The very first release on the Mulligan label back in 1975, this featured Thom Moore (vocals, 12-string guitar and doira - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayereh), Kathy Moore (vocals, mandolin, guitars and fiddle), Sandi Epping (vocals, mandolin, guitars and fiddle) and Rick Epping (background vocals, harmonica, jew's harp, tin whistle and concertina).
Why four US citizens should be the first to record on what was then The Bothy Band's fledgling label is lost in the mist of Mulligan Towers, but the album also featured Clannad's Ciarán Brennan (double bass), Robbie Brennan (drums, congas), Kevin Burke (on 'Cedars of Lebanon'), the late Jimmy Faulkner (slide guitar), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki and b.v.) and Andy Rice (tuba).
Tracks 1, 4 and 14 were composed by Thom Moore; 3 by Mississipi John Hurt; 7 by Sandi Epping; 9 by Van the Man; 11 by Kathy Moore; and 13 by Neil Young.
Thom Moore went on to form Midnight Well and is still active as a solo singer. Rick Epping is currently playing with Cathy Jordan and Seamie O'Dowd in The Unwanted. Sandi went on to work for Claddagh. I've no idea The band's manager, Paul McGuinness (and it was his first break in the business), ended up in charge of some boy band called U2.
Late 1975 - actually it was the Sunday night of the Halloween Weekend and Pumkin Head played in a local bar on Clambrassil St, Dundalk, Co Louth Ireland.
What a night. What a band.
I met Thom a few times since and Kathy once at a (fiddle) bow-makers in Belgium.I was gutted they had broken up. Other that Steeleye Span few bands ever had the impact these two had on my fiddlin' soul.
Peter
Hi Macacos me mordam, do you (or anybody else) by any chance have the catalogue number for that Pumkinhead release? Is it too much to assume it is Mul001. Just checking.
The very first release on the Mulligan label back in 1975, this featured Thom Moore (vocals, 12-string guitar and doira - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayereh), Kathy Moore (vocals, mandolin, guitars and fiddle), Sandi Epping (vocals, mandolin, guitars and fiddle) and Rick Epping (background vocals, harmonica, jew's harp, tin whistle and concertina).
Why four US citizens should be the first to record on what was then The Bothy Band's fledgling label is lost in the mist of Mulligan Towers, but the album also featured Clannad's Ciarán Brennan (double bass), Robbie Brennan (drums, congas), Kevin Burke (on 'Cedars of Lebanon'), the late Jimmy Faulkner (slide guitar), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki and b.v.) and Andy Rice (tuba).
Tracks 1, 4 and 14 were composed by Thom Moore; 3 by Mississipi John Hurt; 7 by Sandi Epping; 9 by Van the Man; 11 by Kathy Moore; and 13 by Neil Young.
Thom Moore went on to form Midnight Well and is still active as a solo singer. Rick Epping is currently playing with Cathy Jordan and Seamie O'Dowd in The Unwanted. Sandi went on to work for Claddagh. I've no idea The band's manager, Paul McGuinness (and it was his first break in the business), ended up in charge of some boy band called U2.
# Posted on May 30th 2009 by Scutcher
Ah, if only we could edit 'comments'. Ignore the extraneous 'I've no idea'.
# Posted on May 30th 2009 by Scutcher
Pumkin Head
Late 1975 - actually it was the Sunday night of the Halloween Weekend and Pumkin Head played in a local bar on Clambrassil St, Dundalk, Co Louth Ireland.
What a night. What a band.
I met Thom a few times since and Kathy once at a (fiddle) bow-makers in Belgium.I was gutted they had broken up. Other that Steeleye Span few bands ever had the impact these two had on my fiddlin' soul.
Peter
# Posted on May 31st 2009 by Peter O'Connor
Catalogue Number
Hi Macacos me mordam, do you (or anybody else) by any chance have the catalogue number for that Pumkinhead release? Is it too much to assume it is Mul001. Just checking.
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by Dceol
LUN001
Actually, found that. Sorry.
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by Dceol