 new album so as soon as it comes out we will be playing it here right here as always on Highland Radio but we say hello and we welcome our first studio guest now probably i'm on the wrong microphone marion but it's marion bradfields hello to you hello how are you eventually i know eventually eventually i know i know hang on are you there now i'm there right marion first of all listen it's lovely to see you thanks very much for coming up and it's uh we've been in touch maybe i don't know maybe four five three four years and uh maybe longer and i got your album what was your first album the empires field first album was just called marion second album was tonight is just for us yes third album the empires field and the last one was secret life of a woman i i i remember it was sent to me up here and i remember listening to it i was just blown away i liked the uniqueness of it and i could get that right away and i just knew this is a songwriter i just you just had feeling that you know the stuff and you write all your if you record it all your own or you ever throw in a cover i have been asked to do covers and what i might do is i might do a small little album of covers but pick when i do covers i like to do them different uh like a little bit weird or you know what i mean if i took a song i might do it as a bluegrass version ah yes people would look at me and go he's not he's not going to be happy with that um but i'll just say don't tell him don't tell him is right no but sometimes you know sometimes cover versions with a different slant are amazing oh they are yeah they were Paul Keezy Paul Keezy has a brilliant uh ELO song out now yeah and uh hold on tight and it's just totally his yeah it's a totally i said to him send it to jeff lindy see what he says you know but no it's it's just as good as uh writing your own song because you are putting your stamp on it when you're when i when i do a cover i would like i do a cover and in my head i kind of say i'd like to do this cover so that if the person that wrote it would actually say well why didn't i think of a cover like that that's kind of i keep that on my head and hopefully it works you're up here i think i remember listening to years ago not years ago when i say five or six maybe we're only up here seven fifteen we must be here thirty years but uh i remember you've been on a pagakini up here one night that's right pack that was one of the first nights that i i was up here and then i did a couple of nights with um some of the other lads it was just uh i love coming up here to scream hi look it's very relaxed it is very relaxed and that's nice oh that's important it's important to us because we don't do stress mariam playing something no but come here and i'll say uh we'll go straight on the piece of music uh if you don't mind and i have to say hello uh company tonight is uh nail timonite nail you're very welcome i'm getting on good so uh you're you're you're actually playing with mariam the first time tonight right right oh i've done so for a few over gigs before but this is the first time i'm a company right now no pressure on you and we have to do this one for his mommy because it's his mommy's birthday oh today mommy's birthday tomorrow oh you have to give her a mention which are all the bellies happy birthday to the mommy oh very good as you sort it now you're really fine mariam the first song you're going to do first tonight it's called i remember and do we background just to it is there a background or it started its life next to a pot of tea because a friend of mine rang me and she said i'm about to break it up with himself and she said i need to talk and i'm kind of going right come on over so we did the first pot of tea and she hated his guts and then she went on to the second pot of tea and she hated i think she went into the mother-in-law and i went and i'm kind of going for have any more tea i have no more teabags i said well little coffee so when we got onto the first pot of coffee um she was starting on his family you know and she was going to go down through the whole lot of and i said woman says if it is because we are held on i said there must have been somebody yeah that you went out with that you know that you actually liked and her whole face changed and she said god she said i remember there was she said the lovable rogue and i'm kind of going tell me about him and she told me about him and i said you still like that creature i use yes she said i do but my mother doesn't and i'm kind of going okay and at the end of when she told it to me i put all the bits and pieces down and i said sometimes i said yeah you listen to your mommy but i said sometimes you listen to your heart and do you know what i mean yeah absolutely this is where this came out of anyway brilliant we're looking forward to this all right two three four i remember the lights upon the water winter moon alliance so first time that you love many times have i dream that night was that rink is crazy starting something with exist and stop something drove us to passion rose like a fire didn't still feel your skin touch my passion rose like a fire that's lovely uh do you know you're obviously don't point me ask you where you get the inspiration for because obviously it just comes out of anywhere you know something happens and anywhere at all yeah just are just a little a little line um do you jot things down are you one of them oh i have i years and years ago i had a i have these sticky what you call as i stick oh the notes these white i'm very good and if i get an idea and i had the piano and it was like a it was like a rainbow and i'm kind of gone and one of my daughters came in and she said mommy clear those up will you it looks way looking and i just had to put them all in the book so i got a book and i stuck them all in the book so anytime i get an idea now i stick it on one of these and i just then i pull them out um and if i'm stuck i'll just go through them and see what looks as if would go together what sayings look as if they'd go together and then um i'll ask somebody if i'm chatting to him to tell me a story i love a song to