Craic with Ceol

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• Ceol • Season 1 • Episode 4

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What's the craic lads! Your favourite fellas from Ceol (that's us: Cathal, Daryl, and James, by the way) here to give you the absolute lowdown. We're chatting about our latest antics, what's been keeping us out of trouble (mostly!), and plans are just around the corner. 

Tune in for the banter, the tunes, and all the bits in between – you won't regret it!

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My head, it hurts. My wallet's worse. I scarce know what to do. The weekend's almost over, although this is hardly new. The time was almost worth

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it.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Crack With CEOL. Almost forgot the name of the

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podcast. Episode four. Long awaited. Long overdue. Welcome back, folks. What's new? Pussycat Wolf. Well, let's talk about the... Well, no, let's talk about the fact that you won't give me my can of Monster.

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Well, let's talk about the fact that we all have social plans tonight, together, and Daryl is deciding not to come out.

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I can't make it out tonight, so I'm being deprived of a can of White Monster. Cathal, I don't really like Monster, but I might just open that and look at it. Just neck it. I'm after in the car the last hour, and the can of Monster's been getting me through. That's alright, man. I've been in the car the last six and a half hours. I've been dreaming about it, Jamesy. Give him the monster. Please give me the monster. Give him the monster. Please. Just have this one. Oh, yeah. Are you ready, folks? Don't say we're not nice to you. I promise this is Monster, not a can of Tuber. Hey. Hey, hey. Consuming caffeinated beverages is bad for you, folks. So what's new, boys? I'll tell you what's new. Two of you are engaged. Not to each other. Not to each other. How's engaged life been?

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Any different? You did it first, so you go

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ahead. Yeah, very engaging. Brilliant. Ah, good, yeah. Absolutely fantastic, sure. And a wedding's planned, Jamesy. Wedding's planned too. Don't give her out to date, please. We'll all be there. Everyone's invited. No, yous aren't. Don't get a letter from me. You're not coming.

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What about you, Dervan?

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It's grand, yeah, it's much the same. Much the same as, you know, after 10 years, I decided it was time. Yeah, it's a long time.

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Poor Alicia.

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God love her. She said yes. She must have been tricked. But we're enjoying it. She's doing her Masters now, we're getting on with life, and that's about it. It sounds more exciting on paper, but this is the reality of it.

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Well, we booked a priest the other day now, and that was very exciting. What are you booking for? for the wedding. All right. He's doing a patio at the back of mine.

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I meant to look at gutters. No, yeah, we went in. We had to meet the

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priest. Father Brian Darcy. But yeah, it's a very exciting time. Very exciting time. What's that involve like? So basically, like, if you want to get married somewhere else, that's not your parish you're from. You need to get permission to do that from your parish to let you go. So we're getting married in Melissa's hometown. So I have to get permission off of my parish to let me get married somewhere else. So it's you getting the permission? Yeah. Did you not burn when you walked into the church? No, I didn't. No.

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No, I didn't. Sparked off. But we're bringing our own

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priest with us up to Wicklow, so it'll be good. Very good. I'm looking forward to that now. That'll be fun. Now, let's talk about the next, the most important part of a wedding. The stag. What are we doing? Everybody I've spoken to about my stag has just expressed how afraid they are. They're going to be very contrasting stags now. Two of yours, I'd say.

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I haven't even... I really haven't given much thought to mine now. Well, I'm going to get the

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whole bunch of lads blessed before we go. Yeah, we bring holy water. Holy water. So, any idea where we're going? Who's planning this? Flops. Flops. Have we introduced Flops on the podcast before? No, we haven't, and nor will he be introduced on the podcast either. James' best man's name is Flops. Yes. He won't give out his real name for legal reasons. Yeah. I don't know. I'm leaving it up to him, so he knows the crack. Are we going abroad? I don't know. I don't think so. I might be sick that day. That's alright. That's alright. I'm hoovering my room that day. Hoovering my room. Dervan, I think we should go big for yours now. We should go... I don't know. Music. Music, yeah, I think so, but... I'm not really a big... Nashville. Let's go to Nashville. Yeah, I'll just remarket you the house when we go to Nashville. The flights are like £1,500.

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Actually,

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Nathan.

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Nathan will get us

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a deal. Could you swing that for us,

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Nathan, please?

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You're flying from the home of country music.

