Hi all,
news & gigs:
 
Margaret Thatcher: My Part in her Downfall - Deluxe (IRR075) - should released & available August 10th anywhere that gets distribution by the fabngroovy Proper Music Distribution.
4 CDs, 1st 2 CDs the 1st 2 Robb Johnson solo LPs, "Skewed, Slewed, Stewed & Awkward" & "Small Town World", plus "bonus" tracks, CD 3 a collection of band/group recordings, & CD4 a collection of solo recordings.
some tracks appeared on "This is the UK Talking", & some on the 1st "Ma Thatch Downfall" album, but there's also a lot of tracks previously unreleased, including some very rare Ministry of Humour stuff! You also get a 24 page booklet with pretty comprehensive notes & some great photos too.
 
it looks & sounds really impressive.
 
T shirts (black&red on white) in various sizes should also be arriving soon, & we'll be selling these at this year's Tolpuddle, along with a limited edition Irregular Records sampler. Moolah raised from the sampler CD will go to charities working in Gaza.
 
Details & downloads & stuff on the website when i eventually get round to it..
 
anyway, here's the gigs:
 
9/8: The Dook of Wellington Shoreham - Ma Thatch Downfall special!!! (1pm)
11/8: Broadstairs Festival, pm
12/8: Broadstairs Festival, The Liberty Tree with Leon Rosselson
13/8: 12 Bar Club, London, Ma Thatch Downfall launch gig, details tbc, but probably ending with Irregulars knees-up!
then we record Ghost of Love...
then it's
12/9: Chainmakers Festival, lunchtime & Festival of Working Class Music in the evening
with the Irregulars! rocknroll or wot? anywhere the band can play on the way back on sunday??
20/9: Walthamstow Folk Club
 
AND The Men They Couldn't Hang album "Devil on the Wind" is both magnificent & on Irregular Records (Irr069) - as is Alun Parry's new album "We Can make the World Stop" (Irr070) - & that's available 28/8.
 
salud!
Jimmy the Hamster