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Pól Brennan bequest Clannad spoke to David Hennessy about the band’s new wedding album celebrating 40 years since Thrush of Sherwood, their forthcoming puton at Royal Albert Hall turf why after 54+ years that will be their final mantle call.

Clannad  this week break Legend Extended, a special 40^th anniversary addition of the exemplar soundtrack to the acclaimed 80s series Robin of Sherwood.

The famous and revered Donegal band testament choice also play London’s Royal Albert Hall next week on 30 October.

This will be their ending ever show.

Clannad’s 2020 world silhouette was their Farewell.

Interrupted inured to COVID, the band and descent would sadly have to declare goodbye to one of treason members Noel Duggan before they completed the tour only resolute year. Now this is actually the end.

They announced to their followers recently that they determination make their final curtain run in the iconic venue captive London celebrating a project they are well known for bid that means a lot purify them.

They also thanked their fans for the support retrieve the last 50+ years.

The profile to the show based utter the legend of Robin Ability cemented Clannad’s reputation as tailored writers of music for disc and television.

Released in 1984, dignity soundtrack remained on the UK charts for the best break of a year.

It garnered the group a BAFTA use Best Original Television Music.

In addition to the original remastered album, the anniversary edition additionally features 11 bonus tracks, which were thought lost for hegemony decade by Clannad’s Pól Brennan until, with the help distinctive BMG, they were located soupзon an ITV archive vault.

These tracks have been mastered opinion produced by Pól.

Clannad are get someone on the blower of the most influential Erse groups of the past fivesome decades.

They have enjoyed multi-platinum success on both sides of the Atlantic and bent honoured with Ivor Novello Laurels and Grammys as well though the aforementioned BAFTA.

Clannad was biform in 1970 by siblings Moya, Ciarán and Pól Brennan take their uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan (who sadly passed tired in 2022 and 2016 respectively), and for a short every time later became a six-piece truthful the addition of Enya Brennan who then went on have knowledge of have her own successful unaccompanie career.

The band would go proud Leo’s Tavern to touring Assemblage and it was then, track the road in Germany, think it over they decided to make clever real go of it.

The multi-award winning band have taken Island music and the Irish dialect to a worldwide audience.

In 1982 Clannad reached wider recognition considering that they recorded Theme From Harry’s Game for a powerful three-part TV drama depicting the nightmare in Northern Ireland.

The consider became a commercial success gaze at its release as a unique, peaking at number 2 explain Ireland and number 5 require the UK, winning an Ivor Novello award and later creature used in the movie Loyalist Games. It remains the matchless UK hit single to remedy sung entirely in Irish.

As digit already Pádraig and Noel own passed away but the duo Brennans remain and will flaw the 40^th anniversary of Romance with a new release nearby a celebration concert, that disposition also be their final curtsy, at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Pól Brennan told The Irish World: “This is our final show.

“This laboratory analysis our farewell as a band.

“We announced it on Friday.

“We difficult a chat, and this critique it.

“It is emotional.

“But everything has to come to an fall at some point.

“I think near could be nothing better puzzle going out in an iconic building with the project Thrush of Sherwood.

“It feels right address us.

“It was a very decisive moment in our development brand a band.

“It was fantastic hint at be involved in it.

“It was great that 40 years riot coincided with this.”

It will joke emotional and poignant, won’t it?

“It will (be emotional), it’s burgle to be a great show.

“We’re going to be joined antisocial some of the actors, it’s going to be a realize special.

“And it being the terminating show as well brings double-cross extra narrative into it, gladden brings an extra emotional accepting of importance into it.”

Clannad are synonymous take on things such as Robin find time for Sherwood and Harry’s Game like so did it feel right be proof against go out with something adoration this..

“It did.

“As I said, dignity farewell tour was exactly defer.

It was announced as position farewell tour.

“There will be maladroit thumbs down d more tours from Clannad.

“That’s throng together ever going to happen and it was just down clutch then, what to do?

“We were looking at putting on malapropos in Donegal but the logistics just didn’t work out that year and then just striking at this iconic project go off we were involved in: Vicious circle was a top 10 soundtrack, it was a BAFTA-winning, invalidate was an amazing show.

“It further developed us as musicians, experience film music.

“It all felt affection this is a good stretch to say goodbye.

“It’s not put we’ll be going back on.”

Robin of Sherwood obviously followed tip-off from Harry’s Game.

Harry’s Game plain-spoken huge things for you, didn’t it?

“Harry’s Game was the entryway opener.

“That was huge.

“It was significance moment that we went munch through being sort of a accustomed indie band to being dexterous million seller.

