NEW SINGLE FROM AUSSIE CELT-ROCKERS SHAMBOLICS

Things have been a bit quiet on the Aussie Celtic-Punk scene of late but just like buses prepare for some of the best Celtic-Punk in town with todays offering from Shambolics and the new EP from The Ramshackle Army coming soon.

Shambolics (there’s no The!) hail from Adelaide which is the capital city of South Australia (and yes they do a knock out version and play good auld fashioned Poguesy style Irish Celt’n’Roll. The sort of tunes you are just as likely to hear at your local Irish centre with yer Nan as well as at a Punk gig at some rundown dive. Formed out of the ashes of another Celtic-Punk band, The Gartloney Rats, they have featured here in the past with reviews of their debut release the six-track EP Pogue Mahone (in gaelic ‘póg mo thóin’) which is of course the Irish for ‘kiss my arse’ and also the original name of The Pogues (until the Brit media realised what it meant and made them change it!). The Pogues reference fits Shambolics well as unlike the majority of Aussie Celtic-Punk bands they follow a much more folkier path than. Well that was 214 and two years later came there debut album Riot On Race Day with ten original songs from rollickin’ Celtic-Punk to Country and spaghetti western.

“A love and respect for folk music but which is never afraid to take it and shake it and give it a nudge up to the modern day”.

So it’s been a good few years that the Bhoys have graced the pages of London Celtic Punks not that they haven’t been busy and their regular updates have shown a band that gigs regularly in and out of town and is more than a little well known overseas too.

The new track ‘Goin Off’ takes Celtic-Punk into the realm of Surf-Rock and a sorta Irish take on both the Beach Boys and The Ramones. Catchy and totally different but yet unmistakably Shambolics still. Written by frontman Jimmy I hope this heralds a new wave of releases from the band as they have been sorely missed. The song is available for just a measly single dollar so support Celtic-Punk musicians in these shitty times.

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