Review | Friday 30 October 2009
Live: Guidewires
Not many traditional bands can touch this fivepiece for sheer virtuosity, let alone the audacity of launching themselves with a live all-instrumental album. Paul McSherry (guitar) and Padraig Rynne (accordion) are already big names on the Irish scene, but the other players, including Breton musician Sylvain Barou (flute), Tola Custy (fiddle) and new bouzouki rhythm maestro Karol Lynch, are equally brilliant on a mostly contemporary set of tunes with a wide variety of moods and colours and shifting tempos.