I'VE been in the studio producing Kila's new album with Karl Odlum for the past few months so I've been able to take weekends off and have a proper Sunday like the rest of the world. I get up early with the kids - Ned, eight, and Ariane, two and a half - and try to give Suzanne my wife a bit of a lie-in because she's up with them the rest of the week. We have breakfast at home and mess around for a while, then we'd usually take a walk down to Dalkey village and drop into see Ollie and Cyril at Select Stores. They make amazing organic smoothies and we'd often bump into other regulars there.

Back home, I'll usually put a roast into the Aga to cook slowly while we go down to the market in the People's Park in Dun Laoghaire. I really enjoy cooking and I do as much as I can although we tend not to have people over on Sunday, it's our day for being with the kids without any intrusion.

Saturdays can end up being pretty manic so we try to keep Sunday lowkey.

The market is great; it's hard to remember what Sundays were like before it started. We eat our way around while doing the shopping.

You always meet people there and it's a good way to while away a couple of hours. The kids like the playground too.

After late lunch we'll hang around at home and watch a couple of dvds - we'd very rarely go out on a Sunday night.

Last year I was on the road for about six months altogether - three months with Kila and another three months with another band, Dead Can Dance. That's fairly typical although Kila tend not to go on long tours any more because we all have kids now and so try to schedule our touring around long weekends to make it more family friendly.

There are seven of us in the band and I suppose we could be described as playing world music that draws on our roots in Irish traditional music.

We've a big audience in Spain and - I hate to say it - we're big in Japan too!

We were there last year touring with an artist Oki who we've been collaborating with.

He's from the indigenous Aniu tribe - they'd be akin to the aborigines in Australia and very much have their own language and culture that's separate from the mainstream. We made an album with him last year and then we went on the road to promote it. Jean Butler came too and did her tappety tap thing - it was great. She's hugely popular there too.

Sunday on tour is just like any other day - sleep late, go to soundcheck, perform and get on the road to the next place. All the days merge into one another.

Next Sunday we're performing at the St Patrick's Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square in London. On St Patrick's Day itself we'll be in Tripod in Dublin. I'm really looking forward to the gig as we've been away for the past few years.