JAKARTA - The supergroup project Bring Your Own Hammer (BYOH) presents From the Tombs, as the first offering from their upcoming second album. This unit is strengthened by personnel from the bands Suede, The Cranberries, Fun Boy Three, Cane141, The High Llamas, Saint Etienne and Madness.
The musical arrangement is made to feel cinematic, capable of turning a dark historical record into a living and melodic work, honoring its tragic subject through a mature and elegant indie-pop touch.
The song offers a collaborative beauty that unites historical research with contemporary musical composition, telling the story of the suffering experienced by an Irish maid working in New York City. She was thrown into a terrible prison called "The Tombs".
He was accused of having murdered an infant, then thrown into a prison on Blackwell Island. After being released, the servant's trail seemed to disappear from the historical record and was never found again.
The lyrics of From the Tombs are based on the same story as Mike Smalle's Old Oak Road song with Cathal Coughlan and Jah Wobble, which appears on the first album, 'My Grief on the Sea'. The album is dedicated to Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions), one of Ireland's most respected artists, and contains a collection of songs about the sea, maritime navigation, and migration to and from Ireland in the 19th century.
Bring Your Own Hammer, which includes Mike Smalle (Cane141, B-Movie Lightning), June Miles-Kingston (Fun Boy Three, The Communards, Everything but the Girl) and Bernard Butler (Suede, McAlmont & Butler) joined Fergal Lawler (The Cranberries), Marcus Holdaway (The High Llamas), Ian Catt (Saint Etienne) and Terry Edwards (Madness, Near Jazz Experience, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave) to be part of this group.
They are preparing a second album which will be released via Dimple Discs in the near future. This album will also be curated by Dr. Richard Mc Mahon, a lecturer in History at MIC in the city of Limerick and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
He explores the forms of historical fiction that are rooted in several historical sources from Ireland and outside Ireland, worked with the support of Dr. Niall Whelehan, a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, who has written extensively on the history of modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora with a focus on events in the 19th century.
The album From The Tombs also features a number of other musicians such as Sean O'Hagan (Microdisney, Stereolab, High Llamas), Audrey Riley, Cian Nugent, Adrian Crowley, Tony Higgins, SJ McArdle, Michael Walsh, Lisa Lambe, Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder), Miriam Ingram, Hugh Bunker (Fatima Mansions), Damian O'Neill (The Undertones), Brigid Mae Power, Anne Gilpin (Morton Valence), Linda Buckley, Lavinia Blackwall (Trembling Bells), Inni-K, NQL. Kelsey Michael, Neil Farrell (Toasted Heretic) and Michael J. Sheehy.
The song "From The Tombs" is currently released and can be enjoyed on various digital music platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. The full album itself will be released at the end of 2026.
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