 is called hubbin it. Check it out and check out Brennan's Facebook and you'll see where he's giggin over the coming weeks as well. I'm kicking off tonight's show Monday night sessions. It's Jimmy Stafford sitting in for Paul McDevitt tonight and as I said we have three brilliant acts on between now and 10 p.m. We're streaming live on the Highland Radio Facebook as well if you'd like to join us and comment on send your messages now at 660-25,000 or comment on the Highland Radio Facebook page. My first guest all the way from Ennis Gillen County for Manor is Aaron Wilson. Aaron you're very welcome to Monday night sessions. Thank you very much Jimmy. Made a long journey up tonight. It's a windy road but it was worth it. Yeah well you have a great story Aaron to tell and we're going to hear lots about yourself and what you've been doing over the last couple of years and traveling all over the world and playing music and but I met you at the buskin a few weeks ago at a Kenny and we met by accident on the main street because your car broke down but we'll talk more about that but a great success. You know what we might have a bit of music from you first if that's okay and then we'll have a chat about who Aaron Wilson is. Lovely this is the licks of puncher chain. Oh lovely take it away. I took the road to Jackson Town my fortune doing you. I cursed all far in the money no credit could I gain which filled me hard with longing for the licks of puncher train so I stepped on the railroad car beneath the morning sun I rode through road and I laid me down all the strangers were no friends to me till a dark girl towards me came I fell in love with a pretty old girl on the lakes on your train I said my pretty pretty old girl my money here is no good live it a word for the alligators I'd sleep outside in the woods you're welcome here kind stranger our house it is very plain but we never turn this stranger out to the bank's puncher train so I asked her if she would marry me she said this could never be first she had got a lover and he he was far at sea she said that she would wait for him I'm true she would remain till he returned to his pretty old girl on the lakes yes fare you well my bonny old girl I might never see you no more but I'll never forget your kindness here in the cottage by the shore and not each so she'll gather glass I'll raise I'll drink a half to the pretty old girl on the lakes on your train yes fare you well pretty old girl on the lakes absolutely beautiful lovely song yeah absolutely fantastic and just read a few requests that have come in already for you because let's let's have a good Connor Davis let's go Aaron love this tune Donna and Donna and Andy Macaulay brilliant green hearts and Connor Davis and who else are we Sharon Wilson sounding brilliant Aaron and Busker Matt unreal bud brilliant and amazing says Donna and Connor Davis and lots of comments coming in on the Highland Facebook yeah lovely to hear from you all tonight Aaron Wilson who is it's like the question and this is your life who is Aaron Wilson that's it yeah um I've I'm from Manusquil and I've been playing music since I was about 17 years old I was playing all around the bars in Fermanagh and then just in around 2019 I head off to Australia and I spent all of 2019 playing in the bars around Sydney I was very lucky I get him with some good contacts there and I've I was playing with five or six different bars all Irish bars there's a lot of them there yeah and then just after Australia happened I've I went to the the Austrian Alps where I was I was playing in this little ski village called St Anton yeah and that's when the pandemic happened I was I was there and I was playing at 12 o'clock one night 9 a.m. we were told going home you know we before 19 were you a musician before that playing gigs around Fermanagh and all that yeah I've always played around the pubs and on weddings and stuff but um I've kind of been under the radar I haven't really put myself out there as much as I probably should have but so then you you arrive back a few weeks ago and I'm going down letter Kenny Main Street because we had the letter Kenny Chamber Buskin Festival and I was running around making all the acts lined up and I had started and this guy and Murn pulls up in the van on the Main Street and says I'm for the Buskin Festival and it was about a half an hour in you tell the rest of the story I will um as my mother says I'll probably be late for my own funeral um I was heading down the road and we just come into some engine trouble and I couldn't get us past 25 to 30 mile per hour and I had about an hour and a half of twisted roads to head to letter Kenny from Fermanagh but we done a tactical pit stop and we swapped cars enough and I made it down just in time you made it down and we got you a pitch outside McGee's pharmacy and you gathered a big crowd that day as well I mean everyone was winner that day and it was confess but you were getting these there's some brilliant videos up on social media there's a couple of lads dancing on the footpath I had a brilliant response that didn't expect it at all it was uh I was I was very nervous and not loud it was my first time playing outside of a studio for over a year and a half um so um