Sit tight and strap in as we traverse the captivating life and music journey of Paul Dillon, the ingenious artist behind the name pMad. pMad recounts the early musical stirrings fostered by his family, his intriguing journey into the indie music scene, and how his full name morphed into his now iconic music branding.
The last part of our conversation explores pMad's reflections on his music career and what the future holds, including the anticipation surrounding his single "Opinion" and the creation of his third album. pMad underlines the importance of listening to diverse viewpoints to foster mutual understanding, a sentiment that echoes in his latest work. His love for connecting with fans and his appreciation for the opportunity to discuss his music will inspire you. You're in for a treat with this episode, as our engaging tête-à-tête with pMad promises to be a rollercoaster ride of intriguing insights and endearing anecdotes.
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Sit tight and strap in as we traverse the captivating life and music journey of Paul Dillon, the ingenious artist behind the name pMad. pMad recounts the early musical stirrings fostered by his family, his intriguing journey into the indie music scene, and how his full name morphed into his now iconic music branding.
The last part of our conversation explores pMad's reflections on his music career and what the future holds, including the anticipation surrounding his single "Opinion" and the creation of his third album. pMad underlines the importance of listening to diverse viewpoints to foster mutual understanding, a sentiment that echoes in his latest work. His love for connecting with fans and his appreciation for the opportunity to discuss his music will inspire you. You're in for a treat with this episode, as our engaging tête-à-tête with pMad promises to be a rollercoaster ride of intriguing insights and endearing anecdotes.
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Hi and welcome to the R2RB podcast series. My guest today is pMad, aka Paul Dillon, direct from across the pond, the pond that brings you to Ireland. Paul is from County Galway and with a journey I can't wait to share with you. Paul, thank you for being here. How are you?
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, Deb, and really, really for having me. I'm absolutely delighted to be talking across the pond. This is more of such a small place.
Speaker 1:Right, it's like you know, open up your computer screen and there you are. Yeah, oh my gosh, and I know you have a busy schedule, so I appreciate you being here.
Speaker 2:It's only a pleasure to be here. We're just out. Yes, yes, All right.
Speaker 1:So I like to ask my guests two questions, but because you're special, I'm going to ask three. All right, if you could meet a musician from the past, who would it be?
Speaker 2:Never meet your heroes is probably the way to. I like too many and I'd probably be let down or I'd let them down.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, no one, really no one, okay, and what is your favorite app on your phone?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was thinking of that. It's probably none of them, but it's WhatsApp because we have a group there and it just makes me laugh. Sometimes a photograph, a picture, will come in a meme or something like that.
Speaker 1:We all have a laugh.
Speaker 2:I was good friends from school and then suddenly a picture or some comment will come up and you go away for an hour and next thing there's pages and pages of scrolling what happened, and I think that keeps me occupied there you go.
Speaker 1:I love this question because I either find out about new apps that I haven't heard of or ones that I have is like oh yeah, I forgot, I had that on my phone, they're there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't use apps.
Speaker 1:I had somebody tell me it was their calculator. I said why Chiching? I said gotcha.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, yeah, true, true, All right and the third question. We're musicians, so we don't Chiching Chiching.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter, it doesn't happen. Yeah, that's not going to be good for you. All right, third question for you Tell us how you came up with the PMAD name.
Speaker 2:Well, yes, there's a simple story, and then people have their own heads. What is he mad for? Is it Paul is mad, or he's mad for pee or something like that, whatever it is. And then there is also where I get mixed up. The story is it's Paul and Martin Anthony Dillon is my name. So it's simple enough and, to make it a bit of a branding, I put the M in it and it looked good and that was it really. And then I'm getting confused around the world. So I'm getting followers, and other people are getting followers because there's another pMad out there, the Pakistani military accounts department, which they must be wondering what's going on here, these lads over in the West not getting their post-punk, gothic, indie rock. And then there's guys following me. Hey, I'm like this isn't the wages department for the army, what's going on? So, yes, so it's still a pMad, but be careful pMad you you follow.
Speaker 1:Correct.
Speaker 2:Sure it's a problem. Then if you put in yeah, anyway, it's a medical condition as well.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is.
Speaker 2:Take it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I always do my research, so I put in pMad. It's like oh OK, that's not him.
