Bat Outta Boston
Congratulations to the Dropkick Murphys. The Beantown bagpipe punkers have been at it for years, as Warped Tour favorites and club-show terrors. They're the definition of doggedness on a budget, but even for bullheaded indies a little bit of unlooked-for help has to be welcome. The Murphys are getting theirs from movie director Martin Scorsese.
The new Scorsese film The Departed, features a quintessential Dropkick anthem, I’m Shipping Up To Boston, and not just as background hum. A press rep says Shipping "plays prominently through the opening credits and recurs throughout the entire introduction of the film as the backstory of the characters involved are revealed."
Scorsese has always been aggressive about the use of songs in his movies - check out this excellent run-down of his rock-in-the-reel moments. I haven't yet seen The Departed, but for a police drama set in South Boston's roughneck precincts, it's hard to imagine a more apt choice than the Dropkick Murphys. If the movie does well, and reviews have been pretty positive, the band's music will reach more people in a month at theatres than it would during a summer's worth of Warped Tour dates.
Which isn't to say the Dropkick Murphys will ever stop touring.
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