Tony Rose - guitar, vocals;
Matt de Harp - mandolin, harp, guitar, vocals;
Mark Mulholland - banjo, mandola, guitar, vocals;
Joe Armstrong - guitar, bass, vocals.
Influences
Townes van Zandt, The Jayhawks, The Band, Bob Dylan, Lightnin Hopkins, Teenage Fanclub, Jackpot, The Faces, Ronnie Lane, Neil Young, The Rockets, Green on Red, Roy Orbison, Van Morrison, Leadbelly, Hank Williams,The Staples,Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, The Miracles, the Shangri Las, Willie Nelson, The Louvin Brothers, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, The Byrds, Dock Boggs, Howlin wolf, Elmore James, Uncle Tupelo, Sean Condron, Bill Hangley, The Lazy Pigs, Sharla Benedict, James Harries, The Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Red Sovine, Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, Gene Clark, Tom.T.Hall, Gilian Welch, George Jones, Bill Hicks, Kinky Friedman, Lucinda Williams, Roky Erickson, Merle Haggard, Dan Penn, James Carr, Irma Thomas, Ernie K Doe, the Stanley Brothers...
Sounds Like
new album lost river release: UK-June 2008, DE/BE/NE-September 2008
Two Dollar Bash are an acoustic folk/country/blues band, originally from Scotland, Ireland and France, consisting of 4 talented singer-songwriters, who back up each other's compositions with an intuitive feel that can only come from many years of playing together. With great original songs, fine musicianship and impressive harmonies, the band blends influences from North American folk, blues and country with Celtic and European styles.
The four members, Mark Mulholland, Tony Rose, Matt de Harp and Joe Armstrong, have been playing together in different combinations throughout Europe for the past fifteen years, in a variety of bands including punk, rock, psychedelic and swing as well as the folkier formations, and also simply travelling around, picking up gigs and busking, swapping songs and stories with other musicians along the way. As well as honing their own songwriting and playing skills, this means that the band's repertoire includes many songs from friends, who in turn are singing Two Dollar Bash songs throughout Europe and North America.
Since the formation of this incarnation of the band in 2003, Two Dollar Bash has been touring
constantly throughout Europe, and has also completed two very successful tours of America. In September 2005 they won the "Rising Legend" award at the 30th Old-time Country and
Traditional Music Festival in Missouri Valley, Iowa. In 2006 Two Dollar Bash played at the Latitude Festival in England, and were one of 4 bands from around the world selected to perform at the International Country Night showcase at the Popkomm music industry conference in Berlin. 2007 brought tours of Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, an extensive tour of the US and Canada which included showcase performances at the prestigious South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas and Canadian Music Week in Toronto, and a major UK tour to coincide with the release of their albums there through Proper Distribution. Their first two albums, "Two Dollar Bash" and "On the Road", are released on Berlin label Cannery Row Records, who have also now released the third album, "Lost River", recorded in the summer of 2007 in a farmhouse in the Czech Republic by engineer Dugald Jayes (Hugo Race and the True Spirit) and producer Craig Ward (The Frames, deUs, The Love Substitutes). The new album reflects great development in the songwriting skills of each of the band members, as well as much richer and more varied arrangements. Initial reactions suggest that this record could propel Two Dollar Bash into a different league.
Two Dollar Bash returned to Austin for a second successive showcase at SXSW 2008, completed an extensive British tour in June to coincide with the UK release of “Lost River” and toured throughout Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands during the autumn. The three albums are also available through all major download platforms.
Two Dollar Bash has been invited to perform a showcase for a remarkable third successive year at SXSW 2009, and has also been invited to play an official showcase in February at the Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, another important industry event. “Lost River” is due for release in the Benelux territories in May 2009 in partnership with Dutch label Corazong.
Mark Mulholland's solo album “The Devil on the Stairs” which also features guest appearances by the other band members, has been released worldwide by London label Troubadour under license from Cannery Row Records.
"Like the man who awoke to find himself drowning in a river, you may
roam the dark with 4 million other somnambulists - and never know it.
One soldier, after one of these attacks, he revealed that he had been
dreaming about trying to plow a field with a balky mule. ‘That mule
made me so darn mad I socked it,' he said. When he awoke, he found that
he had hit his wife in the face and broken her eardrum. His lawyer
successfully defended him by arguing that no one could be held
accountable for acts committed in his sleep. Why doesn’t he, like the
rest of us, lie quietly and work out the worries of his subconscious in
dreams of action, instead of acting out his dreams?"
'Strange facts about sleepwalking', in Mechanix Illustrated (Mar, 1949)
THE SOMNAMBULIST Record PRE-Release Party
opening act: WRONG.
Friday November 6th, h 22:00 live at Antje Øklesund
Rigaer Straße 71–73
10247 Berlin
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Hi friends, watch this new video, soundtrack of controversial movie"Sex in the Citadel" by INSTANT FLIGHT ...it's low budget,but funny!!!! (not suitable for people under 18)
Its been a while and we thought it was about time we updated you on what we've been up to. Our debut EP Little World is now available at our gigs and will soon be available from our myspace and facebook pages, you will also be able to download it from itunes, but we don't have a release date for this as yet.
To celebrate the fact that we have now reached 25,000 plays on myspace, we are giving you a free MP3 of Rockabye Baby. All you have to do is send your email address to queen.elvis@yahoo.ie and we will send it to you.
We have spent the last year rehearsing with a full band and are now ready to bring it on the road. You can get a look at us when we appear on Balcony TV this week with the full line up. We are currently taking bookings for gigs/concerts/festivals and can be contacted on the email above, or through our myspace and facebook pages.
Thankyou for your continued support in what has been a great year for us!
Hi, the reverbnation tools are cool, by hitting play you hear the songs right away and with share you can place them on any kind of blog or platform, I like that, it is a big support for musicians, if you are with facebook then let's become friends there, it is much easier to communicate, have a great day.
