Man The Lifeboats

Date Thursday 5 Mar 2026

Doors 7:00 pm Show starts: 7:30 pm

Advance price £15.00

Door price £17.00

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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 Moseley, Purbeck, Warwick, Swanage, Jurassic Fields, Beardy Folk, Folk in a Field, Bearded Theory, Deepdale, Ragged Bear and more, drawing comparisons to Bellowhead, Waterboys, Oyster band, the Levellers, and those 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 Jimbob and 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 meets 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

“Combining swirling punk-folk with biting politics. My kinda band.” – TURN UP THE VOLUME

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