I WAS ON THE LATE LATE SHOW!!!
I'm still shaking. I'm writing this at 2am because I can't sleep. I'm too buzzed. Too overwhelmed. Too amazed that that actually happened.
They showed the website on screen. My website! rattlinbog.fun in massive letters! I could see people in the audience recognizing it, nodding. This thing I made in my bedroom twenty-four years ago was being broadcast on national television.
Then Ryan asked me to sing a verse with the house band. Just casual, like "ah go on, give us a bar of it." And I did! With a full band behind me! The whole audience joined in on the chorus. It was surreal.
After the show I called Mam from backstage because I was completely emotional. She picked up and I said "Mam, I was just on the telly" and she said "that's grand, Seamus."
Coming from her, that's basically the highest praise in the world.
She means it too. My mam doesn't do false modesty or false comfort. If she says something's grand, she means it sincerely. And the fact that she thinks this is grand, that it's worthy of her approval — that matters more than all the viral videos and media coverage combined.
I'm going to try to sleep now.
But I don't think I'll manage it.
—Seamus