Party: The Men They Couldn't Hang - Two Dates!
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Date: 07.12.2017 19:00
Address: Orange Yard, Off Manette Street, London, United Kingdom | show on the map »
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Really Live Music presents two shows with The Men They Couldn't Hang on 7th & 8th December!
7th Dec tickets: http://bit.ly/2oGiJBb
8th Dec tickets: http://bit.ly/2oHGXLV
It may be hard to believe, but revered British folk punk group, The Men They Couldn’t Hang have been tantalising our aural taste buds for thirty-three-and-a-third years. In 1974, ‘Green Fields of France’, their epic début single shot to number 1 in the NME Independent Music Chart. At the same time, Maggie Thatcher was crushing the mine-workers, an event recorded in the Men’s poignant elegy, ‘Shirt of Blue’. This is a song the band still play today, its meaning maturing over the years.
The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s ninth album, The Defiant was funded via a successful Pledge campaign that raised over 200% of its target and was produced by Pat Collier. Recorded during savage bouts of drinking, mess, ribald reminiscence, raucous recreation and a week of bed and board at a South London flophouse, it features such traditional themes as piracy, fascism, fishing and a little touch of romance in Henry V's invasion force of 1415. It undoubtedly reinforces the band’s reputation as both originators and unique pillar of the roots rock renaissance, as well as one of Britain's finest ever bands.
As this was so successful and enjoyable with such participation from the fans, the band decided to do it all over again and to that end launched another Pledge campaign to help fund their tenth studio album at the end Feb 2017 at a sold-out show at the Monkeys Music Club in Hamburg.
This Pledge continues with the band presently on 115% of their target. It looks like the summer will see a repeat of all of the above whilst the band record this new album.
2017 so far has seen a return to the band’s spiritual home of the Shepherds Bush Empire on Easter Saturday and will see more shows and festival appearances including a return to the Wickham Festival in August, dates in November and December including these shows at the Borderline.
As ever, the precise set details will not be announced for a while (we all love surprises, don't we?) but both nights will feature different sets and have different support acts. Some songs will make it into both sets, but don’t bet on which ones…
