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No Vans Mary

by Shameless Seamus

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1.
The Eternal 04:55
2.
Irish Rose 04:07
3.
You & Me & The Princes Highway 05:04
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The Rose 05:31
5.
The Parting Glass (Trad arr Moginie) 03:33
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Strange Beauty 02:56
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My Irish Heart 04:02
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Floating Away 04:26
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Belanglo 03:01
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Messenger Birds 05:11
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Nature's Ode 03:39
12.
Smoke Over The Road 06:03

about

With a name like that, clearly this character will go to any lengths – unlike his alter ego the shy and retiring Mr Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil.
‘I had met my birth family and found they were Irish. Inspired by that culture, and tuning into those voices, this record came into being.’
Moginie is adopted but has always felt Irish. Perhaps the Celtic look of him gave it away every time he looked in the mirror – but it was only in recent times that he finally met up with his birth family where the immediate sense of at homeness was as comfortable as his old Aran sweater.
‘It’s more of an outpouring than a normal record. It happened fast. We were lucky to be able to catch it when we did.’
Seamus’ first long playing record, ‘No Vans Mary’ tunes into his Irish heritage, exploring the culture of dislocation. Irish Australian immigrants in a strange landscape, yearning for what they have left behind – but harnessing the power of music to unite both streams to create something new. A battered suitcase, some wild hopes and Irish luck.
Between them, Seamus and Jim played most of the instruments in a marathon session in a drafty shack deep in the Australian bush, in the dead of winter.
‘I made the record deliberately sparse, meaning I could do most of the playing in the process without a band.
Engineer Brent Clark and I threw a laptop and some instruments in a car and headed for the bush… for a bone numbing winters’ 7 days of cold, watching steam rise when we sang, mice running down the power cords, giant eucalypts swishing judging and creaking, wombats-a-thumping, recording songs as we went, with a wood fire struggling and Australian birds making noise they can only do.’

credits

released April 29, 2013

Shameless Seamus vocals, footsteps, 12 and 6 string acoustic guitars, Gretsch Country Gentleman, tiple, tenor and soprano ukeleles, accordion, harmonium, upright piano, ruined piano, programming, optigan, acoustic and keyboard bass, minimoog, samples, percussion.
Suzy Flowers on vocals, Elizabeth Geyer on flugelhorn, Kevin Kelly on bodhran and Luke Bonic on drums.

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Shameless Seamus and The Tullamore Dews Liverpool, Australia

Irish Traditional music with a Heavy Bottom.
Hang on to your four leaf clovers. They’re about to be blown away.
SS and the TD’s have worked up a set that draws from two cultures, Irish roots and Australian rock.

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