OnTrade Show Podcast - Roisin McCarney

In this episode Justin speaks to the hugely talented singer / songwriter Roisin McCarney. 

Roisin chats about her experience on ITV’s The Voice , being turned for by team McFly and her journey. 

She also talks to Justin about performing in hospitality venues across the uk from bars and clubs like The Corset Club in Glasgow to festivals across the uk supporting artist like Sophie Ellis Bexter , The Libertines  and Ronin Keating. 

Roisin also give us a chance to share her new music video for her latest single DIVA. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_08 0:00

This is the real happen.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Hello and welcome to another On-Trade Show podcast. The show that discusses the hospitality industry, interviews the senior people in a mix of different engagements across the industry to bring you inspiration, to give you an understanding of what's going on behind the scenes, and hopefully move the industry forward. On today's show, we're very, very lucky to have an absolutely amazing artist on the show and a friend. And what I would say is a diva.

SPEAKER_07 0:56

Oh, I like your transition later.

SPEAKER_05 0:58

That was smooth.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Roshin McTarney.

SPEAKER_05 1:03

Hello, Justin. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

SPEAKER_06 1:07

Diva has entered.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

I was going to say you're looking amazing.

SPEAKER_06 1:10

Thanks very much.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Very Scottish.

SPEAKER_06 1:12

Well, you know, Tartan is the brand, so I thought if we're working, we must have the Tartan on. Because sometimes I forget.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

How are you?

SPEAKER_06 1:21

Great. How are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:23

I'm good. You're a very, very busy girl. Yes. You've got a lot on.

SPEAKER_06 1:27

Life is crazy at the moment in the best way.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

I'm I'm glad you've been able to kind of squeeze us in. Oh, thanks for on the show.

SPEAKER_06 1:33

Always. Always, Justin.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Always. So your journey um will probably kind of start there. So season 14 of The Voice. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:44

I was like, season 14 of what?

SPEAKER_01 1:46

What? Where are you going?

SPEAKER_06 1:47

Yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, the voice.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

You forgot about the voice already.

SPEAKER_06 1:50

Almost forgot about the voice. No, yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

But you've obviously been performing in venues and let's say doing your apprenticeship for want of a better word, as they call it in the trade.

SPEAKER_06 2:01

A great idea, yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Um, but obviously, season 14 of the voice, you smash it out the park, um, and tell us about the journey for there. I mean, you've probably mentioned that loads of times.

SPEAKER_06 2:13

No, it's that's part of the journey, you know. That's it. Yeah, the the voice. I mean, what an opportunity that was to get. They were doing karaoke down at the horseshoe bar.

SPEAKER_02 2:22

Right.

SPEAKER_06 2:23

Classic. So I went in and obviously I love a bit of karaoke, it's really my job. So I went in, we started singing, I sang a song. I think I sang creep by radio head.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Right, okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:34

And uh yeah, got a call back from the voice the next day, and they were like, We'd love you to come on the show.

SPEAKER_04 2:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_06 2:39

And I was like, Okay, I could do this, this sounds fun. So they filled out all the application, went for it. Um and then there's like so many auditions even before you get to Yeah, I was gonna say, because some people maybe not understand the the the the what or the what goes on in the background of it to get you to that point. I was very surprised because I think so. You had like they came, they approached me after the karaoke thing. Okay, then they had another, like just in like online audition shirt thing. I think. Okay. Memory is really bad. Then they had another audition in Glasgow, but I was so sick, and I remember walking out being like, They that will be it, they will not be asking me again because I had a chest infection. I just came back from a big wedding, my voice is not its finest. Um, and I was like, Oh, it's fine. What's meant to be will be, and then they rang me back and they were like, We'd love you to come for another audition, and I was like, Me. I was shocked. I said it to my mum, and she was like, You came out and said that audition was awful. I was like, Yeah, I don't know what's happened there. So got that, and then yeah, we went down and we ended up getting on team McFly, which was insane.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

I was gonna say, so you you obviously get to for for those that don't know the kind of background of the show and are avid watchers of it, the do you get to it other than obviously being selected, which you were obviously, and you were turned for. Yeah. Um how do you interact with the other judges or do you get to speak to them or do you think that's the thing?

