gnu - what are you referring to when you write about "the scrap?"
I don't often follow the inner workings of bands but when stuff falls into my lap, why, curiosity often follows. Can you clue me in?

Also, Jim Lad, I've been trying for several years to get the folks who run the North Texas Irish Festival to get the Irish Descendants down here. Suffice to say that I'm well connected with NTIF but they have always said the ID's are a good band but they also seem to come up with a hundred reasons why the ID's can't come down. Please get a note to Darcy (through the friend) that Texas awaits their arrival.
They would go over so well down here. To illucidate - for two years
I performed regularly at the most popular Irish pub in town and played their cd, "Best Of" on my breaks and I always had folks come up and ask me who they were and where they could get the cd. The Irish Descendants would make quite a splash at NTIF. Cheers.