What's the difference between a garage and a sheep-shed? Take a trip to Clare Island, Co Mayo, and ask the Big Fat Mamas. They will explain all.
Olof Gill is 16, and attends school at Villiers College, Limerick. His mother, Anna, originally from Goteborg in Sweden, is a social worker with the Western Health Board. Peter, his dad, lectures in psychology in Sweden.
The Gills commute regularly to their family home on Clare Island. This summer, when Olof isn't fencing land with neighbour Gerard O'Toole, you'll find him and his bass guitar en route to a sheep-shed on a cliff edge.
There, brothers Rory and Niall McCabe will already be tuning up.
They are used to Olof being late. He nearly missed the boat for their recent gig in Westport's Clew Bay Hotel. Rory (20), is lead guitarist and studies history at college. Niall (17), a student in Garbally, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, is lead vocalist and drummer.
The Big Fat Mamas, as they are known, may be children of the 1980s, but they're hippies at heart. Jimi Hendrix, Cream, the Beatles are all interpreted with conviction and oodles of talent. These boys have no time for contemporary rock.
"It's empty," says Niall. "There's no soul in it." Niall's innate musical soul, coupled with one hell of a voice, adds new dimensions to songs that were written before he was born.
So Van the Man eat your heart out. "Into the Music" has taken on a whole new meaning in a shed on the brim of the Atlantic.