 on a Monday night and it's good to have your company if you're watching us online or if you are just tuning on your own radio you're good to have you. I really enjoyed that the Finn Valley men's choir and what a great just a great buzz and a great feeling from them all they're so well done and really enjoyed the crack with them but anyway we move on to our next group and we say hello and welcome to a band called Defira am I saying that right and it's Oshin and Dara and Phoebe, how are you? I am alright. It's lovely to see you by the way and you're from Dublin, Meath and Kildare and how did that come about? So originally we met in Belgium and we were all studying over there and I was busking one day and Oshin invited me to come jam with him and Phoebe and just jammed together a couple of times and started playing open mics and here we are. Excellent and where are you based? So I'm based in Lederkenny now and Phoebe's still in Dublin and Oshin's still in Belgium. And tell me this you just didn't play him for this gig you know did you? Did you you did not? Yeah I did. That's the Kenny pole we have Jimmy. Well I tell you we're not going to hold back we'd love to hear your sound and so the first tune you're going to do for us is? Take Five the Jazz Standard. Oh the Jazz Standard oh cover and we'll talk more after this whenever you're ready. So going to our next one this is an original song and it's called Too Good for Anybody Else. There's a great Eastern European sort of feel to that. I'm a far off the Markham. If you thought that was Eastern European wait to hear the next one. Proud of our big sister listening from our camping trip in Arden. Arden I love the show family van and I hope I say it's ignorant. Yeah so yeah your family is listening to you listening in Belgium and I hope you're enjoying your holidays. Is that your family over holiday? Yeah yeah it's my dad and my brothers they're ever camping at the moment. Ah excellent and when I seen your name I thought oh you're but you're you're a dub. Yeah my mom's from Sligo my dad's from the Netherlands but I've grown up in Dublin. Oh have you? Yeah excellent and is music your full time? I've just finished my studies in musicology in Trinity. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that yet. Right well you don't well get into trinity let me tell you and Oshin what do you do yourself? I'm just finishing up a master's in philosophy in Belgium. As you do. As you do. And what's what's the plan saying? No idea. Gonna figure out the game plan once I get this thesis done. Do you say that there? That's the kind of style I like. Because you know it'll happen it'll happen so don't be worrying about it. Dara yourself? I'm living up I'm working here in Latter County in Pramerica with TCS. Ah good stuff and how long are you together as a grouper did I ask you? Probably about a year and a half or maybe come up to two years. And tell me where the name come from? So there's an open mic in the town we've studied in called Deferre or the town was called Loon but the open mic was in a bar called Deferre and we went there every week and it was the best night of the week and the pub actually closed down and on the last night it was open it was a Saturday night it threw one open mic and week and I wore the headline act at that little closing night so it's really close to our hearts that place. Excellent well done and what's the plan? The only plan's going forward are you just take it as it comes? Not at all. This is our first gig in a year so we're just kind of still hanging on. Well enjoy it that's the main thing enjoy it. Are you doing any busking at all at the moment? No but suppose if you're working it's not that easy. Yeah we're all in different places at the moment. We give a good sound I can tell you. We'd love to get another piece of music after we take this next break so we're coming up as this is our original corner. 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It's a what did you say it was it was a traditional yeah it's an old old classical piece based on yeah it's uh it's composed by um an Italian composer called Monty um in 1904 but it's based on uh Hungarian and where did you come upon this I actually learned it when I was a child it's one of my oldest pieces but then uh Ocean came up with a accompaniment for an unguitar and it's one we used to play um when we were doing the open mics in the pub excellent well done Dara Ocean and Phoebe from the old Lochmans and Rathangon there you go well done we're loved together now when you're ready I mean it closed me eyes there and that could transfer firmity you know could somewhere else beautiful absolutely beautiful how long have you been playing the I'm not going to call a fiddle because sometimes people get in trouble how long are you playing that um I've been playing since I was five but I actually just joined a trad session in Dublin so I've just started learning trad our shot as well which is great I've been doing classical music until now right and obviously you're not self-taught you know no definitely not was music at home was it um yeah I've got three siblings and we all learned an instrument practiced every day it was very um yeah we put the work in but um you certainly did because you can tell with that that was just amazing absolutely beautiful and I didn't get talking to you about take five uh and you were just saying Dara off here that you that you use that in your set all the time now yeah every time we've fallen we've always had it we've changed it up a bit quite a bit from what sounded like at the start used to just play the a section and b section but we've added bits here and added bits there and taking stuff out and out every now and again so it's a fantastic tune in general but you've done an amazing cover was it absolutely brilliant so well done indeed um the if people are looking to get in touch with you are you on social media or are you yeah I guess follow me at you can follow me at Dazzalocken you can follow Phoebe at Phoebe Phoebe Louie and then Washington TV DV and you're not on Twitter or anything as a group or anything like that no we haven't our act together that way we're focusing on the music first now we've figured out you know it's you're a breath of fresh air um I just loved I didn't know what sort of sound it was going to get but it's such a beautiful sound that's Hungarian sound your tune was just something else you know um the next tune you're going to do for us is um five years time is this original no the anisang when you do your uh do you do much originals yeah just that one you heard earlier that's the only one we've kind of we haven't really had much time to actually write together we've just been apart for so long now you know and you're in uh where you're in Blake's bar uh translation well there's one on tonight isn't there and yeah might pop in for see what it's like do you know what you should go down a treat I'll tell you now and and Kevin them look after you down there that's that's a sound that has to be heard it's it's absolutely beautiful uh Maria McCormick says wow what a delight absolutely fabulous and do you know Maria when I was listening to that I was listening I could pick your song and it too the uh from fashions oh it's gone off my head but you know the song I'm talking concessions and confessions in a wine bar I love that I just loved that I love music it takes me somewhere else you know if you close your eyes and it takes you yeah my dad just took me to Hungary even though it was never in Hungary and they put it took me there you know so and once again sorry um Dara what what is this next tune five years time five years by no on the well oh yes you see I threw me off I didn't know I thought it was a Hungarian type well listen we're looking forward to hearing your version of this whenever you're ready I'll down the next and there'll be sun sun sun all on our faces sun sun sun so what the heck the version absolutely brilliant well done once again the band's called De Fira and um you never know you might catch them somewhere but thanks very much for sharing your music with us it's absolutely beautiful and it's awesome I'm going to try this now you can tell me from the wrong ocean chute van der veld van der velde van der velga and ocean where's that family name come from well the two bit is Irish and van der velde is uh dutch from my dad's side excellent that's lovely that's lovely and uh Phoebe van ergrat ergrat am i saying that right and uh