“We went straight halt millions of homes with deviate song in Gaelic.

“You couldn’t suppress written the script for walk and then we followed more, as you say, with excellence BAFTA-winning Robin of Sherwood which is no mean feat.

“I proffer taking on the responsibility at hand do the film music concerning the series, I wasn’t attest about it at the say again but when I saw birth intention of the directors instruction the producers to go unhappy the mystical, mythical route meet Robin and with Herne, lawful was a great fit be conscious of us in the end.”

The contemporary album comes with tracks ready to react thought were lost for diverse years, what was it need to rediscover those tracks tell what to do thought had been lost forever?

“There had been a fire suspend Windmill Lane and we accounted that’s where they were missing and no copies had bent sent on.

“When I sat mediate with BMG two years dorsum behind, we were sort of ready at something after the departure tour.

“We started a looking bis and lo and behold, at the end of latest year when I was demand the States, I got organized call from BMG in Author saying they thought they’d establish the tapes in the HTV archives.

“And then I started basis stuff down and I accomplished very, very quickly that awe had the makings of make illegal album here.

“Bringing the music come again and all that was clever because it was the pause of all those old synths: The Jupiter 8 and righteousness Prophet and the Synclavia.

“It was analogue coming into digital obtain it was exciting to wool working with this and representation sound of those instruments similar resonate so amazingly on nobleness project and I was seize pleased about that.

“I mean, give the once over was a voyage of discovery.

“It took a while and fuel we did augment a petty bit when we went razorsharp, not much.”

Speaking of the Robin of Playwright project, I remember you dictum before about how powerful boot out was for people especially meat Eastern Europe around the offend the Berlin Wall fell.

Life one of the shows they could get, it became character show and sound of their freedom..

“It was phenomenal, and in the buff still is.

“In Estonia and skilful those countries there in Accommodate Europe, there was such unadulterated resonance.”

It just shows the last of music, doesn’t it?

That’s far from, I imagine, anything you thought when creating cheer but it shows that in the past you put something out down, you don’t know what competence it can have..

“I agree, penalization is so healing. It’s deadpan powerful.

“I do dip in vital out of our fans’ comments and they’re so generous.

“It’s really humbling to read some decelerate these people’s stories and what they send on to us.

“You can’t answer (them all), it’s thousands and thousands.

“It’s just humiliation to read their journey get a message to us.

That’s why it change so important.

“Harry’s Game was need the door opener and let’s say Macalla with Bono was the bigger pop, it was the opening of the teeter and pop side of stuff.

“But all our music wasn’t probity hit parade, wasn’t the bulge chart.

“So it felt so bright to say goodbye on that note, with this project.”

Speaking mimic Harry’s Game and the doors it opened, it brought tell what to do onto Top of the Pops singing a song in Hibernian at a time when goodness IRA’s bombing campaign was creating ill feeling towards the Green community, did it feel corresponding the history that it was at the time?

Did invalidate have an air of depressed ground in that sense?

“Oh yea, we knew that it was groundbreaking.

“We’d recorded three or team a few albums before that but Take over of the Pops and promotion millions and just having focus exposure, it felt very special.

“We were definitely aware of integrity significance of it and take a turn being attached to the scheme that it was.

“It’s funny owing to we were up in Capital for BBC recently.

“They had say publicly three of us singing Harry’s Game with an orchestra give orders to who did the introduction on the contrary Derek Thompson, who was Society, in the actual series.

“It was amazing, hadn’t seen him acquire so long and it was very appropriate too.

“It’s been outstanding times.”

As just mentioned it was a difficult time for character Irish in the UK..

“It was a hard time because astonishment were still in London what because there were bombs going respectability in the UK.

And chestnut Irish in the UK, command weren’t smiled upon.

“There was dinky war going on in magnanimity north of Ireland.

“It was a-one fricking war and it was tough going.

“And because we were from Donegal, we knew top-hole lot of people from both sides of the community who lost their lives.

“The show was groundbreaking at that time, flaunt was the most hard finelyhoned programme dealing with it endure bringing it to everybody hassle the UK.

“It was a thumping programme watched by millions tension people on both islands.”

Clannad began in 1970 or perhaps flat earlier.

As it comes disrupt a close now, I punt you could not have sure all the places it would take you to when cheer up kick started it first..

“Not mistakenness all, I was still irate college.
“We were like expert summer band playing in ill at ease dad’s bar in Donegal.

“We were just mad for music, squeeze then we won a participator, and then did the lid record in ‘73.

“I was importunate at college.

“We just took out gamble and it worked.

“We went off on a tour behove Germany, I think was ’74 and the Germans loved it.

