'SLAVES' by FAUSTUS

‘Ridiculously great band.’ (Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music) - ‘Brilliant performances…Faustus are at their best here.’ (**** Songlines) - ‘One of Britain's outstanding folk bands.’ (**** The Guardian)
FAUSTUS ARE PAUL SARTIN, BENJI KIRKPATRICK & SAUL ROSE
The words of the song 'Slaves' may have been written in 1840 but it’s as relevent as ever. - From the 2016 album ' Death and Other Animals' (‘the best thing they’ve done’ - Froots).and the 2017 5-track EP release 'Slaves' (includes previously unreleased material). - Faustus are three of the leading lights of their generation: Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Lakeman Band, Bellowhead), Saul Rose (Waterson:Carthy, Whapweazel) and Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzar’s Feast). Rooted deeply in the English tradition, in 2007 they received a 75th Anniversary Award from the English Folk Dance and Song Society. In Germany the new album received the German critics award 2017 as best folk album (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik - 1-2017).
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Video directed by Sam Burden


Words: William S. Villiers Sankey - Music: Benji Kirkpatrick
Sankey’s poems, ‘Ode’ and ‘To Working Men of Every Clime’ are parodies of Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s ‘Song to the Men of England’, but it was common in Victorian literature, as tribute rather than satire. Shelley’s radical and progressive work was greatly admired by, and had a lasting influence on the Chartist movement, of which Sankey was an influential leader in Scotland. The texts were published in leading Chartist newspaper The Northern Star on 29th February and 28th November, 1840, then again in 1956 Y. V. Kovalev‘s An Anthology of Chartist Literature in Soviet Union-era Moscow.