In Tua Nua

In Tua Nua (roughly translated from the Irish as "A New Tribe") was an Irish rock group who achieved a modicum of fame and success in both Ireland and Europe throughout the late 1980s. The group was formed by Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinny Kilduff, Ivan O'Shea, Martin Clancy, Paul Byrne and Steve Wickham in the early 1980s. Although the group's focus and pretensions were an early Roxy Music-style rock, it combined this aspiration with ersatz folk and traditional Irish music in the form of uillean pipes and acoustic guitars, laced together with raw vocals and electronic violin. The latter instrumentation was at times was little more than a pastiche of the playing of Eddie Jobson on Roxy Music's Country Life album. In 1984, the band...