have a story i love it to be about somebody i i like i like the songs to be about real people that's very good you know and tell me um i'll take you back to the start so when did music begin for you at the kitchen table in dunnigall town uh yep yep yeah i didn't write anything before then before i came to to i i'm in dunnigall about just over 40 years um where you from originally i was born in waterbird all right yeah i'm born in waterbird and um just landed here and it's been my lifesaver it's my bolt all i i don't know when i got here i just felt as if i was home arrived yeah i had landed as they as they say oh no i don't understand that certainly when i started at the kitchen table and put them down and didn't know where what to do with them um and i kind of started putting um but i didn't tell anybody that they were my songs yeah and i was out and done kanily one night and this little old man came up to me and he says um you're going to play my song tonight he said aren't you and i said what's wrong with that video and he said um the one about the fisher the fisherman he said and i'm kind of gone right i said give me a bit of it he said you know it was about the young fella that you used to play uh badminton with and he went off and got oh right says i yes i do i know that and he said and who had to hit with that and of course i had to admit it i said now i said you're not to say anything um i said but i wrote it well says hey now i said you're not to open your mouth he said i swear to god says hey i won't and so i did the song and um he didn't say any word that night then i was out there again and uh he said don't forget my song now he said and what's more she wrote this herself he didn't do with the first night he didn't keep he didn't break his promise the first night but he announced it at the whole place so then people started asking for the songs lovely and then i didn't know where to record them because i really didn't know anybody here at that stage i had only kind of landed and i went back down to waterford and i recorded the first album and the guy that are recorded with martin murray he said again he said where'd you get these and i said why you know really defensive um and i said i'll tell you if you'll tell me an honest opinion of him so he said uh he said um actually they're they're they're wild good he said and i'm kind of going okay i said i wrote him and he said oh right so he told me to send him to somebody up in rte i sent him to rte and i think it was paddy lacon and then paddy said come on up so i went up and i did a show with him and he said right you should give it to this fella who was working on some other radio thing up there and um they had a small little they were running a small little record company at the time so i did this the next two albums with them and they wanted to do their own thing one of them wanted to go overseas so off he went and i did the last one then on my own again i went over to newry to a mad creature over there martin mccalister and uh and his his sidekick and we had we we laughed from the time that i went in the door until the time i left it was absolutely brilliant yeah it was it takes a wee bit of madness to give the song a bit of uh oh you have to be a member of the sensible little tixie very good mariam we'd love to get another song and do you need to tune up or anything because i can take an outbreak if you do do an outbreak i would surely we'll just do a check if you just tuned in we're listening live and uh mariam brad feels uh been our special guest and she's already played a beautiful song another one's on the way after spring calahans gala and go burt your one stop family shop drive into our newly renovated spacious forecourt fill up with our upgraded modern fuel pumps and 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he didn't want to break the friendship he didn't want to lose her friendship but he was always there for her other the dud wasn't great to her oh right sorry i didn't you mixed i thought you meant oh you thought the other way around oh i second yeah yeah yeah no i get you now i get you very good yeah i kind of put a little story around what if lovely i told him he should have said it at some stage oh i should have he should have said it you don't give many chances at that no you don't and i'm just looking at now your um tachemine there it reminds me of woolly nelson's trigger just there i see it's um it's it's seen better days it's served me well for the last 20 years in fairness um and i just had a local man there serves it uh for toured of course after it there very good a couple of weeks back and uh he says he sorted out the holes as much as he could you on it but you know the thing about it to you it's it's it's what it is it is what it is yeah and you know that's important exactly you know this guitar hasn't been hasn't been cared for or anything like that there or left in the corner it's been it's been used and abused over the years and that's what a guitar should be sounding great too thank you thank you you've done it all time man i am yeah you gigging up there too and stuff yeah the odd time i play uh a wee bit of a wee bit of music i've been playing probably around the pubs and not there for the last 20 years it's always been the dream to be a gigging musician so good it has to be done alongside the day job but these things thank god for the day job in the last couple of years you know thanks very much that was brilliant nail timony uh are you on social media or stuff any nail is actually a really good um photographer as well yeah are you on facebook and stuff yeah yeah facebook and instagram uh nail timony photography and launching my website tomorrow for that as well there you go plug away at it always nice to get a wee plug for that nail timony photography yep brilliant well we wish you luck with that thank you very much now uh marion the uh you have a gig coming up on the in the baller tell us about that um i am doing a lovely gig with a lovely man called johnny doon hi johnny great songwriter oh he's a magic songwriter i've always always worked wanted to work with him