 That is the Seeker Session Band and I'll tell you what a sound they've got. But next Monday night, join us please. We'll tell you more about it as the show goes on tonight. And we will be coming live from Blake's Bar next Monday night between 8pm and... whenever we go. Basically, isn't it? Anyway, we say hello to our first guests and we welcome them back. Collectively, they are the Whelam Band she's. You're very welcome. Thank you very much. Thanks both. Thanks to me. Thank you. And at our go... Hello, George. George is there as well. Head of security. And... Oak Fest, Brian, you doing the talking? I'm doing the talking, yep. I mean, you can come on later on. Sorry for that. I'm sorry for that, right? Okay. See you're fishing them now, love. So anyway, listen. Oak Fest is happening on the 9th and 10th. Use her on Saturday. We're on the Saturday. We're on the same night as Susie Quattro, basically the rollers. Davey Carrigan. Yeah. Dig ourselves. Here, Boz, dig. Dave, foot. Was that the thing? Dig, yeah. Yeah, and dig it on as well. Yeah, we're delighted to get that. Big thanks to Joe Gallar for contacting Oak Park and Oak Fest and David and Sharn. And they decided to give us a plug give us a go. So we're looking really looking forward to that, but again say thanks for Joe, wants that for us. Well done. Reformed. formed again after a break of a couple of years, the same line-up yourself as now the lead vocalist. I'm in the lead vocalist and guitarist. It kind of happened by chance. The band, obviously during lockdown, like a lot of bands, they went off the road. People did their own projects and things. So, Eamon and Sean, who were in the original band, were talking one night and just basically chatting, having a casual chat about possibly getting something together. Of course. Eamon was playing in Christy's Barrow one night in Stubborn. I happened to walk in. I thought, Eamon, we've got to go down and have a... You're there more often than I am. Eamon talked to me. Now, Eamon had asked me in 2016 when he came up with the idea of it, but I was about to get my hip replaced. So I had a decline because I said, look, I'll be out of action for six months. So he happened to mention he was thinking about it and would have been interested. And I said, let me think about it until Monday morning just to... because I'm enjoying life as it is. Of course. And I went home and spoke to Mora about it. And I said, look, 100 fares are travelling by and everything else. She says, you'd love it. Go for it. So I didn't wait till Monday morning to contact him this Saturday morning. She was texting her next morning. Next morning I said, count me in. I'm definitely looking forward to doing this. Mora's more than glad to get you out of the house, brother. Probably less peace and quiet. She used to be been away anyway, you see. Well, I was just wishing to join a band. All of a sudden, I'm there all the time. Oh. So then the next thing was... We had another drummer nicely, Cairn Nation, but Cairn had other obligations. We had Davo. So that was March. And we started rehearsing in April. And so Joe contacted us to see what... We said, would you be ready for September? But in between times, there was... Even with all those contacts and people knew the band was back on the road. The phone was buzzing and... We had a few gigs lined up. So as well as Oak Fest. This weekend we were in Leecham at a festival. A couple weeks later we were down on Westport in the castle. We're doing a Sunday bar in... ...Strandroden Derry on a Monday night. We've been in Voodoo a few times. We were in Canningstown last week, so we've got... Oh, you're fairly getting it right. We are getting it right, so I know it's taken off. Is there any new material bar in the song, the new song? Is that a... The new song, it's a song written by two Scottish lads, Robert Robinson and Angus McPhail, who played with the band called Skipnish. They released it back in 2012, I think. So, guess where the idea came from? George. George Erditan said, I'd say it. So we recorded it and Eamon did all the video work. So the video was up on YouTube. She did? Very good. Eamon did all the work. There's a bit of editing out of it. I'll let Eamon tell you. We're not going to do that. After 9 o'clock. There's the remaining evidence of what happened. And that was only one word. We're going to talk more. We want to get on with some music first. Give people a sample of what's happening on Oak Fest. So, first up. First up, we'll do a song written by the Cranberries. A song called Dreams, which will be given the Banshee Street. So we're not doing stuff with two lads tonight, hopefully. No, this is one of my favourite songs. I love this song a bit, you know. When you're ready, lads, when you're ready. Don and Teed. We have