 we're putting a song over which I like a lot so column well done to you as well anyway we move on now to our next studio guest by the way before we're going here I have to say Susan Susan Patterson was on and she said Jimmy about that night that we're doing the live show she said it sounds good for the Christmas night I hope you do a Christmas meal but I was just thinking I could bring down their steak pies that I made on Saturday because they're bound the meat's bound to be well settled by then so if you want the recipe or you want me to bring me steak pies and let me know Susan all right and we'll bring them down maybe even give one away anyway we welcome the big electric Kelly band and we've got Michael and Paul and Brian and Desi you're all welcome lads. Thank you very much. It's great to see seasoned musicians. No it is and this band have been about I remember hearing these years and well not a wild vaccine right Brian you can do the tommom for us yeah you were to go you're working you had an album out originally. We had an album out maybe about 25 years ago. Was that original? It was all original. The band has always been bar a few choice covers here full on the stage set list it's always been kind of original. The band's been kind of very lucky we've had three or four songwriters in the band constantly writing so we always did a rise in material the first album did really well for us it was back in the time when people actually had to buy music you know so you saw thousands we had thousands and thousands and thankfully Highland ready were big supporters of us back in the day. We were just talking with Brian off here. Tell us what we was doing it here you just put the mics up and that's it. Come on for an interview to talk about where we were playing and a new song we'd written and it would turn us into a karaoke. It would just get people to phone on but it was great but Highland radio and always get on the lead every now and again you'd hear the big electric Kelly band song. We're back after 25 years and we took a bit of a somatic. Did you have musical differences when you smashed the place up one night and said that's the hell with it. I think at most bands you have your moment you have your good run and then we can just talk a wee bit of a break. It became longer and longer and longer. I think it looked like a mine and stuff to me and that was the thing. I remember turning off to a practice we said we were all going to get back together at one point. It's not that we were not playing bits and pieces together. We turned up with a practice all seven of us right and I looked at all the back of the car and all the cars had baby seats on them. I just thought this is going to be hard to make this work. Now you're like yourself you're back with baby seats again but to the grandchildren. I'm just looking at you Paul you look like a boy but I don't know I always feel like a Radio Randall's head and you're like a boy maybe we'll drive around Belfast. See I robbed a boy one time at Divers Flats and I swear to the spirit of you. My ballet clava fell off me. You haven't changed a bit. They told me you're working Radio Randall's head. Come here we're going to get into a piece of music for us to only get the crack going and then we'll talk more then. So the first piece of music up for us is going to be What Brand? Is it a live song or a CD? Oh you're doing live. We don't talk to these boys about what they're playing because I'm sitting there with two arms and one length for a change. Good man. I'll put the pressure on the actual musicians so they may be in the drummer. No we'll have a CD and the CD you'll get plenty of airplay don't you worry about that. That's not a problem at all but no the first track you're going to do first is Oh okay. Back in the shop I thought you were going to sing first. I love that. One, two, three, four. Here we go. When you're ready. Yeah we know exactly what we're doing. Two, three, four. Oh through me tonight. Night far, moonlight fall. You're only in my memory. Right south of the city. The first time to hear that. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And Daisy I love the violin part. And you're a mandolin player as well. And the whistles. So you'll be the triad. It'll be the Kelly part of it I think. Right. It's a great mixture of that. It's kind of like a water boys type of thing. You know that's kind of a sound. But it's like we're triad makes sort of a rock thing. And it works well. It does. I've always enjoyed it. Back to yourself. Brilliant. Just if you don't mind. Getting back together again. I know you probably didn't break up with such but when you're coming back to record and stuff like that. Are you enjoying it more this time than the last time? That's completely different. I think before we were on the road quite a lot with the original band. It was back in the day we were kind of joking out there. We said you know people actually bought music. Back in the day too where bands had a lot more work. You were doing something like many gigs did you do in a row? I read everything. I think it was 1 August we had a 25 or 26 in a row or something like that. And that was just us. That was like a lot of bands in our number playing. You know so. But now we're playing. A lot of bands in our number playing. You know so. But now even though we're still gigging away. We're all gigging on different things. You gig separately too still do you? Gig separately. With all our projects. We always kept in touch. We were always you know dipping in at each other's projects as well. That's when I started the studio with it. It's a perfect opportunity for my boys to get back together. Again. I started the studio about seven years ago. So it's only taken us seven years. To get everybody back together. That's a nice problem. It's a nice problem to have that people are too busy sometimes. I know. But I think I always find out when you're talking to people that are you know what's the right word? Not about for years. But when you come to this approach you seem to be more at ease with it and relaxed. And you know I'm probably enjoying it more because all that combination of stuff you know. Your only studio up there say what you don't know but you concentrate a fair bit on local bands. We do. You get ambassador for that. And you look yourself probably you never get over the towns. That's on real. And you used to we played that band Trump there and they're young people. And I love you know I just love this. You got the music safe for a couple of generations. You know what I mean. I was in actually singing with a local band called Barbeches. They are on my studio. And again they're really young. They're the same age as we were when we started. 