 the studio and we are going to be streaming live hopefully because I'm in here pressing all sorts of buttons and working on cameras and stuff but hopefully streaming live as anybody wants to tune into us on facebook or our youtube channel and where Maria how are you I'm very well John glad to be here lovely to be invited thanks very much I know it's all so it's good to have you in so you can play and wade your music and it's great now that you know get the chat to you in person and it's brilliant maybe play a wee song or two back to how about starting with a song you have a seizure of the guitar in yeah can do which you don't have any preference do you I don't I don't know that entirely to me right well I thought I was thinking out there um maybe do something with a new album not the new release but something that will be coming out um this song is called down to experience um Billy calls it the kind of van Morrison song so I can't get suitable for a van Morrison's birthday today it's kind of got a van kind of van twang of it all right gonna put this one dying to experience I'll see that one coming next time right I must have said that a hundred times always ended on the ground I guess I like fixing those thought needed fixing and baby I could help those seem to me needed helping you see me come in a mile away was your free meal take it you could hide away couldn't help wearing my heart on my sleeve and to your dream die when hell of a take a good look you won't see me anymore concede concede that this was all on it too but you're seeing me thank you it has a kind of a van Morrison vibe and like van the man you don't you don't hide your accent in your song no I don't no it's a good sign of an ally I was like in an artist because it tells me that they're comfortable in their skin yeah well I guess I do get told that a lot um when John Creedon played me so you don't need to tell or you don't need to ask where she's from when you hear downtown which that was quite funny you know and John's been supportive of him he has yeah he's been really good he played the first album like yourself like give it loads of spin so hopefully now he'll when he receives the new one he'll do the same I would imagine so it's great so it's it's ready to go officially released tomorrow is it no that's the thing I should have messaged you the album there's a new single out tomorrow okay there's one track um to to be finished off on the album and Lauren Storty's coming back in um to do drums in that he did all the drums on the first album which is a few tracks on this album because um Lawrence um was sick but he's back um so I'm excited that he's going to be able to do the last song so it'll be out I'm expecting kind of October we'll go go there we'll just put this single out tomorrow as John as John Prime would say you're going to serve no song before it's time absolutely but you know what there's no point in putting things like I made the mistake with the first album that I only released one single what's the album you know I had no clue what I was doing um and from the artist's point of view you like if you have any chance of making any kind of money on it you're as well putting out a few singles do you know what I mean because by putting out the whole album um like the bigger radio stations only played the song that they received the first song that they received what do you know what I mean so you know you know what just you know yeah but it was not put in front of you either do you know what I mean and I understand that like the band's in the inbox Dennis listened to and then it goes on a playlist yeah that that's the that's the way it should be yeah but I suppose if the singles aren't be singles are they're tools aren't they they're tools absolutely and I I know now you know like I've got good intentions it's I can't believe it's actually April that that came out um but you know I just thought this is the way to do it and do a wee video with it do you know what I mean and it's the only way because you know as I say if you're to make any kind of money back you need to release it like single by single but this will be the last single come out before the album I'll take the album out then with the rest of the songs and it's it's about creating awareness it's about it's constant building an appetite for it for yeah and you have to be constant at it like you know I don't use like a promoter you know I just I do everything myself so like Frankie I tell you you know you're up at six o'clock in the morning before the baby's up and you're you're emailing you know you're there's a hell of a lot of work goes behind these wee selfie pictures of smiles there's a lot of like there's a lot of grumpyness goes on at home because you know for the amount of time that you do if you want you know if you want to get it in front of people you do need to just work tirelessly at it absolutely you've got to and in a way you've got to feed the beast yeah yeah and the more serious you are about it then just the more time the more of your time it takes up that's just that's just the way of it but anyhow it all seems to be going well it's all going great outside looking and it all seems to be going great and and this is your second album and it follows on from the the great success of the first one the first one was really well received how long ago was that now that was 2019 February 19 yeah so it did it went really well I got played you know all over Ireland and in America and in Australia and different places and it's still being played good and it's the way it should be yeah yeah so it's good I don't think Billy always I think that's thanks to Billy as well because you know whatever he um kind of we touch Billy Robinson in the studio yeah in the groove shack he is the man he has like the magic touch but they're timeless I think that the you know the sound that he creates you know I don't think you know in 20 years time I think it'll still be as radio friendly as it is today hopefully no I think I think that's absolutely but like by and a classic piece of furniture almost yeah it's the 20 years time 30 years time it's not going to have data I know I'm so lucky like I know you know like I tell people he calls me his pet project but I've never been as happy to be a pet project in my life as Billy Robinson's like but I'm guessing here I can't speak for Billy but if you have somebody in the studio and they're you know they have a strong mind a good musician good singer and they have a strong mind yeah but they also need to listen and when you have somebody like Billy guiding you and advising you you listen yeah you do listen you know and I'm a fast learner for that but he's easy to work with he knows what he's at and like Billy will ask me sometimes what do you think of sound of that and I go Billy you know best do you know what I mean I never ever have anything that he has mixed in and sent to me going it's always just been beautiful and