Chapter 1: What unfiltered chats do Deirdre and Emma have in this episode?
We said we'd keep it tight. We would 100% lied. We did. I'm Deirdre O'Kane. I'm Eva Doard. So keep it tight is basically the unfiltered chats that we'd normally have in the WhatsApp. The kind of carry on you'd screech off for your mate. Maybe like your mum. No overthinking. We kind of just let it all out. And somehow people keep showing up to hear more.
Follow Keep It Tight wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday. Now brought to you by ACAST. We're rolling, keep it tight. Good morning. Keep it tight. Welcome to Keep It Tight. Great start to the morning. A great start to the morning. Which is hard because now we're back after Easter. So it can be a tricky day.
But I don't think we'd have been having a great start to the morning if there wasn't a blue sky. Well, do you? I saw... Sky this morning. And the first person I thought of was you. Really? Yes. You thought this would please her now? I was like, this would please her now. She'll be delighted. She'll be in... I was like, she'll be in flying form now.
Flying form?
I jumped out of the bed and went down and bought coffees from our local coffee shop.
jumped out no bother oh yeah walked down and brought the copies back up to the house and then went back down again to look at the sea because I thought I have to see the sea but I saw the shine and all of course it's just divine oh no me and Tommy were walking to school talking about the weather and he's 11 now it is still cold it's still cold it's cold but we don't mind the cold when there's a blue sky and the birds song
I knew you would be high. Yeah, so you see, it's not a joke when I say I'm looking for the house in Spain or whatever. It's not a joke. The grey affects me badly. Yeah. And like that. It's the French blood, you see. Yeah, it's the French in me.
I don't think there's any bit of French in me. I think it's Irish blood.
Irish I was in big hips working fields do you know where I was yesterday I was in Canterbury oh yes have you ever gigged in Canterbury was my first time what was it like well obviously you know it's so famous in your head between the Canterbury Tales and Canterbury Cathedral you're like I know this place but of course I don't I've never been um but what I just noted I went to look at the cathedral in the morning because I arrived late and didn't get a chance to have a good look at it and of course it was
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Chapter 2: How do Deirdre and Emma feel about the weather and its impact on their moods?
So I said, well, I'm going to have to I'm going to have to go in for the morning prayer. So I had to hide my little suitcase behind the bins. Why? Imagine, because I thought, I can't. So I thought you were going to say I had to hide my gin and tonic. Emma, it was first thing in the morning. Yeah, well. No, I was leaving. I was leaving Canterbury to go back to Gatwick to get home.
But I hadn't seen the cathedral. So I got up early to go and see it. Because I thought, you can't go to Canterbury and not walk and see the cathedral. Like, that's sacrilege. So I had to go with my little case, hide it behind somebody's bins, while I snuck in a side door. Two priests, not one, but two in long flowing robes stopped me and said, it's not open. We're not open.
So I said, oh, I was just coming in for the morning prayer. And they said, ah. Okay. And they changed their tone then. Oh, Clara. Well, it's not starting for another, you know, 20 minutes, but you're very welcome. And straight down that way. And I snuck down and I thought, oh, I'm in the fucking crypt. I'm in the crypt. I'm below stairs now. I'm not seeing the full thing.
Anyway, I had a little look at the crypt, which was magnificent. Came back up and then there was young one's members of a choir or something had arrived. So I pretended to be a member of the choir and shuffled my way in. Jesus Christ, was this a school choir?
I swear to God.
I mean, you're looking great, but come on to fuck. Well, I'm small enough to hide in the middle. Yeah, yeah, keep the head down. I kept the head down. I kept the head down and I just went into the middle and pretended I was one of the choir. And so I got into the main part of the cathedral to have a look. Didn't I do well? You did very well. I love breaking the law. Oh, yeah, a little rule.
And they're the kind of things where you just go, oh, sorry, I didn't realise. You have your alibi straight away. You know, straight away. And I was thinking, there's no way I'm not seeing this cathedral. Like, I got up early to come in here. Like, there's just no way you're stopping me.
Well done.
I wasn't going to go into that. That was just, where did I get into that? Oh, I know what it was. When I was walking out, there was a little, I saw a little plaque saying, there's still mass there every week in French. Oh, OK. Because the French Huguenots, when they were escaping France, a lot of them came to Canterbury. Sorry, can I just compliment you now?
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Chapter 3: What funny stories do they share about sneaking into a choir?
But here we are.
Yeah.
So he's a surprise. That's it now. That's all I'm going to say. But I just thought, oh, that's me. They're my people. I landed here. So a bit of culture. Yeah. See, the English grandmother and all that. Okay.
That's where it all came from.
So the English grandmother had a bit of a... She had a bit of a goal of the French, I'd say. Yeah. One of them. How could you not?
Well, one of them, I hope. It's there anyway.
It's in the genes.
It's there.
That's great.
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Chapter 4: How do Deirdre and Emma reflect on their choir experiences from school?
