Clannad & Moya Brennan News

Today Northern Skyline has had its first few visits from Vietnam, Iran and Jamaica! Jamaica is the 62nd country to check out the website, so keep an eye out for a few messages in those countries languages. In just over a year we’ve had more than 230 news posts on Clannad, Moya Brennan, Sinéad Madden, [...]

The website has undergone a bit of a touch-up, so excuse the broken links for the next two days or so. At the minute the galleries, discographies, lyrics, biographies and videos are being completely redone! If you have any ideas, drop them in at the forum. Also, you might want to join the mailing list. [...]

Hello everyone, As many of you know, Sinéad Madden is working on her solo album. She just recently posted a new song on her MySpace profile, it’s not that new though. The song is called Fade To Black, and is probably the album version of the song Roulette she had on her page. Enjoy!

To celebrate a decade of Irish Charity ‘To Russia with Love’, Gay Byrne will be hosting an event to raise awareness and funds for the charity on February 25th at the National Concert Hall. At the concert will be Moya Brennan, along with Cara O’Sullivan, Nóirín Ní Riain & Amen (Eoin & Mícheál P. Súilleabháin), [...]

Here are three photographs taken while recording the episode of TG4′s ‘Imeall’ on which Moya Brennan appeared and was interviewed by presenter (and member of the MB band) Cormac deBarra. The interview was recorded in Moya’s home and the song in Moya’s own studio. Bainigí sult! 1 2 3. More info on Moya’s appearance here. [...]

Song BMG UK have just released a new Clannad EP, featuring five tracks. ‘Discover Clannad’ has been mysteriously released without as much as a press release, although the EP is legal and has been released by the big record company. The tracklisting is below. I wonder if this is a little warm up before some [...]

Moya Brennan has been interviewed by Jonathan Langley of Christianity Magazine on her first full live album and growing up within the Christian faith as a child. For more information, you can read the article here. You can join our newsletter to receive one of many articles to come over the next few weeks including [...]

As there is not much news to report, here is the story behind Alasdair Mac Colla – song and story. I found this really interesting, and never knew that he was also half Irish, his dad was from Antrim! You can check out the information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Mac_Colla Some information from our old lyrics pages on [...]

The next two artists in our artist showcase series. If you like Moya Brennan’s beautiful ‘Pill a Rún Ó’ and the early acoustics of Clannad’s ballads, you will undoubtedly love the Dingle White Females live. They sound amazing recorded, and have kept things very simple. The two vocalists who form the band are Pauline Scanlon [...]

The interview with Cormac DeBarra and Sinéad Madded is on the forum. You can find it in the Exclusive’s section. All you need to do to read it, is become a member. It’ll only take a few minutes and it’s, ofcourse, free! Enjoy the interview! Also online, is an interview with Thomas Loefke!