 been a few years and they go on to the name of the notes. Is that just a name that was fired at me, Paddy? It sort of was, really, Paul, because there's like 24 or 26 people involved in the... The projections are... ...across the trilogy of albums. Like, in fact, I might be underestimating that a wee bit, too. We get up towards 30, we're all different musicians and sounders, you know, but... And what did you just call yourself collectively? Well, it was just, we didn't have a name, you see, because it was a various artist thing, you know. You could call yourself the notes from Derek, crew or the notes or whatever, you know. Well, layman's here as well, and Paddy, we're handing over. Jimmy. I'll roll back. Jimmy. How's that look? I'll boil Jimmy. Jimmy. Jimmy. Here, you take that sheet there, Jimmy, and could you write Jimmy where you wrote Paddy? I thought this was going to be handy to you, Paddy, now or never. And Monika's there. She's head of security. Yeah, she's looking after things. She's head of catering. Okay. More importantly, you're too close there for it. Come here, Paddy. It's lovely to see you again. I was delighted when you got in touch with us because... You know when you say when's the last time you were up? Most of it a couple of years ago. You forget about this pandemic thing. Absolutely. That went through it a couple of years, you know. Because it must be nearly four years now. Three, three and a half, you know, it must be. The same collective... Because my memory wouldn't be better. The same collective you were up with the last time. More or less. We come up with the very first album, the... The same dairy album. Yes. And after that it sort of went then towards more Irish folk stuff then. Whereas the very first album was a whole mixture of everything, you know. But that was a charity album, the very first one, you know. It was for... It was actually the match awareness. Ah, I remember that. That thing was for dates. Ah, come on. So we had a lot of people wanting to be united, you know, to be part of it. Of course. It's just me. It's all coming back to my head. Surely. I'll head that end. I'll feel good. The charity did well. Ah, great. That was the main thing. I'll tell you what. We're not going to... We're not going to... We're going to go stand in for a song party. And the first one you're going to do first. Well, funny, it's actually ties on with that whole topic. Because my own father died, you know, of recent years with dementia. And I had always wanted to write a song about it. But I got so involved in it that I couldn't even... I'll be honest with you. I ended up crying when I was trying to write stuff about it, you know. Then Eamon put up a wee piano piece that he had done. Just as a warmer upper, you know, an improvised thing. That he put up about... How long ago was that, Eamon? About a year and a half. It was over a year ago. He did it, but he only put it up on Facebook about three months ago. And I listened to them one. I heard that. That sounds like a song. I heard that. So between his and we've come up with a song, you know. And that's... So the first one's called The Stranger on the Mirror. I want to hear it. And then we'll chat about it. Absolutely. Whatever you're ready for. Okay. Gets full of things to do and see But could you spare some time to bite a while with me I know that I may seem a little different to you But you're still the same to me My fingers try to play the notes they did before But though I try, they just won't do My bidding anymore And if sometimes it seems that I am not there Where I stand Bring me back is for you to take my hand So as my someone I could know He's older and he's graying Yet there's something so familiar in his eyes That summer's evening I skimmed me knee then Still scored the win and go I'm still the man I always was no different In the memories And my reality The same comes as Stranger Maybe then you can take the helm You can steer the ship forward Thanks very much. That was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Really, really. So that's the Stranger in the mirror. They're hanging on to the story there. I'm actually getting a wee bit emotional singing it there. Of course. Whatever it is. I'm not so understandable, but it totally is. Did you find out, writing out a bit of therapy? 100%. I think Paul, maybe that's why I always wanted the right one. I wanted the right one in memory of my father, but I wanted the address. A closure, maybe? Absolutely. I think I did that. And every time I tried to do it myself previously, I just couldn't. It wasn't right or it wasn't something that right. And then I heard him and we pieced in. I just knew that that was... Do you know what I mean in a strange way? It was meant to be. You know what I mean? I think so. As you're saying yourself, it was closure for me because it was something that I'd wanted to do. And it wasn't really finished for me. There I get this down in paper, I get something, but I couldn't come up with the right thing to hear. It's lovely. It's a full credit. It's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks very much, Paul. Because I just imagine what you went through with that because it's awful. I think it's such a ubiquitous thing now, unfortunately. A lot of people could identify with it. There you go. We'll move on. Is that an album, party? That is only out as a single, just recently. Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, all the usual. Absolutely. And it's called The Stranger on the Mirror. We look forward to playing that again here and on the show. The two albums that have been front of me here, Stories of the Land, and tell us a bit about that one if you don't mind because there's some great tunes in it as I'm looking for. There is. What we did with them, Paul really, was we wanted a mixture of original and the older stuff, but what we revamped it now, it's their contemporary wagons, and some of the people playing on them are just fantastic at the world-class players. You know, there's the Kierlin, Stephen O'Kierlin, Kieran Kierlin. We're Robert Peoples in the fiddle way. I'm saying names now and I shouldn't because I'm leaving people out because everyone is brilliant, you know. But the Stories of the Land album was actually almost a double album because we get so far on it, we're only doing ten songs, now we've done eleven, then twelve, and I think they've ended up eighteen on that one, eighteen songs. Who's the lead pin in the front of us? That's, I don't know, the artwork on them, just as well, you know. Very nice. The funny thing about that, we had somebody engaged to do the artwork for us and they had a dilemma at home and they had to do something the night before, so that's what we did. That's a point, let's say it. That's the story there. And is that available working people? Well, I say I just have those at home because you know yourself, Paul, everybody is streaming and stuff now, but we do have hard copies of Stories of the Land. And is that available online? It's available at the Big Cartel. Really they'd be as well just contacting me if they wanted it. Well done, there's like... I think there's about eighteen on that, isn't there? That started off with ten songs. And there's some lovely ones there. My last for a while, is that the... Was that Monica singing that one? No. No, that's an Irish one. That's an Irish one just by their own. It's a boatman, beautiful. That's Oshin. Oshin would be Tommy Quigley and Geral, Dominion and they're Irish, but we've sort of we've contemporised that now. We've put electric guitars on there and that. We're not happy about it. But we've contemporised that. Making it sound relevant is important. That's the thing, Paul. We don't really want to be copying, you know, sort of the way you're normally used to hearing the thing. You'll pick up a fresh audience doing that. Absolutely, yeah. And the Heritage Legacy album. Yeah, that was the third in the trilogy, the Legacy Sessions. Well, I was going to say is it all original, but I'm looking here and it's not. I'll hold ones and new ones. And of course, I think Gabby was on me a few times. I think Gabby could sell. Gabby's all over these as well. So Gabby's playing on them as well. Pure class. Oh, absolutely. Top class players, surely. Kieran said, could you play Binge Wing? Binge Wing. We'll see how we get on. We have a playlist, Kieran. But thanks for getting in touch. Absolutely. Are you gigging much part of it or what way are you? You see, we're all different. You're playing bass with Floyd Showman. You may be playing guitar. Both. Originally way back. Emin, of course, does his own thing. Absolutely, everybody. Emin, like myself, is his own recording. Sweet, you know, at home. So myself and Monica plays there in two piece and a three piece and we had a six piece going. So just wherever the work is, you know, whatever. Obviously, part of the pandemic shuts things down for you. He's done online, didn't he? We have, well, myself and Monica and my friend Mark, Kieran were under the name Jigsaw on there. Yes. We did like 36 fully produced videos and stuff. They're all on YouTube, you know. So anybody, if they wanted to see them on YouTube, if they just type in my name and type in the word Jigsaw, they'll all come up. And you had to do that, hadn't you, because... It stopped me going. Because when playing's in your blood, you know, you just can't turn it off. You know, our small point, the night radio was off because that's just the way it was, but I was mustn't get in music just you know, it was just awful, you know, and it wasn't my livelihood, but it was my hobby and you know, I was... So it felt very much for artists, you know. See, we were the first out in the last pack and again. You know, the hospitality sort of went first, but the first thing in hospitality was the music, obviously, you know why? Because people stand up on tables and shouting, or whatever they do. Oh, I know. But anyway, we're here where we are now and hopefully it stays that way. I think you're busy out in the gig and seeing it. We are, myself, Monica. We're called the ragamuffins, just the two of us out, you know, myself and Monica's my wife by the way. Oh, I know that. I've seen the way she's talking to you. Definitely. She's sharp up on there, I thought to myself. So we're playing away. You know, just around the bars and hotels, around there, you know. She enjoyed it all, eh, Potty? Oh, absolutely. And any nights that I feel like, you know, you're feeling it's a bit coldy, go out and just remind yourself about COVID-19. That's what it puts manners in you, isn't it? Martin Stewart says, good interview, guys. Well done, Potty and Emin. Thank you, Martin. Thanks very much, Martin. And Emin, I'll go to you. You're busy or you're...? I'll