A Barrel of Rumjacks
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A Barrel of Rumjacks

Next month, Celtic-flavoured punks The Rumjacks will take to the road with a bunch of new songs in their swag. One of the new tracks is ‘Blows & Unkind Words’, which has been steadily clocking up the views on YouTube. One song is great, an album’s worth is even better. On February 6 the band will release Sober & Godless, their second full-length album. Frontman Frankie McLaughlin: “The making of this album saw us wondering at this whole folk/punk thing as a wider genre, and what it means to us. The sickeningly rich tradition of people telling their story to song has continued unbroken by time, distance or malevolence. We see no good reason why it should stop with us. Call it Celtic punk, folk, rock or whatever, we have to keep telling each other our story, that’s the only thing that keeps us human … Since we started we NEVER wanted to do anything half-arsed. That has never changed and never will. Seeing the results from working our arses off for Sober & Godless has only made us want to work harder than we ever had.” The Barwon, Geelong – March 27 & The Bridge, Castlemaine – March 28. Sober & Godless was produced by Steve James (Thin Lizzy, The Jam).

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