LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE REAL McKENZIES – Songs Of The Highlands, Songs Of The Sea (2022)

    After a couple of years of misery for Celtic-Punk fans 2022 has been something of a special year with the biggest and best the scene has to offer all releasing albums and The Real McKenzies even releasing two!  Here Ray Ball checks out Songs Of The Highlands, Songs Of The Sea out everywhere today. Packed to…

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

    A funny auld month this. Loads of Celtic-Punk’s premier league bands have releases out and two others have them coming soon! Find out who they are is in this month’s Odds’n’Sods. A whole load of Celtic-Punk entertainment from all the scene’s bands big and small, established or just starting out. We kick off this month with…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE REAL McKENZIES – ‘Float Me Boat’ (2022)

    The Real McKenzies released a best-of album, “Float Me Boat”. Let’s get into it!

  • BOOK REVIEW: MICHAEL CROLAND – ‘Celtic Punk Superfan’ (2022)

    The history of Celtic punk in 42 pages? Michael Croland’s got it covered and then some. Check out “Celtic Punk Superfan”!

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE REAL McKENZIES- ‘Beer And Loathing’ (2020)

    Their eleventh full-length album Beer And Loathing is a true return to form for Canada’s The Real McKenzies. Dueling guitars double up against soaring bagpipes while Paul regales the listener with epic tales of alcohol soaked debauchery, historic sagas and hard-fought personal battles. The Real McKenzies need little introduction having founded in 1992 in Vancouver,…

  • ODDS’N’SODS. CELTIC-PUNK ROUND UP AUGUST 2020

    We want to move away from just being ‘ReviewReviewReviewReview’ so we have started this monthly feature that comes out on the last day of each month. All news items that we otherwise miss will get a mention but I need YOU to be the eyes and ears if it’s going to work so send over…

  • EP REVIEW: 7 STOUT CLAN- ‘7 Stout Clan’ (2020)

    Another EP release this time three original songs from Eastern Finland from a band that deserve a lot more recognition. I give you 7 Stout Clan. I find it quite hard to fathom how a band that has been together since 2008 has only just released a small handful of recordings! I suppose its quite…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: 13 KRAUSS- ‘Redención’ (2019)

    Spanish Celtic-Punk band 13Krauss may be part Dropkicks and another wee part Molly’s but 100% Celtic-Folk-Punk! Redención is the third studio album (all independent releases) from Zaragoza based Celtic-Punk band 13Krauss. They were delivered kicking and screaming on 8th December 2012 and a year later they released their first demo Atlántida (available here for free…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE RUMJACKS- ‘Saints Preserve Us’

    The new album from the undisputed Kings Of Celtic-Punk hits the decks right across every corner of the globe. I never thought they’d ever come close to their out of this world debut album but as Shane O’Neill shows they have not only made an album to compete with Gangs Of New Holland but possibly…

  • EP REVIEW: THE GRINNING BARRETTS- ‘The Riot EP’ (2018)

     The second EP release in less than six months from the beer and whisky fuelled bagpipe Celtic punk rockers The Grinning Barretts. Delivering more of the same with a range of floor stompin’, table poundin’ trad Irish folk originals, to catchy, ‘waketheFup’ Irish punk anthems that will sure blow the cobwebs out your ears! Though…

  • 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…

  • 2017 REVIEW ROUND-UP’S PART THREE: THE CELTIC NATIONS- BIBLE CODE SUNDAYS, THE DECLINE!, BRUTUS’ DAUGHTERS, REAL McKENZIES, VINCE CAYO, THE BOTTLERS

    So welcome to 2018 and the first post of the year and the last of our round-ups from 2017. We simply could not keep up with the volume of releases we keep receiving so rather than completely neglect them here’s some much shorter reviews that will at least give you a taste of what they…

  • GET IN THE FESTIVE SPIRIT WITH THIS CHRISTMAS CELTIC PUNK TOP-TWENTY!

