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Hope I find you well and As I say if you want to get in touch, you know the text numbers always wait six sixty twenty five thousand for watch up as well and we welcome our first guest and We give a big hello to Donnie burn band with the the main man Danny. Hello to you. Well Paul. How's things things is very good. You've got Senin, how are you? That's about yourself. I'm very good and of course budgie there in the left And then we've got the big chief who's head of security and the we chief who looks after the big chief So the whole teams here today get a right on a journey down. Donnie. I have a two hours wasn't too bad We're well used to traveling at this stage. I would say that he's grown the whole country like this I will ever from mill street in Cork right up to Sanfana he never in between very good. How long you started at the band? well, I'm gigging probably 12 years and You know, we were out and done one piece and two pieces of stuff together So that's sort of how the name came about was I started me own and then sending him in with me and Then budgie he's a brother of mine. So he sort of you pulled into them. So a full diary I was busy enough to hop to Christmas. We're sort of mental mm-hmm and tell me this have you recorded Yeah, we've had two good singles out now If the start of the summer we'd the nights which in the beachy cover it done well first and then what's really Puddles around the country is our newest single that are five day young. Mm-hmm. It's sitting at number one on Soundcloud third money coming on now Five zeros Brutal, it's just a name of it more than the financial side of it, right I think we'll go into a bit of music so first up first. What are you gonna do? We'll do one this this sort of environment tick-tock for us because budgie as a habit of putting the accordion behind his head We're playing live Yeah, if you only check out our Facebook page, you'll see a live performance Budgie on the bonnet It's called dirty old Was a dirty old town Music music and the family donnie. I know you're a brother with you here But what is it in the household growing up? I will in the house mommy I was at the radio on from you were younger, so we were always singing about the house and I've been playing music as I say it's a 12 or 15 years But budgie's recently on to the accordion now probably than the last year. So you've only picked it up with the last year Well, what else do you play? I Lot of people say that's very hard to play No, you know, what do you take lessons on it or did you just I didn't mean Simon actually learned it between us Right, so it's me and him learned it. Just talking ocean like just have a white notion And you're standing you're on the mandolin. Yeah, I'm on you playing that yuck Just about over a year. It's a I was playing guitar before it like you don't even think that's about a year Uh-huh, I mean and tell me You started first Johnny and then you got sounding on is that really you got Bodger on I will me and Another fellow were gone and then Shannon came into the the fray and then budgie was actually rodean for us right and I've been at him for years to come with us and then he started come with us and then he took a notion that The sidelines weren't for him. Mm-hmm, but he wanted A spotlight for him, unfortunately You got a cord gunk Ended up on top of hands, but anyway They they learned to play behind her back as it's not something you see too often How did you manage that you just chance it and go for it or it's just it was a bit of drunken crack in the house one night And it worked carried off and then and it goes down. Well, I should people love it We have a fellow up here after you Joe Gibson and Joe plays a the fiddle back with the back of his neck and all oh, Jesus It's one thing playing it front to the good normal human being with them You take on the extra ordinary things well Johnny the the the gigs take you far and wide as we were saying Have you went across the water or have you just been? Well, it was in London last year. We don't We don't two or three gigs in the middle of London. Uh-huh, but outside of that We haven't done anything this year in the UK, but next year. We're planning to do a couple of trips out already So brilliant. There's a lot of there's a lot of music and on out in Europe Irish music And it's just clean mental tomorrow first, you know Long this last they So I said weddings and stuff down here. Would you cover weddings? No, we sort of do everything from Weddens to divorce parties They're taking on a big time We're doing a lot of a starting to a lot of big events and that they're like we don't the imperial in Kevin there in Saturday Nice a brilliant crowd in this We're starting to Crowds like you know, what are you on social media? What if people want to get in touch with you's? Well, we're on Facebook and Instagram, but the biggest one for us of them is tic-tac