 That's the name of the operation now. That's the operation, yes indeed. Martin, is he recording or what? We're recording. We've about six songs recorded now. We've about six original songs recorded now. Excellent. Paul and we're hoping to get the album out for the summer of next year. Brilliant. You know, panic. And come here, when you say original song, is it a collaboration between the two of you? Yeah, that's the way it works, aye. Very good. And what kind of style are we talking? It's mainly folk, but we're doing slow ones, we're doing fast ones. We're trying to sort of be on the middle of there. Very good. Public humorous ones in the mix too. Well, you have a few. The Wayne song was very good and I have to say. That was one of our serious ones. We know the way this is going to go in the next 45 minutes. No, as you're going to say. You formed sort of pre-COVID or? We worked together. And we know each other. And then the folk club was going full folk club. And I was involved in caring when I came up and played a few times. And then the guy was working with me, Sean. Sean couldn't do it anymore. So I asked Ciaran when he came on board. And that was about before COVID like it was. Yeah, it was, aye. With some good gigs before COVID, you know. So Ciaran came on board. And then we decided we'd get a wee band of y'all too. We did a two piece. And we'd work on some original songs. And that's really where it started. Great stuff. We'd done one gig in Badger's Bar in the area. And COVID come on. It's closed this time. It's closed down, yeah. There are many people that, you know, would say, I invested in this album. And I've never come out for two years like an album. But come here, we're here now. We're going to talk about the folk club after. We'll give them the piece of music forced if you don't mind. So forced up is? Life. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Aye, whenever you're ready, lads. No more. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Make the most of your time. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. Alarm clock rings and up we get. We're off to work to clear our debt. We'll dump and save and put our money by. Just booked out holiday in the sun. Spend your money, have some fun. Remember, there's no pockets in a shroud. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Make the most of your time. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. Chardonnay, Chapolet, Champagne and au Bojolais. Merlot, Carpigny, Sous-Vion. See, we play our lives too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Make the most of your time. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. In life, we're only here one time. Spend your money, it's not a crime. The money's round to go around, you know. The credit union's there for you. It can make your dreams come true. Don't be the richest man in the graveyard. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Make the most of your time. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. Chardonnay, Chapolet, Champagne and au Bojolais. Merlot, Carpigny, Sous-Vion. See, we play our lives too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Make the most of your time. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short, life's too short. Life's too short, life's too short. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short, life's too short. Life's too short, life's too short. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Chardonnay, Chapolet, Champagne and au Bojolais. Merlot, Carpigny, Sous-Vion. See, we play our lives too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. Make the most of your time. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. Cause life's too short to drink cheap wine. Life's too short to drink cheap wine. These are two boys with a rarend and finest stuff at today. No book far for them, two boys. That's an old crowd pleaser there, no doubt about that. It goes down well, we're clean now. The video that's just done on the wine shop. I just get that. You know what, it was cheese wine shop on the water side. I just sent them a wee personal message on Facebook. Do the man, no man, from Adam. He says we're doing a song. We'd love to do it in your wine shop. We'll be really respectful. And he come back, he says, I know bar. We're going. And we didn't break any bar. The David don't really do it. The wee girl in the off-leays doesn't know where we're coming from. She says, ah, it's alright. A good reaction to it. Oh, alright, we're doing well. Good bit of fun. That's what it's all about. There's too much serious stuff going on. But is that going to be on the album? Definitely, that's definitely on the album. Why that when you're out there? We were playing at the... We were doing a gig for the council on Halloween there. The big stage in the Guildhall Square. The two of us, you know. So we played that, and we're doing really well. You know what I'm thinking about? It's easy to catch on there. You can pick it up very quickly. Excellent. The Folk Club, the Folk Folk Club. Martin, are you involved in the caring as well? Yep, yep. And tell me this. Jimmy was just saying off