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The Men They Couldn't Hang came together in 1984 to perform at the alternative music festival in Camden Town alongside The Pogues and the Boothill Foot Tappers.Paul Simmonds, Philip 'Swill' Odgers and his brother Jon, veterans of the Southampton-based pop-punk band Catch 22, met Pogues roadie Stefan Cush whilst busking in Shepherd's Bush in London.
Title Album details Majestic Grill: The Best of the Men They Couldn't Hang: Released: April 1998; Label: Demon; Formats: CD; The Mud, the Blood and the Beer: Best of the Men They Couldn't Hang – Part II
Night of a Thousand Candles is the first studio album by the band The Men They Couldn't Hang. It was released in 1985 on vinyl and cassette format, and then on CD format in 1987. The cassette version has two additional tracks, and the CD version has six bonus tracks added.
Silver Town is the fourth studio album by The Men They Couldn't Hang. It was released in 1989 under the Silvertone label and recorded at Woodcray Manor Studios in Berkshire . There were three singles released from the album, "A Place in the Sun", "Rain, Steam and Speed" and "A Map of Morocco".
How Green Is the Valley is the second studio album of The Men They Couldn't Hang. It was released in 1986 after the band were signed to MCA Records following the success of their previous album Night of a Thousand Candles. It is the last album to feature co-founder Shanne Bradley on bass guitar.
Shanne Bradley (born 1957) is an English punk musician, songwriter, and artist. She founded a punk band, The Nipple Erectors (The Nips), in 1976 playing bass guitar [1] with Shane MacGowan on vocals, and co-founded The Men They Couldn't Hang in 1984.
I had an IV in my arm. There was a phone by the bed, but I couldn’t reach it, because it was on the handcuffed side. I had a nurse alert button by my hand, but I didn’t want to beep a nurse to help me make a phone call. “Three weeks ago I was in bed at home with my girlfriend,” I said out loud, theatrically, to the empty hospital room.
British folk punk band The Men They Couldn't Hang recorded "Silver Dagger" for their 2005 live album Smugglers and Bounty Hunters. English harmony singing group The Devil's Interval recorded "Silver Dagger" for their 2006 album Blood and Honey. [29] Irish-American Celtic group Solas recorded it for their 2006 album Reunion: A Decade of Solas.