{"id":2502190,"date":"2026-07-14T20:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2502190"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:56:37","slug":"new-irish-music-bring-your-own-hammer-adrian-crowley-quinn-the-adventurer-no-more-workhorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-irish-music-bring-your-own-hammer-adrian-crowley-quinn-the-adventurer-no-more-workhorse\/","title":{"rendered":"New Irish Music: Bring Your Own Hammer \u2013 Adrian Crowley \u2013 Quinn The Adventurer \u2013 No More Workhorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nomoreworkhorse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adrian-crowley-bring-your-own-hammer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Irish Music: Bring Your Own Hammer \u2013 Adrian Crowley \u2013 Quinn The Adventurer<\/strong><br \/>by Killian Laher<\/p>\n<p>Bring Your Own Hammer has an album in the works telling the tale of Quinn The Adventurer, an Irishman who travelled to the US for a career in acting but ended up in prison!\u00a0 The album will feature Bernard Butler, Sean O\u2019Hagan, Cian Nugent, Luke Haines, Brigid Mae Power, and now Adrian Crowley on the title track from the album, which has just been released.<\/p>\n<p>The song itself is Crowley in bossanova mode, a slinky, smoky groove that could have fitted in on his last album, last year\u2019s Measure of Joy.<\/p>\n<p>The album, From The Tombs, will come out later this year.\u00a0 More details are available here: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bringyourownhammerpresents.bandcamp.com\/track\/quinn-the-adventurer-by-adrian-crowley\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bringyourownhammerpresents.bandcamp.com\/track\/quinn-the-adventurer-by-adrian-crowley<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>A musical portrait of one of the most remarkable true stories to emerge from the Irish diaspora, \u201cQuinn the Adventurer\u201d tells the extraordinary tale of\u00a0James Quinn (a.k.a. Tim O\u2019Brien), a young Irish Catholic who left Belfast in 1920 to embark on an astonishing journey across North and South America. By 1924, Quinn had arrived in Hollywood, where he worked as an extra in silent films alongside Charlie Chaplin.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn\u2019s adventure took an unexpected turn when L.A. newspapers reported his arrest upon exhibiting a collection of Amazonian shrunken heads at the Long Beach Pike amusement park. Charged with the theft of the collection (valued at $25,000), Quinn was convicted of first-degree burglary and sentenced to San Quentin State Prison. Yet, thanks to the extraordinary twists of his life, he never served his sentence, instead skipping bail before resurfacing in Panama, on his way to Havana, Cuba.<em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quinn The Adventurer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ku8jOFprDYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nomoreworkhorse.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Irish Music: Bring Your Own Hammer \u2013 Adrian Crowley \u2013 Quinn The Adventurerby Killian Laher Bring Your Own Hammer has an album in the works telling the tale of Quinn The Adventurer, an Irishman who travelled to the US for a career in acting but ended up in prison!\u00a0 The album will feature Bernard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2502191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Irish-Music-Bring-Your-Own-Hammer-\u2013-Adrian-Crowley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502192,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502190\/revisions\/2502192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}