The Coral – Holy Joes Coral Island Medicine Show – Released 08/09/23

Description

Bridging Coral Island and Sea Of Mirrors, is a second new album from The Coral titled Holy Joes Coral Island Medicine Show. With the full tracklisting limited to physical formats only, the album brings James and Ian Skellys grandad a.k.a The Great Muriarty back into the fold for the narrated post-script to one of The Corals most successful albums to date. Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show is the show that brings you sounds from the other side all through the night. It mixes murder ballads and death-ditties, love songs and eulogies, songs about drifters, grifters, hobos and killers… If Coral Island was a box-office hit in 2022, then Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show is it’s low-budget little brother, written in a year and stitched together in less – think The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ll or Police Academy: Mission To Moscow, but without the plane fare to Russia. This is a sequel to rival the most shameless of cash-ins. It features a ramshackle cast: along with the usual suspects, Coral Island compère (and Skelly Granddad) The Great Moriarty makes a return, alongside actor and friend-of-the-band John Simm, who recites wanderlust eulogy Drifter’s Prayer.