“The Interference are the only band in Ireland I can't pigeonhole ” Dave Fanning

Fergus O'Farrell is the charismatic voice of one of the most compelling groups to emerge from the Irish music scene in the 1990s, a fact recognised by their inclusion in the current TV series, Other Voices: Songs from a Room.

Interference are a group that cross all rock/folk/traditional divides with their string driven hypnotic sound, making a concert a truly moving experience.

Fergus O'Farrell also widely collaborates : Artists include Black , Camilla Griehsel, Maurice Seezer, Gavin Friday, Paul Tiernan, David Bickley, Glen Hansard, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Nina Hynes, Mundy and Paul Griffin.

For the last few years Fergus has been also playing with the West Cork based group DogTail Soup.

Interference news

DTS play DeBarra’s Sunday Dec 13th

December 9th, 2009

dogtail soup return to DeBarras Clonakilty on Sun 13th Dec. Tickets EUR 15 .

Interference play 2 gigs at De Barras this March.

October 15th, 2009

Interference to play two shows in De Barras Clonakilty.

The dates are Thursday 11th March, Thursday 18th March.

Interference play The Sirius Art Centre, March 5th.

October 9th, 2009

Interference to play one of their rare shows with Paul Tiernan.

dogtail soup play the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Dec 12th.

October 9th, 2009

DTS perform an intimate show at the amazing Sirius Art Centre.

dogtail soup play Skibbereen Town Hall Nov 6th.

October 9th, 2009

dogtail soup continue their West Cork gigs with a show in the capitol of West Cork.

dogtail soup play Schull Town Hall Oct 31st.

October 9th, 2009

dogtail soup play Halloween Night in their home town of Schull. Not to be missed.

dogtail soup play De Barras, Clonakilty, Oct 15th. 9pm.

October 9th, 2009

dogtail soup play one of their exciting shows in West Cork.

New Video added – Fergus painting in his studio

October 5th, 2009

We’ve just uploaded a beautiful new video of Fergus at work on a painting in his studio. It’s up on the video page here, and also on Facebook, and what the hell – we’ll include it here as well for your convenience!

Interference play Macroom Lughnasa Festival

August 14th, 2009

More news in from Fergus. Interference will be playing at the new Macroom Lughnasa festival this coming August 22nd.

IRISH music festivals were born in Macroom. Now thanks to local effort once more they are returning to the town. A new arts festival ‘Lughnasa Festival Macroom 2009′ takes place from August 17 to 23 keeping up the tradition of the former Mountain Dew festivals of the 1980s.

The festival features music, comedy, theatre, art, crafts, food, children’s activities and exhibitions. “We aim to showcase up and coming Cork talent and the centrepiece of the festival will be a music concert in the marquee in the Castle Grounds on Saturday,” says organiser Mark Cronin. Featured are FRED, Director, Interference, Remma, Elly O’Keeffe & Band, My Evil Ex, KingSear and Haymaker.

Dogtail soup Schull August 21st

August 14th, 2009

News just in from Fergus. Dogtail soup will be playing in Schull town hall this coming August 21st.