LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2023!

    It’s that time of year again that we publish the London Celtic Punks annual Best Of list. Seems obligatory to say it doesn’t seem a year since The Mahones deservedly received the honour of Best Celtic-Punk Album Of 2022 but here we go again.  It’s been another great year for the scene with new bands…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: JOLLY JACKERS – Jackin’ Around Since 2013 (2023)

    Hungarian Celtic-Punks Jolly Jackers celebrate their 10th anniversary with a new vocalist and the release of a new album of all theirs, and the fans, favourite songs re-recorded. Celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, as did we too with the web-zine, Jolly Jackers are back with another great album. A band I always look forward…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIRKIN – Spice It Up! (2023)

    Hungarian Celtic-Punk legends and trailblazers Firkin release their seventh studio album. Pretty much a year to the day when their last single came out Firkin have released their new album Spice It Up! Moving on from the, amicable, loss of singer Andy to be replaced by a good friend of the band for many years…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE SCARLET – ‘Freedom Call’ (2022)

    ⚓ Brand new album from The Scarlet. Folk-Punk crazies from Hungary 🇭🇺 Their was a time, and it wasn’t all that long ago that the Celtic-Punk scene in Hungary was without doubt the best in the whole of Europe. We even once ran a feature on the scene there called The Who’s Who: Top Ten…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE CRAZY ROGUES – ‘Advanced Roguery’ (2021)

    The new album from Hungary’s The Crazy Rogues again stretches what we think of as Celtic-Punk while still keeping both feet firmly in the Celtic-Punk scene. So it is that just a couple of weeks after we featured the release of their lead single we now have the pleasure of reviewing Advanced Roguery from The…

  • NEW SINGER, NEW SINGLE, NEW ERA FOR FIRKIN

    Firkin ‘the crazy Irish band’ from Hungary have some important changes afoot. Read on and introduce yourself to their new frontman! While it is always sad to hear that a band is losing members that sadness is always lessened when it is followed with news that the band will go on. Andy the vocalist from…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: SELFISH MURPHY- ‘After Crying’ (2019)

    The band from just about the coolest place in Celtic-Punk are back! Transylvania natives Selfish Murphy have just released their third album in as many years of mainly acoustic fantastic Irish Folk-Punk.  Selfish Murphy may hail from Romania but that is not where their hearts lie. Like us 2nd generation Irish here in England they…

  • 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: SELFISH MURPHY- ‘Broad Jump. Reloaded’ (2018)

    Irish Punk, Speed Folk from Hungary ! Now I cannot imagine there is many better places for a band, especially a Celtic-Punk band, to come from than Transylvania. Forever immortalised in Western culture as the home of Count Dracula by the Dublin born writer Bram Stoker in his Gothic horror novel published in 1897. The region…

  • HUNGARIAN CELTIC-PUNK WEEK PART 4. THE WHO’S WHO TOP TEN!

    So hopefully by now you will have equipped yourselves with at least three bands from the Hungarian Celtic Punk scene over the last few days so what better excuse than to give you a Top Ten of the best bands in that wonderful scene. They range from traditional Irish to folk-rock to full on punk…

  • HUNGARIAN CELTIC-PUNK WEEK. ALBUM REVIEW #2: PADDY AND THE RATS- ‘Riot City Outlaws’ (2018)

    Hungarian Celtic-Punk week continues with another huge band from the scene. Paddy And The Rats serve up a pirate party with a heavy dose of polka, punk and folk bringing the Irish pub straight into your merry home!  So we move onto Album #2 of our Hungarian Celtic-Punk Week (be sure to check out #1…

  • HUNGARIAN CELTIC-PUNK WEEK. ALBUM REVIEW #1: FIRKIN- ‘We Are The Ones’ (2018)

    Kicking off a week celebrating Hungarian Celtic-Punk we have the new album from Grammy Award-winning Budapest Irish band Firkin. Having played well over six hundred concerts in seventeen countries and it’s no wonder as they are without doubt one of the best live bands on the continent. When you think of Celtic-Punk the first countries you…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: EBRI KNIGHT- ‘Guerrilla’ (2018)

