 It was an excellent video. Do you know what the old songs deserve to be heard forever? Written by Dick Farley, and I had the great pleasure of bumping into his son and sister one night, and I didn't realize that their father had written that song. I thought it was a song that was out maybe a couple hundred years ago, but no, he wrote it, so there you go. Right, we move on at eight minutes in front of nine o'clock on a Monday night, Monday night session, and you just chinned in, you're welcome along. We are streaming live in all the platforms, and we say hello and welcome first time, Gerald O'Donnell and Trevor Sexton. You're both welcome gentlemen. Thank you very much. It's lovely. Is your first time up here in Hylen Bridgill? It is, yeah. Well, you've been on Donegal. You want a vodka? There's no ice to me. Go to the shop and get ice. Come here. First of all, welcome, but you've been up in Donegal because a good friend of ours just messes earlier on tonight. I was there to say to them, two boys are sitting today, so... And how'd you find the place? It's changed since the last time you were on it. Yeah, they've been done the last time. From the first time I was up, it's transformed. It's an amazing place. Were you in the cottage? Yeah, I did one of the live videos. Oh, did you do one of them? One of the, yeah, pre-recorded. We're actually doing a concert on the 13th of May in the cottage. That's right. For the official opening of that new building, Emerald Guitar's new building. Oh, that's brilliant. He's a great ambassador for the music, and he makes brilliant guitars as you can see yourself. We picked up two new babies today. Does he know you took them? Don't tell him. He knows we took one of them each. He doesn't know about the other six that's in the van. Don't tell him. No, and I'll say no, and he doesn't mind, that's the kind of ambassador. As long as you're there happy. I'm an owner of For Me Self to you. Lovely. This is a beautiful, beautiful nice place. But anyway, listen, first of all, you're up here. Thanks for making the journey, because it's a fair old trip up. It's a fair old trip. You're a player there, and you're from Limerick, Trevor. And I'm even, we call it West Limerick. Well, it's just you're forwarded away again. You're right out nearly in the Atlantic. But come here, how did you form? That's what I wanted to know first. Back in 2018, Ger was putting a video, one video every week, out on his social media. His YouTube channel and Facebook page. And I'd been watching him, like the picture quality was great, and the sound quality was professional quality. I was watching him going, Jesus, they're really good. He was doing solo videos and videos with loads of other artists, all genres. And at the same time, I put out a video on my Facebook page with my sister singing with me, a song that I had written years and years ago. We'll actually sing it for you in a while. A song called Fairytale, and Ger's seen it. And I'd left a few comments on his videos, saying, really enjoying the videos. Looking forward to next week, that kind of thing. And so Ger saw my video, and he sent me a message, and we should do a video together. And that's how we started. And Fairytale is your current single, isn't it? Well, at Fairytale, we put it out on January 1st. And it went into the iTunes charts at number one. Well, there we go, number one. So it was my first ever original single putting out, so that was nice. That's a nice feeling. Well, we're going to talk more, but as we always do, we like to get on the piece of music first. So first up first, you're going to do? Yes. We'll do a song by David Francie. David Francie's a Scottish composer, and he's living in Canada all his life. This one is called the Torn Screen Door. It's about leaving the agricultural way of life behind out of necessity. David Francie. David Francie. David Francie. Check it out. Oh, he's great. When you're ready, lad, thank you. All righty. There's a red barn standing held together. I'm Ger O'Donnell and Trevor Saxon live in studio. And we're getting an unbelievable response on the socials here. Let's have a quick look. Johnny Walson watching from Dallas in Texas. And Michael Darcy in the Atlantic. Trump's Great David Francie song. I must check David Francie. I love doing that, General. Oh, he's lyricist. I love doing that. And Owen McGonagall, Great Lads, had them play in my barn Boston a few weeks ago. Top musicians and soundmen. Keep it going. There he is. Fair play. And Deborah O'Connor Doyle, good man. Great job. And Donald Hazel Duncan is watching in Gravenhurst in Ontario, Ontario. And Katie, hello to you. William Dundun. I'm sitting at home beside the fire. Listen, folks, it's great to have you all with us. You're more than welcome. Highland Radio on a Monday night. And we just played the brand-new track from a good friend of ours. I know that a good friend of yours. George Murphy. Oh, yeah, of course. We played the... We got the first airplay. And you're playing the... Jewy Dins of Yarrow, isn't it? It's a great song. Do you know the thing about it? When I heard it travel the first time, I thought Jimmy sent me the wrong song because it didn't sound like George kicking off. Do you know what I mean? No, no, no. He's very, very subdued. Wow. It's lovely. It's absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing. It's a nice area for that, too. But we're looking