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Pipes and Pints (cz/usa) - Punkrock with Highland Bagpipes

Pipes and Pints were formed in 2006 by Vojta Kalina (Highland Bagpipes/Vocals) with a dream of a band that combines punkrock with dirty folk music such as The Pogues. Soon after, he met Tomas Novotny (ex-Who ate my Skate, Guitar/Vocals) who shared the same dream, flavored by country and rock and roll. For some time (in 2007/08) the band was functional. Released demo, toured the Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Czech rep., Slovakia) as a lead band or as a support of The Porters, Society Parasites and more. Only to collapse because other members had different vision of the future.

But it was not the time to wake up yet. Now the hard core of Pipes and Pints is powered by Lukas Vincour (Drums/Vocals, ex-Punkhart and more) followed by Syco Mike (Lead Vocals, ex-Mugshot76) and finally by Ondra Balvin (Bass/Vocals, Super Pilot, ex-ElPaso). The journey of these musicians, to find people like themselves, punks who want to spend their lives touring, seems to have finally ... started.

New Ep2008 is a promise of better days and the beginning of a new adventure. Promise that these kids will give you all they have.

Cheers/Nazdravi Pipes and Pints Crew


The new 5 tracks recording can be downloaded in WAV or mp3 from the band's official website (first link) But they also shared their previous 4 tracks demo in which is clearly stated "copyright free, copy it, download it, upload it steal it". So I have gathered both recordings in mp3 format in the second link.

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http://www.pipesandpints.cz/?s=disco

http://www.mediafire.com/?ex2yzywxlym

FREE DOWNLOADS: THE TOFU LOVE FROGS

In 1989, long before the invention of the clippers and the hair brush, a group of squatters from Hackney started a folk club. This soon morphed into a band. Hours before their first performance, still with no name and no percussionist, they met Chris, who said he would play the percussion only if they performed under the name the “Tofu Love Frogs”, and so the band was born. Chris “I will only play in a band if it’s called the Tofu Love Frogs”

Their first gigs, playing their unique mixture of folk, punk and booze; with songs about politics and crime delighted the Hackney underclass. They played mostly in squat parties and a few venues around London. Over the next year Paddy and Chris both bought old buses and the show went on the road. Of course at this time England was full of young people taking to the road and no free festival was complete without the Tofus.

Paddy: “my 21st birthday was at Castle Morton Festival. We played on our own stage and on the Wango Reilly stage. I was tripping so much my feet could hardly stay on the floor”

Over the next few years the line ups changed as did the instruments. The mushy haze that is the past does not allow for a full description of who played what when, but here are some of the main players

At first:

Paddy - fiddle and vocals

Chris - bongos then later impresario

Ebe - bass

Mark - Guitar

Nuala - fiddle

Richard - guitar & harmonica

Alan - Mandolin

Mark then left and Glyn played guitar. Then Glyn left and Mark joined again and stayed with the Tofus until they split in 1998 – (apart from one tour when Mark damaged his hand and Kel played the guitar). Then the Tofus had a few kit drummers. They came and went and the order is a bit hazy. It went something like Andy, then Duggie, Jim then Andy again, then George and finally Goff. The band also had Alicia singing and playing the tambourine, Barry playing Bodhran and Kate playing the whistle. By about 1996 the Tofus were usually a four piece, guitar (mark), bass (Ade), Fiddle (Paddy) and drums (Goff), but often included guests at gigs.

The Tofus recorded two cassette only releases; "In a little Trouble" and "Toytown"; and two CD albums; "Rentamob" and "Vegetable Attack".

After nine years of playing in squats, festivals and protest sites across Europe the Tofus did their final gig, in a squatted pub for the wake of our roady Guy.

Ten years after the split up the Tofus reformed and played at stokefest in Stoke Newington. In 1998 Paddy built a funny canal boat to live on. In 2005, the morning after his birthday he moved the boat into a lock at the beginning of what was to be his worst morning after. Kel’s boat got trapped against Paddy’s in the lock and it looked as if both could capsize. Paddy quickly opened the top paddles to put some water in the lock to stabilize the boats. The emergency should have ended there but some how when shutting the lock Paddy felt like he had stubbed his finger. Looking down he realised that the end of the finger, just below the nail had been cut off. He ran off with splintered bone poking out the end of his severed and crushed finger. Ali picked him up and took him to hospital. Whilst he was gone Dawn, Cai, Kitty, Simon, Rachel and Malcolm found his finger end in the lock gate. It was quickly put in a bag with frozen hash browns supplied by the local café and rushed to the hospital where it was sown back on. This would be a nasty accident for most people but for a fiddle player it was devastating.

