called Rackers Roll and there's nine-foot lizards as well who are working with Jess Hannigan as well who's played the ghost lights there at the weekend. DK eventually. DK eventually and Gordo as well is doing his own stuff and he's working with other singers and songwriters and he just like house music so he gets guest singers on his tunes. How many can you bring in with us at a time? You know if you were saying you were doing a gig and half a dozen other people turned up could you sort of collaborate with everybody in this or what way? I think it would be a bit more structured in terms in that way you know if we're putting on a gig it would be. Because we all have our own bands you know. Yeah. Our thing would be if we're booking a night out for a gig we could put three bands on. Yeah. So it saves the bar or the venue going and trying to find three bands. We could just come there say we have six or seven bands under our banner we could pick three for a certain night that are all kind of similar kinds of music and like do all the work for the venue. Very. What do you call it? What do you call it? Enno Veras. That's all. Enno Veras. See the day we were doing the awards at school I was off sick. Enno Veras you can see that word a hundred times saying you've got to say it like a nanny or something. But you know that's a brilliant idea. I think it's fantastic that you know you're because you are experienced musicians yourselves that you're prepared to give a hand up to all our artists which is as you say you know it is limited around these parts. Right we're going to we're going to go for a second song Cairn and those we're going to take an outbreak first if you don't mind but the problem this next track you're going to do first. It's called I. E-Y-E. I. I and letter. Letter I yeah. I don't know. Monday night sessions. Monday night sessions in association with Blake's bar letter Kenny Thursday the 10th of November playing hot with Ian Smith on vocals and guitar and Martin Croson on Ellen pipes. 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Yeah yeah because I record them all myself and then I brought them to the boys then and then the live sort of stuff changed then because of just just the way that you know the energy you have. How many gigs have you you know have you been out much as a collective? No not as a collective. It's a new concept so our first big gig is going to be New Year's Eve in the Balor. It's going to be three bands it's going to be Kieran myself. So we're all going to keep it keep it local and do like a promotional night. Brilliant idea. Absolutely brilliant. So it's just a six of use. And no you've got another band haven't you? I have like other people that play with me live as well. It's all very confusing. But yeah we like so Adam's part of Jason's band and so is Jordan as well. So the six of use it'll be in some we'll all be there somewhere. Have you plans to record these as a group? Definitely on the cards. I mean you do a lot of you do a lot of like collaboration with the rest of them you know. I haven't done that as such yet. I suppose I'm like recording drums and stuff for Rackers Roll and we'll be now for Lizard soon. So we have you know hands in everyone's music that's on the like even Gordo himself like he'll send me his tunes. I'm like what do you think of this? How do you think this is you know. And I go yeah that's cool this is good. Go this way or that way. It's good you have all that I'm putting on too isn't it. But it's like you need it as well you know. Do you see yourself as a as a group? Do you see long-term? Would you like to have long-term on this you know? Yeah I'd like to do it forever. I don't know it's it's like yeah that's the plan would be take all of us go play a lot of festivals go play those shows. Like you have new bands coming in all the time. Yeah. Music so we could something we could do full time. Have you noticed since the you know since the pandemic have you noticed I know I have an answer to this but have you noticed an increase in younger people having to go with this music thing? Yeah. I think when you have that much time to yourself too maybe in your house. I think as well it comes from like you know doing what you really want to do you know when everything gets shut down and it really shows you know what's the point in you know just follow what you want to do. How did you just cope with that just I know like I'm asking six years you can answer all at the one time but how did you find that? As artists did you do things online or did you? Well me and Kieran actually did covers for Instagram so I recorded my bits at home and sent them on to him and he added it then we made videos. What were they for Paul? They just we did it out of boredom. They just did loads of covers yeah. I think there's about maybe 15 on the Instagram page. How did you find that the reaction to that? It was good crack yeah we got a good response like you know. I think I think I took people under different sort of comfort zones or out of their own comfort zones. Yeah. Because you're not really to lose if you were to create that music. I never recorded music my own tunes until the lockdown you know. Is that right? Yeah. That's the whole it just pushed