Relatively unknown I think. [video=youtube;9TT6vLMEV2g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TT6vLMEV2g&feature=relmfu[/video] [video=youtube;MVHd1Dr88Xk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVHd1Dr88Xk&feature=relmfu[/video]
He used to play in Spring & Airbrake in Belfast about 4 years ago. Never seen him but my bro & mate seen him & became instant fans. [video=youtube;pNoPNC3ebYQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ[/video]
But a good or ****e band can do decent cover versions of songs. It's the tricky thing with coming up with your own work.
I can see why you'd say that. I prefer them to the Murphys. They aren't trying to sound like the Murphy's at all. They share the influences, yeah but an Irish/punk sound is going to come from the same route (The Pogues). The singer in Neck played with the Popes, so the lineage is more with them than a band from Boston.
It can do, but it is a natural progression for bands like the Pogues, Neck and the Dropkick Murphys. Irish Traditional music as it sounds now isn't that old. It actually comes from england. It is an amalgamation of all the regional sounds that would never have met in Ireland. In the same way, bands like the Pogues mixed the trad sound with the emerging punk sound in London. So yeah, it can get stale, it isn't always going to work but something else'll come along to fuse with. Like Damien Dempsey has Irish ballads influenced by reggae.
