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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…
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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…
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ALBUM REVIEW: HOLD FAST – ‘Last Of The Rebels’ (2021)
No easy task keeping the tricolour flying for Pennsylvania’s large Irish community but Hold Fast do just that. Whether tales of the sea, songs of whiskey, or lessons on love and life. Back with the follow up to their debut album three years ago Hold Fast provide more rowdy Celtic-Punk and Irish Folk. Hold Fast can…
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ALBUM REVIEW: CLOVER’S REVENGE- ‘Truants And Absolution’ (2020)
Based In Sarasota, Florida, Irish Speed Folk trio Clover’s Revenge exist at the dangerous intersection of two great Irish musical traditions: Acoustic pub music and Celtic-Punk-Rock. Their second full length release, Truants And Absolution, came out on Paddy’s Day. The new album from Clover’s Revenge carries on in much the same vein as their debut…
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ALBUM REVIEW: BARLEYJUICE- ‘The Old Speakeasy’ (2019)
Barleyjuice out of Philadelphia are back with their seventh studio album with fourteen never before released recordings featuring ‘Juice members old and new! Drinking, singing about drinking, singing while drinking, drinking while singing. We never drive while drinking, but we do drive while singing drinking songs, which drives others to drink, giving our drinking songs…
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EP REVIEW: CROCK OF BONES- ‘Nasty, Brutal And Short’ (2019)
Alt Folk, Irish, Trad, Celtic. The debut release from Crock Of Bones the newest band on the London Irish Folk and Trad circuit. I first met the Brothers Byrne oh maybe twenty odd years ago. Having not long moved to London from the northern wastelands I was surrounded by Irish at home but the only…
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FILM- NO IRISH NEED APPLY. INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRECTOR BILL FITZPATRICK
With St. Patrick’s Day a hazy blur here’s a timely reminder things weren’t always so rosy for the Irish. The acceptance today’s generation now, mainly, enjoy was fought for over many years. In the short film No Irish Need Apply director Bill Fitzpatrick exposes the anti-Irish bigotry of yesteryear in the classified pages of Boston’s…
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2018 REVIEW ROUND-UP’S. PART ONE: THE CELTIC NATIONS- CRAIC’n’ROLL, DAMIEN DEMPSEY, PIRATE COPY, FALPERRYS
Every year we are completely shocked by the sheer number of Celtic-Punk releases we receive here at 30492- LONDON CELTIC PUNKS. As happy as this makes us it unfortunately means that we cannot keep up with everything out there. Sometimes we will receive music that we simply don’t have time to give a review to…
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ALBUM REVIEW: SIR REG- The Underdogs’ (2018)
Traditional Irish folk music, unforgettable melodies, propelled by an driving, energetic punk rock backing. Sir Reg are an energetic six piece from Sweden fronted by Irishman Brendan Sheehy who left Dublin to fulfil his dream of putting together the most amazing band possible. With songs about everything from the issues of modern day society to…
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ALBUM REVIEW: KINGS AND BOOZERS- ‘Still Got The Booze’ (2018)
Ten years young so time for their debut album! German Celtic-rockers Kings & Boozers have Still Got the Booze ! Kings & Boozers are the latest band in the glorious history of German Celtic-Punk to feature here. Ten years young this year they were born out of the ashes of long time German scene stalwarts…
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ALBUM REVIEW: HOLD FAST- ‘Black Irish Sons’ (2018)
The debut album from Pennsylvania-Irish band Hold Fast takes both traditional Irish and original material in a blend of Celtic, punk and rock. Hold tight, hold steady, Hold Fast! The term Black Irish is thought by many to originate back in Ireland for the offspring of Spanish sailors shipwrecked on the west coast of Ireland back in 1588.…
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ALBUM REVIEW- FINBAR FUREY- ‘Don’t Stop This Now’ (2018)
We rarely use the word legend on this site so when we do then it is only when it is well deserved. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, storyteller and actor, Finbar Furey is celebrated around the world as one of the great folk icons and is a supreme storyteller as well as a versatile and multi-talented artist. We…
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ALBUM REVIEW: MUIRSHEEN DURKIN AND FRIENDS- ’11 Pints & 3 Shots’ (2018)
And we all thought Muirsheen Durkin had gone off to mine gold in California but would seem he got lost on the way to Amerikay and ended up in Arnsberg and started playing some proper kick-arse Irish-Celtic-Folk-Punk-Rock! I have a feeling we’ll still be reviewing Celtic-Punk releases from March well into the Summer at this…
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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…
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ALBUM REVIEW: RUSTY NAIL- ‘Bitter Ale, Bitter Heart’ (2016)
If Liam Clancy grew up listening to Nirvana, it would sound like Rusty Nail. St.Louis based Celtic-infused celtic-rock originals and traditional Irish Pub songs. Rusty Nail will be a name new to the vast majority I am sure but with this their new album they deserve a much wider audience and this just may be the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: LARKIN- ‘A Toast To St. Jude’ (2016)
With traditional Irish folk music and some of their own originals Larkin rock it up while keeping it trad. Always a good yellin’, rebel song, drinkin’ song good time with Larkin! Larkin are a superb 6 piece trad Irish folk band from Tulsa, Oklahoma in the USA that play traditional working class Irish protest song’s. They are led by Chad…
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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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ALBUM REVIEW: MALASAÑERS- ‘Spanish Eyes’ (2015)
a collection of working class madrileño musicians with the requisite Irish soul needed to bring traditional Irish folk music with modern influences to life. This debut album from Malasañers is as good a debut album as you’re ever likely to hear or have heard in celtic-punk circles.The band are named after a district of Madrid in…
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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY TO ALL!
At the Siege of Limerick Patrick Sarsfield won the day but they Irish they were cheated when his army went away Queen Ann and her successors forced on us those Penal Laws denying the rights and liberty of religion lands and property Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way cheating stealing diddle idle de…
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RED ROSES FOR ME AND ME
How one man fell in love with The Pogues by John McNally There is certain things that are so momentous in life we remember the exact moment they happened, where we were, who you were with , the colour of our underwear. For a great number of people of a certain age it was “Where were you…
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ALBUM REVIEW: JASPER COAL- ‘Just The One…’ (2015)
the raw and uninhibited aggression of folk-punk with the authentic yet explosive renditions of traditional Celtic tunes Well here we are with our first album review of 2015 and luckily for me its one of my all-time celtic-punk favourites Jasper Coal. They may not be a name known to too many of you but by…
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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…
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ALBUM REVIEW: THE BUACHAILLS- ‘At Your Call’ (2014)
the boys from the county Cork The Buachaills are a very busy band. Fresh from a London double-header weekend in February comes this their debut album ‘At Your Call’. Straight away you can hear some similarities with both The Lagan and The Bible Code Sundays. They have other things in common as both these bands…
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ALBUM REVIEW: BETWEEN THE WARS- ‘Won’t Go Quietly’ (2013)
Another superb release from one of the best bands from one of the best and brightest celtic-punk scenes in the world from Melbourne band Between The Wars. Released on the bands own label ‘Slippery Slope Records’ and we can surely say it will not disappoint! We had the pleasure of putting on Jay Stevens, BTW’s vocalist, London…
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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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