and um i was sitting in i have a wee little artisan shop that i i run down in donnie galltown and i was sitting there one day and i was listening um to his song the void and i went do you know what i'm going to ring him so i picked up the phone looked up his website got a phone number and i rang him and he answered and i said how are you johnny i said johnny i said this is marion bradfield he said i've wanted to be chatting to you for a long long time so we had a great al gossip and i said you ever upped on he gallway and he's gone i haven't been up there in a long time i said would you come up and he said oh god he don't know he said it's very very far i said you should bring your sandwiches i said there's a lovely wee theater called the baller theater and there's a lovely guy that runs it um called connor and i said he does great things from music so gave him a date he said leave me think about it so he came back to me and he said yes so that's what we're doing on the first saturday the first of october brilliant that is going to be so if people want tickets marion where they're available from they book through the they book through the the baller theater brilliant just go into the onto the website and book there so do you know this you'll have a ball up there because connor and the team out there really know their stuff ah they do you know and it's a beautiful venue it's absolutely we've been up there loads of times myself and jimmy it's just amazing love it it is and i mean he does the even the the i go over to he does the is it ghost light sessions yes a ghost night ship yeah and i've been to i've been to a good few of those now they're amazing and he has singer songwriters there and the one is new i mean you're sitting there and for 15 euro you're kind of gone dear god where have these people you're right and you get one songwriter and they're one singer and they're one they're better than the other and you're kind of gone and you can't name them afterwards and say this boy was brilliant because they were all brilliant yeah yeah there was a guy and i'm not going to name him but he was a young fella and um he was you'd know he was only starting off and he was kind of running himself down and i'm kind of gone he said and that was good now is the other two lads and i'm kind of gone to myself you actually are he had the purest purest voice it was stunning and he came off stage and he sat down at the side with his mommy and i was just leaving and i said i have to say it i just went over to as i said to him suffer and yourself down i said i said you have an advice i said like i've never heard in my life i said don't stop keep going means a lot that is someone you know means a lot he just turned around he's looked at his mother and his mother said see i told you and i said listen to your mommy god we want to listen to her mommies well listen it's been an absolute pleasure having you up here at the long last i'm saying are you recording anything in the future anything lined up i actually have just started recording the next album great yeah i just put i'm just i have one one track down and um that song i remember i'm i actually want to do a different version of that uh because the version that i did was on the very very first album i have do you know when you go along in music you kind of hear other instruments and you kind of go oh i want to do that yes so i want to do a different version of that that'll be one on it but i have i've sent in all of the songs to work with the producer fella and i work with another guy and i'll do some of it myself and we'll just all put our heads together bring it well listen whatever time it takes we look forward to that thank you we'd love you to come back up again maybe some night and we'll share that uh album with everybody no bother no bother it's been great thank you so much no no pleasure i know it took a while oh no we got here oh no i knew you were we'll get you up here eventually we got here well would you do you did your final song for sure we will surely and this one you do first is this one is called lover with a slow hand my friend susie uh re christened it uh as the plumber song but i'll tell you the story to that another night all right very good i love the fact that you have a story that's well important you know oh you have the story between the songs it's very very important yeah it's great and you're ready right two three where's the midnight moon comes drifting through the lazy haze of the trees i saw the looking in your eyes looking into mine seeing what they wanted to see darling don't say you were because i've already heard what your body's saying to mine i'm tired of fast moves i got a slow i want a man with a slow ahead i want a lazy touch i want somebody who can spend some time not coming boy i want somebody who can understand when it comes to love i want a slow head of stars in our black two lost leaves on the crazy winds of the night darling don't say oh please say it's all right we got the time yeah touch i want somebody who can spend some time not coming i want somebody who can understand when it comes to love i want a slow who's i got a slow who can spend some time not coming excited by the z is he touch but yeah originally don't be the pointer sister no but don't tell him we do it like that no no because i tell you what that's a better version of theirs 1980 woman's here but i think it was the album's black and white or something like that but there's seven threads too well but you don't know you don't know justice marianne bradfield the pleasure has been ours and it's an absolute delight to have no clear and and uh nails timley thank you so much indeed and good luck with your uh your launch of your photography website tomorrow we will show you all the very very best and marion of course absolutely hello to max and robin they're in their beds now but they're looking forward to seeing us tomorrow that's good and of course my beautiful wife amanda oh brilliant points you know thank you myself i do have myself all time okay we're well folks thanks very much and thank you absolutely amazing marianne bradfield