LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • AULD ENEMY BEWARE. McGREEVEYS AND FRANKIE Mc ARE HERE!

    With Scotland heading to London tomorrow to play the ‘auld enemy’, McGreevey’s Tartan Army with a little help from Mr. Francis McLaughlin offer up their own party anthem to try and inspire the lads onwards to victory. Nae Scotland, Nae Pairty! ‘Mon the Scotland!!! Tomorrow night sees the 115th time Scotland and England have met…

  • WE’RE ON THE MARCH WITH STEVIE’S ARMY! THE CUNDEEZ ANTHEM FOR THE SCOTLAND NATIONAL TEAM

    Ready to banish all memories of 1978 Scotland have qualified for Euro 21 and to start off the campaign Dundee band The Cundeez present ‘Kilts On Taps Aff’. A football anthem to beat all other football anthems 6 (six)- 0! This year members of the Scotland national team will have to find someone else to…

  • EP REVIEW: STEVE WHITE- ‘Fake News From Nowhere’ (2018)

    Local folk-punk hero Steve White is back but without The Protest Family this time to cement his reputation as one of East London’s finest sweary guitar playing lefties! This EP had almost slipped my memory when I bumped into Steve in the Leyton Orient Supporters Club bar. Trust me you’d need a drink after watching…

  • INTERVIEW WITH COMRADE X

    Hitting home with the force of a police raid on a late night lock-in at the dodgiest South London boozer Comrade X emerges from the rubble of political failure, X Factor and wall to wall mediocrity to raise a pint of Guinness to the spirit of 1977! Over the last couple of years it has…

  • 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.…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE PROCLAIMERS- ‘Let’s Hear It For The Dogs’ (2015)

    not celtic-punk but at least they’re Hibernian! The Proclaimers have been around now for nearly thirty years and they have built up a massive following across the world, and not just of Scottish exiles and within the Scots diaspora. They first hit the charts with the wonderful ‘Letter From America’ way back in 1987 and they…

  • ‘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…

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: STEVE WHITE AND THE PROTEST FAMILY- ‘This Band Is Sick’ (2014)

    The world’s favourite east London semi-acoustic singalong political folk punk group Similar to them Tories who end up investigating companies that they have in fact got £100,000 worth of shares in, I feel I must own up to something before my review begins. Arriving in London 24 years ago I did my best to follow my home…

  • 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…

  • 30492-LONDON CELTIC PUNK’S TOP TWENTY CELTIC-PUNK ALBUM’s OF ALL TIME‏

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Today we celebrate the blog’s first anniversary so, in a case of obvious self-indulgence, we thought we’d share with you our TOP TWENTY CELTIC-PUNK ALBUM’s OF ALL TIME. The last year has flown by and, even better, feedback for the site seems to have been universally good. As long we’re appreciated it’s…

  • 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…

  • FROM OPPRESSION TO CELEBRATION- THE POGUES TO THE DROPKICK MURPHYS AND CELTIC PUNK

    The history of all of the various celtic nations is one made up of oppression, intimidation and emigration. Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany (north west France), Asturias (north west Spain), Galicia (north west Spain) have all been for generations occupied by foreign countries who have tried everything to crush the culture, language…

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