At HOBOFOPO, an example would be Tassie’s own Lordy Lordy.Ī third style is traditional folk music sped up and electrified.
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Examples vary from the fast-strummed guitar and violin duo Ghost Mice, to the more full band setup of a group like Defiance Ohio (violin, cello, electric guitar, drums), to the intense medieval crust punk of Blackbird Raum. In this group we can place maybe the original folk-punk Patrick Fitzgerald (with his simple guitar playing, tales of punk love and out of tune singing), Billy Bragg (rhythmic electric guitar and again a relaxed approach to hitting the right notes vocally), Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains (screaming and thrashing an acoustic guitar), myself and many more.Īnother category, in some ways an extension of the first, is the whole band that plays obviously punk-inspired music but on all or mostly acoustic instruments. Our first category is the singer-songwriter with obvious punk influences. As I got ready to leave Brisbane and head down here, a few people were surprised there are enough folk-punk acts in Australia to make up a festival.īut in fact, the folk-punk connoisseur (like myself) could tell you that even in this niche genre, there are a number of distinct styles that fit under the folk-punk umbrella. Many people over the years who have seen me perform or asked what kind of music I play have assumed I must have invented the term. Wonderful it may be, but folk-punk remains a pretty obscure musical niche. The thing that brought me down here, happily, is HOBOFOPO a four day festival dedicated to that most wonderful of musical styles – folk-punk. After all these years, I’ve finally made it down to Tasmania.
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