Finnegans Wake
A mixture of Irish Folk influece and old school and new wave punk. It's Punk with a fiddle!
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The Irish Rover (Live) The Irish Rover (Live)
Our arrangement of a traditional Irish song - famously played by the Pogues and the Dubliners. Now we give it the Finnegan's Wake treatment from our Live CD - listen for the dog noises.
Another Man (Like Me) (Demo) Another Man (Like Me) (Demo)
A bedroom recorded song by Al - a song about leaders and men and women who exert authority over us with...what reason?
Another Man (Like Me) (Live) Another Man (Like Me) (Live)
A live version of Another Man (Like Me) - I wasn't going to put it up here because it didn't come out too well, but given the popularity of the dodgy demo version I couldn't see the harm. This features our good friend John on the Harmonica.
The Tyburn Jig (Live) The Tyburn Jig (Live)
A rough 'n' ready live recording from an early gig. This song is very typical of our work and features a guitar solo from our very own Rupert Noise.
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Throw together a singing activist, a bass tapping medic, a lead guitarist called Rupert and a fiddling Philosopher? It can only be Finnegan's Wake!
A hybrid of Irish Folk and rip-roaring punk music results in good music, good times, a good message and a hell of a lot of fun.
We double dare you not to tap your feet!
We're:
Al Baker - Vocals/Acoustic Guitar
Rupert Noise - Lead Guitar
Andy "Mini" Cav - Bass
The Rt. Hon. Sir James Kemp III - Fiddle
And We're Finnegan's Wake!Band/artist history
Finnegan's Wake formed in late 2004 and have gone from strength to strength. After a few months fine tuning, getting the style right and imbibing enough Guiness to inspire enough songs the Wake has performed at several venues around Manchester and received glowing endorsements from fellow bands, crowds and press.
We have recorded one of our live shows, some of the tracks are available to download here but a full CD is available for the very reasonable price of NOTHING (plus P&P)on request.
Finnegan's Wake are currently in the process of arranging a summer UK tour (the result of several invitations from headline acts) so keep your eyes peeled for a Wake near you soon.Have you performed in front of an audience?We live for the live show. Recordings are great fun to make and it's brilliant to make sure there are folks who can sing along but there's nothing can equal the fun to be had performing or the fun we hope the crowd has. The cumulative band sweat at the end of a set is testament to the effort and energy in our shows.
Your musical influences
Individual influences range from Bach to Bryan Adams but the stlye and songs are influenced by the folk giants such as the Dubliners, Pogues, Christy Moore, Billy Bragg and Phil Ochs and the punk legends of the Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly.
Manchester,
United Kingdom
ID
349015
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Comments (2)
good stuff lads keep it up howay the paddys!
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Thanks for dropping by oh stranger in the night. Hope you enjoyed the Wake, leave a message and let us know what you thought.
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