Uh-huh Our own one at Danny burn band and then budgie. He's on tic-tac as well So between the two of us we've up on 40,000 She follows between us two and then we have to give Our other friend a shout-out vitamin Rolly. He usually comes with us. He's a social media king Guru Have to their proper titles, you know No, it's about differences on social media since you started it like it's it's really like Everybody's on it like it's getting the word out there. Yeah Well tic-tac is the massive one for us Facebook seems to have sort of dwindled a bit It does, you know, but with tic-tac you're sort of now. We're posting couple times a day You know between the whole alice were probably posting five six times in short videos short videos clips Stuff what we do during the day. Hi budgie there He drives a lorry during the day. So he'd have a bit of that content up In fairness now I even have 10,000 followers this month. Have you it just it's got crazy over the past couple months Well, what's done that budgie? Is it you with the lorry or is it the shulk? I'd be an awful man for interacting with people You know what I mean? I've got the legs of a stroller Ah, very good And do you talk do you talk into the camera on your driving sort of thing? Do you fuck yourself? No, not when I'm driving. No Well, you don't understand I don't mean that. I mean when you're on and the lorry Yeah, well, I've even parked out at night time. I go on tic-tac lays there Oh, do you know? Oh, yeah, where do you drive? I do a lot round the south and like doubling them That part, you know, who do you drive for? Yeah, a wee man All right, can't see his nail. Oh, that's all right Jesus, what are you carrying the lorry? Little muck There you go We've run lorry as well. Have your own lorry? Yeah, the band lorry, like That's Donnie's lorry Everybody's Donnie's We wish, oh lorry Scania 164 there No more of that She's getting done up and stickered there at the moment Is that right? We're bringing her to full of the pipe trucks at the end of the month God, you could have brought the Donnie Loop this week, aren't you? There's a big tractor drain Funding We'll tell you more about it afterwards and Donnie Loop And you can come along this Sunday Me and Jim will be there We're the full recording gear So we're looking forward to that But as I said, I'll update you on that before we go at 10 o'clock So good crack these full of pipe things, aren't they? We've been in contact a lot there with Kings the Road Yes There are big movers in the whole trucking game at the moment So give the boys a shout out there I would see the country music stuff All that's taken off like, hasn't it, this last couple of years It's really like Yeah, well, I don't know if you call us real country We're more than the We could call everything from folk Folk rave We're a genre that hasn't been created yet Celtic rap We do everything from the Irish Rover To does your mother know Right Get out from the Pogues d'Abo What I'm trying to say is Do you see the connection between driving Or, you know, lorries and stuff like that There's a lot of country Followers, that's the country music followers I'm right and wrong You know, you see a lot of these boys With these tartan shirts and stuff And dinner boots on them He says that to the boys We're in the tartan shirts and dinner boots I've seen that there A couple of country boys in front of me We play places there And you see fellas come to gigs And they wear the skinny jeans And these fancy trainers and stuff But we get called the band with the brown boots Very good The best quality dinner boots Oh yeah I'll tell you what Samantha McConville says Brilliant band, well done guys And Matthew Gardner said Keeperlet The Bush bar Where's that? That's in Milstreet and County Cork So we're down there at the end of the month Oh, you're down there at the end of the month At the end of November The months and weeks are rolling in You do the one night and head back up again Well, that weekend We're doing the one night down there The following week we're in Calarney And then up to Glenamadi above Galway So we're I thought you were just getting around Oh, we're everywhere Can't keep rubber on the wheels of the van Bear McNutt was on here And he says, budgie, do your thing That's a very dangerous thing to say Because you go into a tune every night You see And you're sitting here around Sitting in your tiddy bus from South Armada Do your thing I can mean anything No, keep it all Keep it as straight as we can here We've seen budgie in these dodgy loads Now they're going to do you But then Paul, I have to say Budgie, do your thing Do your thing There's usually a lot more behind it That's something that took off on TikTok Was that budgie You're bringing it all yourself, lad Let me tell you What's wrong with me, I can tell you It's a bit of a crack We're going to get another song for me What are you going to do for us, Tim? We'll do this one This