I want to know lads do use actually like the amble because
I looked up the meaning of the word and it's like a slow walk
or a Thunder I. Think that's all we do?
It's great. We're nothing better.
Like. We're very lay back like.
Where do you like the around? Like would it be like a time
where you're playing a show, your countryside guys or?
I think as soon as we like, when we're touring, as soon as we get
off the bus, we literally go for an amble that's.
Yeah, I get so much stick. Like I was getting stick to the
night because my girlfriend is like, I won't do anything.
Like I won't do like an activity.
Yeah, like I don't want to go fucking bowling and stuff.
Yeah, but I go for. I just walk anywhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, this is where me you're
different. See on tour I love like an
arcade. Yeah, I like.
Activities. No.
Yeah. No, she.
Just go for a walk. Yeah, Amble is the person.
No, it is like we also like we look at the phone every now and
again and we'll go to how many steps we're done.
Yeah. And we don't.
Know, but I think I think on an animal like we're not, it's not
about the steps. No, no, no.
Because you're not actually getting many steps in, yeah.
You know, I think that's us trying to make ourselves feel
better. No, no, 100%.
We haven't done her on in six weeks.
Yeah, sure, I did. 3000 seconds. I'm at the age where my hands go
behind my back on an album that's that's a good thing.
And a virgin on a whistle like I want you want you start that
like your goal. That's a good.
That's a good face. Yeah.
I'm curious to know like you
were doing the SSC Arena tonight in Belfast and very casual to be
just doing a pod the afternoon of the show, which I like
because I don't like waiting all day for a show.
And just like that's the only way I would get nervous is if I
like sit around all day. Yeah.
But like what I want to know is on the way here.
Is there a service station Stop presuming you've come up from
Dublin or whatever it's. Two or three.
And then what I want to know is, is there an animal in the apple
green? Because that's what I like.
Like hands behind the bag. Yeah.
Now is this a Jews like the big
service station or do you like to go to the the sort of the
smaller ones? No, I love, love a big service.
So there's a Taco Bell now and apple green somewhere, Yeah.
I was, I had this last year on Greg's there and now we're going
the way up. Where are we?
Yeah, we did. Yeah, did.
We the Taco. No one could have seen the the
apple green Taco Bell club. Like that's huge.
I didn't spend so much time in America this year that we're
like, yeah, talk about it. Yes, there's a there's a petrol
station in Balanalak. Best one in the country.
I know that by the way, this is
controversial and this is the shit I love getting into.
It is your. Person.
So is it? Is it like a?
Is it like a big chain? It's it's it's no.
Well, it's. It's.
It's it's, yeah, Balanalaks in between West Mead.
It's just outside in between Longford and Mulinger.
And it's Mace. But it was a family run.
It's grown over the years. I've seen a Crohn's turn out.
It's turned into a monster. It's turned into some.
People not like the group, you know, Some people like keep it
the way. Absolutely.
Yeah, some people would have rather but.
It's bordering on shopping centre like just.
It's deadly, but I can't go by without stopping in.
Even if you don't need only. That is it all around.
Is it all around? No, no, straight roll the best
location. Yeah, just before you get to
the, the, you know, the motorway.
So it's like I'm going to pull in here now before things get or
at the end of the motorway. You're coming home.
Yes. It's like I'm going to stop
here. That's perfect.
I don't think I'm never stopping on the way.
Once I'm near home, I'm just getting home.
Yeah, I'll go. I do my service station stop at
the start. Yeah, at the start of the
journey. But what's in?
What's in this? Nothing special.
It's like standard. Sorry, Super Max, Super Max.
And you get the cookie. I always get the cookies and ice
cream. Yeah.
Incredible. Yeah.
It's everything like carve through dinner is huge, the
shop. Well, you did.
Recently. There was trad music.
Going on, it's just like a full trad session today.
FM or one of them were there broadcasting live from it?
Yeah. Title man was.
There title man was there. It's good crack.
And there's, yeah, it's just, I couldn't say that's my
favourite. Have you got like the we
obviously have Mr Tito up here. Oh yes, you guys have Tito.
Not something you don't know this, this is going to blow your
minds, right Kato in the north and the South are different
businesses, completely different companies.
Even if you look at the the way both Tito men are dressed
totally different. Our title man.
I shed you not as we bowler hat. But the same colours.
Yeah, same, same red, same red soup.
But there's like a lot of contention about it because they
taste totally different too. Do they?
Yeah, Yeah. Different flavours like.
It's the same flavours. See, they're so close to being
the same thing. But like I think like our like
your tea. I'd say if there was like a
bottle of the tea Roman, the southern Tito man's like like a
bigger. Guy, he's a big man.
Broad shoulders, but then the northern Tito man looks a bit
sneakier, you know, like he's Morehead, Morehead and then we
body, whereas the southern Tito man is in proportion but a big
man. So I don't know, but it's a
shame, like it is a shame that they they.
Should be brought up this evening.
People would people would start fight like people go go rowdy.
I never knew that, that's mental.
I wonder which one came first then?
I think it was the Northern. Was it the Northern?
You would say that, Yeah. No, it's the only thing I'm
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Arena 24th of April brand new show let's go can I ask you
something I thought was and now I want to chat about like how
you just got together as a band and what you're doing that sort
of thing but one thing I saw recently it was so cool from the
boys was the Ireland team after the hungry.
Game at your show in London. That was really cool there.
Did you know they were coming? We knew Cleveland was coming
because like we always say, like we played loads of football
growing up, like right up until we met, we were mad about
football, Gaelic and soccer. And even like when when people
follow us on amble, sometimes a big name would come in and we
nearly get more excited about the footballers than the
musicians. Because it's just like, I'm a
huge Liverpool fan as well. I have been my whole life.
