Man The Lifeboats

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Man The Lifeboats began life in a Skinny Lister shanty-punk folk moshpit in 2016, and are ploughing their own full-throttle folk furrow, winning over audiences everywhere and drawing comparisons to Bellowhead, Oysterband, the Levellers, and those folk-punk heroes the Pogues.

The second album Soul Of Albion hit #27 in the Official Folk Charts in 2022. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, it sounds like Led Zeppelin arm-wrestling Shane McGowan in a Birmingham brewery, like Jimbob and Fruitbat fronting Fairport Convention, like The Albion Band turned up to 11 with their fiddles on fire, tonic for these troubled times.


MTL are hitting the road again in 2026 in a leaner, meaner and greener duo line-up, road-testing new songs, bringing old ones back to life – come and join Rich and Aaron in some of the most intimate venues the country has to offer.