The band kept going with the song, and after about a minute and a half, they had no clue where they were. And I came barreling back onto the stage after I got a glass of water and calmed meself down, and this huge cheer goes up. That broke the ice. The Dubs, as their fans call them, know plenty of ways to break the ice. If you're not wrecked after you leave our gig, then something's wrong.
Most people leave feeling pretty destroyed.
The answer can be found on Alive Alive-O, their third album and their first for Cargo Records. That's what sold us on the whole concept of doing the live album. So all the planets sort of aligned for that one. We met other musicians slowly, over a long period of time. Suddenly The Young Dubliners started to mutate into this rock band, and the crowd seemed to be digging it.