Not long ago they were touring squats for stew and beer. Now Burt Bacharach and the Sleaford Mods are fans and they can’t find their records out fast enough. Dublin folk band Lynched talk glue-sniffing,protest music and the Pogues“We’ve done gigs sitting on bins, in streets, or on the top deck of a bus,at protest marches and in a bandstand in Mexico,” says Ian Lynch. “We’ve played to 300 punks sniffing glue in the middle of a thunderstorm, and last year we did a tour of squats and played to four people and a dog,and we’ve played for people too drunk to listen and got paid with a bowl of stew and a bottle of beer.” He pauses and adds: “We’re not used to this.”By “this, the self-styled “Dublin folk miscreants” Lynched mean their original status as folk music’s hottest property, or having suddenly been transported from the rough and tumble of Dublin pub sessions to the rarefied climes of the Cambridge and Sidmouth festivals,as well as a celebrated TV debut on Later … With Jools Holland. They are still somewhat bemused, not least by receiving a nod from Burt Bacharach on the one hand, or a thumbs-up from Sleaford Mods – one of Lynch’s favourite bands – on the other.
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Source: theguardian.com