Tilbury, by Joe Sullivan & The Happiness Werewolves

Tilbury

by Joe Sullivan & The Happiness Werewolves

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1.	The Spirit of Alex James 00:45	buy track
2.	We Tell Stories 02:31	buy track
3.	The Lion's Share 02:36	buy track
4.	In Alba's Footsteps 02:08	buy track
5.	This Soul 02:38	buy track
6.	The Voices 02:01	buy track
7.	Life on Shuffle 04:18	buy track

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Joseph Jeremiah O’Sullivan, my great-great grandfather, came over from Cork in Ireland as in the late 1800s. According to family legend, on the way over he dropped the ‘O’ from his name to sound more English. Tilbury docks is where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948, in Thurrock, Essex – now a very safe seat for a Conservative party responsible in 2012 for wrongfully detaining and deporting many of the Windrush generation as part of the Hostile Environment policy.

These two things have been circling around my head in the past few years since the 2016 Brexit referendum, and the rise in an apparently socially-approved right-wing nationalism that’s gone along with it. This record covers colonialism through the eyes of museums, immigration, and wondering just what the hell is going through some people’s heads. Or in other words, it’s a weird folk-rock record about Brexit.

Recorded at Northmeade Studios in the first half of 2020.

Big thanks to: Anne for supporting me making noise all the time and for taking the cover photo; Andrew for contributing his drums and voice; Ian at Aaahh!!! Real Records for supporting this release; and Ed & Nick - The Happiness Werewolves.

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released June 26, 2020

Joe Sullivan – Vocals/Guitars/Bass/Keys/Uke
Andrew Mullan – Drums/Percussion/Backing Vocals

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