 Nathan Carter's brand new album and delighted to say that the man himself joins me live in the studio. Nathan, good afternoon. Good afternoon, David. Great to be back at Highland. Lovely to have you with us. Congratulations on your brand new album just released today. A great, great album. There's how many tracks on there? There's 12 great tracks on there. You have some great songs as well. You've got Till We Meet Again, a lovely duet with Claudia Buckley called This Love Will Never Last. You've got the likes of Ride In My Thumb to Mexico, The Morning After that we've just heard, and then some more modern country, The Likes of Humble and Kind as well. Yeah, there's a good old mix now. I suppose the last few singles are on there. I did a version of Kega Brandy, that track which you've just played, The Morning After, which myself and John wrote, and a few country classics that I've always loved, Conway Twitty. I think if you're going to do a classic country song, he's probably one of the ones you're going to go to. And a couple of originals as well, thrown in, and a couple of duets. And I did a track that you guys played an awful lot for us, the Heave Away track with Kjul. So that's on there as well. So it's a good mixture of folk country, modern country as well, thrown in as well. Brilliant. Well congratulations on a new album. I know a lot of effort and a lot of work goes into these things. And I suppose you're probably recording all the time. Once one album's out, you've probably already started the next kind of thing. No, I literally haven't had time to do anything the last three or four months. I ended up recording the vocals on tour, which is a first for me because normally I'd be in a recording studio, but we ended up having to make a makeshift studio on the back of the bus when we were in America. So I was there, and the driver would turn the engine on every ten minutes, then we'd have to go down there with you. Turn it off and give us five minutes. We've got one more vocal to do because you'd hear it through the mic. It turned out really well and thankfully, after the last couple of years, I'm delighted to say we had to do it because we've been that busy. It's a really good complaint. Great complaint. We're delighted the way things are going. And you're on the middle of your Christmas tour. You're in the Millennium Forum tonight sold out. All your gigs this weekend are sold out. The Christmas tour is going really, really well. Yeah, this has been our most successful in a long time and I didn't know what way it was really going to go after the pandemic, really coming back into the gigs because people were a little bit afraid of coming out still. But it seems in the last couple of months people are enjoying the gigs more than ever. And I know myself and the band were delighted to see people back out enjoying live music. And I think we as musicians kind of appreciate everything a bit more because we couldn't do it for so long. It means an awful lot more to us now to go on stage and perform and see people happy. Yeah, and lots of people are texting in here to say that they're looking forward to tonight. Namely, Kerry Marie can't wait to the show tonight. And also please say a big hello to Nathan from two big supporters of yours, Kenny G and Olive. They've supported you from the start, haven't they? They really have been great support. So I might see them tonight if they're going, yeah. And don't worry if you didn't manage to get tickets for tonight because you've got a very, very special show coming up in January. Yeah, we don't get to play in Donegal half enough as I would like. We don't allow you in. I know. I'm only allowed in once or twice a year, generally for Clown Mani or a couple of festivals. You know, I'm coming back to do a concert, my first concert in Donegal in ages. We're going to be in, let's Kenny and the Clannery on the 20th of January. Your good self is going to be there on the night as well, plus Cuell. So it's a full lineup of music. It's going to be a big show, something that I'm really looking forward to and to coming back to Donegal to put on. You know, the Clannery is a lovely venue. And as I say, we just don't get to play here enough. Friday, the 20th of January, Nathan and his band. I'm going to be there as a special guest, as are Cuell. And those lads are flying it at the minute. We had them on the show here a few weeks ago. And they're sounding great. Yeah, they've been practicing so hard. I think because they've been gigging so much over the summer, their songs and their performances have become really, really tight. And they're just, they're four great singers, great musicians. And I suppose one of them's from Donegal. So he's naturally a great musician, you know. But yeah, no, the lads are doing great. They're actually performing tonight with us up in Derry. They're going to have them on to do a few songs. And that's if they get there. They're actually on RT Radio as we speak. So they're going to be bombing it up the road, I think, to try and get here in time. Not a bother. They're doing really well. We had a great old time out in your carter on the Costa trip in October. Yeah. The crack was good out there. And it's probably one of those things that you always look forward to every year. You know, meeting up with people on a more sociable level, people that come to the gigs all year round. But you get to spend a full week with them. Yeah. It's something that I definitely look forward to. You know, week in the sun, no matter where we go, is always something enjoyable. But we were surrounded by lovely people that had travelled all over Ireland, Scotland, England. We had a couple travelled from America, which I believe to come on the week away. So yeah, it was a great trip. And between yourself and Claudia Buckley and Dominic Howe and Johnny Brady, Cleona, the list just went on on Colonel Gallant. The end statement was fantastic. The crack was great. And one thing about it was it was all very responsible. We all just did our gig and went to bed. That was that end of story. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah. There was no mornin' after the night before anyway. The whole week. Kimmy, what's going on? You and fellow Mina Begley, what is going on here now? The rumor mill is going on that there's some sort of a relationship going on. What's happening? Well, if anyone hasn't seen the new music video to the song, the mornin' after that, you can go and check it out on YouTube or Facebook there. But I basically needed someone to be a cameo role in it and be a taxi driver that we ended up going out for drinks and ended up in bed together the day after. And the rang filly, and she said, she jumped at it straight away. She said, I'd love to be involved. So yeah, I never dreamt I'd be waking up the next mornin' besides fellow Mina Begley, but I am in this video and the two of us are in bed together. And it was really good fun to film. The camera man would be counting down three, two, one action, and then she'd be pulling the quilt off or pinching me, boom, or doing something. Class. She was 80 this year and still acting like a teenager. Listen, I know that you're heading for soundcheck in the Millennium Forum, so we're going to let you go. Enjoy Christmas, have a great one. Congratulations on the new album called The Mornin' After. It's out now and you can get it where? You can get it on my website, nathancardmusic.com. It's available in Tesco's and all the music shops locally. And of course, if you want to stream it or download it, you can do that as well. But listen, thanks for having me on the show. Big hello to all the staff here at Highland and especially a big happy Christmas and a peaceful one to everybody who's listening today. And we are looking forward to that show in the clanry on the...