NEW ALBUM – ‘A SHANDY BALLAD’ An 11 track 50/50 shandy of ballads and originals. Recorded by Julian, Cally and Thomas in October 2023. OUT NOW ON BANDCAMP! Free to download or stream but digital only, we have no spare money for physical products and suspect you don’t either. And all you poundspotify streamers on the budget platforms will have to wait until we get … Continue reading A Shandy Ballad
We have a few local gigs coming up… 19th July, 2nd August, Trewan Hall Campsite 6th August, Maker with Rame Community Hall 11th August, Morgawr, Falmouth Continue reading Gigs in August!
Here’s a video of us performing a Broadside Banger and a klezmer tune at the Poly in Falmouth… don’t forget to come and see us there on 24th Feb! Video by Tam Johnstone. Continue reading NEW VIDEO! ‘The Signalman/Gasn Nign’
We are pleased to announce our very first bangin’ show of all-broadside-bangers, Friday 24th February at the Poly, Falmouth. Details and tickets here Then we will be taking the show around Cornwall: Sat 25th Feb – Praa Sands Community Centre Friday 3rd March – Warleggan Jubilee Hall Friday 10th March – Lambeage Hall, Coverack We have been working for some time now on this new anthology of some … Continue reading Broadside Bangers in Cornwall!
Here’s ‘Burial Club’ a 19th century broadside ballad set to music by Julian and the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, backed with a hauntingly haunting reading of ‘The Ghost of Maria’. Taken from our forthcoming Broadside Bangers project, a new anthology of some of the most melodramatic, gruesome and supernatural broadside ballads from the 17th to 19th centuries. These popular ballads, selected from archives by Gaskell, cover … Continue reading Burial Club c/w The Ghost of Maria
We have a tiny tour in February: Sat 4th Feb – Green Note, Camden – details and tickets here Sun 5th Feb – The Bell, Bath – Sunday lunchtime gig We will be previewing songs from our forthcoming collection of broadside ballads, be prepared for a wild ride! Continue reading Feb 2023 Gigs in London and Bath
After a busy summer of Festivals and theatrical shenanigans with Bash Street as well as a few gigs, we are back to working on new material as Julian Gaskell & his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, and we have a few gigs where we will be airing a load of new songs, excavated ballads and archive classics around the country: Wednesday 28th September – Daaku, Falmouth – … Continue reading Autumn 2022 tour!
A new 4-track digital EP! For the third instalment of our sheet music collection for 2022, we present, after many years of deliberation and dither, the string-laden epic ‘Mizzle Eyed Maiden of the West’. Featuring extensive orchestral renovations by Cally Gibson as well as storming folk drums by the much-missed Dave Hart, this song takes an inscription from a Zennor gravestone for a lop-sided tango … Continue reading Mizzle-Eyed Maiden of the West
After what seems like many many years, we are back to our never ending tour of fields, pubs, stately homes and raves, full details on our gigs page. Saturday 11th June – THE RISE OF THE ANT Cottage Party, Falmouth SOLD OUT Saturday 18th June – Redruth Drapery – Murdoch’s Eve – ‘a night of bawdy tales and crazy music’ with Cobweb Tours Sunday 26th … Continue reading Gigs this summer
Folks outside of Cornwall won’t have seen us live in a long time, so we recorded a couple of songs in Gaskell’s Penryn mansion on Sunday to remind you of who we are. Continue reading New Videos from our Penryn Lounge
We will be playing at Falmouth Pavilions on Saturday 16th April at the Peace for Ukraine fundraiser. Loads of acts on 3 stages, we will be on the main Pavilion stage in the evening and will also be entertaining the children on the bandstand in the afternoon. An amazing lineup with all proceeds going to the ICRC Ukraine Appeal. A day of fund-raising support for … Continue reading Peace for Ukraine, Falmouth Pavilions 16th April
A new 5-track digital EP! The second instalment of our sheet music collection for 2022, the new song ‘Shuffling the Same Deck of Cards’ is accompanied with a selection of instrumental and vocal novelties collected from Gaskell’s musical binbag. ‘Shufflin’ is a self-explanatory gamble in a post-brexit wasteland, and is notable as the first Philanthropists release to feature the actual Mrs Mills piano. Cally Gibson … Continue reading Shuffling the Same Deck of Cards
Fed up with battling through noisy chatting phone toting hordes to listen to your favourite stride rembetika jazz live? Then why not sit back and enjoy a comfortable refrain or two in the company of Julian Gaskell and his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists upstairs at the Poly. Keen listeners will be well aware that Gaskell’s music has aged like a fine aluminium can of lager since … Continue reading Upstairs at Falmouth Poly, Sat. 2nd April
Our first new track for 2022 A new song written by Julian Gaskell and recorded in Penryn, Cornwall, January 2022 with Thomas Sharpe and Cally Gibson. This is the first in a series of ‘sheet music’ releases which will happen in 2022, there are many more in progress which will be available here very soon. Only available on Bandcamp. JG& his RTP cannot be bothered … Continue reading The Exception that Proves the Rule
Here are some quotes from actual things that were printed or said. But don’t take their word for it either, judge for yourself at our bandcamp where you will find the full back catalogue of recordings. You may find some of our music on other streaming services, but it will most likely be out of date, second rate and generally cheap and shoddy. Anyway, the … Continue reading Don’t just take our word for it!
Julian Gaskell will be performing in 2022 with Penzance’s Bash Street Theatre, in ‘The Cameraman’ in which he narrates, sings, plays piano, guitar, accordion and sound FX as well as the street show ‘Ravioli Brothers’ in which he performs opera on the accordion. Including Glastonbury Festival, Winchester Hat Fair and of course Camborne Trevithick Day. Full details and dates here. Continue reading Touring with Bash Street Theatre 2022
Julian Gaskell & his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 