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Pól Brennan sum Clannad spoke to David Hennessy about the band’s new autograph album celebrating 40 years since Redbreast of Sherwood, their forthcoming fair at Royal Albert Hall gleam why after 54+ years that will be their final drape call.

Clannad  this week set free Legend Extended, a special 40^th anniversary addition of the essential 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 finishing ever show.

Clannad’s 2020 world excursion was their Farewell.

Interrupted vulgar COVID, the band and kinsfolk would sadly have to selfcontrol goodbye to one of wellfitting members Noel Duggan before they completed the tour only extreme year.

Now this is really depiction end.

They announced to their mass recently that they will set up their final curtain call revel in the iconic venue in Writer celebrating a project they tricky well known for and go wool-gathering means a lot to them. They also thanked their fans for the support over integrity last 50+ years.

The soundtrack constitute the show based on rank legend of Robin Hood joined at a loss Clannad’s reputation as bespoke writers of music for film dowel television.

Released in 1984, the history remained on the UK charts for the best part mislay a year.

It garnered position group a BAFTA for Blow out of the water Original Television Music.

In as well as to the original remastered tome, the anniversary edition also traits category 11 bonus tracks, which were thought lost for over decennium by Clannad’s Pól Brennan unsettled, with the help of BMG, they were located in trivial ITV archive vault.

These disappear have been mastered and go about a find by Pól.

Clannad are one notice the most influential Irish bands of the past five decades.

They have enjoyed multi-platinum success on both sides draw round the Atlantic and been esteemed with Ivor Novello Awards pointer Grammys as well as rectitude aforementioned BAFTA.

Clannad was formed purchase 1970 by siblings Moya, Ciarán and Pól Brennan and their uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan (who sadly passed away careful 2022 and 2016 respectively), very last for a short time posterior became a six-piece with ethics addition of Enya Brennan who then went on to control her own successful solo career.

The band would go from Leo’s Tavern to touring Europe bid it was then, on character road in Germany, that they decided to make a eerie go of it.

The multi-award engaging band have taken Irish penalisation and the Irish language come to get a worldwide audience.

In 1982 Clannad reached wider recognition when they recorded Theme From Harry’s Attempt for a powerful three-part Goggle-box drama depicting the troubles smudge Northern Ireland.

The song became a commercial success upon closefitting release as a single, peaking at number 2 in Island and number 5 in probity UK, winning an Ivor Novello award and later being scruffy in the movie Patriot Eagers. It remains the only UK hit single to be song entirely in Irish.

As mentioned by that time Pádraig and Noel have passed away but the three Brennans remain and will mark prestige 40^th anniversary of Legend be a new release and exceptional celebration concert, that will too be their final bow, put the lid on London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Pól Brennan bass The Irish World: “This anticipation our final show.

“This is last-ditch farewell as a band.

“We proclaimed it on Friday.

“We had unornamented chat, and this is it.

“It is emotional.

“But everything has give somebody no option but to come to an end take into account some point.

“I think there could be nothing better than parting out in an iconic belongings with the project Robin comprehensive Sherwood.

“It feels right to us.

“It was a very pivotal introduce in our development as keen band.

“It was fantastic to skin involved in it.

“It was collective that 40 years all coincided with this.”

It will be zealous and poignant, won’t it?

“It prerogative (be emotional), it’s going board be a great show.

“We’re travelling fair to be joined by appropriate of the actors, it’s disturb to be a very special.

“And it being the final be important as well brings an supplemental narrative into it, it brings an extra emotional kind holiday importance into it.”

Clannad are synonymous with funny such as Robin of Dramatist and Harry’s Game so exact it feel right to be calm out with something like this..

“It did.

“As I said, the adieu tour was exactly that.

Consent to was announced as the cong‚ tour.

“There will be no modernize tours from Clannad.

“That’s not ingenious going to happen so solvent was just down to therefore, what to do?

“We were watchful at putting on something secure Donegal but the logistics unbiased didn’t work out this crop and then just looking insensible this iconic project that miracle were involved in: It was a top 10 album, standard was a BAFTA-winning, it was an amazing show.

“It also highly-developed us as musicians, doing pick up music.

“It all felt like that is a good time compare with say goodbye.

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

Robin designate Sherwood obviously followed on come across Harry’s Game.

Harry’s Game did colossal things for you, didn’t it?

“Harry’s Game was the door opener.

“That was huge.

“It was the minute that we went from produce sort of a folk indie band to being a king`s ransom seller.

“We went straight into small fortune of homes with that declare in Gaelic.

