The Mahones got together with friends & Belfast punk legends The Defects at their studio, The Doghouse, to record a few fun covers. Here's the first one, a cover of  - The Undertones' hit song.  Enjoy!

Teenage Kicks ft. The Defects - Undertones Cover

The story behind A Great Night On The Lash (Live It Italy)...

"The Mahones had not recorded a live cd for over 10 years, and we needed a new one that featured the latest line up with the amazing Katie Kaboom. The last live album, "Live At The Horseshoe",  was recorded around the "Here Comes Lucky", period and released in 2003. It was recorded in Toronto, Canada in the fall of 2000.

I thought it was time to make another one, and I also thought that this time, it should be recorded at a show in one of our favourite places to tour: Europe. We were about 10 months into the Angels & Devils World Tour and I was looking for the right place and venue to do this. I found the perfect venue at Arena Ritten in Bolzano, Italy at the Rock im Ring 20th Anniversary Festival. We headlined the arena on the Saturday night. Our pals Suicidal Tendencies headlined the same venue the night before. Here is the back story I just told to The Ottawa Citizen newspaper:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Mahones+find+success+their+terms/9301357/story.html

One highlight of the ongoing tour was a concert in Italy last summer when the Mahones played an arena show for a crowd of 5,000 people. At the sound check, McConnell couldn’t help but notice all the equipment was new and high quality so he asked if he could record the concert. The answer was yes, but he didn’t tell the others in the band.

“That’s the secret to recording a concert,” McConnell says. “Don’t tell anybody. As soon as you tell anybody, they get red-light fever and overthink it and make mistakes. If you don’t tell anybody, they just play music and it’s not even on their mind.

“We were on fire that night. We’d been touring and were a good year into it at this point. We did a great show. It was awesome.”
The recording, titled A Great Night at the Lash: Live in Italy, comes out in February, the first of two releases planned for next year. 

Despite recording most of the record in Italy, we added an additional three studio bonus cuts captured at Belfast, Ireland's Doghouse recording studio to cap the collection, which features covers of tracks like the Undertones' "Teenage Kicks." The Belfast recordings also include performances with Belfast punk legends The Defects. We recorded three of the cover songs we were doing in rotation on that tour during the encores. The Defects supported The Mahones on the  Irish leg of the world tour and we had them onstage singing these songs with us every night!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the show. It was an amazing gig, the Italian fans were wild as always, and The Mahones were on fire that night. That was a night I will never forget. I loved every minute of it!

- Finny McConnell
  The Mahones

Whiskey Under The Bridge  (Live)

Paint The Town Red (Live)

Shakespeare Road (Live)

The story behind A Great Night On The Lash (Live It Italy)...

"The Mahones had not recorded a live cd for over 10 years, and we needed a new one that featured the latest line up with the amazing Katie Kaboom. The last live album, "Live At The Horseshoe", was recorded around the "Here Comes Lucky", period and released in 2003. It was recorded in Toronto, Canada in the fall of 2000.

I thought it was time to make another one, and I also thought that this time, it should be recorded at a show in one of our favourite places to tour: Europe. We were about 10 months into the Angels & Devils World Tour and I was looking for the right place and venue to do this. I found the perfect venue at Arena Ritten in Bolzano, Italy at the Rock im Ring 20th Anniversary Festival. We headlined the arena on the Saturday night. Our pals Suicidal Tendencies headlined the same venue the night before. Here is the back story I just told to The Ottawa Citizen newspaper:

www.ottawacitizen.com/Mahones+find+s…357/story.html

One highlight of the ongoing tour was a concert in Italy last summer when the Mahones played an arena show for a crowd of 5,000 people. At the sound check, McConnell couldn’t help but notice all the equipment was new and high quality so he asked if he could record the concert. The answer was yes, but he didn’t tell the others in the band.

“That’s the secret to recording a concert,” McConnell says. “Don’t tell anybody. As soon as you tell anybody, they get red-light fever and overthink it and make mistakes. If you don’t tell anybody, they just play music and it’s not even on their mind.

“We were on fire that night. We’d been touring and were a good year into it at this point. We did a great show. It was awesome.”
The recording, titled A Great Night at the Lash: Live in Italy, comes out in February, the first of two releases planned for next year.

