Uiscedwr

First things first: their name is pronounced "ish-ka-dooer" and it means "water" in both Welsh and Irish -- the respective nationalities of founding members Anna Esslemont and Cormac Byrne. They met one strange night in 2002 when both were classical music students at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and aside from forming a romantic attachment, resolved right there and then to form a band together. From County Waterford, Byrne had been playing percussion since he was four in various bands and orchestras, and had been a member of Tommy Hayes' percussion orches...