Mike Scott: ‘Ireland is recovering from a long trauma, and opening out in to a liberal future. I feel very at home’
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Irish composer John Buckley: ‘I never try to write music that’s difficult to play. It’s just the way it emerges’
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After years of skilfully playing both sides of the ‘Boston or Berlin’ binary, we must now choose one of them