Boston’s Celt-punks Dropkick Murphys have delivered a live video for “All You Tories” to show support for the RMT and NHS healthcare workers currently striking in the UK for better wages and working conditions.
This reworked version of the track, “All You Fonies (Bound To Lose)” off of the recently released standard and Digital Expanded Edition of This Machine Still Kills Fascists. The album was built around recently unearthed, previously unpublished lyrics written by Woody Guthrie and dropped on 30 Sep 2022.
“In support of all our Union friends in the UK fighting the good fight against the elitist Tory political party we made this music video in association with the RMT (The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers)” explains frontman and Dropkick Murphys founder Ken Casey. “On our recent UK shows we changed the words to the song ‘All You Fonies (Bound To Lose)’ to ‘All You Tories,’ in support of the striking railroad and transit workers, nurses, fire fighters, teachers, ambulance staff and health workers. Best of luck in your struggle friends.”
Check out the “All You Tories” video below.
Bad Dad (occasionally called Ed) has been on the periphery of the punk and punk-adjacent scene for over twenty years. While many contributors to this site have musical experience and talent, Ed’s musical claim to fame comes from his time in arguably the most punk rock Blockbuster Video district in NJ where he worked alongside members of Blanks 77, Best Hit TV and Brian Fallon. He is more than just an awful father to his 2 daughters, he is also a dreadful husband, a subpar writer, a terrible dresser and has a severe deficiency in all things talent… but hey, at least he’s self-aware, amirite?
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