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ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS – Wake The Rebels (2023)

Here we go again! Another brilliant album from (fast becoming legends!) The O’Reilly’s & The Paddyhats. How does Wake The Rebels hold up against their vast back catalogue I wonder? Well Anto Morra the London Irish Folk-Punker thinks very highly… The opening title track is exactly what we’ve come to know and love from the…
ALBUM REVIEW: MAN THE LIFEBOATS – Soul Of Albion (2022)

Anto Morra was so taken away by Londoners Man The Lifeboats album Soul Of Albion that he had to get his words into print. Raucous, upbeat Folk with big choruses that tell stories with straight– up lyrics, pounding bass lines, lilting mandolin and fiddle melodies and stomping beats. It may be a bit late in the…
CELTIC-PUNK Q AND A : THE LONDON IRISH FOLK-PUNKER ANTO MORRA

With a new album due out on Saturday and a London Celtic Punks gig with American band Brave The Sea on Friday there’s no better time to get our auld mate Anto to fill out the Celtic-Punk Q And A. Filled to the brim with Anto-isms get along to The Birds Nest on Friday and…
ALBUM REVIEW: BRAVE THE SEA – Lady Death (2023)

Newark, Ohio’s Celtic-Punk salty dogs Brave The Sea have released their new studio album full of all sorts of nautical nonsense! With their London debut only a fortnight away esteemed London Irish Folk-Punker Anto Morra gives their album a listen before he joins them on stage on August 4th. “the old country, warm fires on…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS – ‘In Strange Waters’ (2021)

Seems like only five minutes since their last album The O’Reillys And The Paddyhats reel off another one! This time In Strange Waters celebrates their 10th anniversary together but not as you’d expect it to do. Nine of the best Paddyhats songs played in completely new arrangements and genres and a bonus of a completely…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE RUMJACKS – ‘Hestia’ (2021)

The long awaited and hotly anticipated new studio album from The Rumjacks is now out and available everywhere. We missed the release date last week as we didn’t get an advance copy for the first time (!) but better late than never and who better to judge it for us than the ‘FolkPunker’ himself Anto…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Dogs on the Leash’ (2020)

Germany and Celtic-Punk go together like Guinness and chips and there’s no better purveyors there than the wonderful O’Reillys And The Paddyhats. Our man Anto Morra runs the critical rule over their enjoyable fourth album. This record opens with the title track, which is a craic’r and appears to have it all, just what Dr…
ALBUM REVIEW: T.C. COSTELLO- ‘The Bluebird’ (2020)

With the imminent release of his seventh album next week London Irish Folk Punker Anto Morra gives his view on T.C. Costello’s The Bluebird. The Bluebird will be launched live on Facebook on Thursday where T.C. will be debuting some new songs and a few auld favourites too no doubt. The last time I graced…
ANTO MORRA’S NEW ALBUM IN HIS OWN WORDS

Songwriter, performer and multi media artist that believes ‘Life is for laughing and fighting injustice’. Traditional folk songs and punk rock of his formative London years, along with his Irish roots and Norfolk home are the inspiration behind his work. by ANTO MORRA Twenty is a compilation of 20 songs taken from 7 CD releases.…
ALBUM REVIEW: STEVE IGNORANT’S SLICE OF LIFE- ‘Don’t Turn Away’ (2019)

‘Anarcho punk legend’ Steve Ignorant returns with his new acoustic project Slice of Life follow their 2014 debut ‘Love And A Lamp-Post’ with a new collection of eleven songs titled ‘Don’t Turn Away’. Accompanied by Carol Hodge, Pete Wilson and Pete Rawlinson as the Slice Of Life our man Anto Morra discovers Don’t Turn Away…
LIVE REVIEW: TC COSTELLO/ ANTO MORRA/ BRENDAN O’PREY AT THE GUNNERS 17th MAY 2018

A very nice review by the talented Anto Morra of the recent London Celtic Punks gig held in north London that saw the start of TC Costello’s European tour. Accompanied by Anto and Brendan O’Prey (literally at times!) the night saw Irish artists from three different countries perform and they will all, I am sure,…
ALBUM REVIEW: ANTO MORRA- ‘From The Vaults’ (2017)

London Irish Folk Punk Somewhere between the Pogues and Ian Dury with perhaps a dash of Madness. He’s back. Guess whose back? Aye it’s the all round Mr. Nice Guy Anto Morra to sort the English folk scene right out! Even more prolific than Matilda’s Scoundrels Anto presents his new album that came out at the…
SINGLE REVIEW: THE PUNKFOLKERS- ‘Angry Man/ The Blacksmith’ (2017)

London Celtic Punks favourite and London Irish folk punker Anto Morra is back with his new project The Punkfolkers. This isn’t the folk-punk of The Levellers or The Pogues but the punk of the Pistols, The Stranglers and SLF as filtered through some real story telling and traditional folk. The Punkfolkers are a three piece…
ALBUM REVIEW: ANTO MORRA-’16’ (2016)

London Irish Folk Punk Somewhere between the Pogues and Ian Dury with perhaps a dash of Madness. The ever prolific Anto Morra returns with this sixteen track album tribute to the 1916 Easter Rising. In the 100th Anniversary year of the Rising their have been many books and musical tributes paid to that heroic act…
EP REVIEW: ANTO MORRA- ‘The Patriot’ (2014)

somewhere between the Pogues and Ian Dury with perhaps a dash of Madness Over a year since Anto Morra’s last record, the superb album ‘Never Had To Shout’, comes his new EP released this week ‘The Patriot’. We are pleased to announce that it is more of the same. Yeah we know in some cases that…
ALBUM REVIEW: ANTO MORRA- ‘Never Had To Shout’ (2014)

Every now and then you can come across a new act or artiste that literally blows your socks off and you just cannot work out how you had never heard of them before. Well this is exactly what happened recently with ourselves and Mr Anto Morra. Without going into the twists and turns of fate…
APPEARING SOON: ANTO MORRA- ‘London Irish’

The wonderful Anto Morra telling it how it is with ‘London Irish’ “London town is always home to me But I’ve another across the Irish sea That my parents do come from But it’s not where i belong I’ve been called a Paddy and a English pom A thick Mick and lousy cockney scum But…