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Aslan planning 30th anniversary
Monday 24 October 2011
Duignam and McGuinness spoke to RTÉ TEN about performing with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on the Ronan Collins show for on Radio One recently.
Duignam said: "Last year we did an album of other people's songs and one of the songs was a Gilbert O'Sullivan song Nothing Rhymed and because there's orchestration on that, Ronan asked us would be do that so we made a deal.
"We have a new album coming out [Nudie Books and Frenchies] so if he could put one of our new songs [Frank's Song] from the album onto it [the live on-air concert] we'd do it so that's how it happened.
"Just to work with the orchestra was absolutely astounding."
McGuinness explained the history behind the new song: "Frank's Van is about every estate - when they were new they didn't have shops, so they had a Frank's van that drove around and the women would buy milk and a loose cigarette and a match for 20p.
"It's about your youth really, about us growing up in Finglas and Ballymun.
Duignam added: "We're thirty years together next year and I've never seen Billy as nervous as playing [live with the orchestra], we've played with Bowie, we've played with Elton John, Bryan Adams and I've never seen him as nervous, it was unbelievable.
"It's one of the best things we've done in a long time."
Next year Aslan will be celebrating their thirtieth anniversary with the launch of their new album Nudie Books and Frenchies and a string of special tour dates, which have yet to be announced.
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