Erik Brouwers: lead singer, acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, drums
Xavier Hacking: accordian, shouter
Norman Vreuls: banjo
Robert de Groot: drums, kazooie
Bart Dooper: electric guitar, shouter
Thijs Dooper: bass guitar
Influences
The Pogues, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Neck, the Dubliners, Luke Kelly, Shane Macgowan and the Popes, the Tossers, Eire Og, the Chieftains, Greenland Whalefishers, Nipple Erectors, Wolfetones, the Mahones, the Ramones, the Slackers, Charlie and the Bhoys, the Clash, Thin Lizzy, Metallica, U2, the Who, Madness, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Christy Moore, Rowwen Heze, Pater Moeskroen, Roda JC, Glasgow Celtic, West Ham United, Guinness, rugby, Jameson Irish whiskey, Tullamore Dew, Brand bier, Palm bier, Ireland, Dublin, women and some more
Sounds Like
Flogging Molly, the Pogues, the Mahones, the Tossers, Dropkick Murphys, the Dubliners, the Clash, Shane Macgowan and the Popes, Rowwen Heze, Pater Moeskroen, Blood or Whiskey
It's summer 2003 and Xavier and Erik have been listening to Irish music for a while, and on just one of those hot summer-evenings they got the idea to play some Irish traditionals themselves. Xavier still had an old accordeon at his place and Erik was going to play guitar and sing the songs. After watching a gig from the legendary Dubliners in October they totally got into folk and practiced for their fist gig which was a big success. A few weeks after this the band expanded for the first time: Norman joined to play the bassguitar.
In April 2004 Erik went to Dublin to get some inspiration at Guinness, so the band had to quit for a while. At Erik's return in August, Robert, the former drummer of rockband Deterrence joined the gang to create a rock sound.
At this point there was just something missing: an electric guitar. After a short search Bart was added to our line-up and we were almost complete. Anne joined us on the tin whistle, making the folk-part of our sound al lot cooler. By the way, at this time Erik also plays the banjo and mandolin
In June 2006 the band recorded their first mini-album Uisce Beatha of which the main song: "Whiskeyday, Everyday!" was chosen to be on the new Paddyrock Radio Compilation
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Hey Finnegan's Lads, Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I am going to be playing music in the Netherlands for the next twelve days. I will be accompanying Dan Bern on my Cellocaster. Please check the schedule on my page for a gig near you. If you decide to come, please introduce yourself, I'd love to make some new friends in Holland! all the best, Paul Kuhn Cellocaster, Violin, Vocals, Zrii Milwaukee via Aspen via D.C. USA
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