This week's Tune Of The Week is Go Dig My Grave by Lankum - watch the epic nine minute video, directed by Peadar Ó Goill, above.
Go Dig My Grave is the first single from the band's forthcoming 4th album False Lankum, their first long-player since 2019's The Livelong Day, which earned the RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year.
Lankum's Radie Peat discovered folk standard Go Dig My Grave via the singing of Jean Ritchie, who recorded the song for the 1963 album Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson at Folk City.
The band says: "Our interpretation of the traditional song Go Dig My Grave is one that centres around the emotion of grief – all-consuming, unbearable and absolute…
"A visceral physical reaction to something that the body and mind are almost incapable of processing. The second part of the song is inspired by the Irish tradition of keening (from the Irish caoineadh) – a traditional form of lament for the deceased. Regarded by some as opening up 'perilous channels of communication with the dead', the practice came under severe censure from the catholic church in Ireland from the 17th century on."
Recorded at Hellfire Studios with longtime producer John 'Spud' Murphy, False Lankum is released on March 24th - the band have a busy live schedule for the year ahead, with an Irish show set for the All Together Festival this August.