And seeing squeeving Keller come in as a follower, I was like,
fuck, that's class. And then he met just someone was
like, lads, any chance I could come to the London gig And we
were saying. You can't say no. 100% creving.
We'd love to meet you if you want to go up to the green room
and stuff. And then he was like, I might
bring a couple of friends. But he didn't say that it was
Nathan Collins and Dara Shay. So yeah, that was.
And it was just the week that was in it, like, should they bet
hungry the day before? So we thought, yeah, there's no
chance he's coming now. And then three of them landed.
So that was really cool. Yeah.
I think I'd be to see him like footballers like making me
nervous in the crowd. Yeah.
To think Chris Kent, who's a brilliant stand up from Cork, if
you know, Chris was doing a small show on Manchester, Roy
King was there. That was the greatest moment.
And then my mate sounds in 2 Door Cinema Club and I once was
like, have any footballers come to see you?
He's like we're doing show in Brazil and R9 was there.
Brazil Ronaldo popping about the front row.
That's different. That's different gravy.
Yeah, that's different gravy. Yeah.
Great band. But that was a O2 Door Cinema
Club. Genuinely, for a second I
thought you meant different gravy.
And I was like, conceivably could be.
A bad. Different gravy.
If you told me different gravy. We're open for you guys.
And. Well, start honestly look into
the potatoes. Or 9 at the gig imagine or 9
singing Mariner Boy do. You know what I do?
You know what I really like? Since we were chatting here, you
sing like you speak. Oh, because we were talking
earlier. We did a podcast earlier with a
couple of comics we were talking about.
Nowadays people have like a talking voice and then a
completely different singing accent.
Almost there. Have you always like, sang in
your own voice? Tried to, I don't know.
Sometimes it's like, you know, I don't know certain type of
songs. And when you sing the cover of
American songs and sometimes I find myself, I have to stop
myself because I'm nearly singing this like an American
person, you know? But in general, no.
I love when I hear strong accents come through, like I
grew up and I love a man called David Keenan from Dundalk.
He's a brilliant musician, brilliant artist and he sings so
true in his own voice. And so many people like Luke
Kelly back in the day, and you could hear the Dublin accent
burst and drew all those ballads.
Like we always slag my dad, my dad's a literal man.
But whenever dad sings, he puts on a Dublin accent.
Seems like he sounds like Ronnie Drew because of just like, you
know, it's just when you when you love those songs and you try
and imitate them. But I thought, I think for
Amberlin and for us, it was from the start, we want to try and be
as original as possible. So I was just like, you know,
make sure I'm sticking true to myself and singing in my own
accent. It feels like I remember, I
think the first time I heard your music was maybe about a
year ago or so. And I think I could be wrong.
And this has happened before where I like as soon as I hear a
song by a band I really like, I'll fire a message of like,
guys, I love it. And I think I'm going to check,
right? But I think I may well have
messaged the amble page back in the day.
And then like, that's just to say, like, she and Todd likes
this. Let me see.
I don't have to tell. Oh, 10th of December 2024.
Shit show. Look at that.
This is a year. This a year, nearly a year
exactly of my support. This is a year.
Is it today the 10th of December?
What fucking hell machine handles the Instagram?
So that's his fault. Could I reply or?
Now, but I said I put up a story and I put your video in it and
said I've just got in that at amble official.
You should too. That's a year like.
That's that video. Yeah.
We're in the town of Amble. We're in a town called Amble
Band. Amble.
It was just hilarious. Hilarious.
The entire couple of days were fun.
The locals were like, your name's Amble.
Right. You're really amble.
We found out like we were. Did you guys amble and that
amble amble and? It was like we were out in a
restaurant and people like there was young girls working there
and they were showing us the like local Facebook page and
people were like, they're going to the restaurant now like
they're they're by the beach. And it was just.
Kind of sounds like they were to take you out like assassinate
amble watch. It's lovely little play store.
It was up above Newcastle right, really small and like the locals
were all over. Like it was great cry, it was
lovely. Yeah, and the man bars we met.
Yeah, the old man bars. Yeah, he was.
He was like playing air. We put up a video and he starts
playing air guitar with what's like a fish hawk thing.
Yeah, walking stick. No, it wasn't a walking stick
because people thought it was a walking.
Oh, sorry. It's a thing for, I don't know,
something to do with fishing, right?
Yeah. There were just lovely people.
Yeah. I am not.
I have no idea. I'm not a fishing guy either.
I went fishing once. My dad took me fishing once when
I was about 10 or 11, this boat with all these other people and
then I was fishing them, caught a small fish and then was crying
a bit. I felt bad and then we just had
to stay on. All our songs are about
fishermen and fishing. None of us have ever, really.
Yeah, a lot of people have the fishermen aesthetic, Yeah.
Like look what like the we rolled up half and all that kind
of thing. But like if you put us out to
sea, like we're not doing anything.
But in that year, like, like obviously then people were
knowing about your music and stuff, but like, it feels like
it's just gone up like a load of a load of levels to the point
where like user doing an arena tour.
And what I know about the way the band sort of came together
is that almost like once you started doing a couple, once you
guys got together as a group. Correct me if I'm wrong, but
like people started coming out to see you as in like buying
tickets, even if it was small intimate venues, but it wasn't
like used. We're doing like competitions
and open mikes and that sort of thing.
And that's that's rare like to just get together.
And always say at the beginning it just felt not normal because
we all played music for years. Like we grew up playing music
and was even meeting each other at like, I was 27 and meeting
these two books and I was like, like Robbie says this, you're
kind of at that age. You're like, do I need two more
friends? Like, yeah, it's an awkward
stage. Like these are two books and
you're bringing them home when go and play there.
He was like, yeah, 28 year old mother.
