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Dust up the husky trumpet, you rusty gobbnets.

Welcome to the Blind Boy podcast.

I'm delivering this podcast a day late.

I usually deliver podcast on Wednesdays, but for the first time ever, this is coming out on a Thursday.

Because I needed an extra 24 hours.

So thank you everybody for your patience and understanding. I've just come back off a very intense tour of Scotland and England. I did 10 gigs in 13 days

and the days off were used for travel. I got back to Ireland last night. I'd say about eight hours later, the night scheduled, just because shit happens.

Flight transport, all these little things added up, and it added up to eight hours. So when I got to my studio, it was about one in the morning.

And I was like, fuck it, let's do it.

Drink some coffee, pull an all-nighter, get the podcast out on a Wednesday.

I've done that before.

If you work in the creative industry and deadlines are part of your job,

then you know that sometimes you're going to have to do an all-nighter.

That's the job, that's what happens.

So I was ready to do it.

And I tell you my decision around deciding not to,

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