25 years ago. But we are really enjoying it as much. That's good. And as a band where he's getting much? Well that's going to be the next problem. You know but again it's a nice problem to have because everybody's so busy we're thinking of maybe a non-plug thing where there's four of us here. There's also Jim Walker. There's a couple of Jim songs on the album. We've got a couple of our trad players. Filly and Desi. Seven the band total. So far. And Counten. But it's nice that we still have that kind of people. You know they get harmonies and stuff. It's not just a matter of putting people together. You have to jail. User musicians you know better me. You have to jail with the person. You know what I mean? You have to work well woman. That comes across relaxed. So what can we expect in this album? I think the main problem we have in this album is picking the songs. Michael writes like that's the essence when we sit here. Desi writes songs. So we had we had about 200 songs and Counten on the list. And they sit down and say do this one and do that one. That's very, very I was to be honest I felt really under pressure when I heard these guys. I said the big sick, didn't he? Michael you know you're talking about writing songs. Is it a big thing with you writing songs or have you been doing it for a long time? Doing it for a long, long time. I just love it. Especially during the COVID thing. Because there was so much time that you wouldn't have had before. Exactly. Everyday there was someone. Was it a good way of dealing with things at that time? Yeah but it wasn't about COVID. No, no, no. You gave me a chance to think. A lot of musicians really got to know they took that and took full advantage of it. And so you have what did it down to by the many? On this album we think there's 14 songs on this new album. And we have we would have enough for all our four or five albums just sitting there. It's not a matter of recording them. But as it's going to be borderland I think it's a cracking name actually. I think I don't know where that came from I think. People of a certain age would remember the borderland. We were all we all come from different kind of musical tastes but one thing I think we all have them comes we all love horse lips, band horse lips. And they played a lot of borderland but they called it murderland. Because every night they played at there they couldn't get the gear out you know. And it's now like a outdoor It was an interesting night. And I love going on to visit the guy because I remember before they tumbled the paladrum that's Ryan's carpet place now and it was then but I remember going on to live on the result because we were rare just around the corner from the paladrum and you'd have heard the music in it but when you're on there looking at carpets you're actually We're looking up at the stage I got a curtain over there No, I'm not that but I watched one's curtain on there but no No, it was a good it was a good spot but as I say you're right the murder now would have been not alright. Well we're going to get another tune right but we're going to take a quick eye break and we'll be back with more music. It's a big alert to Kiliband live in studio this Monday night. 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Call us today on 074 9125,000 for more information music absolutely brilliant absolutely unbelievable thank you very much indeed do you know when the when you're going to launch the album you could have I'd say you could pack somewhere like the baller or the greener you know I think of an amazing night because you know that's a unique sound well thank you very much it is a unique sound you know it's unique in a good way you mean no no no unique in the course no but it is Evelyn McGonigal says a great song and Annie McGonigal says listening on the Monday night live thank you very much indeed and Audrey Neal says hello to you Audrey and she said great sound and who's this Devry what's that in Boston to me I can't see sounds great lads watching here in Boston she has that type of thing came up and they asked you would you go to America or somewhere to go for the crack of course speaking for the rest of them you're away as Paul mentioned you did talk to the people that occupied the baby seats they've all grown up a bit but you see when you get to certain stage you don't actually have to ask them they want you to go home they want you out of the house for a piece and then as I always say I see when I want to go to America you wouldn't let me know you want me in the house but anyway no what's the plan for the launcher what have you got anything it's a matter of getting the diaries looked at and saying well I have a specie and I have a specie here I'm trying to coordinate everybody's schedule which is again using sprays a nice problem they have we're buzzing off with our own things we kind of really love they somewhere at the baller or somewhere I think it would have been amazing the music's too good now and 25 years of gap there and stuff do you see when you come back and they sort of play did it click it really did I think even socially it was great just to get back together again we always enjoyed each other's company it was just great to be doing it and then the creativity you know hearing the new songs how can we arrange those because they arranged the songs there's a lot of fun somebody brings a song to the table and they play it and you say that's a great song how do we arrange it so that can be really creative I enjoy that do you see like I said you came with a song Brent and the boys work about it does it ever turn around not a totally different song but a different song to what you brought to the table personally for me it always seems better because if I'm writing a song I just make sure I leave a space there for Desi that's where Desi can do his thing Desi when I hit record I'm gonna come out and he's got it done and it's the same with Paul, Michael Michael and myself especially work together for years over the last few years I'll play my song it's a good but see that but that makes it a song then absolutely because when somebody can Paul come along when I change it first everybody does that nobody minds that's important that's what I'm trying to get at the fact that you can't share that and have constructive criticism but I like this quote when he pulls something and you just go and stick the kettle on that's rock and roll that's the first thing when you arrive at the studio and Brian is going to stick the kettle on and it's great because it's Brian's studio you can afford the time you don't get somebody else's studio and the interesting thing I think because there's different styles in the