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RACKETT

About Me


Live at Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland
"Resistance," live in Ireland
"Meat and Drink," live in Princeton
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CHECK OUT OUR CDs by clicking the images below!

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME - Our first EP. STANDING ROOM ONLY - Our first full-length album, a "John Peel Session"-type thing, recorded at WPRB, Princeton. RESISTANCE - Our latest full length album. Read a review here . - - - - -
Read a review of our gig at Joe's Pub , NYC.Read a report on our visit to Colgate University , including a reading by Paul and a gig at Donovan's Pub.
Read our interview in Irish Times conducted before our 2007 tour of Ireland.
Hear our appearance on "Soundcheck" , WNYC radio in New York.
See a profile of the band from the New York Times website. - - - - -
RACKETT emerged during the summer and fall of 2004. Paul Muldoon and Nigel Smith began writing and recording songs in January 2004. They invited Stephen Allen, Lee Matthew, and Bobby Lewis to join them. "When Cole Porter meets punk," Paul Muldoon says, "or Ira Gershwin grunge, you're looking at what can be described only as 3-car garage rock." When not playing NYC venues like Joe's Pub, the Bitter End, and the Bowery Poetry club (where the band will begin a six month residency this December), Rackett roves far and wide, having completed tours of Ireland and New England, and preparing to tour Finland this September.
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Management:
Carolyn Guile
[email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/03/2006
Band Website: rackett.org
Band Members: STEPHEN ALLEN - Keyboards, Vocals BOBBY LEWIS - Drums LEE MATTHEW - Lead Guitar, Vocals PAUL MULDOON - Rhythm Guitar, Lyrics NIGEL SMITH - Bass, Vocals
Influences: The Who, The Beatles, Warren Zevon, T-Rex, Steely Dan, highlife music, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, The Jam
Sounds Like: ...two college professors, a graduate student, a lawyer and an IT guy playing eclectic rock accompaniments to lyrics penned by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Record Label: Scamafone
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Paul on Colbert

Our lyricist held his own against the Tsar of Truthiness.The Colbert Report - Paul Muldoon
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:20:00 GMT

Surviving New England

The band has returned from an eventful trip to New England, and is glad to be home.We were based at Robert Frost's farm in Ripton, VT, right next to the Bread Loaf school. We started off with two days...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:32:00 GMT

CD RELEASE PARTY, Sat. October 7 @ Small World Coffee, Princeton - Free!

Our new CD, Standing Room Only, is hot off the presses.Come to our CD Release Party tonight at 8PM in Princeton,and you can hear new Paul Muldoon songs and get the newCD while it's hot...8:30 PM - Fre...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:38:00 GMT

our first EP is now available

Big thanks to all who came to our shows this weekend! We had a great time rocking the intellectuals at Princeton University and the youths (and parents) at the Princeton Friends School benefit.Don't T...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:10:00 GMT