Okay, so Gan Bua is now just plain, ol’ Bua.

But wait, let me explain!!!

Gan Bua means (roughly) to be ’talentless.’ This name was drawn up for the band when its main performance venue was the pub. So there you have it, Gan Bua started out as an inside joke! Yet since the huge line-up change in the Spring of 2006 when Brian, Brían and Seán joined on, we came to agree that the name didn’t really reflected the essence of the "new" Gan Bua. By and large the Gan Bua of 2003 was certainly not the Bua of 2008.

Brían’s a talented singer of Irish Gaelic songs and though he liked the fact that the band’s name was in Irish, he didn’t see how he could take our album to a company like Cló Iar-Chonnachta (www.cic.ie) or Gael Linn (www.gael-linn.ie) and ask them to promote and distribute our wares. It’s something akin to having our name be ’the Póg Mo Thóins’ (the Kiss our A$$es) and trying to convince an Irish language distribution company to sign us on! It’s just silly...

We decided a month or so ago to simply drop the ’Gan’ part (shockingly enough!). So now, Bua is the new name and as representative of our growth as a band as it is our ability to create some amazing music. Bua is an Irish Gaelic word meaning - achievement or ability. Used in song, as Brían has pointed out, it can also mean an innate or even supernatural ’gift.’

BOO-ah!

So, what do you think?