Or like, oh shit, she's going to get in trouble coming in late. So anyway, what does she do? I see her. She comes in the door of the hall. And she just panics and she looks around and she just joins into the special choir and starts singing with the special choir. Because she's like, doesn't want to get caught.
She didn't know what was going on. And she's like, I'll just jump in here. Everyone's singing, fuck it. And she's like, la, la, la. Yeah, proper hearing. And we're all looking at her, pointing at her, laughing.
And then she clocks all of us, laughing at her, sitting down. And she's like, she can't get out of the thing. And then at the end of the song, I think the choir... teacher said, oh, we found a new member in the middle of that song.
Wasn't that exciting? She's the real type to just pull around.
We found a new member.
Did she have to stay then as a new member? No, I think she sat down then.
Absolutely mortified. Hilarious. You see, that's skillshite, isn't it? Catch me sounds lovely.
It was a big deal in our school. Was it? Ah, yeah. We were in the Pro Cathedral singing Gregorian chant of a morning. How do you feel? That's the pedigree that I have in me. Going into the Pro Cathedral, which I always associate as being one of those big, old, dark, quite oppressive places.
Yeah, probably freezing as well.
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Chapter 5: What insights do they share about the impact of social media on their lives?
So I went and joined the choir. Never again. Because then he only was doing it with the altar service, I think. He was taking the altar service, Bowling and Quasar. Anyway, joined the choir. Louched the choir.
Pretty sure. Did you ever get to go bowling? No, we never got to go bowling on Quasar.
I think we did, but we did release an album. Christ. They really released an album? Called Christ? No. No, no, Christ, yeah. I don't know what it was called, but we released an album. We recorded it in my old primary school, schoolmate project. We were there for the day. What did you call the album? So, Emma Dorn on the choir, maybe? No, I don't know what it was called. But we never saw it.
I think the story was that the album got kind of shipped off to Kids in America or something. Like, no one was getting paid for this.
I don't know what happened to the album. There could be Kids in America hooked on your choir. I know. We just never heard of it. We never, we never heard of it.
It was probably, it was probably like that Celtic women thing, you know, do better as a kind of an export. Yeah, no, the choir was huge. That's me choir days. Maybe I was, do you know what, maybe I was jaded by the time I got to secondary school. I was like, I've done this choirship before and now there's no bone in my choir.
It's so funny, I only started in secondary school, but the secondary school in our school was taken incredibly serious. I think I told you this before. Sister Philippa, she was the nun on the choir and it was like, we won prizes. We won medals. Well, I suppose for her, Sister Philippa. This was her.
Yeah. Sister Philippa, like she's not getting her whole, so she needs a choir. 100%.
She needs to.
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Chapter 6: How do Deirdre and Emma discuss their experiences with piercings?
Hello. I didn't even think of that. How did you know? I don't know because I wouldn't abuse the power. Not yet. So she is. I'm so proud of her. That's amazing. Ellie O'Kane. And she's in the thick of the exams now. Okay. I have no idea how hard these exams are. The work she's put in. God love her. So she's holding this family together now. We've all been watching her studying. Yeah.
She was one of the ones who was a victim of the awful mess over the leave and search. Do you remember when they were, was it COVID? And suddenly, we're just going to give everybody this amount of points. And suddenly people at the top were kind of.
landed down the list Ellie was one of them and she didn't get her first dress and she didn't get into medicine the first time and she had to do the leave it again and it shouldn't have happened it shouldn't have happened it was like a glitch oh it was I have to say a very soul destroying experience I think happened to do the leave instead again.
Oh, no, it was horrific.
Because it's such an exam. She was an A student, like a top student who'd already worked her ass off. So it was horrendous. It was like, oh, my God, she's not going to get her first or second or third choice. They just demoted her while other people were pushed up and got what they wanted. It was hard. Anyway, listen, listen, she's on. She's there. She's nearly there.
Now, she's another, she said, not the 23rd. She won't actually be finished yet. Which is the written exams that have gone from half eight till half five. Imagine writing. Yeah. Half eight till half five.
Oh, you'd be aching.
Aching. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's quite funny. And it came into my head as well because I started to watch The Pit. Oh, yeah. Have you seen this? No, I've seen lots of talk about it.
Lots of talk about it.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges of being an actor as discussed by Deirdre and Emma?
How is that possible? I mean, who's in Oslo? We need to tap into the Irish... a community group or something in Berlin, if anyone has a few contacts there. I'll get on that today. But anyway, so Oslo is May 7th, Amsterdam May 8th, Copenhagen May 15th. And my last show of O'Kanean is in Ballinaslaw on the 29th of May. And then I'm done. And all the rage is on sale. All the rage is on sale.
All the rage is on sale. Yeah. Exciting. Exciting. Yeah, all the dates are on me. DeirdreCain.net. Okay. Thank you to everybody for all the gifts this morning for the AG1. Thank you, Cathy. Catherine, thank you to the gorgeous woman, Sharon, who left us in. The buzz balls and the gin, always welcome. And thank you for joining us. Keep it tight. Keep it tight.