    It’s December so let your pint glass be half full for a change and get into the festive spirit with what started as a Top Ten but but soon became the London Celtic Punk’s Top Twenty of the best kick-arse Christmas Celtic-Punk tunes ever written and absolutely no surprises at #1. 20. THE PRIESTS FEATURING SHANE…

  • 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: Всё Crazy- ‘Мокрые слухи’ (2017)

    no nonsense no frills just straight up fantastic celtic-punk from Belarus. We been big fans of Всё_CRAZY (in English- ‘All Crazy’) for a while and Мокрые слухи is their second album and comes only a year and a couple of months after the release of their debut album По Морям. That album was reviewed on these pages…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: CELKILT- ‘Stand’ (2017)

    ” …Then the Great Alchemist gathered Water, Air, Earth and Fire around the Muse. He gave them the High Voltage Energy of Rock and the cheerful power of the Irish Jigs, gave them fiddle, drums, guitar, bass, whistles and bagpipes, and then told them: ” You shall be embodied, you shall live, you shall play and…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: BLACK WATER COUNTY- ‘Taking Chances’ (2017)

    Dorset based six-piece celtic-punk band Black Water County’s debut album for this reviewer is as good as ANYTHING to be released this year.  Music to proper “beat up the floor to” !! Sandwiched between album releases by such celtic-punk greats such as the Dropkick Murphys, The Real McKenzies, The Tossers and Flatfoot 56 is this wonderful album…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE Пауки (THE PAUKI)- ‘La Isla Del Muerto’ (2016)

    Russian beer-core legends have been around for over 20 years and as strong as ever giving us fast HC influenced celtic-punk with beer, pirates and a Russian mentality! One of the highlights of the last few years has been the emergence of Russia as a celtic-punk powerhouse within the scene. Middle Class Bastards have blown us…

  • 2015 REVIEWS ROUND UP PART TWO- WILL TUN AND THE WASTERS, SKONTRA, LOUISE DISTRAS, HAPPY OL McWEASEL, THE CUNDEEZ, ANTO MORRA

    This year has been quite brilliant for celtic-punk releases. In fact it has been far the best year since we began doing this here thingy. Good news surely but it also sadly means we didn’t get a chance to review everything we received or heard. So after catching up with our North American cousins (here)…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE REAL McKENZIES- ‘Rats In The Burlap’ (2015)

    The original celtic-punk band! In the crazy world of celtic-punk we have to admit that their are two levels when it comes to bands. The top level of course belongs to by far the two most famous bands in celtic-punk, The Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. Their appeal has outgrown the scene and most people would…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: 13KRAUSS – ‘Seguir En Pie’ (2014)

    Debut album from 13Krauss a new band from Zaragoza in Spain. Originally forming as a straight up punk band they were converted to celtic-punk after the boys attended a show by The Real McKenzies in their hometown. They added bagpipes and accordion into the band and hey presto 13Krauss were born! A year later and…

  • FROM OPPRESSION TO CELEBRATION- THE POGUES TO THE DROPKICK MURPHYS AND CELTIC PUNK

    The history of all of the various celtic nations is one made up of oppression, intimidation and emigration. Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany (north west France), Asturias (north west Spain), Galicia (north west Spain) have all been for generations occupied by foreign countries who have tried everything to crush the culture, language…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: IRISH MOUTARDE- ‘Raise ‘Em All’ (2013)

    “Electric guitars, bagpipe and whisky: Celtic rock as it should be” Formed in 2009 in Quebec city (a French speaking province of Canada) as a covers band playing traditional Irish songs but with a punk feel and attitude  and they’ve now gone on to develop into one of Canada’s best new celtic-punk bands. This their…

  • INTERVIEW WITH JAY STEVENS FROM AUSTRALIAN BAND ‘BETWEEN THE WARS’

    When we heard that Jay Stevens from the fantastic Aussie celtic-folk-punk band BETWEEN THE WARS was coming over to these shores to play a few solo shows we jumped at the chance to do the London leg of his tour. so we thought we’d ask him some stuff so we did and he answered it all…

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