album there's a lot of contrast on it the thing that pulls all the glues together really does because that's the common but the thing is that they're kind of funky and there's rock and roll and kind of rock but the fiddle does work well with you know it's an instrument that's probably you would probably know better but it's an instrument that can cover every type of genre you can do it on any horn that works I've done everything from Chrissie Murr songs to AC DC and guns and rolls and things like that you can actually fit it on but that's what I love about it the most is that you just experiment with it outside the box and just try out different things it works really well with these guys here if I talk about the fiddle you print is it an old one or a new one that's the grandfathers fiddle that was late 1800s I've got a lot of work done to this it was seven or eight years ago I've got the neck rebuilt your man actually made it from one just one piece of wood believe it or not carved out the whole thing that whole end there not the top part but you've done a lot of work to the inside of it as well it's not a very loud fiddle you know what to say because you know sometimes you're playing about here it's got a lovely and yellow tone it works for me anyway and especially it's got that connection yeah it's a sentimental value beautiful let me see Maria Turner beautiful sound well done I was a big electric band fan first time around there you go very good Maria thank you Maria you can be an electric band fan yet don't worry we don't have time to get out and jive and do the whole thing Paul have we got to use a guitar or an ordinary guitar or what have we got a special guitar that's my acoustic guitar which I love it's a Martin a friend of mine brought that from America so I love it it's a lovely tone of it there's a softness in it it's a lovely mellow and martin michael's is a martin as well it's a similar thing what's the ones that are way in the north loiden the man it seems to be quite happy with the mellow and there's another emerald guitar as well it's another one that's made of fiberglass carbon fiber and they're lovely guitars as well I have one beautiful resonance the first album or the second album we did I used the carbon fiber the whole way through it how'd you find that? we were up anasturb is up here a few times with us and they're making some beautiful instruments down there this lesson we would gladly play you're understanding come on and see me take you around a very very very affable man resonance of the guitars of those emerald guitars they're great resonance they're beautiful I just love it I can't play it great but I can and I get into my enjoyment of that but it's lovely it's something local as well and yourself Brian your guitar based keyboards and the drums all righter allegedly very good well that's the thing about having your own studio you pick up you watch guys like Michael and Paul and they play and you pick things up over the years and you learn re-bussing pieces from guys like that and then you're whittin musicians have been musicians they're never there on time so you might have an hour to sit and mess around while you're whittin on a band or a singer or songwriter or whatever they come on so you kind of mess around with guitars if you have a studio you can't have to play a wee bit a wee bit mind you I think Brian's been too humble he's a very accomplished musician humble of different instruments even the drums sometimes drummers get a lot of stack from other musicians but Brian is a very very that's a very line up guitar bass keyboards and drums I think we all it's excellent I love the the vibe from the four visas here because you can feel that there's a great combination I would love to get another track and then we'll take them all from the CD but I'll tell you what I'll do I'll take a quick commercial break we're back after this don't dig away because of winter breakdowns your battery and what you depend on most to keep you safe on the road, your tires where the thread depth should be at least 1.6mm Hegerdies will check all these and more to keep you motoring safely through the winter and beyond get winter ready by contacting Hegerdies Ford in Leta Kenny today The winds have changed for Board Nomona and commitment to green energy has become our home turf it started with Ireland's first onshore wind farm at Arbella Coriccite in County Mayo and we didn't stop there now we're delivering renewable energy to the world and 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my heart and every year I promise that this would be my life oh I dream of escaping every night and not getting younger to be running to be lying to drink the fresh cool air until again the 2000 and I know and I they rocked the Lashangi they say they're not a girl I want to sleep she's a queen spirit and terror then I thank you beautiful beautiful sounding good lads best of luck with the album from Mark McKinley good man Mark do you know when you started that off I was getting Eamon Freed coming up my hair and he was helping us a good friend of ours and I just absolutely beautiful track absolutely beautiful I'm not going to get the CD on but for a run at a time where can people see you next as you tell us you have to keep an eye on the Facebook page are you on the Facebook page if you go on to when was the last update it was 25 years ago it was carrier pinching well we will check our local press for details as they say hopefully we'll be at the start of the year launching the album and we'll be starting a new album as well I think I'm so impolite to play it we'll be on the new album that we're starting in January that was amazing beautiful absolutely beautiful Paul will do on that let the Kelly band sounding great lads from Lucy in Liverpool I just want to say time drum but thanks indeed to the big electric Kelly band Paul Hernd Megal Hernd and Desi McGonigal I better do a big shout out to the two Anne May she's six and Dara they should be sleeping bed at this stage they're allowed to stay up on this you're the worst in the world anybody else I want to thank the big electric Kelly band I want to thank Sean Meehan as well and of course there's always Blake's Bar and Lerner Kenny for the sponsorship as always it's just been a brilliant night beautiful music Jimmy Stafford thank you very much Jimmy for your production Jimmy will be back on Thursday night centre stage playing all the very best of good Irish local and national music I'll be back on Saturday showdecks on the way after us sitting in for Aidan Murphy I hope you enjoy the music send the music to us myself, Paul McGevan or Jimmie Stafford listen, have a good week and we'll talk to you soon to care