LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

HONOURING ONE OF OUR OWN. GLENN DIXON R.I.P.

There is one death by suicide every two hours in the UK. It is the leading cause of death among young people aged 20-34 years and is considerably higher among men, with around three times as many dying as a result of suicide compared to women. Their is an ongoing crisis of young men committing suicide…
NEW FILM. A REBEL I CAME- THE STORY OF ÉIRE ÓG LIVE AT THE BRAZEN HEAD

In 1997 Éire Óg released their Live At The Brazen Head album, one of the most iconic rebel album of its generation. This film, produced by The Rebel Collective podcast, brings together some of the original members of the band and many other prominent musicians from the rebel/folk scene to discuss how the band and…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE WAKES- ‘Venceremos!’ (2016)

by Pete Morgan Glasgow Irish folk’n’roll hooligans. They might all be Jock Tamson’s bairns but their Mammy is Roisin Dubh! London Celtic Punks friends and favourites launched their fifth studio album at the end of September just gone with a fantastic hometown gig at the Classic Grand, Glasgow. A gig that saw the band enhanced…
THE LONDON CELTIC PUNKS GUIDE TO LIFE- HOW TO PRONOUNCE ‘CELTIC’

Today is our birthday. The 30492 – London Celtic Punks blog was born today on the 7th July, 2014 . It’s been an enjoyable slog I must say and it’s been an pleasure to meet so many like minded people. There is plenty more to come from us and we just hope that we can…
BIBLE CODE SUNDAYS CHARITY SINGLE ‘Something Inside So Strong’

Charity Single Released with Ginger Melodeon Experience Music Collective for The Lymphoma Association. FREE DOWNLOAD!! All we ask is that you make a donation, any amount you like! Tracie O’Sullivan is a friend, she is one of the lucky ones and is the reason why The Bible Code Sundays have recorded this song. This is her story…
99p FOR THE KANO FOUNDATION- CHARITY SINGLE RELEASED

The Kano Foundation is a group of volunteer Celtic supporters working to help young children. They work in partnership with other Celtic fans to offer a match-day experience at Celtic Park to a range of children’s groups and charities. The song ‘Have You Ever Seen?’, written and performed by Joe McKenna And The Kanettes, has been released through iTunes…
LONDON’S GREEN’n’WHITE: THE WAKES LIVE AT THE COCK TAVERN SATURDAY 29th AUGUST 2015

IMPORTANT NOTICE: CHANGE OF VENUE LONDON’S GREEN’n’WHITE CELTIC SUPPORTERS IN LONDON UNITE! supported by the UNDERGROUND CELTIC SUPPORTERS CLUB HAYES BHOYS CELTIC SUPPORTERS CLUB BRIGHTON CELTIC SUPPORTERS CLUB LONDON CELTIC SUPPORTERS-FACEBOOK URBANKELT LONDON CELTIC PUNKS THE WAKES we are pleased to announce the headliners who will be making a very rare London appearance. The Wakes…
CLASSIC ALBUM REVIEW: GIL SCOTT-HERON- ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ (1974)

The godfather of rap and hip-hop and son of Celtic’s first black player FREE DOWNLOAD Today we are giving you something well out of our loop as part of the ‘Classic Album Reviews’. Whereas normally we’d give you some out of print folk album from the 30s/40s/50s here’s something a bit more recent (still its…
PUT THE KETTLE ON. HAVE A BREW. WE’RE HOME- FC UNITED

heartfelt congratulations to our footballing comrades FOOTBALL CLUB OF MANCHESTER or better known of course as FC UNITED. Ten years after Malcolm Glazer completed his unwanted hostile takeover of Manchester United, FC United have risen from nowhere to the brink of the Football League. The supporter owned club is truly a part of its community and is an inspiration to us all.…
‘THE SPIRIT OF WALFRID’ CELTIC CHARITY COMPILATION ALBUM OUT NOW

For Celtic Supporters By Celtic Supporters I tell you the Celtic Family never ceases to amaze me. While one bunch of supporters has come to the aid of a Celtic fan arrested unjustly in London recently (here) another has released this compilation album to help out several charities all close to the Celtic heart. The…
REMEMBERING ATHLETIC BILBAO SUPPORTER INIGO CABACAS KILLED BY POLICE IN 2012- STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE!

THREE YEARS WITHOUT JUSTICE by Diarmuid Breatnach Most Basques and especially supporters of their most popular football team, Athletic Bilbao (1), were very happy in the early evening of 5th April 2012. Their team had beaten a football giant in the UEFA cup twice and another premier European team once. The fans were expecting Athletic to win or…
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Scotball’ by STEPHEN O’DONNELL

a Celtic supporter working in the mainstream media trying to tell the truth about RFC’s liquidation finds out that the people in power not only don’t want to hear the truth but they actually want to hide the truth from the people… This is Stephen O’Donnells second book and the follow up to his critically acclaimed…
FC ST.PAULI! A FOOTBALL SPECIAL OR SPECIAL FOOTBALL?

special guest post on FC St Pauli from the editor of the fantastic ‘This Drinking Life’ web-zine. by Rob Nesbit the football club that’s often described as the most left-wing team in the world Fußball-Club St. Pauli was founded on the 15th of May 1910, based in the lively St Pauli quarter of Hamburg, an…
BOOK REVIEW: PARADISE ROAD by STEPHEN O’DONNELL

review by Bedford Falls The last couple of years have given rise to the power of football fans on the internet, and the bampot blogger in particular. Celtic fans have led the way here, having long since established a plethora of quality sites which cater for every facet of the club’s diverse support. In the…
TRIBUTE TO GIL HERON- MICHAEL MARRA AND THE HAZEY JANES

Gil Heron was a Jamaican professional footballer. He was the first black player to play for Celtic, and was the father of poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron. He was spotted by a scout from Celtic while the club was on tour in North America, and he signed for the club in 1951 after being invited over for…
MAY 10TH NATIONAL FAMINE MEMORIAL DAY

Tomorrow Celtic Football Club take to the field against Dundee United and afterwards will collect the Premier League trophy with the National Famine Memorial Day logo on their shirts. Without a doubt the ‘famine’ transformed Ireland changing the island forever. The impact on the people and the legacy of emigration, loss and decline of the Irish…
‘ROLL OF HONOUR’ CAMPAIGN A MASSIVE SUCCESS!

Last week (here) we reported on the campaign by Fans Against Criminalisation to get ‘The Roll Of Honour’ song by The Irish Brigade into the UK music charts. Well the campaign has now ended and it was a raging success and not only has the drive been covered by the media both at home and abroad but the…
‘ROLL OF HONOUR’ DOWNLOAD CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED

Fans Against Criminalisation are delighted to announce plans to release the single ‘Roll of Honour’ in association with The Irish Brigade for the duration of the week beginning on 8th of February. This single will be available for download on iTunes. We would like to thank the band for kindly allowing us to use their…