East River Rats "When the Cat's Away ..." is available at Bandcamp as a Name Your Price Download. You can check out our album review HERE. This album made our Best of 2018 (#28).
Celtic Curse is a Celtic rock band from Yucca valley, California.
Not formed-but evolved. Celtic Curse has risen from several projects to make it what it is today, and what it will become tomorrow. Hailing from the hills o’ Yucca Valley, Celtic Curse puts together many years of experience to bring you it’s own unique style of Celtic Rock. From the time honored Come out ye Black and Tans to the original Working Man Song, The Curse will deliver the energy needed to carry on the fight.
Set as a Four piece band, Celtic Curse keeps the arrangements to the basics. Much like our granddads before us, only so much is needed in a song to carry the message. With influences like Dropkick Murphys, The Pogues, Young Dubliners, Off-Kilter, etc… it is easy to understand the philosophy of the Celtic Curse.
So fire up the band, we’re gonna’ get drunk again. We’re drinking until every thing’s all right
Line-up:
Kevin Shannon - Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Tin Whistle, Vocals
The band from St. Louis Rusty Nail has recently released a single, "The Foggy Dew"
Recorded during "Bitter Ale, Bitter Heart".
Released March 3, 2019
Alvan Caby: Guitar, and Vocals
Kelly LaRussa: Violin
Chad Ross: Bouzouki
Pete McAvity: Electric Guitar
Chris Otto: Irish Whistle
Mark Hochberg: Bass Guitar
Dennis Frentzel: Drums
Mixing & Mastering: Chad Ross
After The Pogues, Oysterband and Wolfstone, today the full concert is a Fiddler's Green concert: Pinkpop festival 2015. Remember, a full concert will be posted everyday till March 21. A different band everyday.
"When writers wax lyrical about the rugged Celtic beauty that came to fruition with The Pogues and Shane MacGowan, they often seem to suggest that time has stood still and that Irish music had been sitting,waiting, since the mid-sixties ballad boom of The Dubliners et al for something suddenly to connect the urgency of punk with the heart and soul of traditional music. But out in the rough and ready bars of Hamburg and a hundred other German hostelries a band was carving out and whittling its own take on the beauty of Irish folk music; adding fire, vitality and punk-style energy while handling the travails of fights and frolics, women, dark streets and the drink. This was before it was trendy or cool to take Irish folk music and add a rock edge, long before Pogue Mahone turned it all upside down. The band morphed into McDermott’s 2 Hours in 1986 (named after a wonderfully unexpected happening on pirate radio during the Battle Of The Bogside as recalled in Eamonn McCann’s War And An Irish Town) ‘being Irish and in the wrong place and at the wrong time’ - to paraphrase MacGowan. In the pubs and clubs of Brighton and London they built a reputation for their incendiary live performances that have become legend. Among their wild and youthful admirers were a gaggle of friends who, a few years down the line, influenced by the spirit, fire and camaraderie of Nick Burbridge and McDermott’s 2 Hours, would strap on guitars and call themselves The Levellers. Those in the know realise that Nick Burbridge has been, and continues to be one of the best songwriters in the Anglo-Irish tradition. He fashions songs that, as well as perfectly capturing the gritty underbelly of the Irish experience in 60s/70s mainland UK, beautifully capture the longing for home and reality of the Troubles with all the evocative magnificence of Beckett or Joyce.
But that was then and this is now.
"Besieged" is not so much a final curtain as a magnificent encore, serving as the last instalment of a magnificent career. Singer, songwriter, poet, playwright and frontman with folk, rock, roots and punk outfit McDermott’s 2 Hours, Nick Burbridge releases his final album with the band on 8 February. Besieged sees Nick again team up with members of The Levellers (Jeremy Cunningham and Simon Friend), Oysterband (Dil Davies and Al Scott), Ben Paley (son of the late folk music giant Tom Paley), plus Tim Cotterell and friends, for the album’s twelve tracks. Released via The Levellers’ On The Fiddle Recordings, advance orders will also secure a bonus CD, "Anticlockwise", featuring a fourteen-track ‘best of’ McDermott’s 2 Hours. Jeremy Cunningham has co-written the opening song, "Firebird".
The Best of 2018 will be posted next Friday December 21 at 19h00. As usual, only the albums that have arrived to Celtic Folk Punk and More headquarters will be taken into account (albums forwarded for review and/or airplay, and free downloads).
For those who have asked, the albums depicted on the picture are the ones that are on the list for the moment (in no particular order). More albums can be added if they are forwarded now.
Apart from the albums, there is another list with 20 EPs/Demos/Mini-albums. If you need to know if your CD is on that second list, please feel free to ask.
Bands: This is the last call. If you forgot to forward your CD, but you want to be on the list, please send me an e-mail asap.
Fans: If you are missing some CDs, help your fave band and tell them to send me an e-mail asap.
Bucky Lastard is an Irish-American Country Punk band based in Atlanta. They take the Irish punk sounds from the streets of Boston and bring them down south and give them a Country-Western twang. Everyone in the band had a background in music some way or other. Some had played with Atlanta Irish Rock band The Muckers others were part of punk bands like Dispute and Who’s To Say. One day, they all met up just to hang out and jam and look for a new sound. A few months later, a new band was formed!
Line-up:
Brian Walsh - Accordion, piano Michelle Brannon - Fiddle, tambourine Brandon Woody - Guitar Patrick Moss - Bass Jason Tennyson - Drums
The Celtic Kitchen Party plays a mix of traditional and contemporary East Coast, Irish and Scottish Celtic Music as well as a healthy dose of Pop, Classic Rock and Country! Based in Kingston, Ontario, Celtic Kitchen Party brings a lively high energy feel to any venue which you are sure to remember. THE CELTIC KITCHEN PARTY LAUNCHES THEIR FIRST CROWD FUNDING CAMPAIGN
The band is hoping you will consider helping them (for as little as $1) as they prepare to launch their VERY FIRST crowd funding campaign. What is crowd funding? By definition it is to fund (a project or venture) by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the Internet. They plan to use the site Patreon which uses the language patron to identify those who contribute. So, what exactly is a patron? You know how theaters and museums have a plaque listing all the people who have helped them out? EXACTLY THAT. Synonyms for patron might be sponsor, supporter, backer, benefactors, contributor, donor etc. and by definition a patron is a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause or activity.
They hope you will help give them a good kickstart to their campaign by signing up as a patron, at least for the first month, or two, to give a greater impression of their numbers. They're truly grateful for your time and consideration. In exchange for your patronage you’ll receive their undying love (of course) but also you receive the benefits of being a patron. Their first single is being released Nov 1st (and a new song monthly thereafter) which will be available exclusively to their patron community. (plus as soon as you sign up you'll receive access to both their singles "Amazing Grace" and "Jump & Drink"). With your help they’re hoping that once they get a few patrons registered then the campaign can open up to the general public and they can hopefully watch the ball roll. At that point, they understand if you remove your patronage – truly, they’re grateful for your help in getting this idea off the ground. Of course – feel free to continue on with them – they hope to keep the songs rolling out (they’ve many in the can so to speak, excitedly sitting in the wings waiting for their chance to shine)!