me to do it you know. The reason why I'm asking you this Kieran is because maybe somebody young is listening. Why did you not do it? Had you not confidence in your own? No, no, no, no, no. You had a pile you had a lot of music. That riff, that chord progression for IE I've had that since 2012. And I never did anything with it and then I just forced myself to do it. Just waiting for the right tune to come along. No, I just I had it and I used to play it all the time. I never bothered trying to put I just didn't think I had it in me like you know. And then just sort of come on you got nothing to lose just go for it. Did you put music out over lockdown you know did you do Fisper Glaives or anything? No I didn't do any of that no no because at the time it was just me but I was making tunes that sounded like a band. So it's hard to translate with just one person playing a guitar? You have to be multi-instrumentalist and they do that or is it all done off? Some what. No, no, yeah. So I record most of it myself apart from drums. I'm a terrible drummer. It's all programmed drums but everything else I'd play it. But what I like about this now is you know compared to years ago and I know it's hard to beat the studio production. It's for young people starting off and this is my thing. Not an emphasis but I just love to know that there's young people coming at this game you know what I mean. And young people now have an opportunity to record even on their phone. I know it's not studio quality but it opens doors though. There's some great courses and these texts and things you know music courses. I went to the tech. I did music production. Would you encourage anybody to go on that? Definitely 100% yeah. At the time you don't think you learn anything and then you look back and you go hang on I know how to do all this stuff. It's weird until you get out of it. You don't realise how valuable it is. Brilliant. I just, there's someone up here a few weeks ago who explained about this course. You know after they went to school they went down to us and I was like where was that one I was at school. And she went to get out the door. Listen we'd love to get an odd chamber. We're going to go and sit in there for a tune and roll but I started to waffle off me. Sorry if it ends up. Now we'll take the next song then we'll take an outbreak. So the next song is? I think I know. You think you know what? I think I know. I don't really know. See your songs just before we go on. What inspires your songs? Could be anything. You yourself. Could be like a beat or a tempo of a song. Or like a key of a song especially. Or a story that you have to put on this song. Does that happen to you? No that comes after. Oh does it? Yeah to me you fight like I'll write loads of stuff down. Just not because I need a tune but because I think of something like that's funny or that's clever. And then bring that on some more. And then I'll have a tune and then I'll stand there with a phone and I'll sing it until the melody makes sense. And then work it out that way. It's kind of a backwards way of doing it. I don't think there's two people of the same way. I don't think so. Yeah I think it's all different. It's good. Right isn't it? Give us your next tune now. I didn't expect that to happen to you. You should have sent it away. Get your act together. A really good sound would make good money in England. Well do you know as I say, you said that that song, would that song like, would it be another one with the big amps? This, yeah. They're all like that one's quite synth sort of bass. But I'm just thinking to myself, I'm thinking to myself like when you're playing that. That sound, that's me in the mouth talking there so fast. But no, the reason I'm asking it because that sound there, I think you know you could get away with it on the lounge or certain rather than the bike. You know what I mean? Right yeah, that's cool yeah. It's got a, I'm just saying rather than maybe sort of know yourselves about getting a bigger venue, you could. Yeah, I never thought of it that way. I never thought of it that way you know. See when you make money, if you remember who told you. No I love it. Who inspired you? Kieran, music wise. I suppose like the early one would be obviously the Beatles. I like the Smiths as well and Arctic Monkeys and no more orchestra and just anything. David Barry as well. David Barry is a big one. I've always seemed to do it for a lot of people. What about yourself Justin? I suppose my family first and foremost. It made me look. There is a deep answer here. No musically. We're not going to put something they want here. Musically like you know. I'd have a musical family on both sides. Have you? My home side would be Ultra. Well I'll tell you what I'm going to do now right. And 15 app sounds class. Rads from John Clay. Right John. We mentioned a fellow there beforehand taking us up to news and you can have a think about that answer if you want to come back. A real builder for me isn't there right. But we've got a brand new song from one of the most talented people that avoided them and it's Darn Daughty in the Heathen Choir. The song is called London Bridge and we thought we'd give it a spin tonight. Take this to news at 9 o'clock.