SCROTUMTIGHTENING SEA SHANTIES
GREAT BALLADS OF FIRE
JAMES FEARNLEY (THE POGUES)
TED HUTT (FLOGGING MOLLY)
MARC ORRELL (DROPKICK MURPHYS)
WITH
BRAD WOOD
BRYAN HEAD
IN THE COURSE OF THEIR THIRTY-YEAR CAREER, THE SEMINAL LONDON-IRISH BAND THE POGUES INSPIRED A GENERATION OF CELTIC PUNK BANDS. JAMES FEARNLEY , A CO-FOUNDER AND THE ACCORDION PLAYER FOR THE POGUES, HAS TEAMED UP WITH FLOGGING MOLLY CO-FOUNDER AND GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER, TED HUTT, AND WITH DROPKICK MURPHYS’S MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, MARC ORRELL, TO FORM THE WALKER ROADERS WHOSE MUSIC SPLICES THE ANTHEMS OF CELTIC-PUNK TO THE POETRY OF THE POGUES.
COMPLETING THE OUTFIT: KIERAN MULRONEY (LOW AND SWEET ORCHESTRA) ON FIDDLE, BRAD WOOD (STORIED PRODUCER OF LIZ PHAIR, TOUCHE AMORE, PETE YORN, SMASHING PUMPKINS) ONE BASS AND BRYAN HEAD (DICK DALE, ROGER HODGSON) ON DRUMS.
ON THE 23RD AUGUST 2019, GINGER MAN/BEVERLY MARTEL LABEL GROUP RELEASED THE WALKER ROADERS’ SELF-TITLED DEBUT LP, WITH ALL SONGS PRODUCED BY TED HUTT, ALL SONGS CO-WRITTEN BY HUTT, FEARNLEY AND ORRELL, AND WITH LYRICS BY FEARNLEY.