Paddy “I thought I would never play fiddle again. For some reason this made me want to write some new songs. I had no idea what they were for or when I might sing them, or indeed if I could really hack it as a singer without a violin to hide behind” In time Paddy learnt to play with his mashed finger.

2007, Goff’s 40th birthday found ¾ of the final Tofu line up (Paddy, Goff and Ade) drinking and indulging. By four in the morning a sensible thought out plan was born to revive the long dead Tofus.

They contacted Mark but he wasn’t interested so they asked Kell, their mate who covered for Mark on a tour when he’d done his hand in, who conveniently was on hand at the party. Kel’s response was “no fucking way”. A few lines later he was in and the plan was sealed.

The first new tracks to be released for over a decade are over at Last FM for you to have a listen - the Champagne Anarchist EP will have 4 tracks which you’ll recognise if you’ve been coming to the gigs - Champagne Anarchist, The Blim Song, Uraniums and Roxburgh Reel.

Discography

"Toytown" Vinyl/Tape - Self Release - 1993

"Get Off My Land" Vinyl/Tape - Delerius Records - 1994

"Rentamob" CD.- 2piR Records 1996

"Vegetable Attack"CD - Prox Records - 1997

DOWNLOAD: (links updated January 17,2015)

The three albums from Soundcloud ("ToyTown" 192 kbps, "Rentamob" 160 kbps, "Vegetable Attack" 160 kbps)

"Rentamob" from LastFM 128 kbps (10 out of 11 tracks)

"Vegetable Attack" from LastFM 128 kbps (full album)

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Free albums/many tracks from different bands can be found for free download on the Internet. I am talking about albums that the own bands are sharing with their fans. I intend to post some of this.

Enjoy!

Vol. VI AUSTRIA

This sampler includes 4 Austrian bands.

1) Denny's Drive In is an interesting Celtic punk band that has released two EPs:

The Fiddler (5 tracks EP, 2005)
Raise The Anchors (5 tracks EP, 2006)

The band has 6 members.

http://dennysdrivein.com

2) Puke, come from Innsbruck. This band has three albums and its sound is different from that of the German bands, even if they share language.

Schottenrock? (13 tracks album, May 2003)
Irr-Land Live (18 tracks album, March 2004)
New Land (14 tracks album, March 2007)

http://www.pukemusic.at

3) Shenanigans, has a long discography. They are more a Celtic rock band than a Celtic punk band, but they are worth hearing. Some members and ex-members are from England and the female vocalist is from Ireland.

Shenanigans (1996)
Setlist (1998)
Grado (2000)
Modern Folking (2003)
Live (2009) forthcoming album

You can find a small biography and reviews of "Setlist" and "Grado" at www.allmusic.com


www.shenanigans.at

4) Living Lache is a raucous band that has released some demos and some albums. They are from Vienna

Folk'n'Anger (12 tracks demo, 2005)
Live (11 tracks 2006)
We're Cruising for a Bruising (14 tracks demo, 2006)
Living Lache an Other Typical Pub Situations (10 tracks album, 2008)
Unflushable - Young, Hot and Police Power!(10 tracks album, 2009)

http://livinglache.tk-net.org/


DOWNLOAD:

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Vol. V BELGIUM

01. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - Whites Cross 3:07

02. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - No Rules Great Scotch 2:32

03. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - Scotland the Brave 2:25

04. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - If the Kids Are United 2:45

05. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - Border of Salt 2:03

06. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - All for One 2:58

07. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - In the Flesh 3:41

08. BLACK TARTAN CLAN - Beer and Women 2:57

09. McBEE'S BREWERY - Jasch Tebe 4:17

10. McBEE'S BREWERY - Neegre 4:39

11. McBEE'S BREWERY - Tell Me Ma 3:03

12. McBEE'S BREWERY - Waxie's Dargle 2:28

13. McBEE'S BREWERY - Vivver 3:30

14. CLURICAUNS - Dingle Bay 4:16

15. CLURICAUNS - For a rainy Day 5:13

16. CLURICAUNS - Come On 3:04

17. CLURICAUNS - Who I Really Am 2:44

18. CLURICAUNS - Hold On 4:12

19. CLURICAUNS - Kédan 3:41

20. ET ENCORE - Never Thought 2:44

21. ET ENCORE - Plastic Jesus 2:09

22. ET ENCORE - Jacky 3:08

23. ET ENCORE - Lapin au Cidre à la Suzanne 3:15

Even in this small country with 3 different languages (French, Flemish and ... German) we can find some bands mixing Celtic music with punk or rock. All the tracks are free downloads from MySpace or the bands' websites.

