Dropkick Murphy's Put on quite a show at The Joint!! Bagpipes and all!!

  

DROPKICK MURPHY'S:
One of the most beloved punk-inspired bands in the world brought their
live show to The Joint on Friday, August 6.

From meager beginnings playing all-ages matinees at now-defunct Boston clubs to a prominent placement in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning film, “The Departed”, the Dropkick Murphy’s have evolvedover the past decade into one of the most beloved punk-inspired bandsin the world. Now, with “The Meanest Of Times”, their sixth studio album of spirited, cathartic and heartfelt anthems, the oft-cherished
seven-piece outfit has also launched its own record label, Born & Bred Records, as a means to bring new DKM music to the world while assuming full control of their destiny.

As evidenced by the explosive, uncompromising and downright brilliant album-opener, “Famous For Nothing” and the set bowing, optimistic roar of “Never Forget”, “The Meanest Of Times” is book-ended in top form and captures among its fifteen tracks what founding bassist Ken Casey calls “themes of childhood, growing up and family”.

The band performed at the Sex Pistols’ infamous 2002 Golden Jubilee gig, Wrote the theme song to the highly improbable 2004 Red Sox World Series Championship, their first in 86 years. Collaborated with Woody Guthrie’s estate to utilize the folk pioneer’s unpublished lyrics to craft “Gonna Be A Blackout”. And there was that critical use of  “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” from“ The Warrior’s Code” in the aforementioned
Scorsese movie “The Departed”.

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