Delhi 2 Dublin are excited about bringing the party to the Inferno Nightclub and Shisha lounge with Shred Kelly for Halloween, Oct. 31.
“We’re trying to sell Shred Kelly on this idea of costumes, but they haven’t bought into it yet,” said tabla, electronics player Tarun Nayar, who just returned from playing a couple of music festivals in the southern United States including Texas, Arkansas and North Carolina.
“ It supposed to be a surprise, so I can’t say anymore. It’s loosely based on us dressing like each other. We love Shred Kelly. We’ve played a 
lot of festivals with them. And their banjo player (Tim Newton) has got on stage with us and jammed,” he continued.
“ We love Halloween shows. People are always ready to come out and party,” he enthused.
Delhi 2 Dublin don’t do gruelling six month cross Canadian tours anymore, preferring short bursts of touring.
“We just play where people like us. So we don’t play Sudbury, Ontario for $500 anymore. We‘re getting older. We find we make more money and have a lot more fun when we just tour in short bursts,” he said. They still average 150 shows a year, though they are concentrating on touring the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Australia next year.
They enjoyed playing down south.
“We actually play there a lot more than we do here. But we’ve never played North Carolina before.
“There were10,000 people at the Harvest Festival in Arkansas, though they weren’t at our stage. We had about 1,000. In North Carolina we had about 5,000 people,” he continued.
“Festivals have a built in audience. We have a pretty big sound that really gets to big crowds. Most people down south play blues or roots or bluegrass or country music, so by the time we play, they’re ready for something different,” he said.
“We’re always different. Nobody else is doing mash ups of bhangra and Celtic music,” he continued.
“ I don’t think people always like us, but we’re definitely unique, he said.
“ This is definitely a touring year, not an album release year. We’re always writing, and we have new songs, but it takes about a year to do it right — recording, mixing and mastering and doing PR for it,” he said adding their last CD, which is still featured prominently in their live show, “Turn Up the Radio,” was released in Lethbridge last Fall, though it was released in the United States in January.
He noted Lethbridge has always been very supportive.
“Lethbridge is always been one our favourite places to play. It is an interesting small city. but it has a lot of kids and people who really like to party. And Shambala (an annual electronica music festival in Salmo, B.C,) is near there, so there is that culture,” he said adding concert promoter Lorinda Peel has been with them since the beginning.
“We’re seven years old now, and it’s funny but it has taken a while to figure out what our sound is,” he said.
“ We started as a live band. We’ve really honed our sound. We used to have a really big, wall of sound thing, but now we’re more focused on songwriting. But now we focus on telling a story and making a song, so things have become more simple,” he said.
The live show keeps expanding.
“It will be a different set. We’ve added a new stage and new instruments. We’re playing most of the songs from ‘Turn Up The Stereo’ and some old classics,” he said.
“Sara (Fitzpatrick) has this crazy new pedal on her fiddle (a Line 6 guitar amp simulator), so she sounds like the mutant fiddle player from Mars,” he enthused.
“ We’ve also added a couple new Indian percussion instruments we carry around (a dholak). And we have keyboards on stage, so we can play a lot more live instead of having everything sequenced. So it’s a lot more fun but there’s a lot more jumping around on stage playing everything,” he continued.
Delhi 2 Dublin and Shred Kelly play the Inferno Nightclub club and Shisha Lounge, Oct. 31 at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25.