1) The first band , The Black Tartan Clan, comes from Antwerp (Flanders). They have released a demo and one album. They are really worth hearing.

Discography:

The Black Tartan Clan (6 tracks demo, 2008)

Boots, Kilts'n'Pipes (12 tracks album, 2008)

www.theblacktartanclan.com

2) The second band, McBee's Brewery, has only released a demo:

www.myspace.com/mcbeesbrewery

3) The third and the fourth bands are more folk-rock than punk-folk.

Cluricauns have released 4th albums, the third and the fourth ones are available at www.cdbaby.com.

Discography:

A Crowd of Goblins (2000)

Tomorrow Monday Morning (2002)

Rushing By (2006)

Borrowed & Blue (2007)

www.cluricauns.com

4) Et Encore has released one demo and three albums.

Discography:

La vie est simple (Demo, 1998)

Not a Full Box of Smarties (2000)

Greetings from St. Louis (2003)

The Barber, Next Door (2006)

www.etencore.com

Another band that has released three albums, a live CDR and a demo, but has not been included in this sampler is Ceili Moss. They classify themselves as Acoustic Folk-Rock.

www.ceilimoss.be

DOWNLOAD:

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Vol IV ITALY

01 - Como Lake Rovers - 100 Lire 3:08
02 - Como Lake Rovers - 1959 4:07
03 - Como Lake Rovers - The Fields of Athenry 4:21
04 - Como Lake Rovers - Friday Night 2:27
05 - Mosche di Velluto Grigio - Caro Fratelli 4:11
06 - Mosche di Velluto Grigio - Contro Vento Folk Edit 2:55
07 - Mosche di Velluto Grigio - Per le Vie degli Irish Pub 2:43
08 - Mosche di Velluto Grigio - Rudy 3:43
09 - Mosche di Velluto Grigio - Il Soffio del Nord 4:55
10 - Mosche di Velluto Grigio - Una Canzone Dosteria 3:28
11 - Mosche di Velluto Grigio - Il Cuore d'Irlanda 2:57
12 - The Drunk Butchers - Polke 2:14
13 - The Drunk Butchers - Whiskey You're the Devil 2:51
14 - The Drunk Butchers - Star of the Co. Down 2:15
15 - The Drunk Butchers - Whiskey in the Jar 3:11
16 - The Drunk Butchers - La Brigatta Garibaldi La Lega 2:43
17 - The Drunk Butchers - Piccola No Global Remix 6:10
18 - Modena City Ramblers - Music of the Time 5:36
19 - Modena City Ramblers - Viva la Vida 4:10
20 - Modena City Ramblers - Mondinas Bella Ciao 3:08
21 - Modena City Ramblers - Roisin the Bow 5:33

The four bands are:

1. Como Lake Rovers

www.comolakerovers.net

Discography:

Demo (4 tracks, November 2008)

The 4 tracks are included in this sampler.

2. Mosche di Velluto Grigio

www.moschedivellutogrigio.it

Some tracks from several albums.


Discography:

Dopo la Tempesta (2003) 

Nel Cuore (2006) 

Quelle Notti Giu in Paese (Live, 2006) 

La Legge delle Lucertole (7 tracks EP 2007)

3. The Drunk Butchers

Some live tracks and some tracks from the EP "Free Covers in a Free Country"


Discography:

Free Covers in a Free Country (6 tracks EP, 2007)


4. Modena City Ramblers

www.ramblers.it

Some tracks from their last album produced by Terry Woods. I prefer the earlier albums "Riportando Tutto a Casa", "Grande Famiglia" and "Raccolti". They have moved from a Pogues style band to a Mano Negra and Manu Chao influenced band.


Discography:

Riportando Tutto a Casa (1994) 

La Grande Famiglia (1996) 

Terra e Libertà (1997) 

Raccolti (1998) 

Fuori Campo (1999) 

Radio Rebelde (2002) 

¡Viva la Vida, Muera la Muerte! (2004) 

Appunti Partigiani (2005) 

Dopo il Lungo Inverno (2006) 

Bella Ciao (2008)

Outtakes:

Folkabbestia

www.folkabbestia.it

Irishtarantagypsyfolkrock from Italy


DOWNLOAD:

http://www.mediafire.com/?dhot28nd264ht3a

Vol. III FRANCE

01 - Zapozain - Nere burasoen etxea 4:36
02 - Zapozain - Zapozainen hitza 3:40
03 - Zapo - Lillura 3:44
04 - Zapo - La Droga la mejor 3:47
05 - Zapo - Es dira salgai 3:53
06 - Zapo - Txistu rumba 1:47
07 - Zapo - Tous presumés coupables 3:20
08 - Zapo - Hatsa 2:13
09 - Zapo - Agur Adios Adieu 1:05
10 - The Booze Brothers - Farewell to Ireland 6:36
11 - The Booze Brothers - Play for Them 3:05
12 - The Booze Brothers - Zombie 2:30
13 - The Booze Brothers - Just for the Fun 3:58
14 - The Booze Brothers - et perrac arroi 3:49
15 - The Booze Brothers - Je tombe 4:44
16 - The Booze Brothers - I Want Sex 7:25
17 - Les Bouzouks - Les Bouzouks 4:35
18 - Fiston Morback - McGregor 1:14
19 - Fiston Morback - Magic Box 2:21
20 - Fiston Morback - The Return 1:57

This sampler includes four French bands, two from the South and two from the North West of the country, the Celtic area (Brittany).


1) Zapo

This band comes from the South West of France and they sing in several languages (French, Basque, Spanish and even English).

The band was founded after having seen a gig of the Spanish band Celtas cortos. At the begginning, the name was Zapozain (the man who takes care of the toads, in Basque), but when they released their third album, they changed to Zapo (toad).

One song comes from the debut album, another one for the second album, another one from the third album and six from the last one (released in 2008)

www.myspace.com/zapozain

Discography as Zapozain:

Zangoz jo apo (1998)

Jauzi zapoak (2000)

Discography as Zapo:

Zain (2003)

4+4=10 (2008)

The last three albums are available at www.cdmail.fr

2) The Booze Brothers

Another band from the South of France. All the songs come from their last album, Hang on, released in November 2008.

http://booze.brothers.free.fr

Discography

Elevator (18 tracks, September 2004)

Hang on (15 tracks album, November 2008)

The previous album is available at www.cdbaby.com

Elevator and Hang on are also available at www.cdmail.fr

3) Les Bouzouks

A band from Brittany, they have only this track in a label sampler.

www.myspace.com/lesbouzouks

4) Fiston Morback

Another band from Brittany. It's a punk band but sometimes they use some traditional instruments. The tracks come from demos.

http://fistonmorback.perso.cegetel.net

Discography:

Demo (2005)

Outtakes:

Celtic Hangover

www.celtichangover.com

A band fronted by an Irishman. They have released 6 albums and one DVD. Some of the early albums are no longer available. A new album will be released this year.

Soldat Louis

www.soldatlouis.com

A band from Nantes, a town that historically was Brittany (Today it belongs to Loire Atlantique). Rock from Brittany, the first albums were interesting (Première Bordée, Pavillon Noir, Auprès de ma Bande) Escale sur la Planète was disappointing.

Shane MacGowan was a guest in one of their albums.

Black Label Zone

http://membres.lycos.fr/sambat

This band from Brittany released two excellent instrumental albums (Toufed Vil, Pot Velu), but the third one, with a singer and some line-up changes, Kilt ou Double, was really bad.

DOWNLOAD

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Vol. II SWITZERLAND

01 - FLYING DUTCHMAN - Drunken Crew 2:08

02 - FLYING DUTCHMAN - Ben 3:01

03 - FLYING DUTCHMAN - A Night on the Sea 2:24

04 - FLYING DUTCHMAN - Place of Destiny 1:54

05 - CENK - Brouette-Pastèque 1:32

06 - CENK - Can-Can 1:34

07 - CENk - Lost My Veste 1:55

08 - CENK - Berbés 2:18

09 - CENK - Immer Verspät 2:19

10 - CENK - Vox Populi 1:40

11 - CENK - Le Chien du Voisin 1:59

12 - PUBSIDE DOWN - Rockin' Landlady 3:49

13 - PUBSIDE DOWN - I Can't Dance when I'm Drunk 3:29

14 - PUBSIDE DOWN - Keen On Green 2:37

15 - PUBSIDE DOWN - Unreel 2:51

16 - PUBSIDE DOWN - Too Late to Stay 4:35

17 - PUBSIDE DOWN - Devil in the Kitchen 2:32

18 - PUBSIDE DOWN - The Irish Do 3:13

19 - VAD VUC - Fisherman's Blues 4:23

20 - VAD VUC - Lark in the Morning 1:07

21 - VAD VUC - Scrafignaa in da l'umbra 3:39

22 - VAD VUC - C'era una Volta 3:26

23 - VAD VUC - Mr. Jimmy LIVE 4:24

Switzerland is a small country with four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romance. This diversity can also be found in the bands.

