Alabama 3 Solidarity Concert: This Friday, Headfort Arms Hotel, Kells November 22, 2010
Posted by Garibaldy in Music, Workers' Party.trackback
ALABAMA 3, the world famous (not least because they did the Sopranos theme tune) techno-acid-house-blues combo, will be playing a solidarity concert for the Stop the Extradition of Seán Garland Campaign this Friday at the HEADFORT ARMS HOTEL, KELLS CO. MEATH from 8 till late.
THE MC GARRY BROTHERS will also be performing and supporting the campaign.
Tickets cost 20 euro or 10 euro for students, the unemployed and OAPs. There will be a full bar, and a night to remember is promised.
You can get there using the 109 bus from Busáras.
For further details, contact Séamus McDonagh on 087 6596876
Given the level of interest in what WBS listens to at the weekend, hope that some of the readership here will be able to make it (and maybe even write a review!). You can also read an interview with the boys from Alabama 3, including discussion of their progressive politics, in the current edition of LookLeft, available from the places listed here.
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That’s a bit bizarre, isn’t it? Why in Kells?
Mainly it’s in Kells because the people organising the gig live out here, because Sean Garland lives nearby, because it suits people coming from Dublin and from the north.
The band played Dublin last month and did a bit with Sean on stage:
Are Alabama three doing a nationwide tour then? It seems odd they would come over from Brixton for one gig, despite their understansable devotion to the official republican movement
Especially given they were ovre here last month as you say.
Excuse my idle curiosity, I appreciate its not massively relevant.
Ramzi, Not quite a nationwide tour, no.
One of their dads was big in the Scottish CP, hence empathy with the anti-extradition campaign.
They’re also playing a gig in Newcastle Co. Down on the Saturday night.
Ramzi,
We’ll let you know here when LookLeft is available in London, which it should be soon according to its facebook page, and you can read the interview yourself where they talk about their politics.
Thanks Left and Garibaldy. Yes, I would be interested in procuring LookLeft in general and specifically that issue
I think I may have mentioned a mate of mine was a member of the band for a while. Another friend went to school with one of them. I hadnt heard about about any political commitments they had, but I didnt really ask.
Housmans should take it. There are surprisingly few radical bookshops left in London.
That’s very true Mark. I met Garibaldy there last year and we wound up in the SWP one, whose location I forget but it’s beyond Oxford St. But the list of alternatives was short.
I lived there for a few years in the early 1990s and while I’d hardly say it was bursting at the seams with left bookshops there were notably more and more variety as well.
Thanks Mark
I normally go to Bookmarks in Bloomsbury but havent been for a while.
This link may be interesting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/09/return-of-radical-bookshops
Garland lives in Navan
The Sopranos – Garland – Stickies – just too easy to make some jokes……..
fire ahead,we are all waiting.
Go ahead Eamonn, give us some of your ‘easy’ humour. You zany stand-up!
That makes sense, I suppose. I’m just always a bit surprised when visiting bands play small towns, and Kells seemed a bit random.
Hope the gig goes well.
Always loved their track Bourgeoisie Blues.
“Mao Tse-Tsung Says” was one of my faves.
A house mate a few years back had all of there albums.
They are/were a great band. Its a pity they didnt get further.
One would have thought the Sopranos song would be quite a leg up.
Yeah, it’s an odd one that.
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