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GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS

Pure unpolished folk punk from Norway!

The irish-punk pioneers Greenland Whalefishers started out in Bergen Norway in 1994, long

before anyone had heard of bands like Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys. Combining

British punk with Celtic folk influences, the band soon became one of the most interesting

folk-punk bands.

Three decades of touring all around the world performing sparkling live shows. The band has released eleven full length albums, piles of singles and EPs, an uncountable number of split-releases, a documentary movie and contributed with music to the movie “Boondock Saints – All Saints Day”.

This places the underground folk punkers in Greenland Whalefishers as one of the worlds most credible celtic rock bands around.

“Greenland Whalefishers picked up where the Pogues left off and are consistently setting

the standard for Paddy Punk with every release.” - John Bowles –paddyrock.com (Chicago,

USA)

As a part of the celebration of Greenland Whalefishers´ 20th anniversary in 2014, the band

released the documentary movie “20 Years Of Waiting” covering the entire history of the

band. The movie gained fantastic reviews:

“All was answered and more by this amazing rockumentary celebrating 20 years of one of the greatest Paddy Punk bands in the worldever.” - paddyrock.com (New York, USA).

Greenland Whalefishers have toured in the USA, Japan and all over Europe and will continue

touring all over with more power and energy than ever on what may be called their never

ending world tour. It is all this hard work and all the experience touring that has made critics

applaud the bands albums and concerts saying:

”This is probably one of the best Celtic Punkbands you will ever see perform live“.

Greenland Whalefishers are:

Arvid Grov – vocals

Stig Bruhjell – mandolin, banjo

Trond Olsen – guitar, vocals

Stig Blindheim – electric guitar

Agnes Skollevoll – tin-whistle, vocals

Odin Døssland – fiddle

Ørjan Eikeland Risan – drums

Tommy Bårdsen – bass