Anne-Marie Killen says, Looking good, Eamon. Must be one of the different programmers. Martin Bamba-Gallon says, Sounding great, lads. Looking forward to catching you some time soon. Class version of that song. So it is. Congratulations to Martin as well. Socialism of craftsmen has just been a member of it. I've seen that last week. Congratulations. Ellen Pipe-Maker. Well, that's a master craftsman. That's some go-in, but you think about that. Or somebody that came from an architectural background, I think, in the end. Both the recession stuff he went into that. Better thank Nolester Bamman. Oh, of course. Before we go round, I'm looking at Nolester Bamman here, but yourself, Davon. Are you used to Bamman? No, I'm not. Right, I'll chat to your owner. No, so I'm wondering, where are you? Yes, I'm from Drunk One. How did you fall in with us? I put myself out there, and the boys kind of got to me and said, Are you free as a drummer to play? I said, I'm, and just took it from there, really. How long have you played the drums? Since I was 11 or so. Self-taught kind of thing. Well done. Well, you're welcome on here. You'll get an eye-opener here. When I contacted him, he said he knows you. He knows me. He said he played in a band along with your son. And Glenn Harkin has gone. So, my son had played the guitar with Glenn Harkin, and Davon had been the drummer. Oh, well, then all of a sudden I was, okay. He said, he's good. So he got the thumbs up. I would say Davon was my pilot, but he'll be gone. I wouldn't hear no word. Well, the other person, well done, lads, and Caroline Kelly said, Hi, Brian. Catch you when we're next home from Patton, Caroline. Pat Kelly. Pat Kelly. Pat, this is Pat. He calls him and we tell him his son. Very good indeed. Right, we're going to be talking to David Fisher, who is the director of Oakfield Park, as I said, this program, is just highlighting what to expect, and some of the access, the wheel and band she's over there, and if that four songs end to go, it's going to be a cracking line-up, and a cracking weekend. 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Parking is nearly sold out as well. Campervan's all sold out. So there's just a wee bit of space now left. If anybody needs parking, it would really be great. It would really be great. It would really be great. It would really be great. If anybody needs parking, it would really get in quickly and get the parking booked up. Both days, selling, weekend, full weekend, tickets are nearly there as well. When you say just to interrupt me too much, you talked there about the camping. Can you stay overnight if you book the camping weekend or have you to go away if you bring a campervan? This is the first year that we've done any sort of accommodation. We're sort of moving into that for the first time. Just campervan's this year, just to dip our toes in it, but who knows, going forward then. Tense and stuff like that. Hopefully. Well, this is what? This is the third? It's kind of the third proper one, but it's the fifth year. If that makes sense, COVID interrupted. We had a great plan when we started. I think it was 2018. To be the first of this type of event in this part of the world or this part of the country. Which it still is, really. Being fully family friendly and in the state and everything. And of course, COVID came along and kind of disrupted that growth, but last year was great. You guys were there and got us back going again, and then this year is a good jump forward again. The undertones were just out of this world. They were phenomenal, yeah. As was all the acts, but the undertones were just amazing, absolutely brilliant. We were there for the launch of it about a month or so back or two months ago, and when I seen the, you know, I've seen Susie Quadril, Best of the Roars and stuff, and I was going, I wonder what the way that would go. You'd be shocked and surprised, but many people have said to me about the Best of the Roars, about Susie Quadril. Some people are actually saying, is it the real Susie Quadril? It's one of our most frequently asked questions. Is it the real one? There are some tribute acts out there now, but yeah, everybody on that post is genuine, yeah. So, she is amazing because, you know, you just, I remember my mom telling me about her in the 70s, and... I mean, Moses is very good. I do remember when she first came on the scene and I thought she was brilliant. I think she's 73 or something now, so I went on YouTube, and I've been listening on, you know, going on YouTube, typing Susie Quadril turn this year or last year. She's tough, an amazing show, absolutely brilliant. Yeah. So we're looking forward to that. She's currently the number one album on BBC Radio 2. So that tells you the post she still has there. Unbelievable. And