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Cooney & Danny · Not Another Football Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Not Another Football Podcast. We
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Speaker 1: did four from Rosie Maguire's over in Spain and this
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Speaker 1: is another special with the.
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Speaker 2: Band that we met over there, Cooney and Danny. How
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Speaker 2: are we boys? Good to be here boys. What a
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Speaker 2: weekend that was. You can say that again. It was
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Speaker 2: the best three months of my life. It felt that
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Speaker 2: way didn't it? It did, it was great. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it was great for us to, like, we kind of
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Speaker 2: got called out, we didn't really know Anyone involved with it,
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Speaker 2: we'd never met Collie. The call came in through Paul Sheridan,
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Speaker 2: front man of the Wakes, the band that Danny's in.
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Speaker 2: And we didn't really know what to expect. But it
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Speaker 2: exceeded any expectations we did have. It was absolutely fantastic. Yeah, absolutely. Brilliant.
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Speaker 1: Even from the first pick-up at the airport when you
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Speaker 1: met the six Celtic boys, or four of them.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. What was your first impressions?
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Speaker 3: Well, Kenny didn't know who they were.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know who any of them were.
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Speaker 4: We were standing at Edinburgh Airport, and then we were
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Speaker 4: standing at the front.
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Speaker 1: Because you were on our flight, but we'd never met
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Speaker 1: on the flight.
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Speaker 3: Aye, that's right, we'd never met before the flight.
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Speaker 4: And I started seeing all yous coming in, and I
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Speaker 4: was like, oh, that's Jackie McNamara. Just saying the door,
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Speaker 4: and all that. And then he's like, right, see, before
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Speaker 4: you go in, Who's that one?
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Speaker 3: No, never.
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Speaker 4: He kept that one quite all week.
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Speaker 2: No, it was good. Like, you see, for me, coming
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Speaker 2: from small town rural Ireland, so, like, where I grew up,
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Speaker 2: it was Hurling. Hurling, Hurling, Hurling, which is, like, the
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Speaker 2: equivalent to Shinty. I'm pretty sure Shinty is derived from Hurling.
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Speaker 2: Hurling is older. But, like, anyone that supported football back home,
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Speaker 2: it was always either Liverpool or... for Man United. That
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Speaker 2: was always the one. My brother Wayne, he was a
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Speaker 2: Liverpool supporter. And for me, I was always too busy
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Speaker 2: playing music. I never really got into hurling our football
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Speaker 2: or ga or anything like that. But she coming, moving
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Speaker 2: over here, I've been living in Glasgow for six years now.
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Speaker 2: And Danny always slags me. He was like, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're a you're not even going to be a football fan,
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Speaker 2: you don't even know what you're getting into here, because
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Speaker 2: I didn't like football when I moved over, not that
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Speaker 2: I didn't like it, I had no interest in it,
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Speaker 2: and he was like, give it a couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: give it a couple of weeks, and see what you
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Speaker 2: get into, what you're signing into, and moving over to Glasgow,
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Speaker 2: and now it's like, I know every player on the
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Speaker 2: current team, I watch every game, I'm keeping up, and
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Speaker 2: keeping in touch with it, but it's, it was definitely
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Speaker 2: an interesting one, going over, and being thrown in at
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Speaker 2: the deep end, it was a good laugh though.
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Speaker 4: It's just part of the culture in Glasgow though, isn't it,
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Speaker 4: if you're, Everybody knows everything about the football. It's always,
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Speaker 4: it's the top stories in the media.
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Speaker 3: You can't, you can't hide from it.
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Speaker 2: You can't get away from it.
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Speaker 3: You can't hide from it, aye.
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Speaker 2: Definitely not.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But even like when we, we're kind of resident musicians
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Speaker 2: in Kitty O'Shea's in Glasgow. Yeah, I should do that, yeah.
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Speaker 2: And like, when I moved over first, as I was saying,
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Speaker 2: it was just doing kind of regular gigs and then
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Speaker 2: it was like, all right, can you do this match day?
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Speaker 2: And it was like, ah, yeah, yeah, we'll go in
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Speaker 2: and do it. It'll just be, you know, we're going
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Speaker 2: to do the gig. But it's just mental. My boys
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Speaker 2: are in, like the pub opens if it's a, if
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Speaker 2: it's a three o'clock kickoff, the pub is open at
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Speaker 2: 11 or 12 and there's a queue outside the door
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Speaker 2: of lads waiting to get in to have a pint
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Speaker 2: before they get to train. And it's like, it's so
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Speaker 2: ingrained in the society. But it was an amazing thing
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Speaker 2: to see as well. What I thought was amazing out
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Speaker 2: in Catheroic was like, when you see what, not just Celtic,
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Speaker 2: but what football means to people and what it means
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Speaker 2: to people's lives. Like we went out there like me
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Speaker 2: going in blind and saying like these people are just
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Speaker 2: die-hard fans.
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Speaker 1: The three, four hundred people there, did you expect that
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Speaker 1: amount of folk, were you surprised by?
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Speaker 4: We didn't really know what to expect at all, but
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Speaker 4: I mean everything was just, I couldn't, I can't praise
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Speaker 4: like Colie and the boys enough, I mean it was
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Speaker 4: a fantastic festival but in terms of the way we
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Speaker 4: were kind of looked after and stuff, I loved that
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Speaker 4: they He put us in with you guys in the
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Speaker 4: apartment and all that.
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Speaker 2: Have you been invited back? Like, sure yet? No, not yet, no.
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Speaker 2: We're hoping that Carl doesn't come in. Or at least
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Speaker 2: they better put us in another apartment. Separate lifts from
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Speaker 2: the airport. They're not getting in a car with John
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Speaker 2: Miller and Peter Grant again.
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Speaker 1: We've had an invite yet excuse you I'm sure you'll
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Speaker 1: be there I'm sure you'll be there you're alright you
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Speaker 1: were saying about the set up of the apartment as
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Speaker 1: well you know above his I mean Peter Grant doing
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Speaker 1: our washing he was the father figure.
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Speaker 4: He was the father figure for everything yeah I mean
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Speaker 4: he gave you a good toast didn't.
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Speaker 2: He he did but I think it was funny how
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Speaker 2: like Danny was slagging me see when we got in
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Speaker 2: the car and like we said like I I would
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Speaker 2: have known your name Because you would have been, when
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Speaker 2: my brother Jamie was alive, you would have been captain
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Speaker 2: in and around that time. And he was a massive
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Speaker 2: Celtic fan, a huge Celtic fan. So when I got
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Speaker 2: in the car, I was lucky enough to be put
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Speaker 2: up in the front seat. And it was fairness to grantee,
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Speaker 2: he was like, go on, my son, you get in
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Speaker 2: the front seat, mate. I was trying to be, you know,
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Speaker 2: let the old lad in the front, you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean? And Danny was saying to me, when we
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Speaker 2: got out of the car, he was like, I've never
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Speaker 2: seen you as quiet as me. Never, never, man.
