Shanks Pony
Shanks Pony are a high-energy folk duo delivering a rousing mix of Celtic and Australian pub classics guaranteed to get audiences singing, stomping and raising a glass. Featuring Pete Varcoe on lead vocals and rhythm guitar alongside Todd Lynch on piano accordion, the pair create a powerful, full-bodied sound that belies their size.
Blending driving rhythms with soaring accordion melodies, their set is packed with Irish anthems, Aussie favourites and lively jigs and reels. In the spirit of The Pogues, Shanks Pony bring big choruses, infectious energy and a show that turns any room into a celebration.
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Song List
Adelaide – Paul Kelly
April Sun in Cuba – Dragon
Augathella Station – Traditional (Aust)
Away Away – Weddings Parties Anything
Aye Sir – The Tossers
Back Home In Derry – Traditional (Irish)
Ballad of Ben Hall – Traditional (Aust)
Big Weekend Lately – Original
Black Velvet Band – Traditional (Irish)
Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
Bonnie Ship the Diamond – Traditional (Irish)
Bring On the Pints – Original
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Dirty Old Town – Ewan MacColl
Don’t You Think It’s Time – Bob Evans
Don’t Change – INXS
Drunken Lazy Bastard – The Mahones
Dumb Things – Paul Kelly
Fanny Bay – Traditional (Aust)
Fathers Day – Weddings Parties Anything
Fiddle the Books – Original
Fields of Athenry – Traditional (Irish)
Fisherman’s Blues – The Waterboys
Follow Me Up to Carlow – Traditional (Irish)
Gonna Be Good – Paul Kelly
Great Song of Indifference – Bob Geldof
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Hard Fought And Won – Original
Harvest Moon – Neil Young
Have You Ever Seen the Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hungry Years – Weddings Parties Anything
I Can’t Believe We Were Married – Paul Kelly
Irish Rover – Traditional (Irish)
Johnny Come Lately – Steve Earl
Johnny I Hardly Knew You – Traditional (Irish)
Lachlan Tigers – Traditional (Aust)
Leaving Of Liverpool – Traditional (Irish)
Lend Me Your Ladder – Original
London Calling – The Clash
Long Hot Days – Original
Long Tall & Lanky – Original
Made of Stone – The Stone Roses
Never Tear Us Apart – INXS
Nips Are Getting Bigger – Mental As Anything
One I Love – R.E.M.
Only 19 – Redgum
Opportunity – Pete Murray
Overkill – Men At Work
Paddy on The Railway – Traditional (Irish)
Poor Ned – Redgum
Raggle Taggle Gypsy – Traditional (Irish)
Repeal of the Licensing Laws – The Pogues
Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
Rosey and Grey – Lowest of the Low
Ryebuck Shearer – Traditional (Aust)
Sally Maclennane – The Pogues
Scorn of the Women – Weddings Parties Anything
Sergeant Small – Tex Morton
Sing – Travis
Size Doesn’t Matter – Original
Streams of Whiskey – The Pogues
Sugar Man – Rodriguez
Sunny-side of the street – The Pogues
Sunshine Tonight – Original
Sydney From a 747 – Paul Kelly
Tell Me Ma – Traditional (Irish)
That’s Entertainment – The Jam
The Bucket – Kings of Leon
The Parting Glass – Traditional (Irish)
Ticket in Tatts – Weddings Parties Anything
To Her Door – Paul Kelly
Waxies Dargle – The Pogues
Whip Jamboree – Traditional (Irish)
Whiskey in the Jar – Traditional (Irish)
Wide Open Road – The Triffids
Woman of Ireland – Weddings Parties Anything
Year in a Pub – Original
You Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time – Luka Bloom