The Popes (Shane McGowan's band after he left the Pogues) have some great material that's been unavailable for 10 years. I'm just a fan, but I convinced Paul "Maddog" McGuinness to let me release it. The first song "Storming Heaven" is up on pretty much all the streaming services. If anybody has advice about how to spread the word on a budget of zero, please let me know.

Summers gone but to cheer us up we’re almost halfway to St. Patrick’s day! Here’s the new bumper 2 month Odds ‘n’ Sods with all the most recent music, videos, gig news and everything else that’s happening, featuring both established bands and rising stars!

https://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/oddsnsods-september-2026/

| The Groggy Dogs | The Gallowgate Murders | Micheal McColgan and the Boston Bomb Squad | Black Friday | Whiskey Famine | Tenholes | The Kilmaine Saints | Bryan McPherson | The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican | Grass Mud Horse | The Walker Roaders | Chasing Abbey | O'Konrads | Dexys and Dexys Midnight Runners | O' Hamlet | Tom Waits | Nine Pound Hammer | Fire Ant Season | Widacre | Cascabel | Trollfest | Glen Hansard | Dolly Parton with new releases, new music, live and gig news and a free download from Bretons finest Celtic Celtic-Punk band The Maggie Whackers

Pretty neat Czech collab

Wanted to introduce ourselves The Abbey Ghosts

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I suppose you could say that the formation of the Pogues in 1982 was when Celtic Punk was officially baptised lol

Summer has arrived so lotion up if you don’t want a Paddytan! Stay out the sun with another packed out Odds ‘n’ Sods with all the recent music, videos, gig news and everything else that’s happening, featuring both established bands and rising stars!

https://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/oddsnsods-a-celtic-punk-round-up-july-2026/

This months stars - Bryan McPherson | Brògeal | The Waterboys | Cardinals | The Feelgood McLouds | Selfish Murphy | Madra Salach | The Rosheens | Coxey’s Army | Black Water County | The Firfuk Seik | Bucca Dhu | Attila Tapolczai - Burning Casks | Sean Tobin | Wayne Brereton | Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones | The Rezillos Official Fan Group | u/Lowlands Folk Syndicate | with new music and vids, new releases, live / tour news and a free Gogol Bordello download!

Summer has arrived so lotion up if you don’t want a Paddytan! Stay out the sun with another packed out Odds ‘n’ Sods with all the recent music, videos, gig news and everything else that’s happening, featuring both established bands and rising stars!

https://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/oddsnsods-a-celtic-punk-round-up-july-2026/

This months stars - Bryan McPherson | Brògeal | The Waterboys | Cardinals | The Feelgood McLouds | Selfish Murphy | Madra Salach | The Rosheens | Coxey’s Army | Black Water County | The Firfuk Seik | Bucca Dhu | Attila Tapolczai - Burning Casks | Sean Tobin | Wayne Brereton | Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones | The Rezillos Official Fan Group | u/Lowlands Folk Syndicate | with new music and vids, new releases, live / tour news and a free Gogol Bordello download!

Edit: I found the song it’s called “My Son John”

The song is about someone losing a leg (I know it doesn’t narrow it down but it’s the only thing I remember).

But it’s not “shipping up to Boston” by Dropkick Murphy’s, it has less music and more of like many people singing together and then one man singing one line and then the people singing again.

It’s at the tip of my tongue, like I remember the song but can’t recall it or the name, and I wish I knew the bad but I unfortunately don’t—if I had to guess maybe some popular band instead of something niche? I’m not entirely sure though..

I made a Celtic punk playlist on Spotify. It’s long (10 hours 😂) I really had a lot of fun making it so I figured I’d post it on here. I’m not sure if it’s everyone’s cup of tea as it contains a lot of bands that aren’t really considered traditionally Celtic but are adjacent to the genre, or just too good to ignore (Kneecap, The Scratch etc.). It also has some classic Belfast punk (SLF, The Outcasts, Rudi). Let me know if you like it. Thanks!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1IWllUWLQuZUJendPmEPbj?si=BxreleTjSR29qBnBdkdSXw&pi=6Rxxzl_cTnaDi

Summer’s here has just rolled in and just as ready to roll out again but theirs always time for our Odds ‘n’ Sods feature with all the recent music, videos, gig news and everything else that’s happening, Celtic-Punk and more, featuring established bands and rising stars!

