 I knew from the Henry Guards who were in our company last week, and a great track down as well, in fairness. And they know we're up with the big guns now, they're up there and the RTE recommends. Oh, I up there with Rachel Lavelle and Chris Tableton, almost no message about now, but that's Rina Conley as well, and bring the song, Not Your Fight. Highland Radio Monday night, and you're very welcome. It's good to have your company, by the way. It's always you want to get in touch. It's away at $660, $25,000. Thank you very much indeed. Welcome our next guest. It's Bo McGurk, and how are you, Bo? I'm doing all right. You're keeping well? Yeah. You're a 17-year-old. Yeah. People at the Erigal College. Yeah. And Paddy Malloy is with you too. Paddy, good to see you too. Good to see you. Come here. Erigal College is where? Here? Just literally a stone throw from here. Yeah, just above the hospital there, on the left side, yeah. Oh, no, no. That's also where your next door neighbor's here, yeah. I've seen that place now, that's right. So, Bo, tell us a bit about yourself, your music. You're self-taught pianist. Yeah. How did that come about? Did you just take a notion or what? Well, when I was really young, when I was like 10, I'd look up these videos, because I didn't want to go through the effort of trying to learn things. So I looked up these videos, and they were like, how to look good at piano, even if you're not good. And from that, I kind of learned how to improvise by accident, because I was doing all these little techniques that made me sound good. And I started to develop my own voice after that. It just came about, kind of evolved from that. And yeah, now I'm at this point where I can improvise things, and it actually sounds good. Very good. And come here. Priority of that, playing the piano, or picking up and learning. You hadn't been involved in music at all. Not really. I mean, I played Tim Maslow in primary school. I mean, most people played Tim Maslow in primary school, at least in my school, yeah. So that's really all I had in music. I guess I just wanted to play piano one day. I actually don't remember much. It was a long time ago, so... And tell me, we'd loved to go into a piece of music, so what way does this work? Well, I can just, from any mood, I can just make anything. So if we were talking about last night's storms, say, for example. Can you blast us out something from that? Sure. This is brilliant. This is a force to your first. Now you're looking forward to this. Whenever you're ready, but we'll just do you go for it. These pieces, do you keep them? How do they come about? Where do they start for you? Well, usually I pick a key. Most likely it'd be D minor. I really love D minor. It's just my favorite key. Because it's very dark and moody, and I really love dark and moody things. And I've gotten very used to it, so I can really just make anything on the spot. So you basically... It's not something that comes into your mind about writing. It's the note start, and then you develop it into something. Yeah. Well, I could never... I could make something like that, but when I write it, if I want to write sheet music or something, it doesn't sound nearly the same, because it's a completely different part of my brain. And do you see the first piece of music you could play for us there, right? If I asked you to play it again, you could play the exact same again. No, I could not. You can't? Yeah. Did you ever consider writing in the future, scores for films or stuff like that? No. I have considered it, yeah. I've written a few little bits of orchestral things, but they're obviously not very good, because I haven't really started that, and I haven't done that a lot. Do you remember the old black and white films that are called, you know, The Law and the Hardest, way before your time, where they might not have been sound or there was no vocals. There was music in the background. Do you think is that something you could pick along to if you were watching an old movie and you had to follow what you've seen? Would that appeal to you, do you think? Yeah. Probably. I mean, they usually don't. They go really fast. If someone falls over, I can't do it. Oh, I get you. I get you now. Paddy, you're a teacher at the school as well. I am a DJ, yeah. And tell us, does it involve all styles of music you're teaching, or what way does it work? Is it, you know, the lake of bow here has a style of music. You know, how did that develop in school? Well, I suppose in school, we would encompass music from different genres, in particular, and believe in certain music, there's four or five pieces from different genres and different, I suppose, eras and music that we cover just to have a broad spectrum of music. And then there's written parts to it too. Bowel stuff, we've actually been doing the barry stuff, which is probably closest to what you've been doing. It's very, very kind of off the wall. Experimental avant-garde type stuff, which isn't a million miles away from what I was looking at. So you would really enjoy that kind of stuff. We just covered that in a minute. But we would allocate a lot of time towards performing in the school too, because 50% of the exam goes towards performing, which is brilliant. It's brilliant. It's really a very attractive subject for anyone really, particularly someone like Bowel, or someone that has an ability on an instrument. So that's what we would do. You're probably right about what you're saying. You kind of have the, not everybody has the right skills. Anything I've learned through life, it's probably been practical