North Carolina’s Celtic punk-grass wreckers The Tan and Sober Gentlemen drop Pasture Sessions Vol. 1 with new track Colleen Malone — name-your-price on Bandcamp since September 23.
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LONDON CELTIC PUNKS presents….
London Celtic Punks have put together a 20 track digital album of unashamed Irish rebel songs. For full details and access to the free album go to London Celtic Punks.
Intro
The Gentlemen – Come Out Ye Black And Tans
Templars Of Doom – H-Block Escape
The Gobshites – Give Ireland Back To The Irish
In For A Penny – Easter Mourn
The Tan And Sober Gentlemen – Follow Me Up To Carlow
Black Irish Texas – Join The British Army
Tullamore – Mairéad Farrell
Sons Of O’Flaherty – The Fields Of Athenry
The Dead B-Specials – Take It Down From The Mast
Auld Corn Brigade – Broad Black Brimmer
Hudson Falcons – 6 + 26 =1
The Lucky Pistols – God Save Ireland
The Larkin Brigade – Sean South From Garryowen
The Fisticuffs – Young Ned Of The Hill
O’Hamsters – Erin Ga Bragh
Kilmaine Saints – Go On Home British Soldiers
Jasper Coal – The Merry Ploughboy
Drunken Fighters – The Big Fella
The Bleeding Irish – The Uprising
St. Bushmill’s Choir – The Foggy Dew
Larkin – On The One Road
The Best of 2020 (and 2019)
I didn’t put out a best of 2019 list on St. Patrick’s Day 2020 and the whole world went to shite. So, in my attempt to fix the strange vortex we have been in since, here with no further ado is the Shite’n’Onions best of 2020 (and 2019)
The Top 6:
#1 The Go Set: Of Bright Futures….and Broken Pasts
#2 Greenland Whalefishers: Based on a True Story
#3 The Walker Roaders: The Walker Roaders
#4 The Real McKenzies: Beer & Loathing
#5 The Tan & Sober Gentlemen: Veracity
#6 Bodh’aktan: Ride Out The Storm
Best 30 Year Retrospective:
The Mahones: This Is All We Got To Show For It (Best Of 1990 – 2020)
Best Debut (single):
The Placks: Rebellious Son (7”)
Best Other Shite:
Flogging Molly – Swagger 20th Anniversary Edition
The Pogues – BBC Sessions 1984-1985
The Radiators: Ghostown 40th Anniversary Edition
Tan & Sober Gentlemen: Veracity
So this CD has been sitting in my review pile for quite a bit and for whatever reason I wasn’t enthused about giving it a spin – I don’t know why, but I must have been judging the CD by the cover and expecting some pedestrian folk rock. Well today I finally cracked Veracity open and gave it a spin. 10 seconds into the opener, Rabbit, and my jaw had dropped and I’m totally stunned by the explosion of folk-punk I’ve just been battered about the head by. I can only describe this as the banjo kid from the movie Deliverance supping moonshine with the MacManus Gang (aka The Pogues) from Alex Cox’s Straight to Hell while raising plain ol’ hell. A great debut and I’m kicking myself for not playing sooner.











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