MUSIC Connacht Final to be a BibleCode Sunday

MAYO DATE?The BibleCode Sundays will play in the Welcome Inn Hotel, Castlebar, after the Connacht SFC final on July 21

Connacht Final to be a BibleCode Sunday


Henry McGlade

London-based Celtic-rock band The BibleCode Sundays are lined up to play in Castlebar after the Connacht SFC final on Sunday, July 21. The band, whose bass player is Enda Mulloy from Mulranny (son of Tom Mulloy of the well-known ballad group the Mulloy Brothers) are ostensibly there to entertain (console?) the London team and their supporters during an after-match party at The Welcome Inn.
The BibleCode Sundays’ music is a lively mixture of traditional Irish folk music and contemporary rock. In 2006, the band started their recording career under the name ‘SlΡinte’ with an album of traditional Irish songs. The name of that album was ‘BibleCode Sundays’, in reference to drink-fueled conspiracy-theory conversations regularly held after Sunday gigs.
The success of their first recording – primarily of cover songs – gave the band confidence to go back to the studio to record original material, and to change their name to its present incarnation. ‘Ghosts of our past’ was recorded in 2007 in Panic Studios Park Royal. That was quickly followed up by another album, ‘Boots or no Boots’, in 2008.
The success of both albums  led to appearnces at Glastonbury and Celtic Park in Glasgow, where they played before Glasgow Celtic FC matches. The band also played alongside Boston band The Dropkick Murphy’s on their homecoming tour in Boston on St Patrick’s Day 2009, as well as with Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy and The Cranberries at the London Feis in June 2011.
The BibleCode Sundays are the official band of London Irish Rugby club, with their song ‘Maybe it’s because I’m an Irish Londoner’ made the official club song in 2011.
More recently, they have become very involved with the London GAA team, playing numerous fundraising concerts and gaining massive acclaim among the team’s supporters.
One of the band’s founding members, Ronan MacManus (vocals, guitar), is a brother of another musician who has also recently played in Mayo – Elvis Costello, who rocked the Westport Festival of Music and Food as one of the festival headliners.
Joining the band for the Connacht Final after party in the Welcome Inn will be London-based All-Ireland Champion Banjo Player, Brian Kelly, whose parents hail from Kilmeena.