forward to him. He's coming up just in the 20s. He came up here one more night. He's a great, great fella, like I have to say. George's song. But he's playing on the 27th of April in the Millennium. Millennium. And you guys are special guests. We are. We're with him. Yeah, yeah. And we're with him as well in Victor Street on the 11th of May. We've done a few shows with him already this year as part of his tour. And we did a concert in Dublin in the Unitarian Church there just weekend. The weekend gone and George was our guest. Oh, brilliant. Very good. So we fall in and play with each other whenever we can because we just get angry. We get angry at each other. But he's doing great himself, isn't he? Yes. He's a good lad. He's the only one. He's just side to the earth, do you want me to? We had a couple of friends from that neighbour out here. How do you drink if you're blind, sorry? He was in good company, I can tell you. Well, we'll give him a run for his money, let me tell you. But yourselves, lads, as I say, you've been touring. You're just back from America. That's right. And is that the East Coast or right round? The East Coast. The East Coast really. We did New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and we did a couple of upstate New York as well. Is that your first time over there as a club? As a duo, yeah. It's the first time together, yeah. But you don't go on their names, do you? We kind of got known separately under our own names. Yes. And then when we joined together, we were thinking of a band name for a while and then a few people had said to us, if you pick a band name people are going to go, who's this? Exactly. We already kind of had a following. You're big on social media. We're big as well. We're big anyway. Very good. Yes. Yes. Well, you're bigger in social media. I'm only joking. Jerry, before we started playing together, he had a huge following on social media on his own. And I've kind of jumped onto his band. That's down to his crying. Very good. Jerry, yourself, if you don't mind, Trevor said that you were making videos and you were professional. What's your background? I have many backgrounds. If we were into it... We told you not to ask this question. Right. What's your legal background? What I can talk about is... What else you can talk about if you don't mind? Well, my background has so many... Totally music. Is it all music, I mean? It's a lot of music. It's a lot of music. I was a music teacher. Right. For several years. Until you were throwing, right? Secondary. I loved gigging. But for 20 years, I played in a wedding band. Okay. And I did all that kind of pub scene, wedding scene. As well as... As well as... As well as... Teaching. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I didn't gig so much when I was teaching. Right, okay. But after teaching, I gigged quite a lot. Okay. And that was my main thing for many years. And I still remember... I was going to bed one night in 2018, early 2018. And I was like, I need to get out of this. I can't... If I keep doing this, there's no... There's no getting out of it after a few years, you know? Not that it's a bad place to be. No. Because it's a lovely... It's a lovely living. And to be able to make your living playing, you know, over sounds... It's... I mean... Was it a bit of Bourneite, was it? It was a great living. No, I think I just... That... Right. I was done. I don't know for long enough. And I think I just needed a change. And I wanted... I had written so much music. And it's never gone anywhere because I've never been able to... Right. Give it a platform. Okay. So I was there... I was lying in bed and my wife was there. And I said... I was downstairs for a few minutes. So I went down and I sat down with the piano. I set up a camera, some microphones. Now, I've recorded many people for years. I have a good audio set up. The recording set up. So I did set up the microphones properly. And the piano on the vocals did a couple of takes of... Tom Waits Gravefruit Moon, I remember. And I just sat... Just put the videos together. And I would have had a background in the media. I did that in college. Right, yes. So I edited the videos, put it together in a few minutes. Threw it up on Facebook. Went to bed. And thought not. Fallen Day had exploded. Well... Okay. I might be one off. I wouldn't expect it to happen again. I do one a week and let's see what happens. And I said this is my way to get my music out there. If I never go that route gigging, that's okay too. But maybe I'll be able to mix two worlds. So I mixed the two worlds for a while. Work well? Yeah, it worked great. But I needed to take a step. Away from the cover scene. To the theatre stages. Which is risky. This is a big risk, all right. But obviously there was a spark left there. Oh, there was a spark. There's many sparks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was one moment that I'll never forget. And it was a long time ago. You always chased this feeling. I was playing in a band in Germany. We did a tour years ago. I was 1980, 1990, something like that. And I was with this rock band. Kind of like the Cranberries, that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. And we went over it and we played an original song that we had put together two months beforehand. No, it was the vocalist who did most of the writing. But I was kind of part of the chord structure and how the