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Mike Smalle feat. Cathal Coughlan and Jah Wobble "Old Oak Road"

by Bring Your Own Hammer presents

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The song is based on a statement, from the early 1880s, by an Irish woman who was suspected of killing her infant child in New York City. The narrative of the song re-imagines elements of her experiences from the day she leaves Ireland to her journey on board ship to the circumstances of her alleged crime in New York itself. Working alongside historian, Richard Mc Mahon, Smalle collaborated with Coughlan and Wobble to create a rich and complex expression of the sense of alienation and shame imposed upon women who stepped outside the bounds of widely-accepted norms both in Ireland and North America. Musically, the song captures the ebb and flow of the migrant sea journey and the sense of tragedy that could underpin it. It also offers a, perhaps needed, reminder of how lives can be irrevocably altered and damaged by the desire to control and determine the behaviour of women.

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released November 4, 2022
Mike Smalle: vocals, piano, guitar, electronics
Cathal Coughlan: vocals
Jah Wobble: bass
Recorded by Mike Smalle
Mixed by Ian Catt
Mastered by Seán Mac Erlaine
Written by Mike Smalle (with Richard Mc Mahon)
Publishing: Copyright Control
Sleeve concept and design: Paul Callanan and Richard Mc Mahon

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Bring Your Own Hammer is not a band, a group, an ensemble or even a collective. If anything, it is a faction but unlike nineteenth-century factions, who met, armed with sticks and wattles in fairs and markets, it is armed with voices and instruments and dedicated, as no faction before, to the re-interpretation of historical material in song form. ... more

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