LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • 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…

  • 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: MICKEY RICKSHAW- ‘Home In Song’ (2019)

    “Locations change, friends change, scenes change, but we always have a home in song”. Boston’s Mickey Rickshaw have long been considered the future of Celtic-Punk by some (guilty!) so a couple of years on from Behind The Eight Ball could their third studio album live up to the weighty expectations we had put upon it?…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: ALTERNATIVE ULSTER- ‘Boobies, Bagpipes, Banjos & Beer’ (2018)

    Back again with their third album it’s New York’s Alternative Ulster with another, lucky for us, thirteen songs of punk rock driven energetic Celtic pride, humor and downright defiance. Almost six months to the day that previous album, Pog Mo Thoin, hit the streets New York’s Alternative Ulster are back again with another album of rough’n’ready Irish-American…

  • 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…

  • EP REVIEW: BENNY MAYHEM- ‘Song For Absent Friends’ (2017)

    Australia’s folk-punk troubadour! Just a few days before we review the new EP from Tasmania’s premier folk-punk outfit The Dead Maggies and it’s more of the same with more Aussie fare from Benny Mayhem. Not a name known to us till recently it would seem that Benny has blessed Europe quite a few times before as both a…

  • 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: ANTO MORRA-’16’ (2016)

    London Irish Folk Punk Somewhere between the Pogues and Ian Dury with perhaps a dash of Madness. The ever prolific Anto Morra returns with this sixteen track album tribute to the 1916 Easter Rising. In the 100th Anniversary year of the Rising their have been many books and musical tributes paid to that heroic act…

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