What's On At The Ironworks
Treacherous Orchestra
Date: Friday 2nd April 2010
Doors: 19:30
Ticket Price: £12.50
Emerging from the vibrant meltin-pot of Glasgow's 21st-century folk scene, The Treacherous Orchestra take Scottish dance music into a thrilling new dimension. Comprising a baker's dozen of Scotland's finest young instrumentalists (or should that just be mentalists?), this truly turbocharged collective have incited merry mayhem at every one of their previously rare appearances, from remote Hebridean islands to the world-renowned Celtic Connections Festival Club.
The band's members, mostly still in their 20s, hail from the length and breadth of Scotland - plus one from Ireland - and together represent the leading edge of the country's ongoing folk revival. Having grown up under the influence of such pioneering fusion acts as Shooglenifty, Martyn Bennett and Wolfstone, they draw simultaneously on deep tradition roots and the full gamut of contemporary influences, interweaving these strands organically in a repertoire consisting almost entirely of original tunes. Along with boundless youthful energy, they bring to bear a vast range of experience from other innovative Scottish outfits, featuring past or current members of Croft No. Five, Salsa Celtica, the Peatbog Faeries, Seassion A9, Old Blind Dogs, Box Club and Back of the Moon, among others.
Already well acquainted through Glasgow's dynamic session circuit, the nucleus of the band was formed at the inaugural Sound of Rum festival in 2005, staged on a tiny island just sound of Skye. The instant high-octane synergy and sheer visceral excitement of that performance has continued to evolve over their subsequent occasional rendezvous, which have included the memorial 2007 shindig after Glasgow was announced as host of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and the Isle of Eigg Anniversary Ceilidh in 2008, as well as a roof-raising final-night set at the Celtic Connections club that same year.
In addition to their dazzling instrumental skills, many in Treacherous Orchestra's ranks are superbly gifted tune composers, providing for a musical mix that plays fully to the line up's copious strengths. Featuring bagpipes, whistles, flutes, fiddles, accordion, banjo, guitars, bass, drums and percussion, their tightly crafted arrangements far transcend mere force of numbers, aligning richly layered, radiantly colourful melodies with muscular yet sophisticated rhythmic interplay, forging an irresistibly danceable sound that equally delights the ears.
Artist Website: www.treacherousorchestra.com
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