 Doherty in Spain, of course we will, of course we will and we love that, absolutely bring it. Right, we say hello and we welcome the string-cut puppets house doing that. How's it going? How's it going? Chris Downey, Rory Breastlin and Mark Boyle. Were we writing and saying three string? Is that part of it now? No. Where did I get that? There's three of us. There's a three piece. Oh, if that's three string... I didn't see my guitar, I wanted just that. We don't have the promo. I had to do that promo about five times on the house recording of three string-cut puppets and I couldn't... I kept messing it up, but you're here on me. Chris, great to see you. You're welcome. Thanks for having us. Quick introduction to the band. Right, Mark Boyle. Hi, Mark. Leedsonger, guitarist. Rakeboost, we're out of tunes, yeah. And you just write them collectively? Well, I write them and we come and bring them to the boys and we just sort them out on them. So we have to take off you the biggest of money. Yeah, well... Rory, yourself, you've been about a couple of bands and grips you're up here before with us. I was up with a run-back so it was a couple of years ago. It's a little long ago. It's a couple of years ago now, I suppose. And this band just formed? This little band was already a band. It was already a going unit so it was. And then I joined then in about the start of February this year. This year, okay. And they were looking for a bass player and I knew a boy, Jerry Craig, did sound engineering among their EPs. And Jerry had let me know that they were looking for somebody and the time I was between bands, and I just left the run-backs. And I was looking for somebody to let me hat, that's what they say, and the boys were... It was a hard lead, wasn't it? Just so happened, the best that we had was... He's going up from Pathlix where he left the band and by the time Rory jumped on them, just as he was leaving, mad. Walked in well, walked in well. And Chris, you're welcome, yourself, the drummer. And any other instruments? I will play guitar. Looks like I've got a misery there. I've got too many instruments to be honest with. Well, you're welcome, man. Where did the band start, you know, Mark? I haven't written songs for years. Did yourself start it? I met Chris at work, got a call centre for our sons. Anyway, so me and Hamas just jammed away, practising away, get Mark on the bassist. But he wasn't really... He was a guitarist, but he was well-enthusiastic, we were all doing it together. But, like I say, it's hard. Maybe it's hard because none of it, all our things going on like in his life. And then Rory jumped on them this February, and we're taking it from there, like that one level. We're going to go into a bit of music first. Is it all originals? Oh, originals, eh? And do you do all originals when you're out, or do you play to the crowd? No covers. No covers? We haven't done a cover at all, no. Where is it? I'll get it your own. I've never really learned a cover on the drums. I just know all these songs here. Excellent. First thing you're going to do for us then, Mark, is what? Are we more? It's off the album, so that's... It's off the debut album, which is out about two or three weeks. Right, we'll talk about that. I'll be looking forward to that. Right, whenever you're ready, lads. Well, I... String, cut, puppets, go for it. Absolutely brilliant, you know. Fair play, because if you're, you know, a band... There's not a lot of bands that are playing original stuff. You know, people are putting on a couple of their tracks, but covers, and respectively, yes, because they're playing to the crowd, but you're playing totally original, which is brilliant. Tell us a bit about the album, whoever wants to... Right, debut album, recorded up in Beechwood, Studios with Brian McGmonagall, who's Salt The Earth, by the way, and a great, great engineer as well, and lethal, reasonable price. So if anybody wants an album done, hand them up. Yeah, there's a couple of TEs. Anyway, you know what he's at? And the debut album, there's 11 songs on it, and it's out over the last couple of weeks, up in... Abazapai, but you're getting Spotify and everything else. Yeah, The Yellow Yard and The Yellow Yard, yeah. Abazapai, it's run by Keery Souris, and Ben up there, and they're The Yellow Yard, The Yellow Yard, I think. We've done an album launch up there, which is nicely empty. Let us do a song there. I love a shop, eh? Play it on my shop, and everything. Love a shop, eh? You're going in here. Louder than this, too. Eh? And we're louder than this. Louder than this. No, it's a great shop. I just love everything about it. It's pure class, you know? Some great albums you find on there, too. Brilliant. I found a couple of good ones. But only... Ah, so you just launched that. Do you see the recording process, right? And I'll sort of go by yourself, Mark. The recording process, you're going to... How many songs did you have before you whittled down, you know? Oh, that's... We could probably do... We could probably do three or four albums, eh? Probably do three or four albums. And even since the duration of our recording album, we've probably wrote, I don't know, many more now, as well. Is that right? Ah, there's a few tunes up our sleeves, eh? But see, ordinarily, see if you're recording an album or an EP, you tend to go on and