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Neck, have just released their 1st CD on Germanys "Bad Dog Records". Basically it's tracks from the Necked CD plus the
Fields of Athenry single, remastered and re-cut very-very loud. And it's very, very good.
From Leeson
‘So aren’t we chuffed? Yes, we bleedin’ well are!
So the first of our two albums for Bad Dog Records, a division of Core
Tex Records in Berlin, was released while we were there! & we are
mightily pleased with it!
It’s called ‘Here’s mud in yer eye!’ & is ‘A psycho-ceilídh
retrospective’ of previous recordings (+ a few bonus tracks) that have all been
digitally remastered-so they sound far better than ever before!
AND we brought some copies back with us, so if ya fancy it, you can buy
them direct from us.
It comes in 10-page full-colour booklet, which includes lyrics, full
details on all the tracks, sleeve notes by father Ignatiouis Donnelly-he
must have been at the communion wine first, ’cos they’re gas craic!- &
even a glossary, ’cos it’s full of stuff that people over there
wouldn’t understand, &, to be honest won’t hurt anyone to be written about-so
there’s plenty of Irish history & translation’s of what little Hirish a
gobeen like meself knows too!
The full track-listing is:
1. McAlpine’s Fusileers
It’s, by far, the best thing we’ve produced, to date, as a package &
we’re very proud of it- even the tracks a lot of you will already have on
‘Necked’ sound 10 times better than they did previously-the guitars are
more prominent, there’s more bass & everything sounds a lot brighter &
punchy!
-the wonders of technology! & Core Tex giving us a free reign to get
exactly what we wanted!
So- what we’re gonna do-as a special offer to everyone on the
mailing-list, as a lot of you will have ‘Necked’ ,we’re gonna sell it at the
same price , even tho’ they’re costing us a lot more, ’cos , believe it or
not, we have to pay the import price for our own album! Charming!
So you can get them for £11 (including post & packing) –cheques, etc.
made payable to ‘Leeson O’Keeffe’ & sentto:
PO Box 42809
And I really think you won’t be disappointed!
If you are: well, we can play Artie Fuffkin & Spinal Tap & you can kick
my arse! (or, better still, Sean Gannon’s, if we can hold the bugger
still!)
You can also get them on the internet direct from The Core Tex on-line
shop @ http://www.coretexrecords.com/
(The Catalogue Number is BD24)
2. Loud ‘n’ proud ‘n’ bold
3. Spancill Hill (taken from the sessions for the next album!)
4. To win just once (Yes-The Saw Doctor’s song!- but given a right royal Irish rogering & spun around the room by it’s nadgers!- taken from the World Cup single sessions)
5. Here’s mud in yer eye
6. The maid behind the bar / The Sally Gardens
7. Suzie MacGroovie
8. I’m a man you don’t meet every day
9. A fistful of shamrock
10. Hello Jakey!
11. Topless Mary Poppins
12. The fields of Athenry (full-length version of the World Cup single)
12a. Ol e hooley (the same as above)
London, N19 4XF
UK
http://www.neck.ie/
PRESS RELEASE
SEMINAL IRISH ROCKERS BLACK 47
END FIVE-YEAR RECORDING HIATUS
WITH THE RELEASE OF NEW YORK TOWN ON FEBRUARY 10
New York City - On February 10, 2004, seminal Irish rockers Black 47
will release New York Town, their first studio album in five years, on
Gadfly Records. New York Town is steeped in the same social and
political fervor that established Black 47 as a musical force fourteen
years ago.
Known as the “House Band of New York City,” it is fitting that the
latest release from Black 47 should be dedicated to their hometown. As
founder Larry Kirwan explains, “this is an album of photos, some now
sepia-toned, others glaringly digital. It’s a love letter to the city
that took me in (in more ways than one), and gave birth to Black 47.”
New York Town contains guest vocal and instrumental appearances from
Rosanne Cash, David Johansen, Suzzy Roche and Eileen Ivers, amongst
others. “I wanted to write about the city, both pre and post 9/11, and
show what it’s like, from the inside, by featuring the voices and skills
of some real New Yorkers.”
