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Redcoat

by Forge Hounds

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Redcoat is a song about the oppressed trying to repel their oppressor. It might feature a certain struggle that took place in Ireland in the 1700’s but it could also be set in North America, India, Africa, New Zealand, Australia way back when – anywhere covetous or power-hungry invaders seek to eliminate another people and place for their own benefit. Replace the Redcoat with any would-be conqueror or Imperialist horde up to no good in the past or the present and you get the idea…

It is a hard rock reworking of a bluesy song written and recorded by Forge Hounds frontman Paul J Bolger in the mid-1990’s on “The Moss House” album under the name BOLGER. It was a fun return to old territory as Steve Roche also played bass on the original. The song has been a favourite of the Forge Hounds team for a long time. So much so in fact the band decided to give it their own unique treatment.

This new arrangement expands on the original with Mick Wall’s lead guitar taking over from the harmonica driven riffs of Mick Kinsella from the original. With Andy Kavanagh adding a stomping beat the new Redcoat also received a fresh middle eight with the slightly funky spoken word breakdown. All this leads to a big climax with the heroes of the song putting down their oppressors by whatever means they can.

It was recorded and engineered by Brendan Carthy of Orchard Studios, Enniscorthy, Mixed and Mastered by Frankie McClay, of Einstein Studios, Antrim, with the supporting video shot at Electric Avenue in Waterford by Colin Shanahan, of Digicol Photography and Media Productions. Animation in the video was done by PillarStone Productions with the project being directed by “our very own Paul J Bolger”

lyrics

There’s a Redcoat breathing down our necks
A handle on our lives
With a two way secret calling code
Against our fathers’ knives
Gonna run, gonna hide, goin’ underground
We’re gonna try and take this man
We’re slowing down.

On a Sugar Loaf not far from here
Firelight burning bright
With a horse that carries a Redcoat fear
A will to make us fight
Gonna run, gonna hide, goin’ underground
Gonna try and take this man
We’re slowing down and he’s goin’ down…

All we ever wanted
Was a free and easy life
In the country of our ancestors
In a land free of strife
But the Redcoat came
And he walked our earth
And he showed us no respect
Treated us like dirt

Gonna run, gonna hide, goin’ underground
Gonna hunt and put this man
Into the ground he’s goin’ down…

Redcoat is running scared
We’re fighting for our lives
His horse threw his Redcoat fear
We sharpen up our knives
He loads his gun we come up behind
He’s too slow to run or keep his musket primed
He aims his gun we paint our knives
With the blood of Redcoat lives
Redcoat lies

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released May 19, 2023

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Forge Hounds Waterford, Ireland

Forge Hounds are an exciting Irish Hard Rock project that draws on influences from the likes of ZZ Top, Bad Company, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and Hanoi Rocks to deliver a BIG sound driven by lean and mean guitar riffs, compelling dual vocals and a pumping rhythm section.

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