LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • NEW SINGLE: ZECKYBOYS – ‘Ballo In Fa Diesis Minore’ (2024)

    New single from Italian Celtic-Punkers Zeckyboys With a winning combination of trad Irish Folk and full throttle Punk Rock Zeckyboys are the latest in a long line of Italian Celtic-Punk bands that fully embrace the more trad side of the genre. Their first album debuted at #13 in LCP’s Best Of 2022 polls while also…

  • EP REVIEW: ANDREA ROCK AND THE REBEL POETS – Mnà (2024)

    Milan based Celtic-Punk band Andrea Rock  And The Rebel Poets release their new four track EP celebrating four incredible women who left their mark on the memory and culture of Ireland.  We were introduced to Andrea Rock And The Rebel Poets late into 2024 by a reader, Guida, of the site who thought (quite rightly)…

  • 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…

  • NEW SINGLE: THE JOHNNY CLASH PROJECT – I Am A Crime (2024)

    Six years on from their groundbreaking debut album The Johnny Clash Project have returned with an original song this time but still in line with their goal of taking the words of The Clash and the music and spirit of Johnny Cash and combining for one hell of an almighty sound. It’s six years since…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: ANDREA ROCK AND THE REBEL POETS – True Stories (2023)

    Only a handful of albums in the last decade can truly be said to have blown us away and to that list we can add another the new album Italian Celtic-Punk band Andrea Rock And The Rebel Poets. Folk and Punk, tradition and novelty in an album intended for all those who want to understand…

  • TWO GREAT CELTIC-PUNK BANDS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. THE CLAN & JOLLY JACKERS

    Two great bands – The Clan and Jolly Jackers – combine to make some kick-arse Celtic-Punk for us. Both have seen 100’s of gigs, 100’s of band members (!) and over a decade each for them on the road.  This is becoming quite the year for Italian Celtic-Punk. Already this year we have had two…

  • NEW SINGLE: BARDS FROM YESTERDAY – The Muddy Road To Axa Briga

    The best Celtic-Punk bands in Italy are heavily influenced by Trad-Irish-Folk and Bards From Yesterday are one of the best around at the moment. With such an authentic sound Ireland’s homegrown bands are green with envy! With the release of their debut EP (EP)Demia in 2021 Bards from Yesterday stormed onto the international Celtic music…

  • NEW ALBUM: ZECKYBOYS – ‘Dirty Brands’ (2022)

    Hot on the heels of their debut single comes the debut album from raucous and rowdy Italian Celtic-Punkers Zeckyboys. After the success of their debut single a release I have been looking forward to hearing was the full length album from Zeckyboys (there is no ‘The’). With a winning combination of trad Irish Folk and…

  • NEW SINGLE: ITALIAN BAND ZECKYBOYS RELEASE ‘Damned Purple Bus’

    Formed just before the pandemic Italian band Zeckyboys have continued right where they left off with a new single of raucous and rowdy Celtic-Punk with some quality Irish trad thrown in as well for free! Zeckyboys (there is no ‘The’) get their name from a Swiss term for ‘grass trimmer’. Kind of apt for me…

  • CELTIC-PUNK LIVE AND LOUD IN DEPTFORD

    The Lagan / Dirty Artichokes / Anto Morra at The Bird’s Nest, Deptford, London Thursday 4th August 2022 It had been a while since we put on any bands and had even debated whether or not to keep doing so but presented with the opportunity to put on Italian band Dirty Artichokes we just couldn’t…

  • EP REVIEW: THE CLOVERHEARTS – ‘Still Pissed’ (2022)

    New music just keeps on coming from Australian / Italian Celtic-Punk band The Cloverhearts. One of the scene’s more prolific bands its quality over quantity though and always incredible how they transfer their catchy melodies, tin-whistle ear-worms and energetic live performances into the recording studio. From their debut EP in 2019 The Cloverhearts have never…

  • THE CLOVERHEARTS NEW SINGLE ‘Thorn In My Side’

    The brand new video from Aussie/ Italian Celtic-Punkers The Cloverhearts. ‘Thorn In My Side’ with a strong message against bullying. Lots of change for the Italian band. A new manager and band members but the same ol’ Cloverhearts sound at heart! ‘Thorn In My Side’ is a bagpipe-driven power anthem about staying true to yourself,…

