Take your Skin off and Dance

'Mass Trespass' is our debut EP, released on 25th July 2014 and available now on CD through our website or via iTunes, Amazon and other digital distributors! 

We recorded 'Mass Trespass' in the famous Crypt Studios in Crouch End, North London in February 2014, with BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominee Ben Walker as producer. It's very much a statement of who we are as a band, and how we throw a wide range of musical influences into our song-pot, to make a tasty casserole of Ringlefinch!

Lyrics:
This town's in the grip of La Grippe
She comes for 'em while they sleep
And they dance to her pipes in a heap
As we all bow down to La Grippe
Yes, the town's in the grip of La Grippe
The cacophony of coughing makes you weep
You will hear it from on high to down deep
She ain't particular 'bout the company she keep
Is La Grippe

There's one name on everyone's lips
As we each try to give her the slip
Lemon, honey, fluids, plenty of sleep
But one by one, we succumb to La Grippe
She's been picking us off by the score
Now she's picking us all off the floor
And sending us to spread the news,
And the cough, and the sneeze, and the blues

La Grippe

Head pounds, dizzy, the shakes,
The fever, the misery, the aches
And the world feels like it's been greased
It's cheaper than a hangover, at least
So come, let's follow La Grippe
Like a passel of mucosal sheep
Stoning doctors with apples to keep
Them away from Madame

La Grippe

And we're sick of being sick, had our fill of being ill
Surely we've been poorly long enough... long enough...

La Grippe

(c) A Logan 2014

Ringlefinch - La Grippe

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***Debut album 'Tall Tales' out now!***

A core part of the scene built around boutique label Folkroom Records, London-based alternative folk seven-piece Ringlefinch have been described as "Like Bellowhead before them... just one appearance on ‘Later With’ away from becoming nationwide favourites". 

With scores of gigs under their belts since forming in 2012, and over two million streams on SoundCloud alone, they released debut album 'Tall Tales' in summer 2021 to widespread critical acclaim (and a Fatea 'Debut Album Of The Year' award nomination!).

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Featuring:
Andy on vocals, banjo, ukulele, guitar, charango, melodica, etc
Arun on guitar, vocals
Graham on bass, vocals
Emma on cello, vocals
Nicole on violin, vocals, kazoo
Philip on mandolin, vocals, kazoo
William on cajon & percussion

Ringlefinch - La Grippe

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