it's worldwide. I loved her because I want to say a answer, because do you know why she acted in Happy Days? Do you know that with the phones? She played Leather Tuckadero or Leather, something like that. The one Fonzie was going with. And she done maybe two seasons. And that to me was, oh, she's made it to him. You know, if you're on Happy Days, you don't need to work again as far as that. It's concerning, you know. It's great to bring the phones along. I met the phones. They were good photographs of me in the phones and Belfast. Again and again and again. There he goes with the phones. But anyway, back to that. We're also on that night, of course. And you have the brilliant David Kay. David's been there. David's been there most years, haven't he? Yes, if not all. He just goes down so well every time. He does. A bit like Roy in the Island on Sunday. Exactly. He's almost like a staple, but they're both great. We've had a few acts that have come back in numerous years. We've had a few shows, another one, yeah. We watch Air Balls and we watch the crowd that goes with them. And they sing along to all their songs. They're absolutely brilliant. Who's that? The Nine-Fort Lizards? Yes, another Donny Gull up-and-coming band with Digg and Rax Roll on Saturday. Real up-and-coming bands. We do try and get a few every year. I do that because it opens people's ears to different styles of music, which is important too. We're running the two stages again this year. Yes, two stages with no interruption, no stoppages, just one to the other to the other to the other. That was brilliant and that's been a thing that I've admired about it every year because you're thinking, here we would take the gear off, we're going to put music in the background, but it's like it's well run. Keeps the energy up. What time do they open at these events? Different times, different days? No, same time, both days. About half past one, the music starts. So, you know, it is an all-day thing. It finishes at eleven, so, you know, it's a sensible thing. If you want to be sensible, you can go out after as well. We're running the shuttle buses from Lederkinne again in both directions. Are you running one on Mr Van? No. You can say no if you want to. Nobody's done that before, nobody's gone. It's all right. You're looking to get your boss back. But, no, on the Sunday, right outside, you make your way, it's not that far in a confidence, and I love that because, you know, ten minutes in your home. It's getting ten minutes from everywhere. Fifteen from Barry? Boys' Life. That's Bray McFadden and Keith Duffy. Mm-hmm. I watched them on YouTube, they're actually very good. They've been in big, big crowds all over Europe at the moment. They're probably huge crowds. They've got all the access to all the hits of both massive bands as well, so... All right. They're doing well. Rory, oh, sorry, a bigger part. Lisa McCue? Yes. She borders on the rock, doesn't she? Yes, because she's doing different things as well, which is interesting. But Sunday, the 10th, is definitely a poppier day. It's for, you know, maybe a different audience. Maybe it's something that, if you like rock and pop Saturday, it's much more rocky, but you've got a poppier day then on the Sunday. We have Lisa McCue, who we're looking forward to hearing. Rory and the Island, of course, always gets time pregnant. I know. People are mad about him. Yeah. And he's a good fellow, a good time for Rory. And any time Rory puts anything up on Facebook, all he sees is thousands of likes. Yeah, he's just magnetic. And, of course, Irons on. Have me, Jimmy. Brilliant artist. Absolutely amazing if you haven't seen him. And Super Kelly? Super Kelly, the new one to most people. But I heard them down in Calarney and was blown away and had to get their details and get their travelling up. They are from Calarney? They are from down that direction, but they're the most energetic band. They played for two and a half hours when I watched them and they didn't stop. They didn't stop once for two and a half hours. Jesus, I'm going. Of course, one of the big names at the minute and you got on there and then got them, they're selling out everywhere as a knower. Yeah, we did get in before all our sell-out gigs, just one after the other, which is great that people can see them as part of a line-up this time. And it makes the ticket maybe such good value, actually. Maybe too cheap. Well, you're right what you're saying because these guys are going places like this. It's just phenomenal what they're doing. They had... They were playing the book for the Alley and Sturban, and there wasn't a lot of... There wasn't a lot of publicity around it. And the next thing the word got out there maybe sold out, just that was it gone. Just the guy. Because the