Mr H Presents
The Rumjacks
Shanghai Treason + Mistakes
Tuesday 16th August, 7.30pm
Tickets are £15 in advance (more on the door) and are available online via See Tickets.
We’re delighted to tell you The Rumjacks visit to York has now been rescheduled and will take place on Tuesday 16th August.
All tickets are valid for the new date but refunds are also available from your point of purchase.
Thanks for your patience!’
From heavy Celtic roots to driving punk, ska/reggae to well-oiled sing-alongs and choking ballads, The Rumjacks’ brand of Celtic Punk earned them 72m YouTube views for breakthrough track ‘An Irish Pub Song’ alongside a manic worldwide touring regime.
And latest album ‘Hestia’ introduces new lead singer Mike Rivkees, whose songwriting skills have rejuvenated the band’s collaborative spirit!
For fans of Ferocious Dog, Levellers, Dropkick Murphys, Anti Flag, Gogol Bordello and so much more.
Dancing and stomping boots, please…
Hestia, the fifth studio album from The Rumjacks, marks a new era for the band.
The album introduces new lead singer Mike Rivkees, whose songwriting skills have rejuvenated The Rumjacks collaborative spirit.
Hestia takes the energy of traditional folk music, lights it on fire, then sprinkles it with ash. Dark, gritty, and historically aware, this is music grounded in the character of the Rebel.
When writing Hestia (named after the Greek goddess of home and hearth), bandmembers Mike Rivkees (vocals), Johnny McKelvey (bass), Gabe Whitbourne (guitar), Adam Kenny (bouzouki/mandolin), and Pietro Della Sala (drums) apply their diverse American, Australian, Italian, and Irish perspectives to create a new, globalized iteration of the Celtic punk legacy dating back to The Pogues, with the punk, ska, and hard rock sounds pulsing through their veins.
The album was recorded under strict Covid-conditions in Milan, Italy where the band stayed and created this new album through August, September and October 2020.
For twelve years, The Rumjacks have written songs that you cannot help but start singing by the second chorus, even if you have never heard them before.
In this short career, they have released four acclaimed studio albums and two live albums that capture their most renowned asset: their electric energy onstage. That organic energy has garnered them a far-reaching fanbase.
Lead single ‘Sainted Millions’ gives longtime Rumjacks fans exactly what they need; loud, fast, rousing and fun!
Sainted Millions is a drunken chat between the living and the dead. The intro was written to be reminiscent of a soldiers’ song from wars of yesterday, all of whom lay resting. With imagery of fresh spirits carelessly walking through battlefields, mid-fight, as tracer rounds whistle by overhead, the sentiment is that there is peace once on the other side.
The military references arise from the writer’s walk through an old New England cemetery- and some of the characters you’d chance upon in such a place.
“Sleeping sainted millions, can you tell me what you know? Sing to me a song you wrote beneath your pile of stone.” The dead’s response, “I wouldn’t trade it for another, and I would do it all again.”
The song is a celebration of life from the grave.
Mr H Presents
The Rumjacks
Shanghai Treason + Mistakes
Tuesday 16th August, 7.30pm
Tickets are £15 in advance (more on the door) and are available online via See Tickets.