air. Good friend, Eamon Freed? Was Eamon involved in that? Eamon was a regular performer on it. Eamon was a good friend. Sadly must. Sadly must. We had Eamon up here, and do you know this? I still do this day. I put a couple of his albums on there. One I want to... I want localized singing, localized, you know, vocals and whatever else. Oh, the Folk Club. How do you get that on here? Look, if you're watching that. We come up here, me and Jimmy come up here every Monday night. And I swear to God, every Monday night, we go home made something. And home made cakes and everything. And Saturday I went home, you went home, we can make a beer, and I went home, we can get us. There you are. We'll fire this out there. You're watching this, right? And they're booked down here for the next couple of weeks. Take all this in mind, okay? I've marked your words, you know what I'm saying? Did you lift them off? Oh, three months or mustn't. Oh, very good, hey. Very good. Thank God you shouldn't have done that, hey. Well, I'm glad you didn't, fairness. Because you've really got doors in there, so you must roll gifts and blankets. That's class, hey. Back to Eamon was a great character, wasn't he? He was a great... A brilliant songwriter. Brilliant songwriters. And a big influence on my music, you know, I would have been... Oh, I'd have been listening to Eddie Eamon from years ago. And I'd get none of that kind of music, you know. Definitely. No, I'm grassy. No, no, no. He was a big influence on music. I mean, even in my album, I even recorded one of these songs. It was one that just... Do you know where he was? He was a great broadcaster. I loved the show on a Saturday night. I loved the show. Because, do you know, if I'd have been sitting on... And you know where the nature's sitting on and on on TV, but I like to put on headphones and try to appreciate the sound and the listening, you know. And you had a thought he was in the living room, we. That's the way he made you feel. But he came up with it. He said a natural, wouldn't he? He just was. What was it he said? I can't remember. Some broadcaster was in the room and said, well, you know, maybe a bit of a script written down, but he had a pile of dots. Someone said, it was the dots. He said, oh, you just think it's something there. You know, you have a title and then you have a whole pile of dots, you know. And God, I loved the man. I just thought he was... He didn't really understand why people thought his music was great. But he, you know, talking, he reminded me of that. Do you remember? I'm going off my tangent now. I don't know if you remember The Crackers. The band The Crankers, I hear. And No McBride. And I come on that song on a cassette, the last day, Home to Derry or something. I forget. It's like a kind of monologue with No McBride done. And with The Crackers, I think it was. And that kind of reminds me of Eamon Freese, who sang with a kind of localised accent on it, you know, which was brilliant. So, how often does the folk club meet? Well, it meets. It's six times a year, once every two months. Right? And it's usually the first Friday night of the month. Everybody gets paid. That's not accidental. Well, that's not accidental. So, now, eight. I remember they have won this Friday night, funny enough. Aye. It's a long story. My year's gone to the hospital in London, so me and my missus is heading over to London, and where I say we're, you know, so... But otherwise, it would have been on this Friday night, which is a pity, because we could have given her a good plug. I'm going to get her called Full Campbell, coming down to sing on it. Right? She's a folk singer, and really good. We were looking forward to that, you know. Aye. So, I think she's about seven albums, you know. Everybody playing at our folk club, you know. We had Euryl Mitz the Goldstone Shave. Aye. So, when we started again after COVID, they were the first band to open for us. It was Pat, and he came up to the band, and it was brilliant, because he got us up to do the Hulls at Donny Gullwood, you know. That was a good round session. Pat's a good fella. Great. We had the Henry Guards. Aye. We had the Pat with the Henry Guards recently, and then we had Ellie Patterson recently, too, since we started back up after COVID. But in the past, we've had Anthony Toner boys that got playing, too, you know. Very good. And they've all, they've all been happy to go. Where do you know that? Tunny Upstairs and Tunny's Bar. Tunny's. Tunny's and Drinking Patrick Street. No, we say the Stranpicher House. Oh, aye, yes, yes, yes. Very good. We rent the wee room upstairs, and we, you know, it's a really nice venue. Aye. And it's good listening audience, you know. And it's usually packed. That's what you find a lot of times, you know, I, there's a grip into the band, run their own plug in all the time. Aye. And they were running for years, and a brilliant bunch of people, organisers. And you love, I love when they have it. You can, and it's a room full of people who are listening to the music. Aye, that's right. So it gives you, I always imagine, if you're a songwriter and, you know, if you're playing the pubs and clubs, well, you