feel of the whole thing. And I felt a bit of ownership over it, you know? Yes, yeah. First gig in Germany. We were in a place called Cafe Hann in Frankfurt. I'll never forget. And we went out on stage. The first song went great. We did this new song a second. We get a little bit of the way because it's fresh. You know what I mean? Yes, yes. So we got into the song and got to the chorus and the whole place started singing. And I went, what is this? Singing your song. Singing our song. Wow. Yeah, yeah. So it had been played in radio and everyone's singing along. That feeling. Ah. You chase. Yes, yes, yes. You chase. Only a lot of people say that. Yeah. And there's nights I've sat at different venues, you know, down through the years. And that feeling. I love sitting, watching some people singing along to someone's song. Because I love to say that, you know, people singing to you or so on. Yeah, that's great. You know, atmosphere. Brilliant feeling. Because a good feeling for me, you know, you can go, Jesus, that's good. You've arrived, you know, that kind of way, you know. It's a special thing, aren't you? Aye. And George, George Murphy, he just, he sent me a video a couple of weeks back on WhatsApp. They were playing a session. He's, they do a weekly session in the Ballmount House. Just on the road from George. Oh, it should be Brewer Bizarre all the time. They sit in and play a few tunes. And anyone is welcome to bring their instruments and sit in and do his song. His father and old Bizarre. That's right, yeah. I've done it a night with him. It's a great crack. But George sent me a video of a lad who had sat into the session and he was singing a song that I'd written. Wow. It's the fairytale one, the one we've seen. Yes, yes. I don't know how true it is, but they say when people start singing your songs at sessions, your song has become part of the tradition in everything, you know what I mean? It was an amazing feeling. It was an amazing feeling. Exactly. It was an amazing feeling and really, really must be because just to have, oh, the balls must be just unreal. Yeah. Especially when you weren't expecting it, you know. And it was, Kim Varner said it was wonderful to meet these two long distance during the pandemic. Jer was kind enough to help with our mental health by providing live concerts. Through this, we met Trevor and loved his music and talent as well. They are very much, they are a big part. They are such fantastic musicians and worth the rest of it. And the next stop is a little late show. So there you go from someone else. You have to get that. Thanks. Who's that? What's that one? The next stop is in, they're going to turn over to the late, late show now. It's a little bit early. Paul Kelly, Stout and Llamavari watching, loving this, brilliant stuff. But that's a lovely message from someone there that you're watching music done for. Yeah. Yeah, Jer was doing, he does a video concert. I'd have one regularly. I think it was, ah, no, no. It's done every Wednesday, I think. But there might be some more things. I've been through COVID, I did. Are you enjoying that more now? Are you enjoying that end of things now, Jer? You know, are you getting the benefit out of that? And your own well-being, rather than the band scene? Ah, yes. But it wasn't, like, I wasn't in a bad place with the band scene. No. But obviously, it was a great job. I've worked hard jobs, where you know, you get up in the morning at five o'clock and you know, you slug. You just need to change the direction of your music, because I've got a boss, do you think? I know, I needed an outlet for original material. Good, that's good. I write all the time, and I'm always, you know, I... You've written for Delores King, haven't you? I have, yeah, yeah. Actually, yeah, her last song. My Refuge. Yeah, that's the one, that's the one. No more, do you? Great singer. Oh, magic. Sean, we have Sean a few times. Oh, I played with Sean a few times, and he's just... We have had a lot of beer. He guessed it with us. A few months ago, we did a concert in Milton Melba, in George was one of our guests. But Delores... Or not George, Sean. I didn't know what to expect. And the first time I met Delores was... She got a Lifetime Achievement Award from Graham Cuell. And I was asked, any chance I'd come and play the guitar with her? And I went, yeah, absolutely. You don't say no to those, you don't say no to those. No. And we didn't even... The rehearsal was the soundcheck. There was none? No rehearsal. Still none? Straight in. Straight in, no kissing. And so we came out on stage, and we had a quick run-through. Tried a couple of keys, great. The next thing she took off. There was a whole load of crew setting up stuff. Everyone stopped. This is incredible. Her voice was just beautiful. It's natural in both of them. The uniqueness of stuff. What's the family thing? The brother Matt. Beautiful voice as well. It's not just that there's loads more as well. She gets together and put a big show on. They have done, yeah. Sean's just amazing. Delores is something else too. We're going to take a quick ad break. When we come back, can we get another piece of music? Absolutely. What do we do this time? It's a song called Martin Bay. We came across it by total accident. And as far as we can make out. We could be wrong if there's anybody out there in Radio Land who knows better. Could you please text in? We think