LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • ALBUM REVIEW: MR. IRISH BASTARD – Battle Songs Of The Damned (2024)

    “We are a punk band. We are an Irish folk band. On a good day we are both. On a bad day we are neither” Mr. Irish Bastard blend the energy of Irish folk with Punk-Rock guitars and attitude.  A band that needs little introduction Mr. Irish Bastard came bursting out of the blocks in…

  • ST. PATRICK’S CELTIC PUNK RELEASES 2024 – 10 BANDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

    It’s over for another year but as our pal Leeson would say “everyday is St. Patrick’s Day” so enjoy this bumper collection of diverse as heck Celtic-Punk and Irish Folk tracks that came out over the last couple of weeks from bands from right across the globe. HOUNDS OF BELFAST 🇺🇸 | TIR NAN OG…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE PORTERS – To The Good Times And The Bad (2023)

    Five-piece Düsseldorf Celtic-Folk-Punk band The Porters are back with a new album To The Good Times And The Bad that is a bittersweet release in that it also signals their sad farewell from the stage after 24 years together. It was at the end of October last year that an announcement appeared on the Facebook…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIDDLER’S GREEN – The Green Machine (2023)

    With their highest chart placing in their 34 year history for The Green Machine German Premier League Celtic-Punkers Fiddler’s Green continue to go from strength to strength! Now The Green Machine came out last December (the 29th!) just days after the cut off point for the London Celtic Punks Best Album of the year feature…

  • 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: MALASANERS – Venceremos (2023)

    German-Spanish Celtic-Punk band are back after a five year gap with a fresh and exciting self produced new album. This bands story is a complicated one beginning in Madrid, Spain. Frontman Carlos inspired by his auld man’s love for music and his Celtic and Irish records starts Malasañers in 2012 taking their name from the…

  • NEW SINGLE: GERMAN BAND THE FEELGOOD McLOUDS RELEASE Back In Life

    German Celtic-Punkers The Feelgood McLouds are back with a new single – Back In Life – means not just back in life but back on stage, in the clubs, in the backstage rooms and the cramped tour bus together dancing and partying. The world is sad enough so escape with The Feelgood McLouds into their…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIDDLER’S GREEN – Seven Holy Nights (2022)

    Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, shepherds are washing their socks, Batman smells and beware of yellow snow!i Another Christmas themed album out this year from German Celtic-Punk band Fiddler’s Green that manages to pack in a song from every Christmas genre imaginable! Last Sunday we featured the first of a duo of…

  • EP REVIEW: THE DISTILLERY RATS – We Are Rats (2022)

    German Celtic-Punks The Distillery Rats are back after a five year break with an EP packed full of stories and high-energy songs where they manage to infuse their energy onto their record and immediately get you craving to see one of their infamous live shows. The Distillery Rats are one of a number of German…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: PADDY’S PUNK – ‘With Full Horse’ (2022)

    German band Paddy’s Punk play Irish Folk-Punk, classic Irish Folk and Celtic-Rock and have been on our radar for a couple of years now. With the odd video and song sneaking through it’s been a long wait for their debut album With Full Horse.  Paddy’s Punk were founded in 2017 in the area of Dessau…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: JAMIE CLARKE’S PERFECT – ‘Monkey See, Monkey Do’ (2022)

    Only a mere thirteen folk can ever say they were once members of The Pogues and one of those is Jamie Clarke. Since then with his band Jamie Clarke’s Perfect he has carved out a career making, playing and recording a glorious mix of Irish Folk, Garage, Rockabilly and Punk Rock! We are lucky to…

  • 2021 CATCH UP REVIEWS. PART 2 – WILD COLONIAL BHOYS, THE POKES, HAWTHORN, SURFIN’ TURNIPS,

    Our last post was an attempt to catch up with a few albums that we loved but had missed for reviewing during 2021. Part One wasn’t originally planned to be but they all ended up being ‘solo’ albums and so today we have a bunch of albums from bands. Apologies for not being able to…

  • 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…

  • CELTIC PUNK OLD AND NEW

    The Pogues. The Mahones. Flogging Molly. The Dropkicks. All bands who’ve made their mark on the Celtic-Punk genre. But we can’t forget the lesser-known bands too, the musicians working tirelessly to keep the flag up and flyin’! In his first guest post, Andy Beck (aka. The Celtic Punk Author) showcases the old and new from…

  • MUIRSHEEN DURKIN RELEASE NEW SINGLE. COVER OF THE UK SUBS ‘RIOT’

    German Celtic rockers Muirsheen Durkin release ‘Riot’ as a tribute to old school indestructible Punk-Rock legend Charlie Harper of the UK Subs. “Closing down our club for no good reason” A wake-up call after the forced Corona break! Having known each other for some thirty years it was only a few years back in 2009…

