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Catgut Mary

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A high energy seven piece hailing from the bluestone streets of Melbourne City, Australia,Catgut Mary is a trad/punk band devoted to a short, fast and loud musical ethic. Strongly influenced by bands like The Pogues, The Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, Catgut also incorporate a strongly Australian folk sound into their style.
Carrying a swag stuffed with their own originals, the band also throws in a few Scots, Irish and English tunes for good measure. With members hailing from Melbourne, Northern Ireland, Sydney and the bush, Catgut Mary is an uncompromising live act that looks, feels and sounds like the most raucous night of the year at the local in any town in Australia and is probably what music would have sounded if amplification and punk spirit had arrived on the colonial goldfields 150 years ago; roaring vocals, riotous energy and, most importantly, rampaging fun.
Catgut Mary - The Leaving of Liverpool

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Some of the scenes of our previous crimes:
*The Dan O’Connell Hotel (Carlton) *Don’t Tell Tom (Brunswick) *The Basin Festival *The Retreat (Brunswick) *The Wesley Anne (Northcote) *The Old Bar (Fitzroy) *The Esplanade Hotel (St Kilda) *The Monash Hotel (Clayton) *The Arthouse (Melbourne) *The Front Cafe (Canberra) *The Transit Bar (Canberra) *The Brisbane Hotel (Hobart) *The Jubilee Hotel (Brisbane) *The Lansdowne Hotel (Sydney) *The Boogie Shack (Toowoomba) *Shed 5 (Gold Coast) *The Oxford Tavern (Wollongong) *The Cock and Bull (Sydney)

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Member Since: 8/19/2006
Band Website: "
Band Members: The Band, appearing in amazing random order consists of:

COMMODORE Jason Block
-drums

’Fighting’ Tim Bradtke
-lead vocals

Warren ’The Admiral’ Fraser
-12 string guitar

Jules ’Mad Dog’ McMullan
-mando, electric guitar

Kat Chish O’ Gotham
-fiddle

Owen ’Bacchus Aquinas’ Thomas
-bass

’Rowdy’ Jimmy Piper
-accordion

’Whistlin’ Davey Wolfe
-tin whistle

Influences: The Pogues, The Dubliners, Flogging Molly, The Bushwackers, Mutiny, Weddings Parties Anything, DKM, shanties, OI!, bluegrass, Cajun, fighting, fornicating, Melbourne, fine imported tobacco, our mateys and the long oily rum-scented nights, wherever they may take us ...
Sounds Like: A wayward crew of miscreants washed up on a coral reef, somewhere in the south seas, declaring the place "liberated in the name of Catgut Mary", celebrating with a particularly high-powered ceilidh by the light of a fire of bones, planks and coconut shells... Or like sex with a sea witch somewhere in the galley... Or like the Rum Runners’ Ball the night the colonial governor was ’Micky Finned’ and soundly thrashed about the buttocks with a dainty souvenir riding crop.

Sounds sorta Country, sorta Celtic, sorta Corsair, sorta Colonial, sorta Ceilidh, sorta Catchy ... and very, VERY Catgut!

ERSTWHILE SHOWS

2006- In which our heroes conspire.

AUGUST
Don’t Tell Tom
SEPTEMBER
The Espy
OCTOBER
Wesley Anne
The Wake
The Monash Hotel
NOVEMBER
The Retreat

2007 - In which our heroes escape.

FEBRUARY
The Old Bar
MARCH
The Dan O’Connell
The Northcote Social Club
The Basin Music Festival
The Arthouse
APRIL
Cornish Arms
The Old Bar
MAY
The Espy
The Empress
Northcote Social Club
Cornish Arms
The Tote
JULY
The Front Cafe
(Canberra)
The Transit Bar
(Canberra)
JULY
The Brisbane Hotel
(Hobart)
SEPTEMBER
The Espy
Shed 5
(Gold Coast)
The Boogie Shack
(Toowoomba)
The Jubilee Hotel
(Brisbane)
The Cock & Bull
(Bondi Junction)
The Oxford Tavern
(Woollongong)
The Lansdowne Hotel
(Sydney)
OCTOBER
The Arthouse
The Blue Tile Lounge
The Blue Tile Lounge
PBS FM Interview
NOVEMBER
The Arthouse
The Espy (The ’G’ Room)
The Blue Tile Lounge
DECEMBER
The Barleycorn Hotel
The Espy

2008 - In which the crew are keelhauled

JANUARY
The Greyhound
FEBRUARY
The Espy
The 5 Flags hotel
(Castlemaine)
MARCH
Port Fairy fr.IN.ge Festival
The Espy
The Dan O’Connell

Accidental AKAs;
(or typos we’ve seen)

"Cat Gut Mary" (common)
-simple and unimaginative typo, you can do better; 1/10

"Can’t Do Mary" (The Dan, 2007)
-interesting, only missing out on top marks because of the implication of celibacy; 8/10

"Cat Got Mary" (The Dan, 2008)
-nice surreal visual image here, we very much approve; 7/10

"Catgut Nary" (The Arthouse, 2007)
-poor effort, however a simple change in the word order would have doubled the score here; 4/10

Record Label:
Type of Label: None

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The Mahones vs. Catgut Mary AVAILABLE NOW!!

Good Tidings It's finally here! The Mahones vs Catgut Mary Split EP is now available for your listening pleasure..... 8 Track Split CD out NOW through www.shitenonions.com$9.99 + ShippingThe Mahones ...
Posted by Catgut Mary on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:44:00 PST

Interview with Will for CELTIC LOUNGE, New Jersey

The following is a recent interview with Will from Catgut Mary for our new mates CELTIC LOUNGE in the U.S. Celtic Lounge: Okay, we'll start with the background.  Where are you from? Will, Catgut ...
Posted by Catgut Mary on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:43:00 PST

Catgut Mary ... Descent into The Mysteries

Scheming friends, cackling fiends and daring damsels, We've been getting asked, as ever, about the origins of the ship's proud name.  And so, armed with blunderbuss and flask ...
Posted by Catgut Mary on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:41:00 PST

Strikeforce Mary, Mission Imbloggable: Van Diemens Land

And thus, in the frost dragon's maw that was the winter of '07, the scattered and enigmatic crew of The Goodship Catgut Mary converged on the quaint city state known as Pentagon Upon Tundra, also call...
Posted by Catgut Mary on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:26:00 PST

Welcome aboard Tim 'Blunderbuss' Bradtke & random notes from The Diary Maid

And so, back onboard ... The Peking Opera that is Catgut Mary chimes and caterwauls once again and our faces are incandescent with pink and black and white make-up ... ... and here we go again. ...
Posted by Catgut Mary on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:21:00 PST