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• Cruachan to appear in the Global East Rock Festival in Ukraine alongside Manowar and Venom.
  
  Event: GLOBAL EAST ROCK FESTIVAL 2010
  Date: 2-4 September
  Country: Ukraine
  City: Kyiv
  Site: www.myspace.com/globaleast
  


• New Album News:
  We know it has been a quiet few months but rest assured we are working hard on new material for our new album. We will be in studio at the end of March to make a small demo of the new material, this is for our own reasons. We have no set date for proper recording but will update you when this changes.


• Hellbent for Cooking:
  Keith appears in the new Heavy Metal Cook book - "Hellbent for Cooking". His submitted recipe is the classic "Irish Stew". The book is a fantastic and described by the New York Post as "Part global cookbook, part underground metal compendium". Check it out at: www.hellbentforcooking.com


• Tour Dates:
  We are in talks about possible South American shows, nothing has been agreed as yet but we are hopeful we will agree something and play some shows for the first time on our history in South America. We may also do some dates in Ireland in the coming months.

• St. Patrick's Day 2009 with Cruachan and Tintal
  Moscow, B1 maximum www.b1arena.ru
  March, 21st 2009

• New Tour Dates for 2009
  
  
  10 - 11 July '09
  Black Lights Festival:
  Divišov u Benešova / Czech Republic
  http://blacklights.cz
  
  
  24 - 27 September '09
  Heathen Pride Festival:
  Spain
  www.myspace.com/heathenpridefest
   

• Karen Gilligan leaves Cruachan.

Karen has left Cruachan on good terms for various reasons (message from Karen below). We wish her all the best for the future. She will not be replaced!

Over the last few years we have been moving towards a more extreme sound and style, now that Karen has left we are going to continue with this plan and I will take over full time vocal duties while John Ryan and John O Fathaigh will take on backing vocal roles.

For live concerts we are planning to adapt some of our back catalogue songs to suit this new arrangement. There are obviously some popular songs where this will not work and we plan to take a session female vocalist on tour with us. Karen has confirmed that she will appear as a guest on some tracks on the new album and this is something we are really happy about. We are looking at this as an opportunity to have a new start with Cruachan and we promise that our next release will be the greatest Cruachan album to date. Keith!

Message from Karen:

It is with a heavy heart,  I make the announcement, that I will be leaving Cruachan.
I want to thank you for all your support over the years, and hope that you will continue to support the lads, as they continue on their musical journey. I have thought long and hard about making this decision and the impact it will have, but it is time for me to move on. I want to thank Keith, John Clohessey, John Ryan, Colin, & John Fay and all the past members of Cruachan for all the experiences that I have had. And especially for all the laughs that I will never, ever, forget !!

Slan

Karen
 

• Huge interview with Keith Fay.
  
  Keith done an interview recently with Bill Murphy from metalwyrd.com and used it as an opportunity to go into detail why things have been quiet in the Cruachan camp letely and what the future holds. Read it now at www.metalwyrd.com