SPEAKER_06 4:07

So you don't see them on um like before your audition. And it's very serious. Like, so see if you're walking around like backstage, if a judge like starts to walk, they're like code red, everybody has to hide so that they can't see any like any people at all. But the full point is that they have no idea who's singing, right? Right, so if they were to see someone and be like, Oh, that would maybe suit this voice, they might have an idea. So I find that hilarious. I was like, What is Codred? They were like, get in, get in.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Maybe we should do that in here, maybe we should start doing Codred in the door.

SPEAKER_06 4:39

Yeah, it's it creates a bit of urgency, but it's quite exciting. Um, so other than that, and then you just had the brief interaction, and then you went back for the second time. I always call it Coach Judges Houses, but that's X Factor and it's a different show. But that's everyone's like, Oh, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Other music shows are available, yes.

SPEAKER_06 4:55

Um, and then it was you were put in you got given a song to sing on the day, and they would like kind of coach you with how they thought you would sing it. Okay, and um basically then they picked their favourites, didn't get get through that part, but it all kind of worked out for me in the end because I was I was just delighted to be there, and before it and uh yeah, I feel like I'm I'm too much of a control freak for how I want my artistry to be.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

That was something I was gonna I was gonna touch on later on the line. It it it's interesting that a lot of those kind of music shows and I've obviously got a very close friend, it's music, but you're sort of involved in the industry from a number of different perspectives than involving the X Factor and other parts, but you tend to see that the the people that make a career of it and a success long term from it tend not to be the winners, they tend to be the people that have got a bit more individuality and understanding of the artist maybe they want to be as opposed to the artists they're told they should be. Yeah. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_06 5:55

Definitely. That seems to be the the way it's kind of always been in all the shows for all the years, hasn't it? But um I mean, I don't want to say too much, but I don't know why. I don't know why. I feel like it's just because I supp I suppose if you win it, they have an idea of what they want to mould you into, right? Whereas I feel like when you've already kind of got your own idea of what your art history is, that's yours, so you they can't really mould it as much. Which I think is part of why.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

But I could I'm I would I thought knowing you as I do, I would have thought Danny was quite a good mentor.

SPEAKER_06 6:31

They were a great mentor for me. Plus, I absolutely loved McPly growing up, so like I was absolutely smitten when they turned around. I was like, oh my god, me. Um but yeah, I think it was perfect. And it did its job, like it really helped me get out there and get my name out there, but I was happy at the same time to be like to have.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

But you've got to I'm I'm guessing you took confidence for that that people with that kind of experience behind them or or or understanding of the industry saw something in you in the first place. 100%.

SPEAKER_06 6:58

And they didn't like clip their buzzer until the very last second. So I had already like while I was performing, I was like, I'm not getting through, you've done it, that's fine, Roshin. So when they actually turned around, I was like, what?

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Because that's that's what I was gonna say. So from a from an artist's point of view, and I I we obviously speak to a lot of artists and I and work with a lot of artists in different aspects, but I'm always really interested in what's going through your head at that moment, right? Because even at things, and we'll touch on this later on about our awards and stuff like that, and we've spoken to people at East 17 and everybody else that we've got relationships with, but I'm always intrigued of the different types of audiences people are in front of, right? And sometimes what's going through the artist's head when you know whether it's people are talking as opposed to paying attention to the stage or or whatever. But I'm guessing performing in front of other artists that are successful is a different thing. Different, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:56

Yeah, especially like I'm quite demanding in my own shows. Like I've like, get on the ground or jump.

SPEAKER_04 8:02

Yes, you have shouted at me a couple of times when I've been there, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:06

And like I'll deliberately make eye contact with people and be like, move your hand, I can't see it. But like I obviously, like a tongue in cheek sort of way. So when you were doing this and you walked out and it was silence, and then you see these massive chairs and like the 300 people in an audience just looking at you again in silence. You're like, why am I doing this to myself? At least usually when I go out, not to brag, but like people usually cheer when you walk out to a stage, 100%, which calms your nerves for some reason when you walk out to silence. You were just like, Oh, why have I done this? Why have I done this? And then the full time I was like, Oh no, this is they're not like I don't even think I was concentrating on my performance because I was just so in my head.

