Julian on vocals, accordion, violin, balalaika, cello, banjo, washboard, piano, drums, harmonicas, concertina, guitars, Tom ('Zapoppin') on upright bass, vocals, tuba, banjo, cello, Dan (Life with Pye) on guitars, vocals, ukulele, kazoo, Rory (Pressure Roots Hi-fi) on drums. Our recordings have also featured special guests Kester (Jones) on mandolin, guitars, clarinet, vocals, banjo, piano, organ and Andy Gove on the trombone
Influences
We also have one of those facebook
groups if that's your thing.
err, influences then...Woody Guthrie, The Clash, Lonnie Donegan, King Crimson, Jo Privat, Gogol Bordello, Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, Mikis Theodorakis, the Kinks, the banjo playing toad off bagpuss, Billy Childish, Sly and the Family Stone, Mrs Mills, Nuggets and Pebbles, Davey Graham, St Keverne Brass Band, Jonathan Richman, Ivor Cutler, Yann Tiersen, a Hawk and a Hacksaw, George Formby, Specials, Pogues, Leningrad, Edgar Broughton Band, Naftule Brandwein, Small Faces, Dave Tarras, Elvi Presley and Costello, Madness, Seasick Steve, Nick Drake, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Richard & Linda Thompson, Bert Jansch, The Ukrainians, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan & Donovan, Klezmer, Gypsy, Flamenco, Ska, jazz, prog, punk etc etc
Sounds Like
rustic, urbane, industrial folk, agricultural noise, wall of folk, avant-billy, klezmer, gypsy, punk, listen to this lot and make up your own mind:
"a bleedin racket" judging by this clip of 'Yuppie Flats' at last year's Maker festival...
"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" is the title of a book written by Robert Tressell,
details of which are here.
“Foot-stomping, accordion led show tunes with a great line in poetic socialism... songs that keep the class war alive and kicking.” 24-7 Magazine, May 2009
Julian Gaskell & his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists are a four-piece outfit from Cornwall who play garage-punkfolk. Having performed at hundreds of obscure locations in the UK, Poland and the Czech Republic since forming in 2006, their music has mutated from humble folk origins into the racket that is their new album “Here the brute harpies make their nests” which can be described thusly...
“Mambo accordion, polka washboard, romantic faction, darkness collapsing into the end of a drunken afternoon, new wave progressive ska, space dub Balkan dance-off, the strains of a phosphorescent guitar amp being tortured until it screams like a thunderstorm over the vale of Avalon, Ukrainian-Klezmer surfers reclaiming the waves from misanthropic sand-sloths who endeavour to grind the “n’roll” out of surf rock, whistling whilst slowly dragging a carcass to its final resting place, the kind of royalty that is hung, drawn and quartered before being left in a dustbin for the seagulls, creeping lounge-jazz which might appeal to those with too much money to handle, themes for hirsute men with flared trousers and gaudy shades, a knees-up in the face of adversity, a street party to celebrate the tarmac being torn like a wet crepe and replaced with rusted metal.”
The album was produced and recorded by Julian Gaskell in May and June 2009 in a Cottage by the harbour in Falmouth, Cornwall using a Soundcraft Series II desk rescued from a Bolton scrapheap, a Great British spring drainpipe reverb, analogue space echo, a reel-to-reel tape machine borrowed from the BBC in 1982 and only the most arcane methods of microphone placement and mixing.
"Here the brute harpies make their nests" is available directly from us on CD (in posh digifile packaging with 16p lyrics booklet) for just £8.99 plus £1 p&p at our website www.raggedtrouseredphilanthropists.co
.uk
Our albums are also available on MP3 direct from us for £5.99 each, or individual tracks for 79p at our download store (as well as previous releases by Julian Gaskell and Icons of Poundland) download store
.
Or else, if you want to pay more money for the same thing, you should be able to find us on itunes, amazon etc...
A rare opportunity to see these phenomenal musicians (who rarely stray far from their homes in SW Virginia) in Penryn!
On their own, Rose and the Black Twigs have won plenty of accolades - Rose is regularly placed in the top tier of today's acoustic guitarists, distinguishing himself with finger-picked rambles that veer from ragtime to raga, while the Black Twigs have been described by Bluegrass Unlimited as "exciting old-time music at its finest" and by Sing Out! as "more akin to the previous generation of masters than many of those plying the trade today."
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After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Hi there, I don't know of many individual places, perhaps The Wheatsheaf Inn in Leckhampton, Cheltenham might be a good venue. There is a Folk Festival every year in Cheltenham in February run by the council, I think they are always looking for bands to play. This coming year I think it's on 12 -14 February 2010. Cheers Al
Tickets and all manner of details including videos by clicking the flyer...
“…a slice of dazzling alternative rock. It’s recorded easy on the gain but loud as f***; lysergic bursts of warm guitar vibrate snare skins. Arbouretum owe as much to the English delivery of Martin Carthy as they do to the beatnik languor of Fred Neil and the polychromatic textures of J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr)” Plan B magazine
eh up lads, hope your good. come down and check out the new, reinforced Busketeers at miss peapods, jubilee wharf in penryn on the 18th of july. we've been doing some "growing" so suspect a good night! cheers
Hello There! I really enjoy your music, and I hope that you like mine as well. I would love it if you could check out the widget on my page and listen to my song - Window, Window - as many times as you like. I'm only asking because I entered the Myspace Records Unsigned Artists Competition, and I would love to have as many plays as possible. Thanks a lot!!
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Opening night: Tuesday 9th june 2009 - 9pm / 11.30pm
Forget about the gym workout: come dancing!!
(and save on the gym subscription and the dating site subscription too...)
Thank goodness we will be opened on the 9th for the first edition of Swing Mon Amour so you'll have something nice to do on a tuesday night. It's very cheap (in terms of money not quality obviously), and you'll get great acts every week that will make you sweat and get plenty of excercice. I'm talking resident Dj El Nino from Black Cotton Club & Lady Luck, and Gentleman Tim & the Contenders a great 1950's swing R&B Chicago blues band. You'll dance all night, guaranted!
Styles : Blues - Chicago Blues - West coast Blues - 20's 30's - Gypsy swing - Big Band - Swing - R&B - Jump Jive - Rockabilly - Rock&Roll - Western Hillbilly - and many more...
Tickets for this incredible show on May 25th at Miss Peapod's had sold out, but the event has been moved to the hall upstairs meaning there will be another 80 tickets on sale soon, spread the word! CLICK THE FLYER FOR MORE INFO
