Bunch of Bastards – Full Force Folk

Some Festivals Coming Up

After playing ten shows this year so far, we at BoB are looking forward to playing three festivals before taking a summer break:

Double D festival, Lekkerkerk, Thursday May 29th, 22.00-23.00h

FolkonFire, Germany, Friday June 6th, 22.30-00.00h

Wantijpop, Dordrecht, Saturday June 14th, 21.00-21.45h

Over the summer we will finalize the dozen odd songs we are working on in preparation of new recordings later this year, due hopefully around Saint Patrick’s Day 2026, for which shows are already in the making. Some new songs have already made to our evergrowing longlist of songs.

After the summer, we’ll resume gigging in September. In between, regrettably, our respective holiday plans stopped us from playing more summer festivals.

BoB in 2024

It’s been rather quiet here, sorry for that, but not so in real BoB life. In ’24 we played 24 gigs, 2 of which in France and 1 in Belgium. Honestly, there were a few so-so or just-about-okay occasions, due for instance to rain during outdoor events or to total lack of publicity by a local barkeeper in a far away city. But overall, we had lots of fun, and so generally did the punters in front of us. And not unimportant: all six of us were in good health this year. Early in the year Andries was finally able to resume gigging after an 8-months sick-leave. Among the niceties in the first months were (again) playing Irish Pub Fest and of course (again) ‘our’ St. Pat. night in the beautiful Bibelot venue in Dordrecht, where we were accompanied this year by Burning Pub Crawlers and Drunken Dolly (we will be back at both events in 2025 by the way). The St. Pat. weekend also included us bringing the major St. Pat. festival in The Hague to a close by a rowdy late night set in Zwarte Ruiter. What made St. Pat. ’24 all the more special for us was that is also marked the launch of our Drink, Holler and Dance cd, a set of recordings we still are rather chuffed with. In between our holidays we played some festivals, and early autumn saw us spending many hours on French highways playing Caen and the neat Dirty Folk Festival near Tours. A final highlight was playing 3 sets at the Midwinterfair in the Archeon archeological themepark, where we played in a Roman Bath and a Roman Inn. Besides, we also found time to work on some new songs, a few of which have already become staples on our setlist. We hope to add a few more, to record a bunch of new songs by autumn ’25 and to have a new album out by St. Pat. ’26.
In the meantime: SLAINTE

ST PAT 2024 / CD RELEASE WEEKEND

Having played a handful of, if we daresay, successful 2024 gigs, we at BoB are well prepared for the upcoming Saint Patrick’s Day festivities.
It promises to be all the more festive, as we then also launch our new cd and matching new t shirt !

We kick off (again) in BIBELOT, Dordrecht, on Saturday March 16th. Also on the bill that night are young upstarts THE BURNING PUBCRAWLERS and longtime mates DRUNKEN DOLLY.

After a probably rather short night, we set sail to IRISH PUB VLAARDINGEN, where we play on Sunday March 17th, starting at 16.30 h.

To wrap up this weekend in true rock’n’roll style, that day we also play the St. Patrick’s Day event at De Grote Markt in Den Haag, where we throw the after party in DE ZWARTE RUITER, mayhem commencing at around 23.00 h.

Hoping to see you guys around, SLAINTE !!

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Summerfestivals

FESTIVAL SEASON IS NEAR !!

If you wanna meet us in a field this summer, you can find us here:

Sat. May 20th – Turf-festival, Asten

Sat. June 3rd – Reurpop, Ruurlo

Sat. July 1st – Hootchiekoe Festival, Varsseveld

Sun. Aug 6th – Beatz&Bandz Festival 2023, Lottum

Sun. Aug 20th – Keltisch Festival, Cultuurpark De Hout, Alkmaar

Sat. Aug 26th – Hendrick’s Fest, Alphen aan den Rijn

CU in the fields!!

Saint Patrick’s Day 2023

The year 2023 holds many a promise for BoB. We’ll play at a number of really sweet festivals, though we cannot give details yet.

For now, suffice it to say we play 5 gigs around Saint Patrick’s Day, one of which will again take us over the eastern border into Germany. Here you can find us:

Friday March 10th: Winterswijk, De Stam
Saturday March 11th: Hoogwoud, Hooghe Heeren
Friday March 17th: Dordrecht, Bibelot
Saturday March 18th: Wetzlar (G.), Carolls Pub
Sunday March 19th: Geleen, De Meester

In the meantime, we are happy to return to the Deventer Irish Pub Fest for our 4th appearance there, check us out at Midtown on Friday February 3rd.

On Saturday February 11th we play at Time Out in Roosendaal.