(Taken from the Neck's Mailout)Woo!
Howyiz everyone! I hope ye all had a great St. Patrick's Day!
We had a grand oul' time - both in Zagreb, Croatia & in London too!
So - at long fe*kin' last! - We here at Neck Towers are chuffed to announce that we're O'fficially coming back out to Europe again: - we're doing a good few dates to promote the new album 'Come out Fighting!', centred around playing the Punk 'n' Disorderly festival in Berlin again for our fourth time! Yay!
Following our successes in Denmark, Austria, Italy & Finland last year, we're getting back out on the festival circuit again - we've got a festival in Holland on May 13th & at least one other gig in Germany to tie-in with it, & we're hoping more will be announced!
There's also more info below on the album 'Come out Fighting!' - there's a full marketing campaign going-on at the moment to tie-in with the tour [so far, we've had universally great reviews!!!] so if you haven't picked-up a copy yet, now's your chance: we'll have copies for sale on-tour + T-shirts, etc too!
So - hope to see yiz out there!!!
European Tour dates:
Fri 02 Apr 2010, 19:30 - Paard van Troje, Den Haag, NL
Prinsegracht 12, 2512 GA Den Haag / The Hague, Zuid-Holland, NL
Cost:€10.00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - Dutch date: Yay, we’re back in Holland! ___ + Circle J ___ Tel: 070-3601838 ___ E: info@paard.nl ___ http://www.paard.nl
Sat 03 Apr 2010 - Poppodium Het Front, Vroomshoop, NL
Stobbelaan 1, Vroomshoop, Overijssel 7681ZN, NL
Cost:€8.00
Doors: 20:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - Dutch date: Yay, we’re back in Holland! ___ E: Info@frontvroomshoop.nl ___ http://www.frontvroomshoop.nl
Sun 04 Apr 2010 - Punk ’n’ Disorderly festival, Astra, Berlin, DE
Astra, Revaler Str. 99, 10245 Berlin, DE
Cost:PRESALE: SINGLE DAY: 22,00 € / WEEKEND: 53,00 € // DOOR: SINGLE DAY: 25,00 € / WEEKEND: 59,00 €
Doors: 18:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European Tour - hits Berlin with a right oul’ clatter! ___ & it’s our 4th time @ Punk & Disorderly! with Cockney Rejects, Stiff Little Fingers, Street Dogs, Bay City Rollers, The Business, Anti-Nowhere League, The Varukers, Discipline, The Partisans, Neck, etc... ___ Neck Onstage 19:20-19:50 - Should be feckin’ mental!
Mon 05 Apr 2010 - Rosenkeller [ROSE GROßE TONNE], Jena, DE
Johannisstraße 13, Jena, Thüringen D-07743, DE
Cost:€7.00 / €10.00 VVK 7, - plus VVKG / / AK 10, --
Doors: 20:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - German date ___ www.rosenkeller.org ___ Telefon: +49 3641 931190
Tue 06 Apr 2010 - The Irish Pub Outside, Speyer, DE
Heinkel Strasse 3, Speyer, 67346, DE
Cost:€TBA
Doors: 20:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - German date: www.irishpub.de ___ 06232289644 ___ We’ve played here before & it was great craic!
Wed 07 Apr 2010 - TBA
Thur 08 Apr 2010 - TBA
Fri 09 Apr 2010 - Kulturfabrik Kofmehl, Solothurn, CH
Kofmehlweg 1, Solothurn, CH, Solothurn CH-4503, CH
Cost:20CHF (Presale & Door)
Doors: 22:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - Swiss date: Yay! - we get back to Switzerland! ___ www.kofmehl.net ___ Büro/Infos: +41 32 621 20 60 ___ office@kofmehl.net
Sat 10 Apr 2010 - TBA
In May, we've also got:
Thur 13 May 2010 - Jera on Air festival, Ysselsteyn, Noord-Limburg, NL
www.jeraonair.nl
Fri 14 May 2010 - TBA
Sat 15 May 2010 - , Quedlinburg, DE
Hopefully, more to come... So stand-by for more announcements!
And if you want us to come play in your town - drop us a line...
As for the album ...
There are 14 tracks on 'Come out Fighting!' - all recorded with legendary Producer, Pat Collier (originally in '76 Punk Rock legends The Vibrators, Pat made his name producing The Wonderstuff & Primal Scream & has since worked with virtually everyone in your record collection - including Lars Friedriksen!).