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So Nathan Carter, if you're listening out there, any free Aer Lingus flights? We know you are, Nathan. Go on, sing a few songs for Aer Lingus and get the boys over. We might let you come on the staff. Use code TUNE for 15% off. Use code WAGONWHEEL25. So lads, let's talk about the elephant in the room. Over the past few months or so, how long has it been now? Since about September. September, yeah. We've been a man lighter. Our fellow Donegal man, Matthew Cramsey, has left the band, as everybody knows. And we just want to wish him all the best. He just wanted to go and pursue his own thing. Farming up in Donegal, I believe. Cramsey, if you're listening, we wish you all the best, brother. And we hope life is good. And we'll chat to

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you

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soon. Right, I have a question. I think Cathal's one's obvious though. So if someone had to play you in a movie, who would it be? Each one of us. Like a realistic choice or a personal choice? It can be funny, whatever. One that flatters you. Like, you're obviously Keanu Reeves, but I'm trying to think of who else could play you. But you're doing that on looks. We talk about humour and... Yeah, no, it can be anything. It doesn't have to be looks. So, do you have any... I know I'm throwing you on the spot now. Can I have a suggestion for Cathal, just in terms of humour? Richie Kavanagh. Oh, not Richie Kavanagh. You know the movie Naked Gun? yeah yeah yeah you know your man

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Leslie Nielsen Leslie Nielsen Leslie Nielsen I can't picture

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him I like him a lot yeah it is Leslie Nielsen it's two good ones you have there now it's very good like combine Keanu Reeves appearance with Leslie Nielsen's humour I would be hugely flattered by that

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it's a beautiful beautiful love child who played Jamesy Jim Carrey Jim Carrey yeah for the movement alone like Jim Carrey with Billy Ray Cyrus' mullet. Billy J. Cyrus. And let's talk about the mullet, James, actually. Oh, come on. Unmullayed. How far are we going with it? I don't know. So we've been having this predicament now for the last... You've tried it a few times. I'm going to grow it till management get on to me, which probably... Which they have. They have a lot of unopened emails. But you've tried it and then... you've kind of backed out of it and then I tried it but like you know the way in Ireland you go to get something done and you go to get a haircut and I'm like don't touch the back of it and they're like well I have to take a little bit off the back of it and then you're back to where you started yeah they take too much off it my brother's been cutting my hair then they show you the mirror behind you and you're like I love that but you're not happy at all so where does it end like where are we how far are you going the wedding you must be cutting it off for the wedding are you no so how far is it going to go all the way to where Wexford? Kilmore? I don't know. You know the way the bride has the veil on the ground? You have it over your head. You know the way they reveal their face. No, I'm going to let it go. I'm going to let it go. But you have to keep some sort of Law and order in the back there. Yeah. You can't be all party in the back. Oh, I can. That's a full-on three-day bender in the back.

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No, that's fine. Are you enjoying it? I love it. It's for me and the mullet go everywhere. I'm

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not editing that out. And what does the beloved think of it? Oh, she loves it. She loves it, yeah. Absolutely loves it, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. same with your you chopped the old hair off there you went the other way yeah i needed to though if you look at some

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of the promo kiel promo still has me with the long hair and i kind of like why did i leave it go that was like a helmet yeah yeah it really was it was like lord farquaad it was like one of your one of your friends called me edna mode from the incredibles and then i was like god jesus

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called the ugly girl from kiel that was the turning point yeah i'm kind of pretty Bore him when it comes to hair in the band. I think I've been the same since the start of the band. Sure, you found what works and that's what works. Not this morning now, it's a bit... I was running there to get here. When we went on the Late Late Show the first time, you weren't very happy though. Oh yeah, Liam brought us for haircuts and we got absolutely skinned, remember? Yeah. like he was I was actually mad don't touch the top of it and he was behind his back like miming to him going like chop it off like get rid of all of it and he shaved my beard down I looked like a I looked like Ellen DeGeneres this will come full circle Liam we will get you we'll put up a picture of Ellen not so generous no some say the devil is dead the devil is dead the devil is dead some say the devil is dead and buried in Coulthard the late late show actually we've done that since the last podcast we have we've done a lot of things let's talk about what we've done we went on a lovely little scoochy on a boat around the Bahamas Oh, we did. Do you know what was the best part of the whole cruise? It was probably the day before we got on the ship. We were on another ship. So we were over in Miami and Nathan Carter had a friend who had a yacht and this was like a proper Conor McGregor yacht. And we took it out for about five hours maybe around Miami and we got a proper tour and that was incredible. And we got off that boat and we got onto another boat for a week and we sailed around the Caribbean and met some lovely, lovely people. Ate loads of pizza. and lasagna I had so much sushi as well James me and you had about 16 chicken Caesar salads oh look what do you call chicken looking at a lettuce and we didn't touch a pint chicken Caesar salad oh no there was no drinking god no I got food poisoning. That's too graphic. We stopped in Puerto Rico and we got off the boat and we said, we're going to get something nice to eat here. And it wasn't. It was grand when it was going in. It was grand when it was going in, so it was. But we reckoned that the sauce that Cahill used on his steak was left out in the sun for a while. The worst part of the whole thing was that that was our night that we were like, we're going to get suited up now and we're going to go at it. And then...