it was just great to get that bit of crowd interaction that had been missing since the pandemic happened you know and then the results that evening you ah it came second it came second it didn't expect any sort of prize I was there for the just to get over to get over my hermitism it was brilliant I mean and you the judges there was three judges and there was a couple of unofficial judges as we call them and secret judges but they you know they all scored and like there was 40 acts there and you became second which was great so fantastic it's giving you a senior starting to gig around the place now on your Facebook so you're back out on the scene I'm back out on the road now yes I've I've taken bookings for um mostly for mana based since it's my first year home and quite some time so I've I've traveled a Belfast for some gigs as well um but I'm at the minute I'm open to starting new venues in different places and I've no more travel plans of my travel bug has has died yes you know so I'm I'm excited to venture out to new places such as letter Kenny like with the buskin competition it was my it was my first time venturing down this far yeah and it's just it's opened up my eyes to the just there's different audiences there with different um appreciation you know especially after the pandemic people are appreciating live music a lot more than they probably did beforehand which is great yeah absolutely aren't yeah and you know what I want lots of chat about and I want to chat about twitch because I just myself and pa were over didn't get into before the show and you we'll talk about that after but we love another song yes no worries I'm going to sing a song called beeswing man called Richard Thompson beautiful this is Aaron Wilson from Elliskin and live on Monday night sessions and this is beeswing as 18 when I came to town they called it the summer of love the burning babies burning flags the hawks against the doves I took a job at the steamy way down in cajum streets I fell in love with a laundry girl who was working next to me round hairs exact around her face the look of half surprise like a fox caught in the headlines with animal in her eyes she said young man oh can't you see I'm not the factory kind if you don't take me out of here I'll surely lose my mind she was a rare thing as fine as a beeswing so fine a breath the wind would blow her away she was a lost child she was running wild she said so long as there's no last day wouldn't want me any other way we watched around the mockery towns for picking down in Kent well we could take her pots and pans and knives wherever we went we camped and down the garland time the work was mighty good well she wouldn't work with a harvest and I thought we should I said to her we'll settle down we'll get a few English dog with a fire burning in the hearth and barbie's on the rogue she said oh man you foolish man that surely sounds like hell you might be lord of hop the world you'll not own me as well but she was a rare thing as fine as a beeswing so fine a breath the wind would blow her away she was a lost child she was running wild she said so long as there's no price on the last day wouldn't want me any other way our tempers reached a pitch like a fool I let her run away when she took a rambling itch the last I heard she's living rough she's back in the W beat with a bottle of white horse in her hypocrite a wolf hound at her feet they say she even married once a man named Romany Brown but even the gypsy caravans too much settled and down they say her rose has faded now of weather and hard boots well maybe that's the price you pay for the chins that she refused but she was a rare thing as fine as a beeswing I miss her more than ever words can say and if we could just taste all her wildness now if I could hold her in my arms today well I wouldn't want her any other way oh she was a rare thing as fine as a beeswing I miss her more than ever words can say and if we could just taste all her wildness now if I could hold her in my arms today well I wouldn't want her any other way wonderful oh and you know what you see I'm normally producing on a Monday Paul sits here with the headphones and he gets the benefit of listening and I have the headphones tonight and just your voice and the guitar it's absolutely beautiful Aaron brilliant thank you that's a real crowd goer isn't it it is indeed yeah Joyce who we've got Joyce McGrath says Rebecca's favorite we're all watching you Aaron brilliant there's lots more clap clap clap go on there's lots of people commenting and la la la and brilliant and so on Facebook live so cheers guys Aaron Wilson all the way from menisculin and Aaron we were chatting earlier on about social media and I was saying about Facebook and you mentioned Twitch and people are probably able to see an IGM you must know what Twitch is and there's so much social media with Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok the whole up but you tell us a bit about Twitch because Paul knew about it but you educated me on it it is quite a new thing it's a new venture I talk when all of us musicians we sort of lost our job for a year there I was I wasn't going to give up it's all I've known for most of my life is playing music so I played a few