 John McNichol David James are very own Claudia Buckley and Jack you and it's 25 euro per ticket But they're doing a great package deal there Which is a hundred nine euro per person sharing and that gets your dinner bed and breakfast plus your ticket to the show And if you're on your own It's a 30 euro single supplement on top of that so contact Highland radio or go into that the The outlook isn't it? What? Outlet a bigger pardon on Highland radio comm and I'll give you all the information you want or you can contact the Moundary by yourself or Ring Highland here during during a normal walk a nurse to bring a means of you know much about it We'll take your money. All right, but you might get a ticket Anyway, we're welcome back. We welcome back Maria McCormick. How are you? I'm good Paul and yourself really good. It's great to see you and I've just had you think when was the last I was thinking that earlier to Paul Geez, I can't I don't know when the last time I was Since the pandemic no No, I think we've chatted about coming up And you know it was supposed we thought about whenever the album will come out That's when we'd get up like but yeah, no, I don't think so Well, you're welcome back. It was good to be back And how did they we'll just go back and leave it for us to the pandemic How did you go online and I did yeah, I did I think I was again I was one of the first I think that Advertised anyway, I thought I was living up in a wee house up in Barnes and Terman and I thought if I don't do something here I'll definitely go off me. Had God rest me. Mommy. She said nobody would live up there only you Marie, but But you know, it was her it was good crack Rachel was there a win at times women And there's a brave win of glasses away and drinking stuff do Do you know there was a Lot of people were the same and it was good crack Jackson Rock Were my go-to on a Sunday afternoon Paul Martina Bennett. Yeah, no them. Yeah, they would have come on on Sunday about four or five o'clock And she's Maria. I'm not telling you we're laying out. They made us well been on my share at the back They just and I do I don't my song and I was playing along. I told them much, you know Yeah, you just create that kind of atmosphere and it was it was bringing music back to me again You know and live music live music. Yeah, you know mines was high heel converse I couldn't wait to the night that they would go on and then as soon as they would finish then their gig then I would video call them and sure we could be on the phone then for a couple of hours But it got us through it Well, this current album by the way congratulations on the thank you so much Paul Thank you for playing it as much as your areas are always the number one Like we love your stable over music and my father from day one doing these Monday night sessions and we certainly enjoy it The the album is three years in the making it is yeah, because that was as a pre-pandemic or post-pandemic pre before I just I think I put the funded campaign up maybe about February 2020 and Just reach the target whether we better kind of help from a few people just to get it over the lane in the end There's a wee loan taken out to pay them back then but Because if you don't if you don't if you don't raise you reach the target I the target Yeah, you don't get it. You don't get it the money sent back to the so yeah, I think like we got I Put in for three thousand and I think like raised a wee bit over two one and good friend of mine She made she she gave me a wee loan. Oh, sorry. Are we low now to help me over the line? Do you know there was a bit of pressure serious, you know You had had you much of the album written at that time Originally back then I would have had an album written all right, but then roll on then to when we got in recording Well, we recorded a couple of songs late in 2020 when there was a wee bit of an opening. Yeah, and then We didn't record the rest of it then Paul I think it was the beginning of 23 and Then she all the songs are changed Maria fell in love and lots of stuff happened Just when you say that I You has your songwriting skills based on current Current state of mind To a point Well, do you know someone asked me that there a couple of weeks ago Do you think has your song written change from the last album to this album? And I just could not answer them because I Don't think I Didn't notice it. No, I don't think no There's no change because like I was speaking to Donald Kavana there is he commanded or and he says, you know Maria like there. He says how one song like girl of good intentions is, you know Chipsy jazz and then he says you'll have a real sore one then that'll leave you crying or you know And that's just I said, well, that's just the way I am because I'll mention my mommy again. Mommy never was doing the same thing two days in a row And I suppose my mood is not the same two days in a row. Frankly, I tell you that and suppose your mood reflects what you write And I guess there's definitely there's there's a couple of more love songs and this one, you know They're not I choose to love was all unrequited love, but This album has actual love songs Which is a nice thing from the heart, yeah, but we're gonna talk more and we