Tom O-Vox/Acoustic guitar, Martin-Mandolin, Helen-Bass, Jovian-Drums, Louis-Whistle, Louis-Electric Guitar/ backing vocals, Andy-Electric guitar and banjo, Nicky-Fiddle
Influences
Whiskey, GUINNESS, The Pogues, Flogging Molly, The Popes, The Mahones, The Dubliners, Johnny Cash, the Clash, Mike Ness, Iron Maiden, AC/DC... etc...
Sounds Like
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Black Friday were formed four years ago by singer/songwriter/ guitarist Tom O'Reilly, mandolin player Martin Jump and bassist Helen Manley. The band fuses Irish and Celtic tunes with high energy country punk rock, mixing in their own original songs.
Taking influences from the Pogues, Flogging Molly, Johnny Cash and the Clash, the band have been wowing audiences with energetic performances around the country from The Electric Picnic Festival in Dublin, The Bohemian Festival, The Maker Festival, The Volks Festival, The Celtic Beer Rally to headlining the Wimbourne Folk Festival for two consecitive years, to recording at the legendary Maida Vale studios for the BBC Radio 2's Marc Lamarr show.
In 2008 the band broke the Guinness Book Of Records for playing the most gigs in one day, at 30 venues around Plymouth. Black Friday have drums, bass, electric guitar, fiddle, mandolin, tin whistle, and rugged soulful vocals, and are the very band with which to dance the night away!
Look below for a live snippet and the Got To Go vid!
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alright guys fancy some gig swaps in the near future? do u need support at leadbellys on the 8th august? we have the same instruments so we could plug in and play :)
in 2010 we will be hitting the circuit pretty hard so i hope we bump into you guys
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol
Thanks for the friendship.. Hope you enjoy the music and message behind it. My mission in life is to fight Human Trafficking. understanding the individual pain of others is sometimes to painful for an other individual to touch and that is frightening ...what i mean is that someone whose life is not traumatized and brutalized as a regular sequence of every day events unconsciously seeks the camouflage and shelter of apathy and banality from the reality of such devastating anguish and terror ...but the spirit of young people who are used as sex slaves in the systematized global industry of human trafficking is now reaching out to the human fellowship in hope and desperation and through technology ...it is scary when humanity turns a blind eye to this horror ...its like ignoring genocide whilst it is happening ...what i am asking is that if you hear the cry of these young people who are existing in an environment of torture and brutality each and every day that you then please do not turn away from them ...please reach deeply into your heart and soul and please in 2009 join a movement or become a part of an event that challenges modern slavery in the 21st century ...
Thanks for the add BLACK FRIDAY! really glad to be your friend, check out our profile and tell us what you think! Sample of Peripheral Complex pt.2 is up check it out! Operation Chronos!
Hi there , hope all's well in yer world and yer mind. Just droppin' by tae let ye know about the new STY at www.alienpig.co.uk It would be nice if ye could drop by and have a wee snuffle about. Stay forever free with love and good vibes from the STY. PIG X ;@)
Hey, wassup? Just dropping by to say hey and spread the love.
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hey scallywags how are you? ad a fab time in aus. just saw your dates for wimborne is that the folk festival? hope it was twas fab last year.... can always help flogging cds again lol! any chance we could camp again? take care luv han x
