27 Years

The Drogheda punks make their return, two years after being “chewed up and spat out of the music industry,” with a song more rousing than a sea-shanty. It reminds me a little of Queen’s ‘’39’, but it expresses the same sentiments as the Eels’ ‘Things The Grandchildren Should Know’. The song takes its title from the age at which Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin passed on, and this single’s one reason we should be grateful these boys didn’t do the same. With their Irish Johnny Rotten vocals and their rip-roaring energy, they deserve to get further than they did last time.