fIDDLER'S GREEN

Their adventure began in the kitchen of a student's apartment when a few musicians got together to play music with an inimitable sound, a kind of folk rock mixed with punk, with a very strong Irish influence, which sometimes reminds us of the Pogues. From the very beginning, their energy is palpable and they meet an almost immediate success.

Some thirty years later, with fifteen studio and five live albums, they offer us their music in unplugged version on Acoustic Pub Crawl II - Live in Hamburg which follows a first acoustic live recording released in 2012. While the studio albums deliver a lively and rhythmic music, the live version perfectly restores all the energy they deploy during their concerts, even if for once the electric instruments have been put away.

Put the CD on your turntable, sit in your armchair with a glass of Guinness in your hand and you're transported to the heart of a pub, waving in the rhythm of their over-charged music. In sixteen titles we find some of the tracks that have enamelled their 30 years of existence. Let's quote in bulk A Night In Dublin, The Wind That Shakes The Barley or The Star Of The County Down. Not sure if you recognize these standards of the Irish tradition, as they have been put through the mill of their energy to the power of 100.

The six musicians of the band let themselves loose as usual and the listener will have a hard time staying in their seat as the power delivered by their music induces a very lively atmosphere. Energy in its purest form.

INDIGO CD 196072 - www.fiddlers.de