Speaker 2:The more time you spend with me, you will feel like it's a medical condition you have.
Speaker 1:Yes, so when you're not doing music, who are you, who's your family and what type of other work do you do?
Speaker 2:Oh, my days. No, two days are the same with me. So, looking at, I'm married to a very beautiful woman and we get on well. She likes me most of the time and I have two young kids. It's the I'd. Obviously it's having kids, I found out, is a young person's job. But don't do it when you're young. You won't get to do all the things you should be doing. So I started late. Works out great. I'm laughing at them now and all I need is more patience. Really they're great, they just need patience. And yeah, so I've been a farmer and have a job carting track and and accountants by trades done as well, and that's yeah. So every day is different.
Speaker 2:I could be having milk, having one day, or it could be an emergency with the tax man, or it could be a stag party, trying to go carting, or something like that A bachelor party.
Speaker 1:A bachelor party. Right, we have to translate for us. We have to translate for us over here.
Speaker 2:But I'm lucky that then I can be in front of a computer a lot of the time. So I'm listening to music all the time and yeah helps me out that way, so it's very interesting.
Speaker 1:How'd you end up in accounting?
Speaker 2:I wanted to stay at home and be lazy and do the farm and do bits and pieces like that and my mother said no, there's no money. I was at go to college. You're going to college, whether you like it or not. I happen to be I don't know good at figures or not, but I'm what was it called? I'm picky that way, so numbers suit me that. I'm not sure I haven't been medically told that it was mentally strange, but one in one is always two and two in two is always four, and I like that.
Speaker 1:It's grounding, it's grounding, it's very grounding. Yeah, it's facts, it's facts.
Speaker 2:And then so I went working in the accountant and found out that actually the buses were getting paid more than me. I was getting paid very little. And then I went. People came to me and said will you do my books? I do, and there we go.
Speaker 1:There you go, all right. So what's your view of the world at this moment and what are you doing and what we are doing to ourselves in the planet?
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, it's shocking. These are peace times, you know. If you were to go through the history books, I'll tell you these are peace times. But I look at everyone's life is valuable. So, whether it's Israeli or Ukrainian or Palestinian or Russian, or never mind the fentanyl in America which is going to come over here, and the drug problems and the, what I don't get, the, the, the devalued of life, you know the value of your life or anyone else's life. Just become immune when you turn on the news and you hear 50 people died on an earthquake or 70 people were killed in a bomb, or some shooter went to America, some shooter went in and shot someone and got fired. Yeah, yeah, where's the that? You could be the most unfortunate person, having a great day and worrying about paying your life insurance, wondering what are we going to do when they get older and the kids?
Speaker 2:and this is going to take drives in or bomb you or whatever. So yeah we're not in a good place. We're not in a good place and I don't know how it's this populism and and I don't know how we're going to get out was, unfortunately, yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1:I'm with you on that one. So hopefully, hopefully.
Speaker 2:And so you're going to turn off the news. And if it was not? Inside my house?
Speaker 1:Yeah. I don't turn it on. I mean, I get enough of it online, so if I need to know something, I will look specifically for something, but it's very rare that I turn on the news at all anymore.
Speaker 2:It would pop up and yeah, it's there. You're going to the America, our politics isn't much better, but you're so polarized 51% will vote for one guy and 49. And it's just 51 wins the next year and vice versa. Exactly Each other, and you know it doesn't mean. And then is that what? He's running the government, or he's the most, he's the president, or whatever it is, but you only have 51% of the people Right. So Obama, Trump or Biden, the only had.
Speaker 1:That's right. I don't. Yeah, it's a scary world, that is for sure. So is that the space, though, where your music comes from? That goth rock retrospect? I mean, you do have a different take.
Speaker 2:Basically, it's just. It's basically where my talent will bring me. I'm not the most talented in the world, I'm not the best singer in the world. It's just where we end up with and it's all for me. Really, I'm very selfish now and unfairness. I do it because I enjoy it and I like it and it's a process and probably gets me through life. It's another. I'm too. I'm too old to we have hardly over here soccer or play football or basketball or American football. Too old for all that. So my past time now is music and I enjoy it and it's good therapy.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's right to bring out some sort of meaning through it. It's it's yeah, there's too many the kids and we ended up with it, sheeran and there's enough of people talking about love and loss of love and shaking their booty and all the other stuff around the place and that you need that balance of life is horrible. We need starters, absolutely.