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Right, okay.

SPEAKER_06 8:46

Um, it wasn't my most enjoyable performance.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

Right, okay.

SPEAKER_06 8:49

But I think again, nerves were just so high at that stage.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

I think anybody that's seen the performance, including myself, would uh said you smashed it out of the park. Thank you very much. I absolutely smashed it out of the park, and the confidence and the the the stuff that you're talking about, the bit the nerves or the you know the uneasiness or whatever else didn't he show for a second in that for me that's something that constitutes a a professional and somebody that really knows what they're delivering. And you know just and again it's not about sunshine and rainbows, but it's it's it's impressive to see because as we'll touch on probably later on, uh one thing you get from your shows and your performances is a performance.

SPEAKER_06 9:37

Well thank you.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

You're very welcome, Drogie. Um but I've been to see loads of artists and I I've worked with loads of artists and I'm quite happy to say that there's a there is levels, yeah. There is different aspects and how that performance can can come across. There can be sometimes and it seems an approachable just here and turning up and going through the motions, yeah. And we obviously worked with Callum before, Callum's a good friend of us and Callum Beattie.

SPEAKER_06 10:09

Fabulous.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

And again, it was something that I'm not saying you look at Callum Beattie or or another artist, but there's a thread for me that runs through a lot of artists like that because like yourself, Callum whether he's playing in front of ten people or three, fifteen thousand people, yeah, you get the exact same level.

SPEAKER_06 10:32

Yeah, well that's what I've always said. I've always said people like because I've done shows where nobody's turned off and I've done shows and it's sold out, and I'm like, people say paid the same amount of money for the same ticket, so it's not fair to give a half-hour show to the five people that turned up, you know.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Building your brand as an artist, building your uh engagement as an artist from those, you know, what we talked about earlier on, like the apprenticeship venues, you know, doing it in pubs and clubs and aspects of your groundwork, that's where you build your following.

SPEAKER_06 11:02

100%.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

And if if they're not getting if what they're seeing at that ground level is for want of a better word, half-arse. Yes. Well, why would they pay 50 or 100 quid to come and see you when you're or where how do you expect to get to the hydrogen performance? Exactly. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_06 11:18

Also, like I just like performing. Like you do. I'm a theatre kid, you know. Like I like to be weird, I like to get really extravagant with things. I can wear a dress like this today.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

I'm glad I never wore my tartan outfit today.

SPEAKER_06 11:33

I was worried. It was the space ones I was more worried about.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Just well being, you know, I was always very partial with the space outfit. That was uh well, less said about that the better. Um for those that are listening, wait with Roshin attended a Halloween party that I had, and she had a space out a space outfit on, and I was very jealous of it. And I was well, we'll maybe see for the next awards if I can squeeze myself into a a silver leotard.

SPEAKER_05 11:56

That's fine, I'll bring it. That's not a bother interview. That's not a bother. I still have it, so that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Yeah, as I say, unfortunately, I don't think I've got the figure for it, wean, but I'll I'll certainly try. But on the back of that, we're talking about the performances that you've done.

SPEAKER_04 12:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

Um, I know the different types of venues that you've worked with probably adds to your experience as an artist, you know. But I know you've done gigs and the Corsic Club and worked with them. You've done sell out gigs at SWG3, King Touch. Yes. Our awards. Well, I'm not saying that was a highlight for you, but it's great. No, it was a great show.

SPEAKER_06 12:32

It was a great show.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

You've supported numerous other artists and opened for some big artists as well. I mean, there's the list that we can touch on later on as well. The venues you've got coming up, you've got some of the gigs that are there. You're opening for Sophia Spexter, you've done loads of aspects like that. There's stuff coming up with the Libertines, there's stuff coming up with um Party of the Palace.

SPEAKER_06 12:55

Yeah, it's busy summer.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

It's a busy summer for you.

SPEAKER_06 12:58

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

That's what you want, right?

SPEAKER_06 13:00

Oh, I love it, honestly. It's just and like, yeah, just the fact I'll get like little punchy moments when I'm just seeing like my name next to all these massive artists. Like I grew up listening to most of the time. I'm just like, what the hell are you?

