Triskel Arts Centre
Thursday 26, 9pm
Friday 27, 9pm
Saturday 28 June, 9pm
Tickets Each concert €37 (Meal and concert deal), €25 and €22 (concession). Tickets from Triskel Arts Centre, 021 4272022 or book now at Triskel Arts Centre online booking

One of the most popular and influential bands to emerge in Ireland, Scullion are celebrating their thirtieth birthday this year by staging a set of unique re-union concerts over three nights at Triskel, also celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.

Some bands are destined to stay together, the songs a powerful cohesive in the intertwined lives of their performers. Scullion is such a band.

Three decades on from their formative gigs together, their signature sound is as strong as ever, maturing like a good wine, gaining depth and clarity. The voices of Sonny Condell and Philip King have taken on a seamless harmony, pinioned by the bravura guitar playing of Robbie Overson, who has ably filled the role of founding member Greg Boland.

They’ve remained loyal to the band’s original vision and its recasting of folk and traditional songs with contemporary splashes of jazz and blues colour. It’s a recipe that yielded four seminal albums, and an impressive catalogue of songwriting landmarks like Eyelids into Snow, Down in the City and John the Baptist, that still form the backbone of their set today.

The band will be joined by an array of guests over the three nights to create a true celebration of a great force in Irish music.

Scullion are Sonny Condell, Philip King and Robbie Overson.

Event Reviews

Mon 30 Jun 2008 Siobhán Long in the Irish Times