Am I mistaken, or do I hear the whistle in several Dropkick Murphys songs…
not mistaken, flogging mollies also whistle.
very cool music
Bah.
The Pogues rule over all the pretenders.
Wormdiet speaks the mostly the truth but Flogging Molly is damn good. It is a whistle.
Flogging Molly rocks fer sher! Frenetic tongue-in-cheek angry crack me up stuff.
Dropkick Murphys is a really cool band. It’s sort of like Punk with ITM influences. Great music. They use bag-pipes in some songs as well.
Flogging Molly is more like Folk Rock (not Punk Folk). Great band as well. I’m seeing them live this summer at Hultsfred festival in Sweden.
Another great band which is even more ITM, but still very rocky is Great Big Sea, worth checking out.
I love to listen to the whole spectrum of ITM and ITM influenced music. Dropkick Murphys is on one end of the spectrum, then Flogging Molly, then Great Big Sea, then I guess comes Lunasa and Solas and that sort of stuff, then Chieftains and Cherish the Ladies and after that you’re into the pure trad stuff. Very interesting.
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Lunasa.
I think I like the McSherry/McGoldrick albums more than the others. All good stuff though.
Gotta throw Flook! onto that list.
Thanks you guys!!!
You’ve given me some awesome suggestions for new music. I always love finding new music. 'Round 'ere its a little hard to find…
I’d already heard Flogging Molly when I had started to research ITM influenced punk and rock, but somehow was more pulled towards the Murphys. I already love Lunasa, but have on ly one of their cds. I have a buddy who orders them overseas, cause they are a little hard to find, but I am strapped for cash right now. My wife and I had our first child Friday and now we have to pay the piper, no pun intended.
anywhooooooo
you guys ROCK
I currently like Otherworld the most whic is a McSherry/McGoldrick album. I really need a Flook album.
Otherworld. 
I’m trying to get the crans right in FLoating Crowbar but it’s tricky.
Rubai is a good starting point for Flook!. I got lucky and randomly found it at a Borders Books about a month ago.
So, this isn’t another Jack and Azalin thread?
Naw, they hate just about all those bands…well, Jack does, anyhoo. 
Would the name ‘Dropkick’ be used here in the derogatory sense?
The dropkick was used in Australian football until the early 1970s after which it was abandoned as too unreliable a way of passing the football. (Much the same occurred earlier in American football with the change in design of the ball from ball-shaped to missile-shaped.) Since then, to call someone a dropkick (in Australia) is to imply that they are out of date or generally unreliable and useless.
No, it’s not derogitory. Because the Murphys are from Boston, they would be using the word in the American sense, at least I think so. that would mean, that if one were to dropkick someone during a brawl…well…use your imagination. If I were to dropkick you, that would be undesirable, we’ll just leave it at that
I was going to order Rubai on my last Amazon order but I forgot to so the next one I will but money is tight so it might be awhile what I really want next is a Syn set A to E the full one and the Lunasa book.
Since we sit right in the middle of that Celtic-Rock genre, there are others that are in the same light. Many only use the whistle as an after-thought in the music though. Dropkick uses Scruffy Wallace (used to be Spicey McHaggis) on the bagpipes for the shock value and authenticity.
The Pogues will always be the innovators in this style of music, and most all of us will attest to that fact. Shane may be “out there”, but he’s got the ear for the tunes. Without the Pugues, I seriously doubt that such groups (including Barleyjuice) would have their sound today.
For more information on these types of groups, you can head over to the Shite ‘N’ Onions webiste for a complete listing of the music, concert dates, and links. Shite ‘N’ Onions
Have fun over there, but DO remember to come back here.
great canadian bands utilizing whistle??? Spirit of the West…Enter the Haggis..check 'em out! Both great bands…