when I sit down to do written stuff, I'm just useless at it. I've never developed that. So if you can bring out that in the music, it's well done. How did you first come on this, gentlemen? I came on this. I'm teaching, this is my fourth year teaching in the school, and I started when you were in second year, I think it was. And it was a big class, I think it was 20, 25 people in the class. And I remember starting off thinking, what can you play? What's your name? Where are you from? I got up and played piano, and I was just, I was blown away by the age of him first of all, and how quiet and how unassuming he was. And then he started playing the piano, and I was like, Jesus, fuck this, this fella can play, this fella has something. I was like, where did you learn that? He says, I don't really know, I just picked it up. I just was just astounded by how good it was, and how amazing he sounded at such a young age, and how little of it was written, or there was no blueprint, it's just off the cuff, a lot of the stuff he does, which amaze me, I'm playing something half of a plan, if it's music or lyrics, but with both, it's just, as you were saying, it's a different part of the brain completely. Unique. Very unique, yeah, absolutely. Bo, would you give us another piece of music? Sure. Any moods? I could do, I could do like a very icy, but pretty, like, it could be like a pretty ice place. I have an idea for that. Go on ahead. Whenever you're ready. You know what, it's so unique, so unique. Thanks for sharing that, wasn't it? I really appreciate that. You're from Chrysler? Yeah. And how long are you at the school now, you say? Since first year. Very good. And tell me, what's your plans? You know, what would you like to do? Well, I'm probably going to go to Derry, to go to the University of Derry, and the Mickey Campus, the Ulster University. Yeah. Because they have a music course over there, it's very close to here, so. To do? Yeah. You wouldn't believe how many people will you talk to here, you know, I mentioned about this course in Derry. Yeah, it's like the only one in the area, though the nearest other one is like in Galway, so. No, Derry's with Hunter in Galway, isn't it? And would you like to continue with music? Would you like us to be a career path, do you think? Yeah, but maybe not in like classical, maybe in like a bunch of genres. I do a lot of like, I do a lot of metal, I do a lot of like, like experimental pop and stuff. Could you do something to get first to finish off? Experimental pop? Or has it to be in the right? I don't know how to perform that live. I can't really improvise a pop song right now. So what does that include then? It would include like singing and I'm not a very good singer, so. You're very honest, aren't you? You can sing along as well. Do you do performance every Thursday at school? Yeah. What does that involve? Is that an assembly party or? Well, like I was saying earlier on, the course really is 50% for performing and 50% for revenue. So we do spend a lot of time doing the performing part and doing feedback in class. I would have a spreadsheet full of songs and pieces that Bo would perform. It's kind of hard to keep track of them because a lot of them are off the cuff, so it's piece number one, piece number two and that. But for me, it's kind of trying to give Bo a bit of feedback here and how he could, how he was good, how he could make that even better again and this kind of thing. And that's what all the students do. That's tough going to the club. It's not easy because he's just proposed 10 times better than I'll ever be, so it's very difficult to give him any feedback at all. So, but you have to be very best to try and help him in any way. Long may continue and enjoyable job, honey. It is very rewarding, enjoyable. I love it. Music is kind of all I've ever done really and being able to teach it now is mighty and being able to even to help Bo or to help other students, music students, going through your career such as music like I did myself. It's really rewarding. So the best luck with it. And when you, as I say, when you can get that reward out of work, so that's what more than somebody need. Absolutely. Bo, thank you for sharing your music. Genuinely, it's so unique and it's just something special. But like it just goes through my head there and Jimmy giving me a piece. With you being from Chrysler, could you do something about Chrysler for us a piece of music first, do you think? Sure. Whatever you're having. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you very much. Once again, we love getting every style of music up here and we really appreciate it. And Pally, thanks for taking the time to come up here yourself, too. Thanks very much for having us. It's lovely. And Bo, long may it continue and obviously you get so much enjoyment out of it. And that's probably the secret and that's the most important thing that you keep enjoying it. And I hope the course goes well for you that when you get into dairy and stuff like that we really, really do. You have something that's very unique. Are you on social media if anyone really wants to? Not really. Not for music or socially? I do have a few bands that I have but they're on like band camp. Yeah. But listen, you'll come back up and see us some more time, won't you? We really enjoyed your company and thanks for sharing your music. And as I say, uniqueness is just something special. Well done indeed. Thank you very much indeed. Pally, any more artists bring them up to us. You know where we are. Absolutely, 100%. The doors open. Thank you very much.