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Blues and bluegrass outfit who release 'Ten Thousand' their new album this August on Bonzerat, the label behind Seasick Steve who has called them his "favourite new band".
POD Concerts presents
THE AGNOSTIC MOUNTAIN GOSPEL CHOIR
Support: THE SICK AND INDIGENT SONG CLUB
Thursday July 31st
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €14 available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets.
www.theagnostics.com
www.myspace.com/agnosticmgc
www.myspace.com/sickandindigentsongclub
IRISH TOUR JULY 2008
July 24th, Thursday – Black Box, Belfast
" 25th, Friday – Galway Arts Festival, Galway
" 26th, Saturday – CorkXSouthWest, Cork
" 31st, Thursday – CrawDaddy, Dublin
Yup. They're a quartet. And they're not from the mountains... The music, on the other hand, is not a joke. People often mention whiskey, brimstone, the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachian Mountains when they talk about their music. There are few bands who conjure the intensity of the original blues and folk music pioneers while uniting roots and rock audiences. The Agnostics are one of them.
Hollering, growling, and high, lonesome keening. Duelling slide guitars, tin can banjo, frenetic finger picking, sheet metal percussion, and pounding upright bass. That's The Agnostics.
Critics drop adjectives like 'punk', and make comparisons with Tom Waits, and Captain Beefheart. The band maintain that the punk spirit was born in Delta and the mountains. Beefheart and Waits know that too.
Since 2001 The Agnostics have fostered a devoted following in their native Canada and garnered impressive reviews for their first two releases, 'St. Hubert' (2003) and 'Fighting and Onions' (2005). Word spread across the prairies and over the Atlantic. Mark Lamarr is a convert – they played a rambunctious BBC Radio 2 session for him last year – and so is the roots legend, Seasick Steve. After gigs together at the Open House Festival in Belfast in 2006 and 2007 Steve proclaimed them "my new favourite band."
Now, Balling The Jack Records (a new subsidiary of Bronzerat Records) release their next CD, 'Ten Thousand' on Mon Aug 11th and the band are coming down from that mythical mountain to preach their own special kinda gospel. From Calgary to Calvary.
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