 Spring is sprung Let's welcome into the show it is Ivan here with you and it's a Friday evening and What a day what a day it's been a busy one Thanks everybody for all our support all day. Of course. It's the big birthday charty day So we've been broadcasting from the shopping center the spin-a-thon was happening and All the different shows happening during the day, but To do the power our plus now we're gonna be here till eight o'clock and I'm gonna say How the hell are you how the hell are you? Yeah, I'm good. I see it's just I've always just wanted to say that now So I'm just there you go. There you go. So Keith you're keeping good. I'm keeping great I was talking to you earlier on we were down. I see I was down on the mic I did be sitting down there today. So it was great. It was great to see so many people there Yeah, and the the gyms that were putting it first. They were like But it was great, you know, and I heard that you put up the most Sean quints. Yeah. Yeah about something else, but he was on the bike twice. So I think he's counting his two cycles You know We're still looking for people to donate donate donate, you know just go on the website, isn't it? Yeah So I was listening to Sean just before the news we've surpassed what we've set out to get but We want to get more. Okay, people haven't had a chance all day to donate We're gonna keep the donation line open all weekend as well So we're hoping the 25 grams the target. We're trying to get over the weekend now as well So you're listening in. Excellent. I want you to donate while you're listening website www.highlandradio.com and of course we're supporting Jigsaw, Donegal, Breast Cancer, Centre Northwest and also the Irish wheelchair association every donation counts So Keith. Yeah, that's good. So it gets us together. Hi, this is it This is it. So I'm just gonna we chat with you for a while the guys hopefully gonna come on later on as well Joe Dexter, I know Joe has been really busy today. He's on the technical end But he's gonna come up later on Marty Fried as well. Hopefully gonna come up But we're just gonna play a lot of music do a bit of chatting and reminisce I suppose 34 years I was saying to Greg today, I was chatting 34 years. I did the first 17 Uh-huh, and then I stepped back. Yes, just to the weekends and it's 17 years now that since you took over for me Yeah, you just said that I know I was kind of I never figured it out that way Well, it's pretty cool. It's something about meant to be for this show then 1717 burn itself Well, and I will just you know, I can't let the the occasion go by Without mention Henry McGowan. Yeah, yeah, of course. That was me and Henry at the start Yeah, and he was tragically killed in August 1990 So then I then I got the five days a week. Yeah, so that's how I ended up Me on my own, you know, so and I always acknowledge that you know, I was him actually come up with the name Our you know, so we've a lot to be thankful. So that's a day like today that we remember I was listening to Donal and canis and Tommy Earlier on You know like the likes of listen Brenda Maxwell Pio Paki and you know so many others Donald Hardy and them It's a nice day to just remember some of the stories. Well, you have to remember, you know, but at the same time, you know We have to keep on the one And the music has changed a lot since 1990 My memory I was trying to figure out a memory of 1990 I started in 91, but I remember when I was just 15 years old that you were doing a Saturday show Yeah, it was like a sports. I don't know much sport was on it, but there was definitely music not as much as that Yeah, and I sort of expressed an interest in becoming a DJ and for a play to use this Come on up. Have a wee look see what you think and you used to pick me up outside the Sweet Factory get a nice wee red car at the time She was a beauty she was a beauty but I got a great education on music you were playing, you know, we boxed right And it had obviously all vinyl it was a vinyl LP seven inch singles 12 inch singles Some of the artists, you know, like Bob Seeker and Brian Adams and Prince and all these kind of guys that I hadn't really I was so young, you know, but like that's why I got a good music education and I'm always a great focus, you know It was me start. Well, you know, I always think you get on by helping other people, you know, I mean, that's I'm glad to hear that, you know, it worked. Yeah. Yeah, we're still here And I was like, you know, I was quite happy 17 years ago to hand the mantle over to you to do the power You know, I mean you you were obviously the natural progression in my mind Well, thank you, you know, I was glad that the powers to be thought the same way, you know So when you think about it, there's not too many radio programs That set out in 1990 as the power and it's still continuing sort of those 34 you and hopefully another 34 The whole thing is to try and keep relevant exactly, you know, to keep giving the people what they want But you know, do you remember your first show on Highland? What were you there from the get go or a couple of months into it? No, I think it was that I think they started on the 15th of March And I could be wrong for feeling that was a Thursday. Yeah. And my first show was the Friday So I was there from there from there from the very very start. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And memories of songs you played first of all, it doesn't just you know, you know, and I didn't even dwell on to the head. I was just because you know, just one of the things that I used to have people in Yeah, used to used to get new songs and get people in and I remember one night those One of the famous things that happened is that there's a fly lad at the desk and I hold on a month And I went to, you know, thumping in the way and I knocked the station Those moments you always remember But I used to have people in like John Mansfield from Boston. Oh, yeah, and it's cousin Donnie, I think from Scotland and a couple of the Kelly boys Excuse me and McDays used to want me used to play new songs and review them. What do you think of this song? What do you think of that song? You know when it was all yeah You were learning as you as you as you were working, you know, but I mean what back then you had to go into You know, I was in touch with people in in Derry, Straban, Dublin and that to get the new songs It's not like do you go on Spotify and the new songs are out. It's you know, it's instant. Yeah And you probably remember that yourself. You're going on to get the songs to get there first, you know Yeah, you're getting a 12 inch White label that hadn't come out for three months But you know, if you had it in your possession that you couldn't copy it for anybody. It was just you Well, I remember sorry because I remember a younger DJ I met him one night at a party a few years ago And he was going oh, you know like the power Brought dance music to Donnie go. Yeah. Yeah, you know and that because we as I say it's not like Spotify and that now that Yeah, that is instant you and I and Derek O'Connor and boys and We were getting the songs and then we were playing them here and that's how people knew them Yeah, yeah, and I think we're probably ahead of a lot of even Dublin and likes that there was a certain sort of dance tunes things up here that wasn't you know Maybe down the country as much so no, I definitely think and even the night clubs, you know Which sadly have gone there have gone goodbye at this stage. I think most of them I think the night clubs we had up here were as good if not better than any night club Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's for sure for sure. Okay, so we're gonna talk lots more But we're gonna play some music as well because that's what we're here for so let's go for a I was thinking of 1990 1990 some summer Italian 90. Yeah