What is it about Punk and Irish music that makes them fit together so well?
They are/were music of criticism, rebellion(in some instances), and just the music of the people. You didn’t have to go to a school or university to play folk music: you typically learned your instrument from your parents or just by tooling around with it. Punk always had the same ethic: no need for obvious talent or formal training, just turn it up and play. I think the aesthetics of both genres are adjacent, but by no means completely overlapping. I couldn’t throw the Dubliners in the same boat as AFI, nor equate Simon & Garfunkel with Bakers Dozen. Are the pipes hooked up to any kind of amp onstage? (I’ve always wondered!) No, he plays the chanter up to an SM57 microphone on a short boom stand. You don’t get the sound of the drones that way very well this way. Unfortunately, keeping three drones and one chanter in tune with the band’s A440 tuning is nigh impossible… Thus, we just mic the chanter. It still has a good effect on the music. What do you have left that you want to achie
