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Celtic punk
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| Celtic Punk | |
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| Stylistic origins: | Punk Rock - Folk Rock - Traditional Celtic music |
| Cultural origins: | 1980s London Punk rock scene |
| Typical instruments: | Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Drums - Bagpipes - Tin whistle - Fiddle -- Banjo - Mandolin - Accordion |
| Mainstream popularity: | Underground during most of its history. Recently becoming more visible to the mainstream due to bands like Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly |
| Subgenres | |
| Gaelic Punk | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Celtic Fusion - Celtic_rock - Folk_punk | |
| Regional scenes | |
| London - Ireland - Scotland - Chicago - Boston - Los Angeles | |
| Other topics | |
| Early bands: The Pogues - The Men They Couldn't Hang - Roaring Jack Influential bands: The Clash - The Dubliners - Christy Moore | |
Celtic punk, sometimes known as "Paddybeat" or "Celtcore", is a genre of music typically associated with Irish punks or punks from the Irish diaspora, although other Celtic nationalities, such as Scottish, Manx and Welsh, are also represented.
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The typical Celtic punk band includes a rock rhythm section accompanying more traditional instruments such as bagpipes, fiddle, tin whistle, accordion, mandolin, and banjo. Like Celtic rock, Celtic punk is a subgenre of Celtic fusion, which includes all amalgamations of celtic music with other genres. Celtic punk is also considered part of the broader folk punk genre.
The origins of Celtic punk lie in both the British folk rock bands of the 1960s and 70s who first electrified the music of the British Isles and more directly in folk bands such as The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers. The Skids were possibly the first UK punk band to add a strong folk element, as they did on their 1981 album Joy. Around this same time in London, Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy began experimenting with a sound that would become The Pogues [1], whose early sets included a mixture of traditional folk songs and originals written in a traditional style - all performed with a Punk attitude and energy. Other early Celtic Punk bands included The Men They Couldn't Hang, Nyah Fearties, and Australia's Roaring Jack.
Later bands strike various balances between the punk and folk ends of the spectrum or between original and traditional songs. Many Celtic punk bands emerge from predominantly Irish communities in cities which are historically centers of mass Irish immigration, such as Glasgow, London, Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. As a result, prevalent themes in Celtic punk songs include Ireland, Irish Republicanism, the Irish diaspora, drinking, and working class pride.
More recently, Celtic punk has been made popular by bands such as Flogging Molly, The Tossers, Black 47, The Mahones, The Skels, Neck, The Barleycorns,Amadan, The Swaggerin Growlers as well as countless others. One popular Celtic punk formula has been to form a typical punk or Oi! band but with the addition of bagpipes, as with the Real McKenzies, early lineups of the Dropkick Murphys, and Flatfoot 56. Three media outlets of celtic punk include Paddy Rock Radio the webzine Shite 'n' Onions, which releases compilation CDs, and a podcast called The Scallywag Show With Barnacle Brian.
The idea of Celtic punk has also evolved into Gaelic punk with mainly Scottish-based bands who actually sing in the Celtic language of Scottish Gaelic. Foremost of these bands is Oi Polloi from Edinburgh and Mill a h-Uile Rud who hail from Seattle.
- ^ Scanlon, A. The Lost Decade. Omnibus Press, 1988
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