Hopefully a little shameless self promotion here is OK. I play with Boston band The Gobshites, and we're pretty heavily influenced by the Pogues & a lot of early punk rock. In addition to a few Pogues songs, we regularly cover the Nips' Nervous Wreck. On 2/19/09, we're playing at [url=http://www.churchofboston.com/]The Church[/url] in Boston for a show where each band picks a favorite album to cover from start to finish. We're doing Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash. The other bands are doing a Jam album & a Queers album. The only one that we already do is Dirty Old Town, so everything else will be the first time for us.

Phoist, give them another shot.
I don't think they currently have a whistle player after the departure of the last one. That hurts some of their live tunes, especially their cover of "Streams of Whiskey". I've seen these guys 5 times. By the third time, I wa impressed enough to purchase a t-shirt.
I've got two albums and I enjoy both immensely. "I only drink stout" and "Shane's Dentist" are great, high energy tunes.

Don't mean to be a prick or a killjoy but saw them in Boston(well cambridge) and wasnt really impressed. It was all a bit hackneyed and predictable. There are plenty of other bands that do more or less the same thing and do it better.

In The "tradition" of The Pogues, Black 47 and Flogging Molly, The Gobshites might turn an old Irish standard into a rock and roll rave up...
but turnabout being fair play, The Gobshites turn the tables and transform old punk rock songs like Black Flag's "Six Pack" or the Ramones "Long Way Back" into Irish sing-alongs!

Check it out
http://www.myspace.com/gobshites
tell us what you think!

also...
check out a little live video here

http://www.people.hbs.edu/bwiderski/vid ... er-web.mov

Here's a review from The Providence, RI USA Phoenix

[b]The Gobshites: When the Shite Hits the Fans[/b]

I've often asked myself, or someone like me, "Gee, I wonder what you'd get if a bunch of drunken Irish yobs — musicians, that is — all got together and decided to cover hardcore punk rock tunes about their favorite subject: drinking!?" Well, before I could get a decent answer from myself, the Gobshites beat me to it with their debut CD. It's the sound of a fun-lovin' bunch of drinking buddies kicking up their heels and revving through a kegger of hearty ale.

Don't believe me? Well, the 'Shites dig into tunes like Stiff Little Fingers' "Drinkin' Again," Black Flag's "Six Pack," and GG Allin's "Drink Fight and Fuck." Hell knows there's enough punk rock drinkin' songs for the lads to choose from. Shane MacGowan and the Mekons weren't even touched this time through . . . Over the years, Irish-oriented bands — Black 47, Flogging Molly, et at. — have provided us with some serious good-time fun from the stage, and the Gobshites take their rightful place on that illustrious list. Led by occasional punk rocker Pete Walsh (Meat Depressed) on vox, guitar, and pennywhistle, and flanked by fiddle, accordion, mandolin, banjo, drums, and bass, the band never loses its head, never turns the songs into a bloody mess. Each instrument is given a little room to breathe. My only gripe is that it doesn't really do their rollicking live shows the kind of justice they deserve. But, realistically, would that ever be possible when sights and smells are still a long way away from showing up on CD? [b]Bob Gulla - Providence Phoenix[/b]

[quote="Steamboat"]Pete, you oughta submit your review to Shite'n'Onions, they'd put it up for sure.

Will[/quote]

I sent them a cd a while ago...they're including one of our original songs CHEERS (RAISE A PINT on their next compilation...It's a remix by Ed Stasium!
They said they'd get around to writing a review...soon...

check out some of the songs yerselves at
http://www.myspace.com/gobshites

I'll post a few more reviews later.[/img]

[quote="Steamboat"]Cheerums, bloody great to be aboard ![/quote]

How's Australia treatin ya?

Cheerums, bloody great to be aboard !

Johnny Thunders...The real God of mainstream punk..

Welcome to the website!

Pete, you oughta submit your review to Shite'n'Onions, they'd put it up for sure.

Will

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THE GOBSHITES - When the Shite Hits the Fans (Goodcop Badcop Records) "FECK OFF OR BUY ME A BEER" - That's the motto printed on the back of their t-shirts and the prevailing attitude of Boston based band the Gobshites. Started as a side project by gracefully aging punk rocker Pete Walsh, a.k.a. Pete Depressed, the Gobshites mix the drunken punk sensibility of Pete's other band, Meat Depressed, with traditional Irish musical stylings to form an utterly unique and outrageously fun new genre which they've dubbed acousticelticore. On their first release on Goodcop/Badcop Records the Gobshites augment the punk rock essentials of guitar, bass and drums with banjo, fiddle, pennywhistle, mandolin, accordion and even bagpipes to put a distinctly Irish spin on some exceedingly obscure punk gems from both sides of the Atlantic. And when it comes to mining punk gold Pete definitely knows his shite. This eclectic collection of beer soaked ditties and raucous sing-along kicks off with "Hurry Up Harry" by punk legends Sham 69 and segues into "Let's Get Drunk" by the U.K. Subs, a song that sums up the Gobshites mood about as well as their logo, a leprechaun flipping the bird that was drawn by John Holmstrom of PUNK magazine. Some of the covers of more well known punk icons include "Drinking Again" by Stiff Little Fingers, "Some Hearts", a tender ballad by Johnny Thunders, and its polar opposite, "Drink Fight & Fuck" by G.G. Allin. A couple of the more obscure British covers include "Arsehole" by Snuff and "Guinness Boys", an ode to the black nectar of the beer gods originally done by the Business as a soccer hooligan anthem. Sex Pistols, Ramones and Black Flag are well represented with a fittingly faithful version of the Pistols take on "Friggin' in the Riggin'", a re-work of "It's a Long Way Back" and a version of "6 Pack" that is, in a word, Brilliant! In a nod to their heritage they include "Irish" by Boston's own punk legends Darkbuster. Since they were formed as a side project they pay homage to the tradition with a cover of Dee Dee King's punk rap song "2 Much 2 Drink" and a pair of songs by the Yobs, a Christmas project by Brit punk band the Boys, that includes "Christmas Eve in the Boozer" and will have you singing out loud "Whoops I've done a liquid fart". The notion of a side project comes full circle with an Irish tinged remake of Meat Depressed's "Cheers (Raise a Pint)". This is one of the catchiest, most listenable discs i've heard in a long time and their 7 piece live show is one hell of a drunken good time so check the dates on their site, go to a show and get roaring pissed. - Lou Costa http://www.askewreviews.com