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Jimmy joins us here, one two yeah there we go right you're welcome back 20 minutes almost after nine o'clock on a Monday night I was just wondering I was eating doing Elvis Elvis would be 89 today if he's still living wow I'm sure he's going to play some Elvis anyway he's dead longer now than he was alive it's fascinating but he shouldn't laugh sorry no I know it's not laughing but they're bringing him back again you know yeah the fact that he's artificial intelligence I don't think it'd be him no no but uh very interesting to see what way it goes I don't know if it's working or not I know it worked very well with Abba but they did the moves Abba they don't know all the moves you see and then they recorded all that fancy Joe stuff as they say but only an awful Elvis it doesn't matter too much where you've joined us Jimmy it's nice to be back again the Monday night in there that's great Paul and we ended the year on a real high didn't we I suppose when you think of uh just the way it ended just not I was just icing on the cake really uh Mirren Bradley we're talking about and uh everybody and I mean everybody even people with no interest in music uh is talking to me and about it and we're getting emails we're getting um but she was on another national show this morning I was getting text from all over the country people who know me and know you and saying tune in so um but you know like going back you've now you've discussed it over coffee with other people like 10 years and like Paul has been some amazing people on the show and people who were shy about coming on and chatting and just came and did it and you know they've told us afterwards it's under confidence the world of good and and so that's what you want to get out of the show really do you know I mean exactly do you know and we talked about that before we say it's part of the package you're you're radio and I'm having a chat with people in bubbly because equally as good as you're singing is you still have to engage with the audience uh between the songs you know and someone I think probably it comes with experience you know what I mean yeah but it's very important but I know the the Myron Bradley story was just um was just something else wasn't it? Oh yeah I mean and probably I think for people maybe that didn't hear that night that Monday night you know it always looked for us really in some ways because of the extra hour but you know and Myron told the story herself and her dad John lovely people and you know that she was nervous about coming on here and John sat here on my right hand side that was her first radio interview was and and like at that stage you know there was things in the off and then like I just remember New Year's Eve Paul I mean I sat up and I did thousands of millions of other people and we were all just waiting for Myron Bradley and I every he denounced Ruby Turner and Joss Stone and Sugar Babes and I was like bring her on I know Ron Stewart and then she just came on and it was probably the most surreal I don't know how you say it like the feeling that I've you know in terms of seeing somebody that yeah it was to me it was just just summed the whole last 10 years up it just really I always remember you know at the time at the start we were saying I wonder will we ever discover or see anybody you know and this is it it's absolutely brilliant and as you said you mean she's a lovely girl a lovely family and very grounded and she will be too but they get to get the Jules Holland gig uh something else it's uh I was talking to Matt McGrann in the weekend you know yeah she's she's leapfrogged Ireland at the stage into a world stage and you know she's got a great team around her as well Paul you know and I mean you look at Torri McGinty the studio that she recorded you and I were there last week and I'm delighted for Torri and all the recording artists the studio's around when he got in the north west and exactly because you're right we were talking to Paul there Paul Kizzy Paul he's own producing and stuff and these people have been chipping away for years yeah and they're kind of like the on song heroes if you know what I mean and evolved and their their styles is getting better and Terry there's no better man on Terry and Terry has recorded and produced for loads of people but not only that as you say we were up last week and with a lovely chat we were just sitting and but even to hear the process of that album just doesn't happen in a month I mean he started in April 2021 or June 21 and over a two-year period you did a take and you parked it and did another take and you parked it and then you come together and you have 10 or 12 and then you have a record company who says right let's and like that process like it sounds like a lifetime of two and a half two years and then to come and just ah but you know the thing about it is so natural and we spoke about this I believe myself I remember the Nathan Carter thing when Nathan Carter came on the scene with Wagonway I believe it opened country music to a younger generation and he led that because he was a younger person which is great to see absolutely brilliant and everybody was evolved with country music right yeah I have this feeling that Lauren Bradley is going to bring that style because that music's been dormant for young people yeah you know like we've talked about it you've been doing it in Spotify I've always had a love for that style of music I love it you know the thing I love it there's a great passion with it it's a very working class thing yeah it's you know it's it's from from sort of black America yeah people that had nothing but they had music you know and I think she's going to bring this style of music to a younger audience and I look forward to seeing that I really do yeah and like I was on last week Coveness show for three you know I did weeks in a match and I texted her dad John I said John can you give me a few artists that would I can link murmur so he sent me three or four like Mississippi John Hurt and Eric Pib and all that and I just went in and I played a few oh my god I was