SPEAKER_01 13:13

But from a from a hospitality venue perspective, obviously we work with the industry quite closely, but as we constantly say, hospitality isn't just a pub. It's not just about buying a drink or buying a pint.

SPEAKER_04 13:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

It's about everything from anywhere there's a bar, from gig venues to festivals to nightclubs to hotels, to everything is is experience-led, right? And from a music perspective, it's got quite a big influence on people's as we we spoke to Caitlin McAllister on our previous show from the Ministry of Sound about it's got such a big part of people's memories.

SPEAKER_06 13:53

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

And and their experience, how that affects their relationships, how that affects their friendship groups.

SPEAKER_06 13:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

Um but from you as an artist's perspective, that that journey and working in those different venues, how do you find a difference in venues? How do you find working with that sector?

SPEAKER_06 14:09

I think what's been great working, because I did cover give uh cover gigs and pubs, so that was really good because I think that v really got me to know what I enjoyed doing personally, like for my own my own music.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

Is that all you kind of experiment with? Yeah, for different sound and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 14:27

And I think like as an artist, like my sound has changed a lot as I've kind of gotten to know myself and what I like doing more. But I think for that it's also fun, and then it gets to I get because you're playing around with other types of genres, I guess like another side comes out of you is like how to perform. Right, so then I kind of bring in those sides then into like my own songs, even if I'm doing a pop song, but I'll still maybe like I don't know, like act a bit more like a rock star or something because I'm sitting singing stereophonics, a bit like a rock star. That that's yeah, you know, um, but I just think yeah, music is like vital. I forgot the question.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

That's all right. So the almost days don't live it.

SPEAKER_06 15:03

I was like, where was I going with this vibe at all?

SPEAKER_01 15:06

The hospitality venues, you you you've worked in a number of different types of venues, yes, obviously performing in somewhere like um the Cossack Club, yeah, compared to the likes of King Touch.

SPEAKER_06 15:16

That's a different vibe, totally vibe, totally different vibes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

But again, very different types of experience.

SPEAKER_06 15:21

Totally, and I think it doesn't matter. I mean, I always say I love big stages, and I do, but that's only because I like to strut up and down them. But genuinely, like this, like it doesn't matter the small the type the the size of the venue, it's all about the atmosphere inside, which is again from the music, the people, the performance, yeah, the drink sometimes, you know, like it does, it all adds up and it's all interlinked.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

You obviously I wasn't going to necessarily touch on it too much, but I've seen as you're here as well. You you obviously performed last year at her on trade awards. Had a great time 2025. Um the feedback on your performance was probably the standout of the night.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Um and we got a hell of a lot of feedback in relation to the energy, to the again, the the performance aspect of it was phenomenal.

SPEAKER_06 16:13

Um and again, it's a I suppose that's a a different type of night for you, or would is that fair or no, definitely, especially I think because you're going into a room where a lot of people hadn't heard of me before, so you're trying to guess win over the audience because people are like, Who is this? Who is this maniac running up and down the stairs and up and down in a leotard? You know, doesn't happen all the time in Glasgow.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

So you've got 900 people in that room for for across the industry that from the brands, from venues, and you've got kind of seasoned professionals like Capella, a kind of high-energy dance act that's there. You've got the guys from Bandoke and stuff like that, which are a different kind of vibe. But for me, you smashed out of the park, thank you, and and how you engaged, uh it's probably the first time in the five years that the awards have been going on. Yeah that and this is including he's 17, by the way, where a lot of the room were not talking as much as they do, because you're always going to get that. Yeah, at any standard, any gig or any event, you're always gonna get people that's catching up and chatting and stuff like that. But when I was standing back watching the engagement for the side, the amount of people that were just mesmerized by you or fixed on you on the stage.

SPEAKER_04 17:34

I'm not getting it clicked.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

But was impressive for me because for for our awards compared to a a lot of uh industry awards or events of that kind of size, it's a kind of different stage. It's it's staged to be like a concert.

SPEAKER_06 17:50

Yes, which I love.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

So for the the band and the guys behind you to fill that and for you to own not just the runway but the stage and fill that space, isn't it easy for a lot of people because even the guy Robbie and and Terry, the boys V17, went this isn't even what we expected. This isn't a normal corporate gig that we were expecting. Yeah. Wow, we need to fill the space, but you did it effortlessly. Which, as I say, it it sounds as if I'm blown sunshine, but it it it's hugely impressive to watch, and that's where you notice for people watching it as a difference.

