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Shite’n’Onions Best Of 2018

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The only list that matters, Shite’n’Onions best of 2018, and no, we are not late, Shite’n’Onions year runs March 18th to March 17th

The Top 5

#1 McDermott’s 2 Hours Vs. Levellers & Oysterband: Besieged

Officially this is a 2019 release but I’ve had a copy since 2017. Besieged is an album I keep going back to play

#2 The Rumjacks: Saints Preserve Us

#3 Sir Reg: The Underdogs

#4 The Mahones: Love + Death + Redemption

#5 Ferocious Dog: Red

The Best Of The Rest:

BibleCodeSundays: Walk Like Kings

The Langer’s Ball: Hard Time In The Country

Sons of O’Flaherty: The Road Not Taken

Finnegan’s Hell: Life and Death

The Muckers: One More Stout

Best newcomer you need to watch out for:

James McGrath: Live at the Shed

Best album to piss off the neighbors and kill their lawn:

Alternative Ulster: Boobies, Banjos, Bagpipes & Beer

Best EP

The Bottlers: EP

Most exquisitely good vinyl release

Sharks Come Cruisin’: When I get home from across the sea

Most ambitious release

Gary Miller: Mad Martins

Shite’n’Onions Celtic Punk Podcast #110

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Neck – Blue Skies Over Nenagh

The Stanfields – The Boston States

Alternative Ulster – Ghetto Piper

Pint Killers – Raise A Glass

Son of O’Flaherty – Dead and Gone

BibleCodeSundays – Disorganised Crime

Ferocious Dog – Black Leg Miner

Ramshackle Army – Protest Songs_

Matilda’s Scoundrels –  Burn It Down

BibleCodeSundays – Willie Redmond’s Volunteers

Gary Miller– The Durham Light Infantry (Vocal)

BibleCode Sundays: Walk Like Kings

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Walk Like Kings the 4th full length original album from London-Irish band BibleCode Sundays is a highly polished affair and continues to prove that the  BibleCodes are one of the most talented bands on the Celtic-rock planet. Ronan MacManus is an exceptionally talented singer and the rest of the band are no slouches either. While Walk Like Kings is more mellow and more mainstream friendly then the bands early albums they don’t lose that edge that made the band so attractive before. Walk Like Kings sees the band being joined by friends and family including the amazing Lorraine O’Reilly who duets with Russell Crowe (yeah him of Gladiator fame – he’s been a friend since hearing the BCSs tribute to Jim Braddock, The Cinderella Man). Brooklyn rappers Da Ded Rabbidz join the band on ‘Stand Up and Fight’.

Stand out tracks include the ska infused ‘Disorganized Crime’ (with help from members of The Specials and Bad Manners and ex London gangsters Noel ‘Razor’ Smith and Vincent Bradish for true criminal authenticity) and ‘Willie Redmond’s Volunteers’  a song Ronan pieced together from lyrics written by his late father Ross MacManus and featuring guest appearances by all of Ronan’s brothers including an up and coming young Declan MacManus who goes under the stage name of Elvis Costello (he may need to change that name before anyone takes him seriously though).

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Paddy’s Days Podcast

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Black 47 – Green Suede Shoes

Neck – Every Day’s St Patrick’s Day

BibleCodeSundays – Drinking All Day

Alternative Ulster – Pog Mo Thoin

The Mahones – The Wild Rover

Finnegan Hell – Shane MacGowans Grave

The Rumjacks – An Irish Pub song

The Peelers – Going Down Swingin’

Craic – Rocky Road To Dublin

Horslips – Dearg Doom

The Tossers – St Patrick’s Day

Narrowbacks – Muirsheen Durkin

Kilkenny Knights – Dance!

