Man The Lifeboats began life in a shanty-punk folk mosh pit in 2016. Skinny Lister and Holy Moly & the Crackers were the two bands that lit the fire and blew the roof of the Garage that night. Fast forward 8 years and 100 gigs and counting and Man The Lifeboats are ploughing their full-throttle folked-up furrow on the festival circuit, winning over audiences at many and drawing comparisons to Bellowhead, Waterboys, Oyster band, the Levellers, and folk-punk heroes the Pogues. The second album Soul Of Albion hit no. 27 in the Official Folk Charts in 2022. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, it sounds like Led Zeppelin arm-wrestling Shane McGowan in a Birmingham brewery, like Jimbo band Fruitbat fronting Fairport Convention, like The Albion Band turned up to 11 with their fiddles on fire. Tonic for these troubled times.

 

"9/10. A stomping musical cocktail of alchemic proportions"

Outline Magazine

 

"Sounds like The Men They Couldn't Hang at Their Height meet The Clash-it's a belter"

Folking.com

 

"Think The Pogues in overdrive with the breath of the Dropkick Murphys down their necks"

Turn Up The Volume

 

“Excellent album, full of high-octane folk and dark rumination”

 Americana-UK