say again, though, thank God, after the whole lockdown kind of thing, so... Ah, you're already out? Oh, no, it's just a whole mission. Hi. Hi, Kepp, Bussy. Hi. Paul, thank God, I started going in the studio there, and then I'm working on the material of my own, too. Oh, yeah? Same time, too, so I'm kind of a... What's up? No, I'm just trying to tackle him. Oh, yeah. There's nobody listening. No, I kept going. Paul's flat out, I'm deaf and out, just coming in and recording albums with a couple of different people and it's just, it's flat out, thank God, it's great. That's good, it's good, yeah. And then, I've put together a load of piano tracks now, too, for a new album this year, which hasn't been released. Solely piano tracks? I wanted to strip right back to me, which is a piano player, and tick out all the strings and orchestras and stuff, and I wanted to record a solo piano album, because there's been a load of tracks, especially over lockdown and even the last year or so, different events have sort of triggered off different melodies and ideas, so these have all been... That's a different sort of thing, isn't it, than songwriting, because, well, I know it is, obviously, but you're picking up tunes more than words and stuff. I was, I, when I was trying to capture that emotion, the way a songwriter was writing words for an emotion, you know, after trying to capture it in the melody. Very good. And to me, it's the colors, it's different colors and different shades, I use the capture emotions and different chords and layers on the piano, like what, that's how you build up tracks. What does that say? And they're always, at the time of substance, something happened, or an event happened, I would always kind of sit and get a melody on the recording of the piano, on the phone or something like that, and then after a couple of weeks, I'll go back and build it up the final melody. You'll come back up with that, won't you? Definitely. Oh, the door's open. The door's open. It was down with you, very often. It was, I, I didn't record in the way, and they were snap size. Oh, he's, he's pretty nice, great, great man they work with. Talk about him there, he's just said, what a beautiful song he didn't sing. Oh, good song for you. Thanks for everything. All right, so that's good. I mean, long made last, and if people want to get in touch with you, you're on the socials as well, aren't you? On the socials, I'm on Facebook here, I'm in Ciaran, or else you can get it through Live at the Alec on Facebook. Brilliant thing. There's one that posters up a strong road, too. There's more information, I thought you sang well. But anyway, no, brilliant. Thanks very much, and, Jimmy, we'll go to you, and Gordy said, oh, they're talking to me about you. How's things for yourself? I'm not too bad, no. Tell me, are you out and about much yourself? No, I'm not. The last time I went out to gig properly was 2019, everything locked down then. And you just said, the hell that? The hell we had. Well, you enjoying that? Well, just down the studio, we party. It was just dead on. We released that note from Terry, and then everything was locked down afterwards. That was it, Terry. Great, man. Well, sure, you're enjoying it, aren't you? Oh, aye. Well, listen, Monica, you don't want to talk to me, don't you? No. She goes to get her. Mr. Force, Ronan McDonald was on, said, Mr. Force, few minutes, folks, that's some of the best musicians about as Ronan McDonald. Thank you, Ronan. Can I just say one thing about Ronan's behalf? Ronan was the executive producer of all these albums. Ronan cajoled me, and they're doing the very first one, and the rest snowballed from that, and it was Ronan, I have to say, that really got the crew together at the start. He was going, we need a fiddler, we'll need whatever, and Ronan's over in Scotland. The minute you know about that, he's very important for me. He's the executive producer, sometimes he can be hard work. I have one here, you know what, I'll ask the God and help me. I go home at night, the way he says, what's that slap in the back of your head there? Don't chat to me. He's had it the night he gets banged. No, that's good, fair play, Ronan, well done indeed. What's the plans going forward, have you anything lined up? Well, I actually have an hour or four or five songs from the Arts Council in Northern Ireland, and of course, well, we didn't get it. The Fountain doesn't come north-west very often. No, it doesn't, it's just like everything else. So, I better not say too much about that. No, but you're right, there's no point in saying it, you know what I'm saying? Not very much comes up. Even there was a headline actually on the Belfast Telegraph there in August, and it was saying how Belfast got 11 times more arts funding than Gary and Straban, and they've only got three times more people. So there's something that right there, like, you know this. That's awful, isn't it? But what can you do? You know if they tell you no, then. And you know, like we were just talking about it there, we mentioned when Tom, we was on, we just mentioned the quality of artists and the music and these parts, you'll know it yourself, but we had the song contest on here. Absolutely, I've been following that, that's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And there wasn't a bad song on it. It's the biggest belief at times, you know what I mean? It's