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Cahill let the team down. He was in the bed. He couldn't, man. I tried to even get up in my PJs.

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And I tried to walk down. I was walking down to get a glass of water, but I said I'd meet you down there. Are they the Mickey Mouse PJs that you were? Don't worry about it. I come to the room. Cahill's in his big, massive, like, keel jumper, just in the head, like,

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shivering. In the Caribbean with a hoodie on, with the hood over my head. You

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were so

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ill. Yeah, he was. But I couldn't even walk in a straight line. Did you come out, though,

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for... You didn't come out that night at all, did you?

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No, I came out the next night, but I shouldn't have.

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Yeah, you tried to. Which you did.

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I was just trying my best for the lads because they were all saying how much you missed me. I was crying. I was going around looking for you, shouting for you and everything. Caelan Kelly was in

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bits. I kept buying you pints and you weren't even there. Just out of habit.

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Just eight full pints left beside Daryl at all times.

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Caelan and me were brought to the reception downstairs while you were called over to Tannoy and we were just sitting there crying looking for you. Cahal Durban to reception, please. Could the big strong man

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please come? Cahal Durban

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to the checkout, please. Cahal

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Durban.

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Good morning our cruise sailors aboard the New Holland All-Ireland Star Cruise.

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That

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is spot on. It's the clipped

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audio. Oh, it is, it is.

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And then, the week before last, we did Daniel O'Donnell's April O'Daniel.

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And

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it was

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absolutely lovely, so it was. We got out there and I had a lovely wee sing song with Daniel. It was marvellous. Daniel's a great

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guy. He's never going to have us back now. No, he's not. May as well double down with you in present.

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It was absolutely lovely. I'm not going to

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try it, lads. So that's going to be airing in October, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, that was a fun day. That was a fun day. We had to stop filming twice because I kept sweating. Oh, it was brilliant. Yeah, so James, he like... It was like the front of a live audience, but it was also being recorded, so it was kind of stopping and starting, and the makeup woman just kept coming out after every single song, and James was just dripping in sweat. It was hilarious. She told me to get injections afterwards.

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In your eyes. I told her not to start making money first.

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She came out with a tissue, and she needed a mop.

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Yeah, she did. Rimmel London could have sponsored me that day, honestly, God. Very good.

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People probably think that when they listen to this podcast that we planned the whole thing out. Like we have not spoke about this once. We literally just come in. I've seen the lads for the first time about 10 minutes ago and we just start chatting. Yeah. So this is kind of what it's like. Just more. This is what goes on on tour.

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Yeah.

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It's even worse when we pint. The funny thing is we've pint yet. We should do a drunk podcast. Well, I don't know. It would be so funny. It would be funny but... get out of hand like would get fair out of hand like yeah to be more impressions than you'd ever need oh I know yeah any more impressions when's the last time we did a podcast release it it's

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been a while release it it was it was August of 2023 because we just came home from

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Albufeira wow like very very different time in life I know we've said it the last time but we actually will keep it going this time now because we will the next podcast on we're going to bring our tour manager slash James's fiance in as our little host so Mel's going to come in and keep us right Daryl, do your male impression.

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No, James. James I don't want to get married

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I'm saying this is between you and her you want to take on the Melacaster you can do that brother

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but Mel will be in next week to keep us in line and keep us on track with all the topics because the hour just gets away from you in here and we end up talking pure dung and it has to be all edited together so we'll have a bit of structure in the next podcast but for today we're just going to have the crack

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the crack is then the

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crack is just about as important as scheduling a podcast.