Like probably like, but we met and just didn't feel normal even
then. And the music, I always used to
say that the music came first because we were able to play
music and talk about music and not even know each other.
And that was always there. And then as you said, the gigs
just seemed to be the the catalyst.
Really anyone that had come to a gig seemed to leave the gig
better than they left. Then they came and it grew and
it grew and it grew and, and it's just been constantly
growing. This year, this year has been
just, it's been a mad year, especially year, but it's been
mad just watching that. It's the same people coming to
the gigs that came to the 300 capacity room there.
Come to the Odyssey or the Three Arena and they're having their
cousins and that's how the whole thing has happened.
Yeah, it is great when somebody's like, I go every
year, you know, It just means so much.
But yeah, they just have a moment then.
Because you formed as a bond before kind of being friends,
you said that came after. But was there a like, did we
just become best friends moment? Like, was there ever like a
moment where you looked around and you were like, we're best
friends now? Or was that a gradual thing?
When you're when you're sharing three of us in a single bed in
the in the UK and Limerick and Cork and places like that, you
have to become friends very quickly.
I think we got drunk together, in fairness, a lot at the start.
Not anymore, I think as well. We were telling you, I was
telling these two men things I wouldn't tell friends I had all
my life. Yeah.
And that became fairly evident that, jeez, I'm very close to
these lads. There's there's a just a trust
very quickly, like really quickly just as.
Supposedly, as you were going into such a mad thing together,
there has to be like, you've got to.
Find that it's like the same music and we all write songs and
that you're already giving away so much of yourself in a song.
And like, I would write a song and Robbie singing and I'm like,
you're in my head there already, You know, It's like, yeah, yeah,
it's been a. Person then you have to get on
in on a crowd or on a stage in front of a crowd of people and
you know, perform for them. And we always performed from the
very start our own songs. I go she and said so you know,
you're giving people an insight into the the way you think and
everything. So it's it's so you feel so
naked in so many ways. So I think the three of us just
really respected each other for for being so open and honest
from the gecko. I think some we don't say even
to each other. Maybe enough for you.
Every time we play a gig, you're like, I don't want to let the
two men down beside me. Yeah, if there's even a wave or
an atmosphere where we're like we're going to pull this back,
everyone here is going to have a great nights.
Yeah. And it's like that has been
since the Stars 200 gigs. Now we've got feeling.
You will have a great night. Yeah, you must have.
You the green jacket, you're having a great time.
It feels like a very good time to have, like, started a band
because there is almost this like explosion of like, Irish
culture. Yeah, everywhere.
And it seems like I notice it and stand up up here with the
felt like a moment where people started the around Belfast and
stuff, support their own comics and want their own homegrown
seem to be brilliant. And it feels like that when
music knows well, especially in the South with a lot of bands
coming up where like instead of people waiting to go and see
bands that are coming from America and the UK and stuff,
they want their own bands to be great and just even like, the
world of Acton and everything, it feels like, yeah.
I'm sorry the world understand of it's more ballsy than into me
in my book that's that's. Different I get your point
because you're not wanting to let all use not one to let the
other two time. I feel like I that would be a
lot of pressure for me. Like the worst I can do is like
let myself know. Of course.
So like if it would be more nerve wracking for me to be in a
group thing on. Stage.
Really. Oh, definitely.
Understand that? Yeah.
I wouldn't be able to do it solo like I need.
Other people would be on stage. I wouldn't get on the stage on
my own. I never, I never like having
myself. I know she met was I wanted to
play in pubs but I wouldn't do it on my own.
I never sang in a microphone before I met these two lads.
I never plugged in a guitar anywhere.
I never sang for anyone, so that's evident for me.
I wasn't going to do it on my own.
I needed these two lads. Yeah.
So I yeah, to get up and say and then try and be funny, Yeah.
That's, that's a whole different, yeah.
But I think, like, I've never really done play that's closed.
I've got to be on stage. Well, the people is like being
in a play or something. Yeah.
And I felt way more pressure doing that because I was like,
if I fuck this up for, like, that wrecks it for all of you.
So yeah, I know. You mean what was the first gig?
Then He's dead together. The very first night we met Ross
was we, we myself in Ocean, got offered a little gig in the
Glenn Centre Manor, Hamilton and Leacham and we were the opening
act and Ross came and we met him and we played all original songs
and Ross had never heard us before or met us or heard the
songs, but he played them like he wrote them.
And I was just, I was blown away by him.
So no practise, no practise, no. Right.
No practise. We still don't really.
We've other session positions with us now and they hate us
because they're like, like it's a brand new song.
We're like, oh, you'd be, yeah, just play it.
But but the rosters came and and then the band kind of started
after that. So then our first official Amble
gig was in the Haggard in Longford.
It was unplugged. It was where 20 people there in
a little hall. What would you call it?
It's like a little, it's a cottage and it has like a barn
that was like a kind of little dance hall maybe back in the
day. And it's, it holds like, you
know, 30-40 people and it's in my parish firm farm.
And not for them. None of them came.
No, they did. The owner was lovely.
And I, he's called. That was, that was a free gig,
wouldn't it? Oh yeah.
It was a link on your Eventbrite, like yeah.
Come down and rang Mickey the ball, he owns it and I says can
we come down and use the Haggart and play a few tunes and he says
absolutely Ross, no bother. But I mean, we're going to play
a lot of them songs tonight in Belfast.
That's yeah. We probably played 11 or 12
songs that night and like Mary's Pub, Judy's Heels, Mariner Boy,
all those songs were all but then our first real gig.
Then I suppose if that wasn't it was in the workman's Cellar in
Dublin and that was a ticketing event and we actually charge
people money, which is. Mad for that to be like your
second show because it would take people years to get to play
there. It's true.