1) The Flying Dutchman

www.myspace.com/flyingdutchman5

Discography:

Now's Dutchman Time (Demo, 2007)

All the tracks are from their demo.

2) CENK

www.cenk.ch

Discography:

First Draft (Demo 4 tracks, 2004)

Congrès Extraordinaire des Nanophysiciens en Kilt (Demo 5 tracks, 2004)

Canari Esquimau de Nonante Kilos (EP 5 tracks, 2005)

New EP to be released in 2009

One of the members is from Spanish origine and they say that bands such as Os Diplomaticos de Montealto are among their influences.Then, the Galician pipes can be heard in some tracks.

One track from “First Draft”, one track from “Congres Extraordinaire de Nanophysiciens en Kilts” and all the tracks from “Canari Esquimau de Nonante Kilos”

3) Pubside Down

www.pubsidedown.com

Discography:

Keen on Green (11 tracks album, November 2003)

Devil in the Kitchen (13 tracks album, September 2005)

The Irish Do (12 tracks albums 2009)

Four tracks from “Keen on Green”, two tracks from "Devil in the Kitchen” and the single from “The Irish do”

Their albums are available at www.cdbaby.com

4) Vad Vuc

www.vadvuc.ch

These guys are from the Italian speaking area and they are influenced by The Pogues, Mano Negra, Modena City Ramblers and Folkabbestia.

Discography:

Murrayfield Pub (5 tracks EP, 2003)

Il Monastero dei Folli (12 tracks album, 2004)

Trans Roonkaya Express (15 + 11 tracks 2CD set limited edition, 2006)

Trans Roonkaya Express (15 tracks, 2007)

The Vad Vuc and Little Orchestra (6 tracks EP, 2007)

Four tracks from “Trans Roonkaya Express” and one live version.

My recommendations: The Vad Vuc and Pubside Down.

The outtakes:

Glen of Guinness

www.glenofguinness.ch

A kind of a Swiss Pogues. The have released 8 albums, but sometimes they are a little bit irregular regarding the quality of the songs.

Tortilla Flat

www.tortillaflat.ch

4 albums and a couple of EPs

Beyond the Fields

www.beyondthefields.com

One album

DOWNLOAD

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Vol. I THE NETHERLANDS

01 - Circle J - Why Johnny Why 3:30 
02 - Circle J - The Day I Shot her Down 3:46 
03 - Circle J - Kingdom Come 3:41 
04 - Circle J - Jackson 2:56 
05 - Circle J - See You All in Hell 3:00
06 - Drunken Dolly - It's Raining Beer 2:25 
07 - Drunken Dolly - Deep Shit Jacky 3:12 
08 - Drunken Dolly - Beat Up Good Johnny 3:51
09 - Drunken Dolly - Jenny 4:09
10 - Herman- Al die willen te kaapren waren 2:50
11 - Herman - Dirty Old Town 3:43
12 - Herman . Into Folk 2:47 
13 - Stuart O'Malley - Leprechaun Jig 2:42
14 - Stuart O'Malley - Dancing Making Music Drinking Rum 3:44
15 - Quality Export - Sally 2:25 
16 - Quality Export - Losers Pub Crawl 2:42 
17 - Quality Export - Irish Rover 3:47
18 - Quality Export - Rippers Song 3:34 

Vol. I includes 5 bands from The Netherlands:
 
1) Circle J

www.circlej.nl
 
2) Drunken Dolly
 
www.drunkendolly.com
 
3) Herman
 
www.hermanfolk.nl
 
4) Stuart O'Malley and the Whiskey Gullivers
 
www.whiskeygullivers.tk
 
5) Quality Export

www.qualityexport.nl
 
Only Circle J has released some albums, the rest of the bands have recorded demos.
 
You can order both CDs directly from the band:
http://www.circlej.nl/store.html
remco@circlej.nl
 
Other bands from the Netherlands that have not been included in the sampler are:
Finnegan's Lads
www.myspace.com/finneganslads

Folkaholics
www.folkaholics.nl

And a couple of bands that are defunct and released one album:

Curling "The Virgin Takes" (2001) (Most of the tracks from this album were available free many years ago at mp3.com)

Riverflow "Live at Shannons" (A Pogues-influenced band from The Netherlands. Most of the tracks from this album were available free some years ago at vitaminic)

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