could talk loads as we always do but We're gonna get into the first song if you don't mind. Yeah. Yeah. No, no water This song is into my eyes. Yeah And this one was just written in kind of 2020 before I went into the studio for the first time Lately And I think that you've been trying spent so long. I've had nobody looking So I must took your notion For just a smile Light star flash It's ringing The penny is dropping I see it all so clear. My belly is feeling nervous emotion Since I caught your luck Until my Inside my soul you say things. You're really easy So I'd be sorry For any encounter should be cherished As does it get it's not everything that works for me I have no doubt equally. It'll sound as good with the bar because I choose to lose I choose to love album was just Equally as good An acoustic good. They heard every song. Yeah, and then when they added to class like a Lee's magic touch. Yeah, you know it transferred into just I was gonna say Billy's magic dust But then people might be thinking different things It's sparkly stuff about everything But there's no better man. There's no better man. That is for sure this album You have like I'm just looking at the lineup of artists you've working for it's the who's who really, you know, you have Billy mcMcCarny Potter Romyck Lawrence Doherty Laura McFadden Pat Crowley Sean McCarn of course Master on the saxophone and Matt Benson on the trombone Percy John McCullough and of course Rachel was Rachel over of where did she do you know that Rachel is just a wee superstar She was over for a wee bit of it, but at one stage she like she's So smart at all these things like I wouldn't base far up as her at all. That's the youths like but she was able to do She was able to record some of the backing vocals like in Manchester in her apartment. Well, yeah, no bother to Rachel Yeah, it's getting that quality. I'm gonna miss her now this Friday because she's not coming over now No, she's traveling the world at the minute. She's an India somewhere. What my daughter's done the last week Yeah, she loves it. She will she had went to Cambodia after she was in India and then she went on to Thailand But she's on her own She's meeting friends in different places, but for the most part, not all she's not a bother to Rachel or she's just amazing She's taught she did she's a yoga instructor now and she's teaching English She's and she just decided to do this last year on a limb You say that what you're talking about. It's just think or Paula was he met me at Paul Yeah, Paula went her first job was teaching in Indonesia. Yeah, now you're called vacation to the teachers thing You get these things online. That's the same as what Rachel did some program is called. Yeah, I forget the name I know she absolutely loved it. Now. She was away for a couple of years And she went to Bali and then come over there, but she's not she was none the last week But this is through work now because she's involved in 18 at the moment. Okay, and she embraces that Eastern She puts up food and I said there I haven't seen one sauce is over yet My eyes I think I was a bit green to all I could ever imagine When you'd hear Vendee would be a lot of traffic and stuff But then Rachel is saying all these lovely pictures of places this year she's the color the color and the color and Paula says she's met a lot of people and doing to the years and Rachel the same Which you found out the people on there are the most Peaceful Rachel she's drawn. She's gonna stay there for Christmas now. So she's she's just nice. It's like a second family to her Oh, I'm so happy for her. It's good for her because you know as I always say about people They go the scenic route. Well, that's it. I went the scenic route too Come here the family's expanded has you have another you see you've got new tattoos Tara will be Five months on the 16th of December already. Yeah, and Laura may will be two on the 27th of December Alton's 15 had a security. He doesn't come with me any more But he's doing good and then we have Katie and Jessica as well Frankie's two There'll be a big turkey got Come here music very important in the house. I because Frankie he plays as well I just went and got him his Christmas present there. I went and bought him a guitar of Mark and clean So he's all delighted. I'm sure I won't I hope he's listening to me now and not just sitting playing the guitar Jesus I'm away with the fairies But now he's practicing away and they're getting away we'll be where the beast so I love Love it and then he has his own sound then when he does just Frankie McGree being music like he's he's writing away all the time Like in is he getting his own night? No, well, he does the mouthpiece every now and then they're building up You know to have a you know a full set. You see when you you know when you when you have an acquired spell of music like theirs You know the pubs and clubs aren't probably going to be the place. Yeah, it's not easy. Yeah. Yeah, no I think actually this is I don't know if I'm allowed to say this news But I'm just if this is breaking news here on Monday night sessions beware the beast are going to Glastonbury So maybe I wasn't supposed to say that but I said it anyway Yeah, they're going