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Speaker 3: Never, he's never that quiet. I think you were just
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Speaker 3: kind of soaking it all in.
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Speaker 2: I was soaking it all in. I was just looking
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Speaker 2: in the rear view mirror.
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Speaker 3: He was trying to figure out what the name was.
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Speaker 5: What was Jackie?
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Speaker 2: What was he saying? But it was just trying, like,
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Speaker 2: Joe Miller, Joe was so funny from the get-go. Like,
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Speaker 2: when he got in the car dressed in all black
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Speaker 2: and he had the sunglasses on and he was just, like...
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Speaker 2: Peter Grant was at the door side, Danny was here
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Speaker 2: and Joe Miller was the other side and Danny's only
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Speaker 2: a small guy and Joe's only small as well. But
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Speaker 2: Joel was sitting like that with his elbows in tightrips.
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Speaker 2: And he just kept on, there was these little digs
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Speaker 2: coming in. I was like, every time I open my
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Speaker 2: mouth here, I'm going to get a dig here. It's
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Speaker 2: better off just stay quiet, assess the situation. But by
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Speaker 2: the end of the show, we were all giving it sucks.
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Speaker 1: It's the way they welcome you in. So how did
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Speaker 1: you guys then get together then? Way back, so how
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Speaker 1: long have you been together.
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Speaker 2: Doing your stuff?
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Speaker 3: What would it be, maybe about seven years or something?
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Speaker 2: Seven or eight years, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because you're obviously in.
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Speaker 1: the weeks, so were you in that band at that time?
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Speaker 4: Before I've been kind of in that band for, I
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Speaker 4: think we were working it out there it's been about
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Speaker 4: 10 years now or something like that but we kind
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Speaker 4: of met on a different thing altogether when I first
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Speaker 4: came out of uni, I studied a bit of music
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Speaker 4: at uni and I was lucky enough to walk into
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Speaker 4: a show that was touring the world it was an
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Speaker 4: Irish dancing show, it was called Irish Celtic and I
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Speaker 4: did that for kind of 10 years and along the
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Speaker 4: way you kind of joined.
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Speaker 3: In That'd be what, five, six years?
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Speaker 2: Into you doing the jazz.
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Speaker 4: Five, six or seven years ago. And that's where we
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Speaker 4: first met. And you were in Ireland at the time.
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Speaker 4: You were living in Ireland.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was living in Ireland. Like I, when I
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Speaker 2: left college in Dublin, I was offered a gig out
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Speaker 2: in Orlando, Florida, out in Disney World, playing music. So
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Speaker 2: being 19 years of age and moving out to America,
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Speaker 2: like I lived in Dublin for two years when I
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Speaker 2: was in college. But then like, There's one thing about
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Speaker 2: living in Dublin, away from Mammy and Daddy, but then
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Speaker 2: going over to America, 19 years of age.
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Speaker 6: You can't drink then, either.
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Speaker 2: Well, legally, you know what I mean? There's ways around that. But,
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Speaker 2: you know, going over there, and that gig was amazing.
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Speaker 2: How long were you there for that? I lived in
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Speaker 2: Florida for two years. So I'd done that, and it
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Speaker 2: was tough work. Like, that gig was six nights a
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Speaker 2: week for two years in one. And the only time
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Speaker 2: you got off was if you were going to renew
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Speaker 2: a visa. they'd normally give you your time off within
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Speaker 2: that time. They were kind of clever, like, right, we'll
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Speaker 2: fly you back down to renew your visa, but then
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Speaker 2: you can take a week off after that, but that's
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Speaker 2: because you had to wait to get the visa sent
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Speaker 2: in the post. But done that, like, I have an
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Speaker 2: awful lot to thank for that gig. Like, I met
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Speaker 2: my now fiancé doing that gig, and I met, bumped
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Speaker 2: into Damaris Woods and Derek Warfield of Wolftone's fame. They
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Speaker 2: were responsible for booking music in a bar down in Tampa,
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Speaker 2: in Florida. And we done a gig down there. One night,
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Speaker 2: even though we weren't supposed to, we went down and
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Speaker 2: done a gig. And long story short, I moved back
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Speaker 2: from Florida, having lived in there full time for two years.
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Speaker 2: And then I got asked to cover a gig with
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Speaker 2: the Young Wolftones. So when the original Wolftones split in 2001,
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Speaker 2: Derek Warfield went and set up his own band. So
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Speaker 2: it was Derek Warfield and the Young Wolftones. he asked
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Speaker 2: me to cover a gig for the guy that was
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Speaker 2: originally in the band who I also knew and it
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Speaker 2: was in Kilbegan at like some festival thing and it
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Speaker 2: was an audition that I didn't know was an audition
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Speaker 2: and done the gig and literally straight after Damaris kind
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Speaker 2: of came up to me and was like look Padder's
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Speaker 2: leaving the band lucky to join and then I was
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Speaker 2: with them for another two years I think and that
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Speaker 2: was toured America non-stop like I've seen so much of
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Speaker 2: the states and But then that brought me that experience. Like,
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Speaker 2: it's a funny one, like, that experience was amazing and
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Speaker 2: it did lead me into working with Irish Celtic and
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Speaker 2: meeting Danny because when I was working in, before I
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Speaker 2: joined the Young Wolftones, when I was working in Disney,
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Speaker 2: I got to know obviously a lot of Irish dancers.
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Speaker 2: There was a lot of Irish dancers that they have
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Speaker 2: Irish dance shows on the hour, every hour. It's a
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Speaker 2: massive building. And But a lot of those dancers were
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Speaker 2: touring Irish Celtic and they were the ones that said
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Speaker 2: to me, they were like, there's, who's now one of
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Speaker 2: our best mates, Anton, who's the musical director, there's his
9:58
Speaker 2: email address, send him an email. I sent Anton an
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Speaker 2: email when I was leaving Disney and in fairness to
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Speaker 2: him he got back to me straight away he said
10:06
Speaker 2: I don't have an opening right now but I'll keep
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Speaker 2: you in mind and then a year later I was
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Speaker 2: with the Young Wolf Tones about a year and a
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Speaker 2: half and I sent him another email and he was
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Speaker 2: like I might have something coming up and then sure
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Speaker 2: enough he was like send me your passport And then
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Speaker 2: that's where we met then. So I knew Danny before
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Speaker 2: I ever moved to Glasgow. But it's been a whirlwind
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Speaker 2: ever since.