Speaker 1:So when did music, when did music become part of who you are?
Speaker 2:I should solve as well. I remember at home my parents, irish country music which is worse than any American country music. But we've done it. We've taken a record player. He had other big record players and we would be on it all the time, you know. So there was a parents but then there would happen to be a Roy Orbison album and there was an album and you know cool enough stuff for the time. And then you'd go then to Coole Cousins. You go to their houses and they were older and they had the denim jackets without the sleeveless denim jackets, and they had Stasis Co on the back and all that sort of stuff, or AC DC in the hair and unshaven and badly unshaven, which is worth. But they were the cool kids.
Speaker 2:I was six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and they were rocking around the room. So you took that, yeah. And then a cooler cousin again then came up from up the country and she said a week, what is? And she left her Genesis cassette, oh man, and didn't really do that for me. Sorry, no, genesis, but let you down, but it was a cassette and I could find it, jesus.
Speaker 2:And then I went off and I said, oh, then I can buy these things on myself and went on and found my own and then I had to here in Ireland you go to the Gweilthok would be where some of the kids would go to learn Irish during the summer. You know you go for the Gweilthok. It was mostly meeting girls and messing and things like that, but my cousin came home from there as well. Then I came home with Jesus Cause now this is the 80s in Ireland and it was the depths of depression here. Jesus, no work, no, nothing. No money, no, oh, we're still not getting the money, like what. Ireland was Terrible, yeah, oh, jesus. No jobs, no, nothing. So when people come back and I always believe it is this if someone, people to introduce you to new music are very important, because we'd never find it otherwise.
Speaker 2:So he came home and he said she was never here. He fell in love. In the two weeks he managed to fall in love with the girl and she and fall out of her. You know, break up or whatever it was and he came home with the smiths. There's a light that never goes out, one of the greatest songs ever, and that is I've never heard anything like that. That's absolutely amazing. Wow. So that pushes us all off onto a whole different plane.
Speaker 1:You know so? Oh, never, absolutely. And did you think? Did you ever think at that time? Did you ever think at that time you would be where you're at now?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know where I am at now, of course, then that happens and we went on going, that cousin of myself and a couple of the lads we started to ban the suicide of Duffa Coats and starved of Barber and a few different things like that, and we thought we were going to be the smiths or the cure. And you know, we had it in our heads. So to think that we are where we are today but I still think I'm 15, or, you know, I'm no better now than I was then, and it's just, technology is better and things like that and sort of the same. You see, that's the great thing about it it brings you back to those without having to run around the field. To me and athlete, I can do, do, do, do. And it's brilliant because I can still think I'm 15 without having the lungs in the heart of one. Of course, that's what it does for me.
Speaker 1:Well, you've definitely have put a whole different twist on things with what you do with your music, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was. And this is where you go back to your saying was it always post punk or rock or whatever it is? But it's not. It's not because I like my little public enemy and heavy metal and not all certain things. You know, certain things I like of certain things and of course we're going to influence you.
Speaker 2:And that's where maybe, the crossing, because someone was doing a review on the album and he was just reading back in it and I started off a little bit gothic and then it was a bit punky and then it goes this way and then at the end of it you just just trash metal, like you know, for a sake. So yeah, that is true actually, but it's just the way it was, because mostly the way bands would have back in the day, would it? You get 1000 euro together or whatever. It is going to a studio and spend your money and you had them instruments with you and you had that that week and that's what you did. But I can do, this is over 20 years of putting this piece and that piece together, and so album three is actually is going to be a bit more. It's totally new, it's not going back, so I don't know how that will sound at the end of it, but it's it'll be different as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, because I I think each of your albums takes on, takes on. You've created something different with each one. You have a message with each one also.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I see, I, I like them. And I get flabbergasted when some other people say, yeah, I like that too. You know I was thinking if I liked it, there were surely three or four people somewhere in the world that might like it as well. You know there's other people out there. That's just, that's good, that's good. And then it's like all music. Someone gives you a song, this and that song, but you have to be in the mood for that song that day. And I even put on the album. You know you'll skip. Medicine will be the song today because I need that. Our sisters will be another day, but I could skip it the next day and I go on to the other one, you know, so it's all, it's all fairly. Yeah, and I think how you feel in the day when you did these mixed tapes back in the day and the rest of it, you know you know I mean yeah, but the drama.
