THE ABSINTHE MINDED FOLK BAND

"Now you are free, Do you feel sold?..."
The Absinthe Minded Folk Band is based around the music and art of the avant folk musician Simon Murphy from Dublin, Ireland. It has been 25 years in the making and is finally coming out into the sun, to see what its become! Years of playing, drinking, fucking, fighting, loosing, learning, escaping, winning, moving around, drinking, loving, hating, drinking and eventually winning again have born music and lyric out of a real place of joy and heartbreak and is in the process of being recorded and released in the form of an EP entitled 'Tears'.
This debut release is a collection of songs that lean heavily on the lyric and have seen the light of day and the darkest corners of Dublin city throughout 2008's live gigs. From underground acoustic sets in Helsinki, Finland to impromptu gigs in the now defunct Voodoo lounge and Mcgruders of Dublin to smoke and strobe light Absinthe gigs in peoples houses in Ireland(you know who you are), the cloud of smoke and the smell of alcahol dissipates and all that is left is the music and the willing listener.. With the helping hand of artist friends, stranger poets, card dealing trumpet players! and the devil himself, this is The Absinthe Minded Folk Band. plonk.
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