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adie: “The music we enjoy is a lot broader than folk so maybe somehow that is inadvertently expressed. I think we take dif- ferent aspects of things that are going on, but are maybe not being docu- mented or commercially recorded. There’s a lot of that kind of community outlook going on. I actually think it’s quite healthy in Ireland at the moment with the singing community and traditional music.”
R Daragh: “A lot of our friends play in
different kinds of bands. Noise, drone, experimental, psych-rock bands… all that sort of thing is going on but a lot of them also come to the traditional singing meet- ings. So you have all these people, the met- allers, punks, people into psych-rock turning up. It’s really cool at the moment.”
Ian: “We took part in a concert recently at the Button Factory with seven different groups from around Dublin. Folk groups but all coming from different places showcasing all the amazing things happening at the moment in Dublin, all based on the infor- mal sessions that are going on all the time. Groups like Slow Moving Clouds, Ye Vagabonds, Landless, Twin-Headed Wolf, Skipper’s Alley. It’s definitely going through something. I don’t really like the word revival, but there’s a resurgence of interest with cool, young people getting into it.”
Whether they like it or not, they appear to have been branded as trailblazing cru- saders of a gritty new dawn for working class folk music in tandem with spiritual London cousins Stick In The Wheel, who have also made a dramatic entrée from out- side the usual folk environs, also sing deter-
minedly in their own accents and also went to the Albert Hall with a couple of Folk Award nominations and also came away empty-handed. Indeed, they’ve even made the kindred spirit alliance semi-official with a series of shared gigs and a joint download of Peatbog Soldiers alongside Stick In The Wheel’s White Copper Alley under the From Here Records banner, with a self-produced newspaper during which they effectively interview one another.
They are back in Britain for more festi- vals this summer followed by a major tour in October and in the meantime their most pressing requirement is a new album. This, apparently, may take some time because nothing with Lynched is ever thrown together in a hurry. They are perfectionists, agonising over every note, every vocal, every nuance.
Ian: “Last year we worked on a song every day for three months and ended up not doing anything with it. Musically we’re very opinionated. We have to have it out over every arrangement, every single bit of harmony. The whole core point of the band is discussion. If we’re not discussing it, this means it’s not working any more.”
Indeed, the last album might never have been signed off had engineer Danny Diamond not told them to stop being so precious a few times.”
Radie: “We have a weird policy where if
it’s your role in the song then you can’t objectively see it, so everyone else has a vote on it but you don’t. It becomes too personal and you can’t see the forest for the trees.”
Ian: “Sometimes you just have to put it to the vote and move on. Especially when
you’re recording an album, you start to hear music in such different ways. I was really los- ing my mind at one point – I didn’t know what music was any more.”
Radie: “Because you’re deconstructing
it into parts, it’s like you’re de-assembling and then re-assembling it. It makes you question everything. Like why do I like music? Why do I play music? Who am I? You hear voices. It’s awful. Then hopefully at the end it all comes back together again and you remember why you’re doing it.”
They certainly have piles of new materi- al ready… half-finished songs, riffs, ideas, melodies, lyrics. The only thing Ian is certain of is that, whenever it does appear, every- one will hate it.
Not that he’s cynical, of course, but he certainly subscribes to the view that having enjoyed a unanimously ecstatic reaction to almost everything the band have touched thus far, they are due for a good kicking.
“The backlash is coming,” he says wryly. It has to… and it’s not going to be nice. If I saw a band that everyone was saying was great, I’d be like… ‘naaah, I liked their first seven-inch, now I’m going to find another cool band that nobody knows about.’ There’s lots of people out there like that. I know it’s going to come soon and we have to be ready for it.”
Radie: “We’ve been spoiled rotten. But just as long as we put out an album we’re happy with, an album we can stand by and say yeah, we definitely did our best with that, we’re happy with it, that’s all you can do…”
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