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Artist:The Bastard Children

Genres:
  • Rock
  • Roots
Melbourne, VIC

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Track: The Devil May Care by The Bastard Children
Track: The Devil May CareGenres:
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    Track: First Snow by The Bastard Children
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      About

      A Bastard Children show feels like a crowded party in a big old house. The songs are like different rooms down a dark hallway with creaking floors and heaving walls. It’s the wheeze of the accordion, the spilt blood of a dirty harmonica, the tearing of guitars and the scrape of the fiddle. The Bastard Children is the sound of Melbourne by night - the real Melbourne - it’s visceral, its unpretentious, and it’s bloody fun. The twisted offspring of junkyard folk, old-world gypsy, ragged celtic & dirty blues. A multi-instrumental globe-hopping jaunt through the Australian musical landscape. The Bastard Children bring the wheeze of the accordion, the spilled blood of a dirty harmonica, the tearing of guitars, the scrape of the mandolins, banjos and more. A fast paced live show that leaps through various styles and instruments with all the urgency of a thirsty drunkard. Sordid, scandalous and superbly attired, these lads are, like it or not, bastards of their own diverse cultural ...

      Members

      Chris Winterton - Vocals
      Accodion
      Guitar
      Harmonica
      Fiddle
      keys. Luke Winterton - Vocals
      Guitar
      banjo. Matt Borg - Guitar
      Mandolin. Andy Reed - Drums. Michael Marinucci - Bass. Wes Mowson - Trombone. Elisha Maiyah - Trumpet. Ben Carter - Sax.

      Sounds Like

      Tom Waits, The Band, The Pogues

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