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Another phenomenal band are returning with their punk-folk to grace our intimate basement venue. Lots of fun! Sold out last time....Man The Lifeboats began life in a shanty-punk folk moshpit in 2016. Skinny Lister and Holy Moly & the Crackers were the two bands that lit the fire and blew the roof of the Garage that night.
Fast forward 6 years and 100 gigs and counting and Man The Lifeboats are an established band ploughing their furrow on the festival circuit, winning over audiences at Warwick , Swanage , Beardy Folk , Folk in a Field , Bearded Theory , Deepdale , Ragged Bear and more, drawing comparisons to Bellowhead , Waterboys , Oysterband , the Levellers , and those folk-punk heroes the Pogues .
The second album Soul Of Albion hit no27 in the Official Folk Charts in 2022. Recorded at Rockfield Studios , it sounds like Led Zeppelin arm-wrestling Shane McGowan in a Birmingham brewery, like Jimbob and Fruitbat fronting Fairport Convention , like The Albion Band turned up to 11 with their fiddles on fire. Tonic for these troubled times.
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"9/10. A stomping musical cocktail of alchemic proportions" OUTLINE MAGAZINE
"Sounds like The Men They Couldn't Hang at their height meet The Clash - it's a belter" FOLKING.COM
"Think The Pogues in overdrive with the breath of the Dropkick Murphys down their necks" TURN UP THE VOLUME
"Superior Stuff" CRACK MAGAZINE
“Excellent album, full of high-octane folk and dark rumination” AMERICANA UK
“An atmospheric and searching saga” SONGWRITING MAGAZINE
“Combining swirling punk-folk with biting politics. My kinda band.” TURN UP THE VOLUME
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33 Bath Street,Leamington Spa,CV31 3AF,GB, 33 Bath Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 3AF, United Kingdom,Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Leamington
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