just shame on everybody's not pushing for it if you're in their place of authority, you know, you should be pushing for it. You know, these musicians and yourselves, you're keeping us entertained, you're keeping loads of people entertained, and it's only right that you should be supported in every shape or form, and as I say, shame on them and aren't doing it. Well you see Paul, if we had more people like you, you know, they'd do that, that wouldn't be in such a bad shape because you give an opening to everybody. On that, Ollie Green from Studio 2 as well was very helpful to us in doing the albums, you know, he gave us any rehearsal space, he gave us any facilities we needed, he supported us, you know, but he's an org guy like yourself that really believes that the North West should be... Well it's very easy for us, part of what I say it up here, you know, I'm sitting here in a mondenate and you know, it's a privilege to be sitting here and listening to your legs yourself, and I've never done appreciating that fact, you know, because it's easy to do, it's easy to do, the doors open and that's what we want and artists should be supported and I'm fully behind, you know, everything is coming your way and you deserve any support at all because what you're putting out there is world-class, there's no point in saying it's not, it's world-class, you know, and in these, this legacy sessions, you know, you're keeping songs alive and plus you're opening maybe younger years. That's was the whole point, that's exactly right. I've waited for that because the songs that you hear, you know, and you're going, is that going to be lost, you think yourself, you know, there's some great music. I started playing, see, 43 years ago, Paul, and I started playing with a band and we only played in Donegal where you'd done your waltz, your quickstep, your foxtrot, and you kept that thing going but it's a lot of those older songs, you know, when you listen to them they're more mature years later on, you know what, that's actually a good song. There's great words out there, there's something on it. You know this, that's what I called two mature years, because artists I wouldn't have listened to and I don't know why they didn't listen to them in the 70s and 80s and stuff, yeah, I don't know why. And, you know, as you say, you listen to me mature years, I don't know, there's a slowness of me or something and picking things up better, you know, but you do, you know, and long made last, we'd love another song. The next round party. Well, we have one here that I wrote that's this was, this one actually came about from I was looking up a wee thing about my name in that and I found a reference an artist that was in Derry in like 1647 or something, they got in his name with John Nixon, the same name as me, Fowler and I'm going, jeepers, what's that? But it was just a print, you know, it wasn't obviously an oil painting, it was a print in the end as you know what, yes, whatever they call him but an etching, so I saw this and it was just a Fowler and his son overlooking the Fowler and Derry before it was built up and it was just farmland and so I actually wrote this one about that, that's about a man got a girl here, do you know the words? One of you, whenever you're ready. And that's on the CD as well, this one's called Bag the Derry again. Lovely. Okay. Okay, let's one, two, three, one, two, three. Sorry man, they're on key. Yeah. Sorry, I'm backing me up on key. Probably weren't. I was going to sit here. I thought, I thought clicky keyboards was a way again there, it's a way to look. How clicky, Karen. Do you mean that? Got a drummer on the keyboard. Okay, one, two, three, one, two. In my younger days by the hearth my father regaled of great ships and great places from Derry, those great ships would sail to streets lying with gold where a man could grow old without sweating each day for the land and fortune befriended the men who attended their plans years in the toil and the devil's own blight took their toll and the bard cried as he saw his children indentured to land and to places the rains never been with a promise of fat shore their heads but for most was the last time they would brush Derry's head the call and the crack where we freed the spade the warmth of your friends still remains won't you take to Derry again by travel do each day for the man by Atlantic wash to your conal sand move of the oak by me father's rough hands till the soil to Derry again father's green farm and it still lives and wants not but a father's son's hand even has made me it just can't dissuade me while sick quarrels not with me bones these where my life's best dreams are so my seat by the hearth still remains to Derry again absolutely brilliant see on the album that's actually been sung by a brilliant singer and Derry called Brian McFadden but I couldn't bring everybody down to sing all the songs so I was lumbered about it I'll tell you what a brilliant version of it and a lovely song well written cahill page well done potty and lads good friends of ours and Kevin Dunleavy said the notes from Derry and Emma McDade said looking good on camera now monica ha ha ha ha ha we thought you said you didn't think she was on camera and Margaret O'Hare oh no cahill page said Margaret D'Hare D'Hare and Mark Brown says and Pharras is that right Pharros my heiress is crap and Mark Conaghan says brilliant