LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • ODDS’N’SODS. A CELTIC-PUNK ROUND UP FEBRUARY 2024

    The first Odds ‘n’Sods of the year where we collect all the various new music, new videos, live / gig news and just plain auld news coming out of the Celtic-Punk scene. It’s all here from bands big and small and even those just starting out! The deadline to vote for the best Celtic-Punk album…

  • 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: SHANGHAI TREASON – Brave, Willing & Strong (2023)

    Yorkshire flatcap banjo Punks Shanghai Treason have gone from strength to strength since launching in late 2019 winning debut album of the year on the London Celtic Punks Best Of’s. With a new album this week of high octane, right proper knees up, feel good Celtic-Punk! Fair to say that Shanghai Treason exploded onto the Celtic-Punk scene.…

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

    Well that’s the Summer over and done with. Kids are back at school and so’s the football and Celtic have already won the league! In other news here’s the September 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 bands to…

  • 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…

  • NEW SINGLE: YORKSHIRE BANJO PUNKS FIRST TRACK FROM NEW ALBUM ‘Pallbearer’

    New single from one of Celtic-Punks brightest ‘young soul rebels’ – Shanghai Treason – announcing their forthcoming second studio album for later in the year. According to critics Celtic-Punk is a bit samey and we’d be lying if we didn’t admit there was a grain of truth in that! Still we love it and I…

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

    in this month’s Odds’n’Sods all the news fit to print on what’s going in our wonderful Celtic-Punk world. From the scene’s biggest and well established bands to those just starting out it’s all in here! We start off this month with some footage from deepest South London just a couple of weeks ago. BRYAN McPHERSON…

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

    The year is flying by and as usual March was a fantastic month for Celtic-Punk fans. Some big hitters released their first albums in ages and here’s your chance to catch up with some of them and the others in this month’s Odds’n’Sods. All the news fit to print on what’s going in our wonderful…

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

    If ever their was a time when we should have a Celtic History Month in schools then March would be it with the patron Saint’s of Cornwall, Wales and Ireland all in the next few weeks. That it will never happen will surprise no one. Hers is this month’s Odds’n’Sods. All the news fit to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • FEROCIOUS DOG Q AND A : DAN BOOTH

    Welcome to Part 1 of our special ‘Ferocious Dog Week’ of these Q and A’s with the guys from our favourite Celtic-Punk band – Ferocious Dog. It is based on the feature that use to appear in the football magazines of my youth (anyone remember Shoot! or Match Weekly?) where we got to know what…

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

    Remember the heat-wave couple of weeks ago? Well it’s raining here now! Welcome to a typical English summer. Never mind though here’s another Odds’n’Sods to keep you occupied for a bit. A whole load of Celtic-Punk entertainment from all the scene’s bands big and small, established or just starting out. Sadly we start with news…

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

    As we transition from wet and cold winter to wet and cold summer it’ll soon be time to reveal your ‘covid’ body in all its glory to the watching world so to help take your mind of that here’s another Odds’n’Sods. A whole load of Celtic-Punk entertainment from all the scene’s bands big and small,…

  • ST. PATRICK’S CELTIC-PUNK RELEASES : SIR REG, THE DREADNOUGHTS, THE FOGGY DUDE, MAGGIE’S FLOCK, SHANGHAI TREASON, FLATFOOT 56

    St.Patrick’s is, unsurprisingly, our busiest time of year and we get inundated with albums, EPs and singles from bands left, right and centre from right across the world. Normally we try our best to get round to reviewing as many as possible and it’s not unusual for us to be still ploughing through them a…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: SHANGHAI TREASON – ‘Shanghai Treason’ (2022)

    Shanghai Treason are a Yorkshire banjo punk band. Check out their cracking first album.

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

    We take Christmas very seriously at London Celtic Punks and so begins the countdown to the second best day of the year! Expect much Christmas themed Celtic-Punk in the coming weeks but in the meantime here’s this months biggest yet round-up of all the band news, record releases and videos from bands big and small…

  • NEW SHANGHAI TREASON SINGLE ‘Hero’s Welcome’ RELEASED TODAY

    Sheffield banjo punks Shanghai Treason release the fourth single taken from their upcoming self titled debut. ‘Hero’s Welcome’ which tells the TRUE story of one of the bands great grandfathers; who escaped a P.O.W camp in WW2. We are getting nearer and nearer to the one album release I have been dying to hear ever…

  • 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…

  • NEW SINGLE FROM SHANGHAI TREASON FEATURING DAN BOOTH FROM FEROCIOUS DOG

    ‘Wildfire’ the second single from their forthcoming new album sees South Yorkshire’s Shanghai Treason teaming up with Dan Booth from Ferocious Dog on fiddle! Swiftly becoming one of my favourite bands Yorkshire rockers Shanghai Treason knock it out the ball park again with their new single. Fiddle and banjo go together like a Steak pie…

  • NEW SHANGHAI TREASON SINGLE OUT TODAY!

    Big news from Yorkshire Celtic-Punkers Shanghai Treason with the release of new single and video ‘Emerald Causeway’ the first release from their upcoming self titled debut album which is due in summer 2021. Sometimes a band doesn’t have to be around long to make a big splash in the Celtic-Punk scene. Two bands I can…

  • 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: SHANGHAI TREASON- ‘It’s Treason’ (2020)

    The debut EP from highly rated South Yorkshire based Celtic-Punk band Shanghai Treason has hit the airways!  Shanghai Treason are a band we have been championing ever since they first popped up on the Celtic-Punk scene last year (and not just because they’re from South Yorkshire!) with the release of their debut single ‘Devils Basement’…

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

  • PREMIERING TODAY! DEBUT SINGLE/VIDEO FROM SHANGHAI TREASON

    Highly rated and future A-Listers South Yorkshire based Celtic-Punk band Shanghai Treason release their third single today and you can watch the video exclusively here! Let’s Shanghai Treason! The Buzzcocks first ever gig supporting The Sex Pistols in Manchester in 1976 at a gig that has entered into music folklaw. Forty odd years later a young bunch…

  • 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…

  • PREMIERING HERE TODAY! DEBUT SINGLE/VIDEO FROM NEW CELTIC-PUNK BAND SHANGHAI TREASON

    Shanghai Treason are a new Yorkshire based Celtic-Punk five-piece who plan to traverse the darker, heavier, side of the genre. Expect breakneck performances complete with banjo, accordion and hard hitting rock rhythm section; fit to inject a jolt of action into any event. On tour this December playing a series of charity gigs for Musicians…

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