to that's the what he called the piano bar piano bar stage is like the one that's the 40 a big 40 what is it a big hole that stuck out of the ground every year? Yeah, and This guy and a load of other boys from they build this wooden bar underneath and there's supposedly a piano that Somebody sits in a bicycle turning the bicycle and the piano goes round and round I it's supposedly your man that owns Glastonbury's favorite stage of the whole thing. So, yeah Yeah, well you see even just saying Glastonbury doesn't worry. Oh my god, but he's delighted He's getting he's getting to go for a five nights to Maria's at home with the wings This is me and Paul Paul Modani might go to Bora Bora for a week You're the son cracker come here. No, it's all good It's the only sad thing a lot of this is from I was here last time I just that was a it has been a Tough one for you serious serious toughest definitely It's just a year past in November there. Yeah So I know cuz coming up now doing the album launch like mama like today Yeah, no, how many years nine years ago I supported the Henry girls and one rose and I we you know We Facebook memory come up and mommy had a bless candle for me driving You know to Galway and I was like, oh what mommy this week the cracks you would have been, you know Yeah, oh you miss your mommy so much. What the good memories like the good. Yeah. Hi. Yeah It was lucky. We were well loved well looked after you can't beat that now. Yeah, I don't know about the well You're aired, but anyway Yeah, come here Morty talk about First of all before we go into the next piece of music the album launch is this Friday. Yeah, Laura CC regional culture center down with Jeremy and No better man. No, no better man. Do you know what what he did for every artist no more than yourselves? During lockdown, you know, he just he supported everybody so so well and different ways and very kind of Creative ways like he had myself and the band down and we did that, you know that recorded Recorded like that there have meant so much and then and then I got to do one of the we playlists one time You know for the Facebook page and sure we were lovely It was a different thing for me and Jimmy and I remember you saying that yeah to me I was just like it was so professional. It's like I've never I've never done anything at my life. Yeah, but It was just a crack it was it was when the music was dead for us because there was nothing happening here and stuff And it was that we boosted you wanted to keep you kept your toe in the water And as you see like when when Jeremy and you know the RCC and plus the theater as well, you know When they do things they do it and style they do it really well, so I can't wait now for Friday night I definitely nerves is definitely, you know, I Because I've had the two babies in two years there. I haven't been on stage very much and like last night if you had a Seen me last night. I was definitely a ball of anxiety and that's not me, you know I was definitely feeling very You know worried I suppose but then I kind of woke up this morning and I had a kind of a wee bit of a more of a We step in me, you know, I felt a wee bit better So hopefully now we have rehearsals and on Thursday and Owen fairy, do you know Owen fairy from quidore? I do you know he is opening on Friday and Absolutely brilliant singer. I adore Owen. He is he is going far Hey, he is such a talent between his piano playing and the song writing and voice So I'm very very lucky to have him open up the show. Here and always watching us here. Good man. Here Linda Buckley Brilliant way to start my day in New Zealand. Oh, love you Maria McCormick Jim McLaughlin says great singer and join the music from a hot and humid Fort Lauderdale Thanks indeed Jim and Chris O'Donnell beautiful music Maria McCormick. Thank you Chris. Look well. He's it not great But it's good and so we have the recent you were here last we know you have the TV screens of this I know yes, very fancy and the new seats know a lot, but the seats They think you see the seats the problem with the seats Maria's the guitarist tell us the very difficulties sit Oh, could you know I tell them not to be so fussy and play and I Yeah, absolutely. Look at you get a set, huh? Next song first. What do we do boys? We do get a good intentions. Oh, yeah, leaving her up a wee bit, huh? Brilliant Rima Cormick Leven's Cheeto Head of her big launch this coming Friday night manners of the heart The girl with good intentions away you go. That's me I Could dance all night with the man at the bar we could drink champagne looking to each other's eyes But that ain't me No, that ain't me We could tell each other lies, but on a good disguise and when the party's over disappearing to the night But that ain't me Don't that ain't me Cuz I'm a girl good intention my discretion I can give a guy my number because he caught my eyelid and take me out for dinner somewhere fancy lots of style But that ain't me Don't that ain't the drinks and taxi home and when he drops me off Let her my eyes and say come on, but that ain't me Shines can sleep time. Thank you. Excuse me. No, you're dead I put the air con on you know, because Someone if you want to cough you just cough here You know it was