Brògeal

“We used to get the same Celtic bus. From Falkirk - all our families and uncles and all that. He was a bit of a rebel”, Daniel Harkins tells me of his earliest memory of Brògeal co-founder Aidan Callaghan. “I was an obnoxious wee shite” Aidan nods. By the time they were teenagers they were already writing songs and gigging together, with the first seeds of their current incarnation sown “when the arse collapsed out of Shiva”, the duo’s “high school trash punk garbage rock band”. “We were young and full of beans,” Daniel smiles. “Aye.”     Sam MacMillan (one of Shiva’s few fans) was the next to gravitate towards them. “All his pals had taken a severe disliking of me”, explains Aidan “But he didn’t mind.” With Shiva over Sam suggested getting together and trying something a “wee bit more traditional. Which is funny because we’d had the exact same idea at the same time in different locations.” Now a trio, the boys set off in a bold new direction, soaked in the spirit of the music they grew up on.

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