Roaring Jack was an Australian

Celtic punk Celtic punk is punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music. Celtic punk bands often play traditional Celtic folk songs, contemporary/political folk songs, and original compositions.P. Buckley, ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' (London: Rough Guides, 2 ...

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of the 1980s and 1990s. The band was nominated for two

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during their career. The band's singer

Alistair Hulett Alistair Hulett (15 October 1951 – 28 January 2010) was a Scottish people, Scottish acoustic music, acoustic folk music, folk singer best known as the singer of the folk punk band, Roaring Jack. Early life Born in Glasgow, Hulett discovered tr ...

died at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow of liver failure and cancer on 28 January 2010. Rod Gilchrist died in 1998 and Steve Thompson in 2000.

History

Roaring Jack played all over Australia from 1985 to 1992 and developed a huge cult following. Their debut EP ''Street Celtability'' was recorded and produced at

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in Sydney in July 1987. First album ''The Cat Among the Pigeons'' was released in November 1988.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

The

is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. Roaring Jack were nominated for two awards. , - ,

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

, ''The Cat Among the Pigeons'' , Best New Talent , , - ,

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

, ''Through the Smoke of Innocence'' , Best Independent Release , , -

References

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