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Speaker 1: How did you end up with the Kitties gig then?
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Speaker 1: Were you doing different pubs in Glasgow?
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Speaker 4: Well, I've always lived there, so I've been kind of
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Speaker 4: gigging in the pubs and that since I was 18
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Speaker 4: years old.
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Speaker 3: So we've done all the rounds earlier.
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Speaker 4: In the older pubs, I don't know if you remember
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Speaker 4: Foucher and that back in the day and St Vincent
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Speaker 4: Street or that and all that. We used to gig
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Speaker 4: in there and then up in Malones, then Connellys, Topeth,
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Speaker 4: all those places. So I kind of knew the lay
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Speaker 4: of the land and then when we kind of moved over,
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Speaker 4: we just kind of got a wee duo thing going together.
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Speaker 2: We kind of picked up pretty quick. So I moved
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Speaker 2: over here at a very, very funny time. I moved
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Speaker 2: over here during COVID. So I think I always remember,
11:11
Speaker 2: we talk about it quite a bit. Me and my
11:14
Speaker 2: dad came over in his Jeep. with all my belongings,
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Speaker 2: everything I owned, packed up everything and we drove over
11:22
Speaker 2: because COVID at the time came in and I was,
11:25
Speaker 2: we had been on tour, we got sent back from,
11:27
Speaker 2: remember we were supposed to be on tour for like
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Speaker 2: 12 weeks and we woke up that morning in Paris
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Speaker 2: and we were like, everyone's going home. So there's no
11:33
Speaker 2: point in paying rent in the apartment in Bursa. I
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Speaker 2: moved back in with my folks and in the meantime
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Speaker 2: of that, I met my missus and then she was like,
11:41
Speaker 2: want to buy a house and that happened. I was like, right.
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Speaker 2: So I, agreed to buy a house in Cumbernauld over FaceTime.
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Speaker 2: You know all about Cumbernauld. I said it to him
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Speaker 2: when I was like, oh, we're buying a house. Where
11:54
Speaker 2: are you buying a Cumbernauld? He said, wouldn't you stop
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Speaker 2: at the lights in Cumbernauld, mate? But I done that
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Speaker 2: and it was great. But I remember we moved all
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Speaker 2: the stuff over in one day and I had to
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Speaker 2: go back to Ireland and the last thing I had
12:04
Speaker 2: to do was sell my car. I said, when I
12:06
Speaker 2: get the car sold, I'll get on the motorbike then
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Speaker 2: and that's the last thing I had to bring over
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Speaker 2: was my motorbike. All I'd left in Burr was five
12:14
Speaker 2: pairs of jocks two pairs of jeans and a couple
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Speaker 2: of t-shirts. That's all I had. And the motorbike. Sold
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Speaker 2: the car and moved over. And then, obviously, COVID times,
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Speaker 2: the pubs weren't... I was at the boat, right? And
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Speaker 2: it was the day they announced the second lockdown. So
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Speaker 2: I was at the boat in Belfast. I was like,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to get a pint now. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: get into Glasgow. I was texting him, can't wait. Next thing,
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Speaker 2: BBC News, everything's shutting at six o'clock. And I was like,
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Speaker 2: I'm getting to Karen Ryan at five past five. I'm
12:44
Speaker 2: not going to get a pint at all. So I
12:45
Speaker 2: got up on the bike. But then got up and
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Speaker 2: I think it was, that lockdown wasn't as long. That
12:51
Speaker 2: was a kind of Christmassy time. And then we came
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Speaker 2: into the January, February, pubs started opening up. Did you
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Speaker 2: just do anything in that lockdown time? Like on Zoom
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Speaker 2: or anything like that? Did you just do? I didn't.
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Speaker 2: I done a good few Facebook Lives and I have
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Speaker 2: to say they were a tonic. They were brilliant.
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Speaker 3: So quite an awkward thing though, eh?
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Speaker 4: Like to sit in front of like just, camera on
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Speaker 4: your own there's no feedback there's no audience reaction or
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Speaker 4: anything like that it's an odd thing you get it.
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Speaker 2: To an extent like you have to bear in mind
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Speaker 2: people had nothing.
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Speaker 1: Folk were trying to create their own entertainment but.
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Speaker 2: They had nothing like people were going out running 5k' s
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Speaker 2: and breaking world land speed records do you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean but it was like on your own though
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Speaker 2: aye aye skipping it and all that but it was
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Speaker 2: like I was kind of reluctant to do it at
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Speaker 2: the start and we I was joking as well when
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Speaker 2: lockdown when the first one came in It was magic.
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Speaker 2: Because we were so busy.
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Speaker 3: Those first six weeks were scorching as well. Oh my God,
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Speaker 3: it was so amazing.
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Speaker 2: And the first couple of weeks was like, this is
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Speaker 2: a top. Because at that stage, it was the busiest
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Speaker 2: I'd ever been and you were probably the same. And
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Speaker 2: then when the lockdown came, it was a tonic for
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Speaker 2: the first couple of weeks. But then people were like,
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Speaker 2: we can't leave the house. Like back in Ireland, you
14:05
Speaker 2: couldn't go any more than five kilometres from your address.
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Speaker 2: And I was like, I have to do something. I
14:09
Speaker 2: hadn't picked up a guitar. for that couple of weeks
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Speaker 2: and I was delighted. And then I was like, wasn't
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Speaker 2: the place something? And then done it. And it was
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Speaker 2: like a thousand people coming on and watching. All local
14:20
Speaker 2: and people, but people that you would have met touring.
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Speaker 2: And people were so good. People were sending money and
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Speaker 2: sending in requests and, oh, will you give us a
14:27
Speaker 2: shout out the next thing? You know, they'd send you
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Speaker 2: 20 quid and all that. It was brilliant, but obviously
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Speaker 2: nothing beats the real thing. But it was, it was
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Speaker 2: good for what it was. But then, like the over
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Speaker 2: here and it started to lift again. And like Danny
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Speaker 2: was my only in. Do you know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: I knew a lot of the, I wouldn't know Benny
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Speaker 2: and Marky and stuff like that, but Danny was playing
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Speaker 2: in the pubs with Marky and stuff. And that was
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Speaker 2: my in. I think the first gig I done was
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Speaker 2: in Malone's with you. I think that was the first
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Speaker 2: one we done. And then once we got in the
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Speaker 2: door with Kitties, we just got on so well with
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Speaker 2: all the staff. And like they're great friends of ours
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Speaker 2: and they're so good to us. And it's just like,
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Speaker 2: we're just in there all the time now. Do you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean? And we're so well looked after
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Speaker 2: and it is an amazing, it's an amazing place. You
15:14
Speaker 2: know what I mean? It's an amazing place you go in,
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Speaker 2: you know what you're getting every time you go in.
