1. Left or right? Most of us are left-handed, and when certain low cost airlines lose our instruments we sometimes play upside down, using borrowed and backwards, inside-out flipped around replacements. Many people heard this during the recent Paddy’s Day weekend in Sydney. Next couple of Melbourne gigs we’ll hopefully be with our own beloved instruments.
2. The frugal fiddler: Irish fiddle player Aindrias de Staic has travelled the globe performing his one man show Around The World On 80 Quid, a show about giving up the booze and living life on the raw, fuelled by hardcore fiddle playing. Booze is very much a part of the gig now that Melbourne man Tim Scanlan is involved, bringing along his guitar, harmonica and various pieces of foot percussion.
3. We love to give: We love to give away CDs to whoever gets up first to throw shapes on the dance floor. Lately we’ve had monkey dancers, horse dancers and punk raving gyp-hoppers!
4. Shag in a sleeping bag: Our latest single Off To Bondi Junction is a song about Irish emigration to Australia. ‘Once again we suffer when the greed of economics, has banished us to the colony, where we once were the convicts!’ It somehow ended up in the Irish world music charts, with lines like ‘It’s hard to shag in a sleeping bag, with 12 in every room!’
5. And just because: What’s a pirate’s favourite letter? ‘Rrrrrrr’…nah it’s a P, because a P is an R with one leg missing.
