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The Bad Shepherds:

The Bad Shepherds play punk songs on folk instruments. Not as a gag, but because we really like the noise. We think the songs are better than people remember. We love folk instruments. It works. We do songs by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers The Jam, Sham 69, The Undertones, Talking Heads, Squeeze and others, even Kraftwerk! Alright, they're not all punk, but they come from roughly the same era. We've mostly given the songs a kind of Celtic feel, and we've stuck in the odd reel and jig here and there. But occassionally we just thrash! I've always thought the excitement of a reel taking off is the nearest thing to the excitement of watching punk live in the 70's.

Members include

• Maart Allcock, ex- of Fairport Convention ('85-'97), and one-time keyboardist for Jethro Tull ('88-'91)
• Ade Edmonson, British comic-show superstar famed for "Vivian" of The Young Ones.  Married to Ab Fab's Jennifer Saunders
• Troy Donockley, piper of repute who's played for Moya Brennan, Mostly Autumn, Maddy Prior, and many more
• Andy Dinan, Irish fiddler I've never heard of, but he's played with lots of cool people.