as somebody who does it all day every day and knows what they're doing it's it's reassuring and it's also it's just great because the whole project moves along then yeah and and then the session musicians that he works with as well like Mick McCarney has played guitar on most of the tracks in this album and he's so complimentary to every song that you give him you know which is important to me that the lyrics and you know the song doesn't get lost sometimes when you play with sometimes you know these big leads can take over and and then you know that's what the the important part of the song so that would take away from me and I don't want anything to take away from you know what I mean like yeah when you've got such accomplished musicians on the album it's it's only natural that you know the the guitar break might be a bit longer or there's somebody wants to include a drum solo not drums almost anymore but you know what I'm saying yeah but they always work really well as the word complimentary is the best word to use you know because I'm not putting anybody else down but I just see sometimes you know that it just becomes about the instrumental in that whereas it's everything should complement one another always and and it does in the grave shack since the first album you have a new baby on the scene I do you have a new man on the scene you're in love most of us we're struggling with our five k's and and scrambling around with all the restrictions you are falling in love yeah I know when everybody else was isolating I was down in marble hill and met Frankie that's but that's not good for our artistic endeavors you see you're supposed to be really struggling and dealing with all the angst and I remember what I put the first photograph up of me and Frankie and I'd never ever done that before in my life I've never put like a photograph of me and a fellow and um Donna Harkin the accordion player commented aw Jesus there goes these unrequited love songs now you know and yeah and she was right because that like this song that's coming out tomorrow it is my first love song so right and I tell you it was a weird thing to do instead of giving out about me and this was all this is a love song like it's celebrating yeah it's brilliant so it's a new departure and oh well it's pushing the boundaries you know what's going to come next now yeah who knows a love album a cheese love I found it yes well listen the best of look uh with the album it's uh it's gonna be a number of weeks yet obviously but the um uh how sweet it is comes out tomorrow it comes out on Friday and there's also Friday yeah we were out we made a music video yesterday um Steve McCollum um is the the artistic eye behind it and videographer um and we made it in the central so number 58 upstairs and it's beautiful up there um so Mark and Tony and Marty were very accommodating yesterday um so we have um a wee video made so thanks to Kelly and Peter who are they're the the performers in this video yeah it's nice it's beautiful and the video is coming out it'll come out on Friday as well when the song's released on Friday watch it on your socials yeah yeah yes it'll be fed up looking at it you know it is important it seems great to put the visuals with it as well it is I think it is important now yeah to respect if you take a single out you need to do something to look at we're very visual now aren't we like we need to you know you need to be seeing things and it's about capturing somebody's attention and holding it for three minutes or yeah or no if you get if somebody watches it for 10 seconds you're lucky this like how many people are still watching the facebook feed well that's the question no pressure and listen continued success and look forward to uh to hearing the album and hearing all the tracks on the album well what are we playing live then uh any plans any anything concrete yet um there's there's a date coming up in September in Sturban is it the LA theatre you got in there I'm going to be in there I don't exactly know the date and it's um I don't even really know what it is I have nothing else at the moment to be quite honest I wasn't taking bookings um of too much we did the Don Fannie he um bringing home festival which was brilliant we had two gigs at that and then unfortunately I was to do the letter Kenny blues festival but I got covid right yeah so that put that out and just with our major things there's kids way back to school there's another one getting their leave and set results on Friday so there's lots happening so we just get everybody settled in now for another school year to see then what we can do then one step at a time yeah but uh you know the crack yeah oh absolutely all two um but uh maybe around the time of the release of the album there'll be a yeah I'd hope to do yeah do an album launch like I did the album launch was in the Greenham theatre um and it was a brilliant night it was a brilliant night because it brought all my family together um and so many people came and supported and like they've said you know are we going to get another night out sooner than getting a day out anyway so oh I'll get you now yeah right sorry I wasn't thinking there for a second um well you seem to have everything in the in the right order so who would argue with you anyhow um you're going to play are you going to play the the next single course do you want me to play it yeah yeah I'll try it anyway it's it's going to be a lot different from what's the what you hear um on Friday well thank you got the first play Isabel oh did I yeah and I love you said that um we love Maria McCormick and the show and that that was yeah I know you sent it in and then I uploaded it here yeah and and played it but I'm very picky I know you're picky so that's cool I was I'm really happy with this and but your stuff it is it's really radio friendly yeah and uh and I'm glad it when when you you send on something new so and just like as I mentioned Sean McCarran and Rom um Sean McCarran played saxophone on the track and he just made it magical as well so um I just wanted to say that okay I'm going to try it could make a complete mess of it but you're we'll give it a go this is for Frankie how sweet it is to wake with you every morning we never ever always warm in clothes tucked in your heart different to the recorded version absolutely um but uh different uh no better no worse uh it's just it's just different yeah the way it was like something just funny do you know how you get down my mom says what is this song it's is it speedy days and I was like what is this is that what you're saying so instead of her hearing how sweet it is mom says it's speedy days well that works too I mean I know Frankie's here with you he's out there somewhere yeah well he's in tears I don't know but Laura may she might not might not have fully understood it's but uh well done thank you John for having me uh not at all uh an absolute pleasure and uh and we chat again yeah cool