  • 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…

  • SINGLE REVIEW: THE POKES – ‘Sail’ (2021)

    The Pokes rock. The Pokes are danceable. Berlin’s No. 1 Folk-Punk band are back with a new 7″ vinyl release. It’s been seven years since The Pokes were last featured on these pages for their album Mayday, and the intervening years seem to have done them no harm judging by this their new single. Now…

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

    That time of the month again! Odds’n’Sods 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…

  • EP REVIEW: THE FEELGOOD McLOUDS – ‘Saints & Sinners’ (2021)

    A new five track EP of original top class Celtic-Punk from German band The Feelgood McLouds. Before all this Covid nonsense March use to be the busiest month for us by far. We would still be reviewing St. Patrick’s releases into April and May but as with everything else normal service is suspended. Luckily their…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: TIR NAN OG – ‘Sing, Ye Bastards!’ (2021)

    Love, life, death and lots of alcohol! Yeah the sort of themes you expect to hear on a Celtic-Punk album but in the hands of German band Tir Nan Og on their new album Sing, Ye Bastards! these traditional themes are anything but traditional! Fifteen years and hundreds of gigs later sees the the sixth…

  • ODDS’N’SODS. CELTIC-PUNK ROUND UP FEBUARY 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…

  • NEW CHRISTMASSY CELTIC-PUNK SONGS FROM IRELAND, CHINA, GERMANY, CANADA, LONDON AND MEXICO

    Well that’s it. Christmas is over and done with and hopefully you all had a festively good time despite everything.  BUT if you are still in need of some good cheer though then wait no more as we here’s a selection of six brand new 2020 Christmas-ish Celtic-Punk songs for you to delight over. Craic…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIDDLERS GREEN – ‘3 Cheers For 30 Years’ (2020)

    30 years after the band was founded Fiddler’s Green have released a collection of the most well known traditional Irish Folk songs! And all in the ingenious Fiddler’s Green sound: honest and direct, playful and brutal, dreamy and drunk. Two of the Celtic-Punk scenes giant bands celebrate their 30th anniversary this year. One is The…

  • 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: THE FEELGOOD McLOUDS- ‘Life On A Ferris Wheel’ (2020)

    Imagine if The Dubliners were around now and in their early twenties… then they may sound just like German Celtic-Punkers The Feelgood McLouds do!! It is very hard when reviewing to figure out how popular a band is. Sure it’s easy enough if you are seeing that band regularly but when it’s one from abroad…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2019!

    Well here we go again. It only seems like five minutes since I was compiling all the votes into last years Best Of that saw The Rumjacks romping home with Album Of The Year. This year has been a bit quieter on the Celtic-Punk front but as last year was so busy that is perhaps…

  • RAISE YOUR PINTS! THE IRISH FOLK AND CELTIC-PUNK WEEKENDER

    As we have said before no country this side of the ‘pond’ has taken Celtic-Punk to it’s bosom like Germany has. The thriving Celtic-Punk community there continues to just get bigger and bigger and they now have the music festival they deserve with the inaugural Raise Your Pints Fest in March. Three days of Celtic-Punk…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIDDLER’S GREEN- ‘Heyday’ (2019)

    The year is 2019 AD. Musicland is occupied by casting show idols, faceless plastic pop and declining music sales. Well, not entirely… one small band of musicians still hold out. For almost 30 years, Fiddler’s Green have been at the forefront of the resistance. How you say? Playing rocked-up Irish music as a German band!!…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2018!

    Well it seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in Mannions in north London totting up the votes for the Best Album Of 2017 over a couple of pints and so here we are again. Everyone loves to give out there opinions and we are no different so for what it’s worth, here’s who…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: RAISE YOUR PINTS Vol.3- VARIOUS ARTISTS

    Raise Your Pints Volume 3 is a compilation of Celtic-Folk-Punk from MacSlon’s Irish Pub Radio; a Celtic-Folk-Punk internet radio station out of Magdeburg, Germany. It started life as part of wider mainstream internet radio station, but when that organisation closed back in 2009 these guys decided, thankfully, to go it alone with a full station dedicated…

  • THE CELTIC PUNKCAST. BONUS EPISODE- TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2018

    December is usually the time when all the various Celtic-Punk media begin to compile and release their Best Of charts. There’s already been a couple and we are no different with ours traditionally released in the first couple of weeks of January. Our stablemates over at The Celtic Punkcast have just put out a special…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Green Blood’ (2018)

    Here’s a German band that makes authentic Irish music with their third album release Green Blood. That may sound all a bit strange to yer average Joe but not to London Celtic Punks favourite Anto Morra. The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats are by no means a goose that thinks it’s a fox though they are much…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: TIR NAN OG- ‘From The Gallows’ (2018)

