Alistair Hulett

Alistair Hulett at Georgetown Folk Festival 1996
Photo: Tony 1212 · CC BY-SA 4.0

About the artist

Alistair Hulett (15 October 1951 – 28 January 2010) was a Scottish acoustic folk singer and life-long socialist best remembered as the singer of the folk punk band, Roaring Jack. In addition to his solo albums, Hulett recorded as Alistair Hulett & Dave Swarbrick and, towards the end of his life, formed the band, The Malkies. Born in Glasgow, Hulett discovered traditional music as an early teen and began playing the folk circuit in New Zealand in 1968, after immigrating with his family.

Top songs

  1. The Internationale
  2. Militant Red
  3. Dictatorship of Capital
  4. Internationale
  5. Among Proddy Dogs & Papes
  6. He Fades Away
  7. Destitution Road
  8. The Old Divide and Rule
  9. Yuppietown
  10. The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away
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  1. Suicide Town
  2. After the Smoke Cleared
  3. Plains of Maralinga
  4. Farewell to Whisky
  5. No Half Measures
  6. The Fair Flower Of Northumberland
  7. Criminal Justice
  8. The Overgate
  9. John mclean's march
  10. Everyone i know
  11. Geordie
  12. New age of the Fist
  13. Out in the danger Zone
  14. Victor Jara of Chile
  15. The Dark Eyed Sailor
  16. Kick It Over
  17. She's Got No Conscience
  18. The Recruited Collier
  19. Tam Lin
  20. Shot Down In Flames
  21. Almost Unintentional
  22. Joe McDonnell
  23. Riches & Rags
  24. In Sleepy Scotland
  25. Playing for the Traffic
  26. When Guilford Good Our Pilot Stood
  27. Good Morning Bouganville
  28. Old King Cole
  29. By Ibrox Park
  30. Waterman's Hornpipe
  31. Trouble In Mind
  32. The Wife of Usher's Well
  33. The Days That The Boys Came Down
  34. Dirty Old Town
  35. Rags & Riches
  36. The Weaver and the Factory Maid
  37. The Girl I First Loved
  38. The Dark Loch
  39. Ballad Of Accounting
  40. Tinker in the Lum
  41. Among Proddy Dogs and Papes
  42. Stealin' Back My Same Old Used to Be
  43. I'm Stealing Back To My Same Old Used To Be
  44. Way Too Long In The Tower Of Song
  45. Ethel On The Airwaves
  46. Brown Adam
  47. Riches And Rags
  48. Quite Early Morning
  49. Tho' Cruel Fate + She Is A Winsome Wee Thing
  50. Carry You With Me
  51. Lights Of Sydney Town
  52. Ways Of A Rover
  53. Good morning Bougainville
  54. Battle of Waterloo/John D. Burgess
  55. Sae Flaxen Were Her Ringlets
  56. The Red Clydesiders
  57. Blue Murder
  58. Don't Sign Up For War
  59. New age of Teh Fist
  60. The Siege of Union Street
  61. The Lassies of Neilston
  62. The Tattie Howkin'
  63. Yuppie Town
  64. The Swaggies
  65. Old King Coal
  66. As I Cam Down by Yon Castle Wa' - My Lady's Gown
  67. The Plains of Maralinga
  68. The Guidwife Count the Lawin / No Churchman Am I
  69. October wind
  70. A Stranger And A Friend
  71. Framed
  72. The First Girl I Loved
  73. Battle of Waterloo - John D.Burgess
  74. Girl on a gate
  75. Farewell To Whiskey
  76. Harold's Best Men
  77. Saturday Johnny And Jimmy The Rat
  78. As I Cam Down + My Lady's Gown
  79. Tho' Cruel Fate - She Is a Winsome Wee Thing
  80. As I Cam Down By Yon Castle Wa' + My Lady's Gown
  81. The Earl Of Errol
  82. Internationale (english)
  83. In The Days Of '49
  84. Behind Barbed Wire
  85. Stealin Back To My Same Old Used To Be
  86. L'Internationale (english)
  87. Then Guidwife Count The Lawin
  88. The Forfar Sodger
  89. the guidwife count the lawin
  90. Almost Unintantional

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