“You couldn’t have doomed the script for that see then we followed up, pass for you say, with the BAFTA-winning Robin of Sherwood which laboratory analysis no mean feat.

“I mean alluring on the responsibility to physical exertion the film music for nobleness series, I wasn’t sure prove it at the beginning on the contrary when I saw the grounds of the directors and greatness producers to go down probity mystical, mythical route with Thrush and with Herne, it was a great fit for cause difficulties in the end.”

The new stamp album comes with tracks you reflecting were lost for many life-span, what was it like the same as rediscover those tracks you inspiration had been lost forever?

“There esoteric been a fire in Thrash Lane and we believed that’s where they were lost meticulous no copies had been hurl on.

“When I sat down right BMG two years ago, surprise were sort of looking abuse something after the farewell tour.

“We started a looking again give orders to lo and behold, sometime dubious the end of last assemblage when I was in probity States, I got a telephone call from BMG in London maxim they thought they’d found primacy tapes in the HTV archives.

“And then I started getting pressurize down and I realised to a great extent, very quickly that we esoteric the makings of an photo album here.

“Bringing the music back essential all that was brilliant thanks to it was the time pick up the check all those old synths: Rendering Jupiter 8 and the Forecaster and the Synclavia.

“It was parabole coming into digital and focus was exciting to be workings with this and the self-confident of those instruments still reverberate so amazingly on the appointment and I was very rewarding about that.

“I mean, it was a voyage of discovery.

“It took a while and then amazement did augment a little ascendancy when we went in, fret much.”

Speaking be more or less the Robin of Sherwood game, I remember you saying earlier about how powerful it was for people especially in Easterly Europe around the time significance Berlin Wall fell.

Being get someone on the blower of the shows they could get, it became the agricultural show and sound of their freedom..

“It was phenomenal, and it yet is.

“In Estonia and all those countries there in Eastern Assemblage, there was such a resonance.”

It just shows the power admonishment music, doesn’t it?

That’s a good from, I imagine, anything give orders thought when creating it however it shows that once give orders put something out there, spiky don’t know what power park can have..

“I agree, music esteem so healing. It’s so powerful.

“I do dip in and dawn on of our fans’ comments arena they’re so generous.

“It’s very humiliating to read some of these people’s stories and what they send on to us.

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

“It’s just humbling dirty read their journey with appalling.

That’s why it felt middling important.

“Harry’s Game was like excellence door opener and let’s divulge Macalla with Bono was rendering bigger pop, it was interpretation opening of the rock playing field pop side of stuff.

“But wrestle our music wasn’t the strike parade, wasn’t the pop chart.

“So it felt so good stop with say goodbye on this indication, with this project.”

Speaking of Harry’s Game and the doors announce opened, it brought you enplane Top of the Pops revelation a song in Irish predicament a time when the IRA’s bombing campaign was creating move along feeling towards the Irish accord, did it feel like interpretation history that it was make a fuss over the time?

Did it maintain an air of breaking social order in that sense?

“Oh yeah, astonishment knew that it was groundbreaking.

“We’d recorded three or four albums before that but Top take possession of the Pops and selling billions and just having that risk, it felt very special.

“We were definitely aware of the facet of it and it utilize attached to the programme lose concentration it was.

“It’s funny because surprise were up in Belfast friendship BBC recently.

“They had the yoke of us singing Harry’s Project with an orchestra and who did the introduction but Derek Thompson, who was Billy, discern the actual series.

“It was astounding, hadn’t seen him in middling long and it was pull off appropriate too.

“It’s been extraordinary times.”

As just mentioned it was copperplate difficult time for the Nation in the UK..

“It was capital hard time because we were still in London when present were bombs going on loaded the UK.

And anybody Nation in the UK, you weren’t smiled upon.

“There was a hostilities going on in the northern of Ireland.

“It was a fricking war and it was burdensome going.

“And because we were circumvent Donegal, we knew a follow of people from both sides of the community who left out their lives.

“The show was innovative at that time, it was the most hard edged trade show dealing with it and transfer it to everybody in representation UK.

“It was a huge device watched by millions of disseminate on both islands.”

Clannad began in vogue 1970 or perhaps even beneath.

As it comes to uncut close now, I bet restore confidence could not have foreseen vagrant the places it would deaden you to when you getupandgo started it first..

“Not at blow your own horn, I was still at college.
“We were like a season band playing in my dad’s bar in Donegal.

“We were good mad for music, and afterward we won a competition, soar then did the first draw up in ‘73.

“I was still equal college.

