The Shanes

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The Shanes
The Shanes 2013.jpg
General information
Genre (s) Folk, Country, Americana, Balkans
founding 1991
Website http://www.shanes.de
Founding members
Cornelius Flowers
Eckard Wagler (until 1994)
Guitar, mandolin
Pearl Snare (until 1998)
Reinhold Juny (1992)
Thomas Rebmann (until 1999)
Pascal Schubbe (until 2001)
Current occupation
Singing, guitar, mandolin
 Cornelius Flowers
bass
 Mr. Dannehl (since 1994)
Guitar, banjo , mandolin
 Jörg Stoffregen (since 2004)
violin
 Chris Birch (since 2012)
Drums
 Markus Schu (since 2006)
accordion
 Nataša Grujović (since 2013)
Pedal steel, mandolin, guitar
 Matt Dawson (since 2011)
former members
accordion
 Andreas "Andiboy" Diewald (1999–2008)
accordion
 Greg Ostermann (1996-1998)
Drums
 Eric Morschett (1992-1995)
Drums
 Alec Connell (1995-1998)
Drums
 Stephan Zender (1998-2005)
violin
 Daniela Grünewald (2001-2005)
Guitar, banjo, mandolin
Bernd Bredin (1999-2006)
violin
 Wolfgang Wehner (2010–2011)
violin
 Seba Nogood (2006-2010)
accordion
 Alexander Schuster (2008-2013)

The Shanes are a folk band from Trier .

Band history

The band The Shanes was formed in 1991. Just a year later, the group made their first recordings, which the Hamburg record company Strange Ways took notice and released as a CD album Songs from the Urban Country Hell . In 1993, label boss Kathrin Achinger produced the successor Polka Hard , which contains the Joy Division classic Love Will Tear Us Apart in a polka version and which was broadcast by the well-known BBC radio DJ John Peel .

In 1995 a mini CD with six songs was released under the name These Days , in 1996 a coproduction only available in Hungary with the Hungarian activist Benito von Gruenau and the Romanian band Vezérkar , which was only available as a limited edition with the title Budapest Sessions at concerts of the band was, as well as a promotional CD 5 Years of Hardpolka in 1998 .

In the years that followed, the instability of the occupations that had already become apparent continued. The drummers in particular changed frequently. Nevertheless, the band played many concerts in Germany , Great Britain , Austria , Switzerland and the United States .

It wasn't until 2001 that another album was released with The Haunted House of Polka . Now with Karsten Jahnke 's Pinorrekk label , the band has been touring the concert stages in Germany and neighboring countries more often . At the beginning of 2005 the studio album Pölka was released on the new in-house indie label Sumorex , based in Trier. The first live album Polka over Serbja was recorded in Cottbus and released under the label mentioned above in July 2007. In March 2008 accordion player Andreas Diewald left the band for professional reasons and was replaced by Alexander Schuster. At the end of 2008 the album "Squandering Youth" was recorded under the direction of the British musician / engineer Mike Butcher, who lives in Belgium (including "Sabotage" by Black Sabbath, "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye). The previously subliminal influences from the Americana / Alternative Country area were brought out more clearly without renouncing the previous roots in the tradition of Eastern European and Irish-English folk music. The cover songs on the album include a country punk version of the punk icon GG Allin (“Bite it, you scum”) and a folk version of the Turbonegro classic “Sailorman”.

In 2013 the new album "Road Worrier" (SumoRex / Broken Silence) was released with the current line-up and new band members, the two Englishmen Chris Birch (violin) and Matt Dawson (pedal steel, mandolin, guitar, dobro), Julian's brother Dawson and Nataša Grujović from Belgrade.

style

They quickly agreed, initially still influenced by bands like The Pogues , M. Walking On The Water , The Whiskey Priests and Les Négresses Vertes , on a concept in which the violin and accordion dominate the sound. Paired with 2/4 rhythm and rock music , this resulted in a style of its own: “Hard polka”. Country and Americana sounds have been increasing in recent times .

Discography

  • 1992: Songs from the Urban Country Hell (Strangeways / Indigo)
  • 1993: Polka Hard (Strangeways / Indigo)
  • 1994: Love Will Tear Us Apart (vinyl single), (Strangeways / Indigo)
  • 1995: These Days (EP), (Strangeways / Indigo)
  • 1996: Budapest Sessions
  • 1998: 1993-1998 - five years of Hard Polka
  • 2001: The Haunted House of Polka (Pinorekk / Edel)
  • 2005: Pölka
  • 2007: Polka over Serbja (Live in Chosebuz )
  • 2009: Squandering Youth
  • 2013: Road Worrier

Web links

Commons : The Shanes  - album with pictures, videos and audio files