Jinx Lennon

Jinx Lennon punk poet has been writing and recording music since 1980 and he was involved in a number of underground bands from 1985 to 1999 including Sneaky Pete and the Ostrich,Zen emeralds,Siver Seeds,Novena Babes,The Frocks .Jinx went solo in 1999 influenced by the new wave of roots bands such as Handsome Family .The aim was to mix James Brown and Iggy Pop to hip hop,Flaming Lips and Irish folk but it happily went in all sorts of tangents after that .He was part of the Arts/Lives Series on RTE 1 in the documentary ‘’Noisemaker’2007’He performed on The Tommy Tiernan show 2021.He was recently featured in the film ‘’Celtic Utopia’’ featured at Cannes 2025.It was directed by Dennis Harvey and Swedish film maker Lars Loven about the edgier side of Irish folk influenced music and an upcoming Jinx +Mary Wallopers songwriting collaboration will be featured on BBC 2 in 2026 as part of Cumasc: Seisiun Sa Black Gate series .

Jinx Lennon sings about what he believes is happening in the real world as seen through the eyes of his border schizo punk fffolk music emanating from the Irish borderlands .Subjected in his youth to the split screen of Republic Ireland and Northern Ireland volatile goings on and the sort of doublethink politics no one would wish on any young head thus Jinx ended up throwing it all into a blender along with his favorite sci fi books and mindfuckery of living in joyless holy Eire.Now he sings it all with the aim of not making life any more unbearable for the listener overwhelmed by modern existence with the rawness and coherent d.i.y. and anti hero realness that any true head out there requires .Jinx has toured with John Cooper Clarke played antifolk festivals in Denmark Street with the likes of Fat White Family and supported the Fall and Christy Moore .His songs ‘Newry Bird’ and ‘We don’t see anything ‘ have become anthems in the pubs and open mikes from The Lagan to the Lee along with the mighty ‘Forgive the Cnts’.You might have seen Jinx on the 3 am shows in Glastonbury or at Electric Picnic .No where is (reasonably)beyond the pale for Jinx .His favorite festival place to play is Rathlin Island and he would perform there in a heartbeat before any big corporate dinosaur event.