Ferocious Dog – Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya

Blood Or Whiskey – Follow Me up to Carlow-Holt’s Way

McDermott’s 2 Hours vs Levellers – Laying The Sligo Maid

Finn’s Fury – Auld Triangle

Bill Grogan’s Goat – Haul Away Joe

The Gobshites – Beer Beer Beer

Hit The Bottle Boys – Galway Girl

Shite’n’Onions Podcast #105 The Fighting Irish

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Shite’n’Onions musical tribute to the legendary Celtic pugilists.

John L. Sullivan

Flogging Molly – The Hand Of John L Sullivan
Dropkick Murphys – Blood and Whiskey

Mickey Ward

Dropkick Murphys – The Warrior’s Code
Neck – Come Out Fighting
Larkin Brigade – Planxty John L
The Peelers – Stand Down Cleary

Billy Conn

BibleCodeSundays – Pittsburgh Kid

James J Braddock

BibleCodeSundays – The Cinderella Man

Flogging Molly – Punch Drunk Grinning Soul
The Peelers – Going Down Swingin’ (ft. Finny McConnell)
The Mahones – The Hunger & The Fight
The Wakes – The Brave
The Mahones – Paint The Town Red

Les Darcy

The Rumjacks – Les Darcy
Kilmaine Saints – Black & Blue Jig


Dan Donnelly

The Canny Brothers Band – Donnelly
Wages of Sin – Queensbury Rules
Jackflash – Queensberry Rules

Podcast #104

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It’s been a while since the last podcast so it’s time for another.

 

Playlist:

The Real McKenzies – Fxxk The Real McKenzies – Two Devils Will Talk

Jamie Clarke’s Perfect – Back From Hell – Hell Hath No Fury

The Ceili Family – Band of Bowsies – Ministry of Silly Folk

BibleCodeSundays –  Lash in the USA

The Peelers – Bastard of the Bunch – Place of a Fiend

The Peelers – The Dark Path – Place of a Fiend

The Rumjacks – Paddy Goes to Babylon EP

The Real McKenzies – Scots Wha Ha’e- Two Devils Will Talk

The Peelers – Beggars, Rats & Boozers – Place of a Fiend

Nick Burbridge – Song of an Outcast – Resolved

The Killigans – From The Underground – Raise your Pints 2

Mickey Rickshaw – Nonprofit Warfare – Raise your Pints 2

Shite’n’Onions – Podcast #102 a tribute to Horslips

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Podcast 102 features three tracks from our recently released tribute to Celtic-rock originators Horslips.

Band – Track – Album

The Tossers – Erin Go Bragh – Smash The Windows
Bill Grogan’s Goat – Dearg Doom – The Poxmen of The Horslypse / Horslips Tribute
Ferocious Dog – Gallows Justice – From Within
The Mahones – Down the Boozer – The Very Best (25 Years of Irish Punk)
Sharks Come Crusin – Three Score and Ten – Kettle Jane
BibleCodeSundays – Pittsburgh Kid – New Hazardous Design
The Gobshites w/Richie Ramone – The Man Who Built America – The Poxmen of The Horslypse / Horslips Tribute
The Larkin Brigade – New York Wakes – The Poxmen of The Horslypse / Horslips Tribute
Handsome Young Strangers – Poor Ned – Battle of Broken Hill
Cranky George – Tunnel of Love – Fat Lot of Good
Nick Burbridge – Song of a Seafarer – Resolved

The Poxmen of The Horslypse a tribute to Horslips is available here:

https://shitenonions.bandcamp.com/album/poxmen-of-the-horslypse-a-tribute-to-horslips

Podcast #94

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The Whisky Priests – The Hard Men

Mischief Brew – Every Town Will Celebrate

Bodh’aktan – Grazie Mille

Alternative Ulster – Riot in the Rondout

Rovers Ahead – Ghost Of Anne Reily

The Real McKenzies – Skye Boat Song

Jamie Clarke’s Perfect – Thru Sid Vicious Eyes

BibleCodeSundays – The Lords of Winter Hill

The Go Set – Bones

The Black Tartan Clan – Standing Strong

Tom O’Reilly & The Swaggers – Country Boy Blues

The best of 2014

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Running a little late with the list but whatever, great music doesn’t go stale. So without further adieu.