Speaker 1:I love you today and I hate you tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just putting it out and then you know. So there's loads of different tapes and stuff like that and different tunes for every, and that's the beauty of music, you know coming forward a little bit and COVID will get to that point.
Speaker 1:You're in COVID, you're in lockdown and yeah.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know we had the conversation, so you did a couple of things during COVID. You did the Indie Irish for the best of Irish. India, yeah, yeah, indie Irish.
Speaker 2:That's running. Yeah, we had a running battles. I have now more enemies than I ever started out with. There was people that I am known as the most hated man, probably in Irish India, and then the winners would like you. You know so it was great.
Speaker 2:We had great votes. We did poll give a background, though. I picked maybe I think it was 300 of the best Irish albums and then we did the best single and other polls and we were voting on Facebook and things like that, and what it did it was get people out and listen to Irish music, Irish Indian music that hadn't been listened to in years, or brand new stuff as well. But like everything else, like I was saying, Nothing like music to divide politics, music, religion I think they've forget religion and music and politics shouldn't be spoken about. Really, you know it creates enemies. So it was great fun and now it's actually finally coming to his peak that the best of Irish Indie radio shows coming on now. So I got asked would I do that? And I'm following on from another good vibe, fresh era that we're doing brand new Irish Angola, put a little twist on it, go classics and new and mix again, and so when is that starting?
Speaker 1:When does that start?
Speaker 2:That's starting Saturday, week 11 and 11.
Speaker 1:11 and 11. So what time your time?
Speaker 2:It's 5.30 in the evening, so that'd be slightly after one o'clock, one or two o'clock years. But if you're and we've chatted about this that it's going to be recorded, I can send it on and if it's, you want to replay it on and reel to reel on a time that suits you most better prime time prime time. Or you want to put people to sleep, or there's people you don't want listening to your radio station. You're scared of them off.
Speaker 1:Oh no, Ron and I are looking forward to it.
Speaker 2:It's an hour and a half of new mix and the way I've started to get on my head is that if you've been on the national radio station as RTE, or if you've been on the big magazine, you're not getting on the show. You know it's the low, but it's top quality stuff, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think for me supporting Indies and supporting being able to speak with you now and bringing you over here and sharing what you have and everybody else, that's what I like.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, this is what.
Speaker 1:I like it's amazing.
Speaker 2:It's pretty fantastic to get the exposure. There's no such thing as bad publicity and stuff. It's absolutely wonderful and I'd like to thank you because you've been since you. I thought all that and he was there when he was a few champions, you know, and you have been totally that way.
Speaker 1:It's been brilliant you know, yeah, it was funny. You know, you like one person, like one musician, and then it kind of snowballs and goes from there. And so when I, when I did, you know, hit that like button and then I had to go listen to your music and I'm like, wow, well, that's different.
Speaker 2:Yes, most people think that jazz is different.
Speaker 1:And that's what I like.
Speaker 2:You know that's the same. I'm not reinventing the wheel. It's not anything that I'm doing different from anyone else, but it's just maybe a different mishmash, mishmash or whatever it is, of different songs. But there's too much of this. If you're going to be in the top 30 or 50 or whatever they call it now, you should do all the same, really All these.
Speaker 1:I don't know, yeah, so I think it was a fury that you first sent me. I think fury and that sort of fear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's different. I mean, for me that's different.
Speaker 1:And I think that's the other part, too, about supporting Indies and being online and social media music that I may not, or anybody may not necessarily, would listen to, you have an opportunity to listen and hear it and then like it and play it and share it.
Speaker 2:But, that's the opportunity and then probably some of the best music you've you love, you've never heard you Because you just the seventeen thousand songs the month or day or whatever it released and you just can't keep up with it. And so, and for me, once a week now I do a. People have new followers of Pima. People do follow Pima on social media, the artists. I do a Spotify playlist and, as you have 2025 and it's new, they're just new followers to Pima and I follow them back and we put up a Spotify list and I listen to that and Chase now, I don't like it all.