have to play to the crowd. But these venues give you a chance to put your own music out there to an appreciative audience. Definitely, definitely. How long has he run it? Seven years, yeah, seven years. And when COVID hit Martin, he's just not getting the hair done. He's just doing online stuff, no. Well, what I don't know is I got old videos. I video everybody at it. So Kieran does the sound, and I do emcee, and I do the video of anybody playing. Aye. And obviously I ask them, will they happen? Of course. We put the video with their songs out on Facebook afterwards, you know. We didn't ask you to do it. Sorry mate. We just took a chance. Sorry for none of the broo. So there was, of all the people that played at the club, one person, two people asked. Aye. Don't put the videos out, you know. We're not telling you who. You can tell me off here, sure. George Brennan says, great sound man. There you go, George. That's like you, George. Aye, and where are we now? Ely McLeod. Ely McLeod said, hi from Inver Gordon. Oh, very good. And Bernie Doherty says, it's you, P. It's good to see you up there, Martin Swee and Kearn Dover. They have them up here, Bernie. Thanks, Bernie. Bernie's a good old friend of ours, and does a lot of great work too. Bernie's played at the club as well, and she was brilliant. Pat Gallagher, sounds great, Vino Abou. Good man, Pat. I hope you're keeping well. A huge talent in this project. For another song ready. We're going to go on to another piece of music after the next break. What are you going to do first? Well, we're going to do one, it's called Chase the Light. I was reading about the Aaron Moore disaster in 1935, and it was about some migrant workers from Aaron Moore who went to Scotland to pick potatoes. They were coming back in November, 88 years ago, and he got the boat back to Derry, the Scotch boat back, they got on the boat, and well, there was only one of them made it to the island, so the rest were all drunk. I remember, talking to my dad one day, it's a story, not a brand new story. We wrote a song on the back of that. We're really looking forward to hearing this. 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To reach that rugged shore Chase the light Chase the light Get us home before the night Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light Chase the light That cold November evening a squall blown from the west They hoisted sails and Burton poured the waves with test The light was fading as they said a shortened course They all capsized as it hit rocks with a deadly force Chase the light Chase the light Get us home Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light Some scrambled on to the keel as it thrashed on the waves Till another breaker washed them to their watery graves Young Galahar helped East Allen brother John as well But both were lost and only Pat was left to tell Chase the light Chase the light Get us home before the night Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light Chase the light Chase the light The insoles lost that night in 1935 The locals searched for days but no one found alive A wild Atlantic storm from the west A tall stone cross now marks the place where they all rest Chase the light Chase the light Get us home before the night Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light Chase the light Chase the light Chase the light Chase the light and fight the swell Get us home safe and well Chase the light Chase the light Chase the light Yeah absolutely brilliant first cast Really brilliant, well done, did you write that yourself? No, we wrote it together. First Classy, are you keeping up the album? Oh, that's the album. Yeah, I definitely. That's brilliant. You're recording down with Paul Casey? Yes, indeed, no better man. Of course, and when you're recording, is there much added on to it from your original? Do you know what I mean? Say that song there, to me that song's just perfect. What would you add on to that? Obviously, Paul could come up with something. Well, Paul puts a beat on it sometimes, if we get a bit of a boron beat to it and stuff like that. But there's nowhere really, you know, it puts guitar on, maybe a bit of bass on. But it's... You've worked quite easy with him. The songs are more or less arranged before we go to Paul, you know, we have a fair idea of what we're doing, you know, what we want down the song. And have you all the songs done now, for now? We've got six songs, and we've about an hour or four, maybe, five to do. You know, but we've... We've two hours to record. Two hours, that'll take us up to eight. So we're on schedule for the summer of 24. Well, listen, the good thing about it is, Martin, in fairness, you know, you're not under pressure, you just need to throw something out there. And it comes to you naturally, you know... It's our hobby, exactly. I was saying that you may earn a run. See the way we write this, probably, we are writing songs. I'll make them up an idea, and I'll play a wee button, I'll send a WhatsApp mic here and say, what do you got? And he may say, that's all right, there. So I'll send him, go and see if he can put a... That's a chorus, go and see if he can put a verse on it. And he'll come back with so on, and I'll go, that's good, there. And it'll go back and forward. And then we meet every Thursday night, and we drink Kenneth 0-0. And we have a Kenneth 0-0, every Thursday night and play songs, have an old natter, and work on our new songs, you know, and it's just a brilliant hobby. 