 loose myself and Darren we're just talking about it earlier on you're very welcome to centre stage on a Thursday evening normal show is normally Irish music but once a month of a special guest co-presenter and the man in front of me is a port new musical legend is what I've named him tonight is Darren boot Burke all the way Darren you're very welcome and thanks for accepting the invitation thank you very much Jimmy for inviting me I didn't have to think twice now to be honest with us when you asked me so yes it's a pleasure to come on thank you a big challenge is to pick seven or eight Irish music tracks but we'll talk more about them as the show goes on but for somebody's tuned in and I know you're a well-known musical troubadour that travels the highways and byways of Ireland but I suppose for somebody who doesn't know Darren boot Burke who is the man in studio tonight yeah so I'm originally actually from my childhood son over and I'm married down about our job port new direction by day I work as a special needs assistant in St Peter's National School in Manchardis and then by night and maybe a lot of weekend you'll find me playing a few tunes about an odd bar here and there all around the continent yeah and is it done you go all you miss gig or do you go further if you had done a goal mainly but that for the odd function and weddings and stuff that you will find yourself travel in January yeah yeah and how long how long you had the music Darren I mean is it is this something you grew up with or how did it come how did it all come about well I've been gigging out and about maybe for last maybe 12 or 13 years I suppose again I suppose I just always gonna love music and I've grown up and our family I suppose that the work family would have been fairly musical between my grandfather and his brother Tommy and that would have played but now they played a lot of traditional music and accordions and stuff like that but I wasn't I didn't really get into that so much but just myself the guitar really my friend Tom Tom McHugh he showed me a few chords in the guitar way back when I was only around maybe the leaving third time yeah and I just took off from there and just kind of developed that and again between working and behind bars pulling pint of stuff and maybe at the end of the night then you might pull the guitar up for now tune behind the bars the confidence grows in as you go on and we end up in a week five or six of us and friends from inver we end up in a band we said nobody ever played in the band together before so we said that we put a band together we called ourselves rack and rune back and rune yeah because because that's what we would just end up going to rack and rune so it was more kind of an excuse to get out in the boat every weekend in it but so that's how it all started in the band and then we move on to Darren Boat but listen we'll talk more because we also time the chap because the main thing is you pick some great music tonight and it's Irish music you picked and the first song you're gonna play you're gonna I was gonna say gonna sing and play for us we're gonna play here and you're gonna talk about why I'm lying back tonight hollering and stuff yeah yeah so yeah the first song that this is a mic Christopher song and it's called heyday most people I suppose will know it from the Guinness ad way back years ago but I always thought it was a great song and maybe just a nice way and throw to the show and no particular reason round song any memories of it or again just just grown up and I suppose just that one thing you always it stands out you hear it on the you heard it on the Guinness ad and TV and then obviously mic mic passed away in 2001 and Glenn Hansard would have played it out and about and he used to do a lovely acoustic version and is this one you'd sing yourself if you were at a I would do it in the odd time yeah might be an end the night song yeah just as the night eases down I wouldn't have the pipes for it now but we would try our best and all that stuff well the first song from Darren Boat Burke and we'll talk about his name later on as well but this is a great track to kick off his selection of Irish music on center stage this is Mike Christopher and heyday on Highland radio