Facebook lives but I was struggling to get a bit of a community to happen there and I was made aware of Twitch and Twitch is a live streaming platform that's used for gaming and for just conversation and stuff but there's a music section and nearly every musician around the world sort of edged towards it during the pandemic and I was very lucky to to get well established it took me about two months of playing to with three viewers and then one day I got four or five hundred people came into my channel and about four weeks after that I was given the opportunity to be on the front page of this website and the front page traffic in this website would carry about a million people every hour so after about I was I was given a slot from eight o'clock where I'd be on the front page and as soon as eight o'clock happened after about 40 seconds or so I'd went from 15 viewers to 12,000 in the space of about 40 seconds 50 viewers 12,000 within 40 seconds I was just watching the go up by a thousand every second so how many how many actual um what's the population of twitch oh it would be my there's yes there's I think that one of the statistics I heard is every hour there's about a million of traffic in the front page so it's a completely international type of thing so it's very unpredictable you know you don't know what's going to happen every time you go live it could be but it's it's it's a life changer for me so now you have 500 subscribers which pay money to listen and watch you on twitch sort of like the way you would pay for Spotify yes you know it's the same sort of a subscription based thing um out of that four or five pounds a month people are going to get a notification that every time I'm live and I'm on the platform because it's not like YouTube whenever you go on to twitch if I'm not live they're in person you can't really watch me yeah you know so you need a notification to your phone or your laptop or whatever and I'm sort of like the the babysitter for all those people working at home you know just live music from home you know so you put it on your twitch that you were coming on here I told you that we've got some of the some of my community followers all around the world are in here listening at the moment so that's somebody yeah that's that's brilliant isn't it I didn't really and I'm know a lot of artists on it but I just interested to hear about how it works and functions so we had a lot of artists who did Facebook live and had tipchairs and all that and this is another way of doing it but you have subscribers who pay five or ten or fifteen whatever dollars or euros a month to watch a bit of Aaron Wilson live on that's five or four a month isn't a bad so isn't a bad price I suppose really and do you go out and start and you're back on tomorrow night is it tomorrow is my first times in over 30 days as I was over in Spain I was over in Spain up until two weeks ago and I spent an entire entire year in a little bedroom in Spain the sun was shining outside but I didn't really see it but I've I got familiar with twitch whilst me my girlfriend was teaching English so I've yeah I've got I've got a good good number of following on twitch that it's it's quite unexpected to to to rise up through the rankings so to speak so fast on such a such a big platform Brahmin Welsh Walsh has loved that and Brahmin will probably be up with us later in the high iron from Debbie Bowles must be one and then somebody and Donna against his twitch fam let's go so it must be your twitch family and loads of pints or a five versus Connor Davis yeah so I've whenever you pay for for a subscription you also get a customized emote you know the way you'd have a laughing face on your phone yeah well I've I've had an artist make me customize ones that you only get once you pay and one of them happens to be a pint of Guinness brilliant pints or a five or so or subs you know that's the pun that I play with well you've educated me tonight on the brilliant twitch it's something I'm going to check out and as we advise everyone to look at it look it up as something so tell us more about the future in gigs and are they starting to come in now and how we've yes and the gigs are going great I've been I've been lucky to be to be called up by many many booking agents around around the north I'm trying to venture down down towards Donnie Gaul area and get myself known in around a Donnie Gaul town in the likes of lettercanny here but yes I'm planning to be playing in round the pubs and doing weddings type of thing for the next year and then hopefully you'll see me in a much bigger stage in the in the future so if somebody's listening out there tonight and we do have people who tune into the Facebook later on and and say who is this guy how do they get in contact with with Aaron how did you know and again there's so many ways so well I've on all on all platforms I'm Aaron Wilson music with two s a run yes so um yeah any platform at all just searching Google Aaron Wilson music YouTube Facebook everything you'll find me there just just just google yeah and you'll google Aaron Wilson music because you gave me your business card and you've goods you've you seem to be really getting out there in terms of getting your name out there and