people were texting me, saying, are they playing on that? If you're looking for tickets, I'd get them now, and they did. They were very lucky enough. And all our fantastic artists, he is something else. So unique. And a great charismatic way about him. I like George a lot. Yeah, and great, great music, original music. And the last time I saw him play was in Kinneger in the brewery. Oh, right. Kinneger being one of our sponsors, and he was brilliant. Well, of course, we can't forget the Beast Egg dancers. One of our all-favours. We all have them around, too. Well, where can people get the tickets and how much are they? Oakfieldpark.com or Ticketmaster.com. It's 39 pounds for an adult for each any of the days. Or you can have the full weekend for 59 euros, I should say. 39 euros or 59 euros for an adult. For a weekend. For the full weekend, it's 59 euros. That's some entertainment you're getting from that. Yeah, and you've accessed into the train and you can go for walks, even to split the day up. And there's a full big area for children if you're bringing the family. I noticed the last day I was out there. I was out about a couple of weeks ago. And I noticed the first time I came to my attention it was dog-friendly. Yes. And will the festival be dog-friendly as well? Well, it's not the only... St.Express and Oakfest are the only times we're not dog-friendly. That's okay. Just in case. There are a few reasons in both occasions I think, but it's just a bit loud for them. I never thought of that. That's understandable. I never thought of that. Tickets available at ticketmaster.ae and oakfieldpark.com forward slash oakfest and at 59 euros for a weekend. A lot of work involved. David, for yourself and the team. Yeah, huge amount. We're not that big a team and we do it all too. We don't arm anything out really, but it's all fun. You enjoyed it? Yeah, there's always something. We're open every day of the summer. It's a long season and we have a car show on this Saturday and we've always got something on every week. What's on a Saturday car show? There's a car show on Saturday. The cars are fully booked but people can come along and walk through it as well. It's always something if you keep an eye on socials. I might just bring the red beetle out and have fun around. I love them all things. You can find all the information on the course on your website. If you haven't been to Oakfield Park it's just an amazing place. You've probably been there the whole time. It's fantastic. The maze was amazing the last time we got lost. It was a great time. It was very good and there's damn good bearded. Who's that? Joe Martin says, well done, David. Your dad was so proud of you and will be the first honey for a wee spot in the stage. Is that right? Well, the timing wasn't right for that one. He's passed away but he played in bands as well. Before you go, give us a wee song yourself. You see that look? You don't want that. David, is there anything else you want to add that I haven't probably covered? No, just that the tickets are really selling out and we're not selling at the gate. It all has to be online. Again, parking isn't the early fully gone. So just if you can get in now and get your tickets if you want to go. Yeah, brilliant. David Fischer has always a pleasure. It's a delight dealing with these. We love the place to go to and as you say, a small team but the results you have out there are just simply amazing. Anybody that knows anything about Oak Fest will know. It's one of the slickest events you can go to and we're just delighted to be involved. David, thanks very much indeed. Thank you again. David Fischer there, the director and we had the wheel and band she's in studio and you're going to give us another wee trick. What's this one you're going to do, Brian? This is one we found that we normally do an up-tempo version when we're playing the pubs and places because but we're slowing it down tonight. The song by the Chicks. The Chicks. So you know what song it is then? That's that soldier one. Whenever you're ready, we're ready to listen. Thank you very much. Thank you. Nobody has a different version. That's your, you know, the wheel and band she's version. I haven't heard a bad version of that song. What's the title? Traveling Soldier. Beautiful song I think. But that's actually resurrected their career because they had fallen far out of the Chicks for their views of one stage. Did they write that themselves? Well done indeed. Nancy Clarice said that's awesome and Ali in the Galakor said brilliant wheel and band she's. Well done indeed. Right, the wheel and band she's going to be back with another track just after the sad break. Hey Matt, you're our favourite customer and so are you, Neve. Oh right, you're all our favourite. That's why new and existing Vodafone broadband customers get the same price. You can now pay just 40 or a month of your contract so everyone gets a fair price. 