one is our current single And it's No one on Soundcouch You might as well say it while we can still say it You know But this call of Haida, young Haida, Haida Card Buster Very popular, Ruth Beattie And she's set up the brown boots And check shirts from Jack Beattie Jack's a good friend of ours And he's a part-time guard of Sargent Good man, Jack, good man Keep an X through letter, can you read it, Ned? He usually works just during the day In the evenings And an odd weekend shift, you know But he's keeping an A out for the van Ben McNutt says, roll on, McHugh's bar Where is that? Carrick and Shannon Good man Last time we don't, it was a good crime We recorded a bit of a video Turn on the corner Hello to Jamie O'Hare He says I don't know Drawing the jaw on And Darren Good singer and good friend of ours Good stuff, lads These are all over my TikTok Good man, Darren Right, we're going to take a nap break We're going to join you And would you stay with us for about five or ten minutes Give us an dollar song? 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Nice to have them back up as part of the country again. And it's Mick Flannery and Mick joins us in the line. How are you, Mick? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Come here. It's been a couple of years since we talked to you, but how's life been? Oh, good. I can't complain. Recording away and working away? Yeah, yeah. I think I did one small weird album since we spoke and then this more recent normal album. You had a couple in between. You've been collaborating with an all good friend of ours, Susan O'Neill. Yeah, sorry. I thought that was the last time we spoke. Yeah, sorry. But that album, did you do one album or two albums with Susan? All right, just one. Just one album. Okay, so since the last time we were talking, you were based in Germany, was it Ireland? In Germany for a while at that time, and then you come back and you return. Have you ventured far since our last conversation? I live in Clare at the moment. I've lived in Clare for the last good while now. All right, okay. And what about the last time I was talking, do you like doing a bit of building as well, a bit of stonework? Is that still ongoing or have you given up on that one? I haven't done as much as I used to do for sure. I've plenty of work about it. I've plenty of money in it. Come here. This Friday night, you're back in Donegal. When's the last time you played up around these parts? I think it was pre-lockdowns and COVID. I think, as far as I remember, it was the Green Island Theater in Donegal Town. Tell me this, in Latter-Kinney. Sorry, Latter-Kinney. So how did the lockdown and stuff affect you, Mike? As an artist, he's out there performing all the time. How did you find that? How did you deal with it? I think I kind of got lucky, I suppose. I seem to get on pretty okay with this. I got a lot of songs written, a lot of songs finished, the Asian and co-writing over the phone. I think I wrote more songs and things in those years than I would have in many other years. Because you had more time probably? Yeah, I was trying to fill the time as best I could. I was often with these co-writing things that might last an hour or two in the evening time and that was fine. That was something to work towards during the day. Everybody has a different story regarding that time. Do you know what this Friday night, come on, as I say, you're in Ghidoran, the social club, what can we expect? A common, is it solo or is it with the band? There's five of us in the band that's traveling at the moment. There's a bass drum, electric guitar and a saxophone clarinet player and myself then piano and guitar. So Friday night, in Ghidor, Saturday night, you're in Sandinus and Dere? Yeah, and then down to Slago after that. Then the Hawkswell and Sundes, a busy weekend for you, a lot of traveling? Yeah, I mean, it's an easy number compared to what we were up to two weeks ago really. We were traveling around America there for two weeks and I think we put 3,000 miles on the van that we had. How did you find America? Is that your first time in America singing? No, it's been there a few times now. This time was good fun because a couple of the places I hadn't been to and more places the band hadn't been to. So it was cool. So after this short tour around here, are you off to Germany and Denmark etc? That's right. We're doing two visits to Europe about 10 days each at the start and end of November. And I know you have good time Charlie, out at the minute. How's the reviews going on that for you? How did you find out? Oh, good. It seems to be going alright. It seems to be well enough received and for the gigs so far. It's good. Like people haven't really complained about too many new songs yet. They haven't complained. I suppose that's one way of looking at it. Well listen, we want to wish you well this Friday night. If people are looking for tickets, Mike, how can they get them? They could go through my website, mixlanry.com. But I think they can buy tickets online as well. I think there's an event price. There is. You're right. 