Lynched

Thursday Oct 27th – Proud Camden

‘The most convincing folk band to come out of Ireland in years.’ ★★★★★ The Guardian

‘A sure contender for any Irish album of the year lists.’ Songlines

Lynched are a four-piece traditional folk group from Dublin, Ireland, who combine distinctive four-part vocal harmonies with arrangements of uilleann pipes, concertina, Russian accordion, fiddle and guitar. Their repertoire spans humorous Dublin music-hall ditties and street-songs, classic ballads from the Traveller tradition, traditional Irish and American dance tunes, and their own original material.

Formed as an experimental-psychedelic-folk-punk-duo by brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch in the early 2,000’s, the group has gone through various incarnations and taken part in a number of musical projects, including recording for movie soundtracks and TV documentaries. The current format however, is considered by all four members to be the most focussed, productive and musically exciting to date.

As their interest in traditional music and song grew, the brothers began to attend sessions around Dublin, where they formed friendships with Cormac Mac Diarmada and Radie Peat, amongst a whole host of impressive young musicians. When Ian began work in theIrish Traditional Music Archive, after completing a folklore masters, he had the rare opportunity to record in the ITMA studio with friend, colleague and in-house technicianDanny Diamond, whenever a spare evening presented itself, so he and Daragh asked Cormac and Radie to provide some backing vocals and instrumentation on “one or two songs”.

‘They do mark a turning point in folk… that authentic voice of the streets is back in a big way.’ Mark Radcliffe

‘Anarchic, yet connected, rootsy and gutsy… I love their music, it is just so damn good!’ Mike Harding

‘The most exciting album of traditional Irish song in decades.’ TradConnect

‘A passionate, utterly engrossing album.’ fRoots