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LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2022!
It’s that time of year again for the London Celtic Punks annual Best Of list. Has it really been a year since The Peelers waltzed (or should that be jigged) off with album of the year? It’s been possibly the best year for Celtic-Punk since we started doing this site and this was easily the…
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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…
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EXCLUSIVE! FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE GOBSHITES NEW SINGLE ‘America’
The casual Celtic-Punk fan may not be aware of Boston Irish band The Gobshites but for obsessives like us they are one of the leading Celtic-Punk bands out there. Time to change that and get these Bhoys the love and respect they deserve. FREE DOWNLOAD It was back in 2002 Boston Irish-American punk rocker Pete…
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THE DUNES
Ronnie Drew and Shane MacGowan teamed up in the ’90s. The result was something powerful and terribly sad.
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ALBUM REVIEW: AFTER HOURS- BLACK 47 TRIBUTE COMPILATION (2021)
Thirty years since the release of Black 47’s eponymous first album comes the first part of a trilogy of tribute albums celebrating this popular and controversial band of who Time magazine wrote in 1993 it was “the proletariat passion of Black 47’s songs that make the group stand out”. Seven songs from Larry Kirwan and Black…
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THE IRISH SOLDIERS OF MEXICO IN FILM AND IN SONG
The story of the legendary San Patricios battalion and their legacy as told in film, books and song from bands as diverse as The Chieftains, Black 47, David Rovics, Larkin, The Fenians, The Wakes and others. by Michael Hogan Next week sees the release of the debut album from Mexican Celtic-Punk band Batallón de San…
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ALBUM REVIEW: THE NARROWBACKS- ‘By Hook Or By Crook’ (2019)
New York Irish Music The Narrowbacks are back with their third album of Irish-American Celtic-Rock and conceivably their best yet! If Joe Strummer, Shane MacGowan and Bruce Springsteen survived a drinking session through the 5 boroughs, the hangover would be called The Narrowbacks. Fire it up! nar·row·back /ˈnæroʊˌbæk/ [nar-oh-bak] –noun Slang. 1. Disparaging. an Irish-American. 2.…
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THE HISTORY OF CELTIC-ROCK MUSIC
Today the 30492- London Celtic Punks web zine is four years old today so what better way to celebrate our birthday than to give you this small but perfectly formed potted history of Celtic-Rock. We have never just wanted to be a place that only reviews new records we want to celebrate everything that makes us…
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ALBUM REVIEW: CLEAR THE BATTLE FIELD- ‘Set Me Free’ (2016)
Armagh born multi instrumentalist Dominic Cromie and crew with a modern take on traditional Irish music that has something for bloody everyone! When talking about celtic-punk people sometimes think of a narrow genre situated somewhere between the two most famous bands to come out of it, The Pogues and The Dropkick Murphys, but when you…
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EP REVIEW: THE NARROWBACKS- ‘After Hours’ (2015)
New York Irish music. nar·row·back /ˈnæroʊˌbæk/ [nar-oh-bak] –noun Slang. 1. Disparaging. an Irish-American. 2. a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labour I’ve had the chance to go into the history of the American Irish plenty of times and in a country built on immigration it is the Irish in particular that…
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SINGLE REVIEW: CHRISTOPHER JAMES SHERIDAN- ‘My Hero Was A Ramblin Man’ (2014)
Boston has the Dropkicks, New York has Black 47, London has The Bible Code, LA has Flogging Molly and Glasgow’s Irish community has The Wakes. Christopher James Sheridan is a Scots-Irish singer songwriter from Glasgow and has played harmonica in folk’n’roll band The Wakes since they were formed back in 2006. This is Christopher’s second…
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