Because. Like it's like a well
established. Venue.
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episode description box episode. When we done that Workman
cellar, then we went to Sugar Club, which is like. 300 and.
I was like, this is our second show that we're actually putting
on and it sold out and it was like.
Was there any names before Elmo there?
Was a couple? No, there was never an official
one. No.
We spent like a month on WhatsApp just firing in names
every now and again. There was tally Ho.
Tally Ho was 1 Red Bull, Red Bull tie.
Someone said who was Red Bull tie?
Different, I think. There was bygone was so.
Someone could take. Bygone sounds like techno or
something, I don't know. Yeah, but I'm.
Big Techno had a couple years ago.
Bygone, yeah. Once Amble came in, we all just
said that's the one. And then we kind of went
straight online to make sure that like, just seemed like a
great name. It seemed like someone else
would have already used it. Yeah.
But it wasn't. I still can't believe it.
The the place I grew up in the like housing development is
called Cedar Grove and I thought that that's a great band name.
Cedar Grove. Yeah, I tried to get a couple of
boys in school. Fuck I've started this whenever
I was like 1516 X Factor was very big on TV.
And I said, what was the guy? From the north called, you know
he had the frame. Quick.
Quick still going strong is he
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice still still full time
musician. He had a yeah, he had he was on
that when he was really young and then he is single was called
28,000 friends. That was a big time in music.
Like big Yeah. As well as iconic, Yeah.
It was hairy. It was like.
What were you about to say though?
So yeah, I said that like a few boys.
That was me. It's with none of us have any
sort of musical background. I was like, lads, I've got the
name of a group like Cedar Grove and the fact that we couldn't
sing and haven't say did not put me off me being like I'm running
my garage. And we tried the tried a few
tunes back and forward and that's as far as it went.
But I would be willing to like give somebody that name, that
band name. What were you in the band?
From like I put it together, you know what, I think I would have
managed us and being the songwriter and all that kind of
stuff. But like, but yeah, we didn't go
any further. Yeah, there was a time, though.
X Factor was everything, wasn't it?
Oh yeah. What did you do before All the
shame? Did you like, you know, before
comedy? Yeah.
The call centre. And the call centre.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was just like, we I knew I
wanted to do this full time. Yeah.
So I just, I was just like, I'll be there for a few months and I
was there for like 3 years. If you were a teenager, grabbing
your friends, being like, we're going to be a band, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Seems like you always, always
those people like, yeah, we were all those people like, you know.
Yeah, because couple of years were teachers and who was
ascent? I was nerding out for a few
years. And I I listened to an
interviews did and you said that you instead of taking a career
break, he's obviously like completely jacked in it, which I
did too. And I think that's like the best
way to do. Key yeah, it was very much on
purpose. So it was like no safety net.
Yes, if you have something to fall back on, you will fall back
on it. Safety net Not a bad name for a
band More more rock though. Cedar.
Grove, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
But I, I, yeah. But you sound like the good
thing is used to actually have careers that you could fall back
on. Yeah.
Whereas I have no other like. My granny reminds me all the
time, like I go home just like and obviously you can always go
back. Yeah, yeah.
Back to Pfizer. Was there a moment where you
realise like all this was the right decision?
Like a particular show or the Olympia?
For me, yeah, I think that's what our families and came up
and they saw the Olympia and the crowd and I think they for my
family, I knew that was them going oh he he might have made
the right decision. Yeah.
I also think they had lost hope on me anyway, but I for them
that was it. I I to be honest, it was early
enough for me when I was like this is I didn't want to sit
down and 1015 years time and go. What if we had a given it all
like, and that was in my head and really around the Sugar Club
gig, that one that I just mentioned that was in around
that time of the year was November 2 years ago.
I was like, yeah, this is this is wordy.
I've given it all. Ross was like, I'm going to quit
my job. And I was like, what do you
talk? But I think it was like, there
was so many moments before we quit the job where it was like,
I think when he quit the jobs, it just felt like the most
perfectly normal thing to do. Because, yes, we had spent six
months like touring and like playing Two Wheelings and, you
know, the Limelight up here and, and Cypress Ave and Cork and
Roching Dove and all these rooms.
And then I was rushing back to teach the next day and it was
like 600 people singing their songs in Cork and then me
teaching in Dublin the next morning.
And it just, it felt so unnatural.
So yes, I think by the time we finally give up to jobs, I was
like, it just, it felt unbelievable.
Like, you know. Robbie just reminded me that the
limelight massive moment for us. Yeah, like not not just saying
it like huge. I don't know what room it was
first. It was, it was all it was
actually the Empire really pretty.
Yeah, that's all loud. It's all loud.
And then we got we got bumped up to.
The Belfast actually hard place to sell tickets, so it's like a
big testament. That yeah, I guess I wasn't that
aware of that maybe. And the biggest headline show we
had played was Whelan's 400 people ish yeah.
Limelight 900,000 went up. I was pretty nervous like yeah,
it was unbelievable. Like it was, it was, it was a.
Moment and we were all getting into the car spinning back for
yeah for school the next day as well like that drove his wife
home like. Some people probably think
you're lying as well and work, you know, you're like, we played
1000 people last year. I remember actually the day I
gave up the job and it was all sorted.
It was my last day and there was everyone had bought cakes and
stuff like that. We had announced the gig in
Kilkenny. Do you remember the Amphitheatre
Bally Keith? And it's gorgeous.
But I was like if this doesn't sell out like.
You know, yeah. Today they're going to be like
this bug. And we like, in fairness, we put
it on sale. Let's hold out instantly.
And then I was like, I just had such relief because I didn't
want to go in staff room and everyone like banners.
Good luck, Robbie. And you know.
And then next Monday you're like.