Speaker 2:That's just the way it is. But I might I put up what I like of them and but majority is top quality stuff. You know there's no reason. And People born in the 70s or 60s think the 70s are the best, people in the 70s think the 80s is the best, and so on. So the people in the 20s now will say this is the best music.
Speaker 1:As someone.
Speaker 2:Things are very bad, no, and I'm not a fan of, I don't really. When you hear that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones of new music out when I come very far down the road, aren't we? You know, I'll be more reason stuff that's I don't put. I wouldn't like you to come back with a new song either.
Speaker 1:It's great. Well, it's crazy now with AI. I mean the Beatles song that they're releasing or have released. I haven't heard it where they say they've. Who was it that the was a John Lennon's voice was was drowned out by the guitar and they've been able to amp it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's actually a good thing I use of AI, rather than inventing a new song and me saying, copying John Lennon, there is a, is there AIS? Is that? There's a band called the Oasis, but they're done with AI and they're AI Isis.
Speaker 1:It's, it's, it's crazy, it's definitely crazy and for me, I think, every era and every genre I have found something that I've liked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's always something. Yeah, it's just Absolutely, and life just passes you by.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're done. Let me just ask you about your writing process, because I love this question to ask, because everybody, each Singer songwriter, has their own process. What, what is yours like?
Speaker 2:COVID arrived and all these bits and things, and I mean you know all these online gurus were on about these things and all this. You know you need to be doing this. You need to be doing that. Keep your head straight, man. Keep your head straight. You need to be journaling. Journaling, that was the cool journal and you gotta be journal. What the hell is journaling, right? What you do is you sit down every day and you listen to your head and you write down what you're thinking. Man, you write it down. I, I'm fucking doing that for donkeys years. I'm texting myself, I'm writing little notes Like I said I have to write a note to remind me about the notes that I wrote about.
Speaker 2:A note for a note, yeah, so I mean writing all the time and I have my phone and texting myself and and the magic of I've, I didn't go have floppy disks of stuff, but I didn't go back that far. But there's CDs and you know you have files everywhere and COVID gave me that chance. But there's a lyric there's, and then I'm tough. But then I have been so I have tons, pages and pages and pages of lyrics and then I have what I would categorize as miss. You know, you get here a song and the lyrics and you've been, I've been missing in songs, lyrics of songs, for Is that? And now I've grown up and I've hearing the right, because I better speakers is that what he's singing? I've been totally off.
Speaker 2:The Some of you know a boy in the bushes were two in the hands. Yeah, it's such as the underlying, I think anyway as well. So I was missing the meaning. And then we're getting the words wrong. Now here's an opportunity for me because I Can. Actually I've been singing them so wrong. No one out of the tune, no one's gonna mix me up with Marisi or the cure. No, not my vocals aren't gonna match it, but I have the tone and I have the idea. So there's a bit of a jigsaw there of that sort of messing. So there's not too many. Artists will tell you that's their process.
Speaker 1:And this is why I like this question yeah so yeah, it could be anything.
Speaker 2:And then I would go into the studio and I'd go to the vocals and I'd hear something else in this and I'd just totally turn it on. I'd go in with the sesh this is the chorus, this is the sound, and then scratch that viral here. It'll be all typed and then I'll have more viral on it. Then I will have more ink put on it again. That's it. So I have to come back down and change everything again so I can read it.
Speaker 1:I like it, I definitely like it, and so, talking about your writing, your songs deliver a powerful message and your latest album, right To me.
Speaker 2:This is what I say they are. But a lot of people would say very debut singer. Who am I? I knew what it was about. I put up what I thought it was about is one way. And then I put up a video which started put another slant on it and then other people were coming up. So everyone, like I said, I miss singing lyrics for Duncan's years and people pick what they want out of it. I put out a press release to say, oh, this song is about the planet is destroying ourselves, the sun and the heat, and we're poisoning ourselves or we're killing each other. We're all broken and we're all broken and Alice and stuff. And then other people come up with other things. That's their will to do what I say it is. Doesn't make it what it is for them.
Speaker 1:No, but I think with any song and you can listen to the same song on a different day you'll get a different meaning or a different message or a different feeling.
