We Need Each Other Now - Merry Hell
Our LCM featured artists are an excellent folk-rock band Merry Hell. Always a excellent live band, they also have a strong social conscience. Our LCM #TrackOfTheDay is another very timely song 'We Need Each Other Now' from their high acclaimed and award winning new album 'Bloodlines'.
The sound of dreams realised, joy unconfined, your favourite yesterdays returning and the promise of tomorrow. Merry Hell are all this and more.
Founded in their native North West of England, Merry Hell is an eight-piece folk-rock band with a history, a pedigree and a bright future. In just a few years they have risen to become festival favourites, their threet two albums finding favour with critics, broadcasters and music fans alike. They are continuing to develop an enviable reputation for the quality of their songwriting, recorded work and live performances.
The band was forged in the smouldering embers of 90s Folk/punk band, 'The Tansads'. Following an emotional series of reunion concerts in 2010, its members chose to tread the boards under a new name, 'Merry Hell', in order to reflect their new impetus, new hopes and, most importantly, new songs.
While Merry Hell retains a nucleus of five former Tansads members, brothers John, Bob and Andrew Kettle (guitar, mandolin and vocals respectively), along with keyboard player, Lee Goulding and drummer Andy Jones, the addition of vocalist, Virginia Kettle (wife of John), has helped create a new identity, purpose and spirit, in their music. She took little persuading to trade in her solo singer-songwriter past for a future in the band. Her prolific, ingenious and insightful songwriting is one of the focal points of Merry Hell's recordings and live performances – her presence has perfectly complemented a group which has taken particular pride in penning original material (Bob, John and Lee have also been consistent contributors of new songs).