Pat's definitely brought out the best in us: it is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best sounding, most powerful album we've ever made! He's given us a new, more focussed, lean & muscular sound - & in depth: There's the usual range of 'Up & at 'em' Impassioned hIrish Punk Rock Polemic, replete with Pop-tastic Harmonies & the fave Neck 'Now-you're-moshing-now-you're-Riverdancing-now-you're-moshing-again!' trick; 'Necked-up' Traditional Irish rousers, ballads & Jigs; (& even a sh*ggin' Irish Power Ballad fer Chrissakes!) - just all louder, clearer, more powerful and more 'swirlier'!
"...it's a muscular, lean, musical hay-maker that can stand it's ground & slug it out with the best of 'em!"
Here are Some quotes from just some of the reviews for Come out Fighting! so far:
‘"Come out Fighting!' - a full-on and in your face aural assault. A record that combines the pathos of The Pogues, the folk lilt of The Levellers and the punchiness of Stiff Little Fingers to mesmerising effect."
Big Cheese Magazine
'...easily as good as The Pogues ever got ...they go to all the places Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys do but with more first hand closer to the bone reality. Neck's finest moment yet and another fine hooley of an album by the best Irish Punk band in the world!'
Organ magazine
‘...A particular favourite's 'Everybody's welcome to The Hooley! With it's anti-racist lyrics and reel halfway through, it exemplifies Neck's riotous sound: as if The Clash were born on the Emerald Isle!’
The Irish Post
'...my favourite album of 2009 so far. One release not to be ignored! 10/10'
Street Voice
"I love Neck! ...definitely my album of the month!"
Garry Bushell
"... a daring, glorious and grand melody-drenched wall of sound - 'Come out Fighting!' is an album that offers all the evidence required for the band to take their rightful place - alongside those huge-selling US folk-punkers, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly."
Rock 'n Reel Magazine
'...Neck stand on their own two feet, both arms swinging and deliver anything as powerful as their peers: Irish Trad folk teasing with the left (‘I Turn my Face To The Four Winds’) whilst a punk rock uppercut delivers the sweet final blow!'
Distorted Magazine
"Straight talking and contagiously passionate about his music and culture, Leeson O'Keeffe's band Neck's new album 'Come out Fighting!' is the leaner, tighter sound of a band who have really come into their own."
The Irish World
"...Sh*t. - I hate it when I blow my load in the first half of the review, but that's how Neck make me feel. Premature ejaculation never felt so good..."
Unpeeled
"...Lyrically sussed as always, with some cracking tunes (“Come Out Fighting”, “Tink” and “Hello Jakey”), and inc ase you missed anything, detailed explanations are given in the excellent booklet (a ‘Hooley’, we find, is Irish for ‘party’!) - a commendable effort!"
Savage Amusement Punk Zine
"...I am struggling to think of any similar bands who have made such a striking impression and am equally struggling to think of an album of this ilk that works so well."
Fungal Punk
"F*cking brilliant! - Uplifting, punchy, hints of The Clash: this is hands-down the most exciting cd I've heard in a long time!"
Three Punk Rock questions
"...this came my way for review in fRoots & I liked it so much I played it on my radio show!"
Simon Jones, Moorlands Radio
"... the band mostly plays in fifth gear and Leeson’s coarse-grained, but melodic voice perfectly suits the speed folk, but when the band shifts into first gear his voice is upright, passionate and contains an authentic Irish bite. The fourteen psycho-ceilídh songs almost explode from the unbridled energy and Guinness bubbles. Cheers lads!"
Lords of Metal E-zine, Holland
NECK -- 'COME OUT FIGHTING!' CD Album
Golf Records [Europe] (CAT# CDHole179) - OUT NOW!!!
- you can order directly from the Golf Records site:
http://www.golfrecords.co.uk/
It’s available from all good stores & is distributed in the following countries by the corresponding Distributors:
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - RIOT :: CZECH REPUBLIC - DAY AFTER :: DENMARK - TARGET :: FINLAND - SUPERSOUNDS :: GERMANY & AUSTRIA - CARGO RECORDS GMBH :: HOLLAND & BELGIUM - BERTUS :: ITALY - TBA :: JAPAN - TBA :: NORWAY - TUBA RECORDS A/S :: PORTUGAL - RECITAL MUSIC :: SPAIN - MASTERTRAX :: SWEDEN - SOUND POLLUTION :: SWITZERLAND - IRASCIBLE :: UK & IRELAND - PLASTIC HEAD ::
& also digitally in Europe - on Golf Records, via the below on-line stores:
24-7 Entertainment :: 7Digital :: Amazon MP3 :: Gracenote :: Hot Topic / Shockhound :: iTunes Music Store :: lala :: last.fm :: MediaNet - Digital :: MySpace Music :: Napster :: Neurotic Media :: Newburycomics.com :: Nokia - Puretracks :: R2G :: Rhapsody :: Rogers Wireless :: SecuryCast :: Slacker :: SonyEricsson PlayNow Arena :: Spotify :: Starzik :: Verizon Wireless :: Zune
There's also a download single from our brand new album 'Come out Fighting!':
it's a prime slice of 'Emerald-Eyed Punk-Pop' - yes indeed! - Paddy-Punk Pop-tastic Harmonies, the works! With the whole pop-glittery gang on the good ship NECK guided by the steady hand of Cap'n Pat Collier! (ye might know him from The original '76 Vibrators, or as a producer with everyone from The Wonderstuff & Primal Scream to Lars Friedriksen).