    From The Gallows is the fourth album from German Celtic folk punk band Tir Nan Og. Released in January 2018 according to Marvey Mills it delivers an instant slab of authentic folk punk loveliness from the opening song to the very last drop of the fourteenth track. It is necessary, when reviewing an album, to…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: KINGS AND BOOZERS- ‘Still Got The Booze’ (2018)

    Ten years young so time for their debut album! German Celtic-rockers Kings & Boozers have Still Got the Booze ! Kings & Boozers are the latest band in the glorious history of German Celtic-Punk to feature here. Ten years young this year they were born out of the ashes of long time German scene stalwarts…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: MR. IRISH BASTARD- ‘The Desire For Revenge’ (2018)

    Mr. Irish Bastard blend the drink infused energy of pure Irish folk with punk rock guitars and a bottle full of attitude. They have toured excessively, played with the Pogues and have graced stages from Tokyo all the way to Kiev. The beginning of a band are usually quite ordinary and when in 2006 Mr.…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: MUIRSHEEN DURKIN AND FRIENDS- ’11 Pints & 3 Shots’ (2018)

    And we all thought Muirsheen Durkin had gone off to mine gold in California but would seem he got lost on the way to Amerikay and ended up in Arnsberg and started playing some proper kick-arse Irish-Celtic-Folk-Punk-Rock! I have a feeling we’ll still be reviewing Celtic-Punk releases from March well into the Summer at this…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: AIRS AND GRACES- ‘Voting At The Hall’ (2018)

    With a mix of folk and punk with a dash of country Airs & Graces have that boundless enthusiasm and infectious energy creating a superb medley of melodies, chants and sing-a-longs that will have you howling for more! Born in 2012 Airs & Graces are the latest in a long line of utterly fantastic German…

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: GHOSTTOWN COMPANY- ‘FolkRock’ (2017)

    An original German band with their debut album a mix of modern day folk-rock but steered by traditional influences of Irish-Celtic music and American country music. Not long ago in the summer of 2015, as tends to be the way with these things, two mates with an interest and a background in both folk and rock…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE DISTILLERY RATS- ‘Tales From County Whiskey’ (2017)

    You can hear drunks in the streets singing Irish folk songs? The peaty scent of whiskey is crawling up your nose? The maidens wear their best clothes? Be sure, the County Whiskey Folk Punk Crew is near. Lock up your liquor and hold back your daughters the Distillery Rats are back in town Formed in…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: RESTLESS FEET- ‘Homeward Bound’ (2017)

    German celtic-punk band Restless Feet’s second studio album playing fast Irish folk from Traditionals to more asskickin‘ stuff about sailing far away and returning home. In a genre that most music fans would probably think of as being extremely small its heartening when you come across a band that you think is new only to…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: JAMIE CLARKE’S PERFECT- ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ (2017)

    New album from German based ex-member of The Pogues Jamie Clarke’s Perfect. Pioneers and purveyors of Folkabilly Rock- rockabilly and punk mixed with a dash of Irish folk and a belly full of beer! The name Jamie Clarke will be known to many of you due to his membership of a certain band in the 1990’s.…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: PITMEN- ‘Back To The Pit’ (2017)

     As we strive to introduce you to new music you must check out the German psychobilly band Pitmen. A real melting pot of influences. In amongst the classic psychobilly fare, you can also hear Irish folk with banjo and fiddle giving things a nice céilíbilly twist and all blended together in original Pitmen style! When I was a young one…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Sign of the Fighter’ (2017)

    Hot on the heels of their second album is The Sign Of The Fighter the brilliant new long player from German celtic-punkers The O’Reillys And The Paddyhats.  Well it only seems like five minutes since we reviewed the second album from The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats and in fact it is. Last November we raved to the high…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2016!

    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 2016. It’s been another outstanding year for the music that we all love and some…

  • 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: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Seven Hearts One Soul’ (2016)

    Imagine the foggy streets of long ago Dublin, crowded pubs ringing with laughter and singing, a time of sailing fishermen and people with stalwart beliefs. The past wrapped up in songs that make you want to dance and sing along till your throat demands another pint. This is what it’s like to listen to The O’Reillys And The Paddyhats!…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIDDLER’S GREEN- ‘Devil’s Dozen’ (2016)

    Fiddlers Green. The band that invented their own genre- ‘Irish Speed Folk’ !! Fiddler’s Green celebrated their 25th anniversary last year with the release of the fantastic compilation album 25 Blarney Roses and was as about as good as anything released in 2015. They hail from the small Bavarian town of Erlangen, that is twinned with our very own…

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: MR.IRISH BASTARD- ‘The World, The Flesh & The Devil’ (2015)

