Ireland’s first punk band just got the call for the big room. The Radiators From Space are special guests when Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter hit Dublin’s 3Arena on Monday, December 7, 2026 — the Irish date on the Anarchy In The U.K. and Ireland tour marking fifty years of punk. From Television Screen through Ghostown, the late Phil Chevron’s old crew still carry the Dublin DNA that made Celtic punk possible.
Flatfoot 56: Lafayette Parking-Lot Skirmish
Chicago Celtic punk lifers Flatfoot 56 are rolling into Indiana this Saturday — September 26 — for an all-ages, open-air bash at People’s Brewing Co. in Lafayette. Doors 6pm. Local melodic hardcore wreckers Criminal Record and Boilermaker ska crew Third Wheeling open the gates. Mom&Pop Productions is running the parking-lot shindig rain or shine; tickets about $18 at the brewery, ~$21 online, or $25 day of. Bagpipes, boots, and beer for the people — get there early before the pipes melt the patio.
The Rumjacks: Balkans to Baltics Curtain Call
Sydney’s Celtic punk road dogs The Rumjacks are slamming the boot on their Balkans-to-Baltics European club run this week. Vilnius hits Mello tonight (23 September), Riga’s Melnā Piektdiena tomorrow, then first-time Estonia on Friday at Tallinn’s Paavli Kultuurivabrik with local openers Tabloited.
The Scratch: Galway Weekend, Still Pulling Like a Dog
Dublin’s The Scratch — folk-metal strummers with a cajón where the kick should be — hit Galway for two nights at Monroe’s Live this week. Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September, doors at 8pm. DUG opens Thursday. Standing show, 18+, about thirty quid via the venue.
They’re still riding Pull Like A Dog, the March 2026 Sony Ireland album named after the O’Donovan brothers’ “send it” mantra. Netflix House of Guinness cues, Dropkick Murphys US support, Download Festival — the kitchen-table buskers keep punching up. Belfast’s Mandela Hall follows Saturday the 26th if you miss the west.
Boiled in Lead: Halloween Curtain Call in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Celtic-punk lifers Boiled in Lead just dropped the pint-glass bombshell: after 43-odd years of fiddles, power chords, and world-folk chaos, they’re going on an indefinite hiatus. One last dance left — Halloween night, Saturday October 31, 2026, Dunsmore Room at Crooners in Fridley.
Formed in 1983 — the same Minneapolis year Hüsker Dü and The Replacements were rewriting the rulebook — BiL stuck the punk in the hippie and the hippie in the punk, and never quit. King of the Dogwoods landed in March for the 43rd anniversary; violinist Haley Olson peeled off in July; Todd Menton, Morris Engel, and Drew Miller are finishing the run as a trio. Forty-three years of bog-trotting weirdness, then the curtain. Raise a whiskey. Scare yourselves silly. Be there.
Young Dubliners: New England Weekend Pint Run
The Young Dubliners are stacking New England weekends like pints on a sticky bar. Friday, September 25, they hit Rochester Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire (doors 7, show 8), with Sean Fell of Erin’s Guild opening the night. Saturday, September 26, it’s the Spire Center in Plymouth, Massachusetts — same clock, same racket.
They’re working the road while crowdfunding their tenth studio album with Tim Boland at the board. Celtic rock for people who still shout along and mean it. Grab a ticket before the floor fills with elbows and Guinness foam.
Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners: Halfway to St Paddy’s in Southie
If your idea of a good Saturday involves an accordion, and a few pints then, Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners have a date for you. They’ll be at Castle Island Brewing in South Boston on Saturday, October 3, from 6–9pm, for the brewery’s Halfway to St Paddy’s Day Festival at 10 Old Colony Ave.
Byrnes brings the Celtic-adjacent Americana and the Guinness-soaked spirit of the In the Key of Guinness EP. They’re also playing Oktoberfest at the same brewery on October 17. No corporate waffle — just music, beer and a bog-friendly excuse to get out of the house.
Street Dogs: Paradise Homecoming
Boston’s own Street Dogs just punched a hometown date into the calendar — Friday, December 18 at the Paradise Rock Club on Comm Ave. Mike McColgan’s Irish-tinged street-punk crew (ex-Dropkick Murphys frontman, firefighter, forever Savin Hill) land back where the boots slam hardest, with Gang Green and Liberty And Justice on the bill. Doors 6:30.
Shanghai Treason: Small Town Hero
Yorkshire flat cap banjo punks, Shanghai Treason just lobbed another single into the pit. Small Town Hero — third teaser for the next album, out mid-September via Kicker — is burnout anthem energy: ditch the M1 grind, back to fields, generators and black boots.
Muirsheen Durkin & Friends: Bunch Of Bastards
Germany’s Muirsheen Durkin & Friends just released their third long-player, Bunch Of Bastards — eight years after 11 Pints & 3 Shots, and still serving Irish Celtic folk-punk with a boot and a bottle. Thirteen tracks: five originals, five traditional, three covers, all dressed for the pit. Official release was 19 September (CD now; vinyl eyed for 16 November), with the home-turf launch at Wackenberg Open-Air Party near Möhnesee. Festival circuit already lined up for 2027. Have a drink, ya bastards.