New York Town is a musical melting pot of rock, folk, hip-hop, reggae,
Celtic, country, swing and jazz influences. Still passionate, fiery and
uncompromising in an age of polls and opinion groups, Kirwan’s lyrics
ooze a palpable love for the city, and place people from all five
boroughs in situations both autobiographical and fictional. On the title
track, the band tackles the social and political questions of 9/11 head
on; “Ain’t no smoke without a fire, people want answers not
patronizing.” While Mychal - in cool, unemotional terms - tells the
story of Black 47 fan, the late Father Mychal Judge, chaplain of the NYFD.
The ballad Fiona’s Song features Rosanne Cash acting out the tale of a
young Irish woman who finds solace, if not happiness, on Queens
Boulevard. In Staten Island Baby, David Johansen characteristically rips
it up, explaining to a NYC police officer “in his pajamas pointin’ his
piece at me,” why he’s kept his daughter out until 5am. And in Livin’ in
America - 11 Years On, Kirwan and Mary Courtney update the bittersweet
relationship of a couple who first met in a bar on Fordham Road in the
early 90’s.
Taking their name from the blackest year of the Irish Potato Famine,
Black 47 burst out of the Irish pub scene on the success of 1992’s Fire
of Freedom (EMI). With their signature eclectic sound, socio-political
lyrics and off-the-wall live shows, they paved the way for other Irish
influenced bands such as The Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. Black
47’s songs articulated the hopes and fears of working people, and they
became the musical voice for young, politically aware, Irish Americans.
Their cutting-edge lyrics are now used in political science/history
courses in hundreds of high schools and colleges.
The band is led by Larry Kirwan (guitar/vocals). His plays have been
performed both in the US and Europe, while his first novel Liverpool
Fantasy, an alternate history of the Beatles, was published in 2003.
Other members include ex-Dexy’s Midnight Runners founder Geoffrey Blythe
(saxophone), Joseph Mulvanerty (uilleann pipes), Fred Parcells
(trombone), Thomas Hamlin (drums), and Andrew Goodsight (bass). Black 47
annually performs 150 dates in North and South America and Europe. Their
Winter Saturday night NYC shows have been described by the New York
Daily News as “a rite of passage for all New Yorkers.” Black 47 live
shows are incendiary and legendary , where celebrities can be seen
rubbing shoulders with cops, writers, hard hats and students.
Black 47 will embark on a U.S. tour following the release of New York
Town, with confirmed two-show performance at B.B. King’s in NYC on St.
Patrick’s Day.
Features Guests Rosanne Cash, David Johansen and Many Others
http://www.black47.com/
oe Hurley, front man of NYC Celtic rockers Rouges March has just released his first solo CD.
From http://www.roguesmarch.com/
Joe Hurley's 'LIVE AT THE LOSER'S LOUNGE' CD is now OUT and AVAILABLE!
All of the songs were recorded live in NYC at the Fez and at Westbeth Theatre.
This is a Limited Edition Cd - TO GET A COPY, pls send a check, made payable
to Joe Hurley, for $12, to Rogue House c/o Joe Hurley 433 E 6th St #2F, NYC
10009. The CD will also be available at Gigs while supplies last.
The CD features a fine selection of Joe's performances over the last few
years with the famed Loser's Lounge crew and The Kustard Kings Band. Tracks
include Maggie May (performed Rogue's March style w/Love will tear us
apart), Bowies R&R Suicide, Costello's 'I Want You', a piano/vocal version
of Carole King's 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow', and much, much more. The
record is produced by Kris Woolsey, (absolutely no overdubs!) and also boasts
incredible artwork from Cliff Mott (Caricatures of Joe and all of the
songwriters he covers on the CD)
Jersey's best Punk'n'Rollers, The Hudson Falcons are finishing up recording their new CD.
The CD is gonna be called "La Famiglia" and will contain 12 tracks. It
will be 9 new original songs, a brand new version of "Latin Knights" (which was out
on the Wicksworld 7"), and covers of "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle and "One
of the Boys" by Rose Tattoo.
The new line-up of the band is:
The Hudson falcons have just announced the following shows
Jeff Kaplan from Two-Man Advantage on bass
Mark Linskey still on guitar and vocals
Aaron Pagdon also from Two-Man Advantage on drums
and TJ Zikos on guitar.
