Mick O'Toole formed in 2012 In the deepest darkest Shire, Wiltshire in a town called Calne. This town would be the breeding ground to where we honed our style of chaotic English Punk with our ancestral Celtic and English Folk to create our style of British Folk Punk. Mick O’Toole was a character in a song “drinking man” from local legends ‘The Boys From County Hell’ a band who we get most of our inspiration from. However we are also inspired by the likes of The Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello and The Pogues not to mention many other great punk bands such as The Clash, The Sex Pistols,The Adverts, Rancid, mixed with the likes of modern headliners Frank Turner and…. Mumford and Sons. This is how we get our sound by combining the great punk ethos with traditional Folk. We have 3 EP's ‘Deep In Cider’ and 2 critically acclaimed number 1 folk punk EP's ‘1665 Pitchfork Rebellion’ and 'A Working Class Battalion’.
We have performed over hundreds of gigs and this has lead to a realisation that we only have one goal, to keep making music that brings people together for a good ole knees up and a grand old sing along. No egos, no divas just working class men having a good time.