Horslips to appear in TV special

Horslips will reconvene for an hour-long special on TG4.

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 22 Mar 2006

Set your videos on March 25 for 10.05pm.

Part of the station’s Ardán live gig series, it finds Barry Devlin, Jim Lockhart, Eamon Carr, Johnny Fean and Charles O’Connor joined on stage by Liam O Maonlai and world renowned piper Eoin Duignan who played during the ‘70s with that other bunch of Celtic warriors, Mushroom.

Horslips will perform seven songs, making it their longest electric set in three decades.

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