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Can I be in next week, Lance?

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I love listening to you guys and your podcast. It's awesome.

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See, we're just riffing now. We're riffing. We're just riffing. Right, question. Tato or King? Oh, come on now. Give us a proper question. What is it? That's like one of them Irish radio questions going back to David McSavage. What's your favorite Twix? What's your favorite Twix? So he's all Tato. He's all Tato, yeah? Oh, absolutely. I don't care. I'm not going to eat cheese and onion if I can, because it's just such a horrific experience for everyone around you. That's the thing, actually. You have to eat cheese and onion crisps. But if you were cycling a bike, say, outside, eat crisps. Oh, yeah, yeah. If you're at home, have an old potato sandwich or whatever, but don't be opening them on an airplane. It's like the person who brings the tuna into the workplace kitchen. Or do you know when you're on a flight and someone arts the sour cream and onion Pringles? Oh, my God. That sorts herself out, will you? Is that you? Yeah, that is you, Jamesy. That is me.

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That

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is me. To be fair, it's better than my breath. Yeah, I hear that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Your breath's so bad, we're looking forward to your farts.

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That just reminded me of the funny Declan Nerney story on the flight.

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Oh.

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Stop the world and let me off.

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So we were coming home from Miami after being on the cruise all week. And let's just say Nathan Carter was the most fun man on the cruise for the entire week. He was full of life having the time of his life. And we flew home from Miami, whatever, kind of flew through the night. And... Nathan stood up at the end of the flight and just let a groan out of him like he was a defeated man. And all you can just hear from the back of the plane is Declan Ernie just going, not so funny now, Wagon Wheel. Oh God, brilliant. Left the whole plane in absolute tears laughing. That was

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funny. That was good fun. It was good

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fun. Go crack.

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Yeah.

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Lots of sunburn, lots of p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p week on a boat oh it is especially like our cabin so we went into our cabin and Dervan and myself had two beds on the floor oh I got stung and we were like where's Daryl's bed you know so where's Daryl's cot Daryl's bed was in the was in the ceiling I thought I was going to be sleeping out in the

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so a lad had to come in every day and take Daryl's bed out of the ceiling and put a little ladder on it so he'd go up to it we started

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calling it his nest it was like a little bunk bed he's going up to roost

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and they wouldn't take it down during the day so if you wanted to go down lie down

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I couldn't go down and just chill out I had to sit on the couch or one of your beds or whatever yeah

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we got quite lucky with the balcony though because there's three of us usually it's two people and you're down in the absolute bowels of the ship in like a prison cell but we got a nice balcony because there's three of us

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but the weather wasn't that nice now like for the Caribbean I thought it was going to be nice like the Greek cruise was nicer it was 100% there was a lot of rain a lot of wind and Very overcast. We got maybe like, what, two or three days of... Solid sun. Good sun, yeah. But the first few days, remember we got on the ship and it was lashing rain. I know, but rain, sun, shine, whatever it was. Where were we? In the hot tub, in the hot tub, in the hot tub. Yeah, that's another thing we should talk about, actually. The hot tub. Like, we spent so much time in the hot tub. I'm not going to do the staff's accent on the boat, but like... No, please don't. We weren't in the hot tub one evening and... One of the guys working behind the bar ran over to me and goes, James, why aren't

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you guys... James, why aren't you in the hot tub? We love you in the hot

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tub. I was like, you're funny.

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So basically on deck nine or whatever it is on the ship, out the very back of the ship, the Lido deck as it's called, there's a pool and all out there, a pool area and two hot tubs. And all we do is sit in the hot tubs for the whole week. Just drinking water. And talking. The

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first day, we got very excited. We sat in the hot tub. I counted for nine hours straight.

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And it said there's a sign. I didn't get out of it. It says 15 minutes. Yeah, there's a sign on it that says, please don't stay in this for over 15 minutes. The lads are in it for nine hours. This used to be proper silver. And after being in the hot tub, it's like black now. Worth it. Worth every minute. Shout out to Rhys, even though he's not here. Rhys Campbell, what a legend.

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Rhys, we love Rhys. We love Rhys. Rhys loves us.

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Rhys, everything scares Rhys. So you're just like, hi Rhys. He just goes, oh yeah. He's a jumpy character. He's a jumpy old twitchy man. But we love him to bits.

