Streams of Whiskey LIVE at the Taproom

St Patrick's Day is a traditional day of relaxing, reading a book or maybe going for a nice walk... feek that! 

Celebrate the annual Irish cultural celebration the way the Irish do - by getting a headstart and signing and dancing the day before with a band playing the Pogues and other Irish floor fillers! 

Steams of Whiskey will be playing two one hour sets of Pogues debauchery and Irish classics from 7pm, Sunday 16th March at the Taproom. 

Grab yer tickets now and don't miss out on a wild night of fun!

Streams of Whiskey are a collective of disparate musicians brought together by a love of traditional Irish music and the debauched tunes of London Irish legends, The Pogues. The common threads that unite Streams are paradoxically, an interest in traditional folk music and a love of punk rock. Started by Dublin born Stephen Milligan, Streams are Melbourne based but have toured as far afield as New Caledonia. As renowned for stirring the crowd at Etihad Stadium before the International Rules Football as they are for testing the strength of the floorboards in Fitzroy’s intimate Bar Open or the Brunswick Ballroom, the band comprises several musicians.

Guitarist Van Walker is a Tasmanian troubadour who has toured all corners of the globe playing solo shows. Van is based in Melbourne and has a monster discography of recordings and plethora of associated projects - past and present - behind him, including the Vandemonian Lags project for Dark Mona with Mick Thomas, Liz Stringer, Tim Rodgers and co. He most recently toured Canada and Ireland.

Another Tasmanian, drummer Johnny Gibson also hails from several past and present Melbourne bands including: Alt Country stalwarts Raised by Eagles; punk rock n rollers, Swedish Magazines and folk punks The Currency. He most recently played in The Revenants and The Gilded Gutter with Milligan and O’Brien.

Bristol boy Sheldon King is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, but plays banjo in Streams. Sheldon has graced stages large and small from Glastonbury in the U.K to Womad in Adelaide. He has run solo workshops for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. His ambient meditative acoustic work is also popular on YouTube.

Mandolin player Greg Stainsby is a songwriter from Melbourne and is responsible for the seminal folk punk legends Mutiny. He continues to write tunes for The Currency, who’ve taken their colonial folk punk rock to stages nationally.

Fiddle player, Carmen O’Brien plays in Melbourne folk band, The Drunken Poachers and played with Milligan, Gibson and Stainsby in their short-lived project - The Revenants and subsequent recording project, The Gilded Gutter. Previous acts also include Stray Hens with Victorian singer-songwriter, Mandy Connell.

 Bassist Andy Papadopolous plays in post punk Melbourne band The Superstitions, fronted by Died Pretty and Screaming Tribesman legend Ron S Peno. He also played bass in the recording project, The Gilded Gutter.

Singer Stephen Milligan grafted his vocal cords screaming in 90’s hardcore punk bands - One Inch Punch, Mid Youth Crisis and later in Coue Method and Black is the Colour. He most recently played in The Revenants and The Gilded Gutter.

Rowan Blackmore is from Bendigo and is a master accordionist who has a long history of solo performance as well as playing in Melbourne folk band, McAlpines Fusiliers.

Other guests include: Sam Davies, who plays tin whistle and uillean pipes and Mel Carroll who joins in on vocals.