SPEAKER_06 18:26

Yeah. I have been singing on a treadmill for two years, so maybe that was maybe that's the training finally finally coming to.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

I've not seen a treadmill for about 10 years, but that's a different story.

SPEAKER_06 18:37

Singing on a treadmill, and I was like, there's a runway, I can use this.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

So what moving on for for that side of things, you've obviously got as we've mentioned, you've got a lot coming up over the summer. A lot of big gigs uh and a lot of aspects that you're pushing forward. You've also got your new single cut.

SPEAKER_06 18:54

My new single cut. I'm so excited about this one. So uh new kind of sonic sound. Okay. Uh it is called Diva.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

So very fitting.

SPEAKER_06 19:04

Right, that's that's what I thought. Um it's kind of I'm kind of started, so obviously the last two years I've had a little bit of a struggle with my own health. Um just for anyone that doesn't know me. Yeah, no, please do. My cancer came back two years ago and I have been on treatment, and I obviously had to go sober and just get better and just do the work to get healthy again.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:27

And these last two years I've been on a journey of like self-love and self-acceptance, and just like really choosing to love all the good and the bad bits about me. And that's why D.Va was basically written because it was like, you know what? Now I actually like now I genuinely feel like a diva. And I my little brothers, the song actually would not be around if it wasn't for my little brothers. They are uh part of the queer community, and I would walk down, I wouldn't feel great, and they'd be like, Okay, diva, like D.Va, get up, come on, diva, we're good, we're good, come on, diva. And like the way they would make me feel when they just called me D. I was like, I want everyone to feel how I feel like when I get called D.V. And so I literally went to my car and I just had a ta-da-da-da-da-da-da diva, and then that was like, okay, I need to write a song. The hook was it. And that was it. So we are done a music video, we've got drag queens involved. I really wanted to share it with the queer community as well because again, it's about self-love and self-acceptance, and I just feel like that's exactly what the queer community like shout about. Do you know what I mean? And it says, and again, my brothers are part of the queer community. This song would not be here if it wasn't for them. So I just wanted to shine a light and bring that on that as well, too.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

Because I bet a tribute to your brother and the journal that you've been over.

SPEAKER_06 20:49

Exactly, yeah. And I just think, yeah, so I'm really, really excited. It's sassy, it's confident, it's just about honestly just being your most authentic sense.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Well, at the end of the show, we're gonna be very privileged to play the track and you're gonna get to hear it. But you've obviously also, as well as the new music you've got coming out, yeah, the engagement from your last album has been phenomenal.

SPEAKER_06 21:13

It's been great. The singles have been doing absolutely fabulous at the moment. They I was just gonna throw so sometimes it's funny because like I obviously love all my music, I wouldn't release it if I didn't love it. Yeah, um, but always surprised me the ones that I would be maybe be like, you know, it's not my favourite, and then they're always the ones that fan seem to be like, this is on repeat, and I'm like, Really? Really? That I'm obviously delighted, but it just shows everybody sometimes. I think I'm too connected to a song because it's maybe my emotional attachment to the song.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

It's not necessarily the song, but other people will connect to the music in a different way or exactly something that's personal to them.

SPEAKER_06 21:51

Always, so that's it. But yeah, the songs have been really doing great, and the fans just seem to be getting like just yeah, they're just they're so good. I've had the best.

SPEAKER_01 22:01

I have to be honest, I the when I was at the uh fellow gig at the King Touch. Yes. Um I was impressed and and if I'm honest a little surprised by the diversity of audience that were there from younger to older than me.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Um and how engaged they were. And I I I shouldn't be I shouldn't have been surprised, but uh no my team. I was a bit, if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_06 22:29

No, my team are always like, well, like, because we're obviously trying to figure out who's your target audience, and I'm like, well, it's a little bit mixed. I think it's because I think my music offers something genuinely for everybody. Like it's I always I don't stick to a niche, which again can annoys my team sometimes, but I'm like, I I'm a evolving person, right? So my artist and my sound is always going to evolve with me. Right. So I feel like it makes sense that the music changes slightly regarding that.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

