LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • NEW SINGLE: GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS ‘Celtic Punk Song’ OUT NOW

    A great week for Celtic-Punk fans with four new singles from four bands that are both well spread out geographically as well as musically showing that the scene is more diverse than ever before. Saying that the most ‘Poguest’ of all Celtic-Punk band Greenland Whalefishers knock it out the park once again with their new…

  • CELTIC-PUNK Q AND A: ATLE FROM GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS

    As we celebrate the ninth birthday of our first post our special feature continues. Based on the feature that use to appear in the football magazines of my youth it’s just a short series of questions about stuff’n’nonsense as me auld Nan would have said. Today we welcome Atle to our select club. Guitarist from…

  • NEW ST. PATRICKS TUNE FROM GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS

    The most Poguest of all Celtic-Punk bands Norway’s Greenland Whalefishers are back again with a new song from their upcoming new album. Now in their 28th year Greenland Whalefishers have certainly put the work in to get where they are with tours that have took them from their home town of Bergen to just about…

  • ODDS’N’SODS. A CELTIC-PUNK ROUND UP MARCH 2022

    March – that most Celtic of months and time for another Odds’n’Sods. A place for all the Celtic-Punk scene’s bands big and small, established or just starting out. A reminder too that we need your news so anything you would like to share with the rest of the Celtic-Punk scene send it onto us. We…

  • ODDS’N’SODS. CELTIC-PUNK ROUND UP JUNE 2021

    Summer’s here, the pubs are re-opening, live music is returning and the world of Celtic-Punk is getting back to normal as well! This months Odds’n’Sods features all the band news, record releases, videos from bands big and small across the Celtic-Punk scene.  Kicking off this month with the new video from THE DROPKICK MURPHYS continue…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: OGRAS- ‘No Love In The City’ (2020)

    The second full length studio album from Celtic-Rockers Ogras from western Norway. Their distinct sound mixes trad Irish music with rock and punk and a twist of Balkan with superb tales of the macabre and the best songwriting I’ve heard in a long time.  Of all the countries in the world famous for their Celtic-Punk…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS 2019 READERS POLL WINNER ANNOUNCED!

    The votes are in and have been counted and although it’s just a bit of fun really a champion has been declared the 2019 Readers Poll winner! One of most popular releases of the year and it showed as they romped home as champions quite safely in the end. In true Mickey Rickshaw style they…

  • 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…

  • OíCHE SHAMNA SHONA DAOIBH! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

    Halloween, aka Samhain, was first celebrated in Ireland, around a thousand years ago. It was regarded as ‘The Celtic New Year’ coming from the name of a month in the ancient Celtic calendar with the festival marking the end of the summer season and the end of the harvest. The Gaelic festival became associated with…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS- ‘Based On A True Story’ (2019)

    Long time thought of as ‘more like The Pogues than The Pogues are’ Norway’s unpolished Irish-Punk pioneers Greenland Whalefishers show they can also adapt to new sounds with their new album garnering applause from all over the internet.  Now in their 25th anniversary year Greenland Whalefishers have done as much as anyone has to keep…

  • THE NEW SINGLE FROM GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS COMES ASHORE!

    After almost a quarter of a century at the forefront of the Celtic-Punk scene Norway’s Irish Folk-Punk ambassadors Greenland Whalefishers show they still got plenty more in the barrel with a new single taken from the upcoming album Based On A True Story set for release next month. Way back when the Mollys and the…

  • EP REVIEW: PADDY’S UNDERGROUND PARTY PEOPLE- ‘Tell Your Ma’ (2018)

    The debut release of pure, unadulterated Irish folk music from Norway’s Paddy’s Underground Party People.  To most people on the ‘outside’ it would probably sound a bit strange to have a Irish/Celtic folk band in Norway but to those of us who follow the Celtic-Punk scene it’s no surprise at all as Norway is already home…

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: RESTLESS FEET- ‘Homeward Bound’ (2017)

    German celtic-punk band Restless Feet’s second studio album playing fast Irish folk from Traditionals to more asskickin‘ stuff about sailing far away and returning home. In a genre that most music fans would probably think of as being extremely small its heartening when you come across a band that you think is new only to…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: SMZB- ‘The Chinese are Coming’ (2016)

    The new album celebrating the twentieth anniversary of SMZB. One of the scene’s best bands and the only celtic-punk band in China! Celtic-punk in 2016 is truly a global music genre. Gone are the days when it was the preserve of spotty second, third or fourth generation Irish kids and welcome now to the World…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: BUNCH OF BASTARDS- ‘My Drinkin’ Ain’t Done’ (2016)

    ‘FULL FORCE FOLK’ from a Bunch Of Bastards from The Hague, Rotterdam and Dordrecht! I’m not sure quite what it is about the word Bastard in celtic-punk but their are a whole host of bloody brilliant bands about with it in their name. Think Mr Irish Bastard from Germany, Bastards On Parade (now shortened to just…

  • 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…

  • 2015 REVIEWS ROUND UP PART THREE- THE CHERRY COKE$, SMZB, THE GO SET, LEXINGTON FIELD, MICKEY RICKSHAW

    2015 has been another exciting year for celtic-punk releases but sadly we haven’t had a chance to review everything we received or heard so here’s the last of our ‘Round-Up’s’ catching up with some of of the more obscure records we missed first time round as well as a couple of the scene’s major celtic-punk hitters. These releases prove…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE FATTY FARMERS- ‘Escape From The Dirty Pigs’ (2015)

    Spanish Flogging Molly style Celtic punk rock orchestra! The Fatty Farmers were formed in 2009 and having now listened to all three of their albums I can honestly say they are one of the most infectiously fun bands knocking around in the celtic-punk scene. From the very first sound of the very first song what…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS- ‘The Thirsty Cave’ (2015)

    Celtic Punk or Irish Punk or Paddy Punk or Folk Rock or Rock or Punk or Folk Punk or Folk? The latest studio album from one of the most popular and most successful celtic-punk bands in the world! The eighth studio album from London Celtic Punks fave’s the Greenland Whalefishers and boy oh boy it does not disappoint!…

  • 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: GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS- ‘Looney Tunes’ (2015)

    Celtic Punk or Irish Punk or Paddy Punk or Folk Rock or Rock or Punk or Folk Punk or Folk…yeah that sounds about right! For those not in the know The Greenland Whalefishers hail from Borgen in Norway and have been wandering the globe for over twenty years now playing their fantastic brand of celtic-punk for…

  • 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…

  • THE GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS- TWENTY YEARS OF WAITING…

    THE GREENLAND WHALEFISHERS LIVE IN LONDON IN LESS THAN A MONTH IN THEIR 20th ANNIVERSARY YEAR FOR ONLY THE SECOND TIME. facebook event page here DVD DOCUMENTARY JUST RELEASED! This is the story of how a celtic-punk band from Norway went from playing small Irish bars in Bergen to becoming festival favorites in Eastern Europe and touring…

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