LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • REMEMBERING LEESON O’KEEFFE

    We are saddened beyond words to bring the news to you that Leeson O’Keefe of London-Irish Psycho-Ceildh rockers Neck passed away today after a short illness.  Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine…

  • OBITUARY: REMEMBERING OUTLAW CULT HERO MOJO NIXON.

    We just heard about the untimely passing of outlaw Country music legend Mojo Nixon. A man who did to Country music what Shane MacGowan did to Irish music. In early February Mojo Nixon’s web site announced to the world and shocked fans Mojo Nixon How you live is how you should die. Mojo Nixon was…

  • THE LIFE OF GRAINNE O’MALLEY – THE IRISH PIRATE QUEEN

    Beginning a week of posts of pirates and shanties and of those who made their living on the ocean spanning centuries right up to the present day. We begin with the story of Ireland’s pirate queen Grainne Ni Mhaille. Legend tells us that when Grace O’Malley, the Irish Pirate Queen of Connaught and Queen Elizabeth…

  • REMEMBERING HUGH CALLAGHAN OF THE BIRMINGHAM SIX

    There’s six men in Birmingham / in Guildford there’s four / who were picked up and tortured / and framed by the law / and the filth get promotion / while they’re still doing time / for being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time HUGH CALLAGHAN  March 24, 1930 – May…

  • REMEMBERING PATRICK FOWLER 1985-2022

    Dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening, and live every day as if it were your last. Even in this internet age sometimes news travels slowly and is the way of things that it is usually sad news that travels the slowest. We just heard of the tragic…

  • VICTIM 0001. REMEMBERING FR. MYCHAL JUDGE 1933-2001

    Mychal Judge, was an American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest who served as a chaplain to the FDNY. While serving in that capacity he was killed, becoming the first certified fatality of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Irish-American Father Mychal Fallon Judge O.F.M. was the first official certified fatality of the nearly 3,000 people that…

  • REMEMBERING MATT REN EX OF THE BABES 1978 – 2021

    Matthew Raymond Renicks 16th April 1978 – 17th August 2021 What a year 2021 has been. Already several well known figures from the Celtic-Punk scene have sadly passed long before their time and to that number we can now add Matt from the London band The Babes. We are grateful here to his bandmate Mao…

  • REMEMBERING STEFAN CUSH

    Friday nights. The end of the week. The end of work and the thoughts of what you can do with your delicious two days of freedom ahead. Amiright?! I’ll tell you what Friday nights are not about; reading the dreadful news on Facebook that Stefan Henry Cush, a man at the very beating heart of your favourite…

  • REMEMBERING MICHAEL KILROE 1957-2021

    It was with great sadness that on last Saturday morning I woke to the very sad and shocking news that Mike Kilroe had passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in New York state. At a time when the Celtic-Punk scene was floundering Mike started the Celtic Punk, Folk And Rock Fans group…

  • THE UNHOLY TRINITY- SHANE MacGOWAN, MARK E. SMITH AND NICK CAVE

    We were saddened to hear about the death of Mark E.Smith grumpy front man of the influential Manchester post-punk band The Fall. So seems an apt time to remember the time, back in February 1989, that the British music paper the NME sent two of its journalists, James Brown and Sean O’Hagan, to the boozer with three of…

  • 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…

  • OBITUARY: REMEMBERING ERIK PETERSEN

    by Dave Hughes “So tattoo our arms and raise our glasses, call out your name at New Year’s Eve, maybe next time we kneel at a casket, we can say at least the story’s complete” Folk punk can get a bad rap. Out on the internet there are thousands of bad recordings of badly sung…

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