“How mental and how dark and how bonkers can we go?”
Ian and Daragh Lynch speak to Jim Wirth.
Going wild: Lankum (clockwise from left) Radie Peat, Cormac McDiarmada, Daragh Lynch, Ian Lynch.
False Lankum is the traditional song the band are named after, but why is this record ‘False’?
IL: “I just like the questions that it raises – is this the false Lankum or is there such a thing as a true Lankum? – and the ideas that it brings to mind about the tradition. Is it some kind of false messenger?”