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Scottish Gaelic Punk is a subgenre of Punk Rock with bands that sing some or all of their music in Scottish Gaelic . Up until recently, there has been little modern Scottish Gaelic-language music. The rock band Runrig is a notable exception, and the song ''Man of Two Worlds'' by Ultravox — from their album "Lament" (1984) — contained some Gaelic lyrics. The mid-1990s Grindcore band Scatha, from Tomintoul , featured Gaelic in several of their songs. Up until spring of 2005, when Oi Polloi and Mill A H-Uile Rud both released all-Gaelic EPs, there had not been an album of modern music all in Gaelic since Runrig released '' Play Gaelic '' in 1978. The backgrounds of the musicians in the subgenre are diverse, from Tim (Mill a h-Uile Rud), who hails from Seattle in the United States , to Anna Rothach ( Nad Aislingean and Oi Polloi), who was born and raised in South Uist . Tthe uniting feature of all of these bands is that most of the Gaelic-speaking members have spent some time at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig , a Gaelic college on the Isle Of Skye . In DIY -punk style, the Gaelic punks started out by teaching each other the language at ''Gaelic for Punks'' classes, first held at the '' Edinburgh European City of Punk'' festival in 1997. After these individuals gained fluency, they took advantage of scholarships available at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, and there has been a small, but steady stream of punks at the college ever since. Punk in the left and Environmentalism . However, a chief difference, is that Welsh punk has emerged from the language's heartlands and native speakers, whereas Gaelic punk has mostly been created by learners and outsiders. The Gaelic punk band Mill a h-Uile Rud were the feature of a documentary made by the BBC 's arts series ''Ealtainn'', which followed them on a tour of Europe as well as filming them at concerts in the Gaelic-speaking heartland of the Isle of Lewis . Both national and local radio and printed media have featured the bands. '' The Scotsman '', the national Scottish paper based in Edinburgh , regularly covers the scene, and the American publications '' Maximum Rocknroll '' and '' Punk Planet '' have carried features on the new subgenre. NOTABLE BANDS were the first punk rock band to record a single Carson? in Scottish Gaelic]]
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