An Dannsa Dub // Dub All Dayer

Bushrocker HiFi Presents……… The Dub All Dayer

A full day of dub from Bushrocker selectors and An Dannsa Dub, Live

Future Dub from Ancient Scotland

An Dannsa Dub (The Dub Dance in Gaelic) is the brainchild of dub vocalist & producer Tom Spirals and Scottish traditional musician Euan McLaughlin formed in 2020. The project fuses the mystical energy and instruments of traditional Scottish music and Gaelic song with the heavy, meditative, driving basslines digital dub music.

Music is one big conversation. And few projects live at the heart of it like An Dannsa Dub.

Born from a love of traditional Scottish folk, dub reggae and dance music, together they summon the joyous, communal energy of a cèilidh and a sound system session.

Their name comes from the Gaelic for “The Dub Dance”. Their sound celebrates the ancient Gaelic and West African rhythms that influenced reggae, which in turn, via sound system culture and dub’s pioneering remixes, produced modern dance music. Their live shows and recordings are a seamless, pulsating fusion of all this and more.

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An Dannsa Dub have carried this unique, unstoppable sound to the Uk festival circuit and beyond. Notable shows include a 10,000 strong crowd at Boomtown Fair, Glastonbury’s Glade stage, Lorient Festival Interceltique, a headline a sold out show at Celtic Connections, the UK’s premier Celtic music festival, performing on the mainstage at Dubcamp; the top soundsystem music festival in France, Performing to over 5000 Italians dressed as druids at Montelago Music festival near Rome and a sold out headline show at The Old Fruitmarket our own home city of Glasgow.

2021’s self-titled EP “An Dannsa Dub” brought the group worldwide acclaim. The release has been played on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Nan Gàidheal and BBC Scotland. It’s been supported by Don Letts, who included it in his “Best Of 22”, as well as Tom Robinson, & Mungo’s Hi Fi.

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The debut album Air An Turas was released to eager fans in March 2023 and features stacks of exciting collaborations with artists from the Dub and Trad scene such as Cian Finn & Lana Pheutan,

An Dannsa Dub are currently back in the studio, after a stratospheric summer tour, working on their next album set for release in 2025.

Reviews

Laurie Cuffe (Ceòl is Craic)
“We hired An Dannsa Dub to headline our Celtic Connections gig in January 2023.

They didn’t disappoint! Tickets sold out well in advance and on the night they provided a spectacular performance. Dealing with the band was an absolute pleasure from start to finish.”

Adrian Sherwood (On U Sound Records)
“An Dannsa Dub has the things I like, charm and character and does not sound like a pale imitation of anything else”

Mungo’s Hi Fi (Scotch Bonnet Records)
“The roots of folk and dub are deeply intertwined. An Dannsa succeeds in capturing the best of each tradition in a thoroughly original and exciting manner.”

Tom Robinson (BBC Radio)
Golden Thread Single Release Review from “Fresh On The Net”

“Summer vibes and it’s not even warm yet!