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19-593: Philip Ryan (17 June 1957 – 8 October 2013), professionally known as Philip Chevron , was an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist and record producer. He was best known as the lead guitarist for the celtic punk band the Pogues and as the frontman for the 1970s punk rock band The Radiators from Space . Upon his death in 2013, Chevron was regarded as one of the most influential figures in Irish punk music. Chevron grew up in Santry ,

38-737: A mixture of traditional folk music and punk rock. The typical Celtic punk band includes rock instrumentation as well as traditional instruments such as bagpipes , fiddle , tin whistle , accordion , mandolin , and banjo . Like Celtic rock , Celtic punk is a form of Celtic fusion . While popular around the world, Celtic punk is often criticized for certain non-Irish bands appropriating and misrepresenting Irish culture (perpetuating ' Plastic Paddy ' stereotypes) with an excessive focus on drinking and fighting. Other folk-punk bands that incorporate traditional folk material, such as The Dreadnoughts and Cordelia's Dad , have expressed disdain at being called 'Celtic punk' despite Celtic material making up

57-929: A mixture of traditional folk songs and original songs written in a traditional style but performed in a punk style. Other early Celtic punk bands included Nyah Fearties , Australia 's Roaring Jack and Norway 's Greenland Whalefishers . The 1990s gave rise to a Celtic punk movement in North America, centered around the likes of the Dropkick Murphys of Quincy, Massachusetts , and Chicago's The Tossers - both from cities with particularly large population of Irish Americans - as well as LA's Flogging Molly (founded by Irish emigrant Dave King ). North American Celtic punk bands have been influenced by American forms of music, and commonly sing in English. Like other punk subcultures, Celtic punk has its own fashions as well. Similar to

76-502: A part of the larger Celtic punk subculture, as even though most bands from that scene did not incorporate traditional sounds into their music, they sang in Scottish Gaelic in support of their traditional language and in protest of linguistic homogenization (among many other issues). They taught each other the language in DIY classes called 'Gaelic for Punks', and the scene was centered around

95-399: A single song, the closer "Jersey City", being played with rock instruments. In 1996, the band released the punk-infused live album Road Kill (1996) as a farewell to their rock side, which for the next years would continue only as a side project named "io". The members of the main, now fully acoustic band had previously taken up shape note singing, and the new interest made an appearance on

114-459: A suburb of Dublin. Beginning in the late 1970s, he was lead singer and co-founder of the punk rock group The Radiators from Space , receiving some critical acclaim but little widespread popularity or financial success. Following a temporary breakup of the band in 1981, he lived in London for a while, meeting and befriending Shane MacGowan through time spent working together at a record shop. Following

133-469: A very small portion of their overall material (either due the common occurrence of non-Celtic folk songs being called 'Celtic,' or due to the misunderstanding that all traditional folk music mixed with punk rock is Celtic punk). Celtic punk's origins date back to 1960s and 1970s folk rock musicians who played Irish folk music and Celtic rock in the UK, as well as in more traditional Celtic folk bands such as

152-559: The Olympia Theatre for a fundraiser in August of the same year. Chevron died on 8 October 2013 in Dublin at age 56. See also The Pogues and The Radiators From Space Celtic punk The genre was popularised in the 1980s by the Pogues . It is considered part of the broader folk punk genre, although that term is often used in North America for acoustic forms of punk rock rather than

171-511: The Sabhal Mòr Ostaig college on the Isle of Skye , Scotland . Cordelia%27s Dad Cordelia's Dad is a folk punk band from Northampton, Massachusetts , that combines folk and punk rock influences and was instrumental in the creation of the genre later to be dubbed " No Depression ". The band formed in 1987 and was active until 1998, when the members relocated to different parts of

190-516: The Steve Albini produced album Spine (1998), for which folk fiddler Laura Risk joined the band. Spine would become their most critically acclaimed album, but also the last for four years, as band members moved away from their Western Massachusetts home base. Irvine moved to Portland, Oregon to become a music lawyer, Oss moved to Newcastle Upon Tyne , later joining Spraydog , while Eriksen moved to Minneapolis and later participated in creating

209-549: The remastering and re-release of The Pogues' entire back catalogue on CD. He toured regularly with The Pogues, who reunited after a reunion tour in 2001. Chevron was openly gay and penned the anti-homophobia song "Under Clery's Clock", which was first performed in 1987 when The Radiators reformed for one gig, an AIDS benefit in Dublin, and released as a single in 1989. In June 2007, The Pogues ' website announced that Chevron had been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer . In early 2008,

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228-608: The Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers . The Scottish band the Skids were possibly the first UK punk band to add a strong folk music element, as they did on their 1981 album Joy . Around the same time in London , Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy began experimenting with a sound that became the Pogues , which most consider to be the prototypical Celtic punk band. Their early sets included

247-640: The country. After releasing an album of older material in 2002 the band reunited in 2007 for their twentieth anniversary. Cordelia's Dad was founded in 1987 by Amherst College students Tim Eriksen (bass, vocals), Peter Irvine (drums), Tom King (guitar). Although all three had previous experiences with traditional American music their initial sound was closer to that of alternative rock bands like Dinosaur Jr. and accordingly they recorded their first, eponymous album at Fort Apache Studios in Boston . The main distinguishing characteristic from their Fort Apache peers

266-590: The music, Celtic punk fashion is a mixture of standard punk fashion and traditional Celtic clothing, most notably (and sometimes erronously) tartans . Standard items in Celtic punk fashion include leather jackets, tartans, chains, studs, kilts , and mohawks . The favored tartan among punks in 70s-80s Britain was the Royal Stewart tartan , due to both its widespread availability and perceived anti-establishment connotations. The Scottish Gaelic punk scene can be considered

285-448: The release of the Pogues' 1984 debut album Red Roses For Me , he was invited to join the band on a short-term basis as cover for banjo player Jem Finer 's paternity leave. He took over as guitarist following MacGowan's decision to concentrate on singing—thereby becoming a full-time member of the band in time for the recording of its second album, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash . Chevron wrote

304-422: The songs " Thousands Are Sailing " and "Lorelei" among others. He left The Pogues in 1994 following problems with drugs and alcohol. In 2003, he reformed The Radiators (Plan 9) with ex-Pogues bassist Cait O'Riordan . They released the album Trouble Pilgrim in 2006. In later years, he became The Pogues' unofficial spokesperson and frequently visited online forums, answering questions from fans. In 2004, he oversaw

323-550: The website announced that Chevron had recovered, and that his hearing had returned to almost pre-treatment levels. He embarked on the March 2008 tour of the United States and sang " Thousands Are Sailing " at each performance. By 2009, Chevron was free of cancer. However, in May 2013, it was announced that the cancer had returned and Chevron was terminally ill. His last public appearance was at

342-477: Was completed in 1993 with the recording of the limited release mini-album The Joy Fun Garden for German mail order label Return to Sender (a sublabel of Normal Records , which released all Cordelia's Dad albums in Germany). King left after the recording to be replaced by bassist Cath Oss. Eriksen switched to guitar and their third regular album, Comet (1995) continued the conversion toward an acoustic sound, with only

361-419: Was that with few exceptions, their early recorded output consisted entirely of Anglo-American traditional folk tunes recorded as rock songs. Their second album How Can I Sleep , recorded by Dave Schramm continued the prominent use of traditional material, but increased the share of songs played as acoustic folk songs, starting a trend to call the sound of the band " schizophrenic ". The transition to folk outfit

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