The Red and Black

The small Irish Thorn family of sorts is planning on starting a drunken punk rock bar fight next Wednesday at Little Kings.

Aiden Thorn said, "We have been known to have to physically resolve an argument or two. In fact, I try before each show to inflict some violence on one or two of my brothers, to get them pumped up for the show and, of course, to keep my 'alpha male' status. You got to watch your back in a band whose members are your kin."

Some of them may look a little bit familiar, especially for fans of Jump (formerly Jump, Little Children) or Tin Cup Prophette.

Members from each are in this band.

Aiden, Triona, Charlee, Ewan and Jak Thorn don't mean business. They don't want to become popular or to tour the U.S. They just want to play at Little Kings and make some green while they're at it.

Due to a lack of ambition, the five-year-old band has not played out too much. Originally called the Thorns, the band lost its name to a trio of "wimpy rock types," said Aiden Thorn (Jump's multi-instrumentalist Matt Bivins). Since then, the group has referred to itself as the Dole.

Although Aiden and his brother Ewan Thorn are the only two who have actually been to Ireland, the rest have found other means of being legitimate Irish musicians.

"We found that traditional Irish music does naturally lend itself to being played loudly and sloppily, hence the marriage with punk," Aiden Thorn said.

The band loves Boondock Saints and female fans clad in punk gear and also immensely enjoy alcohol (Ewan, Jak and Charlee Thorn all name Guinness as their drink of choice).

As Aiden said, "I'm known to enjoy a little concoction that I like to call the 'Jack Craniels,' which is cranberry and whisky.

But Tri and I did a lot of damage to Paddy Reilly's (a bar in New York City) Cointreau supply when we played there weekly and kept the Cosmopolitans coming."

"When you hear our lil' sister's war cry of "We're getting wasted!" you'd better run, duck and cover because she becomes a raging jackolope on the stuff."

When the band is severely intoxicated it practices speaking in an Irish brogue.

"But we're also trying to hide our natural speaking voices," Aiden said, "because we're from Ohio, and our real accents sound like we're gutting a cat."

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