Trad band Lynched are hitting new heights with their punk style
THE confusion in Ian Lynch’s voice is unmistakable. “We’re touring the UK at the moment and a lot of the audiences are aged 60 or over. It’s weird -— in Ireland, we get loads of young people. This is a new thing for us. We weren’t expecting it.”
Lynched, the group Ian founded with brother Daragh, came up through the Dublin indie scene. But they are nowadays a ‘trad’ act, performing folk music with a raw, jagged edge. At home, people are sufficiently savvy to appreciate folk comes in a multitude of guises — that it can be visceral and impassioned rather than twinkling and mystical.
