THE EARL BROTHERS

Thursday 27th September
The Black Box, Cathedral Quarter
Doors 8pm // £10

Tickets available from Belfast Welcome Centre on
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Stanley Brothers meets the Ramones - darker than the blackest night, scarier than Deliverance and so damn hot they leave a vapour trail

This is the Earl Brothers first visit to Ireland. Back home they’ve been making the more conservative heads of mainstream American Bluegrass spin with their jaggy rock ‘n’ roll attitude. However, their edgy writing and performance style is just what was needed to shake off the Mr Nice Guy image that has given Bluegrass a look and sound just too squeaky clean to be healthy.

Bluegrass Now Magazine listed the band's Troubles To Blame album in its Top Ten of 2006. New converts who’ve been playing their music this side of the Atlantic include BBC’s Andy Kershaw, and Bob Harris called it “hotter than a chilli stew”.

Robert Earl Davis (banjo), John McKelvy (guitar), Larry Hughes (mandolin) and Josh Sidman (bass) are at the cutting-edge of a movement so new, it has yet to be definitively named. Hillbilly Goth, anyone? Don’t miss your chance to hear some epic songs about death, whiskey, chasing and losing women and the occasional honky tonk gospel number to atone for all their transgressions.

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