DROGHEDA · IRELAND · EST. SEVEN

THE CACKS

Genetically-modified Existential Prop-Folk. Born to Ireland. Licked by Americana. Tickled by Tradition.

Folk · Americana · Irish trad Debut album · Celebrity Working hard on the difficult second album

// About

Crooked, catchy, and a bit cracked.

The Cacks are a seven-headed beast from Drogheda, Ireland — a wild collision of trad Irish soul and modern-day chaos. We're multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, harmony junkies, and general noise-makers who swap instruments like dirty secrets: bouzoukis, bodhráns, pianos, guitars — if it makes a sound, we'll mess with it.

Our music's a mongrel — dragging its roots through folk, blues, Americana, rock, and the occasional flirtation with the electronic — but never losing that cheeky, off-kilter swagger. It's music with a wink and a bruised lip.

The debut album, Celebrity, was stitched together in the shadows of East Meath sessions, then lit on fire at Black Mountain Studio with James Eager and Peter Baldwin helping fan the flames. It's a twisted little collection — songs built slow, played hard, and meant to feel both familiar and a little wrong in the best way.

We've made something crooked, catchy, and a bit cracked — the right kind of strange.

// THE SEVEN — East Meath sessions

"Celebrity is one of those pleasant surprises that pop up unannounced and with no fanfare. In other words, it's grounded work from grounded people."

— Tony Clayton-Lea

"Their blend of Irish trad, folk, blues and pretty much everything else sounded like a bunch of pirates recently discovered Fleetwood Mac or something, in the best possible way."

— Mc Gig Music

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