Lunasa - Traditional Irish music

[munkey soup]

I saw them live when they came here a few months ago, they were bad ass. I have their latest c.d. and listen to it constantly. Anyone else like them or listen to them.

[vox]

You bet. Great band. I have "Otherworld" and "The Merry Sisters of Fate," and of the two I think "Otherworld" is a bit stronger. I see that their first CD, "Lunasa," has now been re-issued, too. I may have to pick that up.

vox

[canikickit]

Do they have uilleann pipes and tin whistles and violins and all that jazz?

I never heard of them, but I can watch shit like that on telly a couple of times a week (because I'm great).

[munkey soup]

Yes, they do, your greatness.

[canikickit]

That's cool. Are they real Irish (as in born and raised here?) I wouldn't realy discribe any traditional music as "bad ass" though.
Uilleann pipes are class. They look dead complicated to play, I wouldn't be able for that, at all.

[munkey soup]

Yes, they are real Irish, they were born, and live, in Ireland. One is even a doctor, I believe, in Ireland.

[canikickit]

They were on TV yesterday, on a shitty afternoon program called Open House.

It was cool, they played a song called "someone's Pipes" (not "someone", obviously, I forget the name, Cian maybe?). It was great though, the bass player had a real fucked up bass. I guess it was an electric double bass, but there was a bow in a little holster behind it so maybe it can be played like a cello, also.

Maybe I was hallucinating, I don't know...