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Speaker 2: I thought you were coming in. Aye.
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Speaker 1: We'd all be.
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Speaker 2: You're going to be coming in on Friday. We're still,
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Speaker 2: we're still trying to recover from that Cabo Royd trip.
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Speaker 3: I've not had a time yet.
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Speaker 1: We're a wee bit older than you remember.
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Speaker 3: We've been on the beer since Cabo Royd.
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Speaker 2: We were in Shetland.
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Speaker 6: Last weekend.
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Speaker 3: We were in Shetland.
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Speaker 2: It's a lie.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing much else to do on there.
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Speaker 2: We were in Shetland for the first time. What else
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Speaker 2: are you going to do? How was that?
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Speaker 3: How did that go?
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Speaker 2: It was actually really good.
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Speaker 1: There was 250, again, you go to these places, you
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Speaker 1: don't know what to expect. There was 250 Celtic supporters.
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Speaker 6: You can't really see Lubeau though.
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Speaker 3: You can't really see Lubeau.
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Speaker 2: It was Lubeau, wasn't it? Lubeau was our first. Ah, brilliant.
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Speaker 2: So it was a really good night.
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Speaker 1: And then with the serial experience of me, you and
15:57
Speaker 1: Chick Young watching the Scotland game and my children, Hi guys,
16:01
Speaker 1: as you probably well know by now, we have signed
16:03
Speaker 1: up for the London Marathon next April and we have
16:08
Speaker 1: some fantastic people supporting us, groups supporting us, we're doing
16:12
Speaker 1: it for a fantastic cause, or two causes, who are
16:14
Speaker 1: we doing it for?
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Speaker 6: We're doing it for Headway UK and the Concilium Sports Foundation.
16:19
Speaker 1: Yep, so we're going to have some updated videos of
16:23
Speaker 1: our progress and our training and everything else that it
16:26
Speaker 1: takes to get us over the line He's emphasised that
16:29
Speaker 1: time doesn't matter.
16:30
Speaker 2: I probably agree. As long as we complete it.
16:33
Speaker 1: There'll be a link in the bio for any charity donations.
16:39
Speaker 1: We're going to be raising as much money as we
16:41
Speaker 1: can over the next period of time. Our training starts
16:44
Speaker 1: very soon. And yeah, look forward to some updates on here.
16:48
Speaker 2: Hopefully no injuries.
16:50
Speaker 3: We'd been invited after the gig.
16:56
Speaker 1: Going back to the room to watch the Brazil-Morocco game,
16:58
Speaker 1: as I said, just after that, we're like, we're just
17:00
Speaker 1: going to stay here and watch the Scotland game as well.
17:03
Speaker 1: Couple of turns.
17:05
Speaker 2: It's a good game, isn't it?
17:05
Speaker 1: Where did you watch it?
17:07
Speaker 2: We went home down there. See, this fella, right?
17:11
Speaker 1: Did you have a gig on that night?
17:13
Speaker 2: Aye, we were playing immediately before, but he's... What I've noticed,
17:17
Speaker 2: living in Glasgow, is, right, and I don't know if
17:20
Speaker 2: it's specific to Celtic, because I can't comment on other sites, but...
17:25
Speaker 2: they don't care about international football, right? A lot of
17:27
Speaker 2: people are like, ah, international football, ah, what about it, right? Right?
17:33
Speaker 2: A story before, last weekend, right? We were in Murphy's
17:37
Speaker 2: down in the Merchant City years ago. I don't even
17:39
Speaker 2: remember what must have been the Euros or whatever was
17:41
Speaker 2: going on in Scotland we were playing. And we were
17:43
Speaker 2: sitting down having a couple of pints. And he's sitting
17:45
Speaker 2: there going, ah, international football, ah, whatever about next thing, Scotland, buff, goal.
17:50
Speaker 2: And he went, ah we're still going we're going to
17:53
Speaker 2: get Humptree one same old story sob story Scotland 15
17:58
Speaker 2: minutes later both Scotland get another goal he's like ah
18:02
Speaker 2: I don't know about that right then third goal goes
18:04
Speaker 2: in the second half he jumps up we'll be coming
18:07
Speaker 2: starts to chant the whole pub is going bananas right
18:10
Speaker 2: and then he was saying all day last Friday going
18:12
Speaker 2: ah man can't be fucking blah blah blah blah blah
18:16
Speaker 2: blah and then we were playing immediately before the kick
18:19
Speaker 2: off yeah upstairs in Kitty O'Shea's. And the place was bouncing.
18:25
Speaker 1: So you were on just before?
18:26
Speaker 2: Aye, just before. And it was heaving busy. And I
18:31
Speaker 2: was like, right, we'll finish up. Because they wanted us off, obviously,
18:34
Speaker 2: before the anthems. So I was like, we'll finish up,
18:38
Speaker 2: we'll do Canada Onion, we're going to Loch Lomond after. Obviously,
18:41
Speaker 2: everyone up and going. And the place just went ballistic.
18:44
Speaker 2: And we were doing Loch Lomond. And I was singing
18:47
Speaker 2: and whatever. And next thing, some guy just threw up
18:50
Speaker 2: a salt tyre And I looked over at him playing
18:52
Speaker 2: the whistle and he was greeting! It was emotional though,
18:55
Speaker 2: it was emotional.
18:58
Speaker 1: The flower of Scotland was emotional.
19:01
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
19:03
Speaker 6: It sounded, it did get to you. I mean, been
19:10
Speaker 6: in different times there, but I thought that was incredible.
19:14
Speaker 2: It was fantastic. When we got into the car, because
19:16
Speaker 2: I was like... We finished the quarter.
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Speaker 5: I was like rushing because I had to drop him
19:26
Speaker 5: home and I wanted to get home because the missus
19:28
Speaker 5: had it on the iPad in the bed.
19:30
Speaker 2: I was like, get home. We got into the car
19:32
Speaker 2: and next thing the anthem started. We played the Haitian
19:35
Speaker 2: national anthem first and it was whatever and it was grand.
19:38
Speaker 2: And we were stopped at the lights just down in
19:40
Speaker 2: the Garbles the next thing. Christ, and he's going, yes!
19:45
Speaker 2: Hitting the ceiling, he's like, come on, Scotland but it
19:48
Speaker 2: was it was amazing and.
19:50
Speaker 1: With the game being Friday yous will be playing again
19:53
Speaker 1: Kitties on Friday we are we will be no it's
19:57
Speaker 1: late 11 o'clock so.
19:58
Speaker 2: We're playing before and after you know what I mean
20:01
Speaker 2: but we'll hopefully and if we get the same result
20:03
Speaker 2: again it'll be a good one it's hard to know
20:05
Speaker 2: because obviously I thought I.
