Whelan's

And suddenly it turned out that there was a whole bunch of people who really loved the album as much as we did.

And then we got booked by Whelans in Dublin, a wonderful venue.

They said, would you like to do it here? And we said, well, do you think there's any you think any one will come they went yeah and they were right and they did and that's that so that's how that happened so now this weird like i said this weird thing three 60 year old blokes playing an album from 1979 from start to finish exactly as it appears on the record and that is literally all we do

Mark, before we hear a little bit from entertainment, it's famous for being kind of overtly political.

So you should, you will definitely have an audience in Ireland.

The likes of Whelan's in Dublin is the place to go to if you're going to play a gig in Ireland.

They're renowned.

So it might be something worth checking out.

time I sang with him since.

Like I was in the band was at Christmas because we played in where he was doing a gig in Whelans and he invited me to come along and just do a couple of tracks towards the end.

And, you know, we went into the rehearsal space a week before the gig and like he just looked at me and he was like, I don't know if we can sing.

sing half these lyrics anymore.

This exact thing happened to me, uh, the weekend of the Paddy Power Comedy Festival with Alison Spittle and her mom.

We went down to the karaoke in Whelans.

Shout out, Arthur.

We love you.

Made our wedding day to what it was.

Arthur is the legend who runs the karaoke in Whelans, and you should go there on your next night out 'cause it's free.

Um, we were too late to participate in the karaoke ourselves.

Wait, uh, is this...

We do love playing intimate vibe, you know, it's, it's, it's great.

Cause we've had special nights, especially in the Whelans, but the Olympia, um, is, is just

cracking.

And other than Johnny Meyer, could you give us one guitarist that you think everybody should listen to?

Okay.

The Button Factory or Whelans.

Oh my God.

No, you can't do it like we...

Okay.

Okay.

I'm gonna say green Whelans, 'cause they gave me my first gig.

Yeah.

Okay.

And listen, have you guys been, are there many live playing opportunities for you these days? I know we're going to talk about maybe the gig in Whelan's coming up, but is it, do you do a lot of live gigs or is it easy or difficult to find opportunities?

Yeah, it's good.

I think the Dublin music scene is really great.

So I think it's great that in your youth you give it a whirl and give reign to... rain to your creative impulses so kudos on that.

Yeah I think that's it to be honest.

Tell us you're going to be in Whelans on Thursday isn't it? That's the 22nd? Saturday.

I beg your pardon.