It's called 'Tink' & it's backed with the ever-popular live favourite (from both Neck gigs AND Trad. Irish sessions) 'The Ferry Fare', from our previous album 'Sod 'em & begorrah!'.
I suppose you could say it's about one of 'the little people', as we say... I can feel the faery dust now... & I hope it beguiles youse bunch of bowsies too! ;-)
& downloadable from the same on-line stores as the album.
We'll also have T-shirts, badges/pins, stickers, etc to tie-in too - details to come...
NECK ON THE WEB (Jeez - we are gettin' about the place...):
Official Website:
http://www.neck.ie
Neck on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/neckireland
Neck on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1234769794698#!/pages/Neck/115672643946?ref=ts
(or just type Neck in search...)
Neck on Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/user/NECK_LondonIRL
Neck on punkrockers.com:
http://www.punkrockers.com/Neck
Neck on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/Neck_
Neck on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_%28band%29
Neck on YouTube:
(there's a whole rake of stuff, but the most popular seems to be):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZcrL3nJL1Q - Psycho-Ceilídh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaTDHF-0nJQ - 'Neck' (a crackin' yoke put-together by one of our friends)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-wZ9ed5Xo - Anarchy in the UK @ Glastonbury
So - as always - we pledge upon our dubious, Diddly-aye Delinquent honour, that - wherever the road may rise before us - we will defo BRING THE HOOLEY!
And we think the album speaks for itself!
Sláinte & g'luck!
Himself & all the other looneyt'icks in NECK!
.
.
.
Howyiz everyone! I hope ye all had a great St. Patrick's Day!
We had a grand oul' time - both in Zagreb, Croatia & in London too!
So - at long fe*kin' last! - We here at Neck Towers are chuffed to announce that we're O'fficially coming back out to Europe again: - we're doing a good few dates to promote the new album 'Come out Fighting!', centred around playing the Punk 'n' Disorderly festival in Berlin again for our fourth time! Yay!
Following our successes in Denmark, Austria, Italy & Finland last year, we're getting back out on the festival circuit again - we've got a festival in Holland on May 13th & at least one other gig in Germany to tie-in with it, & we're hoping more will be announced!
There's also more info below on the album 'Come out Fighting!' - there's a full marketing campaign going-on at the moment to tie-in with the tour [so far, we've had universally great reviews!!!] so if you haven't picked-up a copy yet, now's your chance: we'll have copies for sale on-tour + T-shirts, etc too!
So - hope to see yiz out there!!!
European Tour dates:
Fri 02 Apr 2010, 19:30 - Paard van Troje, Den Haag, NL
Prinsegracht 12, 2512 GA Den Haag / The Hague, Zuid-Holland, NL
Cost:€10.00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - Dutch date: Yay, we’re back in Holland! ___ + Circle J ___ Tel: 070-3601838 ___ E: info@paard.nl ___ http://www.paard.nl
Sat 03 Apr 2010 - Poppodium Het Front, Vroomshoop, NL
Stobbelaan 1, Vroomshoop, Overijssel 7681ZN, NL
Cost:€8.00
Doors: 20:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - Dutch date: Yay, we’re back in Holland! ___ E: Info@frontvroomshoop.nl ___ http://www.frontvroomshoop.nl
Sun 04 Apr 2010 - Punk ’n’ Disorderly festival, Astra, Berlin, DE
Astra, Revaler Str. 99, 10245 Berlin, DE
Cost:PRESALE: SINGLE DAY: 22,00 € / WEEKEND: 53,00 € // DOOR: SINGLE DAY: 25,00 € / WEEKEND: 59,00 €
Doors: 18:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European Tour - hits Berlin with a right oul’ clatter! ___ & it’s our 4th time @ Punk & Disorderly! with Cockney Rejects, Stiff Little Fingers, Street Dogs, Bay City Rollers, The Business, Anti-Nowhere League, The Varukers, Discipline, The Partisans, Neck, etc... ___ Neck Onstage 19:20-19:50 - Should be feckin’ mental!
