The Assassenachs formed in 1998 and immediately started playing pubs and clubs up and down Europe.

The music then was a little bit more "rocky" (in more ways than one) than nowadays. After several line-up changes, founder member Steve Dewar and almost-founder member Greig Coutts met Steve Bradshaw (fiddle) who introduced the jig and the reel to the band. Hence a sharper than ever tendency to the Scottish and Irish folk.

The Assassenachs set list has always included oddities, for example, songs about scottish football players suffering from broken legs and flatulence and then there´s, of course, ´The Grand Old Duke of York´. Other favourites include ´The star of the county down, Ride on, Black is the colour, The drunken sailor, The black velvet band´ and not forgetting perennial crowd pleasers, ´The wild rover, Dirty old town and Whiskey in the jar´. Recently, however, the lads have leant towards their roots and have embraced more of the scottish side of folk with songs like ´Bonnie ship the diamond´, He wouldnae want his gruel and ´In kirkentilloch there are nae pubs´ not to mention a few other classics. The odd pop song can be heard in there on occasion too....but we´ll not go into that.

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