The Town Pants

The Town Pants 8th CD release, this album features all original songs, barn-burners and ballads, introspective and irreverent...
This is the first album featuring fiddler Johanna So as well as drummer Jeff Tripoli.
Additional musicians include Spirit of the West's Geoff Kelly, Hugh McMillan and Tobin Frank, as well as Keith Rose, Francois Houle, JP Carter, Michael Teigan, Mark Henning and Isabelle Dunlop.

The lads know their instruments well, and Kyle Taylor is a demon on the fiddle, but when everyone kicks into overdrive, which they do many times, the melee turns incandescent. Ah, but here's a kick an' a half fer ya: they cover speed metal gods Iron Maiden's Run for the Hills in a cloverfield rendition!! Yee-haw, but that there's my kinda eclecticism, Seamus! Bawdy, ribald, maverick, and as talented as any three other such bands, the Pants have worked through four previous CDs to arrive at this festive, arse shakin', effervescent collection of serially inspiring earthy songs fraught with passion, cynicism, iconoclasm, and, well, you know the Irish: we loves us our liquor we does and thus never forgets the raising of the wrist, y'all.

Recorded live at the Blarney Stone in early 2007, the reeling, fiddle-fuelled disc includes traditional numbers like "New South Wales" and "Boys of the Old Brigade", contemporary covers such as a sudsy take on Boney M.'s twisted dance classic "Rasputin", and originals. The band's own tunes–such as the instrumental reel "Gin & Milk", the besotted love song "Come with Me", and the rebellious "The Old Landlord"–have the spit and fire of punkish Celtic rock. It's more Dropkick Murphys than Spirit of the West or the Paperboys, and has a roguish edge inspired by legendary rabble-rousers the Pogues.