one of them how genuine I'm saying as I've probably said the only that I've just waiting for you know because the last one Just set the bar high. Mm-hmm. You certainly did Yeah, it was I definitely So you'd be so shocked, you know about how things go like and that definitely did and I suppose it puts you under serious pressure then you know with it with this one it does it was as always I go down to the groove check and Billy knows Billy hears things that I don't hear I don't have that ability I can write the songs But yeah, as far as one of here and what instruments will go with things like, you know, like he knew like oh We'll get we'll get Sean McCarron sacks and that that'll bet and then you know like the trombone on on too many days And then the unexpected waves with Laura McFadden on cello and thank on Friday night I just want to mention that to me because the tickets are in sale and I don't know what we're at with the ticket sales But just so people know that almost everybody that has played on the album is coming off right now to play Wow, you know, so We're lucky like for what time we have here This country looks even up around here. It's just wow I know I was down at mouthpiece and she's tonight and I'd like you know I didn't get to go to them things for a couple of years there because I have in the Wains And I just look I couldn't get over it. There's like Huckleberry George Houston There's one just I'm not gonna say why I'm better than the other because they were all absolutely The mouthpiece and various events like a club. Yeah, they are they are so important Yeah, do you know what? I wish to God we had them there, you know years ago Maybe there was things but I was never at them But like, you know, I think for for young people starting off for like cutting their teeth like and the performance Yeah, you know, it's so valuable I've always said that and fair play to you any anybody's involved and organising it and the venues for Because it's so important for different styles of music. Yeah, you know, because you can go in there George This might be different than somebody else. You might be different something else It's a it's an it's an audience such as you know, and you sit there and you get different And you've just blown away. Oh, like even though there's another guy their own rainy He was playing classical guitar 23 and you're going I think I'll stick to playing the spoons Right well, you listen When I look at the guitar and I look at the signature. Yeah, that brings back a load of memories Thanks to you as well for you for getting me there. Christy Dignal. Yeah, and that was great We loved that that was great support the material and support and millennium wasn't I in the millennium? Yeah in both and The we got it signed on the first night and in the Mount Erigal and she's being Rachel We were such a ball in the air was going in the back Ballonaires come up on stage, but we're meeting them, you know But he came over and he started chatting to us and telling the stories It may bent over laughing and I said, you know what I says Christy Would you would you do me my favourites? Would you mind sending me guitar? No baller and then like I just I it's so precious to me now, you know what I mean? It was always precious, but it is an extra wee piece of It's the first thing and just come back to me. Yeah, I remember the time it had happened I remember everything and as I say sadly Christy's a longer with it, but Yeah, and then at that night then he says you'll come to the millennium and I was like Oh My god, I was in contact with Billy and it could be that he's just he's a real star He made us feel again like Rachel, you know, she's here. She'll tell you, you know He made us feel so good. And you're boy. What do you call the boy does the sound film? Oh smokey smokey sure I'll never forget the Millennium form that sound I was going Rachel. This is stand clear like it was so good You know as I say about them the whole band, but if you talk to Bill McGillis once You swear you knew me whole life. Yeah, I have his number on my phone and there's different times just with things I would text whatever and he's always a lovely message back and say a loady Rachel It's always nice. Yeah, because I know he appreciates. We mess just like us But only listen final song if you don't mind What are we doing boys now? There I wasn't thinking You only booked for two I just wasn't thinking I haven't too much crack Well, we'll probably do this on the night, I think we are definitely would take one of I choose to love washed harder before So yeah, and thank you for having me I Wish to go to be strong or the simple little day today They had a carry on just on my or the simple little day You stir me up and give a lap me done I do look or the some things we need to keep us alive. Thank you so much Paul You're more than welcome Maria is always great to have you appear the album is called matters of the heart tickets on sale in the RCC People can get them Hopefully they'll be all sold out by Thursday Where can people get the album I just what I caught on my website. Just message me Over yeah calm I'll post it to Tim book to wherever you go. 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