BGG hail from Detroit-Folk-City and members are all 20 plus year veterans of that city's music scene. Here BGG present to us for review 14 tracks of mostly high energy yet laid back electric guitar driven Celtic rock standards with touches of blue grass coupled with sea shanties. I said mostly didn't I? Cos' on their version of The Wild Rover they go all out Detroit ala a guitar sound that wouldn't go amiss from The Stooges or The MC5 and I frigging love it. On the next release I'm hoping to hear more Iggy and less Jerry.
http://www.myspace.com/billgrogansgoat
http://www.billgrogansgoat.com/
Featured CD - Swaggerin’ Growlers: Keep Your Head Held High
Swaggerin’ Growlers - This Fight - Keep Your Head Held High
Swaggerin’ Growlers - Bastards of Dorchester Ave - Keep Your Head Held High
Ciaran Murphy - THEY'LL AWAYS BE THE RUC TO ME - ONCE UPON A TIME IN IRELAND
Runnin Riot - Johnny Reggae - Reclaim the Streets
Kevin Flynn and & Avondale Ramblers - Money Malone - The Murderer, The Thief, The Minstrels and the Rest
Brine & Bastards - A Pirate's Life for Me - Set Sail for Sodomy
Whisky Priests - Hard Men - It Came From the Barn iv
Icewagon Flu - South Australia - Single
The Porters - Will You Still Love Me (If I Wet the Bed) - Anywhere But Home/Tales Of A Sailor's Life
Swaggerin’ Growlers - Guilty of Being Poor - Keep Your Head Held High
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Its been awhile since I've heard anything new from Shilelagh Law - maybe 6 or 7 years. Not that they haven't been active - I just didn't get to hear anything. So I'm glad to report I'm back on the mailing list. I'm also glad to report that nothing has changed musically. Shilelagh Law are still the best modern Irish ballad/trad-rock group on either side of McLean Ave. in fact maybe even the whole east coast! Dennis McCarty is still the finest fiddler in the NYFD and now he's joined by Kevin McCarthy, NYPD's best accordion player. Richard Popovicis still the finest Croatian-American singer of Irish tunes. Highlights for me are the full force trad cover of "The hills of Connemara" and the Tongue-in-cheek country/gospel tinged, "His Favorite". If you like stuff like The Town Pants and Cullen's Hounds you'll love this.
http://www.halfthebottle.com/
http://www.myspace.com/shilelaghlaw
Want to sell your bands CDs through Shite'n'Onions? Here's how:
1) Send us a copy of your bio & a link to you myspace page - we're choosy about who we sell in the store and face it if you not at least a little Celtic then nobody here will care
2) If we like what we hear we will place an order for an initial 5 CDs. CDs should be new, shrink wrapped but don't need a barcode
3) Tell us how much you need for each CD sold - we will tack on our mark up to get to the final selling price.
4) Provide us with all contact details including - phone number and a paypal account - paypal is how you will get paid. Also a jpg. of the CD cover would be great.
5) Sales statements will be emailed monthly (roughly, I get lazy once in awhile) showing sales, remaining inventory and how much we owe you.
6) Payment will be made on request via paypal only (checks are a pain in the arse to deal with)
7) If your CDs sell we'll order more. If they don't then they gather dust or you can have'em back (you pay postage)
Sound fair? Questions or requests for further detail then shoot me an email shitenonions@comcast.net
Cheers'
John Murphy
President, CEO and head bottle washer of Shite'n'Onions
I've decide to take a look at how the Shite'n'Onions store is being run - previously the store would buy CDs from bands with a payment up front and then charge a reasonable mark up to the store customers on resale - this was fine and dandy and up to recently worked well - but over the last 6 months a lot of my capital has been tied up in inventory as some of the CDs I bought for resale didn't sell, I was also stiffed by a label who sent me cut outs which I can' in good conscience sell at full price to my buyers so I've had to sell them at a loss (not the bands fault) - so without cash flow there hasn't been the funds to restock and get new stuff - my options are (1) do nothing and continue as before and die a slow death, (2) shut the store and dump the inventory (the store funds the main Shite'n'Onions site and it's various activities so no store means no Shite'n'Onions) or (3) try and run the site as a consignment/on-line distro basically using the same business model as CD baby and interpunk - the bands would send CDs and poss. other merchandise on a "sale or return" basis so when their cd/mearch sells the band would be paid a split of the sale price - for Shite'n'Onions there would be a minimal cost outlay and inventory would be the latest stuff and I won't be stuck with stuff that hasn't sold - for the bands there is a place to sell your stuff on-line to a customer base who actually is looking for your music and basically cos I've no cash I won't be buying your stuff anyway so there isn't another option. So, bands if your interested let me know and I'll get you the details (shitenonions @ comcast.net).
