The Failed States is a creative project based in an aged care facility in the leafy suburb of Wantirna, Melbourne Australia. 

Initially a recreational outlet, allowing residents to express themselves through music, poetry and napping, The Failed States has since taken on a life of it own. 

Anguished songs about other residents' grandchildren being too loud at the table tennis table, or laments of lukewarm, semi-set pudding were gradually replaced by powerful pieces about climate change, urban decay, relationship breakdown and stolen dentures.

There are no permanent members of The Failed States, we live on, as age, petty rivalries, and forgetfulness takes us all.

The Failed States tries to perform in the common room on the second Tuesday of every month, after lunch.

Folk musician, carpenter, public nuisance, rebel worker. Former member of the Wooden Shoe Ramblers. 

Website: https://edoylemusic.com/
Bandcamp: https://emmettdoyle.bandcamp.com/album/rust-belt-ballads
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmettdoyle
WSR: https://woodenshoeramblers.bandcamp.com/releases

The Longest Johns is a four-man, a capella folk music band, born out of a mutual love of traditional folk songs and shanties. They rock maritime songs alongside the more unusual and less traditional folk tunes. All with a hearty cheer and a row-ho-ho!

Fundraising for Ukraine - https://artdopomoga.com/
Art created in Ukraine during the war. Stickers, Music & more.
All proceeds from your purchase of the artwork will go to support Ukraine.
Artdopomoga - the team of art volunteers based in Kyiv.

Ye Banished Privateers be a band, a crew an’ a soup kitchen playin sea shanties, bastardized irish folk an' 17th century punk. Come on board here or at:

https://www.facebook.com/YeBanishedPrivateers

twitter @yebanished

http://www.yebanishedprivateers.com/

http://soundcloud.com/ye-banished-privateers

http://open.spotify.com/artist/16f8bHHqNwQWgqWMYyS9ij

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7639089

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/11055247/The_legend_of_libertalia_-_Ye_Banished_Privateers

Muddy Waters said to me, “it’s not what note you play, it’s when you play it.”

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