00:02All he plays is the fool.
00:04He plays the buffoon.
00:06I play the buffoon and the oboe.
00:09But the buffoon is my favourite instrument.
00:12I play the bass and I do little vocal harmonies.
00:17Danny will pick up a baran and play a baran.
00:20Sam is the multi-talented musician,
00:24he's a multi-musicianist, whatever the word is.
00:29He'll play lots of instruments.
00:31He'll stand in for me, the original.
00:38Oh, that moon. Did it rise?
00:41It was a three-quarter.
00:43It was a three-quarter.
00:47It's a full moon tonight.
00:50Beware the wolf.
00:51Beware the wolf.
00:53Stay off the warrior.
00:58Werewolves.
01:00Werewolves.
01:01Werewolves.
01:05My grandparents were Irish,
01:08and my mum's Irish.
01:10I grew up in a very humorous, shall we say, family of Irish immigrants.
01:23At the time, I wanted nothing to do with it because of the troubles and goodness knows what,
01:30and what it did to my great-grandparents, you know, in Ireland.
01:35We couldn't go and see them anymore because, you know, obviously my dad's registration date was English.
01:42So we couldn't go and see them anymore.
01:45So that really, really hurt, you know.
01:47So, in the light of that, I ignored it for years and years and years and years.
01:55But then one day, I heard some music, and I felt a Celtic dragon come up inside me,
02:04and I thought, I love this, and this is what I want to do.
02:08The tension you've got with this band in terms of how it plays is because,
02:11if you go to Dublin or go to the Southern Ireland,
02:13there's a lot of very traditional Irish.
02:16And we played the Irish clubs, which are very, very traditional.
02:19There's a certain set they want, jigs, reels, and certain songs.
02:22When we played O'Neill as a mixture of you, it was full of students,
02:26and basically they want what I call pub Irish songs.
02:29Songs that vaguely sound Irish, that they kind of know to sing along.
02:32And there's a little bit of tension of how traditional are you
02:35versus how much are you a pub sing-along band that could work,
02:39you know, just in a pub in Winchester.
02:41People know so many Irish songs and tunes that they don't realise they know
02:45because they're so classic, you know.
02:47Suddenly, you're like hit after hit after hit on you.
02:49You're like, I know that one, I know that one.
02:51So, yeah, I think it's partly the music.
02:54And I think also, obviously, traditionally,
02:57this kind of music would have been played in pubs,
02:59and it would have been, you know, like, just people coming off the lambs,
03:02getting their instruments, sitting around, you know, just performing.
03:05together, and it would have been quite rough and ready,
03:08and, you know, someone might be drunk in the corner or whatever.
03:11The words are really kind of amazing.
