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Beltaine's Fire

Music is the Weapon of the Future

About Me

Beltaine's Fire is equal parts Hip Hop crew, rock band, folk quartet, and affinity group. The music is our own unique fusion of scottish and irish rebel music, rock, folk, roots music, and rap. Our goal is to combine the passion and deep roots of resistance embodied by the rebel bards of the celtic nations with the directness and relevance of politically conscious hip hop in a truly seamless fusion that is both deeply rooted in tradition and history and completely original.

The Weapon of the Future is the working title for our first album, which will be released when it's finished. Hopefully that'll be sooner rather then later, but we'll see.

As for Politics, Lynx is an Anarchist (though a rather unorthodox one) and the rest of us are unaffiliated. Mostly we just want to encourage people to think and to question assumptions about the world that they take for granted.

Last but not least, we are currently booking shows all over the place and trying to build up our street team, so if you like what you hear (1) tell your friends about it and (2) send us an email and we'll keep ya posted next time we book a show in your area.

And.. some shots from our latest recording session

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/8/2006
Band Website: beltainesfire.com
Band Members: For the live show it's currently Lynx (lead vocals), Chris (drums), Laura (bass + backup vocals), and John (Banjo).

We are currently looking for a new drummer since Chris will be leaving the band after our Oct. 2 show.

3 of the demo tracks we have posted also feature Michael Mullin of Tempest, Greenbridge, and Caliban on Fiddle.
Influences: Martyn Bennett, Croft no. Five, Shooglenifty, Silly Wizard, Cannibal Ox, The Coup, Public Enemy, Rage against the Machine, Ozomotli, Eire Og, Blackalicious, Tempest, Culaan's Hounds, David Rovics, Dick Gaughan, Dj Shadow, Rjd2, Flogging Molly, House of Pain, Manau, Marxman, Spearhead, Paris, The Wolfe Tones, Gruf the Druid, the Deftones, Ani di Franco, Ben Harper, Utah Phillips, Black Star, lots of others.
Sounds Like: this is anti-colonial, anti-impirial
the antidote to a culture that produces serial
killers, and puts them in office
the antithesis of a world run by bosses

Record Label: make us an offer.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Looking for a new drummer

'sup folks,our drummer, chris, has decided that he's going to join the military in october and that means we need to find a new drummer asap so we can teach them our songs and everything by the time h...
Posted by Beltaine's Fire on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:50:00 PST

Check out this event: Free show @ the Brainwash

Hosted By: Beltaine's Fire When: Friday Jul 20, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: Brainwash Cafe1122 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94103United StatesDescription:Three of the dopest local underground bands play...
Posted by Beltaine's Fire on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:46:00 PST

Beatmakers!

yeah, i'm talking to ya'll, the folks that keep spamming us with "I'm an up and coming producer, want to buy some beats?" emails.  get it straight folks, we're a BAND, we play our own music LIVE ...
Posted by Beltaine's Fire on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:11:00 PST

booking shows

yo-so as you can see we've been busy booking shows, and we're tryin hard to book more, basically the more the better.  so here's our master plan:1) hit up every venue we can think of and just sta...
Posted by Beltaine's Fire on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:17:00 PST

lebanese anarchist links

got these links from hazem, figured i'd throw it up for folks who're lookin fer hope.  the fundamentalists in the mid east get funding from the oil monarchies and the statist authoritarians get b...
Posted by Beltaine's Fire on Wed, 09 May 2007 01:48:00 PST