100% there's an event right there. So listen, as I say, we're not good to see you this weekend, but we're looking forward to you coming up here in maybe 2024. All been well and we're looking forward to, as always, your music because your music, your lyrics are always very strong and powerful and I always admired that. So long may they continue and I hope you have a great night on Friday night and from now to Christmas. Have a good time and thanks very much for joining me. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you, Mike. Mike Flannery. Thank you very much. Absolutely gentlemen on there. Mike Flannery playing live this Friday night in the social club there in the social, the big part in Godot. And if you want a good night of good, strong Irish music, go along there. How do Maria McCormick listening in? We've been playing a track from your album, very, very shortly, Maria as well. And she's a fan of Mike Flannery. I know that. So hope you enjoyed that, Maria. Right, these guys are going to say something else there. These gentlemen are back. How's it going, lads? How's it going? Did you enjoy the green area that we provided for you? It was fantastic. The kebabs were lovely. Is that what they are, kebabs? I wasn't fit for the chips, so I'll take them home with me. Matthew Gardner Sloan said, some squad of lads there, keep her lit. That's the kind of language we like. And Kane Smith said, is this band going to junior switch? We are. It's our first teen disco we've been asked to do now. So a teen nightclub. So, yeah, in Castle Blaney. So we do the over 18s version, but this is the party we've been requested to do. Yeah, they're going to turn my mic off that night. Very good. Very good. Katie McGlear said, my wee girl's favourite song. That's lovely, lovely indeed. Right, what are you going to do for us this time, lads? We'll do something a bit more, a bit more metal. This is, we'll do Caledonia. Oh, do you know this? I love this song. As I say, I don't know who doesn't like this song. Well, we've just added the list of songs that we've ruined. So we're going to ruin this one for you, Paul. But we see, no, and I admire that. I admire your, admire your stance on that, because I have no doubt you'll ruin the back cleaner does song for me. And that will leave on the memory in my head forever. So that song is just going to go out of my mind now. But come here, listen now, we're looking forward to this. Love watching these boys on Tech Talk. That's from Aaron and Cahill Leonard. Is that Cahill, am I reading that right to me? I said, queer boys, Danny, Budgie and company. Budgie, do your thing. He done these things. He done these things. And he's not doing no more things in here than he's in here. He's not allowed to smoke in here. No. No, he's not allowed to carry one in here. We're wired enough in here with that stuff. Right, Caledonia, rub the back of this. But you're some boy, and on your Tech Talk page here, and I see, I see the red Scania here, we're burning it. I've seen that lorry about. Manage the time, all right. There you go. And I'm just looking. What do you say when you've seen it? Funny enough, when you see that, it's always late at night for the early hours of the morning, juggling around the roads of South Irmaa. Come here. How did you get 250,000 views in that morning with the grass caught in woods? What was that? It's just that a lot of culties would follow me there, and I would have done a lot of sailage. Oh, you'd draw sales too, do you? Oh, sure. I'd do it with the grassmen. I think there's a pair in there. Oh, with the grassmen. That's some views, that's. Yeah, it was a mixture of everything on it. So it's, oh, I know my council, that one there now. Sponsored by Buckfast and Bermuda. Not just yet. Buckfast. Are you just county down or county Irmaa? County Irmaa, well, we're South Irmaa, we wouldn't say it there. We wouldn't say Irmaa. I'm going to be honest with you now, you put the South Irmaa in the scare of the life out of people, don't you? You just say it, you couldn't say it from Irmaa. Well, we sort of park wherever you want, Paul. Depends on the company we're on. And from South Irmaa, well, just watch yourself, Paul. And some places we're from, Nuri. The Barbridge. You see when you mention the Buckfast, I'm saying that I think to Irmaa, and we were up in Clonus, at the what he called bar, if I get the big outdoor bar there, and just these Irmaa boys come up, and I'm not joking you know, I never seen anybody drink Buckfast, look at me life, they brought their own stuff with them, and they were down that field at the back, I never honestly got in heaven. Probably going to the forest. Aye? Let's go to the Buckfast before you go out. On the starter. You can start it before the man. Very good, very good. Well, that's