Speaker 2:That's the joy of good poetry and things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, but your words just resonate on so many levels.
Speaker 2:But hopefully, that's another bonus of it all. Yeah, that's if I can put something out there, that it means something. Yeah, I do broken. Yeah, that's fine, that's okay. Don't just pay any heed to that. Or look at us in greater had me own medicines that took me a while to get off. All the other medicines and whatever drugs or whatever people take or do or need, but it's all in here.
Speaker 1:That's the right, absolutely Good. You're good.
Speaker 2:And so all that sort of stuff, and so it's maybe self therapy more than a lot of other things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, and that's all good, absolutely. And so, with all that, was there a time P mad thought to himself what the hell am I doing? Should I be doing this? I don't think I should be doing this.
Speaker 2:But someone said is it poll turtles? The politicians are something like that. Isn't it poll turtles? Do we hear them?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:No. So you have a fence pole right and the turtle is just left on top of it and he's looking at. And these politicians end up in these positions and they're looking at how does it get here, how am I going to get down there? What the Jesus am I doing here? So it's a bit like that with me, it's just so.
Speaker 2:I went from zero to 100. Very rapid. My wife told me at the very start, of course then to get your tick back on because you're going to get serious abuse. People are just going to know and fair play to them. Like my mother out said, if you have nothing good to say, say nothing. And it happened. Fair play. If they don't like me, they've gone away. They've set it behind me back without saying anything. Thanks for the good, but yeah. So look at success. What is success? Survival is success. To be here is a success to be talking to you. I feel that over the couple of years, whatever it is, that I could arrive into Auckland and New Zealand and look up Adrian and only ever met him or talked to him online or friends, but I could end up being Helsinki and I could meet and I could end up over and ditto her with yourself.
Speaker 1:And you go right, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Sit down for the day and meet a friend, so it's not usually wonderful as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I think we've all had that thought, even for myself is like what, what am I doing? Why am I doing this? But just to push through it and, and you know, for those that are just starting out is that's it. Just keep moving, just oh yeah, no more than that.
Speaker 2:And pushing through, don't let the buzz.
Speaker 1:Don't let the buzz in your ear get to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, unless you're the buzz in my ear. I've seen therapy a couple of weeks ago and my hearing won't come back till the next time I hear them. They just blow it ahead of me and oh yeah don't listen to anyone on yourself, and some days it won't suit you, so don't do it that day.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, absolutely Tomorrow pressure. Is there one moment in your music career that stands out above the rest?
Speaker 2:No, not one minute. What it does is when you listen to yourself or the shows, I'm in front of the computer and I know you know you get tagged on social media to say I'm going to be playing this show and some shows that I would have listened to before any PMAT I would have been just a couple of shows that I would have, as a music fan, been listening to anyway and find out PMAT is on that. You know it is amazing as well. But I'll be typing away and messing away. And next time I'm talking away there about something, talking to some lovely lady about some wonderful business she has, and next thing I that's good, that's interesting. And next thing pMad comes on and here goes up in the back of my neck, you know, in a good way, not the Ed Sheeran Jesus, ed Sheeran is on the radio. No, in a good way, that's wow. Goosebumps are the stuff, and every time pMad gets pledged is wow.
Speaker 1:Good, yeah, yeah. And I love supporting, like I said, I love supporting everybody that possibly can music and otherwise the women entrepreneur spotlight.
Speaker 2:I enjoy that show and I enjoy that there because, you know, and things have moved on so much that she's not in the kitchen as much the woman should be out there, you know absolutely. The world should would probably not be. No, I'm not saying it wouldn't be a lot of bitching, but probably wouldn't be as much fighting and war as if you know Right, yeah, yeah, I love doing that, I really do and love doing that.
Speaker 1:So what's next up for pMad? What you got cooking.
Speaker 2:Well, so this nice week we just finishing up the radio show the best of Irish indie, and so I have the first two shows planned and then I've them play listed. But I put up a few little notes to say, d man me, if you're Irish and you want your Irish indie music and you want to play it, I'll have a listen to it and see how it goes. And the emails are coming in already, so easy for the shows. And then we're going to release.