20:06
Speaker 1: Thought he had a good side they made it difficult
20:09
Speaker 1: for us we were talking about it earlier you look
20:11
Speaker 1: at Cape Verde getting a point off Spenders you just
20:15
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect with these teams so I
20:17
Speaker 1: think we get a wee bit of stick because we
20:19
Speaker 1: didn't play as.
20:20
Speaker 2: Well but you take the three points I think France
20:22
Speaker 2: were surprised by Senegal there the first half France weren't awake.
20:26
Speaker 7: There yesterday I thought Senegal were decent Mbappe was amazing
20:31
Speaker 7: I thought we were only talking about on the way
20:33
Speaker 7: up when the commentator when, what's the boy that scored
20:36
Speaker 7: the goal for Senegal, the place for PSG?
20:40
Speaker 2: Young boy, he scored, he was a screamer of a
20:44
Speaker 2: goal he scored, and not 30 seconds later Mbappe just bang,
20:48
Speaker 2: and the commentator on top of it was like, anything
20:51
Speaker 2: you can do, I can do better, he's like, I'm
20:53
Speaker 2: still the king, and I was like, and I don't
20:55
Speaker 2: like Mbappe, like, I just don't like him, but I
20:58
Speaker 2: was like.
20:59
Speaker 8: Something straight yeah he's unbelievable but the kid took his
21:01
Speaker 8: goal well as well yeah he's a young laddie as
21:04
Speaker 8: well he's only 18 or something but I think Mbappé
21:07
Speaker 8: even knows because he gave him a hug after the
21:10
Speaker 8: game was over and I reckon he not because the
21:12
Speaker 8: boys were saying he's the heir apparent in PSG.
21:15
Speaker 3: He's doing the fantasy football thing.
21:18
Speaker 1: I normally do it but I've no doubt is it
21:20
Speaker 1: the World.
21:20
Speaker 4: Cup I've no doubt it's my first time doing it
21:22
Speaker 4: how are you getting on don't know how to work.
21:23
Speaker 3: It Can he work it on the phone?
21:27
Speaker 1: I actually had a wee look and couldn't find it.
21:28
Speaker 2: Never mind how to work it.
21:30
Speaker 3: Can he work it on the phone?
21:31
Speaker 4: And then I had Mbappé, but it wasn't until after
21:35
Speaker 4: the game I realised he was sitting on my bench.
21:38
Speaker 3: So he scored two goals and I'd have been shot
21:40
Speaker 3: right up the leg.
21:42
Speaker 1: I normally do the English Premiership one, but I literally
21:46
Speaker 1: couldn't find it.
21:47
Speaker 3: Aye. That's my first time. First time. Bottom of the league,
21:49
Speaker 3: I'm sitting.
21:49
Speaker 2: No! Second bottom. He will if you've got Mbappé on
21:51
Speaker 2: the bench. He's not used to it, though.
21:54
Speaker 4: And I had the Hingway boy, I had the boy
21:56
Speaker 4: for Spain, and they were tortured, eh?
21:59
Speaker 1: They struggled, they struggled. They'll get better, Spain will get better,
22:03
Speaker 1: but aye, they struggled. Kate Verdi just defended with her life,
22:07
Speaker 1: didn't they? Made it difficult for them.
22:08
Speaker 4: I think the goalie, what was it, 50,000 followers? Aye,
22:12
Speaker 4: he's up to 7.7 million or something.
22:14
Speaker 2: Is that 20 now? 11 million.
22:14
Speaker 1: You're joking?
22:15
Speaker 2: Wow. Unbelievable.
22:16
Speaker 4: I saw it when it went up to 1.5, it's
22:18
Speaker 4: gone up to 11 million.
22:20
Speaker 3: Incredible, isn't it?
22:24
Speaker 2: It is crazy, man. That's the platform you're on, though.
22:28
Speaker 1: If you go and do anything at all on that platform,
22:30
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just.
22:31
Speaker 3: Global stage.
22:32
Speaker 2: Global. But even, like, see, when the opening game was on,
22:35
Speaker 2: was it Mexico and South Africa? Yeah. Like, everyone watched it.
22:40
Speaker 2: Everyone was showing, like, people that were saying, ah, the
22:42
Speaker 2: full opening of the World Cup, we put that on there. Like,
22:44
Speaker 2: there must have been some viewership for that. I'd love
22:46
Speaker 2: to see all the figures.
22:47
Speaker 4: I saw a thing, I know, it said there's 250
22:49
Speaker 4: million watched the Super Bowl.
22:52
Speaker 2: Aye.
22:53
Speaker 4: And 1.2... Billions watch the World Cup.
22:57
Speaker 2: It always gives umps. I've written football, haven't I? It's amazing.
23:00
Speaker 2: No matter where it is.
23:01
Speaker 3: You love it now.
23:02
Speaker 2: Aye. But it is, that's what I'm saying about, I
23:06
Speaker 2: suppose going back to Cabo Roig, like, you see people
23:11
Speaker 2: of all ages, from kids to octogenarians walking about and like,
23:18
Speaker 2: what's that boy's name? Duff. Duff. Duff, I know. Like,
23:21
Speaker 2: going around in a scooter, and he had a different
23:22
Speaker 2: colour suit on every day, and, like, it was amazing.
23:25
Speaker 1: He was at Celtic Park every week, that guy.
23:27
Speaker 2: Ah, amazing.
23:27
Speaker 1: So I was across every week.
23:28
Speaker 2: You know, and, like, it was amazing to see, and
23:30
Speaker 2: I said, we spoke about it as well, like.
23:32
Speaker 3: Sharp head, a sharp tongue, didn't he?
23:34
Speaker 4: Aye. We were getting a photo, we asked for a
23:36
Speaker 4: photo with him, man, and he says, aye, no boner,
23:39
Speaker 4: so we put him in the middle, and the woman
23:41
Speaker 4: was taking the photo, and she was struggling with it,
23:43
Speaker 4: and he says, it's the way it turned out to be,
23:45
Speaker 4: and we're like, ah. You wouldn't want to be working
23:47
Speaker 4: the morning.
23:50
Speaker 2: Shut up man. But everyone was like, you'd want to
23:54
Speaker 2: have had thick skin over there with the crew of
23:57
Speaker 2: us that was in it. 100%. You know, but even like.
24:00
Speaker 1: That was like us, like you talk about Peter in
24:02
Speaker 1: the dressing room, that was us coming into that dressing
24:04
Speaker 1: room because we were, there was an age gap there.
24:06
Speaker 1: It was like there, most of the team were of
24:08
Speaker 1: an age and then there was maybe a five, six,
24:11
Speaker 1: maybe more gap.
