 I've said she was Holland together with Ruby Turner and my countryman around the Northwest this Tuesday afternoon and there's an 18 year old singer songwriter and she might not be used to hearing the songwriter part added on but she will from now on but she's from Count Donna and she has just released a new song, a new song of her own and her name is Amy O'Connor and Amy now joins me in the studio. How are you Amy? Hi John, good, how are you? Good, good. Now a singer-fine songwriter, well that's another thing to your bow, so how does that come about? The song actually goes back a while, is that right? It does go back, yeah. I wrote the song two years in July and it's just been setting in my notes app on the phone for the last two years and I thought I'd never do anything with it. I thought it would never go anywhere but after the last year that I've had I thought may as well go do something so I thought to release it as my debut single for the first time. Good, well we're going to hear in just a second but and which what's hardest is it writing the lyrics or putting the music to the lyrics? Definitely music to the lyrics you know writing for me comes with such ease you know I could be easily on a walk and I could be coming up melodies or lyrics in my head, can't say I think I have about 56 notes in my phones app just random lyrics can't say on move writing anything new. And well the chances are you'll always have your phone with you so I suppose when you get an idea into your head is get it on there. Definitely, yeah. And then go back to it. Go back to it of course, yeah. And then go back to it again and again. Yeah. Okay and before this it was mostly cover versions. Yeah it's always been covers you know I've been digging around in a show on this last year now and it's always been covers but obviously with writing now I'll definitely be adding my own songs to set list. It's hard to get gigs unless you do covers isn't it? Yeah definitely. That's the problem. That is the problem yeah I kind of got to work the way up but I've had a great year so far going all around in a show and hopefully next year when I'm driving I'll be able to go cross Aldonne Gaul and Ireland of course and maybe over to the UK as well if I'm lucky. Driving? Driving hopefully yeah kind of third lesson now so we'll get there eventually. Okay so how come driving? Where does that fit into the overall scheme? Well just obviously getting to gigs and stuff like that you know getting out there and need to get down further places you know I love gigging and stuff so want to get the name further. So I suppose the challenge would be to be able to dovetail your new material and road test it in through cover versions all the while getting gigs. Yeah there's a lot going on as well still balancing skill yeah so it's a because this is your leaving set here. This is my leaving set I'm setting my leaving set in June and I decided to release a debut single two months before I set my leaving set. Yeah yeah yeah well it's all going on isn't it? Yeah that's the only way for me it's constantly go go go. What have you in mind where would you like to go after the leaving? Well hopefully I'll go off and start a business and let her can I and maybe a G but I'll never know we'll see where the music goes I'm still gonna do this on the sidelines and okay see where it goes. A parallel. Yeah living a double life. Yeah all right the song tell us about the song now. So I wrote the song back two years ago I pretty much at the time I was missing someone who was in my everyday life and I was just thinking to myself one day I was sitting down the kitchen I was like I wish I could just go back to when times were good and that was the very first lyric then to the song and I thought well that's quite good I should sit and write that down and once I get into it I can't stop and I had the song written by the time I stood up from the kitchen table year and a half later when I went to the recording studio I only changed three words in the whole song so. Do all your songs come that handy? They actually do yeah I'm really lucky. All right so you've got a lot on your notes up then. Yeah definitely I've got plenty. Very material a good way to be. All right and the title of the song? It's called Go Back. Let's hear it. That is Go Back and that is the new single from an 18 year old Savio Carter from Count Donna and best look with it Amy. Thank you very much and the best look with the leaving shirt. Definitely need it. Yeah so a heads down for the next because it just comes on there's a guy in our house is doing it as well so it comes on really quick and it's sort of the gap between Christmas and the exams it just seems to be really short. Yeah it definitely flew in but I'm glad now that it's come around this corner so I can go off into the summer and get like mad now. Oh get it behind you yeah yeah I hear you. So in the meantime gigs aside where can people catch up with you online? So you can find me on Facebook and Instagram at Amy O'Connor music you can see all the behind the scenes of going to gigs one up two out the weekends just everything all the crack of that. Okay. Thank you. Breedon's Furniture couldn't