Speaker 2:Opinion I was thinking is the new single opinion, and it's going to be recent, the fifth January. I wasn't going to ruin anyone's Christmas by putting out a pMad for Christmas. It's stressful enough without having to listen to me over it so and it wouldn't get played anyway. So opinion is, it's a bit. The opinion is we. You have your opinion, I have my opinion, that's all right. And what we should be doing actually is listening to the opinions we don't agree with, to find out why they have those opinions, and we might start to meet somewhere in the middle, because we all end up with these bubbles of I'll hang around with the people that I only like and their opinions suit me and you learn nothing nothing, absolutely Nothing you're as well have to be listening to the terrorist in his but Hamas, as you are the guy down the road that agrees with you, you know right and it doesn't.
Speaker 1:It doesn't mean that if you listen to somebody else's opinion that you're going to agree with it, but at least you hear somebody else's opinion.
Speaker 2:You have to hear it. Why has he that opinion? Or she's that opinion because their parents were killed, or why is this happening? It's not Don't know everything. I don't claim to know everything, so that's that's opinion and you're allowed to do that. We'll still have your own opinion and stick to it at the end.
Speaker 1:So is this releasing after the first of the year?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's first Friday in January or something like that. Yeah, it's good it's. It's Back to More electronic. A guy fair play to him. He was overly complimentary about it. Of course he says if new order came out with it, they were very proud of it. So yes.
Speaker 2:So that's that, and then I'm recording album number three at the moment, so the demo is done on that and and so that's gonna be called it. I have working title one plus one equals minus one, just to show my, my, my brilliance in the county and we have a band as well a meme and myself a friend. So we were banned, called greeting, and we were supposed to release double-started to the league, but I Decided eventually not eventually, I decided I just for the crack the Irish Eurovision Eurovision song contest. I'm not sure it doesn't mean much. Yeah, I said yeah, let's put this in. It's a grungy type of song. Let's put this in for the Irish Eurovision contest. For the front of it and it can't release it on your toll, no. So I'm waiting on the no. Yeah, so it's good, good music now grungy, okay, indie Grunge, good, yeah, yeah, yeah. So need is the first song.
Speaker 1:Awesome. And before we go any further, where can people find you, contact you, get a hold of you, listen to you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can find me on all the streaming services pMad, and you on social media and know that PMAD the band, pMad, the band, it's me, this is the band, just because it can get you everywhere and tick, tock, face books, twitch and whatever. Float your books. And there we are. And, yeah, on YouTube, make it actually Make a good video.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Think I think good on YouTube, yeah, so check me out. And on bank camp, if you ever want to buy anything, you know that Point zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero seven cents that I'm accumulating. It's where your math comes in to to pen, to sense eventually from Spotify.
Speaker 1:That's a whole nother show to talk about wonderful t-shirts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would send some albums across there if anyone yes, I love that album cover. Yeah, it's actually. Yeah, this one is me and it's homage to that. Andy dog was the Designer for all that albums and stuff. So fantastic music and good covers. So.
Speaker 1:I started.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so look at I'm there and hopefully send across some for prizes to. Yeah, I guess you want to scare people away from your show or anything like that. This is the way, and if you don't like it, they make good coasters oh.
Speaker 1:My gosh, paul. It has been a pleasure tonight. I haven't enjoyed speaking with you. I mean I'm looking forward to collaborating on other projects as well with you.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, I'd love a. I will empty. I will put the show across to you and, if you ever decide, we're going to run there no problem at all. What fantastic.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:It's. It's to share the other music. It's not just about pMad, you know, and there's other fantastic people out there and I'm trying to make friends actually.
Speaker 1:I think hopefully you've made one or two through this. All right, well, thank you once again. Paul Dylan P mad the band. Look for him, like him, comment, share and go buy his music and then be sure to comment.
Speaker 2:I do contact people. You know you won't have. I do talk back to people and you do talk back to them, I, I write back.
Speaker 1:You do because when I you do because when I contacted you, you got right back to me. So, yes, people, he will get back to you, please.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I am not above my station anywhere in life for tall. Here I am normal human being.
Speaker 1:All right, Paul, you have a great night. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:And my heartfelt thanks to you. Thank you very much. It's fantastic what you're doing and it's wonderful. Thank you. It's great work.
Speaker 1:Thank you.