24:12
Speaker 2: Yes.
24:13
Speaker 8: So you had to have thick skin.
24:15
Speaker 1: So I knew what was coming with you guys when
24:17
Speaker 1: you got off the plane, but I think it made you.
24:20
Speaker 2: You know.
24:20
Speaker 4: I could actually, I remember telling me your face in
24:23
Speaker 4: the motor.
24:24
Speaker 3: I knew it was coming.
24:25
Speaker 2: I knew it was coming. I think it was a
24:28
Speaker 2: good way.
24:28
Speaker 4: To get his.
24:29
Speaker 2: You kind of felt even, there was a bit of
24:31
Speaker 2: you that kind of felt like a sorry face. Because
24:33
Speaker 2: it just kept going.
24:34
Speaker 3: I knew it was coming.
24:36
Speaker 2: I mean, Joe, when they stopped, relentless.
24:38
Speaker 6: When I first joined, I was a little bit young.
24:41
Speaker 6: First day, and he'd granted he'd put Power Rangers out
24:44
Speaker 6: in my space. coming in there, I was like, what
24:46
Speaker 6: the hell is this?
24:47
Speaker 2: We're 21 year old.
24:48
Speaker 6: So like you coming into that, it is like a
24:50
Speaker 6: dressing room environment, you know, in the first wee bit
24:53
Speaker 6: and he starts giving you a bit of stick and,
24:55
Speaker 6: talking about other bands and all that and yous are shite.
24:59
Speaker 3: Don't know how many times we heard that last week man.
25:01
Speaker 6: That's what a dressing room is like, just to get
25:04
Speaker 6: a bite, to get a reaction.
25:06
Speaker 2: And you got a few with him too.
25:07
Speaker 3: When you spot, see when you see.
25:08
Speaker 4: Him, I know obviously that's the act professional and all that,
25:10
Speaker 4: but see when you see him on the telly and that.
25:12
Speaker 3: Doesn't he strike you as that? I didn't expect that
25:14
Speaker 3: from him, I think that's what caught me out.
25:16
Speaker 2: Well it was brilliant, like he, what I loved about
25:19
Speaker 2: it as well, even from Yee, And we even fell
25:24
Speaker 2: into it. Ye all hold, he's El Capitan. Do you
25:27
Speaker 2: know what I mean? And ye all felt that. And
25:29
Speaker 2: everyone kind of looked to Grantie to kind of, what
25:32
Speaker 2: are we doing here now? Never forget your soldiers. Don't
25:36
Speaker 2: forget the rules. Everyone knows the rules. He got a
25:38
Speaker 2: double bed.
25:39
Speaker 4: He was allocated a double bed.
25:42
Speaker 2: I know, but it was.
25:44
Speaker 3: He told me to take you home and off I went.
25:49
Speaker 2: That was a funny one. Chinese whispers, how people get
25:51
Speaker 2: cut out. Chinese whispers. Exactly. And then he's been going
25:54
Speaker 2: around telling everyone, right? Back at home. And I'm getting
25:57
Speaker 2: texts from people going, I heard you stuck the head
25:59
Speaker 2: in Simon Danly the other night.
26:00
Speaker 3: I'll need to show you the photo.
26:02
Speaker 2: One of the boys. Have you seen it?
26:05
Speaker 1: No.
26:05
Speaker 2: Oh, mate. McBride?
26:07
Speaker 4: Aye.
26:07
Speaker 2: 100% did I.
26:08
Speaker 3: One of the boys made a photo.
26:10
Speaker 2: Did he? Aye. Did I show you that? No.
26:17
Speaker 1: That is you and we always had the Stefan Matty.
26:27
Speaker 3: In the background.
26:30
Speaker 4: He's obviously just ripped that one up. He's picked a
26:33
Speaker 4: good photo.
26:34
Speaker 2: That is funny man. I've never seen that.
26:37
Speaker 1: Grant will need to speak to to Collie and make
26:41
Speaker 1: sure you get your invite back next year he's the
26:43
Speaker 1: captain he's got that influence.
26:46
Speaker 2: Granted you're alright we don't need your influence but no
26:49
Speaker 2: Collie in fairness like and from the get go like
26:53
Speaker 2: you've seen it yourself you arrive there Dickie's there to
26:56
Speaker 2: pick you up you're brought into the pub what are
26:58
Speaker 2: you having for a drink there lads right we'll get
27:01
Speaker 2: you into the digs there you are is that the
27:03
Speaker 2: first kind of thing that you've done of.
27:05
Speaker 1: That of a football sort of thing you touched on
27:08
Speaker 1: touring you touched on touring I think you said France.
27:12
Speaker 1: So have you toured together?
27:13
Speaker 2: All over? Aye, aye, aye.
27:15
Speaker 3: We've done a lot of Europe.
27:17
Speaker 1: What was that like in comparison then to other festivals?
27:21
Speaker 2: It's funny, like, so I was only thinking about this
27:23
Speaker 2: during the week, obviously thinking about what we'd speak about,
27:26
Speaker 2: but it was like, what we'd done with Irish Celtic,
27:31
Speaker 2: that's a massive production. Huge production. Three Arctic trucks, 15,
27:35
Speaker 2: 16 crew, plus in-house crew at the venues. And it's
27:40
Speaker 2: not dissimilar to what ye would have went through playing
27:44
Speaker 2: football in a way. And what I mean by that is.
27:46
Speaker 1: Was there so different bands going to these places?
27:48
Speaker 2: No, this is the one house band. So there's five
27:51
Speaker 2: in the band and then there's like 15 dancers. Something
27:54
Speaker 2: like that, aye. And it's regimented, right? Everyone's working off
27:59
Speaker 2: a click track. Full lights, full... It's like a West
28:02
Speaker 2: End show, basically, the tours. But it's so similar in
28:06
Speaker 2: that you wake up in the hotel... you go on
28:10
Speaker 2: the bus, you go to the venue. Like ye, you
28:13
Speaker 2: wake up at the team hotel, you go on the bus,
28:15
Speaker 2: you go to the stadium. And it's like, you go in,
28:17
Speaker 2: you do your sound check, you do your warm-up. You
28:20
Speaker 2: go in, right, you go and wait for the gig
28:22
Speaker 2: to come, you get ready to go on to the pitch,
28:24
Speaker 2: we go out and do the show, there's a half-time,
28:26
Speaker 2: you go out, and it was so, and it's that
28:28
Speaker 2: regimented thing of, and like, we were doing gigs too,
28:31
Speaker 2: like we've done some of the most amazing, like the
28:34
Speaker 2: Alta Opera in Frankfurt, which is like 3,000, but it's,
28:38
Speaker 2: this opulent, gorgeous building, like the Feshbielhaus in Baden-Baden, the
28:43
Speaker 2: Dome de Paris, the Seine Musicale, which is the big,
28:46
Speaker 2: massive venue on the Seine in Paris. We've done some
28:49
Speaker 2: of the most renowned venues in Paris. Like, what we've
28:53
Speaker 2: done there was so regimented. And it was the same
28:57
Speaker 2: every night, because that's just the way the show had
28:59
Speaker 2: to be. It was militant in that way. But it
29:02
Speaker 2: was amazing, because you were going from playing in a 1,000-seater Victorian.