that this is the only song that we have as a nation, as Irish people. It was actually written by somebody who was exiled to a penal colony. So we have loads of songs about exile and people being sent away to a foreign lands. Of course. People writing about it. We're going to imagine what it must have been like. But we think this is the only one that was actually written by somebody exiled. Vince Fontaine. Two boys are legends. I'm Jerry's biggest fan, plus his best-looking cousin. And Morris K. I'm gonna hear you all as I'm just so effing delighted for you. As your number one stalker. I'm so proud to know you. Here, stay tuned, K. The rest of your game, we're going for a quick break back with more music on Highland. Don't go away. Brian Adams is back on tour in 2024. Join Highland Radio on our trip to Dublin to see the man himself at the three arena on Tuesday, the 21st of May, 2024. Your trip includes luxury transfers, bed and breakfast at the four-star Carton Hotel Blanchestown. Your standing ticket to the show and a shopping trip to Dublin City Centre the following day. Find out more on the outlet at HighlandRadio.com or call us on 074-9125000. Are you building, rebuilding or renovating? What heat pumps or solar panels would suit your build? Come along and speak to the experts efficient renewables on heat pumps and solar panels. Get advice on installation and grants available. Visit the efficient renewable showroom in Newton Cunningham and see these products in operation for yourself. For your weekly G-new stories and analysis join me, Brendan Vinney, this Monday and every Monday for the DL Debate. This week I'll be joined by Chief Sports Leader with the son, Jason Byrne, plus county PRO, Sinead Breen will be on the show and we'll have interviews from the Donegal senior football players and management as a look-ahead rostered championship. This is the DL Debate. This Monday, just have the 7pm news and podcasts at the Highland Radio.com. The DL Debate with Sister Sarah's Ladder Kenny serving food you'll love in Sarah's kitchen. Yeah, we're back in again here at Highland Radio on the Monday night session. Gerald Donald and Trevor Sexton have joined us. An Alastair City is looking forward to you playing in me at the cottage. So, right, whenever you're ready, lads, take it away. Alright, Martin Bay. Absolutely, man. Some songs, isn't it? And do you see the fact that you told me that story before that? You get a more sense of passion with the DL because of, wow, do you do that a lot in your set? We do. We wouldn't do it every night, but we do it a lot, yeah. It's actually, it's our next single. We just have it recorded, so it'll be our next single. Hopefully before the end of the month. Maybe. Definitely. Definitely before the end of the month. The thing that was holding us up was I was moving my studio from the house to a purpose-built studio that I made out at the back of the house. Good, man. And half of the gear was between but it's all in now. Well, it's not all in, but it's enough to mix and the room is ready. There you go. Martin Bay will be released before the end of the month. You heard it here first. We're looking forward to it, you know, and let me tell you the funniest product. And you do all them recordings yourself, and I'll tell you what, these lads are just real class. Well done lads, Nicola Maloney. So proud of our cousin, Trevor, listening in Castle Mahon in Limerick. Hello to you. Oh, Limerick. And Jair, oh my God, Noreen Ford, Jair and Trevor were here recently. Seen them in Rory Dolan's in Yonkers in New York. These pair are gifted with music and song. You're right, Noreen, you're right. Everybody listen to this. Everybody listen to this, right? Spread the word about Trevor Sexton and Gerald Donald. Just go and see these guys live, the most naturally talented guys you can hear. Brilliant. And we're much better looking live than we are. Oh, they aren't fairness now, they are. Find looking fellas here now. Where's the one I seen from Cale Donoghue said, Oh, no, you don't know. You put that up to angry say this where word. That's right. What do you call them? Marcy, where was that? Oh, they're coming up here now. Where do we get them? No, we lost it to me, don't we? All right, well. Who we got? Who's that? M. M. Dotty Lamont listening from Bahrain. There you go. We want to bring us to Bahrain for a concert. There you go. No problem, we'll play an awful. You're no longer going to Bahrain. Hey, tours, tours, you have just completed an American tour, you're heading to the UK in July, and then you have a Dutch tour later, and then two Canadian tours. That's the plan. If all works out well. So the two Canadian tours are still being kind of organised. The Dutch tour is happening, and the UK one is happening. And I would say at least one. America again. Well, again, one. Definitely once and not twice. Hang on for a second. Marine Sexton, don't know who he is. Simon Brilliant guys, a big hello from all the Sextons here in Camus. Yeah, that's the one place. Especially Chavar's little girl, Ariana. That is me. And Michael Breen says, we're getting Nancy Spain. With one song left and the lads know what they're doing themselves. Oh, we got to do freighter. Oh, there's no problem. But come here, once again, there will be special guests of George Murphy's and the Millennium Forum, and we're looking forward to heading down that night. It's a brilliant venue you've ever been on before. I haven't. No. An amazing venue. Absolutely brilliant. It's in the heart of Derry, right in the city, and it's just pure class. You will enjoy yourself, because it's just got everything perfect on it. We're looking forward to catching up. Don't be one bit worried. We'll certainly take it. That's what you want anyway, between you. It's been an absolute delight. Haven't you here really, really enjoyed your company and the craic? We're going to go for another break. No, no, hold on. You can go for a break, because I need to reach in. And they're playing two absolutely beautiful emerald guitars, which are just a credit they don't go and credit the Alice during the team. We just love them, Derry. We'll be back after this. Don't go away. 