Don't Call me Ishmael
Captain's Bar
Lichfield St, Hanley
Mar 9, 2024
7:00 PM GMT
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Don't Call me Ishmael Biography
‘Purveyors of rambunctious pop and heart-on-the sleeve romanticism.’
Don’t Call Me Ishmael are a band from Staffordshire who have morphed, over the course of two low-key albums, into purveyors of rambunctious pop and heart-on-the sleeve romanticism.
With a wide-eyed commitment to making their point, intertwined with a fine ear for melody, they tread the line between Frank Turner’s hard hitting agit-pop and The Decemberists’ storytelling folk sensibilities.
A five-piece outfit containing two sets of siblings, Don’t Call Me Ishmael have an intuitive feel that such familial ties bring. As you would expect with a band that contains five vocalists, they produce razor-sharp harmonies and truth-soaked lyrics straight out of the Loudon Wainwright or Billy Bragg songbook.
Their third album; ‘Saint Ishmael’ is released in late February 2019 digitally, and on vinyl, on Droma Records. Containing their 2018 single; ‘Blood is thicker’, the album veers between the gently life-affirming ballad ‘Until you can’t run anymore’ and the self-destructive garage rock ‘Schism’. The album’s release will see them win the hearts of audiences nationwide as they head out on a UK tour.
Read MoreDon’t Call Me Ishmael are a band from Staffordshire who have morphed, over the course of two low-key albums, into purveyors of rambunctious pop and heart-on-the sleeve romanticism.
With a wide-eyed commitment to making their point, intertwined with a fine ear for melody, they tread the line between Frank Turner’s hard hitting agit-pop and The Decemberists’ storytelling folk sensibilities.
A five-piece outfit containing two sets of siblings, Don’t Call Me Ishmael have an intuitive feel that such familial ties bring. As you would expect with a band that contains five vocalists, they produce razor-sharp harmonies and truth-soaked lyrics straight out of the Loudon Wainwright or Billy Bragg songbook.
Their third album; ‘Saint Ishmael’ is released in late February 2019 digitally, and on vinyl, on Droma Records. Containing their 2018 single; ‘Blood is thicker’, the album veers between the gently life-affirming ballad ‘Until you can’t run anymore’ and the self-destructive garage rock ‘Schism’. The album’s release will see them win the hearts of audiences nationwide as they head out on a UK tour.
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