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Album review: FINNY McCONNELL – The Dark Streets Of Love

Whiskey Devil Records [Release date 03.09.21] After 30 years of leading renowned Celtic punk rockers, The Mahones – who have released over 20 albums and shared stages with the Dropkick Murphys, Shane MacGowan, Stiff Little Fingers, Billy Bragg, The Buzzcocks, … Continue reading
Album review: EAST TOWN PIRATES – Seven Seas Of Sin

The look of this band, and the album cover, may not initially excite. Skulls and cross bones. Piratical tales. What’s new? Well nothing really but there is a certain infectious charm to this second album from East Anglia’s bunch of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Art, album, East Town Pirates, folk, punk, review, rock, Seven Seas Of Sin, Tenpole Tudor, The Pogues
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Album review: THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE – Rare Gumbo

Gypsy Hotel Records [Release date 20.05.13] Even the most riotous and irreverent of bands sometimes need a break. And ‘Rare Gumbo’ is compilation album that gathers together The Urban Voodoo Machine’s bits and pieces in the form of EP … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, bourbon gypsy blues, Captain Beefheart, garage rock, gypsy stomps, murder ballads, Paul-Ronney Angel, Rare Gumbo, rock& roll, Rolling Stones, The Clash, The Godfathers, The Jim Jones Revue, The Pogues, The Urban Voodoo Machine
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