 hello is this your first time in radio uh yeah this is my first time ever been on radio would it tell you something now listen to your album it'll be your first of many but first of all you have uh Mirren's just released uh your debut album yeah and it's called i kept these old blues uh tell us a bit about it first just before we um it's um it's mainly like country blues songs um and there's i think there's how many songs 12 maybe have you have you written on yourself no i haven't they're all cover songs of kind of old blues guys from like the 1920s and 30s yeah and what age are you 14 i'm 16 16 how did someone 16 get into blues or blues um well i kind of grew up when my dad was really into it and i've always kind of grew up just listening to it all the time that's kind of how you got into it and you took us you just took it right away you love it yeah i just loved it straight away well some of the songs are old songs because i was just checking in the back history of some of them and i was kind of mesmerised i was going how's a young girl how do you come on that i just don't know you know but before we talk more we would love to hear a song from you and then we'll discuss the album and stuff like that what's the first song you're going to do first um the first song i'm going to do is candy man it's by Reverend Gary Davis oh whenever you're ready we're looking forward to this it's absolutely brilliant my god you sound like somebody's been singing that for years and years really it's lovely to hear i'm a big believe or a big fan of old songs been brought back you know classic songs that should never be allowed to disappear and a lot of them blues artists have disappeared you know what i mean yeah and fair play day it's brilliant thank you you're reviving them so we want to go back now you you uh you stop playing um when you're about nine or so no i kind of started i started yeah i started i got my first guitar when i was nine and i kind of started playing and then as i got a bit older i got well into i started doing jujitsu and boxing and i was very into that and i kind of flipped forgot about the guitar for a while and i was competing a lot in boxing and jujitsu as well taking up your time just yeah no time for it um and then when covid hit i didn't everything was all cancelled like all the sports and stuff yeah and i didn't really have much to do for a while so i just took up the guitar again and kind of just kind of just haven't gone back it's really and and how long has it since you have you know started the process of the album how long ago did you start that um it's took me actually it took me about two years to record the full album because um i when i got i got off with the album was when i posted the youtube video um back in i think it was 2020 yeah uh and that's gonna and then josh rosenthul and he kind of left a comment and he ended up count contacting us and that's gonna start a record deal that was a big thing for you yeah i was really surprised but it just shows you the power of youtube yeah and for young people for anybody really interested in music get it up there in social media take full advantage of and there there you are and did i see uh what do you call it keres matthews um yeah i'm yeah in january i'm going to i'm going to be on her um blue show your blues radio show well this will just be a wee sort of warm up for us you know but yeah and is that over in england is it um yeah i have to go over to london to to wow that's brilliant and she recommended that to bob delin yeah i don't think we'll see you up around these parts again you'll be too famous uh many tracks from the album uh there's 12 songs in the fall right and when you were um sitting down um she put the song had you had you a whole load of songs how did you cut down finally to get 12 or what way did it work for you um now when i when i got off with the album i'd only known a couple of songs so i was kind of learning as i went along i was learning these songs so that's kind of a way it took two years i was learning as i went along yeah wow and so you recorded and produced the album up with terry open and uh valley valley music studios yeah and uh how do you enjoy that process uh yeah i really i really love to um chord in my terry it was really just as we eat the wee studio and home studio studio we had in this house it was really comfortable and it was just really nice atmosphere in it you have to is that your first recording to do apart from your youtube um yeah that's where i did my first and then you went down i seen you're up in ballie shannon there and done a uh the video shoots you know that that was a good experience um yeah and bundor and it was in the bundor and i'm sorry i'm wrong ballie shannon hi at least i'm writing something there you go it was in sydhan's church so this is all new for you and then then all of a sudden rte your album becomes uh album of the weekend rt yeah how did that is that just did someone contact them or what way did that work um well my dad's become become friendly friendly with him keith manion and he helped he's been helping us out a lot and got it out there and keith promotes away yeah he's helping us promote very very good so what's next then gigs and um i've started i did my fifth gig there in dublin and on saturday and then the i was for yule and they're they're doing it to the sydham community and that was my fifth gig in dilley mine park yeah in front of him any um there was a bite um there's there was kind of 300 there's about 300 people there but they're indifferent and there's kind of different rooms of different people playing at the same time so there are probably i'm sure there's maybe been 50 100 people in that my yeah about 100 people when i was playing well and uh i just see the aries times culture uh have uh tweeted that murrin bradley uh exciting first steps of a dunagall country blues prodigy it's not everybody gets called a prodigy let me tell you so you just seem to be taking the the plispy storm or tea album of the week that's a major there's people going their lifetimes and they wouldn't even get airplane or tea let alone you know that's brilliant it's crazy it's kind of all happening very quickly and you able to control it not really to be honest so what about what about the uh the martial arts and stuff have you went back to that or have you just put it to one side um i was kind of i kind of stopped now for a wee while um just because um in especially you can hurt you can very easily like injure your fingers in it so i don't want to hurt my fingers or anything no forget about it no that's all you want you're going to play in somewhere and uh if people want to get in touch with you you're on all the platforms are you on um yeah i'm on youtube and instagram and facebook and all brilliant brilliant and how much traction is the uh the uh videos getting stuff how do you find that um well when i first my first the first video ever posted them was please dog blue do you think and it i hadn't really like i hadn't any subscribers or anything yet and i just got a lot of tension when i first posted it and i was really surprised and i think it's amazing i just think it's amazing that you know there's you know there's so much negativity people around social media you know people but there are so much positive out there