Going. Away party to Australia you see
him in. A month, yeah, I I was also
listening about your songwriting process.
Well, but about recording songs like All in the Room together
and I can I like that a lot. Like I think that is great for
like that comes across in the sound as well.
You know, it's signed it it doesn't sound overproduced.
And I guess like the more you start working with places where
like better production facilities, not maybe you maybe
get pushed in that direction, but doing it like in the room
just feels way better. Yeah, and I don't know if people
are that familiar with that because I wasn't before any of
this, but the norm is Robbie's kind of a way singing in his own
world because everyone is so focused on the vocal and we'd be
behind these walls just in case it was a mistake.
So we're kind of like the the opposite of that where honestly
we could record it here with this mic.
I think as well the normal is to like you don't have a click in
your ear and make sure it's perfect and it's technically
it's great. And we just have never done that
because we, I think there's, there's a feeling you get
playing in a room that you can't really get on a machine or
quantify. And you capture that by
genuinely looking at each other and playing around mics.
I compare it to if we if this was a Zoom, yes, it'll be grand.
But it's lovely that you're here, upset me and we're just
all trying to. Yes, it's energy like it's.
Yeah. It's an energy.
It's an energy you. Take money, you guess and.
There was a band I love called Glass Vegas.
They were Scottish band and they, the guy was, was like a
professional football player played like SPL.
And then this was like 15 years ago roughly.
And they brought out all these demos and they were incredible.
And I, I remember just listen to them all time.
And then they brought out the album and it was really
produced. It was most common.
For the demos, yeah. You know.
We we essentially released the demos.
That's yeah, that's what Amber was we.
Put a lot a lot of the times we've gone in the studio and the
songs that you hear was also our first take of the song because
we just sit down, we pull out the guitars and we were like,
sure, we'll try this one. And on the first take, you nail
it, and then you spend the rest of the takes trying to recapture
what was in the first take because it was just raw.
And yeah, like a lot of the songs you have on Spotify were
actually the very first take. And we might have spent another
hour in the studio afterwards. And then when we listen back, we
go, Nah, the first one was the best one.
Does it get harder to that kind of control you have like being
able to be like this is the way we do it.
As you get more successful, does it get harder to kind of I think
keep keep that or is it this is just the way you do it?
At the end of the day, it's like if we don't want to do
something, we don't do it. Like we're, we've always been
stubborn in that way. We we very much know what we we
like as a trio and we don't do anything unless the three of us
are, you know, if one man doesn't want to do it, we don't
do it. Yeah.
And I think in a studio it's no different.
If, if, if we want to record that way, that's how we'll do
it. And I think we've surrounded
ourselves with like minded people.
Yeah, that never, you know, I'm a 31 year old man.
Like best of luck telling me what to do.
Yeah, yeah. But, you know, we're going to
tell you what to do. But, you know, we just, we make
the decision. And we've always been like that.
And we'd always will be stubborn like that because it's our
music. But it's important.
It's stubborn. Yes.
Yeah. To do the music.
Like the last thing I'd say on that is just that's what got us
to this point. Yeah, yeah, is.
Recording them like this don't don't change now like don't get
a big fancy producer and. But even even on our latest EP,
we went over to New York and recorded it there and we had
more musicians. They're actually with us tonight
in the SSE and and for the three arenas and we added more
musicians to the group, but we still recorded in a room like
this live in one take. And you know, that was the the
magic of it Then it's like. Even even a drummer.
Yeah. It's like the drummer just play
quietly. It was.
Like. Just don't.
Don't make it a rocket. Yeah, would you ever get a palm
pipe guy or. What?
Like a palm pipe guy, I don't. Know what that is?
You know, like the palm pipes, these books.
Yeah. Oh, harmonica job like is it?
No, you're the palm. No, it's like, it's almost like
a like a South American kind of don't.
Know what it suits? Yeah.
Don't rule it. Out.
Don't rule it out. You're looking for a job.
I would love to be your palm pipe guy.
Like, yeah, beautiful. Cedar Grove.
Beautiful. Yeah, even Ellen Piper with us
now, because we have a song called like the Piper and the
Zealand Pipes that song. And yeah, I love the Ellen
pipes, probably my favourite instrument.
So that's that's a cool addition.
It feels like going over New York did it.
I was there two weeks ago doing a show.
And again, the Irish culture thing is, well, they're like.
Where to do the show? Dead rabbit.
This was about to say it because so.
Bird had been there the night before they were in a show.
Ed Sheeran was down the watch and was like gagging with.
You there for that? No.
No, we were there the next night.
You know, people tell you about something that happened, like
you just missed them. Like don't tell me that it just
missed it. No great great pub, great people
running it and. So we played a gig there.
Good food, good points. It's great.
Like it's just great. And people love like, because I
assume that it's just Irish people coming to these shows and
then you ask the audience and it's like 30%, but people just
love like. That bar and.
Shows like that. That was, yeah, that was.
I keep saying it, but a real moment for me this year was
playing in Denver, Co. I'm obsessed with this.
Because she loves this. No, there's no Irish people in
Denver. Or there might have been.
We might 5, but we played A5 or 600 people and it was people
from Denver. Yeah, I was just like.
I was like who here from Ireland?
And it was like nobody and we all looked at each other.
You're tough. So why?
Because you love people from home, but you're like, well,
this is a good sign. It's a great sign.
It's people just. It's just like who we playing
here? It's yeah, obviously playing New
York, Boston, you know, you know, Yeah, yeah.
But even still, every time we've gone back to America, the rooms
have gotten bigger and the percentages are the divide is
bigger as well, which is great, you know?
Three separate rooms on tour. We tend to like get twin rooms
to be honest, like you're on a tour bus and yeah, 12 lads and
bunks and then you go out into a lonely hotel room on your day.