29:09
Speaker 2: With all the red velvet seats and everyone's in it
29:11
Speaker 2: like that to play in Zenith stadiums which are the
29:15
Speaker 2: size of the Hydra. You know what I mean? And
29:18
Speaker 2: what was nice about it as well was you were
29:19
Speaker 2: doing these massive gigs and like when you got a
29:23
Speaker 2: good crowd, it was like you'd come off the stage,
29:25
Speaker 2: you'd be buzzing. You'd be electric, people giving you a
29:27
Speaker 2: standing ovation. But the thing that was great about it was,
29:30
Speaker 2: see if you walked out without the guitar on your back,
29:32
Speaker 2: no one had a clue where you were. Do you
29:34
Speaker 2: know what I mean? People wouldn't care. But then if
29:36
Speaker 2: you walked out and you had the guitar on your
29:38
Speaker 2: back and all that, people are, oh, we have four, blah, blah. blah, blah, blah.
29:41
Speaker 2: We'd be just, we'd go to the pub straight away.
29:42
Speaker 2: We'd be out before the crowd half the time.
29:45
Speaker 4: You must have had it yourself when you travelled with
29:47
Speaker 4: the team and that. European ties, you'd go, you'd spend
29:50
Speaker 4: maybe a day or two there, you'd see nothing.
29:53
Speaker 3: So we used to get that quite a lot.
29:54
Speaker 2: That's what I was about to say. You're just going
29:55
Speaker 2: through one venue.
29:56
Speaker 1: Although you're appreciating the actual venue you're in, you're not seeing.
29:59
Speaker 2: Much else, are you?
30:00
Speaker 3: Sometimes you didn't really get it.
30:01
Speaker 1: And how long would you be away for then?
30:03
Speaker 2: We could be 12 weeks. We'd done a 12-week tour
30:07
Speaker 2: one time.
30:07
Speaker 3: Maybe one, 12. There was a few nines.
30:11
Speaker 2: Nine was the average. Nine, ten.
30:12
Speaker 3: Six weeks. I mean, we were lucky enough to go
30:15
Speaker 3: and see the world.
30:16
Speaker 4: We went to North America, to Canada, Asia.
30:20
Speaker 2: I mean, before.
30:22
Speaker 4: You joined, we've done kind of Australia and New Zealand
30:24
Speaker 4: and stuff as well, which was amazing. But lucky enough
30:27
Speaker 4: to kind of see a bit of the world with it.
30:29
Speaker 2: But like, as you say, like.
30:31
Speaker 1: So the difference with the one two weeks ago is
30:33
Speaker 1: probably it's a wee bit more relaxed.
30:35
Speaker 2: Definitely.
30:36
Speaker 3: You can chill and they're the ones you enjoy.
30:38
Speaker 2: They're the ones you want. I think we're at an
30:40
Speaker 2: age now, like, it's kind of slag. I know I'm
30:43
Speaker 2: only 30, but it's a young man's game going out
30:47
Speaker 2: on the road for nine, ten weeks. Like I have
30:49
Speaker 2: a three-year-old and I'm getting married next year and it's like, we,
30:54
Speaker 2: like I've toured.
30:55
Speaker 1: We were saying that after Cabo Roig. It was only
30:59
Speaker 1: five nights.
31:01
Speaker 3: That did fuel that a couple.
31:02
Speaker 2: Of weeks though.
31:04
Speaker 3: Three days on.
31:05
Speaker 2: But it's funny, like when we go away and it's
31:09
Speaker 2: like the older you get, the less time you want
31:11
Speaker 2: to be away, a lot of the time as well.
31:13
Speaker 2: But like going out to France there and you're away
31:16
Speaker 2: for nine, ten weeks, See, getting a young lad now,
31:19
Speaker 2: if he's just at uni, that's the gig you want.
31:21
Speaker 2: You're not getting to see places all the time, but
31:26
Speaker 2: we were lucky there. I think it might have been
31:29
Speaker 2: our last tour that we'd done. It was very unusual
31:32
Speaker 2: for us to be in one place for more than
31:35
Speaker 2: a night. Normally when you're touring, it's like you'd be
31:37
Speaker 2: in Leon this night and you'd be in Pole this
31:40
Speaker 2: night and the next day is a six hour drive.
31:43
Speaker 2: But when you were in the big cities, you normally
31:44
Speaker 2: done a five day residency. With the last one that
31:47
Speaker 2: we done in France, we were in Paris for 10 days.
31:51
Speaker 2: So you thought that six days in Cabo Roig was long.
31:53
Speaker 2: See that 10 days in Paris, boys? I felt like
31:55
Speaker 2: we were there for six months. I remember waking up
31:57
Speaker 2: in the room going, oh my God, we're still in Paris.
32:01
Speaker 2: We're still in Paris. And it was mental. But like,
32:05
Speaker 2: the grass is always greener.
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Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say. We've always said that.
32:09
Speaker 2: The grass is always greener.
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Speaker 4: The grass is always greener because when you're doing that,
32:12
Speaker 4: you're wanting to do these gigs. And then see when
32:14
Speaker 4: you get to do a lot of these gigs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You're like, oh, I kind of miss going and doing
32:18
Speaker 3: the big things, so.
32:19
Speaker 1: Paris sounds good.
32:20
Speaker 2: But it's even. I know you're working, but. Aye, but
32:22
Speaker 2: even like, for me, right, the way, just for me personally,
32:27
Speaker 2: the way the career kind of went with, when I
32:30
Speaker 2: done the gig in Disney, it was amazing, 19, full
32:33
Speaker 2: of piss and vinegar, thought I was the man, the
32:34
Speaker 2: chest out, you know, and then you get knocked back
32:37
Speaker 2: into line fairly quick, and I needed that, like, and
32:39
Speaker 2: when I was out there, I thought I was the man,
32:41
Speaker 2: but I had friends that were good enough around me
32:43
Speaker 2: to say, don't get too fucking cocksure of yourself.
32:46
Speaker 6: Yeah.
