SHAMROCK SHOWBAND - SHANKILL ROAD MISSION SHAMROCK SHOWBAND

SHAMROCK SHOWBAND are just back from a wee tour of Scotland with Jinx Lennon and are now gearing up for an Irish tour and the release of their second album SHANKILL ROAD MISSION.

There’s been a growing buzz about the Showband for the last few months now in the run up to this new album. Nialler9 called them his ‘new favourite band’ and described them as ‘If Father Ted and CMAT had a baby’ High praise indeed! They have received radio play from BBC Radio Ulster, been included in Irish track of the week lists by The Thin Air and Chordblossom and got a shout out in an article in The Irish Examiner as well.

Spotlight tracks for the release of the album are Fascist Boogie (NSFW) which is about the assination of Charlie Kirk (lol) and Northern Train (SFW) which is about the old train line, no longer with us that could have gotten you from Dundalk to Donegal, something that would make band practice a lot easier if it was still about.

SHAMROCK SHOWBAND are a psychedelic country and Irish band consisting of Conor McAuley (DUG) on fiddle, Jamie Bishop (MUCKNO, Jinx Lennon) on guitar, samplers and synthesizers and Joel Harkin (Pedal & Lever Society) on pedal steel guitar. They hail from the border counties of Louth (Dundalk), Monaghan (Castleblaney) and Donegal (Convoy) respectively.

Unequal parts Irish country & western, psychedelic, folk and punk, SHAMROCK SHOWBAND are paying homage to and trying to revive the Irish Showband era. The Irish showband was a dance band format popular in Ireland from the 1950s to the 1980s.