Man The Lifeboats began life in a Skinny Lister shanty-punk folk mosh pit in 2016, and are now ploughing their own full-throttle furrow, winning over audiences everywhere and drawing comparisons to Bellowhead, Oysterband, the Levellers, and those folk-punk heroes, the Pogues.
The second album Soul Of Albion hit #27 in the Official Folk Charts in 2022. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, it sounds like Led Zeppelin arm-wrestling Shane McGowan in a Birmingham brewery, like Jimbob and Fruitbat fronting Fairport Convention, like The Albion Band turned up to 11 with their fiddles on fire.
Tonic for these troubled times.
