Nathan Carter

I'm sorry, mate, am I supposed to know who you are? He laughed apologetically.

I'm Nathan Carter.

My son looked at him and laughed apologetically again.

The country music singer? The guy continued.

Is that you? Nathan laughed graciously.

So one of our Blaino's claim to flame, claim to fame, is, do that first sentence and then mess that one up.

Claims to fame is that he delivered hay bales in a speedboat with country music star Nathan Carter.

My claim to fame... is that I sing a song that is covered by a guy who delivered hay bales in a speedboat with my son.

So I've no doubt that's where, you know, I got it from.

But I also was ghostwriter for Philomena Begley and Nathan Carter way back in 2018.

You actually went on tour with the card.

Was that for the book? That was for the book, yeah.

Um, we've only a couple of minutes left.

I, I, uh, I, I mean, uh, one of the lighter issues, well, maybe it's not a lighter issue, on the show during the week was this, uh, dispute over whether Nathan Carter should be allowed perform at the church in Boyle.

His, his concert was canceled after being originally given permission.

Do you have any views on that at all, Councillor, on music in churches or?

Um, well, I d- I didn't think, I know that some people, uh, you know, have very strong views on it, and that's, you know, that's, it's very welcome as well.

But I suppose, you know, if it's, you know, I was thinking about Nathan Carter and, you know, he's Carter, he's, he's not exactly Johnny Rotten either, you know? So I think the, the concert, you know, it, it would, uh, I think if something brings people together in a space, I'm sure-

If, if it's tasteful, you're saying, and, you know.

Yeah, and I think that, I'm sure every, uh, every church, because, you know, there's not as many people going to church now, they, they need finances to run their, you know, to, to pay for fuel and costs the same as everybody else, and I'm sure the parish would welcome funding-

And what I'm saying is, right, what I've always been saying, there is, say, who was on it last night? Does anyone know who was on last night? Do you know who was on last night?

Um, I know Nathan Carter was on last night.

Uh-

Did Nathan Carter get, um- [laughs]

...

Charlie O'Connell.

No, hey, I'm only asking this now, right, 'cause I don't really know.

Did Nathan Carter get into the Hall of Fame?

"I was trying to be as quiet as I can.

I just happened to have Nathan Carter doing an acoustic cover on YouTube playing on my iPad at the time." [laughs]

What?

"I had AirPods in, and I hear him say, 'Were you just masturbating to a country singer?'"

"I was like, 'What? It just happened to be playing at the time.

I wasn't doing that.' Now I think he's very offended.

[laughs] I said I wasn't masturbating to Nathan Carter, and he won't believe me.

How do I stop him feeling offended?" [laughs]

So now we have a pub in Boyle.

offering Nathan Carter the chance to perform the gig after the other one was cancelled.

So this is the Sadler's Inn, which is actually a music venue, so they're set up for it.

So they've officially offered to host Nathan Carter after his gig was cancelled on December 13th.

And according to Elfin Dias's official policy, music performed in churches doesn't need to be specifically liturgical, but must be consistent with the character and mission of the church.

So I suppose rock me mama like a wagon wheel wouldn't be very religious, as you can imagine.

So we shall see what happens.

Nathan, they say, the date is available, the venue is here, the welcome is ready.

And I thought, "Oh, that's nice.

I'll just watch this for a minute." 10 seconds into the clip, Nathan Carter is on the clip singing Wagon Wheel.

[laughs]

Again, every time.