LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • EP REVIEW: TOXIC FROGS – Let Me Jump (2024)

    The fourth EP from French all-girl Celtic-Punk rockers Toxic Frogs. 5 girls and 2 Fiddles and five fantastic new original songs. Their seems to be a trend amongst bands, especially of the DIY variety, to slow down on releasing albums and concentrate on putting out singles and EP’s. The cost of recording and publishing albums…

  • 2023 ROUND-UP: CELTIC NATIONS – B.R.E.T.O.N.S. | ANTO MORRA | BLOOD OR WHISKEY | THE SCRATCH |

    Celtic-Punk was invented by the descendants of the Celtic nations while those at home were slow to realise how bloody good is. Eventually though they caught up and here’s a bunch of releases from across the Celtic nations that we missed first time round. Christmas is just around the corner and London Celtic Punks love…

  • EP REVIEW: THE MANKY MELTERS – One More Round (2023)

    Earlier this year we featured the first single from French Celtic-Folk-Punk band The Manky Melters to feast your ears on. Today it’s time to review their debut EP and they are just getting started!  Because as long as you toast, you might as well get drunk! It’s not five minutes since we reviewed the opening…

  • NEW SINGLE: FRENCH CELTIC ROCKERS LEMONFLY FIRST TRACK FROM NEW EP

    The new single from Dijon Celtic-Rock band Lemonfly – Celtic-Rock, Irish Punk and Trad Breton together on a boat! Something a bit different from our usual racket today with the excellent Lemonfly a Celtic-Rock band with Breton and Irish trad influences. These guys are no new band having formed back in 2009 but that just…

  • NEW SINGLE: BRAND NEW BAND THE MANKY MELTERS WITH ‘Shaningans’

    Another new band to feast your ears on. The Manky Melters are a French Celtic-Folk-Punk band led by a charismatic female singer and they are just getting started!  Because as long as you toast, you might as well get drunk! Always great to bring you a new band and new bands just keep arriving giving…

  • EP REVIEW: SABAUDIA MOB – Sabaudia Mob (2023)

    Celtic-Punk Rock – Made in Savoy in the Western Alps. The debut release from Sabaudia Mob. A new band from France this three track EP was released into the Celtic-Punk world with little to non fanfare at the end of March and only came to our attention by pure luck. Not a great deal of…

  • NEW ALBUM: THE MULLINS – ‘Gold In Our Hands’ (2022)

    Smashing debut album from The Mullins. Celtic Folk’n’Punk from southern France One of the best things about Celtic-Punk is that bands don’t tend to rely on anyone but themselves and their fans when it comes to putting out releases. The amount of DIY albums that have come out this year has been incredible and The…

  • THE POGUES LIVE IN LYON 1986 THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO TODAY!

    FREE DOWNLOAD I’m not a massive fan of live recordings but really enjoyed this one of a Pogues concert recorded for Radio-Bellevue in Lyon, France. I then realised the 36th anniversary was only days away so the perfect time to share this free download with you. I tried to dig up some information for you and there…

  • EP REVIEW: TARA’S FOLK – ‘Leaving’ (2021)

    Celtic folk rock brewed with energy. Button accordion, Bodhràn and guitar mix with some fiddle, whistle and guitars, peppered by strong lyrics and vocals !! the perfect batch… Tara’s Folk have been around since around 2010 that’s a long time to go under the radar but understandable when you realise the band is a Folky…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: RAISE YOUR PINTS. CELTIC- PUNK SAMPLER. VOLUME 6 – VARIOUS ARTISTS (2021)

    From the scene. For the scene. After months of planning, organising and fund-raising the compilation album Raise Your Pints #6 has finally been delivered. Twenty bands from eleven countries celebrating (might be the wrong word- editor) the virus lockdowns in Celtic-Folk-Punk style.  Anyone remember the original Celtic-Punk samplers from Shite’n’Onions? I think they stretched to…

  • EP REVIEW: THE BLACK CLOVER – ‘Just Another Pub’ (2021)

    One of 2021’s best Celtic-Punk releases so far The Black Clover are an innovative and somewhat unusual band that may take a listen or two before you fall for them… but I promise fall you will do! This is the second appearance The Black Clover have made on these pages. Back in 2017 they released…

