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Kilts, Celts and Croatians

Listen BackKilts, Celts and Croatians – the strange global rise of Celtic Punk

In far foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade, they’re playing bagpipes with loud guitars and singing about whiskey and beer. Week by week, more and more clones of the Pogues are springing up in unlikely locations from Bosnia to Brazil. Having saved civilisation once already, is Mother Ireland now saving the spirit of punk?