Career
Aindrias Stack is best known for his award winning one man shows Around the World on 80 Quid, The Year I Got Younger, The Summer I Did the Leaving and The Manitoba From Moogaga. His first West End role was in Woody Sez, a show about the life and music of Woody Guthrie. His first lead role in a feature film was I Am Raftery – The Weaver of Words where he portrayed the blind 18th century Irish bard in the biographical movie.
Other film roles include Malarkey, The Year I Got Younger, Further We Search (directed by Darius Devas – 2009) and A Moment of Grace (directed by Dimitrios Pouliotis – 2010).
Irish television appearances include The Clinic on Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Craic de Staic on TG4. In 2013, he was one of three judges on TG4"s Scór Encore, on which contestants perform traditional music, song or dance.
He was the presenter of the competition dance show An Jig Gig on the same network in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Beginning as a traditional Irish fiddler, this travelling gypsy violinist has performed around the world in various violin and singing concerts as a solo act and with various bands.
After a sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007, Aindrias returned to Galway to launch Latchico, his first Civil Defense of his music
Aindrias, along with Tim Scanlan and former Saw Doctors drummer, Éimhín Cradock, make up the Gaelic gypsy hip-hop band, The Latchikóson They have performed live in Canada, Ireland, England, France, the United States and Australia. They released their first single, "Office to Bondi Junction," and one 10-track Civil Defense, "Sugarbeat Sessions" in 2013.
Aindrias and The Latchikos are regarded as the originators of Gyp-hop, a hybrid of Gypsy Music and Hip Hop.