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He's a jumpy old twitchy man. I guess he's a jumpy old twitchy man.

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So boys, what have we been up to since the last podcast? A lot.

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Well, Daryl, I'll tell you what we've been up to. Tell us, Cahill, what have we

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been up to, guys? What have you been up to? Well, I would say... that obviously we're a man lighter, but I'd say we've completely changed up the band. Like if you've seen Kill two years ago, maybe even a year ago, it's not the same thing. Not because of being the man lighter, it's just a completely different show. We've very much stuck to our roots of like trad folk music and we kind of, I feel like we've found our feet. And that just takes, that was just two or three years of just trial and error oh absolutely and playing everything but the Cioil show now I think is like very solid and we have the lads we've Niall and Oscar in with us full time now bass and drums they're not part of the band officially although they would love to be but they're not no they get paid more than us that's how good they are we give them more money than we get and I'd say our best show now to date has been we played in Inverness Eden Court when was that? it's the 1st 1st of February you're like a calendar 1st of February February, we sold out Inverness, Eden Court in Inverness and it was unbelievable.

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And we're back.

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And we're back. We're live. It was very good though. I just could not believe that we sold every seat in that place. It was the best feeling ever. I was so nervous going on stage. Yeah. So nervous. You didn't talk to anyone

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for

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about an hour beforehand. It was great. Best hour of my life. Oh, God. My thing before I go on stage is, you're probably used to it now, is I just don't talk to anyone. Oh, that's all right. I just have to be in my own little world. I get really nervous. I'm more nervous about the crowd talking. Yeah, I get that. I totally get that. Yeah, I'm not nervous about going out singing in tune or playing the guitar. It's just keeping the show going, you know? And that was a proper show. Oh, yeah. So we had full production, like lights, band, everything. It was like a proper concert. And it felt incredible. It's one of my favorite things I've ever done in my life. Oh, it was savage. It was savage, yeah. And then we played the waterfront, Belfast, which was the same thing. Similar sort of thing. Yeah. Great crack. It's always nice to come back to the waterfront because I feel like that's the place where we kind of started, you know? Yeah. We started as five and now there's three. Well, there's five of us still, but three of the originals. The OGs. We've

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had great nights everywhere. Like, if we really, if we really

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get the numbers together. I said that to Colin as well. I was like, where have we not been drunk? And he just goes and throws a dart at the man. Do you remember the only bad night we did have was your birthday in Kilkenny? Oh, Jesus. Remember that? Yeah. And you riddled with COVID. I was riddled with COVID. So we went down to, we were in, somewhere the night before, we were in Killarney or something. Yeah, we were. And what we did was we booked up, we were like, let's book a hotel for my birthday. So we booked Kilkenny because it was kind of on the way back up towards Dublin. And

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usually Kilkenny is a great city for live music and stuff, but

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it was still in the middle of COVID, so we couldn't really find anything.

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And that was just the start of kind of the

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downfall of the night. I woke up that morning, I was feeling a bit, John, you just kind of know you have COVID, like you're just, you're not like, you don't have the flu or that, but you're like, I'm a bit off. You just kind of know you've got that awful virus. Yeah, you just kind of know you have COVID, yeah. And we got to the hotel about, what, four or five, maybe, and went straight out.

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And them points of Guinness were unbelievable. Still, I will, I still remember at the Scalp, is the name of the bar in Kilkenny. And your woman, she was pouring the pint and rotating the glass like that. And I'd never seen anyone doing it. And still to this day, I can remember it and I want to go back.

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That proves how much COVID I had. I couldn't even drink it. Daryl couldn't drink it. I was wondering why you were making a point of high-fiving everybody you met that night. Yeah, yeah. Just licking everyone. Daryl, stop hugging me, please. And then we had a couple of pints there and then we sauntered into town and... which is I was about, I'd say about half eight, I was like, lads, I have to go to bed. Yeah. And because the night, it was one of them nights where you don't have too much potential. Yeah. We thought it was going to be the best night ever.

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We built it up to something that wasn't. We

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built it up, yeah. And then I was like, right, I'm going to go back and go to sleep for half an hour and just get a bit of energy back. And then sure, I was gone for the entire night.