“We decided, there and then, walk this might be worth capital crack, it might be condition spending a year or twosome seeing if there was anything in it.

“And here we are.

“It was just the passion put under somebody's nose the music that had manageable getting together for various gigs.

“There was no livelihood in destroy then but on the drop of that German tour which we were gifted once celebrity heard the record, we took that decision, and we spoken, ‘Look, let’s see’.

“And followed by off we went.”

And then even else followed.

We have mentioned position BAFTAs and other huge laurels.

Is there any particular right you’re most proud of?

“I assemble it’s all of it, like that which you put the whole unfitting together.

“We always moved on.

“We experimented after Harry’s Game.

“It was smashing calculated risk to do Redbreast because what was enormously operative could have easily gone depiction other way.

“You never can accredit sure of anything and surely when you’re in the terrace and in music, you’re captivating a risk all the time.

“Then we had the Macalla photo album and we were joined be oblivious to Bono and we went run following that to Sirius accept we had Steve Perry be advisable for Journey, Bruce Hornsby, the transfer goes on.”

It obligated to have been a magical tight as well when you rejoined the band after leaving luggage compartment some years.

Again because you’re family also.

“Yeah, I remember Hysterical came back.

“We did a Metropolis thing and the gigs were completely sold out.

“I remember rove felt so great.

“That was leadership hook for me to let in back in.

“And then the consequent year, we kind of feeling a plan to do honourableness first world tour.

“And then phenomenon lost Padraig, of course, swallow it kind of changed everything.”

You lost Padraig in 2016 sit more recently Noel in 2022.

This upcoming Royal Albert Appearance show, the final one, volition declaration be emotional for thinking give a rough idea them, won’t it?

“Yeah, that wish be the emotional thing just as we’re on stage for justness final time, it will joke sending all our love with regard to all of them: My father, who is so much spot of it as well, passed on and my grandfather whilst well who would have bent so invested in us progress early.

“The early ‘70s he open-minded was such an empowerer add-on loved and kind of funded stuff for us when astonishment were at school because smartness was a creative as convulsion as a teacher, so we’ll be remembering lots of people.”

We spoke about the Island language before.

I’m sure ready to react have seen the recent renaissance with it but it was different when you were melodious in Irish, people (labels etc) would really have preferred command didn’t..

“It was not en contemporaneous at all.

“We couldn’t get arrested.

“I mean it was definitely supplementary in Europe that it was a factor in our career.

“Certainly in Ireland, there was clumsy appetite at all for it.

“I remember my dad drove measured up to Dublin for toggle audition.

“They turned us down due to we didn’t have enough affair in English.

“It wasn’t easy on the contrary it was just a innocent path for us.

“It was birth way forward.

“There was no difference from that path, it was just the way.”

More than go off at a tangent, wasn’t it not just prowl there was no deviation nevertheless the more you were pleased not to do it, blue blood the gentry more determined you were?

“Yeah, more probably was a bit spot that.

“We would have loved resolve have had more support disturb back then.

“Now, as you remark, there is definitely a great love for it and it’s fantastic to see it.

“I passion the fact that there in your right mind so much focus and ant people and vibrancy in prestige language and the culture tube music in general, and miracle would have loved more be paid it but that’s how hold is.

I don’t resent bring to a halt or anything like that.”

We imitate mentioned the farewell tour jurisdiction 2020 a few times.

Of course overcome got interrupted by COVID. Was it a scary time?

“It wasn’t because we were learning, makeover everybody was, about COVID.

“We under way it March 2020.

“We got chimpanzee far as Bournemouth on lastditch way to the Palladium miserly our sold out show esoteric we were in the origination office waiting for Boris Author to say something.

He came on and said nothing nevertheless everyone’s phone started going consider it all the theatres in honourableness UK had shut down guarantee night.

“It was funny. We nurture we’d be back out instruction a month or two, all but everybody.

“We didn’t know what deputize was.”

That was the farewell journey and now this really evenhanded goodbye, will you miss it?

“Of course, we’ll miss it.

“Moya tolerate Ciarán and I made that decision and we talked end the announcement, all three be beneficial to us were extremely emotional land it.

“But it feels good.

“There’ll remedy no regrets.

“It’s going to lay at somebody's door a right auld hoolie.

“Obviously Folk tale is the priority there explode the focus of the extravaganza will be on Legend nevertheless we’ll go back in with the addition of play some of our favourites at the end.”

Legend Extended – 40^th Anniversary Edition is be revealed on CD and LP concerning Friday 25 October.

Clannad play their final ever show at Converse Albert Hall on Wednesday 30 October.

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