I think it's seedy or something. There's something I'm about it.
Like I like a 2 bedroom. What's up?
A hotel room that has like your own bedroom.
The one. OK, so you and.
Your mate are staying, that's nice.
In the same hotel room. Is that a thing?
But there's But he can't watch you sleep.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Half would love that, unless he.
Opens the door I. Love my own room now, yeah.
She loves, I think you do too, but you just.
See, I'm always like I. Love those in my room so I don't
feel bad. No, but like sometimes in like
El Paso, TX, they're middle of nowhere from impossible would
say that too. And it's like, you are a bit
like, what am I doing it? Yeah.
If you go, if you're in your room for 12 hours by yourself,
it's like. Yeah, the reality catches up a
little bit. Whereas if you just keep
chatting, you're distracted from.
I don't think I'd like the tour bus.
I like the idea of it but I don't know if it like the tour
bus. Yeah, I think people think it's
glamorous and stuff, yes. Off on a tour bus, it's.
Intense, like we spend a day on the tour bus.
On this tour. We were supposed to go to
Nashville, Remember the bus broke down.
What was it? Something blue generator, the
generator blue on the side of the bus.
And we spent literally 24 hours, like 11 men on this bus and we
couldn't get off it. And it was like the middle of
the day. So everyone was just up and
like, less space than this. Yeah.
And men were losing their minds. When they make a movie about you
guys, it'll be mostly centred on that, you know, it'll dip in and
out of like, yeah. We never, we never fight or
anything touch wood. But like that day, it was
getting really. The heat is wet.
So no air conditioning? It was roast and.
I was just like, what point do I crack?
Can open here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Through the day, yes. What, like do you have a drink?
It shows as well. Yeah.
How does that has that changed since the first show has a
volume change from the first show?
We actually just played a show last night in Dublin called the
Ruby Sessions. You know, the Ruby Sessions and
Doyle's puppets class. But the only time we ever, we
say, you know, maybe people who came to shows will have
something different to say. But we say the only bad show we
ever played was a Ruby Sessions because we got really drunk
before it, right? Because we all gave up our jobs
like that week and we got signed to a label and we thought we
were a shit heart and we've got this through possessions and we
just started celebrating. We started drinking really early
in the day and we were like, I should be grand.
It's only a couple of songs. And then we got on stage and
I've never seen Ross not able to play the Bazooki and he didn't
have a fucking clue how to play the Bazooki.
But she was on a piano. He didn't know that he was on a
piano. I was turning around giving her
and the crowd there, it was just it was a shit show.
So to this day, like sometimes we'll be having points for a gig
and we look at each other and go like let's not do a rubies
again. Like so we always have like 3 or
4 points before a gig maybe and then a pint on stage or two and
then see what happens, see what happens after.
What would be like the best event to get asked to play out?
I'm talking about like a an open ceremony and anything, an award
show. What's the dream call up?
We always, people always ask us what would be the dream venue
and we always said like Red Rocks in America or like, yeah,
Red Rocks is like we were there this year for Kaleo.
It was amazing. Or like a Crow park or
something. Obviously in Ireland, but.
If you guys did a red rocks could I open if I threw myself
there? On the on the, yeah, you're. 20
minutes of stand up, I just bring them off. 20 minutes of
palm. In terms of ceremony, I don't
know. I'm trying to think yeah, like.
So can I give you a few examples?
Yeah, final, something like that.
It could be. It could be trying not to make a
football. It could be the American Music
Awards. Yeah, like if you're nominated
for Grammys or something, then you got to perform.
That would be pretty cool. Yeah, the Super Awards, probably
not high up, but it's like the UK so awards or.
I think the Super Bowl has to be up to.
Super Bowl halftime. Show what happened.
Show super. Bowl.
Should it be great? Crack Olympics, The Aussie
Rules? Yeah, the big Aussie Rules
final. As there's Irish lads in the
Aussie rules and stuff that Olympics.
Should be cool as well. I actually don't watch the Super
Bowl, but I always watch the halftime show.
Yeah, yeah, music. So it's kind of like the music
thing is, it is on a blasher. I always watch it and I don't.
Know Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick. Lamar like, yeah, maybe two
years. Ago I don't know of.
Course, I think that's also a music.
Never been asked that before. That is also isn't a musical
event. That must have been Yeah, he did
not like a tough watch for Drake, who just wants to like.
Watch a bit of American football, No Yeah, 15.
Minutes from regionally. Mary's Super.
Bowl. Why not just loads of
pyrotechnics fireworks just like strumming away?
Yeah, I picked up. But like, oh.
If Ireland got to the World Cup you know that would be a cool 1.
Like, you know, like America team talk before the game.
You're going to try to play we're.
Actually going to be an American we're.
Going to be an American. I like the way that tour is
better rage. Yeah.
Is it Tennessee or something? The world.
Cup Is it everywhere? It's everywhere.
Everywhere. Canada as well, I think we're.
Open for Edge here in a couple of days in America and it's.
That's great. That's the World Cup week.
Yeah, we got a. Game great, great scheduling,
yeah. He could sort the boys out, like
surely, maybe. I message him on Instagram as
you we've established he was he was playing music artist.
No, he did not. I was asking if you want to play
paddle fair. They said he was at dead Rabbit
the night before and we were playing paddle the next day.
So it just was like it fair enough.
Great game. I've never met him in my life.
I was like. Only play for the first time
last year. A great game.
I'm too. Yeah, I.
Can't play at my wrist. Thought it was a bit posh like
but then played a great game. On the America tour if I get.
You're not playing. I can't play.
It's. Actually a great game, yeah.
I have a bad wrist. You got a bad wrist.