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You came back then as well, didn't you? I came back just to walk back with you and then I fully intended to go back out with the lads. Or you were back as well. I was back too. That's no different. We

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left Crampsy out on his own. Yeah. I think he stayed out all hours. He did. He chatted to the wall. Fair play to him when the wall chatted back. Yeah. So not a good night. But then the year after, my birthday in London. London. Brilliant night. Remember that? Yes. In the Palladium. That was a night. That was a day and a night. That was a day and a night. So we played the Palladium the night before. That was some crack. Then we stayed in London for an extra night and we just went on the rip all day. Yeah. And it was brilliant. We went into just about every bar in Chinatown. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We went for a lovely Chinese.

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We did. That was brilliant,

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actually.

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Do you remember

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that? Yeah, Johnny Pierce was there. Yeah. Shout out to Johnny Pierce. Hope you're good. Hope you're well. Hope you're having an epic weekend. He loved that. Yeah, that was a brilliant night. Yeah. Jesus, I was in my element. Like water in a kettle. Like water in a kettle. Yeah. Right, boys. Right, boys. Questions. Well, to a couple of questions from Dini, from Bona, and Tommy to Conny to Lava Moccanish, and a couple of frags. Shut up, Dervan. Right, boys, we've a world of questions here. Oh, Lord. So, first question is, if you could have written any song from any genre or time, what song would it be?

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All that she wants is another baby.

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I don't know. What are you going to say? Well, for monetary value, I'd say Fairytale of New York. Are you thinking of Beans? Yes, as always. If you're thinking of Beans, you'd go, like, The Beatles or something. No, I think, I like the fact that it comes around to Christmas every year and you get your, or like the Mariah Carey one. And then what about in terms of just brilliant song? Do you know what song I wish I wrote for royalties? Happy Birthday. It's like the highest grossing song of all time. Who wrote that? Some people actually just wrote Happy Birthday and they get royalties from it. Like every time it's in a birthday card or a silly little tie or anything like that. royalties. Every time you open that card, that fecker gets 30 cents.

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Happy birthday to

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you. I don't sing it, but you'll have to pay them. Yeah, I know, yeah. And then a song I wish I... Oh, sorry, you were going to tell us.

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I'm more thinking of artists. Yeah. So I would think of the likes of Dan Fogelberg, Colin Hay, Stephen Bishop. I like leader of the band, Dan Fogelberg.

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Yeah, that's... I think that's pretty much a perfect song for me.

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It's... Yeah.

Speaker 04:

I would go with in terms of the craft of a song now. It's tough when there's so many.

Speaker 00:

It's hard to think because there's lyrics and then

Speaker 04:

there's also just musicality of a song as well. And that's a whole other rabbit hole. You'd nearly go something like If Tomorrow Never Comes or something as well. Just the way them songs are penned. They're unbelievable. They're unbelievable feel-good songs. Garth Brooks. Magic. He is Garth Brooks. What about you, Jamesy? I don't know. Slipknot or something. No, no, no, no. You're putting Garth Brooks in my head now. I don't know. It's like you're saying, the lyrics and the music, there's too much to think about. I love Guns N' Roses, but I also love The Gloaming, you know. Where's the middle ground there? Right, next question. Will you come back and tour America anytime soon?

Speaker 01:

Yes, give us the money.

Speaker 04:

We've never actually toured America. We've been there. to do we're

Speaker 03:

trying to get our visas wonderful Ben from Ireland wonderful wonderful Ben what a bunch of losers these guys are he plays the accordion bing bing he's number one on the accordion

Speaker 04:

right we definitely can't leave that in yes we can yes we can so that's actually the plan obviously for Coyle to get to America but these things take time I'm dying to have a pint with Trump yeah oh you and Trump would that be some session some crack I hear he's a great man does he not no I seen a podcast with him there yesterday I hear he's a great man on the spoons is he yeah that's it is yeah so yeah obviously um we'll be we're coming to america what towards the end are we going over towards the end of the summer we are going to august is it massachusetts we're going to i don't know off the top of my head how do you spell that phoenix and stuff as well we're going to do a few festivals but obviously the plan is to build keol up to get to that kind of stage where we can tour america but we are in the process folks we will definitely be back this year 100 and

Speaker 00:

if you have any contacts or any festival bookers, send them on. Any venues that you might suggest for us, send them on. Anywhere

Speaker 04:

you think we would be good. Here's a good question, lads. Will we learn more about Oscar and Niall? I don't know. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to. I don't know how much you want to know about Oscar and Niall. I don't know. Very contrasting people. I

Speaker 00:

will say Niall is one of my best friends for the last few years and I still don't know very much about him.