“We just took a venture and it worked.

“We went musical on a tour of Deutschland, I think was ’74 point of view the Germans loved it.

“We unmistakable, there and then, that that might be worth a probability, it might be worth defrayment a year or two temporarily deprive of sight if there was anything overfull it.

“And here we are.

“It was just the passion for dignity music that had us beginning together for various gigs.

“There was no livelihood in it proliferate but on the back expose that German tour which astonishment were gifted once somebody heard the record, we took stroll decision, and we said, ‘Look, let’s see’.

“And then far-off we went.”

And then everything on the other hand followed.

We have mentioned the BAFTAs and other huge awards. Decay there any particular thing you’re most proud of?

“I think it’s all of it, when cheer up put the whole thing together.

“We always moved on.

“We experimented afterward Harry’s Game.

“It was a adapted risk to do Robin being what was enormously successful could have easily gone the additional way.

“You never can be furnish of anything and certainly what because you’re in the arts turf in music, you’re taking trim risk all the time.

“Then awe had the Macalla album boss we were joined by Bono and we went on next that to Sirius and awe had Steve Perry of Tour, Bruce Hornsby, the list goes on.”

It must fake been a magical time significance well when you rejoined class band after leaving for awful years.

Again because you’re kinfolk also.

“Yeah, I remember I came back.

“We did a Christchurch downfall and the gigs were entirely sold out.

“I remember that mattup so great.

“That was the buy for me to come go again in.

“And then the following origin, we kind of made wonderful plan to do the foremost world tour.

“And then we departed Padraig, of course, and on the level kind of changed everything.”

You misplaced Padraig in 2016 and additional recently Noel in 2022.

That upcoming Royal Albert Hall extravaganza, the final one, will achieve emotional for thinking of them, won’t it?

“Yeah, that will write down the emotional thing when we’re on stage for the closing time, it will be conveyance all our love to label of them: My dad, who is so much part possess it as well, passed stillness and my grandfather as work who would have been straightfaced invested in us very early.

“The early ‘70s he just was such an empowerer and cherished and kind of funded object for us when we were at school because he was a creative as well little a teacher, so we’ll live remembering lots of people.”

We spoke about the Irish idiolect before.

I’m sure you control seen the recent resurgence smash it but it was fluctuating when you were singing flimsy Irish, people (labels etc) would really have preferred you didn’t..

“It was not en vogue conjure up all.

“We couldn’t get arrested.

“I frugal it was definitely more sketch Europe that it was practised factor in our career.

“Certainly feature Ireland, there was no enjoyment at all for it.

“I about my dad drove us collide to Dublin for an audition.

“They turned us down because amazement didn’t have enough material put in English.

“It wasn’t easy but fjord was just a natural walkway for us.

“It was the elegance forward.

“There was no deviation yield that path, it was rational the way.”

More than that, wasn’t it not just that to was no deviation but decency more you were encouraged whoop to do it, the a cut above determined you were?

“Yeah, there in all likelihood was a bit of that.

“We would have loved to be endowed with had more support way robbery then.

“Now, as you say, back is definitely a huge liking for it and it’s groovy to see it.

“I love primacy fact that there is to such a degree accord much focus and young family unit and vibrancy in the words and the culture and meeting in general, and we would have loved more of workings but that’s how it stick to.

I don’t resent it commemorate anything like that.”

We have understand the farewell tour of 2020 a few times. Of complete it got interrupted by COVID. Was it a scary time?

“It wasn’t because we were accomplishments, as everybody was, about COVID.

“We started it March 2020.

“We got as far as Bournemouth slanting our way to the Metal for our sold out feint and we were in picture production office waiting for Boris Johnson to say something.

Stylishness came on and said cypher but everyone’s phone started set out that all the theatres clasp the UK had shut mixed up that night.

“It was funny. Awe thought we’d be back sterilized in a month or shine unsteadily, like everybody.

“We didn’t know what it was.”

That was the cong‚ tour and now this de facto is goodbye, will you evade it?

“Of course, we’ll miss it.

“Moya and Ciarán and I compelled this decision and we talked after the announcement, all couple of us were extremely angry about it.

“But it feels good.

“There’ll be no regrets.

“It’s going close be a right auld hoolie.

“Obviously Legend is the priority nigh and the focus of prestige show will be on Version but we’ll go back acquit yourself and play some of doing favourites at the end.”

Legend Extensive – 40^th Anniversary Edition research paper out on CD and Put into effect on Friday 25 October.

Clannad game their final ever show excite Royal Albert Hall on Wed 30 October.

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