100% right, you know, Martin, and that's quite important, because that's the way I see this, this is a hobby, so I'm under no pressure, you know, and you would get the same, no matter what you're doing, as we would get out of here, you know. And we love doing that, you obviously love doing it, but it keeps the mind going too, keeps the head clear, you know, when things are going. You know, we work on this show, and it's six days a week, we're listening to music, you know, and it's a pure hobby. Some people like to fish, and some people like to get my darts, but long may it continue, that's a brilliant way to do it, fair play, but get the 0-0 away. You're really... We get the full fat spot for the weekend. That just gets you in prep. What is it? A lot of people saying hello here, do you? Emma Rose Sweeney. Oh, that's my daughter. Siobhan and Emma listening in, and you're sounding great. And Andy Sweeney, good man, Martin Kearn, looking in from Dublin, enjoying the tunes. Oh, that's Andy, yeah. And on you, Sweeney said, you're a brilliant daddy. She's in Belfast. Good stuff on you. And you're sounding like, hopefully, we get a chance to play it tonight. And he said, brilliant from Acoustic Vives and Tony Craigins, his high-guage grit tunes and Marianne Craigins. Brilliant, boys. Brilliant stuff. Come here. Gigan, where can people get you if you're looking for use? Our next gig now is going to be... There's a wee gig coming up in Silver Street. Silver Street on the 29th of December. Or Silver Street. No, the blue pot in Shippie Street. Yes, yes. And we're kind of ticking Christmas off. And you know... You see, that's the good thing about it. Once again, it's a hobby. You know, if you're... I know you have a lot of things going on and it's nice to be able to do that. You know, a lot of musicians and friends, they have to do it because that's their game. Like, you know, they have to work right up. And enjoy the break and enjoy the crack. But your music's so easy in the year and easy to go along with because that's the second song there. Like, you know, we were jogging along in my head here with it, you know, and the story was coming out in it, which is important to you. That's a very important story, Martin. Oh, it is, it is. It was this month, you know, 88 years ago. And can you imagine a cold nightly on a November night trip going across the Armour in the ferry? And I think the chase I like was they were trying to get to the island before it got dark and they took a shortcut. I think that's what happened, you know. But there's some grit. Do you see when you see that and you talk, you know, cherry songs about the lifeboat crew that went out that night and it's called ALEGO and the way that it was... This is Leslie. The way it was drawn was they came and when they called him, the coxswain had come and said, you know, don't be going because, you know, don't be... They made me come back and everything and it was a case of ALEGO and ALEGO and the bravery there is something else. On selfies, bravery. Without a doubt and, you know, you can see it too. When you watch them, lifeboat shows and stuff, I don't think a lot of them appreciate it as much unless they've been rescued with them, but they do an amazing work. I let them something there that maybe a lot of people didn't know about. You should go to the iron moor and sing that out in Jerry Harris. We planned to do that next year. We'd love to do it. We were right there a couple of months ago. Did you do that swell thing? The swells haven't been done for a couple of years, but we were doing it. We loved doing it. And then I got into gaming again. I just loved it. You know, I go there at half an hour before doing any more. I just go first, you know. Do you know what I'm generally looking forward to in an album? I think your album will be... You know, I'm once again, I'm thinking of Emin Freed. You know, I'm thinking that style. Aye, that's... I would say so. Well, come here to tell you. The Folk Club, if we go back there again, you know, as people booked or as a turn-up thing... No, it's planned. I'm only doing it every two months, and it's not a chore, it's a pleasure doing it. We charge a fiver on it, so it's not there. And the money's split between the artists. We don't take a cut on it, we love doing it. You know, again, it's our hobby. Exactly. And if somebody does turn up, they'll get a song, they'll get up to sing, you know, it's not... But that's good, you know. Do you have a crowd of regulars there? There's a crowd of regulars, there's a crowd, you know, where you... And as Karen says, we've people planned to play, and then there's somebody who's a bit of a celebrity. Celebrity. If you fancy calling up, we'll let you up. You said a celebrity. And if you play, you get a hat. You get a hat. And a bunch of qualities. Eamor