Posted on December 31, 2008 by finneganswakemusic
The Damned: “played their first gig on 6 July 1976, supporting the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club. They were the first of the London punk bands to release a single on the independent record label Stiff Records. That single, ‘New Rose’, was described by critic Ned Raggett as a “deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic [...]
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Posted on December 27, 2008 by finneganswakemusic
The Speckers come from the hills of southern Vermont and they play bona fide American “trad” The Speckers – Waste My Time @ Banjo Jim’s, NYC Back in the Day John Specker at the Grassroots Festival 1996 (fiddle by Specker – percussion by feet)
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Posted on December 9, 2008 by finneganswakemusic
Jason Webley: A man with an Accordion “He’s got stagecraft, he’s got a hat that walks about his head and then the stage as his set progresses and he’s got Russian drinking songs (just the thing to induce audience participation in Glasgow!). Cabaret around a gypsy campfire might describe him adequately. So would fantastic.” — [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2008 by finneganswakemusic
Barney Murray, founder of Blood or Whiskey has teamed up with ex-BOW banjo player Paul Walshe, plus guitarist brother David Walshe to release a number of songs with Winter Dream Stars. They are available completely FREE for fans to listen and download on their MySpace page X-ref Blood or Whiskey 2008
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Posted on December 7, 2008 by finneganswakemusic
The World Inferno Friendship Society is a cabaret punk band from Brooklyn, New York. The band merges punk, klezmer, and gospel, while its collective membership features horns, piano, guitar, a number of percussionists, as well as a variety of other instruments such as accordion, xylophone and orchestra bells. Wiipedia explains it all SLIDE SHOW – [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2008 by finneganswakemusic
P.A.I.N. “play heavy dub reggae, good time ska, and pissed off punk rock, and endeavour to keep their addled heads around the contradictory and confusing areas of radical politics.” PAIN – Grow More Weed (with Howard Marks)
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