the Johnny Byrd band, and they're with us here live, they're always supposed to hear for a wheeler, you can't get them shifted now that they're on. Decide to move in. We'll meet on somebody come and jump leech for the van. You get her down that bray there. Let me see, who is he? Pat says he's great stuff, and I was looking forward to seeing you in Ross Commonson, and let me see, Oren Canning says, Budgie, do your thing. He said, you're going to have to do it one more time, Budgie. I reckon. Colin Don says that's some job boys, fair playdies, and Maeve McGowan says, great stuff, Danny, Budgie, and Sennan, continued success, he is all. So there you go. See, there is some nice people message in here. Go on, Budgie, do your thing. If you're watching, here we go. You're not playing it again? No, we'll use it in reruns and our TikTok. Come here, go on, give us one more tune before you go. One more tune. All right. Sennan, you're sitting there, and I'm Ken and Boris, now you haven't brought you into the conversation. Oh, it's no bother. Are you getting on all right? I'm 100% Paul, don't you worry about anything? No, no, I'm not worried about anything. Well, what do you do during the week yourselves? I'm scared to ask this here now. What do you do during this? I'm in college during the week, during the school year. Right, that's good. Thank God, there's about a cent there coming there. We're chatting with old markets there, and they're all in Jonesboro markets, and I used to go up there, and used to go up there, fair, Budgie. Well, we're only about, I'd say, four miles from Jonesboro. So we are, yeah. We used to go up the Wreckaday roads, that you weren't, because you couldn't go the main roads. You probably passed our house, then. Oh, probably did, all right. I might have picked stuff up in your house, even back in the M.D.'s. No comment. Maybe it's this, and that's not an admission. Come here. Is that Joust and Listen Up? There's stuff. God, there were some stuff bottled up, let's see. I will not tell you. There's no sweets and minerals, and... I remember. Toys, toys, lot of toys. Lot of toys. I've seen them. That was it. Wax jackets. I remember when Wax coach came out the very start. You couldn't have moved on time with Jones on the Wax coach. And what else was there? I know friends, right? Unfortunately, Quality Street lost a lorry over an air of one time, right? It was full of quality... Sam Satnavs. Two weeks later, two weeks later, there was a certain individual selling at Jonesville, Morgan, that you wouldn't believe what he's selling. Tons of quality streets. The full lorry load. Tucked him in. Yeah, no, yeah. I wouldn't criminal talk off. Yeah. Of course, you know what I thought when I seen him? That's a south-earned man, man. If ever is he one. He's a YouTube box of biscuits. He said, word that good law, Biden, citizen, find them quality street. And I'm going to try and give it back to the people. He'd be a better community. Oh, you would. Right, got rid of all the one for us now. We could have stayed at home. We'll get abused. Come down to Donegal. You're more than welcome. We'll abuse you down here in all you want. Hey, that's the Danny Byrne band. And we've seen another TikTok. He has a brilliant TikTok here of Budgie on the bar. The Neocarn. Budgie's just been a bit. Arms up their town over there from Annabelle. He's given them a bit of stick. Why? Did you smash any drink at them? Well, I took them in the piss. What's your TikTok name? Budgie. Budgie. Budgie underscore DBB. DBB. We'll be following up on Budgie now. Listen lads, a bit of crack. Thank you very much indeed. I enjoyed your company. And you're welcome back on the team genuinely. And if you want to find these lads who are on Facebook, TikTok, they're on everything. On everything. That was not deal down, right? It was every brother Sunday game. Hugh Monah had said, if I die young, that's the song. We're sung out of your own. And Hanuk once said, good man, Budgie, you're on rail. So, hey, no, the company is good. And we could have kept you here all night. But the contract says, yes, have to go. It's just like this. Have a safe journey back. Sennan and Danny and Budgie and the big chief and the weed chief, the pleasure resource. Thank you very, very much indeed. Thank you very much. Good crack, lads. Good crack. Thank you. So we're down here. Are you in Donegal? Where did you say you're playing? Sister Serres in Ladder, Kenny, on the 23rd of December. All right. So that should be a big one. Oh, no. We'll need to pump it up. Keep them touches and we'll pump it up. She's made even coincidences. Can we get access all areas for your entry? Oh, I guess. Not a hassle. Is this time to talk to the van? Yeah. Yeah. He gave us a tip to say to him. No, you're dead, oh. We'll send him where we send him there. And we have a reputation in this town here. We want to keep it. Bring the book fast for you for the crack. Oh, yeah.