  • ODDS’N’SODS. CELTIC-PUNK ROUND UP MARCH 2021

    Our regular monthly feature of all the Celtic-Punk news that’s fit to print. Band news, record releases, videos, tours (not individual gigs though yet sadly), live streams, crowd funders etc., send it into us at londoncelticpunks@hotmail.co.uk or through the Contact Us page. All will get a mention but I need YOU to help if it’s…

  • EP REVIEW: TOXIC FROGS – ‘My Lucky Own’ (2021)

    From France it’s the Toxic Frogs. 5 girls and 2 Fiddles. Six fantastic new original songs with the Mahones Finny McConnell guesting on lead single ‘Thank You Humanity’. The last thing we were expecting was a flurry of new releases to land at London Celtic Punk Towers in the first couple of weeks of 2021.…

  • 2020 ROUND-UP’S. THE MAHONES, RUNA, ALESTORM, MAGGIES FLOCK, BARBAR O’RHUM

    2020 was by and large a shitty year for music. Sure their were a few bright spots… off the top of my head the many Live Streams but it was never going to replace live gigs for the Celtic-Punk scene where live gigs are everything. Even in a year with much fewer releases we still…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: CELT AND PIPER – ‘No Mercy’ (2020)

    Breton Celtic-Punk group Celt And Piper unleash their debut album No Mercy. Eight songs of bagpipe heavy rocking Celtic music! What could be a more Celtic band name than Celt And Piper I wonder? Answers on a postcard please but this newish band from Nantes in Brittany (NOT France) certainly nail their colours to the…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: CelKILT- ‘The Next One Down’ (2020)

    French band CelKIlt have long established themselves as one of the Celtic-Punk/Rock scenes heavyweights and here they return with their seventh album The Next One Down. Trad Celtic-Rockers CelKIlt are back with their seventh album, recorded in Italy, France and Switzerland over several months, its time has unfortunately come in the middle of the clampdown…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: BODH’AKTAN- ‘De Temps Et De Vents’ (2019)

    The seventh album of Bodh’aktan from Québec. Seven rogues fusing elements of Celtic, Rock, Trad, Pop and Punk and the music of the Celtic Nations, especially Brittany and Ireland. With bagpipes, flute, accordion, violin and bouzouki and vocals in both French and English they are a force to be reckoned with! We are well into…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2017!

    Yes I know it only seems like five minutes since the last one but it’s that time of year again when we give you, for what it’s worth, our opinion on who made the best music in the celtic-punk scene over 2017. It’s been another outstanding year for the music that we all love and some…

  • 2017 REVIEW ROUND-UP’S PART THREE: THE CELTIC NATIONS- BIBLE CODE SUNDAYS, THE DECLINE!, BRUTUS’ DAUGHTERS, REAL McKENZIES, VINCE CAYO, THE BOTTLERS

    So welcome to 2018 and the first post of the year and the last of our round-ups from 2017. We simply could not keep up with the volume of releases we keep receiving so rather than completely neglect them here’s some much shorter reviews that will at least give you a taste of what they…

  • 2017 REVIEW ROUND-UP’S PART TWO: EUROPE- CASSIDY’S BREWERY, GALLEY BEGGAR, MAD MAN’S CREW, YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS, THE BLACK CLOVER

    Every year that we have been doing this has got better and better for celtic-punk releases. As happy as we are that this is so it also means that we just simply cannot keep up with everything out there. We haven’t had the chance to review everything we received or heard so here is Part 2 of our…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: SONS OF O’FLAHERTY- ‘The Road Not Taken’ (2017)

    Who are Sons Of O’Flaherty? Six good friends who grew up in the Celtic nation of Brittany in love with punk rock, folk and traditional Celtic music. Yec’hed Mad and see you soon ! Now the history of the celtic nations and their people and culture and their languages has never been a particularly happy one with…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE CROOK AND THE DYLAN’S- ‘Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead’ (2017)

    The Crook and The Dylan’s draw their roots from the land of St. Patrick while mixing influences from rock and country with all the energy of an evening in an Irish pub. Before I start to wax lyrical about this great album I have to explain something first about celtic-punk. Like all music genre’s its boundaries are…