32:46
Speaker 2: Which I needed. I was lucky enough to have people
32:48
Speaker 2: like that around me, but then when I left that
32:51
Speaker 2: and went and joined the Young Wolftones, that was my
32:53
Speaker 2: first time touring. And it was like, you'd land in,
32:58
Speaker 2: you'd go and get the big van, and it was
33:00
Speaker 2: like you were packing all these cases with all the
33:02
Speaker 2: gear and the equipment, and it was like... Good grounding
33:05
Speaker 2: for you. Oh, it was that all right. It was like...
33:08
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. There was one time we'd
33:13
Speaker 2: done a... It was a private house party gig in Philadelphia...
33:16
Speaker 2: We got off the stage about 11 o'clock on a
33:18
Speaker 2: Sunday night. The next gig was in Houston, Texas, which
33:24
Speaker 2: is about a 27-hour drive, and that was on the
33:27
Speaker 2: Tuesday night, right? So we packed the van, drove about
33:32
Speaker 2: 15 hours down to Memphis, got there in the afternoon,
33:35
Speaker 2: went and done Graceland, went and done Sun Studios and
33:37
Speaker 2: done all that, and it was great. But then it
33:39
Speaker 2: was like, right, we're up at 5 o'clock, get back
33:42
Speaker 2: in the van, we've another 10 hours to drive. And
33:45
Speaker 2: it was just, it was that.
33:46
Speaker 8: I've got abandoned planes, trains and automobiles in my head.
33:50
Speaker 2: Joint candy. That's what it is. Like another time, I
33:55
Speaker 2: think I told you about this one, out in Spain.
33:58
Speaker 2: We were doing a festival up in upstate New York
34:00
Speaker 2: and Norwegian used to do the cheap transatlantic flights between
34:03
Speaker 2: Dublin and Stewart Airport. So Stewart Airport was about two
34:06
Speaker 2: hours north of Manhattan. But if you got the flight
34:09
Speaker 2: with them, they were like the Ryanair of a transatlantic flight.
34:12
Speaker 2: But if you got the flight with them, included in
34:14
Speaker 2: the ticket was your bus fare that would bring you
34:16
Speaker 2: to Manhattan. It was a two hour drive. And we
34:19
Speaker 2: used to fly with Delta. So we used to normally fly,
34:21
Speaker 2: you'd fly to JFK, but he was like, we're better
34:23
Speaker 2: off flying there because the festival is 15 minutes around
34:25
Speaker 2: the corner. Flew in on the Friday morning, left Dublin
34:30
Speaker 2: at eight o'clock, landed at one, got in the van,
34:34
Speaker 2: drove to the festival, on stage at four, played till five,
34:38
Speaker 2: back in the van, back to the airport, on the
34:41
Speaker 2: eight o'clock flight back to Dublin. Like I wouldn't do
34:44
Speaker 2: that now. Not a hope. You'd want to pay me stupidly,
34:47
Speaker 2: it'd be a phone number amount of money to do that.
34:50
Speaker 2: But see when you're in your early 20s, oh magic,
34:54
Speaker 2: going to New York for seven hours. Yeah, sign me up.
34:57
Speaker 2: But then it was like, you're in a van over
35:00
Speaker 2: there and you're trying to lie down and the first
35:02
Speaker 2: day you go out you're into this Walmart to buy
35:04
Speaker 2: your pillow and your duvet the seatbelt buckle is digging
35:07
Speaker 2: into your sides and one of the boys is up
35:09
Speaker 2: in the pack of stinky crisps and someone else is
35:12
Speaker 2: smoking oh shit someone's farting and then it's like.
35:15
Speaker 1: By the way there'll be a few guys in the
35:16
Speaker 1: Tartan Army doing that 100% 100% especially if we get
35:20
Speaker 1: into the knockout.
35:21
Speaker 2: Stages aye but even like you go from that and
35:24
Speaker 2: then we went when I joined Irish Celtic it was
35:27
Speaker 2: a big tour bus and I had a microwave and
35:30
Speaker 2: a toilet and I was like oh this is amazing
35:33
Speaker 2: and then you do that for seven years and you
35:35
Speaker 2: go it's kind of let's go to Cabo Roig yeah
35:39
Speaker 2: let's go to Cabo Roig and just get fucking slated
35:42
Speaker 2: for the six days that we're there but as you
35:45
Speaker 2: say I've seen the Tartan Army they're running out of
35:47
Speaker 2: beer over.
35:48
Speaker 1: There man they ran out but I think there was
35:49
Speaker 1: tenants reloaded but they'd run out of tenants a couple
35:52
Speaker 1: of nights ago.
35:53
Speaker 2: And Guinness and Guinness and apparently Sam Adams which is
35:57
Speaker 2: brewed in Boston they're running out.
35:59
Speaker 1: As well It's a tight army for you, isn't it?
36:02
Speaker 2: It's a good game to go.
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Speaker 1: Guys, yous have been amazing. Thanks for coming on. It
36:07
Speaker 1: was great to meet you.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for having us. We'll be in it, Kitties. Rest assured,
36:10
Speaker 2: we'll be in it. We'll make sure to knock you back.
36:14
Speaker 1: We did a request.
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Speaker 3: We were allowed to do a request before.
36:19
Speaker 2: On the last night. What was Granny's?
36:21
Speaker 1: Can you just remind us about Granny's and why you
36:23
Speaker 1: chose Peter's song?
36:25
Speaker 2: Well, everyone had asked for a song. You'd asked for
36:29
Speaker 2: Stone Roses. Yeah. what did you ask for? Oh, you
36:32
Speaker 2: just got up and you wanted to sing and you
36:33
Speaker 2: didn't hear Tomo going up and singing again. Lonesome Boatman.
36:36
Speaker 2: Lonesome Boatman.
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Speaker 3: Aye, that's right.
36:39
Speaker 2: Everybody had one. Tomo wanted Dignity and I sang it
36:42
Speaker 2: and then he proceeded to sing it again straight after
36:44
Speaker 2: me and then Joe Miller.
36:47
Speaker 3: Wanted Stick Season.
36:50
Speaker 2: And you'll never walk alone but then Grantney didn't want
36:53
Speaker 2: to ask for one I think he was being he
36:55
Speaker 2: was trying to give us a dig at Capitan and
36:58
Speaker 2: I said you know what I'm going to give is
36:59
Speaker 2: a right everyone this is Pink Pony Club for Peter
37:01
Speaker 2: Grant thinking I'd get a bit of a dig and
37:03
Speaker 2: I looked down and he was loving it loving it
37:06
Speaker 2: I was like water off a duck's back there's no
37:08
Speaker 2: point even trying.
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Speaker 1: Well hope to see you there again next year.
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Speaker 3: Aye absolutely man good invite you'll.
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Speaker 1: Be in the post boys thanks for coming on it
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Speaker 4: Was a brilliant night thanks man