Speaker 04:

you take that back don't worry about it don't be sensitive what I notice with Oscar when I let him out of his cage in the morning to go outside is he's quite aggressive so I tell you a little bit about Oscar so just to sum him up he just puts random Jumping Out of Airplanes He does. He has a very funny accent.

Speaker 05:

What do you mean, lad?

Speaker 04:

Do you know what? We'll drip-feed bits and bobs out about Oscar to you. And Niall is a very introverted man. He is. We just need to get the two of them. Once the two of them are guard-a-vetted, we can start. When you get Niall on the points, now he's... He's a sow for it. I bought Niall his first point. I will say that on the podcast. And now he's a sow for it. And he's still never bought you one back.

Speaker 05:

No.

Speaker 04:

Never. He opens the castle door, which is his wallet. We've nicknamed Niall's wallet the castle door because it never opens. 98 is the last time he had it open. Is there an Australian tour on the cards? Absolutely not. Same as, like, I suppose that's the same as America. Obviously, we're trying to get there, you know. We just need the demand for it. Everything in Australia wants to kill you, though. Everything. Everything. Right. Okay. Okay. Of all the places you've gigged so far... Where is your favourite and what venue would you like to play in? That gig we done in... I know what you're going to say. Ham. Yeah. In Belgium. It was like an art studio and it was somebody's garden and they had like a tent over it and we were singing Irish songs. It was class. Now there's only like... No one spoke a word of English. Not a drop of it. But they were up singing the Fields of Athens, right? Yay, baby, let the... There wasn't even that big a crowd at it but it was just one of those surreal gigs that you're just going, this is just bananas. I think we've talked about this on the podcast before. We have. My favourite gig up there as well would be the first time we played where we're playing next week in London. Oh, magic. Playing the ICC. It's a small little venue in London and it's just nice to go to such a big city and have whatever, a couple of hundred people come out to see you. That's the thing I can never get used to, the fact that these people are just here to see us. I know. I'm like, lads, we have to be really good. That's your days. We've messed up bigger ones than that and got paid less. My uncle Colin said, was there not five of ye? Yes, there was, Colin. Yes, Colin, turn on the computer now and then, will you please, Colin? Bands fall out, Colin. That didn't happen. Are you still playing the INEC in August? Yes, we are. We love Killarney. Oh, Jesus, Killarney. Great town for the pints, eh? Oh,

Speaker 00:

Jesus, it is.

Speaker 04:

Yeah, the Grand, upstairs in the piano

Speaker 00:

bar in the Grand is always a good

Speaker 04:

night. Any common phrases that are good to know in Irish? Ní lén tíntán mar da tíntán féin. What's that? There's no... There's no home like your own home. No home like your own home. Yeah. Any other ones, Jameson? None that are okay for ears, no. When he is coming back to Inverness. When is that? Is it August? Late 2026. Yeah. Oh, we're coming back. Oh, we'll be back, eh? We'll be back, eh? Bigger and better. Yeah. Bring more people with you. Cahill Fee said, if you had to sing one song right now, what would it be? It'd be I Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, just for Cahill. I remember Cahill fearing the cost

Speaker 00:

of singing.

Speaker 03:

You with the sad eyes, don't be discouraged.

Speaker 00:

He was singing that through a bush, looking in at the pool.

Speaker 04:

Here's a good question, please. There's only one answer. Who gets drunk the quickest? Three,

Speaker 00:

two, one. James.

Speaker 04:

Hello, Bobby. Steamboat Willie. Yeah.

Speaker 00:

Do we need to elaborate on that? Yeah.

Speaker 04:

It's just because I'm so fit, my metallurgy breaks up the alcohol that quick. You know, that's just what happens, you know. Have you always been like that? Our survey says... We're not talking about this. What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you? Oh, listen, I don't get embarrassed. It's all happened to me. I'm good. Yeah, James, you've known, like... Don't care. James would literally walk to the airport in a Mancini and wouldn't blink an eye. I don't care. doesn't care about anything what about you guys like in the band or just in general like in life I don't know I can't think now you put me on the spot do you

Speaker 00:

Mattan I'm sure I do but I'm not going to talk about it on the podcast

Speaker 04:

yeah some things are better left on side

Speaker 00:

there's some things that keep me up at night from like my childhood but I'm not going to fucking bring the podcast down with

Speaker 04:

that how is your uncle not

Speaker 01:

I can't put that in, can we? Oh, you can.