And then Yeah, because you've d when I've played and I've again I consider myself a fan as as well as your friend, right? Uh but um because I I really enjoy the music. Yeah. I I like the music. Um and that's I'm not just saying that because you're sitting here. Um I had SOS embedded in my brain to the point where you had me and you were I had the dance down and everything well partially, uh, which was a sight to behold in itself. But um listening to the words of of Meet Meet Mon Talk and and the why and the different variations of Meet Meet Montauk and aspects that you've done and seeing how the crowd reacts to that. Yeah and I remember specifically uh at King Tuts it was a version of I I had I hadn't heard before. The acoustic version you did the acoustic version which you're also just released as well, yeah. Um as well. But watching the crowd and and I was uh a wee bit taken aback because I wasn't expecting that version of it.

SPEAKER_04 24:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

And then watching you walk into the middle of coming off the stage, which in King Touch isn't the normal. No, I say not normal, not usual. Yeah, it's not the usual coming right off the stage and coming into the middle of them and sitting at the back and almost sitting, it was like a campfire kind of vibe. Does that mean I know it's daft sounding?

SPEAKER_06 24:24

No, that's exactly how to describe it. That was that's honestly one of the most special moments I think I've had in any gig ever.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

And I was watching one of the uh kind of younger fans, and she was actually emotional, she was kind, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I knew I it's as unemotional as I keep getting called all the time. I had a wee bit along my throat because I was like, wow, that's like a proper connection.

SPEAKER_06 24:47

It was actually so beautiful. Like that genuine is one of my top favourite moments. It was, although it's a sad song, and at the end I just had this massive smile on my face, and I was like, This is a sad song, but I'm so I because that moment could have gone down like two ways, it could have went the way it went, which was absolutely amazing, or it could have gone down like a lead balloon and everybody speak over me. I like a weird moment. Plugged into a microphone, I had it was just an acoustic guitar, my voice in the middle of the crowd. So I was really taking a chance. My vocal coach actually came to that one and he said to me, He said when I came off the stage, he was like, What is she doing? Why is she doing this? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And he said, When it happened, he was just like mesmerized because he thought she has the crowd in her palm of her hand and like 100%.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

You you you smashed out the part, and as I say, it it feels as if I'm blown sunshine here constantly.

SPEAKER_06 25:36

I feel great for it, so thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

But it but it is, and that's that's the kind of part of the experience that we talk about, not just for venues, yeah, not just for you know the brands and stuff like that that we work with, but seeing an artist so passionate about delivering an experience for the people that's paying to go to whatever venue or gig or and valuing that matters because there's a lot of we've talked about it for a while that you know venues are struggling at points to look at bringing different ways of bringing you know footfall into venues, and some of them are which seems like doing a kind of tick box exercise tick box exercise where they're they're kind of going over replicating what successful venues are doing, if that makes sense. Yeah. And what we're trying to say is the venues that are doing well are venues that are thinking out of the box and looking at other ways of bringing people in, things like Cossack Club.

SPEAKER_06 26:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Um what venues that you work with we've done previous shows like Belinke's.

SPEAKER_06 26:37

Yeah, it's just trying to think it is it. It's trying to give you like the it's the grassroots venues out that they're all struggling at the moment is trying to think how do you keep bringing new people in, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 26:46

But it's it's about the quality of what you're offering and not cutting corners. Do you know what I mean? So for for us, you know, you doing a an intimate gig in a venue as part of a an activation or something like that. Yeah, I I would know that the the the people that are coming are going to walk out of there going, I wasn't expecting that. Or that that was brilliant, or that the energy that comes with. Um which is not always what you get. So it it's the experience matters.

SPEAKER_06 27:15

Yeah, well, yeah, definitely. If that makes sense. 100%.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

So fr from your perspective, what's next for you? What what do you well let me give you a slide? So on in the last show, yes, we uh with Caitlin, as we said, the the the Ministry of Sound on their podcast do a uh a segment, right, which is pretty much like a a question. Truth booth, they call it, right? So we'll have the same for you. We'll we'll still their thing. Hopefully they won't uh sue us for it. But I'll just need to ask for Caitlin. Um so three questions for me totally unfiltered, okay, which are truth booth questions, right?