    FREE DOWNLOAD! A superb mix of traditional Catalan music and punk-rock. Ebri Knight hail from the Maresme, a region where the sea and the mountains meet halfway between La Selva and Barcelona in Catalonia. If you have been living under a rock over the last couple of years Catalonia is currently a region of Spain.…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE SCARLET- ‘Hardfolk Shanties’ (2017)

    It’s been five minutes so must be time for another amazing Hungarian celtic-punk release from another amazing Hungarian celtic-punk band! 2015 was the year of the Hungarian celtic-punk band with a seemingly never ending succession of celtic-punk releases throughout the year that filled the end of year Best Of polls for not just ourselves but…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: JOLLY JACKERS- ‘Blood Sweat and Beer’ (2017)

    Let’s drink whiskey! The new album from the fantastic six piece Hungarian band Jolly Jackers playing Irish-Celtic folk punk rock. Things are said to go in cycles and the evidence is clear. They do. If 2015 was the year of the Hungarian celtic-punk band then 2017 is going to be as well. This year we…

  • HUNGARIAN CELTIC PUNK WEEK! EP REVIEW: THE O’NEILLS- ‘Chapter One’ (2017)

    So welcome to you to our third and final part of Hungarian Celtic Punk Week. After two fantastic celtic-punk bands in The Crazy Rogues and Firkin we calm it down a little with The O’Neills and their debut EP. We can be quite parochial in celtic-punk sometimes and tend to stick to bands we know…

  • HUNGARIAN CELTIC PUNK WEEK! EP REVIEW: FIRKIN- ‘Into The Night’ (2017)

    Our Hungarian Celtic Punk week continues with the second of our three reviews and this time it stars the wonderful Firkin. As they say on their press “Firkin should not be seen, Firkin must be experienced! Firkin is good, firkin’ good!” and for once when talking about European celtic punk I can agree! For the final…

  • HUNGARIAN CELTIC PUNK WEEK! EP REVIEW: THE CRAZY ROGUES- ‘Rebels’ Shanties’ (2017)

    Anyone remember 2015? That was the year of the Hungarian celtic-punk record. A whole host of bands coming together in a perfect storm and absolutely completely dominating the scene that year. Loch Nesz, The Jolly Jackers, The Crazy Rogues, The Scarlet, Firkin and Paddy And The Rats all featured in the London Celtic Punks end of year…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIRKIN- ‘Finger In The Pie’ (2014)

    Firkin- The crazy Irish band from Hungary! Well here we go again and I feel a sense of deja-vu here as we find ourselves reviewing yet another Hungarian celtic-punk record. We seem to have done so many this year it’s hard to keep a track of them all and once again its yet another outstanding…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: PADDY AND THE RATS- ‘Lonely Hearts Boulevard’ (2015)

    “Hungary’s most famous Irish folk punk band” Looking back on 2015 it will be forever known as the year of the Hungarian celtic-punk band! Already this year we have reviewed releases by Loch Nesz, The Jolly Jackers, The Scarlet and The Crazy Rogues and we still haven’t got round to reviewing the new album by Firkin either!…

  • EP REVIEW: THE CRAZY ROGUES- ‘Chapter One’ (2015)

    Irish-country folk-punk from Veszprém in Hungary FREE DOWNLOAD It has been a funny old year in the celtic-punk world I tells you. Last year the most outstanding records and bands seemed to come from faraway Indonesia. An amazing scene with equally amazing bands and releases. Young and vibrant and massive and pretty much everything the celtic-punk…

  • EP REVIEW: LOCH NESZ- ‘Leave The Captain Behind’ (2015)

    FREE DOWNLOAD Right take a deep breath… Paddy And The Rats, The Scarlet, The Jolly Jackers, Firkin, Colleen, Punk Whiskey and now you can add to that list of superb Hungarian celtic-punks the name of Loch Nesz as well. Formed in the summer of 2010 the band have been quite prolific in their short time releasing…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: JOLLY JACKERS- ‘Sobriety’ (2015)

     AND FREE DOWNLOAD! Hot on the heels of our recent review of The Scarlet’s new EP arrives the new album from another Hungarian band the Jolly Jackers. Writing that review of the The Scarlet’s EP (here) I commented about how good the celtic-punk scene in Hungary is at the moment with bands like The Scarlet, Firkin,…

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