• ODDS’N’SODS. A CELTIC-PUNK ROUND UP AUGUST 2023

    It’s festival season, school holidays and the football is back so lots of other things to keep you occupied but just in case you get a few quiet moments here’s this month’s Odds’n’Sods with all the news fit to print on what’s going in our wonderful Celtic-Punk world. From the scene’s biggest and well established…

  • EP REVIEW: THE WORKING CLASS SYMPHONY – ‘Mulat Sarira Angrasa Wani’ (2021)

    A island nation with a great seafaring tradition and history of invasion and occupation that became a republic two years after Ireland. Why Indonesia of course and one of the leading lights of the Celtic-Punk scene are The Working Class Symphony. Over the years that this site has existed we have reviewed many Celtic-Punk releases…

  • EP REVIEW: RAIN IN SUMMER- ‘Discordant Anthem From The Gutter’ (2017)

    Formed from a grain of sand on baladewa streets in early 2008! Indonesian celtic-punk of the punky variety. Without going too far into the history of celtic-punk it can be said that the genre was back in the day originally a product of the Irish diaspora living in England and mainly in London. With the…

  • 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…

  • 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: DIRTY GLASS- ‘Drunken Summer Night’ (2015)

    friends, gigs, Irish music and cheap wine! For those of you who are new to listening to celtic-punk it may come as a suprise that one of the best scene’s in the world for celtic-punk is in Indonesia. A whole bunch of bands (far far too numerous to go into in this review so after…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: VARIOUS ARTISTS- ‘Wind From The Foreign Land- Indonesian Celtic Punk Compilation’ (2014)

    superb /sʊˈpɜːb; sjʊ-/ adjective 1. surpassingly good; excellent a superb actor 2. majestic or imposing a superb mansion 3. magnificently rich; luxurious the jubilee was celebrated with a superb banquet Derived Forms superbly, adverb superbness, noun Word Origin C16: from Old French superbe, from Latin superbus distinguished, from super above Well what to say about this album…? Well its…

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