SPEAKER_06 27:57

Yeah. Right, okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

So first question would be if you had to perform with any other artist as a duet, who would it be and why?

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Can I pick two?

SPEAKER_01 28:13

You would obviously you would have to be different to everybody else. Yeah, we'll give you two, right?

SPEAKER_06 28:18

Because two just came into my head instantly.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Right.

SPEAKER_06 28:20

So the first one genuinely would have to be Britney Spears.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_06 28:24

She is the reason why I'm a singer.

SPEAKER_01 28:25

I didn't see that coming at all.

SPEAKER_06 28:27

Honestly, she I know I nobody and I mean I don't know if it'd be the best duet, like vocally. I don't know if her voice is oh sorry, the microphone would um fit, but she's the reason why I'm a singer. When I was a little girl and I would see her perform, I was like, I'm gonna be her one day.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

Right.

SPEAKER_06 28:42

That is that so I feel like if that happened Honestly, I would come out with a snake, I would oh, it would be just amazing. Um and then I mean it would just be insane to perform with Lady Gaga. I think she's one of the best performers in the world now.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

As a a show, a show, yes. I would I would I could see that, right? I could see, but I don't think you'd be lost on a stage with her.

SPEAKER_06 29:09

I don't think that's why I think I think we would put on a good show together. I think I'm not comparing myself to Lady Gaga, I just want everyone to know that. No, um Thank you, Alba. I'll take it about sweet.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

I'll I'll give you them I've got to be honest, I didn't expect Brittany Spears. I didn't see that.

SPEAKER_06 29:23

I just feel like that's an ode because she is like, yeah, she was the first pop star that I was ever just mesmerised by.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Okay. Because you as I say, from my own perspective, and I've I've spoken to other people about it. Your your voice and it kind of maybe goes back to the audience and the the the the fan base side of things is and I mean this in the nicest way, right? Uh something I'll put my foot on it offend everybody. You've got kind of an old voice.

SPEAKER_06 29:51

Oh, yeah, 100%. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

What uh again, back to my uh kind of Chrissy Hind blonde, yeah, a real kind of energy, raspy voice that is unique.

SPEAKER_06 30:01

Yeah. Um would not work with Brittany Spears, but it would just be funny.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Uh oh. I'm gonna stop doing that. Um but yeah, so but to be bringing that kind of yeah soul and heart and and energy into the new music is is probably but I I didn't see Brittany Spears.

SPEAKER_06 30:21

I mean my list goes on and on. It could be Steven X, Madonna, like all usually tends to be. But all female, yeah, just female empowerment, you know.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

Fair plate. That's it. So second question. Yeah gig venue, right? So this is a double barreled question.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

Out with the obvious in the on-trader world.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

Yeah. I know that's that one. That was exactly what I was thinking anyway. What's been your favourite gig so far?

SPEAKER_06 30:59

I think my favourite that's hard, I've got a few couple of favourites, but um last year we got the opportunity to support Jess Glenn.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:09

And it was also my first time getting to perform with my band. Wow, okay. Gary and Jay. Yeah. Absolutely fabulous.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

We are phenomenal, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:17

Phenomenal, like yes, please. Um like the show is literally because of them as well. You know, it's not just me and my manager, everybody does the team. But uh that was just, I think, because it was our first gig, we're all like so nervous because we were like, Why is this our first gig? We're doing supporting Jesus. It feels like it should have been something much smaller. Um, and we actually got so many new fans that have been like since then that have like came to every show since.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

Right.

SPEAKER_06 31:46

Um, so it just I feel like the excitement for that one, and it was the first time I'd got to support someone of that kind of scale. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, that's probably one of them. That's it. It's hard because I have quite a few that I've got.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

Oh, I can imagine, and that's like asking you who's your favourite child kind of thing. If you're like, Yeah, it's it actually is Who's your favourite gig? No pressure.

SPEAKER_06 32:06

And you know, it could be a different answer tomorrow, but today that's the answer.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Probably. Um but as I say, it's it's you've got a lot coming up in some of the fantastic venues and some of the fantastic people. I mean some of the the gigs that's coming up in the summer. Warren Keats performing, Jesse J.

