Elegwen Ó Maoileóin -- Vocals, uilleann pipes, bodhrán, whistles, Irish bouzouki & other lutes.
Johnny Oz -- Guitar, tenor banjo
Jonathan Mauro -- Percussion
Colin Cowan, Alex Kelly or Matt Roberts - Bass
plus special guests: Tádhg MacEoghain - Seán Nós; Alan Walsh or Jaron Freeman-Fox - Fiddle.
Influences
Faeries, demons and other angels we meet down at the pub.
Sounds Like
a drunken faerie revelry on the day before the apocalypse
Each one of the band members were left at the doorstep of poor village people by the faeries. Over the years they have eventually crossed each others paths and played music lost in the memories and dreams from the time they were unborn in the faerie land of Tír na nÓg.
Damantais an Irish (Gaelic) word with lots of meanings. "Damned" is one. As it was taken from a poem by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, for the band's name. On Radio Na Gaeltachta it is occasionally used to mean "deadly" (a coloquialism for "cool"); while the old people on Inis Mor said they use it often as the most extreme superlative. Or that it can mean, "very very great" or "brilliant." Congratulations, you have just earned credit toward a linguistics degree.
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Hey lads good to meet you, nice stuff i like Hazel Wood, and I would love to be able to sing in Gailic with my band on at least one track. You can maybe show me sometime? All the best and good luck for the future.
thanks for the nice comments dudes! i see you're in vancouver on the 20th. if you're still there on the 25th, come to our show at "lime". it's gonna be fun. we can do a cd swap then!
