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ON TOUR IN EUROPE IN FEBRUARY/MARCH '08
THE NEW RECORD, AGONY, IS IN STORES NOW! THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH IS IN STORES NOW!
We're getting ready again to go out on tour in Europe for February/March '08, in the meantime we're finishing up the year with a couple headlining shows and a couple of shows with Social Distortion. These shows are gonna be great. See you soon. Check www.thetossers.com or www.victoryrecords.com for tour dates, ticket info, Tossers merch AND MORE! Check out our tour dates! We hope to see you soon!
Raised on the South Side of Chicago which is known for its huge Irish Catholic community, The Tossers emerged in the early 90s with their own brew of Celtic music fueled by a love of traditional folk songs and punk rock fury. They named themselves a pejorative term that some trace back to Shakespeare; depending on who you ask, it means commode, drunk, or the currency of Britain rejected when the Irish established their independence in the 1920s. After twelve years and four albums, The Tossers are back with their follow up to The Valley of the Shadow of Death, called Agony. It is a collection of songs that run the gamut, from slow to fast, sweet to angry and back again.
Using traditional instrumentation comprised of mandolin, fiddle, tin whistle and banjo beefed up with guitar and drums, The Tossers play with a furious edge that teeters between rage and raucousness. Favorite sons of the Chicago scene, the Tossers possess an unparalleled work ethic, playing anywhere, anytime, for anybody, with anybody, banjo player Clay Hansen mused. The majority of the band members grew up together and while no one remembers exactly how the band formed, early gigs are described by Hansen as pretty much the same as now consuming mass amounts of alcohol, playing all night and not getting paid. Eventually their name got out and while continuing to play the pubs and taverns of Chicagos South Side, they began to open for legends like Shane McGowan and Stiff Little Fingers. The Tossers live shows are legendary for attracting fans of all ages and from all walks of life drenched in Guinness and Jameson, the dancing crowd are always one step from a riot. Illinois Entertainer had this to say of their set with McGowan, The seven-piece band did something few opening bands really do: won over the crowd and made you forget that the headliner was a ways off.
Agony was produced by Andy Gerber at Chicagos Million Yen Studios who also produced The Valley of the Shadow of Death and is in stores March 20th. The band are looking forward to starting their tour March 1st with the Reverend Horton Heat.
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Member Since: 5/12/2005
Band Website: thetossers.com
Band Members: Mike Pawula - Guitar
T. Duggins - Voice/Mandolin
Aaron Duggins - Tin Whistle
Danny Shaw - Bass/Backing Vocals
Bones - Drums
Rebecca - Violin
Clay Hansen - Banjo

Influences: Music, all of it. The South Side of Chicago
Sounds Like: The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, etc
Record Label: Victory
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

our temporary bassist pt.-17

we pulled into the port of belfast with a mixture of excitement and total unrelenting dread. the tossers in ireland-this is the place where we would be getting fitted for our body bags like high-schoo...
Posted by The Tossers on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:32:00 PST

Mr. T Blog

I saw what could have been the best commercial ever yesterday. It opens with a soccer player obviously faking an injury, enter a tank driving down the street. It storms the field and stops and who ope...
Posted by The Tossers on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:30:00 PST

our temporary bassist pt.-16

OMIGOD! i have stared at a lot of people in various fogs of total incomprehension this month-but i have NEVER known a confusion like the confusion i've found in glascow. what the fuck? what the fuck? ...
Posted by The Tossers on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:20:00 PST

bitchy blog

Goodnight England. We have left Newcastle on our way to Glasgow, our only day in Scotland. I think that this tour should be called the 'Oh no you dinit?' tour because I really think that every show ha...
Posted by The Tossers on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:10:00 PST

our temporary bassist - pt. 15

i'm hallucinating again-but this time it's not from absinthe. i just had my ass handed to me by an indian restaurant in birmingham. i am paralyzed by fear and massive amounts of madras. we've been in ...
Posted by The Tossers on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:14:00 PST

UK Day 3 Blog

Today our third day in England and it has been great. We took the train over and played Oxford on Friday. Great show. London was yesterday and it was great too (aside from the stupid traffic...
Posted by The Tossers on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:52:00 PST

our temporary bassist - pt.14

and then there was belgium. belgium ain't gonna cancel no show. they do NOT fear ghosts. i should have known something was afoot when we crossed the border leaving france and saw all those 'frog...
Posted by The Tossers on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:05:00 PST

Blog mini stellas

Well, what can I say. Paris. What scott wrote pretty much sums it up. just as we stumbled on Morrison's grave rain fell, which, i would have thought quite amazing and beautiful ... if I were a hippy. ...
Posted by The Tossers on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

our temporary bassist - pt. 13

what a surprise! our show in paris last night was cancelled. but i thought the french loved american rock bands SO much that they would sooner hang than cancel a show. fuck 'em. we went to paris anywa...
Posted by The Tossers on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:06:00 PST

Blog .217 The Place

It is a rainy Tuesday afternoon in Paris, France. The show tonight has been cancelled but it will take more than that to keep us out. We are determined to leave Paris with a worse smell than all of&nb...
Posted by The Tossers on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:17:00 PST