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NoLand Folk

About Me

We are all adrift in the Wild West of Ireland. Sue was on an official field trip for the 'Tea and Cake Appreciation Society' when she found herself possessed by the spirit of a lost street urchin from the 18th century. No-one still can quite make out what she is saying, but when she sings it makes a not unpleasant sound. Paddy was being chased on a 'yet to be discovered' Island by tribes of mongoose when he was picked up by a Merchant Ship. On his return he had learnt many a fine sea shanty and also how to 'affect a limp'. He sometimes can be found gazing out to sea and swaying slightly. The Amazing Aland Assiri we found wandering dazed on Lahinch beach one afternoon, and after some fortifying hot ports realized his violin playing was actually rather quite good and now he has become one of us too.... Andy Wilson was enjoying a bumper year as a door to door salesman; he had some very good offers on long-lasting sealing wax. However in the advent of the industrial age, he found himself craving a more meaningful existence, and so now dances the Charlston for us, in-between some musical magic... Dave Knox went to seek his fortune, and while he hasn't found it yet, he has heard of it's whereabouts and is stalking it with a new (patented) net. He was last seen near in Spitalfields in London, with a wild expression on his face and a big bag on his back... When Edel was about to be arrested for digging under local aquarium, 'Seaworld' in Lahinch for the 12th time, we gave her a most clever alibi. While we can't of course officially support her archeological findings of a lost civilization underneath said 'Seaworld', we can testify to her musical talents and lovely humming skills...
We have been recording in the last week so should have a track up here very soon! All resting on the direction of the wind and the price of goose fat...New news... Just back from London, you can see the photos on our slideshow below. These photos have been taken by the wonderful Lisa Quirkewww.myspace.com/lisaquirkephotographywidth:200px; background-image:url Get MySpace Layouts from nUCLEArcENTURy .COM OR create your own using MySpace profile editor !!!
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Member Since: 02/10/2006
Band Members: Paddy Mulcahy - voice, guitar. Sue Walsh - voice, bodhran, guitar. Aland Assiri - violin. Edel Barry - accordian and voice. James Skerrit - electric guitar. Sean - keyboard and bass.Also we have recorded and played in the past with...Erin MacNeill, Andy Wilson, Billy Hamilton and David Knox.
Influences: Last nights session, green tea, a hallucination from 1911, jazz, folk, a dog's snoring.
Sounds Like: A ship in the night, killing two birds with one stone, an opera in a hotpress, a minor symphony in the Sirius constellation.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Dance moves

Well it seems it's been nearly a year since the last update to this blog... how did that happen? What have we been doing? Lots of stuff, it would appear.. We've been to London and Paris and had a rath...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:49:00 GMT

Up coming gigs... and a taste of Italy...

Hello darlings.... Noland Folk are on the move again! This time with the wonderful hi-energy post rock "En Plein Air" in tow.  Travelling all the way from Rome to grace us (and you!) with their p...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:17:00 GMT

London, darling.

We're just back from playing in London with our wonderful hosts 'Morning Bride'. www.myspace.com/morningbride On Friday 2nd we explored the delights of Stoke Newington; home of anarchists and Hassidi...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:09:00 GMT

Gigs! Morning Bride and us!

On the 2nd of Febuary we set sail for the great city of London, to meet our friends- the illustrious band 'Morning Bride' www.myspace.com/morningbride There we shall play with them on the dates listed...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:56:00 GMT

New Recordings soon...

Yes it's true and it's no lie neither. We shall soon be cranking up ye old recording machine and make of our 'sounds' stick onto some kind of devise whereupon the whole worlde can listen to them. This...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:23:00 GMT

Tiki Sunday Social Cork, 17th December

We played in the Tiki Sunday Social, which is in the Mardyke bar on Little Hanover Street on a Sunday... Also playing were Mature Swimming Onions, a combination of Andy Wilson -   http://ww...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:00 GMT

White House Limerick 12th December

We were all quite dressed up to the nines for our White House 'classical' evening.... We had some unfortunate sound hiccups and the strings were getting drowned in Christmas Party chat. Then the 'rea...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:44:00 GMT

Oslo, and what they made of us...

http://www.blather.net/north/archives/2006/12/the_map_of_nol and.html
Posted by on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:04:00 GMT

Oslo!

We had quite an interesting trip to Oslo. We managed to see nothing of the daytime at all. We played Sound of Mu on the 25th with Hanny and Mir on 26th with Lasso. Lasso are a band that make their son...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:42:00 GMT

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Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:00:00 GMT