blockbook it, maybe for a week or two weeks. Whereas we all sort of work, come up and stuff like that. We're maybe doing, like, three hours here, four hours every week. So we kind of talk as we while. But as soon as it worked out, it worked out all right. It was done when it was done. And how long is established as a band? Right, well, us two, five years, we joined them every... First gig was April. But since then, we've been playing away, playing the Galway. What's four? That's worked out four times already. We played in Galway a few times in Dublin and Dundalk and Drahara, Belfast, Derry. We'll play in your back garden. Well, I'm breaking the course next. I'll pick something up, maybe. There's no boy, you're coming to the band, no boy. You're more than welcome. I love you to the back garden, so Sunday evening, we're brilliant. Come here. So the album, it's out and about, if people want it. And you've all been Spotify, no? Well, you make a fortune about it. It's all major platforms, YouTube, Spotify. We put it for industrial kids, so it's going to be... It's on Amazon and... And come here, do you see the music scene for originals? Original artists and... As it picked up, as it... You know, you're talking about gigs everywhere there. And I'm sort of taking back that because... Well, the three main ones are Derry, really. I think we'll have Benigans, Sandinos, and even the 720. Fellow one on theirs, organising gigs as well. Most Benigans and Sandinos, for definitely. Sandinos are rockin'. I know, looking over and all used to it, but I think it's more covers and stuff, isn't it, really? I was on Sandinos one night, and we were over at Paul Hitton, and we came out, I told a story for it. We came back and just... It's not easy travelling up a road with a couple of pints, like so. We stopped on these Sandinos, and there's a fella doing it at school, right? And he was doing it with seven-eyed singles, and it was all, like, Motown stuff, and you're going, he's like, it's right here, right? It was brilliant. He was in two decks. I just thought it was... Downstairs, isn't it? Ah, brilliant. And you're watching him puttin' the vinyl on, you know? Like, you know, you don't see that anymore, you know? And I just thought, this is class. We're upstairs, and Sandino's now this Thursday. Oh, yes. Sportin' Ren, Marabu. You're havin' the bazaar. I think you said you don't have him. We did, yeah. Sound, sound, brilliant, and music class as well. So, that should be a good now. We're looking forward to it, then. Great stuff, mate. And what time's the doors open for that? Eight o'clock, I think the doors open. It's only a five o'clock run, and it's event-bright. You get all the details, get yourself a ticket. It's going to be a good night, then. What's a five o'clock? Five o'clock's not, for a four night. These boys put on a great show, too. We're looking forward to ourselves. Brilliant. That's class. For a five o'clock, you know, you wouldn't get one. What more do you want, then? And supportin' Irish music, as we do. Supportin' local music, and, as I said, original stuff. A great admiration for an original artist, because, you know, it's great. Grown up. We'll go over yourself, Chris. Grown up. Who kind of inspired you, music-wise? Well, I have to say, it was my granny. My granny's a country singer. Greta Elkin. Hi. That's my granny. Is it your granny? Yeah, it is, yeah. So, I used to go to concerts with her when I was a kid. Like, and help her wear a guitar and stuff, you know. She got me up to sing one time. I'm not even meant. I'll tell you the song, why not. The first song I sang along with her. Pragons, you know what I mean? She was amazing. I've just been hooked on music. My granny's my inspiration. My granny's my inspiration. And then I got on the heavy rock stuff there, of course, in the teenage years. That's your granny, Greta Elkin. My god, I'm ready. The Eudler. The Eudler is right, hey. Hey, Eudler, she was. Amazing Eudler. Is she still, is she still livin'? She is indeed, yes. Is she eudlin' yet? She doesn't like to euddle too much in front of people, but I like to think she does it on her own and the sirens and stuff. We'll have to get her on some mondenite for the track. That's a good scratch, lovely to hear that. And Rory, yourself? I grew up in a meanscree sister band, so the music was usually lamanadee to whatever was on the radio. Are you a sister band, man? I'm from what he called Baikoman, and then we moved to Archer, remember? I was younger, I was with it. And Rory, that's where I met these boys. But I would listen to the 90s, sort of punk, skater punk, American-ized music. But grunge music, sort of, as well, I would say, is probably a big influence on what I listened to. And then more 90s-y stuff, cos I grew up in that era, so it sort of came up with me. Chris Stoffy, good combination there from the granny to the grunge and then... That's what I was like. You're self-marry. Beatles, Beatleman, I'll say I got on them and followed the final Abbey Road, and I listened to it when I was about to end and just hooked. Do you know what I was saying? I could never take the Beatles. What? It's a weird thing to say. But, like a lot of artists, I was sort of tagging along with the commercial stuff at the time, right? And then, you know, sort of going on the Van Morris and Dylan and stuff like