THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY - The Eighteenth Day Of May (Deluxe Reissue) - 2LP - Lime / Sherbert Coloured Vinyl FAT DOG Salmena culminates her artistic evolution

Salmena culminates her artistic evolution on Big Dog

one of the most important records ever released

as found abridged in Pádraig Breathnach's Songs of the Gael (1922) and in full in Edward Hayes' The Ballads of Ireland (1856)

Nearly four decades later

The lightness of its influence and the journalistic recollection of experience set against a battered and warm folk-punk delivery from beginning to end makes Hole in My Head a fun comfort

THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY - The Eighteenth Day Of May (Deluxe Reissue) - 2LP - Lime / Sherbert Coloured Vinyl FAT DOG Salmena culminates her artistic evolution2LP Limited Edition Lime Sherbert Coloured Vinyl (2026 Repress) Released on Joe Boyds Hannibal label here was a band rooted in Thompson Swarbrick Fairport but also a snatch of the Velvet Underground and a sprig of The Byrds. The Eighteenth Day Of May evoked a legendary era, and now they are a justifiably legendary band too. KLOF Mag Beginning life as a trio in London, 2003, the original line up consisted of Allison Brice (vocals, flute), Richard Olson