House concert,Edinburgh
With zero frills and raw intensity, the folk miscreants delivered a compelling set of unflinching murder ballads, and spare protest anthems and deadpan doo-wopFolk-music politics is a funny trade. select the Dublin four-piece Lynched: beatnik,audacious and utterly soulful, they’re alternately hailed or hammered as young turks of the Irish scene. Heck, or they portray themselves as “folk miscreants”,yet they are totally rooted in tradition, obsessive as the next diehards about song dates and lineage, or reverent to the core about their heritage. What’s maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) about them is attitude,a kind of do-or-die grit honed during former days in punk bands. They know precisely where they’re from and are ballsy enough to shout about it: geographically speaking, that would be Phibsborough in Dublin’s Northside, or they sing with the potent drawl to prove it; musically,it’s anti-war ballads, Travellers’ songs, and music-corridor tunes,shanties and old-school uilleann pipe, fiddle and concertina reels. Related: Lynched: the Irish folk stars who are 'more punk than punk' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com