LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

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

    Well into Spring now and hopefully a decent Summer awaiting us around the corner but regular as the rain here’s a bumper May edition of Odds ‘n’Sods where we collect all the various new music, new videos, live / gig news and new news coming out of the Celtic-Punk scene. It’s all here from bands…

  • 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: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS – Wake The Rebels (2023)

    Here we go again! Another brilliant album from (fast becoming legends!) The O’Reilly’s & The Paddyhats. How does Wake The Rebels hold up against their vast back catalogue I wonder? Well Anto Morra the London Irish Folk-Punker thinks very highly… The opening title track is exactly what we’ve come to know and love from the…

  • 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…

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

    The dog days of summer are here! Named after Julius Caesar, welcome to July.  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 can’t get enough of BRYAN…

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

    Summer is over. Was it ever really here? Anyway it’s hard to get seriously Rock’n’Roll in the sunlight so time for dark nights and mischief and also for this months London Celtic Punks round-up of all the band news, record releases and videos from bands big and small from across the Celtic-Punk scene. They only…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS – ‘In Strange Waters’ (2021)

    Seems like only five minutes since their last album The O’Reillys And The Paddyhats reel off another one! This time In Strange Waters celebrates their 10th anniversary together but not as you’d expect it to do. Nine of the best Paddyhats songs played in completely new arrangements and genres and a bonus of a completely…

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

    That time of the month again! Odds’n’Sods our regular monthly feature of all the Celtic-Punk news that’s fit to print. Band news, record releases, videos, tours (not individual gigs though yet sadly), live streams, crowd funders etc., send it into us at londoncelticpunks@hotmail.co.uk or through the Contact Us page. All will get a mention but I…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: TIR NAN OG – ‘Sing, Ye Bastards!’ (2021)

    Love, life, death and lots of alcohol! Yeah the sort of themes you expect to hear on a Celtic-Punk album but in the hands of German band Tir Nan Og on their new album Sing, Ye Bastards! these traditional themes are anything but traditional! Fifteen years and hundreds of gigs later sees the the sixth…

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

    Our regular monthly feature of all the Celtic-Punk news that’s fit to print. Band news, record releases, videos, tours (not individual gigs though yet sadly), live streams, crowd funders etc., send it into us at londoncelticpunks@hotmail.co.uk or through the Contact Us page. All will get a mention but I need YOU to help if it’s…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: PADDY MURPHY- ‘Rams Rebels Goats And Girls’ (2020)

    If you want to indulge in Celtic Folk Rock, you will definitely take pleasure in Paddy Murphy. Homesickness, the struggle for freedom, sailor’s yarns, love of the odd drink and the rebellious Irish spirit coming together in a musical whirlwind from Austria! With the popularity of Celtic-Punk in Germany second to none it’s perhaps no…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Dogs on the Leash’ (2020)

    Germany and Celtic-Punk go together like Guinness and chips and there’s no better purveyors there than the wonderful O’Reillys And The Paddyhats. Our man Anto Morra runs the critical rule over their enjoyable fourth album. This record opens with the title track, which is a craic’r and appears to have it all, just what Dr…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • THE CELTIC PUNKCAST. BONUS EPISODE- TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2018

    December is usually the time when all the various Celtic-Punk media begin to compile and release their Best Of charts. There’s already been a couple and we are no different with ours traditionally released in the first couple of weeks of January. Our stablemates over at The Celtic Punkcast have just put out a special…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Green Blood’ (2018)

    Here’s a German band that makes authentic Irish music with their third album release Green Blood. That may sound all a bit strange to yer average Joe but not to London Celtic Punks favourite Anto Morra. The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats are by no means a goose that thinks it’s a fox though they are much…

  • 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…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Sign of the Fighter’ (2017)

    Hot on the heels of their second album is The Sign Of The Fighter the brilliant new long player from German celtic-punkers The O’Reillys And The Paddyhats.  Well it only seems like five minutes since we reviewed the second album from The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats and in fact it is. Last November we raved to the high…

  • LONDON CELTIC PUNKS PRESENTS THE BEST OF 2016!

    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 2016. It’s been another outstanding year for the music that we all love and some…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE O’REILLYS AND THE PADDYHATS- ‘Seven Hearts One Soul’ (2016)

    Imagine the foggy streets of long ago Dublin, crowded pubs ringing with laughter and singing, a time of sailing fishermen and people with stalwart beliefs. The past wrapped up in songs that make you want to dance and sing along till your throat demands another pint. This is what it’s like to listen to The O’Reillys And The Paddyhats!…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: FIDDLER’S GREEN- ‘Devil’s Dozen’ (2016)

    Fiddlers Green. The band that invented their own genre- ‘Irish Speed Folk’ !! Fiddler’s Green celebrated their 25th anniversary last year with the release of the fantastic compilation album 25 Blarney Roses and was as about as good as anything released in 2015. They hail from the small Bavarian town of Erlangen, that is twinned with our very own…

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