"Shane’s like an old bluesman, you know..."

Alabama 3 talk to Hot Press about working with Shane McGowan on their new album, and tell us why most of the band are unable to get US travel visas...

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 03 Jun 2010

Alabama 3 may be best known for their Sopranos theme tune, but new album Revolver Soul may take them to a whole new level. "It's certainly loaded with expectation and excitement," Spragg admits. "Like with the state the record industry is in now, we’re happy to still be on the margins. We never wanted to be part of the establishment."

The band had a little help from famous friends on the album, including Razorlight's Johnny Borrell and Shane MacGowan. "Shane turned up twelve hours late, but he was great,” Spragg says. “It took a three day session to get two lines out of him – but they’re fucking great lines!"

Read the full interview with Alabama 3 in the latest issue of Hot Press, out now.

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2010-07-14

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2010-06-14

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2010-04-13

To mark the release of their 7th studio album Revolver Soul, the crazy chemical- country collective Alabama 3 will include a stop in Tripod, Dublin on November 21 on their Soul Revolver Tour.

2009-09-18

On New Year's Eve Alabama 3 will make their one visit to the Midlands when they go to Tullamore to kick-off 2009.

2008-11-27

Our favourite hard living, hard loving, hell, hard everything outfit Alabama 3 have extended the Irish leg of their MDMA Christmas Tour.

2008-10-29

Alabama 3 are set for Dublin this December, and next month feature on the Johnny Cash Remixed album.

2008-09-25

Alabama 3 jump into their well travelled tour bus for an April 19 show in the Dublin Button Factory. Tickets are on sale now priced €31.50.

2008-03-03

Alabama 3 are known for their love of a good time. On their latest album, these rhinestone spangled bad boys let their inner funk monster off the leash.

2007-09-26

Alabama 3 are set to bring their renowned live show to venues across the country this October.

2007-09-06

Autograph hunters are in for a treat over the next few days.

2007-09-05

They're incendiary live - but can the Brixton-based ensemble bring that fire to the studio?

2007-08-28

The 16-legged guaranteed party that is Alabama 3 mosey over to Dublin.

2007-06-05

Alabama 3 are set to play a Tipperary festival this summer. Tipp2007 is a charity event that promises to bring in big-name acts.

2007-05-25

Having played a blinder at Oxegen, the free loving and loose living Alabama 3 play a headline show at Dublin’s Vicar St.

2005-08-16

What is it about this mob that fails to persuade? Their steel peddle revivalism comes on like pastiche, yet it’s subtle, tender pastiche, delivered with intelligence and reverence. There are hints of Beck, glimpses of vintage Nick Cave and tremors too of music that is older, sadder, wiser.

2005-07-06

No, seriously!

2005-05-19

A stripped-back ensemble from the Alabama 3 will play Dublin's Voodoo Lounge in aid of the tsunami disaster appeal

2005-02-01

There’s a slight whiff of novelty about it all, which is a pity because – at their best – Alabama 3 make a thunderous noise

2002-11-06

So says Irvine Welsh about his faves, Alabama 3 - on the brink of releasing their gobsmacking new album Power In The Blood - and he would know

2002-10-14

Alabama 3's Larry Love, having been 'saved' by his 'guardian punk angel' Joe Strummer at Glastonbury, issues health warning. Thanks, Laz...

2002-07-29

Alabama 3 to get up to all manner of sauce-related hijinks in Dublin's very own Thomas House for Paddy's Day! The luck of the Irish strikes again

2002-02-12

STUART CLARK talks to ALABAMA 3 about spliff, the sopranos and superstardom

2001-10-11

Fancy taking a trip down to Dr John’s bayou, with Andy Weatherall’s decks appeal, Nick Cave’s religious fervour, and Johnny Cash’s outlaws as your inlaws?

2000-10-26

The miniscule number of you who bought their last album, La Peste, will know that the Alabama 3 have decided to tone down the Southern preacher bit and concentrate on the tunes. It's an attempt to get away from the "novelty band" image, which has resulted in savage critical maulings in the UK, and collective head scratching on the other side of the Atlantic.

2001-03-29

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