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:: The Rusty Razor  Ref: COOKCD074
 
 
 
The Rusty Razor

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Since their formation back in the summer of 1990, Goats Don't Shave have risen to become one of the most popular bands Ireland has ever produced.

Their name comes from a pub incident in which a drunken old man was told to go and have a shave and clean himself up - his response was to walk away muttering the words Goats Don't Shave!!

They began performing their Celtic folk-rock in between their day jobs; which included plumbing and fishing, at which point the lads started to pick up regular bookings. Next they went around the country, cadging money to record a small tape. There were five songs on it, we got 500 copies run off and started to sell it locally. These sold, so we got another 500, these sold, so we got 1000 etc. The word must have got about, as record companies started investigating us, says Declan.

We didn't start out intentionally to be a band...it just took over our lives!

Since then, the band have gone from strength to strength, never looking back. Five top singles and a series of sell out gigs at British Universities and Irish concert halls followed and 1993 saw the Goats stealing shows at the prestigious Glastonbury and Cambridge festivals. In the same year they were voted Best Band by Time Out Magazine.

In 1994, the Goats released their first album through Cooking Vinyl, The Rusty Razor. This fiery mix of folk, traditional music and rock was hailed by critics as an absolute classic, and the album went gold in Ireland. Following such success they released a second album later that year, Out in the Open, a rockier, much rounder piece which maintained their well earned reputation as a band capable of great things.

Three years later, however, the band decided to take a sabbatical, while their frontman, Pat Gallagher retreated to Ireland to work alone. Gallagher, originally a singer/songwriter from Donegal, had always been the band's chief songwriter and the member with the richest musical history. Born one of four children, Gallagher began touring with his three sisters at a young age, having won two gold medals at the Ulster Fleadh Cheoil for English and Irish singing at just eleven.

The family band fell apart after four years, after which Gallagher went on to join several local bands, including Double Vision, The Cream Buns and 3PM. It was with 3PM that Gallagher's talent was first recognised, and a Dublin Record Company released their first single Picture On the Wall, which received national airplay for four weeks. Gallagher then moved on to form his own band, Roaring Meg, whose album was released in 1988. It was around this time that he began working with the group of musicians which were to become Goats Don't Shave.

After some months of playing a series of solo acoustic gigs, Gallagher returned to work with his former band members, resulting in the production of Tor, a Pat Gallagher - Goats Don't Shave collaboration. This insightful album, named after the area in which it was recorded, hosts a beautiful new medley of sounds, fusing their well established Irish folk with Jazz, Blues and Gospel influences. Pat Gallagher is to continue his work as a solo artist but Goats Don't Shave will be no more.

We've still tried to keep the Irish feel to our music, with all the instruments and I think we'll always want to keep that.
 


 


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