  • COUNTRY ROADS: THE GENTLEMEN Vs. THE CLOVERHEARTS

    Two bands from completely different places and era’s pay homage to the late great John Denver with their version of his classic track ‘Country Roads’ done Celtic-Punk. Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze. * Country roads,…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE RUMPLED – ‘The Perfect Match’ (2021)

    Another release from prolific Italian Celtic-Punkers The Rumpled. With a sound influenced by traditional Irish Folk they are already one of the best bands in the scene and a band to expect big things from in the near future. The last few years have been quite a time for fans of Celtic-Punk in Italy. While…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • EP REVIEW: BARDS FROM YESTERDAY – (EP)DEMIA (2021)

    The first review of 2021 features the new EP from Italian band Bards From Yesterday. Five young, capable and multi-talented musicians , originally from the areas of Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta, in northern Italy have chosen to embrace an ancient and distant culture, just as the bards did, Celtic minstrels who wandered from land…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: UNCLE BARD AND THE DIRTY BASTARDS- ‘The Men Beyond The Glass’ (2020)

    It’s been quite the year for Italian Celtic-Punk so far and Uncle Bard And The Dirty Bastards prove once again that they are ‘Premier League’ with their third album all set to light up the Celtic-Punk world yet again! Uncle Bard And The Dirty Bastards are without doubt one of the world’s best Celtic-Punk bands.…

  • EP REVIEW: THE RUMPLED- ‘Toss The Coin’ (2020)

    Yet more brilliant Italian Celtic-Folk-Punk has arrived on the London Celtic Punks doorstep. The new seven track EP from the Rumpled is here! “Are you ready to face fate? Are you going to accept your destiny or will you challenge it? Toss the Coin!” The last month has seen a resurgence of Italian Celtic-Punk with…

  • EP REVIEW: THE CLOVERHEARTS- ‘The Sacred’ (2020)

    The second EP from one of the brightest new bands in the Celtic-Punk scene has descended! The Cloverhearts follow a great tradition of Italian bands that capture perfectly what Celtic-Punk is about.  Only a few months after their debut release The Sick took the Celtic-Punk scene by storm The Cloverhearts return with another blockbuster EP.…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: PATRICKS- ‘Rocky Road To Ireland’ (2020)

    “When we need to escape from reality, and it’s not possible to take a trip to the green land, have a couple of glasses of mead instead and fly inside the head to the land we love so much” Rocky Road to Ireland is the second full length album from Italian band Patricks does much…

  • 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…

  • EP REVIEW: THE CLOVERHEARTS- ‘The Sick’ (2019)

    From false friends, to (temporary) sobriety, to lovable junkies and the world’s worst public transport however you like your Celtic Punk’n’Roll – the debut release from The Cloverhearts will have you covered! No country in the world had had such a relationship with Ireland and the Irish as Italy. From the poverty stricken roots of…

  • EP REVIEW: THE RUMPLED- ‘Grace O’Malley’ (2019)

    Italian Celtic/Irish Rockers The Rumpled follow up last years debut album with a digital only 5-track EP. Five different stories about love. After last weeks review of The Clan’s new 4-track EP, Quattro Giorni Fuori Porta, it’s time for another Italian Celtic-Punk to be featured and another EP as well. The Rumpled haven’t been around…

  • EP REVIEW: THE CLAN- ‘Quattro Giorni Fuori Porta’ (2019)

    Another release from one of the most productive and popular bands in Celtic-Punk. The Clan from Italy balance high tempo folk and country alongside Celtic-Punk to make one of the best records of the year so far. It has been a funny week in the world of Celtic-Punk! Fresh from catching the superb Dropkick Murphys…

  • 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…

  • EP REVIEW: MOSCHE DI VELLUTO GRIGIO- ‘Of Pain And Glory’ (2018)

    The untraditional Anti-Folk punk band. Mosche Di Velluto Grigio are an Italian Celtic-punk band and while their name may not trip lightly off the tongue of anyone who cannot speak Italian it’s certainly more poetic and beautiful than the English translation, Gray Velvet Flies! The name appears to come from an old Italian horror film…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE CLAN- ‘Here To Stay’ (2018)

    Here To Stay the third studio album from the Milan based Irish rockers The Clan. Celtic rock band formed 2013 from a group of musicians coming from diverse musical directions but with the same deep love for Ireland and its unique sound.  Back in 2016 The Clan were one of the first bands on the…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE RUMPLED- ‘Ashes & Wishes’ (2018)

