Brendan, your Vocals are beautiful on this! I literally have goosebumps!

“Upon the Thames we built The Lagan, shaped her hull and first set sail, and from old London aimed her prow to sing her song and tell her tales.”
 
This is our first album - and those words are something we never really expected to say. We formed this band to have fun with our friends, to play old trad songs we love and songs we’d written ourselves in pubs with our other friends.
 
That it’s got this far blows our pickled little minds. 
 
This collection of songs are the first ten we’ve written - six originals, three traditional songs and one that’s a bit of both. They became our first set and we’ve been playing these songs for years, and the fun we’ve had, the friendships we’ve made, the stories we’ve shared and the beers we’ve drunk have made our lives infinitely richer. For that, we thank everyone who has ever come to a show, driven us so we could have a drink, put us up on their floors, raised their pints with us, sang with us, danced with us, got on stage with us, got drunk with us...
 
THANK YOU.
 
Now, we don’t have much space here, but we couldn’t have done it without the continued support of certain people:
 
Our families and girlfriends. The Biblecode Sundays, Danny Fontaine & The Horns Of Fury, The Roughneck Riot. Paul Matthews, Mike Payne. Mark and Amy O’Donovan, Padraig O’Hoistin and the London Celtic Punks crew. Lee Boyle, Jake Roper, Pete Knee. London-Irish Supporter’s Club. Adam Bowden-Smith. Jamie O'Grady and everyone at The Fighting Cocks, Josh Retallick, Lowri Spratt, Chris Goodman, Sara Anders. Jon Tolley and everyone at Banquet Records.

All songs written and arranged by Brendan except the trad ones what he didn't write.
Andy Mac wrote the words to Good Ship and then Brendan changed some when he wasn't looking.

Produced by Paul Matthews.
Mastered by Loz Gill at Fat As Funk.
 
Album artwork concept by The Lagan, artwork by William Exley.
 
Band Photograph by Miles Taylor, © eMTy PHOTOGRAPHY.
 
www.thelagan.co.uk

The Fields Of Athenry

London Irish Folk Punk!

The Lagan started its life like all the best ideas always do... two friends talkin' sh!te in a pub over several pints of the black stuff. The plan was to create the worlds best 'malfunction' band, who would play rowdy covers at parties of people slightly more drunk than ourselves for the princely fee of a couple pints and a plate of chips.

Needless to say, nothing happened for ages. And ages.

Until one day, in a minging rehearsal room in Leatherhead, a few brave souls gathered to see what sort of unholy racket they could make. In time, more lost souls climbed aboard the good ship Lagan, all prepared to sacrifice life and liver to create a sound with its collective feet planted firmly in traditonal Irish music, punk rock, ska and a bit of whatever you fancy.

We are The Lagan, the world's first malfunction band. We're probably the best band on the stage, and it's probably our round.

The Lagan's gigs are packed with smiling, merry, sweat-n-beer-soaked attendees from every demographic. As of June 2011, we have sold out the Spice of Life in Soho; been embraced warmly by the existing London Celtic Punk scene - sharing stages with BibleCode Sundays, Neck, Smokey Bastard, and Bastards On Parade; we were selected by IN-GB to perform in their St Patrick’s Day Parade Battle of the Bands Final; and on St Patrick’s Day 2011, we headlined the infamous indie club night New Slang, a slot usually reserved for signed bands on the cusp of stardom, to a packed crowd of dancing, singing, jigging revelers.

Oo-rye! Up The Lagan!

The Fields Of Athenry

The Lagan

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