I the last gala came, I played or one of the last game games I
played, I tore a ligament in the wrist and then Amble started and
we had so many gigs. I couldn't go for surgery
because I needed to be playing guitar.
And by the time I went for the surgery then she said it was
like totally dislocated and stuff.
So look at this, you're the same.
Get ready for this. Look at the difference in the
yeah, which is not the rest you want to injure.
Yeah. For many reasons.
But yeah, mine's bad, like, but I also left it too long.
So when I broke it or desiccated this, I am I they just sent me
home about two years later. I was like, we should fix this.
And they were like, we had requested that you go to this
clinic to see about an operation.
Yeah. As I did not.
Know that, Yeah. So my my.
I can play golf again, which is cool because you know when we're
not able to play any sports now, it would be a damn shame if you
couldn't play. But if I had asked you to play
paddle like play with left hand. I can watch the boys are
playing. Yeah, he didn't reply to me
like, which is weird because I've never met him and.
Just the first. He's in Dublin.
Last night. Yeah, so.
We could play when I we. Could play tomorrow.
When I started becoming friends. I'll tell you how competitive
Ocean is. When I started becoming friends
with Ocean, I was living with my best friends at the time still
my best friends in in Dublin and we used to play Astro five side
every week. So here comes Oshino.
She used to log his piano into my into my house every week and
we play and I was a John a common play soccer Edison.
He was like 100% or football. I said soccer in London.
Everyone was given out to me. Football.
You've got options here in soccer.
Ocean came, and I mean my friend James, like he had the ball over
the line. It was a clear goal, open goal,
and Ocean out of nowhere just fucking breaks his ankle.
Ankle in half, bones sticking out, didn't touch him.
Now what I like is this odds to my like bands and comics 5 aside
tournament dream. Or lovers.
This is my dream, so if you guys are a 5 Cent team, you can pick
two other players but they have to be associated with the band.
OK, no. Keller and Darrell O'Shea like.
Andy Reid, who played centre, made for Ireland's genuinely.
He's a musician. No, he's a big no.
Nobody is. He's a musician, he's a big
guitar. You need to apologise down to
that Andy Reid. Andy has sent me WhatsApp
doesn't play in ballots. You're very good, Andy.
He's a huge guitar man. He's big into his guitar as
well, so on. I'd pick Andy Reid.
But you guys come. Out.
But no, there's no regular like. No, you just said we could.
Yeah, but not on the race. John shares the gig in
Manchester. Professional player.
So who you let us pick musicians?
Yeah, they have to have like, played with the band, like the
session musicians. Oh yeah, we've we've coppolate
copper tidy footballers on Stage I.
Would surely be like. Yeah, yeah.
Maybe ABN? Is there any other but like what
would be like the Derby, like you guys versus Kingfisher?
Outside. Come on, five decided be No
competition, no Magoo. Ohh shit I'd say what was that
Holland Spearing game? Yeah, yeah.
Nicely young me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Danny O'Reilly from the Coronas. He's got football, apparently.
Yeah, right there. And don't Kennedy, don't
McKenna. He's he's.
What? You call soccer.
Soccer. Yeah, he's.
A Right. Yeah.
He was like, man of math, wouldn't he?
Yeah, yeah, I'd love to do one of them.
That'd be class. I would love his clothes.
Clothes was a lot of gear like. Yeah, he's, I think he's his own
stuff. As well, he's a stylus man.
He's a stylish. Yeah, we're open frame and may
as well so another the plug. We get you a jumper.
Paddle German Kennedy. Yeah, but that's actually.
Going to be deadly European Tour with German Kennedy.
Yeah. Where are the edge here to
America? Yeah, they're like, that'll be
huge. There's one Nashville,
Nashville, Arizona. Yeah, there's their stadiums
like 50,000 Cedar Stadium, so. He's a total giant.
We've met him a few times. He is a sound man.
The scene here, the music seems so good.
Yeah. It's so good.
Like it's the fact that, you know, the kind of style that you
have appeals internationally while still being like very
Irish. You know, you're doing shows all
over the world. And it's not just people from
home like you say, it's people from from all over.
And that probably is a good thing that you in the early days
you, you know, you didn't change your voice or try to make your
style more in general, No whatever.
We as we said, we're stubborn men and we always kind of write
songs for the tree of us. The.
Music that we like. Yeah, and we've always done that
from the dots. I I still don't ever think of
the audience. I just think of us.
Do we like it? Yeah.
You've got to just trust that. And our sounds as well, like
we're telling real stories. And that's why we said earlier,
you're playing putting your heart on your sleeve.
And it's people. People can, I hope, hear that.
I just think that the day you're like, will people like this,
it's gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're doing.
It for the wrong reasons, have you?
Got any like weird gifts? You still monitor the inside.
A gift in Dingle the Spoons. That was cool.
Yeah, a man made me like the spoons that you can play.
Yeah. Yeah.
And that was a funny one. Also in San Francisco recently,
someone gifted us like, a basket like of like, lots of stuff.
That was great. That was cool.
Yeah. Like a proper hamper, gifts are
great. Gifts are great.
Like the US shows are pretty
good at like the venue will give you some stuff.
Yeah. All the companies they play, I'd
be like, could I get it? Could I buy like a hoodie or AT
shirt? Then they just give you
everything. It's different over there.
Yeah, free gears. Good like.
Yeah, same in Europe as well. I think the venues are really
like. I had a thing on my writer.
For the European shows where it was like could I have the local
football top, that's where we. Were playing that's cool and.
Then when I did Paris in the Apollo Theatre, the guy run on
it. There was no football top and I
was like, the guy goes. I, I said, are we supposed to
have like a football top? Whatever a guy goes with the
amount of tickets you sold, if we bought a football top, you
would have lost. What's this start?
Is this a this is Mukara in the dock, which is a really cool
bar. Yeah.