Mon 05 Apr 2010 - Rosenkeller [ROSE GROßE TONNE], Jena, DE
Johannisstraße 13, Jena, Thüringen D-07743, DE
Cost:€7.00 / €10.00 VVK 7, - plus VVKG / / AK 10, --
Doors: 20:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - German date ___ www.rosenkeller.org ___ Telefon: +49 3641 931190
Tue 06 Apr 2010 - The Irish Pub Outside, Speyer, DE
Heinkel Strasse 3, Speyer, 67346, DE
Cost:€TBA
Doors: 20:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - German date: www.irishpub.de ___ 06232289644 ___ We’ve played here before & it was great craic!
Wed 07 Apr 2010 - TBA
Thur 08 Apr 2010 - TBA
Fri 09 Apr 2010 - Kulturfabrik Kofmehl, Solothurn, CH
Kofmehlweg 1, Solothurn, CH, Solothurn CH-4503, CH
Cost:20CHF (Presale & Door)
Doors: 22:00
Description:’Come out Fighting!’ European tour 2010 - Swiss date: Yay! - we get back to Switzerland! ___ www.kofmehl.net ___ Büro/Infos: +41 32 621 20 60 ___ office@kofmehl.net
Sat 10 Apr 2010 - TBA
In May, we've also got:
Thur 13 May 2010 - Jera on Air festival, Ysselsteyn, Noord-Limburg, NL
www.jeraonair.nl
Fri 14 May 2010 - TBA
Sat 15 May 2010 - , Quedlinburg, DE
Hopefully, more to come... So stand-by for more announcements!
And if you want us to come play in your town - drop us a line...
As for the album ...
There are 14 tracks on 'Come out Fighting!' - all recorded with legendary Producer, Pat Collier (originally in '76 Punk Rock legends The Vibrators, Pat made his name producing The Wonderstuff & Primal Scream & has since worked with virtually everyone in your record collection - including Lars Friedriksen!).
Pat's definitely brought out the best in us: it is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best sounding, most powerful album we've ever made! He's given us a new, more focussed, lean & muscular sound - & in depth: There's the usual range of 'Up & at 'em' Impassioned hIrish Punk Rock Polemic, replete with Pop-tastic Harmonies & the fave Neck 'Now-you're-moshing-now-you're-Riverdancing-now-you're-moshing-again!' trick; 'Necked-up' Traditional Irish rousers, ballads & Jigs; (& even a sh*ggin' Irish Power Ballad fer Chrissakes!) - just all louder, clearer, more powerful and more 'swirlier'!
"...it's a muscular, lean, musical hay-maker that can stand it's ground & slug it out with the best of 'em!"
Here are Some quotes from just some of the reviews for Come out Fighting! so far:
‘"Come out Fighting!' - a full-on and in your face aural assault. A record that combines the pathos of The Pogues, the folk lilt of The Levellers and the punchiness of Stiff Little Fingers to mesmerising effect."
Big Cheese Magazine
'...easily as good as The Pogues ever got ...they go to all the places Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys do but with more first hand closer to the bone reality. Neck's finest moment yet and another fine hooley of an album by the best Irish Punk band in the world!'
Organ magazine
‘...A particular favourite's 'Everybody's welcome to The Hooley! With it's anti-racist lyrics and reel halfway through, it exemplifies Neck's riotous sound: as if The Clash were born on the Emerald Isle!’
The Irish Post
'...my favourite album of 2009 so far. One release not to be ignored! 10/10'
Street Voice
"I love Neck! ...definitely my album of the month!"
Garry Bushell
"... a daring, glorious and grand melody-drenched wall of sound - 'Come out Fighting!' is an album that offers all the evidence required for the band to take their rightful place - alongside those huge-selling US folk-punkers, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly."
Rock 'n Reel Magazine
'...Neck stand on their own two feet, both arms swinging and deliver anything as powerful as their peers: Irish Trad folk teasing with the left (‘I Turn my Face To The Four Winds’) whilst a punk rock uppercut delivers the sweet final blow!'
Distorted Magazine
"Straight talking and contagiously passionate about his music and culture, Leeson O'Keeffe's band Neck's new album 'Come out Fighting!' is the leaner, tighter sound of a band who have really come into their own."
The Irish World
"...Sh*t. - I hate it when I blow my load in the first half of the review, but that's how Neck make me feel. Premature ejaculation never felt so good..."