The top five:

#1 The Mahones: The Hunger & The Fight (Part 1)

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Twenty five years on and more tour miles driven then the rest of the entire Celtic-punk scene combined, The Mahones on The Hunger & The Fight still have the enthusiasm of a band in the studio for the first time (but thankfully the 25 years and many albums under their belt studio experience).

Read the full review here

#2 Whiskey of the Damned: Monsters are Real whiskey of the damned  

I’ll go out on a limb and say McCarthy has the finest voice in Celtic-punk (and that includes Dave King), maybe Van the Moan threw in a few vocal lessons to boot. Of course a good voice won’t do it alone, the band are tight as f#*k, loud and fast and the songs first class and while still fast and trashy

 

Read the full review here

 

#3 Blood or Whiskey: Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil bow

Pissed and angry but still a party. Its great to have’em back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read the full review here

 

#3 Kilkenny Knights: Brady’s Pub Tales download

Honestly not a bad song over the entire almost hour of music and more then a few that could wake the dead and induce them into jig.

 

 

 

 

 

Read the full review here

 

#5 (joint) Black 47: Last Call

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Black 47 hung up their green suede shoes in November, 2014 after 25 years of hard jigging and gigging. Two albums were released in 2014; Last Call, their final original album, full of fresh and originals ideas and, Rise Up – The Political Songs, a collection of, well, political songs as a reminder of how good this band was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rise Up – Read the full review here

Last Call – Read the full review here

 

The best of the rest (in no particular order):

 

The Pourmen: Too Old to Die Young

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Read the full review here

 

Finnegan’s Hell: Drunk, Sick And Blue

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Read the full review here

 

Craic: Amongst the Mischief and Malarkey

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Read the full review here

 

Wages of Sin: Queensbury Rules

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Read the full review here

 

Bastard Bearded Irishmen: Rise of the Bastard

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Read full review here

 

The Biblecode Sundays: Live Near Abbey Road (Park Royal)

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Read full review here

 

Bodh’aktan: Against Winds and Tides

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Read full review here

 

Best of ballads and folk:

 

Irish Whispa: Irish Whispa

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Read full review here

 

The Canny Brothers Band: The Guinness Situation

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Read full review here

 

Hugh Morrison: Scotland is Free

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Read the full review here

 

The Fenian Sons: 617

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Read the full review here

Punk rock shout out

The Hex Bombs: Everything Earned

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Read full review here 

 

DVD:

 

 

Greenland Whalefishers: 20 Years Of Waiting (DVD)

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 Read full review here

 

And a very special shout out.

Radiators from Space: Sound City Beat

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The Biblecode Sundays: Live Near Abbey Road (Park Royal)

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London’s BibleCodeSundays have been busy bhoys as of recent with late last years new studio album, New Hazardous Design and now The BibleCode Sundays – live near Abbey Road (Park Royal). As a band that play the Irish circuit in London they have always included covers in their set and this album is a response to requests to record and release those covers. As you see from the track listing the covers are mainstream but off beat for an Irish band and each track is given the BibleCode’s fiddle and accordion twist.

Highlights include Thin Lizzy’s Dancing in the Moonlight (great guitar and a funky bass as it should be), Step Step Beyond, the Madness classic given the Ceili treatment and a stunning version of Time After Time (and honestly this was so stuck in my brain and I couldn’t remember who did that original that I needed to google it – Cindy friggn’ Lauper – a great song/version all the same).

There are 13 covers in all and include:

Babe O”Reilly (The Who)
Fisherman’s Blues (The Waterboys)
Galway Girl (Steve Earle)
Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Clash)
Town Called Malice (The Jam)
Babylon
Live Forever
Pat’s Reels
My Girl
Waggon Wheel

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