Swedish Celtic punk wreckers Finnegan’s Hell just lobbed their fastest track yet. “My Life” — third single from Glorious Mess, due October 30 on Wild Kingdom — is out now: Irish melody welded to full-throttle punk, with a lyrical wink at Sunday Morning Coming Down.
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Meryl Streek: Stories They Don’t Teach You At School Is Out
Dublin’s people’s punk poet Meryl Streek has put out his third album, Stories They Don’t Teach You At School — twelve tracks of housing fights, landlord politics, contested deaths and working-class Ireland, out now on Venn Records.
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Mike McColgan Pulls a Double Shift at Rebellion 2027
Mike McColgan is booked twice for Rebellion 2027. The punk festival takes over Blackpool’s Winter Gardens from August 5 to 8 next year, and its official line-up now lists both Street Dogs and Michael McColgan’s Bomb Squad.
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The Saw Doctors Turn 40: Celtic Connections, Halifax and Cork in 2027
Tuam’s finest are turning 40 on the road, and The Saw Doctors have three big 2027 nights booked to mark it, starting with Celtic Connections at Glasgow International Arena on Friday, January 15, with Ímar. Glasgow tickets went on general sale October 8.
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Dropkick Murphys Line Up a Big European Summer for 2027
Dropkick Murphys have next summer sorted. Before the St. Patrick’s Day paddywagon rolls, Quincy’s finest are booked into a run of big European festivals for June 2027.
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The Cloverhearts and The Cherry Coke$ Lock In for Japan’s Thick Festival 2027
Sydney’s Celtic punk road dogs The Cloverhearts are heading back to Japan. They’re on the first lineup for Thick Festival 2027, the Secret 7 Line-hosted punk all-dayer at Club Citta’ in Kawasaki on January 10, sharing the bill with Japan’s own Celtic punk veterans The Cherry Coke$.
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Gaelic Mishap: From the Edge Is Finally Here
Maryland Celtic rockers Gaelic Mishap have finally put out the album they kept promising. From the Edge is 13 tracks of fiddle, bodhrán, shanties and loud guitars, and the band admit they’d said it was coming “so many times that you stopped believing us.”
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The Wran: Debut Album The Stone Man Is Out, Pogues Arena Slots Ahead
Four Dunford brothers from Kilbrien, in Waterford’s Comeragh Mountains, The Wran have put out their debut album, The Stone Man, today on Déise Records. Eight tracks, 42 minutes, old songs dragged through punk and psychedelia on banjo, harmonium, acoustic guitar, bass VI and drums.
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Flogging Molly’s Salty Dog Cruise: The Running Order Is Out
The running order for Flogging Molly’s Salty Dog Cruise is out, and the hosts have two Pool Deck headline sets on the boat: Monday, October 26 (8:30 to 9:45 pm) and the Halloween-themed Wednesday, October 28 (9:00 to 10:15 pm).
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The Men They Couldn’t Hang: Undertones Support Slots, Then a Run to Islington
The Men They Couldn’t Hang are back on the road this autumn, and the pick of the run is three nights as special guests on The Undertones’ 50th anniversary shows: Sunderland Fire Station (October 22), Sheffield Foundry (October 23) and Manchester O2 Ritz (October 24). Shepherd’s Bush folk-punk meets Derry teenage kicks.
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