to you and this is just an example of it so it's great encouragement to other people it says here bradley's playing as especially for one so young remarkably accomplished her technique and timing as a fruit of serious talent and application wow oh my god you're fairly hitting it i'll tell you so the album is uh out and released where can people get it um you can buy it on the tomcran square and band camp that will be website and then it's available in all um record stores in ireland and in america and all too oh marida it's sold out sold out they'll be more common yeah bring it in there join over here yeah i'm just saying that i'm pretty sure it's sold out now in ireland at the minute the on vinyl and cd but the big cargo it's uh been distributed by cargo they'll be more common like in the shops can order more so i think there's a there's a lot of people looking for it that is marlin hasn't actually got her own copies either so she's still waiting on her own ship she hasn't handled the vinyl or the cd herself but you know to go to vinyl uh is a big thing too you know because there's a cost process there and everything but i just love the people go to vinyl i just love that you know getting that physical when i get a vinyl when i get a vinyl copy i don't keep it and i use a cd so i go it's never been talked that's never been played you know but john john her father here joins us and he thought he wasn't going to get talking about it we wrote you him come here uh obviously as a parent uh there's careful steps you have to take on all this and this is a big you know this is a massive thing happening very very suddenly um yeah well we were when doffer came from josh for the album we just thought it was crazy we were very very slow to say yes like and think about the age of her and we didn't even know if any years time you know when maybe covid was over in the jujitsu inbox and started up with that you'd still want to do it so we kind of we were very slow to say yes and then josh kind of you know we stipulated a lot of things like you know there'll be no pressure on her that should have to do it in her own time however length of time and you know no obligation on her to promote it if she didn't want to when the time came around and he agreed with everything josh is as cool as you can get like um josh was involved uh thompson square records in san francisco he could meet a cutter man like but uh he agreed with everything and so we slowly went ahead and kind of here we are now like it's and all that zone all you know he's in san francisco to have you met as in personally as an old zoomed all just to him uh that's a big step that's a big step but obviously you're interested in and and this fellow music blues and that is have you always been that i've always been and yeah people that know me from when i'm martin's age i've been torturing them with this old old blues music from the 20 days and blind levin jefferson blind black robert johnson all this robert and who would be the main main one for me um most famous probably robert johnson robert johnson is probably the most famous from that area but um for us i think blind black i've missed subbie john hart is another big huge influence that's probably one of morn's personal favorites herself and maybe elizabeth cotton and the freight train would be a big and there's some cracking names they have haven't they all blind levin jefferson and there are some crazy names all right well now and fairness to them a lot of them like uh you know there's a lot of things going on in these two a lot of them didn't survive for too long but a lot of them just played you know ronus i loved of it and i now i have the world's worst memory right but i remember watching women women playing lady blues singers and they just blew you away mama oh my god just something else you know and uh it's brilliant i think it's great and that you're keeping that classic music alive because it's just it's dying or you know people very very few people holding on to it only the older school i mean do you collect that music john um i wouldn't be a big big vinyl man running but i mean i have hundreds of cds in the house you know and yeah i've listened to it for years and years and years and yeah i'm a real nerd like very good but it's great john you know in a script that you have that understand it um and strange enough you don't play yourself but no i do i do play myself as well like i do yeah i've played for years but i don't perform i've never performed i probably the worst case of stage fright in history so i just won't do it but i've always played i've always been mad on the guitars and always learning more myself too and uh always played and yeah oh it's taught a wee bit as well always taught a wee bit in the side always taught me he's my teacher well do you think about it as if you're saying john's very good too you know that stage fright thing that's that's there's a lot of these things that happen you know you know you have to think about that too so oh yeah yeah oh yeah oh we're taking it very slow and she's balling it up she's kind of would get fairly nervous as well and she's just she's just uh it gets easier every time you know like of course it does of course it does and you know when you're gonna when you're gonna over there to to london and actually you know you you you'll find a lot of these people are there for the good the better good for yourself and look after you you'll you'll see the next time we're talking to you're just we're going to get another piece of music off you if you don't mind but i'm going to take a quick outbreak uh what what what piece are you going to do next um mr. b john harter russum on blouse oh on the way after this break don't go away murrin bradley did you see fran's letter to santa no dear santa i want a dolphin real one please and a donut as big as a car done stores can make christmas for almost everyone whether you dream of amazing food a beautiful tree or the presents underneath it we've got you covered except for dolphins and car size donuts we'll leave that to santa make christmas for everyone at done stores christmas classics are back at century cinemas this christmas with the return of classics like home alone the polar express and many more every weekend starting from december the second to book tickets or for more information contact us on 074 91 21976 or visit our website at century cinemas dot i us pigeon see everything when we're flapping around up here well almost everything see burning certain fuels releases 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i'm not really supposed to say talk about it but um don't put yourself on the pressure do not next week excellent well sure you'll keep us posted on it's been a delight having you on i just want to thank i know you have an old guitar but jimmy's going to do a recording upstairs so um listen marin it's been an absolute delight having you here and yourself john thank you and and well done to you for keeping that music alive it's so important and and now it's rubbed off and marin you have a massive future ahead of yourself thanks and uh we would love to have you back maybe sometime next year if you're not too darstruck or not too blown away marin bradley ball of a face singer songwriter singer a bigger partner a new album time for the new