From right to left The Publicans are:
Peeg vocals mandolin, Lindsay Gee whistle vocals, Craig Palmer guitar vocals spoons,
Vania Vitillo vocals guitar bass, Jon Bull piano, Stew Black bass vocals, Simon Lambert drums vocals
The 14 Legged Beast That Aught to Know Better.
What started out with a song lamenting the closing of our favourite pub somehow grew into a lively heap of true and untrue stories about life, love, drink and the inappropriate use of dairy squirty cream. Our style is mix of Irish folk and English indie, played with reckless enthusiasm and good humor.
As a great man once said ‘There’s nothing to be gained by a wet thing called a tear.'
Not all our songs are happy but there’s no harm seeking light in the darkness.
Gig List..
Friday 10th January 2020
Flan O’Briens - Bath
Dry January? Don’t be a Dafty! We’re here to guide you back to the one true path.
Session on from 9.30pm
21 Westgate St, Bath BA1 1EP
Listen to our EP 'Us Against the World
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Here we are playing ‘McManus'
at The Cabbage Patch - Twickenham
Saturday 2nd November 2019
Friday 1st November 2019
Flan O’Briens - Bath
Love this pub, its awesome landlord and its splendid punters!
Session on from 9.30pm
Flan O'Briens, 21 Westgate St, Bath BA1 1EP
Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th December 2019
The Melton Mowbray Christmas Folk Trail
Two days six gigs and at least one collosal piss up
Saturdays gigs
The Half Moon - 2.40 • The Crown Inn - 4.00 • The Generous Briton - 7.20
Sundays gigs
The Harboro Hotel - 2.00 • BeerHeadz - 5.20 • The Boat -7.20
The Melton Mowbray Christmas Folk Trail is completly free and takes place in pubs and restaurants in the town centre of Melton Mowbray.
It is organised by the Melton Folk Club and features a huge roster of acts from all over the country. We love it!!
The following is from the Melton Folk website and sums up the vibe of the fest and their splendid attitude to music and creative performance:
"We encourage a wide variety of styles within our club, almost to the point of "All Music is Folk Music". From Medieval and Renaissance lute music and song, through folk song and dance of later centuries, to the more recent folk revival and singer/songwriter genre. We also encourage the reading and writing of poetry as an adjunct to the music. We embrace the various traditions of music of the British Isles and the Blues and Country music of the USA, along with less well known styles of the rest of the world"
Thursday 26th December 2019
The Riverside Christmas Party
Midsomer Norton
An absolutely brilliant way to get over turkey sweats.
A bar full of brilliant people, a bouncey castle for the kids and a band to have a bloody good dance to!!
Session on from 3.30pm
Tickets £5 in advance from the bar.
115 High St, Midsomer Norton, Radstock BA3 2DA
Saturday 28th December 2019
The Rolleston Arms Hotel - Swindon
First time at the is legendary Swindon music venue.
Session on from 9.00pm
73 Commercial Road, Swindon , SN1 5NX
Saturday 28th March 2019
The Queen’s Tap - Swindon
First time at the is legendary Swindon music venue.
Session on from 9.00pm
73 Commercial Road, Swindon , SN1 5NX
Saturday 24th August 2019
Midsomer Norton Rugby Club
Family fun day with the sweary, drunken hoard that is The Publicans
Session on from 2.00pm
Sunday 5th May 2019
The Riverside - Midsomer Norton
Bank holiday folkery from the 12 legged beast.
Session on from 9.30pm
115 High St, Midsomer Norton, Radstock BA3 2DA
Sunday 17th March 2019
Tap Social - St Patricks Day - Oxford
A brewery and a bar run by brilliant people, ‘nuff said.
Session on from 3.00pm
27 Curtis Industrial Estate, North Hinksey Lane, Oxford OX2 0LX
Saturday 24th August 2019
The Bath Brew House - Bath
It’s a brewery AND a pub what’s not to like!!!
Session on from 9pm
14 James Street West, BA1 2BX
Saturday 13th July 2019
The Big Gig - Midsomer Norton
The Publicans bring the craic to this monster one day fest in Somerset's golden north.
Session on from 4.30pm
Paulton Rovers football ground, Winterfield Rd, BS39 7RF Paulton
Sláinte
Some songs about drinking and stuff
Here’s a few songs from the set
There’s more drunken nonsense on our Bandcamp page.
Southampton
Steamboat Song
I’ll point two fingers to the sky,
you can kiss my arse goodbye
Listen with...
Stowford Press. When you absolutely, positively got to get completely pissed, accept no substitutes.
The Dublin Stag
Concerns the adventures of the 27 legged beast in the capital of Éire
Listen with...
Mark recommends
Guinness with a Jameson chaser, repeat.
Wunderbar
(the Bastard)
The best pub ever,
where even Death would not set foot.
Listen with...
Peeg recommends Thatchers Gold or a skin full of Thatchers Katy if you really fancy a Wunderbar NDE!
Six ’til Two
The battle of the pay cheque,
as It was in 1981
Listen with...
15 pints of Hofmeister followed by a scrap in the Jack o’ Lent (for that full 80’s retro feeling)
