Uncle Bard & The Dirty Bastards "Up the Bastards" Self-released (2013)
Release date: 5 February 2013
Running time: 12:41, 4 tracks
Uncle Bard and The Dirty Bastards, a seven piece band hailing from the North of Italy, released in 2010 a standards album titled “Drinking not Thinking”. During the following years the band members did a busking tour in Great Britain and Ireland, shared the stage with Dropkick Murphys and began to write their own material.
“Up the Bastards!” is the next step in their evolution: only one song is an Irish standard, “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”, the other three tracks are self-penned songs.
The opener “Up the Bastards!” is the most festive track on the EP. It’s a song about themselves and an ode to the life in the pubs (booze and musicians). The song features a couple of traditional tunes.
The next two songs deal with similar topics, but the rhythm is different. “Part of Me” is the most rocking song and can be filed together with songs such as “(Dublin in) the Rare Auld Times” or The Men They Couldn’t Hang “Company Town”. Our towns grow and they become something we don’t like. But we keep on loving them. Musically, the song is a Tossers infused number featuring amazing banjo, tin whistle and fiddle.
“I Did Not Belong to This World” is the real lament on the EP, both lyrically and musically. It’s a slow number and it features awesome Uileann pipes played by Luca Crespi. It also has some Tossers influences blended with a Mahones touch.
Finally, “Come Out Ye Black and Tans” is an energetically rendition played with gusto.
“Up the Bastards!” was released in February 2013, but July 2013 seems to be the band’s month: they have released a video for the song “Up the Bastards!”, they have played the big festival Rock im Ring in Ritten and they have been chosen as Band of the Month at our Spanish e-zine Celtic Punk Rock. Don’t be a lazy sod and get this EP as soon as possible. Maybe the band’s name is too obvious, but they are a blast!
Tracklist:
1. Up the Bastards! 3:35
2. Part of me 2:16
3. I Did Not Belong to This World 3:46
4. Come Out Ye Black and Tans 2:56
http://www.dirtybastards.it
https://www.facebook.com/UBDirtyBastards
http://www.reverbnation.com/UBDirtyBastards
https://soundcloud.com/ubdirtybastards
https://myspace.com/unclebardthedirtybastards
https://twitter.com/UBDirtyBastards
Contact the band to buy the CD:
info@dirtybastards.it
Click to buy a digital copy:
https://itunes.apple.com/sg/album/up-the-bastards!-ep/id601400834
Release date: 5 February 2013
Running time: 12:41, 4 tracks
Uncle Bard and The Dirty Bastards, a seven piece band hailing from the North of Italy, released in 2010 a standards album titled “Drinking not Thinking”. During the following years the band members did a busking tour in Great Britain and Ireland, shared the stage with Dropkick Murphys and began to write their own material.
“Up the Bastards!” is the next step in their evolution: only one song is an Irish standard, “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”, the other three tracks are self-penned songs.
The opener “Up the Bastards!” is the most festive track on the EP. It’s a song about themselves and an ode to the life in the pubs (booze and musicians). The song features a couple of traditional tunes.
The next two songs deal with similar topics, but the rhythm is different. “Part of Me” is the most rocking song and can be filed together with songs such as “(Dublin in) the Rare Auld Times” or The Men They Couldn’t Hang “Company Town”. Our towns grow and they become something we don’t like. But we keep on loving them. Musically, the song is a Tossers infused number featuring amazing banjo, tin whistle and fiddle.
“I Did Not Belong to This World” is the real lament on the EP, both lyrically and musically. It’s a slow number and it features awesome Uileann pipes played by Luca Crespi. It also has some Tossers influences blended with a Mahones touch.
Finally, “Come Out Ye Black and Tans” is an energetically rendition played with gusto.
“Up the Bastards!” was released in February 2013, but July 2013 seems to be the band’s month: they have released a video for the song “Up the Bastards!”, they have played the big festival Rock im Ring in Ritten and they have been chosen as Band of the Month at our Spanish e-zine Celtic Punk Rock. Don’t be a lazy sod and get this EP as soon as possible. Maybe the band’s name is too obvious, but they are a blast!
Tracklist:
1. Up the Bastards! 3:35
2. Part of me 2:16
3. I Did Not Belong to This World 3:46
4. Come Out Ye Black and Tans 2:56
http://www.dirtybastards.it
https://www.facebook.com/UBDirtyBastards
http://www.reverbnation.com/UBDirtyBastards
https://soundcloud.com/ubdirtybastards
https://myspace.com/unclebardthedirtybastards
https://twitter.com/UBDirtyBastards
Contact the band to buy the CD:
info@dirtybastards.it
Click to buy a digital copy:
https://itunes.apple.com/sg/album/up-the-bastards!-ep/id601400834
http://www.amazon.com/Up-the-Bastards/dp/B00BJ6BJ3G/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372349106&sr=301-1
Review by Kinksmarkham
Review by Kinksmarkham
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