As The Gloaming begin their seven-night sold out run at the NCH, they tell Ellie O’Byrne about the logistics of getting such a widely-dispersed group together

IT WAS a strange way to start a band. “In 2011 we announced we were going be a group,” says the Gloaming’s Iarla Ó Lionáird.

Martha Wainwright’s ‘Come to Mama’ was inspired by her mother’s death and her son’s birth, writes Tina O’Sullivan