 28 years ago this month would you believe and when he started promoting it he just had the petrol in the car as a budget to go around record shops and play play the song outside the record shops to try to to get them to stock it and and increase sales. Well I'm delighted that Brendan is joining us on we're streaming and obviously live on the radio. Brendan good afternoon. Good afternoon John how are you? Good good and you're saying all fair there that you're a bit tired because you've been up in the middle in the middle of the night and promoting the song now in other territories where the where the time is different. Yeah it's a bit crazy but look it's it's something I am backed upon I'm determined to bring this to the world by myself this time I've been a little bit more than the petrol in the car I have the internet which is fantastic and it's helped me greatly so so far it's going well and it's starting to pick up airplay in Southeast Asia so all good. And so it should because it's timeless it sounds as good and it sounds it well it just it hasn't dated. Well thank you so much no it hasn't and it's it's just a great shame that it didn't get out before now you know it was held captive but I can't I can't dwell on that I just have to get on with it now and push it out into the world. Why was it held captive what's changed now is is is or have you come to the end of a contract or what's happened. Yeah I had a contract with the record company and they held that contract for the same length of time and I couldn't do anything until now so I re-recorded the song which is what you were hearing there and I now won the rights as well. Okay so now we go. So now you can put it was because it was never released abroad it was a huge hit here and it's just one of them songs that if you're from Ireland you're going to know it but never released in other territories. No no so that's going to change now. Yeah right okay it's obviously it's not all about that song because you plenty of other material down through the years have been three albums three platinum albums and I think it's seven top ten hits here in Ireland so other material will follow abroad as well. Yes absolutely one after the other okay they'll just go banging them up to the radio and I look I can't just get into a graveyard and not try this you know so I'd never forgive myself if I don't have a go so I'm going to do that and so far so good the reaction is great there's great good will for me out there online which is fantastic and nice gentlemen like yourself are looking up for interviews and that's great and because the more obviously the more the merrier you know yeah well it's only right that we I suppose be be reminded of it and I couldn't believe that it was 28 years ago this month that it was first released so yeah it is mad and the song I was chatting there about only having the petrol in the car and what's your memories from the the early days when the song came out and you were around the country promoting it oh god getting arrested in court I suppose I did that how did that happen I was singing outside a golden discs in Paul Street and a guard came up to me and said you better stop you know I said why he said because the other shopkeepers do not have because all the people are standing here with you I said that's okay he said no it's not no you have to stop they said if you sing it once more I will arrest you so I pressed play and off we go when he came and took me away and I didn't realize but there was someone from the examiner was there and the next morning on page one Brandon Keely arrested for singing his songs in the streets of car it was the best pre-promotion I was just gonna say yeah absolutely then all the other shops called me up and said hey come to us come to us do this with us you know we'd love to see you and so boom and off it went then it took its own legs I didn't have to go through that anymore then the late late came on board and then yeah it was there you know so yeah it makes you wise but it's just a shame that then when I signed up to a label that they just didn't exploit it across the world and yeah you know that's just tragic but they changed the kind of the course of my life really but um you look better late than never yeah absolutely absolutely but it was it was huge at the time was played off the air and it just sounds like a song that will be Taylor made especially for the European market you're chatting there about Asia but I think it was just Taylor made for the European market and I'm amazed that the record company didn't see it the same way yeah well you know that's that's just I mean what you sign up to a label for example the marketing manager left in the middle of my campaign to sell shoes so that's that's what happens it becomes a hard-nosed business instead of passion but you know for me it was my life's work and you're so right I believe like you do this it will take off in Europe it has to because it's and I always live on the fact that look I'm not selling crap here you know absolutely I'm selling something decent and so that's what keeps me going and there's going to be people hearing it now for the first time and I think it's one of those songs that you hear it and you're singing along with it and it sticks in your memory I mean we're used to it here in Ireland we're you know um well familiar with it but if you're hearing it elsewhere for the first time you can't go on oh I haven't heard that song somewhere before but they haven't they probably haven't no and like like we said there's a whole generation of people now who can appreciate it and bring it to them you know a funny story now when you're asking me there about the first time it was a hit a DJ told me he said the only reason that's a hit is because it's nearly five minutes long and the DJ can go to the jacks while it's playing on the slow set yeah DJs always had a few songs whether they were faster slow that you could do that too so yeah it was a yeah it was a hit back in the day right now from the slow set back when they're wearing slow sets yeah yeah but look it still still resonates with a lot of people and you know I'm still very hopeful and so I just going to keep on going and I don't know how I'm going to do this I don't know I just just I'm going down a blind tunnel with it but I'm just going to keep going and so far it's it's starting to work for me so you know I'm after stuff in America now as well in Canada so let's see what happens there and and I can see this having an alcohol on effect that there's going to be a a new interest in Brendan Keely here in Ireland because of the fact that 28 years ago this month and it's a song that's always been sort of there maybe in the back of our consciousness this is going to pull it forward and and and you've said that there's been others looking for interviews and stuff so uh so it's all good it's all great I'm really happy and pleased with the way it's it's gone when we've only gone and released a few days and so far it's so good you know and I know I know now how to be patient I remember the first time I was planning and said oh no I don't know what's going on you know but I don't I'm too old for that now and I know I know how to work this and I know how to do it so I'm just nice and easy no stress and I even have to now take time out here to myself I'm in Germany right now I have to take time out and just sit down for a minute you know before I go again because you could just stretch yourself into a ball or something you know but then I was grand and you know there's great reaction to the video and the whole thing and yeah it's back to square one now I don't want everything again so yeah here we go yeah but back to sort of in a way a similar situation to where you were 28 years ago except the the mechanics the tools are different yeah just roll the clock back to when it was released first and you were out playing it live you must have been amazed at the reaction you know one song yeah you know you would have had a full set and and then this this one song and and you'd have seen it live the the the difference when you started to play that song well yeah when I when I got out and started to do concerts then I didn't get to sing any you know the audience sang it yeah and it was incredible because that's that's just a brilliant feeling and it's a it's a sure sign of a hate you know yeah they just took it and I just didn't get to sing it and they all loved to be whoa part of the end of the course is there like that lifts the roof off places you know it does it does have the sing-along factor oh yeah it does yeah yeah and hardly enough you're saying it'll bounce back in Ireland hopefully so I was chatting to Peter Akin there and he said to me I knew you I knew you'd come back somehow with this because he put me out on a tour before in Ireland and then the record company let us down and his plan was to get it out abroad come back and do the point as it was called at the time yeah so now it's um it's what is it the o2 or three area yeah so uh we see let's see what happens I keep pushing and see what happens yeah well listen do I do keep pushing and you you say that the video has been re-recorded the video is is that's new yeah and remastered and it looks nice and it's great reaction to fairness do you know the time you did it was uh but like this director just go on it and she came up with a great uh a great version so happy enough to keep rolling again like the song never hasn't been seen around the world so it's time so that's new as well okay have you been approached yet to record in a different language now yeah no but that's an interesting point we'll see what happens you know the great thing about me I spent a lot of time here in Germany um they like English songs you know well used to them well did I give a lot of German stuff as well but they're well used to an English language song you know yeah so um yeah I'm chasing them down as well so great well listen well uh whatever country that you're um talking to and uh wherever the song is being released the best look with it and thanks for taking a wee bit of time out Brendan Kealy appreciate it thank you so much John thank you thank you for your time around the northwest with dunigal airport are you traveling