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It was It was wireless cracked and all loved it and it was a jam packed day Martin Anderson was there with his best of sips, his lovely sips All the vegetables from the farm were on Just an amazing day out Anyway that's not to do it. Armory said, oh jeez I wouldn't know, bullet boss Oh very good And Liam McGuire He would know his music Amazing lads She doesn't know what you're into Funny thing about it, it's coming on the same number I'll then mess it for you Is Georgie something Is Georgie something Georgie didn't any karaoke this rather? I kept going myself Good man Steady enough here, I was in Daly's and Darien's Saturday night Go on forward a wee bit, George Show yourself to the camera there and all I was in Daly's playing Saturday night There were a lot there, so I kept going, kept out there Fair fiddy Whenever Sticks gets a chance What do you keep doing all along? I had him on three years ago Holding Facebook He's on the following stuff, Tom Perry Free Fallen Maybe when he gets his head left Three bit maybe Maybe get back in the game We haven't time to go through That story before The very famous story The very famous story About George Brennan And the boys from my radio Wasn't it, phoned them up George, you were on the next fact You went for it How far did you get? I got to the third The third round The third round Of 28 No, I'm one inch over George That's the sort of thing it is You line up, sing a song And that's you on TV, it's not There's all of us behind the scenes You have your lyrics You're on all these different editions And then the last edition You knew the one before the TV You have them with the same clothes So it's a whole big bolt up Usually I see them on the way No, no, no I don't have any more They're too small Fairfiddy It's up there somewhere Is it on there? What's it on there so people can google it Just type on YouTube Head kiss Could work, right? No, I won't even I check out George Brennan And then you'll get it in the water And if he's like you can share it with me I'll promote him more Fairfiddy, you took it well I don't think I'm the first to ever get on you No, I'm the last That's all in good spirits In fact, we're going to ask you for a four song When he's like it or not Back with the four song He's no four I'm being half Right, we'll take it all if you don't mind We'd like to take it where we want We'll do a Call of Duty song Crazy Dreams by Call of Duty I love this song Neighbor of your own brand The next door neighbor That's right, I remember talking to him recently And he said he remembers you like it was yesterday Fire and Stone that he's won that We didn't actually put the football We did put the football through the window Even though we played football We used to play on the street But it was paid for It's actually Joe Harley put the ball Well done When you're ready lads Brennan's sounder Ann Marie said sticks should go for it Marie said Mr Brennan I think she was the one who made the bread When you get prepared to his mustard Claire said lads Spike McConnell's on here And he said brilliant Give George a go Now George is on before You know what I mean Check him out on YouTube The talent show The talent show I'm very good That's what you're going on It'll be Saturday the 9th And 10th Of September It's going to be an amazing weekend Get the tickets because they're going And they'll be gone very shortly Parking's almost gone Where else are you appearing We're in Leacham this weekend Sorry that will come in In the bank The bank in Leacham Then 9th September we're And then the weekend after We are in Westport In the castle The Monday after that We are on the Tindy bar Derry, excellent That's the one you can remember off my head The people are looking for you to get in touch We're on Facebook At the minute YouTube The website will be open very shortly Twitter, no They'll be linked into Turning it over You're already going to be here People will say me and Paul Paul you're getting so too many people I'll have to ask Mora I'll ask me why I'm still getting my head round Mibo I'm sure I've just got used to it I'm going to ask you now You asked me He thinks he knows everything But anyway I've been an absolute pleasure You'll come up again before the years out On behalf of the band I'll just say thank you to yourself Paul Thanks David I don't first thank you for Joe Gallar For giving us a shout out there as well You're more than welcome I'll say old first is going the right way As I say You have been told now Your tickets are going fast Will and Banshee, thank you very much Are you tired of hiding your smile?