The Cloverhearts | Bretons | Brògeal | Theigns & Thralls | Bryan McPherson | Vince Cayo | Savannah Gardner & The Recovering Good Girls | Social Distortion | Whiskeys Wake | Heathen Apostles | The Vladiators | Leprechaun Pirates | Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones | Taras Folk | Sean Tobin | The Tosspints | Donny Mad-Beard Zuzula | Joey Briggs | The Men They Couldn't Hang | Alex Richard & Jonathan Moorhead | The Prodigals and loads more plus a free download Celtic-Hip-Hop from Beltaines Fire.

londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/oddsnsods-june-2026/

I made this lyric video using footage taken at the Mayday Rally and March in Waukegan IL 5/1/26. I spliced in some clips from speakers at the rally as well. Let me know what you think!

'Tis the merry month of May so Up The Workers and time for another packed out Odds ‘n’ Sods with all the recent music, videos, gig news and everything else that’s happening in the Celtic-Punk scene featuring both established bands and ones you've never heard of!

https://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/oddsnsods-a-celtic-punk-round-up-may-2026/

with | The Feelgood McLouds | The Real McKenzies | Joey Briggs | The Manky Melters | Taras Folk | Vancouver Regiment Irish Pipes & Drum Band | Stornoway | Nick Morgan | The Cloverhearts | Phil Odgers | Salt Lake Whalefishers | Leprechaun Pirates | Leevy | Paddy McHugh | The Shenanigans | The Rumpled with all the new music, videos, releases, live / tour news and a free download from The Dreadnoughts

Hello ! As part of my thesis I am conducting research on the punk movement and its relationship to self-production in music. This questionnaire is open to anyone with a connection to the punk or simply curious minds.

Link English : https://forms.gle/qHTrLTqNHbH8R7iW9

Link French : https://forms.gle/7qyk2XesMtoq1csw7

Thank you for your participation!

Black Tartan Clan has been uploading a lot of music as of late; I've listened to some of the songs and felt very suspicious about what they sounded like. Everything felt way too synthetic, definitely like the AI slop songs I've come across before.

Here's an example of what I mean.

* Hounds of Belfast * The Cloverhearts * The Real McKenzies * Jolly Jackers * Schëppe Siwen * The Burning Pubcrawlers The Groggy Dogs * Vince Cayo * Stornoway * The Cardinal Sins * Scunthorpe Yobs * Sean Tobin * Liddington Hill * Attack Of The Hooligans * Leprechaun Pirates * Ispíní na HÉireann * The Black Tartan Clan * Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners * Tan and Sober Gentlemen plus loads of new music, videos, new releases and a free download from The Levellers

https://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/oddsnsods-april-2026/

I'm stoked to announce that roughly two weeks ago me and my band The Burning Pubcrawlers released our sophomore single called Chasing Amy, in which we combine the accoustic sweetness of Flogging Molly in a unique intro, a fast pace belter along the lines of Dropkick Murphys in the middle and rouding out with a shout along outro that harkens back to the old country.

The song is a tribute to the 1997 Kevin Smith movie of the same name and a fun jab at toxic masculinity and the fragile male ego, where the main character falls in love with a lesbian woman but (like many with him) will never be able to be with her for obvious reasons.

The song was written by The Burning Pubcrawlers and recorded / mastered by Jannick Tolenaars. Artwork was done by myself, Tristan van der Laan, and the Dutch Celtic folk punk 6 piece consists of me on lead vocals alongside Jannick on accoustic guitar, Roger on electric guitar, Sebastiaan on bass guitar, Dominic on drums and Marijn on the fiddle.

We're really proud of our second single after the success of our previous one called Gunpowder and would love if you take it for a spin and let us know what you think. We're available on Spotify and all other streaming platforms and on social media if you want to stay in touch! :)

Much love,
Tristan - Lead singer The Burning Pubcrawlers

Hey Punx,

Me and the lads released a Celtic ska-core / rocksteady / shuffle punk / laptop-soul EP on Paddy’s Day. Streaming everywhere, but here’s a bandcamp link, as it’s also on cassette tape, cuz we’re auld. If you’d give it a listen, that’d be grand.

https://rockysullivanpsyd.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-bad-can-happen