Member Since: 2/27/2006
Band Website: EMAIL [email protected], www.darren-byrne.com
Band Members: ...the names of a few bands I've been in. but not all...
The Szcaldy Experiment with Mark Gilligan on Clarinet, Sax, Flutes, Bodhran & wind modulator. The Travelling Sardines with Hans de Lind van Wijngaarden on fiddle & vocals. The Gone Johns with Bernie Klerks on Bass and Juri Rabtsau on Drums. The Back Yard Bards with Hans, Norbert de Jong on Djembe and Robert Klangeman on Didgeridoo and Berimbau. On Hans Sachs besides Hans, Norbert etc... Bobby Brady from Dundee plays fiddle, Guy Roberts Harmonica, washboard, gazoo. Mark Gilligan whistle. I play the pots and pans and paper tearing and all the other strange stuff you hear. On Gone John, Steve Kavanagh plays guitar on Psychoanalyzing and Great Gael, Dave 'Buzz' Hennessy plays guitar on Feel Good, Ulla Lindqvist backing vocals, Tom Somr Sax, Whistle and Clarinette. Paddy Ryan, Spoons.
Influences: Traveling. Languages. Folklore recordings. Ethnic/World music. The Good Soldier Svejk. Jaques Brel. The Bodhran. The Pogues and Shane McGowan. Old Buskers. Fado. Seanachai. Flamenco. Dieing men. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Caetano Veloso. Bob Marley. Dead Can Dance. The Dirty Three. Mark Twain. Lefcadio Hearn. Peku Lehti. Beirut. Gogol Bordello. The Kings Of Leon. Old Irish poetry. Sean O'Faolain. Planxty, J.S Bach. Early British Commonwealth Stamps. Hans Christian Andersen. Travellers. Bruce Chatwin. Beautiful & Inteligent Females. Afridi Black Hash. Amon Tobin. Working Songs and Sea Songs. Ned Kelly. Deus. The smell of Fanny. Tom Waits. Antiques and ancient things. Flan O'Brien. Good food, good wine, good company. Lyon. Rotterdam. Hamburg, Vienna. The Wexford Landscape and the IRISH LAND. Mammy
Sounds Like: Soul. Folk. Punk, Rap. Rock. 'Outside the box' - Hotpress. 'A musical documentary'- New Folk Sounds... Always evolving I hope. You name it?
Record Label: Blagart