2/15 TBA - Long Island, NY - w/Two-Man Advantage
2/28 Connections - Clifton, NJ - w/The Skels
3/06 Castleton St College - Castleton, VT
http://www.hudsonfalcons.com/
Sean "80's Metal Revival" Holland
Brian "My first born will be Strummer too" Gillespie
Aleksandar "Pogues, Pouges and more Pogues" Rakovic from Serbia
Jem Cullen from Sydney, Australia
Pat 'Larkin' Kennedy, Roxbury, Ma
1. Ace Face - God Save the Hooligans
2. Street Dogs - Savin Hill
3. Rogues - Zero Street
4. "Fight Back For the Rising Son" Japanese skinhead comp.
5. Crawler - "Rumbling of a Mountain" EP
6. Jin Rai - EP
7. Straw Dogs - 91-97 (untouchable shit)
8. Blue Monday - What's Done is Done
9. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
10. Joe Strummer - Streetcore
10. The Darkness - Permission to Land (This fucking slice of throwback 80's galm/metal is like aural cocaine. There are at least 6 songs that I cannot get out of my skull. It close to being Spinal Tap-ish, but these Englishmen are serious - and they rock.)
1. Joe Strummer - Streetcore
2. Doesn't Matter
3. Doesn't Matter
4. Doesn't Matter
5. Doesn't Matter
6. Doesn't Matter
7. Doesn't Matter
8. Doesn't Matter
9. Doesn't Matter
10. Doesn't Matter
1. Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace of God
2. Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
3. Pogues - Red Roses for Me
4. Shane MacGowan - The Snake
5. Shane MacGowan - The Crock of Gold
6. Pogues - Straight to Hell (v/a soundtrack)
7. Pogues - Hell's Ditch
8. Pogues - Peace and Love
9. Pogues - Pogue Mahone
10. Pogues - Waiting for Herb
who spent most of the eighties in the pubs at Roaring Jack and Weddings, Parties, Anything gigs.
1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Pogues Rum Sodomy and the Lash
3. Pogues - Peace and Love
4. Weddings Parties Anything- Scorn of the Women
5. Roaring Jack -Cat Amongst the Pigeons
6. Roaring Jack Through the Smoke of Innocence
7. Weddings Parties Anything Big Dont Argue
8. Kirsty Maccoll - Tropical Daydream
9. Men they Couldnt Hang - Wating For Bonaparte
10. Triifids - Calenture
TOP TEN REVIEWERS' DESCRIPTIONS OF CELTIC PUNK BANDS
"The Dubliners on speed" (Boston Globe)
"The Clancy Brothers if they be tripping" (Wall Street Journal)
"The shrooming Wolfe Tones" (Irish Music Monthly)
"The Cranberries on Nyquil and days-old skunked Magner's" (Crackton Gazette)
"The Chieftains after inhaling paint fumes, then sucking on an exhaust
pipe" (Marine Biologist Weekly)
"The Fureys on rancid milk, if they were those aliens in the 1988 film
'Alien Nation'" (Harper's)
"The Irish Rovers on poteen, moonshine, and Flaming Moe's" (Rolling Stone)
"Solas, if they washed down acid tabs and painkillers with full bottles of
rubbing alcohol" (Catholic Digest)
"The Skels are just like the Pogues, if the Pogues were straight-edge."
(Boston Phoenix)
TOP TEN NICKNAMES FOR CELTIC PUNK BANDS' BAGPIPERS
Spicy Meataballa
Tootsy O'Bongwater
Menacing Malone
Duffy O'Flatulent
Crackhead MacSmokey
Rowdy Roddy Piper
L.L. Fat J.
McGruff the Crime Dog
Obstreperous O'Reilly
Reckless Endangerment O'Hanrahan
Filthy Thieving Bastards are working on a new album, but who knows when they'll actually get into the studio.
Swingin' Utters live record will be out sometime next spring, although there's no release date set in stone.
The Peelers will be releasing their new album "Plastic Paddy" sometime in February.
The Popes LIVE solo album is now finished and will be released as a double CD, with Holloway Boulevard on SNAPPER RECORDS in the very near future. The Popes STUDIO album, with loads of BRAND NEW material, is still in production, sounding fantastic, and a release date now pencilled in for summer 2004.