Garage that night. Fast forward 8 years and 100 gigs and counting and Man The Lifeboats are ploughing their full-throttle folked-up furrow on the festival circuit, winning over audiences at Moseley, Purbeck, Warwick, Swanage, Jurassic Fields, Beardy Folk, Folk in a Field, Bearded Theory, Deepdale, Ragged Bear and more, drawing comparisons to Bellowhead, Waterboys, Oyster band, the Levellers, and those folk-punk heroes the Pogues. The second album Soul Of Albion hit no. 27 in the Official Folk Charts in 2022. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, it sounds like Led Zeppelin arm-wrestling Shane McGowan in a Birmingham brewery, like Jimbo band Fruitbat fronting Fairport Convention, like The Albion Band turned up to 11 with their fiddles on fire. Tonic for these troubled times.
“9/10. A stomping musical cocktail of alchemic proportions” – OUTLINE MAGAZINE
“Sounds like The Men They Couldn’t Hang at Their Height meet The Clash-it’s a belter” FOLKING.COM
“Think The Pogues in overdrive with the breath of the Dropkick Murphys down their necks” – TURN UP THE VOLUME
“Superior Stuff”- CRACK MAGAZINE
“Excellent album, full of high-octane folk and dark rumination” – AMERICANA UK