So they they make their own tops.
That's very cool. Most larger.
But it was great. Every every bar does tops now,
yeah. I know of them.
They had like a pre Mary Wallopers, I think, like party
and then yes and then they played over here or either in
Dublin or yeah, yeah, seems like a great part.
Yeah, I, I, I, I've done so many in the last like year place in
Ireland. I've never played because I
would, not just on like Dublin, yeah, or Galway or Cork.
But now I do like theatres, venues everywhere and I love it.
Have you done the Baris and Clonic Hilty?
No, I've been in the bar. It's gorgeous.
I love it's it's one of the best connellies of left.
Yeah, they're very. Yeah, just like remember after
EP. Yeah.
Like a fuse. Your van, Who runs it?
Sam. He's a lovely man and we've met
him many times since. But like you messing us and we
didn't see it. I swear we messaged Connolly's
to play there when we were just starting out and obviously they
never saw it. And then after EP we'd just come
off stage and it was 60,000 people.
And this man who I hadn't met before, Sam, he's a gent.
He came up to me and was like, man, that was incredible.
And he was like, you know, I run Connolly's of LEP and I was
like. You.
Never. And he was like, oh, fine, so.
Holder grudge forever. Yes.
But I don't like when I let a music artist know, like, guys, I
like what you're doing. I don't even expect a reply.
No, I'm just saying, like the message, Here's the seal of I
just say. I say, here's the seal of
approval. Enjoy it.
And you read, I'm sorry. Will you score because you're?
In Three Arena tomorrow night, right?
Yeah, and Friday. Can I tell you I'm going to a
different show tonight? Cool.
This is controversial. Not at all.
It's my sons nativity play.
Ohhh. Yeah.
That's what you're up against lads I love.
Yeah. He's the, he's the innkeeper.
It's. Bulge.
It's absolute bulge. He's gonna show that tonight in
the SSC. That play happens every year.
It's a candidly Drake. Has been insane.
He's the innkeeper. Yeah, they they showed him the
school outfit and he was like. Nah Nah Nah.
Get on Amazon hook. Me up with something different.
No way. Agency.
Five class. Love that, love that.
Love, but he's Yeah, I've I've, I'm more nervous for this than
any show I've ever done. I got that.
That was like my dad came to the three arena and he was sitting
watching it and like, I don't know, it's like, it's like he
couldn't even enjoy it until it was over.
Like exactly. He was like this, like my, my
sisters were laughing at him and, and my brother and they
were saying like at the end he was like, now we can relax, you
know? Yeah, my dad watches the
audience at my show. He's like, I can't watch you.
I'm just watching the. Crowd with a clicker, clicker
links. Clicker on the door.
See Herman? He's coming in.
Now, in case the venue won't be off, yeah.
It's short there. No, Ross.
I think it's, it's wild for the families, as you say, your
father. I I think my folks can barely,
they can barely look. Yeah.
It's I think it's like, what if he falls?
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What if he falls off people? Yeah.
I had that at EP in various I. Had a moment at EP Jesus, like
what if I just fall over? Yeah, we, we stayed out way too
late the night before and was really, really shocked in the
morning of EP. And then it started hitting me
that I was going to play in front of 5560 thousand people.
And I was like, imagine if I just fainted, you know?
Sometimes I see you right during the week.
I caught Laura Woods. Laura Woods?
Yeah, Like she just fainted. Yeah, I was on TV.
Yeah, I think. During the Emirates or
something. Yeah, I know it was.
And I looked at that. I was like.
So this is just a fear that probably, there probably is a
name for the the fear is that one day you're just going to
face. It's only that was completely
self. It's only one retired.
On that day. Sometimes I have a feeling the
day of shows say I'm going to the shop beforehand.
To buy snacks, something like. I could just like walk away from
here, like as in like the venues that way.
I could just walk that way. Yeah.
And I'm excited for the show, but I'm like, there's is it mad?
There's nothing stopping me. Yeah.
Everyone could be there at the venue and I could, I could be
in. Yeah.
Have you ever had a moment where you had too many pints before a
show, or do you have a point? Once.
First time I headlined the gig,
I was like a big time, though. This was like 18 years ago.
I went and bought a suit from Primark because it was like I
wear suits like and I got really drunk.
It was in Logan and I got really drunk and I was to do like 30
minutes, but it did like 15. It was like 15 Kelvin.
It is better than 30. I walked on stage and I was
like, how good was that? Normally it's for like.
So shit. I thought I'd killed it.
They were like. That's good mates.
It was awful. But thankfully it was before
mobile phone recording on. Stage.
But yeah, that's how I've been drunk on stage.
I don't trust it, no. Yeah.
So you just sober before the Yeah, I don't really probably
probably get to that stage. See for especially like the
arena show, I would always be like, I'm going to go on the
pints after, but I'm just so tired after.
We've had that, just won't go to bed like the Flash.
I was. I was asleep before the arena
show. An hour before the show, I was
asleep in the green room. See, I've started getting into
this idea. But that'll work.
What if nobody wakes me up? Someone will wake me.
Your bed head. Your bed head.
On the band. Yeah, yeah, Bad heads.
My biggest fear? Yeah, I think it's it's each
their own too. I don't think there's any free
or there's no formula. Like, yeah, obviously 5 minutes
for sure. I know he's going to be top of
the show. It's like somebody amazing.
That's the best friends more right there.
It's just that that was the moment you got totally left out.
I mean it was next snap lads. Thank you so much for a call.
Now David have to go, but tonight will be great.
So the nativity, enjoy the nativity.
It's all about the. Innkeeper tonight if he's not
the best innkeeper of all. Time and then we'll tell about
it could have been enough. Thank you.
Thanks. Thanks man class, that was
lovely.