    13 tracks that read like 13 commandments, packed full of Irish wit, tall tales and the kind of wisdom that can only come from God’s Green Isle! Formed in 2006 Mr Irish Bastard consist of Mr. Irish Bastard (guitar, vocals), Lady Lily (tin whistle), Gran E. Smith (banjo), Boeuf Strongenuff (bass) and Ivo K’Nivo (drums). They have…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE RATHMINES- ‘Ramblin With The Rats. Stolen Songs of Struggle’ (2015)

    Berliner celtic-folk-punk band The Rathmines debut album is superb and done with a passion and a feeling and a joy for Irish music that very few Irish bands have. A must hear album. With Irish/ celtic music’s popularity blazing across Europe we must make a stop over in the country that has truly embraced the music like…

  • INTERVIEW WITH THE RATHMINES FROM BERLIN

    Firstly, can you tell how you guys decided on your name? Oh, we had a short phase in which we brainstormed about naming our band, shouting out names at random. Somebody suggested The Sporting Jennies, another said: Let’s search the lyrics of the songs for something. But our accordion-player remained silent – and when we…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: MALASAÑERS- ‘Spanish Eyes’ (2015)

    a collection of working class madrileño musicians with the requisite Irish soul needed to bring traditional Irish folk music with modern influences to life. This debut album from Malasañers is as good a debut album as you’re ever likely to hear or have heard in celtic-punk circles.The band are named after a district of Madrid in…

  • NEW DROPKICK MURPHYS TRIBUTE ALBUM OUT TODAY!

    Take a Shot Records are proud to announce the release of their first major album as a record label. The idea for ‘Famous For Nothing: A Tribute to Dropkick Murphys’ came from Mike Franey (The Scally Cap Brats) and Chris Arias (Blackthorn Billy), and their love for the band. It was decided that the best…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIDDLERS GREEN- ’25 Blarney Roses’ (2015)

    Fiddlers Green… the band that invented their own genre- ‘Irish Speedfolk’ ! A new album from one of Germany’s, nay the WORLD’S foremost celtic-punk bands Fiddler’s Green hits the streets and to celebrate their 25th anniversary the band have handpicked fifteen (plus two new songs) of their best ever songs from their long career  for release on this…

  • CATCH UP 2014 REVIEWS! BLACK 47, CELKILT, BIG ART PETERS, CRUACHAN, MY LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE, DUCKING PUNCHES, DEIEDRA, HARD UP, JOHNNY KOWALSKI AND THE SEXY WEIRDOS, LES FOSSOYEURS SEPTIK, NOWHEREBOUND, THE POKES

    Here at 30492- LONDON CELTIC PUNKS blog we much prefer to do really detailed reviews but its been impossible for us to keep up with all the great releases we have come across so here’s a few quick ones just to catch up and get 2014 out of the way. Each and every one are worthy of…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS OUR BEST OF 2014!

    TOP TWENTY CELTIC PUNK ALBUMS OF 2014 Last year our ‘Best Of’ list was completely dominated by bands from these shores but this time there’s a much more international flavour to 2014’s Best Album’s list. Again Irish influenced bands dominate but the absolute standout album for me was without a doubt Uncle Bard And The Dirty Bastards…

  • 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: THE PORTERS/ THE JUDAS BUNCH/ THE MAHONES/ MALASANERS- ‘Welcome To The Folk Punk Show’ (2014)

    I’ve noticed lately that vinyl is becoming more and more popular within the celtic-punk scene and it’s more recent releases. Not just ordinary vinyl either but the really heavyweight discs that are the super duper best quality you can get. Like the those early Dubliners albums your Da’s got indoors. Still though a bit of a…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: KILKENNY KNIGHTS- ‘Brady’s Pub Tales’ (2014)

    Bagpipes, Accordion, Tin Whistle, Mandolin… celtic-punk as it says on the tin! Formed back in 2009 in the town of Coburg in Bravaria in the south-east of Germany this small town has something other than inventing the hot dog to be famous for and that my friends is the latest in a long line of…

  • FREE DOWNLOAD: IRISH PUB SONGS COMPILATION

    Destined to go down in history (well Celtic-Punk history anyway!) the Irish Pub Songs Collection. A download of the best music around today. 70 minutes long with 23 bands from 15 countries and available for nothing at all. Every day’s St. Patrick’s Day according to Neck but a week today it actually is so to…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE AULD CORN BRIGADE- ‘Rebels Till The End’ (2014)

    Formed in 2006 in the heart of the corn town of Nordhausen in old East Germany, two mates were playing the occasional pub singalong and decided to try and form a band in the spirit of The Pogues, The Dropkick Murphys and other favourites of theirs. They added a drummer and a female singer and…

  • 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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