• ALBUM REVIEW: LARKIN- ‘A Toast To St. Jude’ (2016)

    With traditional Irish folk music and some of their own originals Larkin rock it up while keeping it trad. Always a good yellin’, rebel song, drinkin’ song good time with Larkin! Larkin are a superb 6 piece trad Irish folk band from Tulsa, Oklahoma in the USA that play traditional working class Irish protest song’s. They are led by Chad…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: TIN CAN HOOLEY- ‘ Racket In The Parlor’ (2015)

    folk that rocks… not folk rock! Featuring over 75 years of artistry in Boston punk and hardcore bands playing old time Celtic pub music Tin Can Hooley are a Boston Irish band right out of the Boston Irish community. Despite never having set foot there I feel I know Boston well what with the Dropkick Murphys…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FM359- ‘Truth, Love And Liberty’ (2014)

    The first album of 2014 hits my doorstep and have to say it is a corker! For a while there last year it looked like trouble was abrewing in Street Dog town and it seemed they may be splitting up. Looking back they like just needed a break from the constant touring and as a consequence they came up with…

  • ALBUM REVIEW- JOHNNY RIOUX ‘CowbOi!’ (2013)

    many of us who come from Irish backgrounds will have had the misfortune to have heard a quite a lot of country’n’western music…and when I say a lot I mean a LOT. although what we grew up listening to was not strictly country’n’western it was country’n’Irish a hybrid of the worse in country music AND the worse in Irish…

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