Tom O'Reilly-Vox/Acoustic guitar, Martin Jump-Mandolin, Helen Manley-Bass, Jovian-Drums, Louis Phillips-Whistle, Louis Eliot-Electric Guitar/ backing vocals, Andy Boddington-Electric guitar and banjo, Nicky Powell-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
................'I REALLY ENJOYED THAT... CAN I BUY YOU A DOUBLE JAMESON!'.... SHANE MacGOWAN........................................................................................................'HAVING SEEN YOU LIVE, IT WAS AS A GOOD A NIGHT AS I COULD IMAGINE STOOD IN FRONT OF A BAND!'.... MARK LAMARR, BBC RADIO 2... .................................................................................................................'JOE STRUMMER, WAS A VERY GOOD A FRIEND OF MINE, AND HE WOULD HAVE LOVED YOUR VERSION OF THE GUNS OF BRIXTON!'.... GAZ MAYALL, GAZ'S ROCKIN BLUES CLUB, SOHO, LONDON............................................................................................................'ANY PUB YOU SET UP IN THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE A JOYOUS TIME!' ....MARK LAMARR, BBC RADIO 2.....................................................................................................................'FUCKIN' BRILLIANT!'.... MIKE JONES, ROD AND LINE, CORNWALL.........................................................................................................
...................'IRISH STYLE FOLK ROCKERS BLACK FRIDAY HAVE PUT TOGETHER A LIVE ALBUM RECORDED AT THIS YEARS (2006) MAKER FESTIVAL AND A FINE DOCUMENT IT IS TOO!...... THE PLYMOUTH BASED BANDS RAMSHACKLE POGUES-ESQUE DELIVERY WORK WELL ON THE TRADITIONAL SONGS AND COVERS, WHILE THE SELF PENNED MATERIAL DULY RISES TO THE CHALLENGE WITH TIN WHISTLE, MANDOLIN AND ROCK GUITAR ALL VYING FOR ATTENTION; LIKE A NEST OF HUNGREY CUCKOOS'......... BACKBONE 24/7 MAGAZINE........................
............................................................'BLACK FRIDAY AT THE LIT FEST WERE THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR, BETTER THAN GLASTONBURY! GAZ MAYALL....................................................................................................................'YOU'RE AT THE TOP OF YOUR ART!' SEAN, BAND PROMOTER CLUB 333, LONDON...................................................................................................................................................CD'S ONLY 8.00 QUID ... BUY YOURS NOW... SEND US A MESSAGE! CHEERS!.................................................................................................................................................................................................................TO BOOK THE BAND CALL 077695079, 07772819487, 07775855589, 01503 230659,
Black Friday, 'folk-rock's finest'- we are cornwall/plymouth based punk-folk band, a brew of traditional celtic music, original songs and covers by the likes of Flogging Molly, The Pogues and The Clash. We have been invading Devon and Cornwall with our high energy celtic songs and foot-stomping folk for two and half years, taking our prisoners at pubs, clubs and festivals. We've even taken the odd bride hostage. We stormed London for the third time this October at clubs in Soho and Shoreditch, and returned for Gaz's xmas shanty knees up. Highlights of summer 2007 were main stage Maker Festival - thanks to everyone in saturday nights manic crowd, and Port Eliot lit fest, the final act on the Ha ha stage.
This February marked a big break for the band as the featured band in Mark Lamaars Radio 2 Friday Night Show. What a blast!
Our Maker 2006 live album is sold out/given out but do not panic- we are in the process of making the second live album (maker 2007) and will probably order another batch of 2006's.
Our first studio album is pencilled in for later in the year, we have a summer of festival fun, more song writing, lots of cider drinking, partying, pillaging and looting - all planned for 2008. Rock on!
Look below for some live snippets and the brand-spanking new Got To Go vid!
you boys and gals u gonna send us a list of places, your covering on that record day....? wil prob catch ya a week or so b4, back home on the 16th august- wonder how me tent is louis...!muppet take care birds han x
Thanks for the kind comments about our album. You guys were great last week in London. We all really enjoyed ourselves. Sorry we had to shoot off at the end but we were all working the next day,
See you soon. We are looking to come back to Cornwall in November. Just trying to arrange dates in the next couple of weeks,
Are the Plymouth and Torquay Punks gonna come out to play?
How could they not when we have the self proclaimed almighty gods of Punk Rock SHRAPNEL SUNTAN headlining these nights of raucous mayhem and disorder with local favourites HIV & The Positives, Justin Credible and the Droogs and the amazing Mr Mike Porter supporting what A NIGHT!
The 1 more tbc didn't confirm so if you fancy a gig and can play for free let me, Mo @ Punk Attack or Luke Soap Suds & PVA know.....
Members of Rising Tide Plymouth/Anarcho Folko have gone and got themselves in court after a rather jolly protest against E$$O, now we need your support (and cash!). Should be a great gig including the first performance from No World Borders (members of Anarcho Folko, The Directors, Collective Responsibility) and two hours of dubstep DJing from DSM, so get your electro-skanking booties on and come down!
