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In the early 1980s Alistair was again performing folk material around Sydney and was a founding member of a five-piece punk folk outfit called Roaring Jack, which specialised rocking Celtic reels and radical and revolutionary lyrics. Alistair was an active revolutionary socialist, with the International Socialist Organisation, and he and Roaring jack offered their talents for many benefits, rallies and demonstrations, in support of the antiwar movement and solidarity with workers in struggle. For the next five years the Jacks made a startling impression on the Australian music scene. Their first album, /Street Celtabillity/, was released in 1986 and reached No. 1 on the local indie charts. By the time the second album, /The Cat Among The Pigeons/ was released in 1988 the band was headlining in major Australian rock venues, as well as opening for overseas acts including Billy Bragg, the Pogues, and The Men They Couldn't Hang. The /The Cat Among The Pigeons/ was nominated for an Australian Music Industry Association (ARIA) award and was released in Europe by the German label Intercord. Full article, with videos, at http://links.org.au/node/1484 Subscribe free to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