McFadden says, I use her brilliant. Thank you, Eamor. Thanks very much, Eamor. Eamor McFadden says, Brilliant, all the best, Karen Duffy and Martin from all the McFaddens and Muff. There you go. So, music-wise, what's your style, if you had a choice, you know, what would you listen to away from... That's a good question. At the minute, I'm listening to French coffee music. You know that kind of piano accordion and French music? I just get on that there by Ken Axel. And I listen away to that. I listen to that thing, you know. I listen to Fun Bar Furies, New York Albums, you know, and... Someone else too. He hasn't lost it, haven't he? Karen, what about yourself? I'm on the Australian folk music. I listen to A-C-D-C all the time. It was... Do you know what's funny? Oh, Jesus. They got me there and I went, I didn't have a very good time. Ah, brilliant. Well done. Could I put a plug away for a guy who's a brilliant singer and dairy? There's a fella called Don Clark and he sang at our last folk club and he's an absolute brilliant singer. And I just wanted to... Do we plug for him at night? This is a wood. Well done. And he's a great fella. Would he come up some night here? Oh, he would love to come up. Well, tell him to get in touch. Get our people to talk to his people. We'll draw up a contract. You see, Martin, that's what it's all about here. You know, people would want to come up for us. Come on up. We're well booked up with you, that's... You know, that's the platform here and we love taking advantage of it. Do you know what? I just want to say, Paul, thanks for asking us along. Thank you for continuing to support... Absolutely. You know, once again, it's the hobby and we enjoy the crack. There's no pressure here, like, you know what I mean? No, it's great. The legs of yourselves, we're really looking forward to this album. You'll come up and launch it. Oh, lovely. You know, the door's open. And a little bit of crack, you know. But come here, the pleasure's... Delight, having both of you here in this great to see you again. You're looking well. And so a final song, if you don't mind. So we're going to lower the tone a bit now, Paul. Oh, here we go now. I don't know this one. The last time we're up here. It's a bog and bop. What's the name of that? So the story of this song... That's the time of the completion, wasn't it? LAUGHTER Are we safe enough? That's what you've never asked back. That's why you come back under a different name. That last song was a Donny Gloss song. So this is the Derry song. So 1979, I was a punk rocker. So was I? No, I was a punk rocker. I played in a punk band. We used to support the honour tones and moondogs and all that. And we practised upstairs in a bogside in 1978. Right in the middle of a bogside. And there was pandemonium, as you can imagine during the troubles at that time. But there was always brilliant music. And the punk rock music had dairy. There was a brilliant punk rock music scene with the honour tones and the moondogs and the sect. And our band was called Ventura Highway. She doesn't remember that. Ventura Highway. And it was nice when we were playing with pandemonium outside, you know. So there was a line in the song. Outside. And save was never quiet. And outside there was always a riot. Right, but come here. Michael Bradley. I was talking about doing my navel rehearsing stuff. And navel rehearsed up there, too, over the bog. And he said the same thing. Mental outside. And he wasn't lying. We were just outside getting all my music. I leave us alone. The punk scene was good crack. I wanted to be in the older tones. They must out there, don't they? They must out there, don't they? You could have been on that mural now. Your face could have been on that new mural. It's not class. You'll probably end up in your own mural anyway. Well, my face has been up in different places than the rest of the band. They say really. But come here. Now the murals presents. It was great to see it. And rightly so. The town of many good singers and the tunes come out of it. Whenever you're ready, let's go through. One, two, three, four. 78 in the tones are on top of the pops. And there's still barricades outside the Gregor shops. And the smell of smoke it lingers in the air. Streets there is music. And Rockers Rock the center of the top of the hill was Brill. You're Stardust and you're Cardiff, Tennessee. Absolutely. First class on the money. And Patricia Loogs is fantastic. And Dawn Clark says thanks for the shout out. Well done, you and Keith. Great songs. And Sound of Bright. Love the bargain. Patricia said, amazing. Just love it. Pure class lads. Do you know this? Absolutely delighted to have these up here. He's on social media and the other stuff. We have a Facebook page. Acoustic vibes, aye? Oh aye, thanks for the hats, by the way. My hat got on it. Here's mine, sir. And there's a foil club. A t-shirt. For when you come down. I'll be there. Don't be worried about that. When you forget your 00. Keir and Duffy and Martin Sweeney come here. Absolutely delight. Really love your company and the crack. And we're looking forward to the new year and the new album. Thank you very much, Dave.