Lankum's 'Hunting The Wren' tops UK and Irish Shazam charts after featuring in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

Lankum's track 'Hunting The Wren' has reached the top of the UK and Irish Shazam charts following its inclusion in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.

The movie soundtrack also features contributions from Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C. and Amy Taylor from Amyl & the Sniffers.

The track, "Hunting The Wren (The Immortal Man version)," is a collaboration between Chatten and Lankum. The song, which reached Number 1 on the Top 2000 Shazam charts in both Ireland and the UK and climbed to Number 10 globally, is a new take on the original track written by Ian Lynch of Lankum. Lynch's original track appears on Lankum's album The Livelong Day.

“Well, well, well, number 1 in the Irish and UK Shazam charts and number 10 for the whole world," said Ian Lynch in a recent Instagram post. "That’s a lot of people going ‘what the fuck is this shit?!’ and then hearing about the Wrens of the Curragh for the first time. Destroy the patriarchy that fucks us all up."

The song draws inspiration from the Wrens of the Curragh, a group of women who lived unconventionally on the plains of Kildare, Ireland, in the nineteenth century. These women primarily served as sex workers for the soldiers stationed at the nearby Curragh Camp army base.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man premiered in cinemas on March 6 and premiered on Netflix on March 20.

Find interviews with Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man's Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and director Steven Knight in the new Hot Press issue.

Listen to the song here : 

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