folks well done to you all that's a pure clap that is brilliant thanks very much everybody lovely song so buddy where can people catch you this weekend of year about the boss here normally does the day right we're in da Vinci, oh party stage sir that's party stage again right and there's a two-piece in da Vinci's hotel there and Derry, half 90 12 or whatever it is on Friday Saturdays Derry Saturday Club that's how it is this week we'll need the rest after that aren't we are you enjoying this oh absolutely Paul there's even an odd time there you know we were off a weekend there about three weeks ago wasn't it and it was like what's going on you sort of think you're going to forget how to play a guitar you know but that's good and it's good to see that you're joining us as the main part do you throw in your own songs into the mix when you're gigging playing in the crowd I mean mostly we're going to do standard songs and most of the stuff I write is sort of like I receive folk you know that type of stuff so it doesn't necessarily go down everywhere you would play although we do an album on there in the hotel and stuff you know we just drop it on you should do a night of your own somewhere we've talked about that you know too it's a great venue, it's a courthouse in Lifford so we're here we're going to see Tommy Bohn and the strawmans playing on it next Friday week, looking forward to that I would say you could just be brilliant there we've talked about taking a crew and certainly the guys that I'm talking about there Gabby and Robert Peoples all them people I'm sure they would all be up for it that's the kind of venue your music I just could imagine no don't get me wrong there's equally as good and dirty if not better I just love the whole acoustics and anybody you're talking to is playing on there they love it as an artist so we're going to get a final song what would the I'll thank him, he's going to play one for you I'll tell you if you only play one there after this break don't go away if you smell gas at home or on the street don't ignore it open windows and doors don't smoke, vape or use a naked flame don't unplug or switch anything electrical on or off turn off the gas at the meter then no matter who your gas supplier is call Gas Networks Ireland on eighteen hundred twenty fifty fifty visit gasnetworks.ie to screenshot the safety steps saves them to your device and share with friends and family hello I'm David Forley, Medical Harvest are you suffering with dry, tickly sore throat? then try Irish botanical throat cold spray provide an instant relief for sore throats Irish botanical throat cold spray is ideal for public speakers or for those who talk a lot call it a natural way to let a Kenny shopping centre for more information welcome back and as I say, Monday night sessions and we have the notes from Derry and we have to say a very special hello to your granddaughter Sirsha, is out in the hard moor Sirsha, is out in the hard moor is she watching us? she's watching the livestream there I think Char and Leila might be in their bed we sirsha is sitting much in there we'll see if we can get the camera on there we'll see if we can get the camera on there we'll see if we can get the camera on there we're playing a request to granddaughter sit much in there we sirsha is there Sirsha, Char and Leila hello you better say there you are, Char and Leila and Neve and Eda too we better mention them we'll get home that's great many grandchildren I've seen myself all girls all girls, weird one it's a year old past now they take you to a different place they take you back you see me man you're in the lead what about you Jimmy five there we go no, here we go you're the real flounder okay what are you doing you don't want to go out great, come on ahead this one Eman, sorry this is a melody, it's one of the new ones this is the first time it's been played live outside of the studio brilliant it's called Treesluck and it was composed after what happened last October just to capture the whole sort of emotion and the whole tragedy and the feeling of desperation and the hope is we're all at the same time brilliant Eman it was a very tragic event this is Treesluck thank you that is brilliant Eman well done, we've got a great response here brilliant folks, well done Dio Mark and Daniel Daniel Donald didn't send him a request Daniel Blixer reads his hi Eman, hope you're all well Maggie Duffy says class we've got a great play on there Daniel said he sent Jimmy and Paul an e-mail error with the D song an instant spark, if we get it we will get Jimmy to definitely play it on Wednesday, Martin Stewart, brilliant Eman well played, sounds amazing, beautiful tune Kevin Dunleavy, beautiful Aidan Lerch, amazing instrumental force class and Bray McFadden says beautiful Eman, so well done listen, Patty and Jimmy and Eman and Monica, thanks for coming up I'm conscious of the weather on the road, continue success and thanks for getting on touch with us because it was just it meant a lot to see you again you know for us because we enjoy having you up and your song writing just beautiful, so Patty well done Eman and Jimmy thanks very much, Monica thank you as well, and that's the notes from Derry if people want to get in touch with you where can they get you, just stop in the street just stop in the street Patty, pleasure's ours listen, take care of yourself, thank you