Unpeeled
"...Lyrically sussed as always, with some cracking tunes (“Come Out Fighting”, “Tink” and “Hello Jakey”), and inc ase you missed anything, detailed explanations are given in the excellent booklet (a ‘Hooley’, we find, is Irish for ‘party’!) - a commendable effort!"
Savage Amusement Punk Zine
"...I am struggling to think of any similar bands who have made such a striking impression and am equally struggling to think of an album of this ilk that works so well."
Fungal Punk
"F*cking brilliant! - Uplifting, punchy, hints of The Clash: this is hands-down the most exciting cd I've heard in a long time!"
Three Punk Rock questions
"...this came my way for review in fRoots & I liked it so much I played it on my radio show!"
Simon Jones, Moorlands Radio
"... the band mostly plays in fifth gear and Leeson’s coarse-grained, but melodic voice perfectly suits the speed folk, but when the band shifts into first gear his voice is upright, passionate and contains an authentic Irish bite. The fourteen psycho-ceilídh songs almost explode from the unbridled energy and Guinness bubbles. Cheers lads!"
Lords of Metal E-zine, Holland
NECK -- 'COME OUT FIGHTING!' CD Album
Golf Records [Europe] (CAT# CDHole179) - OUT NOW!!!
- you can order directly from the Golf Records site:
http://www.golfrecords.co.uk/
It’s available from all good stores & is distributed in the following countries by the corresponding Distributors:
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - RIOT :: CZECH REPUBLIC - DAY AFTER :: DENMARK - TARGET :: FINLAND - SUPERSOUNDS :: GERMANY & AUSTRIA - CARGO RECORDS GMBH :: HOLLAND & BELGIUM - BERTUS :: ITALY - TBA :: JAPAN - TBA :: NORWAY - TUBA RECORDS A/S :: PORTUGAL - RECITAL MUSIC :: SPAIN - MASTERTRAX :: SWEDEN - SOUND POLLUTION :: SWITZERLAND - IRASCIBLE :: UK & IRELAND - PLASTIC HEAD ::
& also digitally in Europe - on Golf Records, via the below on-line stores:
24-7 Entertainment :: 7Digital :: Amazon MP3 :: Gracenote :: Hot Topic / Shockhound :: iTunes Music Store :: lala :: last.fm :: MediaNet - Digital :: MySpace Music :: Napster :: Neurotic Media :: Newburycomics.com :: Nokia - Puretracks :: R2G :: Rhapsody :: Rogers Wireless :: SecuryCast :: Slacker :: SonyEricsson PlayNow Arena :: Spotify :: Starzik :: Verizon Wireless :: Zune
There's also a download single from our brand new album 'Come out Fighting!':
it's a prime slice of 'Emerald-Eyed Punk-Pop' - yes indeed! - Paddy-Punk Pop-tastic Harmonies, the works! With the whole pop-glittery gang on the good ship NECK guided by the steady hand of Cap'n Pat Collier! (ye might know him from The original '76 Vibrators, or as a producer with everyone from The Wonderstuff & Primal Scream to Lars Friedriksen).
It's called 'Tink' & it's backed with the ever-popular live favourite (from both Neck gigs AND Trad. Irish sessions) 'The Ferry Fare', from our previous album 'Sod 'em & begorrah!'.
I suppose you could say it's about one of 'the little people', as we say... I can feel the faery dust now... & I hope it beguiles youse bunch of bowsies too! ;-)
& downloadable from the same on-line stores as the album.
We'll also have T-shirts, badges/pins, stickers, etc to tie-in too - details to come...
NECK ON THE WEB (Jeez - we are gettin' about the place...):
Official Website:
http://www.neck.ie
Neck on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/neckireland
Neck on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1234769794698#!/pages/Neck/115672643946?ref=ts
(or just type Neck in search...)
Neck on Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/user/NECK_LondonIRL
Neck on punkrockers.com:
http://www.punkrockers.com/Neck
Neck on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/Neck_
Neck on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_%28band%29
Neck on YouTube:
(there's a whole rake of stuff, but the most popular seems to be):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZcrL3nJL1Q - Psycho-Ceilídh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaTDHF-0nJQ - 'Neck' (a crackin' yoke put-together by one of our friends)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-wZ9ed5Xo - Anarchy in the UK @ Glastonbury
So - as always - we pledge upon our dubious, Diddly-aye Delinquent honour, that - wherever the road may rise before us - we will defo BRING THE HOOLEY!
And we think the album speaks for itself!
Sláinte & g'luck!
Himself & all the other looneyt'icks in NECK!
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