Current News [2009]

24 - 27 September '09
Heathen Pride Festival:
Spain
www.myspace.com/heathenpridefest

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

News [2007]

We were confirmed to play WGT by our booking agency SHADOWSMILE. Shadowsmile have now gone out of business and the arrangements made by them and AFM turned out to be unacceptable. As it stands no-one will pay our flight fees to get us to WGT. As a result we had to cancel the show.
 

Morrigan's Call American releases:
The Morrigan's Call is now on general release in both North and South America. Go forth and buy this great album!

The Morrigans Call will be on general release in Russia and Baltic states on the 29th March. Cd-Maximum are looking after distribution and promotion, our thanks go out to our great friend Maria from Cd-Maximum and all the work she has done and continues to do for Cruachan.

http://www.cd-maximum.ru
 

Joe has left Cruachan for personal reasons. He has been replaced by new member Colin Purcell and all scheduled shows are all ok. We would like to thank Joe for the years he put in with Cruachan and wish him all the best in the future!

News [2006]

Other confirmed dates:
Saturday, March 31st - Ragnaroeck Festival
Friday, May 25th. - Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig
 

A Note Regarding Our Russian Tour -
Hi, there was some confusion regarding cancelled dates on our Russian tour. The dates that were on our website were given by our Russian promoter, we never heard of any cancellations until the day we arrived in Russia. We were then told that the Archangelsk and Riga shows had to be cancelled and a replacement date was added in Pskov that was a great success. Kaliningrad was not cancelled, we finished our show in Ryasan and went straight to Moscow airport. We arrived there at 4 am, the flight was not until 10:50 am. The flight was delayed, we enquired why and were told that all flights to Kaliningrad were delayed due to snow storms. We waited until 8pm, 16 hours in a tiny airport, before deciding it was hopeless. The flight to Kaliningrad eventually took off 10 hours after our show would have ended, so it was completely not our fault.

regards
Keith Fay

Click Here to listen to a sneak preview mp3 of the new album.
This is a low quality un-mastered sample of the album!
 

Hi there, We enter the studio again on 17th January to begin work on 5th studio album. We are returning to Sun Studios in Dublin, where we recorded Tuatha Na Gael, The Middle Kingdom and Folklore. The studio has been hugely upgraded since we were last there. We are also pulling out all the stops and getting a well respected producer flown in from Holland. Jo Peeters aka Gail of God will be doing the production work for us. We will keep you updated.
 

News [2005]

Darker Days presents:
SACRIFICE

Bands:
Destruction
Amon Amarth
Cruachan
Scavenger
D0minus
Dawn
20 Bulls Each
Triggerman
Madra
The Evangelists

NERVE CENTRE, DERRY - SATURDAY 26TH MARCH - DOORS: 1.30PM

ALL AGES - RESTRICTED BAR, in other words, if your 18 PROVE IT!

Tickets: €30-€35 - on sale soon

Archive News [2004]

- NEW MEMBER:
Finally we can announce our new band member. His name is John Ryan and he is from Limerick. He will be playing Tin Whistle, Violin, Banjo, bouzouki and eventually keyboard. He has been with us for almost 2 months now, he played the Aran islands gig and more recently at the Bloodstock festival. Here's to some interesting shows with our new hobbitesque member.

- BLOODSTOCK:
Wow, what a great time we had at bloodstock, and here we were thinking we have no fans in England. Although we were on the second stage, we packed the place out, despite Sonata Arctica playing at the same time on the main stage. We met loads of cool people and I embarrassed myself by being quite the fan-boy when I met Martin Walkyier for the first time. We had a small chat about a possible collaboration....watch this space.

Anyway, we played well, a few cock ups but hey, thats Cruachan. The organisers even said we were the best band there, unofficially of course, and they asked us back next year to play the main stage. Not bad for a band that turned up with their instruments and a few dodgy guitar cables compared to the likes of Primal Fear with 2 van loads of equipment.

Thanks Vince and all the Bloodstock crew, we had a ball!!!
/Keith

Archive News [2001 - 2003]