 Just over the road, actually, Curly's has a new single out. It's called Coming Home. And it's the first single that she's written for herself in something like 10 years. And she's been writing some material for other DJs and for producers. But this is her own single. And I'm glad that Deirdre now joins us in the studio for a week chat about it. Deirdre, thanks for coming in. Thank you very much for having me. You didn't have too far to come now in Venice. No, he's only over the road, so it's handy. No, it's very handy. But thank you very much for having me on. I appreciate it. All right, 10 years seems like a very long time not to have a single out in your own right. But you've been doing stuff for the DJs and producers. Yeah. Just felt the time was right just to have your own. Yeah, I know. I've been doing that for years, really, I suppose, writing for DJs and stuff. Yeah, this is the first one I've had for myself now in 10 years. And I think it's been nice to do one for myself. Now, I suppose you kind of get used to being a collaborator. You get used to kind of writing for other people. And then to have one for yourself then, I suppose, is nice to get back into. But I think just after the year they've had, it's been a bit of a year. And I decided just to write one for myself. When I wrote this song, I was really heartbroken at the time when I wrote it. And it's like it came through me. I remember I've always written songs. I suppose they always do come through you in a way. Like when you're writing them, it's always from experience or your own feelings and stuff. But not with the intensity of this one. Like I've never had anything like it written with the intensity of this one. I was just, I suppose it was just heartbroken at the time and I was crying and it just really meant something to me, this song. Heartbroken, loss, separation. Yeah, I think so. I think all of the above really, like just, I think it just, no, sometimes you just have like, there's a month or a year where it's just, can everything, it just gets a bit challenging at times, I suppose. And you know, it was just one of them years really, where just everything hit me and then I was kind of forced to just kind of wake up, I suppose, and look at myself and where I wasn't maybe honoring myself or I wasn't loving myself or where I wasn't showing up for myself and decided just to make some changes. So you decided to channel that into the song? Yeah, yeah. I channeled it into the song really. And I suppose it's about being disconnected from yourself. I think, and you know, it's called coming home. So coming home to yourself really is what I meant. But there's kind of a spiritual element to the song as well. And I think just... Is it also about having the answers within? Yeah, that's exactly what it's about. It's about going within, I think. Because I think the only way we can really heal is when we go within and sit with ourselves. And I think sit with a part of ourselves that we don't really want to face. You know, because you know, like today, like we're so distracted and you know, we're on our phones and we're disconnected maybe from ourselves. We're kind of almost running away from ourselves, right? I suppose we're busy, busy all the time. We don't really take the time to sit with ourselves like and you know, realise maybe why we do things we do or you know, the insecurities that we have or the fears that we have within ourselves. We just kind of carry and we just kind of live our lives. You know, with those fears and insecurities, we don't really think anything of it, you know? Well, all too often maybe we don't take time to reflect because all our quiet moments are filled with, you know, grabbing the phone and turning it on. Yeah, that's it. Instead of just taking a wee bit of time, you know, or even just maybe out for a walk and not having the headphones in and just having time to think and reflect yourself. I know, I think when we connect with nature too, we feel a lot more at peace, don't we? And happy with ourselves. And you connected with nature for the video in this song. Oh, we did. In a manner of speaking. Now, first of all, before we get to that, you kept it very local as well for the recording. Yeah, so we went to Fultils Studios, Tommy. Yeah, just over the road here. It's between here and your home. My house, yeah, two minutes from the house. Like, yeah, not Tommy's brilliant. Tommy keeps me right with everything. This is the first one. As I said, now I've released myself because when you work with DJs, it's basically just like, I would sign a contract just and the music label would take care of all the songs, all the promotion, all the press releases, all the advertising. They do everything. So for this one, it was a bit different. So Tommy kind of kept me right with everything. He did. So before this, you would have been providing the vocals for dance tracks. Yeah, I just write the vocals and I would record them probably with Tommy actually over in the studio. And I would just send them off and then you just signed it away and then the label does everything. So this, when you're putting out one yourself, there's a bit more to think about. Do you know? So Tommy kept me right, like you really did. Now he's brilliant over there. It's a one-man stop. And there was three involved in the production, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. So my friend Paul Skeleton, I had worked with Paul a few years ago on a dance track that he just was looking for vocals for and it was called Fairy Tales and he's released an arouseness in the label, I think in Amsterdam. And that was about three, four years ago. So I contacted him then. Now he's a really, really good piano composer and producer and he's amazing on piano. And I sent him what I had. I just wrote the song on piano and I had the lyrics and I had the melody and I just had like a chordal kind of accompaniment. And I said, Paul, is there anything you think you could do with this? Do you like the song? If you like it, would you like to work on it with me? And he said, yeah. And he went away and back and forth with the piano in different little arpeggios and little sections that he had. Now he's amazing on piano. And he sent back then what we had and we took it into studio and Tommy produced it then. The rest of it like, so we had good out time. And good out crack, didn't it? Good out time and good out crack making the video as well because Tommy does some video work. I know, he's actually unreal doing videos. And you said, well, he needed to be for the start of the day. You had it down to arts. But it wasn't the best of days. No, geez, it wasn't like it started off grand. It started off grand. It just slowly started raining. And I took Tommy through a wild goose chase in Irish Forest Park because I was looking for this wee bridge because I thought it'd be quite pretty. There's a lovely wee wooden bridge and I've been down here before, but I don't know where it is. And I took him away through the whole of Irish Forest Park looking for this bridge. And eventually it was near where we parked the car to begin with. So I took him like on a mad journey, yeah. Well, we found it eventually. And we filmed some down there. And it was just getting wetter and wetter and feeling like, oh, geez, what are we going to do? We're going to call it. But then we wanted just a couple of shots in the beach. We thought it'd be really nice. And we went down to Marble Hill and we were sitting in the car and we're like, oh, it's really raining. I don't know, like, we're going to get out here. So you're sitting there, just pouring from the heavens outside and you're thinking, how are we going to make a video here? Yeah. Well, it looks dry at odds. Yeah, it did. We got the best of an hour and slowly creeped in. Only the scenes, maybe, down at the beach where if you looked closely, you could tell that maybe it wasn't great. But at the funniest time, the funniest product is Brian, you didn't notice that. No, the beach had this lovely mist. I've never seen anything like it. We got out of the car. It was just this beautiful mist across the whole beach and it looked like a fog. And there's only a couple of surfers there in ourselves because no one with any sense would be out that day. It was just one of them days. But you got it done. Got it done, mate. And you know, this made the video because it looked really cool. The end up, like, yeah, I think the rain made the video. So where to from here now? It's not going to be 10 years before your next stop. No, no, it's not. Now I'm going to try it now and write a bit more for myself as well. I have another one actually done and it's kind of more nice. It's a bit more poppy. I have it kind of more or less finished actually in the studio. So I will be putting it out maybe in a couple of months and just trying to promote this one as best we can. Try and get it to reach as much people as we can because I think people are going to connect with it. Well, I certainly hope so. It's out now on the usual platforms. Yeah, Spotify, the videos on YouTube. Yeah, it's on all the usual platforms, Facebook and Instagram and everything, so. OK, and it's called Coming Home. Jordan McLaughlin, thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you, John.