that. And then all of a sudden, the Beatles arrived. And it was, well, in my fifties I was talking about appreciation for the Beatles. I know, because I was listening to the commercial stuff, you know, and you didn't know they're back catalogue until you started doing it. But I am the artist and strawberry fizz, the day in life, all these ones. You see, and that is... To me, I love that, because people come up here and I'm on the night and they say, I such and such inspire me and I go, who's that? And I'd read it down, I spelled it and I'd go home and listen to it. And you go, I never heard of that person. They're fan-anth, white stripes and leds up and all the usual. They're all shared, love will be proud of the Beatles. Like, when we're travelling, like, as long as the Beatles... Right, we're going to get an odd piece of music. I'm going to take a nab break first. What are you coming back with? An odd track from the album? Well, we're on our way. I think we'll try that. We'll get right to go. After this break, don't go away. 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It's a Monday night session, of course, and just gone 25 in front of 9 o'clock and we're delighted to be having studio string-cut puppets and ticking tracks from their brand new album, which is self-titled debut album. Self-titled? String-cut puppets. And I was calling them three string-cut puppets. I don't know why you've got the flippin' name. Sorry, Mark, what's it called? It's called Webber on our way. Right, whenever it is really loud, just go for it. Let's give it a go. Music, love live music and love them. That blows the cobwebs, I got this. You can see that, don't you? Put the air next one. So the album, when you went under the studio with your original songs and when they come out the far end, had they changed much? No, see when we were on, they were all arranged. There was no brand that wasn't ready to do any producing. As such, it's more engineer and just record the song. I don't know. I don't know. As such, it's more engineer and just record the song. We had everything sorted before we went on. Right. The live sound, that's what we wanted. I want to get as close to that as possible because when you go to see a band and then you hear them in the CD, you don't even go out. That's not the same. The last song is called Exempt and has partner Una. I don't know if you know Una. It's a beautiful piano piece on the very end of it. Right here. We're not going to do that live. We're not going to play everything. Sounds well. Right, you're supposed to be over Christmas if you're much on? Well, like I say, that gig is Thursday. We're not going to have to come back from Galway last Thursday but a gig in Galway the week before. We're playing for Ardnes the Gale for a fundraiser to try and keep the establishment open. Where's Ardnes the Gale? Ardnes the Gale's in Galway. It's last Saturday. We're down there. Alan Casey, he's a boy from another band down there, we know. And then the Thursday past, then we're playing for a boy called Connor. He runs the old 55 bar down in Galway. And we do gigs with him as well. We'll be down there again now in January again, hopefully. So we will. And then let's gig now next Thursday. Are you as happy where you're at or do you just want to be busier? Busier, more gigs. I think I'm on. So everybody listening, promoters or stand-offs, give us a shout. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's an application thing, isn't it? I've fallen out of that. What's the title of the album? Just a self-title. It's available locally. And it's available on the platform. For a fiverr? I could put the fiverr. So you put them out of the fiverr? 11 songs for a fiverr. It's all about the music, man. It's not about the money. No, it would be handy. No, he's a great dedication to it and fairness. And you wouldn't get a reduced CD at a fiverr for God's sake. We all named songs a bit. But you could have doubled that, you know, and fairness to you. But I would say it's there for the taken. But congratulations, and I well don't. And I admire what you're thinking. Give the people value for money. You're certainly giving them that. There's no doubt about that. Are you on social medias or where can people get you? Instagram. Instagram, Facebook. We're on YouTube, but it's more Instagram and Facebook. So get on and have the followers likes. Everything helps there. And Spotify too for the emotional music somewhere. Spotify, it's good and it's bad, isn't it? But you know what I mean. You still have to take it on board with it. Tweaks of sound as well. Which wasn't great. Sound that I come through a speaker and stuff. Oh, is that right? I don't know what. Well, go out and support local music at a fiverr. You should be putting it out on the order. Just online the thing. If you want the copy too. If I go copy, come to the gigs. We're selling there too. Come to the gigs. Buy two spinoffs. Well, come here, lads. It's been an absolute delight having yous up. I really enjoyed it. We love the live. Just lovely original music. It's great and long made last. Final song then. We'll do... We'll be scrolling on the glass. How long we could be with you? Would I tell you something? I put a warning out to people up in the mountain top here. It's OK. It'll last a couple of months. Whenever you're ready, lads, go for it.