Donnie Munro (ex RunRig) Interview

A short clip from a late-night Gaelic programme. Donnie taks about how he joined the band.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Donnie
• Munro
• RunRig
• Portree
• Skye
• Gaelic
• Gaidhlig
• Scotland
• Talk

[Br2veHe2rt]

I so miss Donnie's deep resonate voice in Runrig now that he's left. It's not the same. The music is, of course, still awesome: but I miss *that* voice, which can bring tears.

[UISTMAN59]

@Br2veHe2rt I've heard him since and his voice is not as good now adays for some reason, but he was great 20 years ago.

[thairis2]

Thanks for posting! do you have the rest of the interview?

[UISTMAN59]

I think so - somewhere! Keep tuning in and I'll see if I can dig it up again.

[gilped]

Donnie is a good singer and it's probably time for a reunion with the band. That will inspire his vocals again!

[Strathpeffer]

Agree with Uistman - Donnie's still a very good singer, interacts well with the audience, has a very talented band plus is writing some beautiful songs of his own now. His "An Turas" album (which includes some Runrig classics) is one of my all-time favourites.

[bigcoolviking]

@UISTMAN59 I disagree I think his voice has mautured and deepened slightly. His solo work and new band although less epic and less powerful than Runrig, He has a few tracks where his voice is outstanding and stll brings a tear to the eye!!

[Br2veHe2rt]

@UISTMAN59: that's sad! I guess the vocal chords dry up as we get older and the basso resonance isn't as functional.  Thankfully I have all the cds, and some vids, and can pretend it's happening now. All good things must come to an end, it seems.

[fionnskie]

@darkmonoxide They're certainly not that mutually intelligible. I'm not a native speaker but I have reasonable fluency in Irish and I'd say that I understand about 20% of what he's saying. A native speaker of Ulster Irish would understand a lot more though. I think it's a bit too far to suggest that they're dialects of the same language, that would certainly have been the case a few hundred years ago but in my opinion, too much has changed between them.

[joeblow238]

@conchubhar1 thats scots gaelic you tit

[darkmonoxide]

@ruth18a Out of curiousity, how well can you understand Irish Gaelige? Ive been trying to figure out for quite some time how mutually intellligible these 2 languages are (indeed, some scholars think theyre simply strong dialects of one language) and its been hard to find a difinitive native speaker who has enough knowledge and experience with the language to give an educated answer. Some people have claimed that they are 95% mutually intelligible, others say not at all. What do you say?

[ruth18a]

@conchubhar & knubbelidoo

They are both speaking Gaidhlig (Scottish).

The woman interviewing Donnie is from Uist and Donnie is from Skye.

Their pronounciation of various words are different because of their accents but they are both speaking Scottish Gaidhlig.

(I am from Scotland and speak Gaidhlig fluently and have been used to hearing all kinds of different dialects of the language since I was born)

Hope this helps clear things up for you both - it can be very confusing! :)