Finally, I'm going to be pretty restrictive on who can actually sell - it's a Celtic punk store, so of your a really great jazz singer or heavy metal band thats wonderful for you but the Shite'n'Onions buyer doesn't give a shit 'bout you music so don't waste your time.
Finally, finally you can check out the store here and buy something.
Kevin Flynn and the Avondale Ramblers play self-described "Chicago-Irish" music - this sound is very much rooted in the traditions of the Ol' Sod but the attitude and the inspiration is very much in the underbelly of Chicago - on " The Murderer, The Thief, The Minstrels and The Rest", Kevin Flynn and his band of punks will take you on a tour of the dive bars of the North Side and will introduce you to drunks, killers and barroom hustlers, sleazy lawyers (Money Malone), musicians way past their glory days, crooked cops and pol's and if you do make it back unscarred check your wallet - it's gone.
http://www.kevin-flynn.com
http://www.myspace.com/kevinflynnandtheavondaleramblers
Yo ho ho - punk and piracy from Clifton NJ. While Clifton is not really a place I associate with buccaneers - Celt punk's who can drink for 3 seconds (The Skels) yes, but scallywags? Nope. Brine & Bastards have changed my impression of this gritty suburb of NYC forever with "Set Sail for Sodomy" (nod to The Pogues in that title) with their Captain Morgan inspired punk rock - lots of catchy '77 style punk meets Green Day meets Jack Sparrow. Less folkey then the west coasts Wages of Sin though you can hear banjos, accordions and the kazoo(??) in the mix. As infectious as a good old dose of scurvy (I assume scurvy is infectious. Right?).
http://www.myspace.com/brineandbastards
"Sons & Daughters of the Soil" has been sitting in the Shite'n'Onions review pile for a while - I had pulled it out at one point and given it a quick spin coming to the conclusion that McAlpine’s Fusiliers are a very good Irish-Australia folk rock act doing standards with an edge - a bit like Texas's, Murder the Stout. Recently I pull the bugger out again to do a proper review when I noticed upon reading the back sleeve that a lot of these "standard" were actually original - ("Mickey Finn", "Jack O'Brian", "Spanish Holiday") and in Leigh Schroeter McAlpine’s Fusiliers have a very fine original songwriter who's songs will stock the repertoire of balladeers from Donegal to Dingle to Detroit and Darwin.
http://www.myspace.com/mcalpinesfusiliers
All 8 Mahones CD's are now available on iTUNES worldwide. You can get them by going to www.itunes.com and searching The Mahones. You will be able to find:
Draggin' The Days (1994)
Rise Again (1996)
The Hellfire Club Sessions (1999)
Here Comes Lucky (2001)
Paint The Town Red - The Best Of.... (2003)
Live At The Horseshoe (2003)
Take No Prisoners (2006)
The Irish Punk Collection (2008)
and coming this summer..............................
The Black Irish Album (2009)
1. A Great Night On The Lash
2. Ghost Of A Whiskey Devil
3. The Blood Is On Your Hands
4. Girl With Galway Eyes
5. Whiskey Under The Bridge
6. Give It All You Got (or forget about it)
7. Seven Drunken Nights
8. The Stars Always Look Better From The Gutter
9. Hammer In A Bag
10.Here Comes A Regular
11. The Pains of Yesterday
12.The Black Irish Opera
. Overture
. Black 47
. Across The Atlantic
. A Bad Moon Rising
. The Gates Of Hell