SPEAKER_06 32:24

Yes. These are five.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

Five.

SPEAKER_06 32:30

Which is just lovely to see my wee name next to it.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

It's not a wee name.

SPEAKER_06 32:33

Your name's it's not, it's actually far too many letters for Julie.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

I I do just refer to you as Roshin. Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_06 32:39

I'll end up getting caught to that.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

You'll end up with your bill at Madonna.

SPEAKER_06 32:43

That's the plan. Gaga Madonna. Yeah, everyone calls me McCartney, and I'm like, no, it's not got the T in it, just McCartney.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

And the the last one probably referring to that. Yeah. Right. Is if you were to perform at any venue anywhere at any time.

SPEAKER_06 33:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

Where would it be you be your dream venue to perform it?

SPEAKER_06 33:05

People would probably think I would do bigger than this, but I just really want to play the Barrel Lands.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_06 33:11

I would just love to do like five nights in a room barrel.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

I wasn't expecting that either.

SPEAKER_06 33:15

I just think it's such a lovely venue. Uh I've like gigged, I've um bussed around the barraws and everything as well for years. And I just think that would be yeah. I just feel like there's so much like history around it with artists who've played there, good vibes, and it's still like small enough that's intimate.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 33:38

So if you could get like five nights in a row, I mean one night would be fabulous.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

But well, it was something that it's strange that you mentioned that because Calm.

SPEAKER_06 33:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

I had this I had the same conversation with Calum and his manager Dave before they went on, obviously the hydro and it and everything else, and the amazing stuff that they guys have been able to achieve. But he was saying the same sort of thing back back then was Baraland's and dining to perform at the Baralance. And I'm like, I get the iconic nature of it, but from an artist's point of view, is that obviously you want to go bigger, like capacity-wise, you would love to go bigger, but I just feel like once you kind of do the Battalions, it's I feel like maybe it's just being a Scottish artist, it feels like a right of passage almost thing. You're kind of right of you're you're in you're on the right track. Yes. If you're if you're playing the case.

SPEAKER_06 34:26

Yeah, yeah, that's the yeah. And I just every gig I've ever went to the Badalands has just been such a good atmosphere and it's yeah, I just think it's lovely. Well the right word.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

I'm sure if Tom is listening and the booking team for the Barrelans. Yes, hi. Um please get in touch with Roshin and get her on because she'll smash it out the park.

SPEAKER_05 34:50

Hi Tom, is it Tom?

SPEAKER_01 34:51

Yes, I'm sure that that that phone call will come and the the guys uh will be I'll be sure we have you involved because it'd be it'd be impressive.

SPEAKER_06 35:00

It would be lovely.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

It'd be lovely.

SPEAKER_06 35:02

Bring Diva to Energy in the house. That'll be it. That'll be it.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

I actually believe it or not, I would actually like I I think you and Callum on a stage together would be some something to experience.

SPEAKER_06 35:15

I think that would be great fun. We would have a laugh, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Um but Christ can that boy sing. Oh, his his voice is so good, yeah. But you're as I say, I'm not putting you in the same category, but you the performance level is this is very that's a massive compliment, so thank you so much. If that makes sense, because as I say, he's getting into trouble for swinging off the things and and transmit and everything else. Yes, um, but his thing is about people are coming to pay to come to see me. I want you in the best version of what I can do and I uh a show as I can, and you do the same thing very much. And I know I've mentioned that a couple of times, but it always impresses me to see you perform.

SPEAKER_06 35:57

Thank you very much, and thank you for keeping coming to the gigs. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

No, I'd I'd I'd love to, you know, you know, I love coming along, I love live music, and I love your performances, and any excuse for a drink and a laugh and a giggle is always works.

SPEAKER_06 36:09

Always.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

On that note, thank you, Roshin McCartney.

SPEAKER_06 36:13

Thank you so much for having me for being on the show.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

Thank you for joining us. Thank you, shoot. Thank thank you, Shuna was ready to say that. Thank you, Show. Thank you for giving us your insight to industry and please um smash it out the park.

SPEAKER_07 36:25

Amazing. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

That's been another show. Thank you to Roshin for joining us, and uh we look forward to seeing you on the next one. Take care.