When you hear the AFL ad campaign listen out for the song behind the ad. It is by Dropkick Murphys.
‘I’m Shipping Up To Boston’ from the band’s ‘The Meanest Times’ album is the song that has gone commercial.‘I’m Shipping Up To Boston’ was inspired by a Woody Guthrie poem and it was featured in the movie ‘The Departed’.
It also got attention when it featured in an episode of The Simpsons titled ‘The Debarted.
Dropkick Murphys have been around since 1996.
The band from Quincy, Massachusetts, started out playing Irish music, folk rock and hardcore punk in a friend’s barbershop.
