About Me
BUSHWHACKED one of our songs, and a comment on current Uk and US foreign policy.
BABAYAGA, a video to go with one of our tunes.
.. The Hook, a tune to go with some shots of band members and friends going to climb Mont Blanc. ..
Once long ago, way back in the early 1980's it was a very different world. A world where the sun always shone, and the skies where always clear and the rain a lot less radioactive. It was a world where only a few weirdos who read the Grauniad had ever heard of global warming or AIDS. It was a world where the government was busy making it's friends rich by stealing the country's wealth and selling it off cheap. It was a world where fascist police stalked the streets beating the living sh*t out of steelworkers, miners, crusties, and anyone else who didn't toe the line.
In that world, a bunch of anarchist punks and folkies were looking for a way to supplement their income, and took to prostituting their shared Irish and Scottish heritage on the streets for what coins the world would throw to them. And what coins the world threw to them! They made shedloads of money, which they wisely invested in wine, whiskey and fine cheese.
As they played on the streets they found more and more often that people were asking them to play gigs, and so they became a band. For seven years and more they fought the feedback and raised the roof in lineups that varied from four to twelve under the name of The Family, and later The Drum Chapel.
Work, family life and the inevitable splits and partings took their toll, and by the late 1990's it became impossible to get enough of us together to do more than one or two gigs a year. Still the friendships held, and every time we met at one house or another the instruments would come out, and what our children delicately referred to as the drunk songs were sung again.
So now with children grown or near grown, the age of irresponsibility beckons again. We are no longer so young and pretty, no longer angry young men, but still discontented old buggas, we are louder and faster than ever, and after 25 years of trying we have almost stopped the feedback!
STOP PRESS SNEAK PREVIEWS Les gadgies dans la merde, a new mock cajun song.
..Monkey man, a cover version of the classic 1969 Toots and the Maytals track.
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