brought to another as you said I said another world big mama Thornton that's what you heard yeah I just I went to I went home and actually I put and then what it does it the system brings you into another world because it knows you're listening and I was I was going into this world of music that I thought I never knew this existed and she has like a 17 year old has bought like as I think it was Pat Gallagher said to me of the goats you know Pat said yeah you know Murnham was on this earth before that was brilliant that's a nice lane isn't it you know and I just think probably you know we're talking but I think it gives a lot of confidence even Turley would say to me you know the music you know he's he used the phrase last week that I was seeing a revolution in in Irish music in Ireland and especially in northwest that this catapulted in I think like I mean you saw you've seen the Facebook right on Highland Monday night sessions I mean we're talking you quoted figures earlier on and and it's not all about the figures I know that when you look at the comments I'm talking thousands of comments where people have said where is this girl from and if somebody says Donny Gaul and Donny Gaul is on the map now from a music perspective we tapped on that as you say if somebody writes a comment and I was going through them and I was typing to see who this person was Facebook and they're in America and they're here and there was some very talented musicians that's right that were making comments which I noticed you know and it's brilliant it's I think it's just the music that style of music just has just arrived you know the if you look in the videos I told you before I have a guitar in a house of three string cigar box yeah and that's how poor things were for them people they had a cigar box and they turned it into guitar wow and it's only three strings it's three strings or not I still can't play it but I love holding it but that's that was how the poverty that music was and they had a passion and they were you know it was just amazing and I think it's just brilliant credit I think Paul maybe maybe one thing we could say as well that if you know if you are considering coming up to us someone like you know and you're kind of thinking oh I'm not at that level but it's that's not what it's about and I think we need to you know like you know I got a we got a call two weeks ago for an email on or email from somebody up in Bali Money yeah and they bring their daughter up and really they watch the show listen and absolutely delighted and that's what it's about and you know she'd love to perform on radio and brilliant stuff so like we'd encourage people to get in touch and doors open here the doors open and get in touch with us because it's about spreading the music it's not gonna be do with us um we're we're you know as I say we do two hours we try to we like comfortably having two hours or so on it gives more time to get about the music but we have no problem doing three like effort you know if someone want no look sure you know you were talking to all the record it was across the world you know they're just but for the chain one also but it's it's uh that's brilliant Paul and and uh you I think your interview and I I snipped out some of that interview you'd seen post-op stop but it was even a bit a 30 second bit at the start check out our morning night sessions I put that up I just think it's in some ways it's historical what he said and and then just to see that but you know it's brilliant so that was a lovely interview as well that night I think and it was lovely conversation and as I say we recorded it up and it was a series of events that made that interview happen because that was a night that we had an extra hour that we only found out about and we had three acts already on that night that's right yeah and because we had the extra hour we were able to accommodate delighted to accommodate that was the best thing happened you know so I must give a shout out to Pat Mead and Cove who prompted me on that Friday night when I was in a band called the Burma in Cork in Cork Pat said make you have a listen to this girl and I was like oh how has she escaped us and anyway that's how things that's how things happen because you meet somebody in the streets of Straban and they say Paul have you listened to this and he said give us you do you actually give us that's that's how it's and that's what we want stop us and say this and there's somebody there and as I say we work on it but the problem is sometimes you find some people contact you say listen we're doing something two weeks time can you and that yeah adds a bit of pressure to the thing because we don't want to do you know we don't want we want to help out as much as we can we are just and and like a synonymity such a night's on a monday night and the talent I've been total oh and I've said that you know that we have up here now is world class world yeah and we're gonna see that but look it's brilliant and it's we're looking in the cobblestone on the 3rd of February yeah we were lucky that night we well I think you and I I said I'm gonna book tickets so I was coming and that was the and I went in I booked six tickets and and I've just seen online people are going in to get the tickets I think it's a small venue it is because I've been there and yeah that's the Saturday the third and really looking forward it's just nice to get there and have been in double knowing well yeah it's a lot that whole area now is beautiful in the cobblestone midfield so it's lovely and that that venue is cobblestone so usually traditional bar so we're only flat not there not so long ago but that was a big so we'll we'll we'll be reporting on the 5th we'll know this bank holidays won't be on the 5th so we'll have to hold the reports till 12th we'll be doing the camera crew and all doing this we're looking forward that but our tea following us that ladies but hey the the album as I say it's an absolute belter of an album the captain's old blues and we'll just finish Jimmy thanks very much thanks and take a few tracks man take a track this is myron bradley absolutely class