    Dance, scream, jump, sweat, clap hands and wear out your feet. Italian celtic-rockers The Rumpled come wrapped up with heaps of enthusiasm and energy and on hearing this they  will soon have you trapped in their spell! If you ever think that celtic-punk music is confined only to the Celtic nations and the Celtic diaspora…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE JOHNNY CLASH PROJECT- ‘The Johnny Clash Project’ (2018)

    The most novel and interesting covers album you will ever hear! The debut album of The Clash re-imagined as The Man In Black. 1977 punk as boom-chuka-boom-chuka country’n’western with the roots of original rock’n’roll showing. By some quirk of fate I came across the Italian band The Johnny Clash Project and purely on the name decided…

  • EP REVIEW: RAISE MY KILT- ‘A New Tartan’ (2018)

    All the way from Argentina it’s the new EP from Raise My Kilt. Celtic-Punk that is 100% attitude and  100% fun! Well what can we say except that its become common these days for bands in the celtic-punk scene to schedule their releases around St. Patrick’s day and 2018 has been no different and we have…

  • EP REVIEW: TULLAMORE- ‘Déš An Pr’i Strà, Déš An Int ál Bar’ (2018)

    Italian Celtic-Punk from the swamp influenced by the Dropkick Murphy’s, Flogging Molly, The Tossers, beer and a certain brand of Irish whiskey! Tullamore were founded in northern Italian city of Pavia in 2007 and this EP is released to celebrate their tenth anniversary together. The EP’s title translated to English means ‘Ten Years On The Streets, Ten…

  • 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: UNCLE BARD AND THE DIRTY BASTARDS- ‘Handmade’ (2017)

    Italian celtic-punk band Uncle Bard And The Dirty Bastards play fantastic celtic-punk but spice it up it with pure traditional Irish music. With uilleann pipes, tenor banjo and Irish flute no other band in the celtic punk scene can compete with these Bastards in their knowledge of Irish trad music… as well as that they are a great bunch of lads! It’s…

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE CLAN- ‘All In The Name Of Folk’ (2016)

    The Clan. As influenced by AC/DC , punk rock and traditional Irish folk music! We have now been at this for so long that we have recently been doing album reviews of bands that we have already featured before and The Clan are one of those bands. Back in December 2014 we reviewed  (here) their superb self-titled debut…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: TRIBUTE TO THE POGUES- Various Artists (2016)

    A huge compilation of songs written by the world’s #1 Celtic-Punk band as covered by today’s generation of modern celtic-punk bands from every single corner of the world! FREE DOWNLOAD! We were sent this brilliant album by our good mate Vladimir, who also did the fantastic artwork and also seems to do the artwork for…

  • 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: STRAWDAZE- ‘Sei’ (2015)

    Italian celtic-punk with influences of Ireland, heavy metal and ska! It’s pretty unusual to come across an album in the world of celtic-punk where the songs are in any other language than English so it makes a pleasant change to hear a band that doesn’t seem to mind whether north Americans like them or not!…

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE CLAN- ‘The Clan’ (2014)

    As influenced by AC/DC , punk rock and Irish folk music! From the small town of Muggiò in the province of Lombardy in the north of Italy comes another great Italian celtic-punk band The Clan. Formed only last year their recently released self titled album has gone down an absolute storm across Europe with its…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: KITCHEN IMPLOSION- ‘Pretty Work Brave Boys!’ (2014)

    100% CELTOPIEMONTPUNKFOLKROCK Hot on the heels of another superb Italian celtic-punk album release from Uncle Bard And The Dirty Bastards comes ‘Pretty Work Brave Boys!’ the new album from Kitchen Implosion. They are in fact a band with extensive roots and can be considered early pioneers of the folk-punk scene in Italy. Back in the…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: UNCLE BARD AND THE DIRTY BASTARDS- ‘Get The Folk Out’ (2014)

    Italian celtic folk n’ roll from Büsti Grandi (Craggy Island) Long, long, long before hordes of Polish workers settled in Ireland it was the turn of the Italians who flocked to the dear auld sod. High wages, plenty of regular masses and the, now long deceased, ‘celtic tiger’ promised good opportunities for all that came.…

  • 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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