all that sort of stuff it's a it's a slow process but um I'm gonna do me gonna do do my best but put my put do at least a gig in every county at some stage of my life and the question we'd always ask it what about any writing any writing yourself or and then maybe recording any plans for the future to yes well I've I've during the during the lockdown I was given a lot of time with myself and I wrote some songs during lockdown um and the encouragement from the guys on on twitch has sort of pushed me to to have my own original music available for people at the moment I'm quite off the radar the only place you can really find me is on YouTube or on uh twitch right but um Spotify should be happening this Christmas so Stephen McCormick says get yourself up to Kuldaf Aaron up in the initial there yeah and somebody says post a link for twitch should I report she ha that's Donna yeah post a link up and let's see people's are where uh and you do some originals as well I do yes indeed I wrote I wrote an original during the pandemic um I just about the whole feeling sick and being a bit vulnerable and it was on the on the news all day every day I was hearing about the nurses and stuff so I wrote a song on on that topic would you like me to play for you so why not do you have time yeah let's play let's hear this is uh Aaron Wilson from any skill and thanks for all your messages for Aaron and this is one of his rich what's it called it's called rescued me rescued me take it away I can't show you how much you so I will give my heart you hear me now confessing and blessing I'm trying to figure out just how to breathe never felt this feeling it's so hard to believe it Sunday all the pain well up and leave me smile you don't know I can't show you how much I will give my heart so I will give my heart you rescue me rescue or rescued rescued me yes absolutely beautiful Aaron that's great one of your originals one of my originals I wrote that just during the during the lockdown that's going to be on the album it is indeed yes it is this Christmas so it's all it's all coming together nicely if you know so thank you very much cheers we've learned so much from Aaron and thank you just brilliant that we met you on there like any main street just by chance and said would you come up and play a few songs for us and that's how it works yeah these are very accommodating thank you very much you come across a brilliant musician like yourself and do get yourself to Tony Gaul there's loads of venues around and get your name out there and certainly I'd go and watch it some night anywhere for a couple of hours if you're playing so we love that and check your out on social media Aaron Wilson with AA RON two A's at the start of it and back from Australia Austria you've been around the world Spain and now you're back in Ireland and the north west sunny Ireland with the last four or five days of sun it's been great have you got one more for the road or I can't do yes I can't do yet and we'll let you go then and thank you to Mirren as well for uh being keeping your company on night yeah brilliant this I'll do you another little original I wrote this one for fun during the lockdown as well brilliant so it's very heavily inspired by Johnny Cash it's called Strange Aaron thanks for your company tonight save back home back to any skill keep in touch with us and as Paul and I would say if you have stuff coming out get it up to us and highland radio as well and you know we'll get it on the system and give you a few air plays so please do and and we look forward to hear lots more from Aaron Wilson cheers to me tomorrow was the first day that I met you isn't the one thing I think I would change I'm not your normal type of human being some people seem to think I am strange and I don't know how to blend in with new people but always end up talking all night long these conversations I hope we forgot it because the things I say they always come out wrong I spend my days playing guitar and some poker and no I don't need your gambling advice I play the cards with friends for fun and laughter and I've won myself a dollar once or twice oh I don't know how to blend in with new people but always end up drinking all night long these conversations I hope we forgot it because the things I say they always come out wrong tomorrow was the first day that I met you there isn't one thing I think I could change because I'm not your normal type of human being some people seem to think I am strange oh some people seem to think I am strange even you might think that I'm a little strange yeah that's Aaron Wilson and thank you Aaron loads of comments here oh they all know the words your song is well here all these people and yes love this song and who else have we well done from Emma Quinn and Sharon Wilson says excellent Lucy two shoes says very moving on uh Facebook the album looking forward to the album says somebody else and uh and so on lots of comments and read those yourself lots of love later on on the Highland Video Facebook group ladies and put your hands together Aaron Wilson thank you so much thank you Aaron safe home to Ennis Killen thank you quick out breaking back with more music the whale the Atlantic Postgres very shortly the big bucks are back