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Don't forget Nathan Boyle's on the way and I'll also be talking to Danny McIntyre ahead of his gig in the Baller Theatre this coming Thursday nights along with his band Thulus, part of the Ghost Lights session. So we're looking forward to that. But I'm in studio and get the great reaction, absolutely brilliant reaction. It's Gerald Donald and Trevor Sexton. And your gig in... Actually, we mentioned the Millennium Forum, but you're also playing in Derry again. You have another venue. Up this end of the country, we have a couple of things coming up. We've got the Millennium Forum obviously on the 27th of April with George Murphy and the guys. We have Tuber Curry. We're in Murphy's Hotel on the 1st of May. No, I don't know whether there's any tickets left for that or not. It's a fairly intimate one. I think it might be fairly well-stocked already, but we'll see. And we're in the Brassneck in Derry. This is the new one to us. And it's on the 6th of June. He didn't say that's up in the diamond somewhere. Up in the diamond. I don't know where the diamond is, but... I don't know where you get a Brassneck in Derry now. Ah! Yeah, so the tickets there are available. They'll be available actually this week from the Brassneck. And there'll be... Look at our social media as well. What are you commanding? Social media? So, Gerard O'Donnell Music. Oh, bring that up. Trevor Sexton. We didn't join up on social media, yes. We don't like each other that much. We didn't get married at all. It's all in front of you. What does it say? It's been a delight having you up here. The Brassneck, there we go. It's a gastropub in the diamond in Derry. OK. And if you want information about tickets, you can email them at brassneckkitchen.hophill.com. There we go. Information right away. That's what you call executive producer stuff. Thank you, Jimmy. Right, lads. Final song. And once again, we genuinely appreciate you coming on here because it's a great sound, a great track. Oh, thank you. We look forward to catching up with you in the Milan M Forum. This final song. It was one I wrote over 20 years ago called Fairytale. I had a job as a delivery driver at the time and I was touring along the road on my van one day and a conversation came on the radio about the origin of the Disney Fairytale, like the Cinderella and Snow White and all that kind of stuff. And I don't know where the song came out of, I just pulled the van over to the side of the road and this song fell into the back of an order sheet for the company. I was orphaned for it. I'm going to give them a plug because I worked with them for years. They were called Hunt Office Technology back then but now they're called Hunt.ie to do all office supplies. A big huge company now. They were a small outfit when I was with them but that's where the song came from. There you go. Actually, before I forget, I have to give a big shout out to a couple of friends of ours, Liz and Yvonne Cain. Oh, yes. They, last week they won the Gradham Cull for the best group. And we know them from Johnny Madden's Crews and playing music with them. But also, I'm going to get emotional now, Cain. My first cousin, Derek Eke, won the Gradham for Musician of the Year just last week. Trevor's an emotional character here now. Emotional character. That's okay. You just do whatever way comes out, Trevor. Just to Derek, we're super proud of you. Super proud of you. I'm sure you are. Well, that's lovely. That means a lot. Well done. We wish them well. And thanks very much, as I said to you yourself. Sorry. You're welcome. You're okay. Nobody listens to this, am I wrong? No, no, no. I like emotion. Don't worry. It's lovely when you feel that way but someone saw the best look. I think what you're going to do is fairy tale and we're really looking forward to this one. Whenever you're ready. Okay. I was happy. In the freezing. This which makes this role here so the fact that on Monday night you two gentlemen are going to come gift in your music and you're sharing it with us. It's absolutely beautiful. Thanks very much indeed. Absolutely amazing. Thanks for having us. Everything that comes with the song, the style and everything. We've loads with too many people coming through in the thing. We had a spin for many years and there's four of us. We've had four or five guitars and four as well. And we're starting in Top 3 and four as well. And we've had four of us, and we're starting in Top 3 and four as well. That's very good. I'm coming in. I'll go into it. I'm coming in. Hi. Thank you very much, that's the last of our J.O. Donald Trevor section.