Speaker 04:

Oh, you can. I'm editing the podcast. It's going in. Who's always late to rehearsals?

Speaker 01:

Three, two, one.

Speaker 04:

Daryl. I was actually nearly late here today. You were? We were going to start without you. I'm busy, man. Do you know, to be fair, when you came in, you had red cheeks. I knew you'd been running. Oh, I ran, yeah. I did about a 10 minute light jog there. Daryl on the way to the, onto the podcast.

Speaker 02:

Run Daryl, run as fast as you can. Look, it's Slugwort.

Speaker 04:

I could smell a subway as well. I know, yeah. And I was like nearly, I could just feel my body drifting towards it.

Speaker 00:

Someone asked as well, when will you have an album? No covers, please. Unfortunately, that's not the way it works, folks. Yeah. You have to like, we play covers during our show so we will release covers as well but there'll be original songs in there as well

Speaker 04:

we'll try to do a new original song soon now because the last one we did was one more for the road so we'll get in and we actually have plans to get in and write try and write maybe next week and just even see if we can come up with an idea or something so yeah there'll be new music and there will be covers there'll be originals and covers folks don't be worrying yeah don't be greedy now don't be greedy don't be stressing how much of victim of last night came across from personal grievances absolutely every single bit of it every word of it

Speaker 00:

to every word that we changed in the first verse I think it's James passed out on the

Speaker 04:

couch poor James had passed out on the couch we don't know where he found the gin and that's never ever happened folks no wink wink so boys what gigs are coming up between now and the end of the summer hey

Speaker 00:

well Darrell why don't you tell us since you have the camera calendar and

Speaker 04:

I have the camera so our next gig is Saturday week in the ICC in London then we are playing so we got a couple of questions about Dublin gigs so we're playing in the Lark in Balbregan Balbregan In Balbriggan on the 16th of May. Then the night after, we're heading to Galway. We're going to be playing Monroes. Monroes is a beautiful venue down in Galway. This is actually only our

Speaker 00:

second solo gig in Galway.

Speaker 04:

Yeah, we never do too much in Galway. Then we are playing in June. The 1st of June, we're playing the Fahan Fest in Loxwillie in Donegal, which is a long hour drive from here. Dave's, I'm jumping on my money here. Any Donegal fans... Then we are heading to James's hometown of Wexford. We're playing the Bree Country Festival in Wexford. Oh, lads! Where would that be, James? That would be ten minutes from my house. As opposed to seven and a half hours up in Donegal, yeah. Yeah, that would be good. Then, next, we are playing in July. We're playing the INEC, the ballroom. That's actually not in July, that's in August. We're playing that on the 1st of August. Then the night after we are heading to Cork, we're going to be playing the Leap in Cork. We're going to be playing the Lep in Cork. Sorry, boys. It's like an outdoor kind of festival gig. I think Lep is just the area. Lep is it? I don't know. I haven't a clue. I just get in the car and drive. It might be Leap now. I don't know. Then we have a brilliant gig lined up in August, the 9th of August. We're playing the Farmer's Bash up in Belfast. That's going to be a big one. It's going to be a big one. There's a lot of people coming

Speaker 03:

for that. so

Speaker 04:

folks thanks so much for listening that is the end of our podcast this week and as we said next week we're going to be back with a bit of structure and Melissa is going to be here to keep us all in line and thanks very much for listening tonight today was a bit of a a loosener getting back into it like a bit of a riff but we hope you enjoyed listening to us talking absolutely dumb for the last half an hour or so and remember send in your questions whatever you want to ask just send it all in because any topic ideas anything at all What's your favourite dinner? Let us know and we can talk about it. I'll bring us home there.

Speaker 00:

You've been listening to Crack With Kill Episode 4. Goodbye.

Speaker 04:

I wrote me love a letter and I signed it with a ring. Heave away, me jolly boys, we're all bound away. Sometimes we're bound for Liverpool, sometimes we're bound for Spain. Heave away, me jollies,

Speaker 03:

heave away. But now we're bound for Old St. John's where all the girls are dancing.