  • REVIEW: THE MOORINGS- ‘Unbowed’ (2017)

    The Moorings. As recommended by The Dubliners! An ultra-energetic French quintet delivering a fantastic mix somewhere in the middle between celtic folk and alternative rock. So I was always told my auld fella that you should judge a man by the company he keeps. He used to say this to try and get me to…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: CELKILT- ‘Stand’ (2017)

    ” …Then the Great Alchemist gathered Water, Air, Earth and Fire around the Muse. He gave them the High Voltage Energy of Rock and the cheerful power of the Irish Jigs, gave them fiddle, drums, guitar, bass, whistles and bagpipes, and then told them: ” You shall be embodied, you shall live, you shall play and…

  • EP REVIEW: TOXIC FROGS- ‘The Mermaid’s Song’ (2017)

    French celtic-punk chicks band! Four Girls Two Fiddles Toxic Frogs are quite the anomaly within celtic-punk circles it has to be said. As much as i hate the idea of segregating bands into male and female it is refreshing to see a all-female band in the scene and standing tall too. Most of the time it…

  • 2016 REVIEWS ROUND-UP PART TWO. KORRIGAN’S CELTIC ROCK, MICK FLANNERY, ACROSS THE BORDER, TENHOLES, THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY, KING OF THE TRAVELLERS

    Every year we have been doing this has got better and better for celtic-punk releases. As happy as we are that this is so it also means that we just cannot keep up with everything out there. We haven’t had the chance to review everything we received or heard so here is Part 2 of our 2016 Round…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: BARBAR’O’RHUM- ‘Toutes les Routes Mènent au Rhum’ (2016)

    Celtic dancing music with the rhythm of whistles and pipes, the power of electric guitar, bass guitar and drums… and never without a bottle of rum! Every time (and i mean EVERY single cotton-picking time) I see the town Toulouse mentioned I instantly start singing the Johnny Thunders penned punk rock classic ‘Born To Lose’ in my head. So its…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS OUR BEST OF 2015!

    One of the best things about doing this here blog-zine is the end of year ‘Best Of’s’. This is our chance to reward, for what it’s worth, and recommend those releases that tickled our collective fancies over the last twelve months. Where as in 2013 the Best Of’s were dominated by local bands and releases…

  • EP REVIEW: THE MOORINGS- ‘Nicky’s Detox’ (2014)

    Five piece celtic-punk band from Sélestat in France. As recommended by Eamon Campbell of The Dubliners! Now while not quite a ‘Classic’ we only just came across this excellent EP recently. Released last December so its been out almost a year but as they say “good things come to those that wait” and we are…

  • EP REVIEW: SEAGULLS ARE DRUNK- ‘Next Round Is On Us’ (2014)

    Folk Irlandais Seagulls Are Drunk are from the French city of Reims and this is the bands follow up to the album ‘Ordinary Tales’ from 2012 and a ‘Demo’ from 2011. A EP that flits between different styles of folk music but with a underlying love of Ireland, Scotland, losers songs, boats, silly music and…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE DECLINE!- ’12a Calgary Road’ (2014)

    The Decline! is a five piece punk rock band from Rennes, Breizh formed in 2009. Their first EP, ‘An Old Indian Cemetery’, was released in the middle of 2010, and showed what proper genuine music today should be all about. Their first full length ‘Broken Hymns For Beating Hearts’ from 2011 was a mix of punk rock and…

  • CELTIC HIP-HOP’S TOP SEVEN ARTISTS AND BANDS

    For the sake of this article I have defined celtic hip-hop as being of two things… hip-hop made by people from a celtic background and hip-hop that is fused with celtic music. For that reason I haven’t included any rappers/hip-hop from the countries of origin. Mainly because I don’t know any but also partly because…

  • FACEBOOK CELTIC-PUNK GROUPS

    like it or not but everything revolves around bloody Facebook these days so heres a shout out to the various FB celtic punk groups. we’ll add more as we become aware of them. have a look, join up and join the happy family… Aussie Celtic Punk’s https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403072399734251/ Australian Folk Punk Scene https://www.facebook.com/groups/sydneyfolkpunkscene/ Mersey Celt Punks…

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