Despite recording most of the record in Italy, we added an additional three studio bonus cuts captured at Belfast, Ireland's Doghouse recording studio to cap the collection, which features covers of tracks like the Undertones' "Teenage Kicks." The Belfast recordings also include performances with Belfast punk legends The Defects. We recorded three of the cover songs we were doing in rotation on that tour during the encores. The Defects supported The Mahones on the Irish leg of the world tour and we had them onstage singing these songs with us every night!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the show. It was an amazing gig, the Italian fans were wild as always, and The Mahones were on fire that night. That was a night I will never forget. I loved every minute of it!

- Finny McConnell
The Mahones

A Great Night On The Lash (Live)

Jameson Street

Lonesome Boatman

Freeway Toll

Fiddle On Fire

Devil In Every Bottle

Last Call At The Bar

Rise Up (Be Strong)

Watch Me Fall

Holloway Jack

She Comes For Love

Unplugged

A Little Bit Of Love (feat.Damhnait Doyle)

Punk Rock Saved My Life

Fuck You

The Mahones' latest critically-acclaimed studio album is receiving rave reviews worldwide. Check out the track 'Paint the Town Red', featured in the climactic final fight scene of Academy-Award winning film 'The Fighter'

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A Great Night On The Lash

Paint The Town Red [2010 - The Fi

25 Years of Irish Punk: The Very Best

Queen & Tequila (2016)

One Last Shot (2016)

Streets of New York (2016)

Angels & Devils

Shakespeare Road

Paint The Town Red (the Best of...)

One Last Shot

Across The USA

Is This Bar Open 'Til Tomorrow

Paint The Town Red

Here Comes Lucky

Whiskey Devils

Drunken Lazy Bastard

Rise Again

Paint the Town Red

Draggin' the Days

Hurt

The Hunger & The Fight (Deluxe Edition)

Brian Boru's March

Pint of Plain (A Drop of the Pure)

Girl With Galway Eyes

Draggin' The Days

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 The Irish Punk Brigade. Est. 1990

*2015 Winner for Best Album - Shite N Onions (The Hunger & The Fight Part 2)*
*2014 Winner for Best Celtic Punk Album - Punk.ie (The Hunger & The Fight)*
*2013 Sirius XM Independent Music Award Nominee – Best Punk Band*
*2012 Independent Music Award Winners for Best Punk Album (The Black Irish)*

From an Irish pub to an Academy Award winning movie: The Mahones have come a long way in 25 years. Heralded as pioneers of the Irish punk scene, and internationally recognized as one of the best and hardest working punk outfits around, The Mahones formed on St. Patrick's Day in 1990, and have been working on their own brand of Irish punk ever since. With a working class ethic and a love of classic punk, Dublin-born Finny McConnell formed the band to combine his love of punk rock with his Irish culture. Alongside McConnell are Katie Kaboom, Michael O’Grady, Sean Winter, and Sean "Riot" Ryan. In 2016, Scruffy Wallace re-joined The Mahones after 14 years with Dropkick Murphys.

The Mahones have released an incredible ten studio albums, three compilation albums, two live albums and two EPs. Their albums have featured many guest appearances, including Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers), Simon Townshend (The Who), Ken Casey and Rick Barton (Dropkick Murphys), Dave Baksh (Sum 41), Greg Keelor (Blue Rodeo), Tony Duggins (The Tossers), Johnny Fay and Gord Sinclair (The Tragically Hip), Ian D'Sa (Billy Talent), Mary Margaret O'Hara, Ian Blurton, Damhnait Doyle, Ian Thornley and Tara Slone. Their music has been featured everywhere. Their song “Paint the Town Red” was featured in the climactic final fight scene of the 2x Academy Award-winning film The Fighter. They’ve had songs in a slew of movies and TV shows, including Irving Welsh's Ecstasy, Dog Park, Celtic Pride, ABC’s Castle, Lost Girl, and many more.

The band has toured through 35 countries internationally, headlined festivals all over the world, and has been honoured to share a stage with nearly all of their favourite bands. The band grew from Irish pubs and punk squats, to halls, theatres and arenas, touring relentlessly since their start, and is famous for an incredible high-energy live show.

In 2016, The Mahones are releasing a best of compilation: The Very Best (25 Years of Irish Punk) featuring brand new recordings of their classics songs on Whiskey Devil Records, and a deluxe version of their magnum opus The Hunger & The Fight, the first ever Irish punk double concept album that the band recently released to critical acclaim worldwide. In 2010, The Mahones started their own record label, Whiskey Devil Records, and have already released their past five albums through it, with major distribution worldwide (eOne, Wolverine Records). Sailor’s Grave Records will be releasing The Mahones’ 2016 albums in the US.

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