{"product_id":"shamrock-showband-shankhill-road-mission","title":"Shamrock Showband - Shankhill Road Mission","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHAMROCK SHOWBAND are just back from a wee tour of Scotland with \u003cbr\u003eJinx Lennon and are now gearing up for an Irish tour and the release of their \u003cbr\u003esecond album \"SHANKILL ROAD MISSION\".\u003cbr\u003eThere’s been a growing buzz about the Showband for the last few months \u003cbr\u003enow in the run up to this new album. Nialler9 called them his ‘new favourite \u003cbr\u003eband’ and described them as ‘If Father Ted and CMAT had a baby’ High \u003cbr\u003epraise indeed! They have received radio play from BBC Radio Ulster, been \u003cbr\u003eincluded in Irish track of the week lists by The Thin Air and Chordblossom and \u003cbr\u003egot a shout out in an article in The Irish Examiner as well.\u003cbr\u003eSpotlight tracks for the release of the album are Fascist Boogie (NSFW) which \u003cbr\u003eis about the assination of Charlie Kirk (lol) and Northern Train (SFW) which is \u003cbr\u003eabout the old train line, no longer with us that could have gotten you from \u003cbr\u003eDundalk to Donegal, something that would make band practice a lot easier if \u003cbr\u003eit was still about.\u003cbr\u003eSHAMROCK SHOWBAND are a psychedelic country and Irish band \u003cbr\u003econsisting of Conor McAuley (DUG) on fiddle, Jamie Bishop (MUCKNO, Jinx \u003cbr\u003eLennon) on guitar, samplers and synthesizers and Joel Harkin (Pedal \u0026amp; Lever \u003cbr\u003eSociety) on pedal steel guitar. They hail from the border counties of Louth \u003cbr\u003e(Dundalk), Monaghan (Castleblaney) and Donegal (Convoy) respectively.\u003cbr\u003eUnequal parts Irish country \u0026amp; western, psychedelic, folk and punk, \u003cbr\u003eSHAMROCK SHOWBAND are paying homage to and trying to revive the Irish \u003cbr\u003eShowband era. The Irish showband was a dance band format popular in \u003cbr\u003eIreland from the 1950s to the 1980s\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SHAMROCK SHOWBAND\/INDEPENDENT","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl","offer_id":55593567682887,"sku":"TRI-82453","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/c2bd17be-193d-4e79-bc99-17fcaf0dc40d.png?v=1793112835","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/shamrock-showband-shankhill-road-mission","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}