Congratulations to An Dannsa Dub who has been nominated in Live Act of the Year in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2024. Vote for An Dannsa Dub now!. It’s going to be another great night at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on Saturday 30th November in Inverness Leisure. Why not join us for a brilliant night of music and awards. Buy a ticket here.
We asked Euan of An Dannsa Dub the following questions.
Tell us about yourself
An Dannsa Dub (The Dub Dance in Gaelic) is the brainchild of dub vocalist & producer Tom Spirals and Scottish traditional musician Euan McLaughlin formed in 2020. The project fuses the mystical energy and instruments of traditional Scottish music and Gaelic song with the heavy, meditative, driving basslines of digital dub music.
Why are you involved in Scottish music?
We grew up with a deep love for Scottish music and the community centred nature of it. We wanted to try and put our own stamp on it by combining it with our passion for Dub and other soundsystem oriented music.
Massive thanks has to go out to The Fraser Shaw Trust for helping us kick off the whole project. An Dannsa Dub wouldn’t exist without them and without Fraser’s amazing music.
Any particular career highlights?
We’ve spent the last few years touring a lot, with venue and festival headline shows across the UK and Europe including appearances at Glastonbury, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, DubCamp and Celtic Connections.
Getting to bring Gaelic song to new audiences is amazing such as playing at Boomtown to 10,000 ravers and likewise getting to bring a bit of soundsystem culture to rural Scottish village halls is always great.
What are your plans for the future?
We’ve just released our new single ‘Tha Mi Air Chall’, the first track ever to combine Gaelic and Jamaican Patois on the same record.
This is going to be followed in 2025 by our second album and our biggest year of touring yet!
An Dannsa Dub Social Media
Website: https://www.andannsadub.com/
Facebook: @andannsadub
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YouTube: @andannsadub
TikTok: @andannsadub
The 2024 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards are on the 30th November 2024 in Inverness Leisure Centre! You will be able to watch it live in person (buy a ticket here). Watch it live in the UK at 9pm (GMT) on BBC ALBA and and around the world here. Bands performing on Saturday 30th November include Julie Fowlis, Skipinnish, Laura Wilkie and Ian Carr, Highland Young Musicians and Arc Fiddlers, An Dannsa Dub, BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award winner 2024 Calum McIlroy and more!
If you would like to support Hands Up for Trad in their work with Scottish trad music and musicians why not become a friend of Hands Up for Trad. In addition to our high profile events like the Scots Trad Music Awards, we also deliver a less well known, education programme for young people from 8yrs right through to young adults at the start of their careers. Read more here.
