Super collective BRING YOUR OWN HAMMER’s deep dive into ‘The Tombs’

BRING YOUR OWN HAMMER a super-collective involving members of Suede, The Cranberries, Fun Boy Three, Cane141, The High Llamas, Saint Etienne and Madness, continue their partnership with Peckham’s Dimple Discs on today’s release, ‘From The Tombs.’

‘From The Tombs’ tells the disturbing story of an Irish servant in New York City, committed to ‘the Tombs,’ charged with infanticide in October 1881, convicted of manslaughter, and sent to Blackwell Island. Released after two years, she has since all but disappeared from historical records.

Today’s release – and forthcoming album – features Mike Smalle (Cane141, Augustus & John, B-Movie Lightning), June Miles-Kingston (The Mo-dettes, Fun Boy Three, The Communards, Everything but the Girl), Bernard Butler (Suede, McAlmont & Butler, The Tears, and Butler, Blake and Grant), Fergal Lawler (The Cranberries), Marcus Holdway (The High Llamas), Ian Catt (Saint Etienne) and Terry Edwards (The Higsons, Madness, Near Jazz Experience, Butterfield 8, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave) and many others.

Debut album ‘Old Oak Road’ and ‘From The Tombs’ were created by Dr Richard McMahon, lecturer in History at MIC, Limerick and currently a visiting fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

“Our second album, ‘From the Tombs’ will be released in the autumn of 2026,” he said. “It is a barnstorming twenty-one-song double album that takes the listener on a journey through the history of crime, law and order in Ireland and among the Irish Diaspora in the long nineteenth century.”

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