News Posts

The first batch of names for the Wacken Open Air 2023 edition was announced over the weekend and pre-sales start in an hour! Don’t miss out!

The “Punk Day” of Lokerse Feesten is back and with quite a bang having Flogging Molly and Bad Religion as co-headliners!

Hungarian Celtic Punk pirates Paddy And The Rats are kicking off quite the party with what could be one of 2022’s summer hits with “Everybody Get Up”!

Celtic folk punk outfit Sir Reg releases the second single/video and title track ‘The Kings Of Sweet Feck All’!

In anticipation of the release of their upcoming new EP, The Rumjacks share another single/video with ‘Bounding Main’!

Sir Reg calls out to ‘Open The Pubs’ in the first single of their upcoming new full-length album!

The punkers of Flogging Molly announced a live streaming event for St. Patrick’s Day, broadcast straight from Ireland!

Celtic punks The Rumjacks are coming back with a brand new album featuring a brand new vocalist. Listen to the first single!

Fiddler’s Green is bringing us “No Anthem” but a real Irish rebel song!

The Rumjacks celebrate life on the road in their own special way!

Lists

Gary’s albums of the year venture away from our more standard metal selection with a bunch of stellar punk releases from bands like The Bar Stool Preachers, Grade 2, The Darts, The Dollyrots, Rumkicks and Rancid, but also sidesteps into other music like the special brand of rock that Public Image Ltd. brings, blues rock with Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, an acoustic Dropkick Murphys and a trip back into time, reminiscing about London’s legendary Batcave Club!

Photo Reports

Metfest 2023 at the Tollwood area in Munich, Germany… a celebration with superheroes, warriors, good music and of course mead, with Feuerschwanz, Fiddler’s Green, Warkings and Grailknights!

Dropkick Murphys got the Munich crowd rocking two nights in a row at a sold out Zenith Kulturhalle, in the company of singer-songwriter Jesse Ahern, fellow Celtic punks The Rumjacks and punk royalty Pennywise.

On 11/11 the guys from Rock ‘n Load Concerts hosted a great celtic night with The Rumjacks and Nevermind Nessie at De Cinema, Aalst. Sniff up the atmosphere right here by checking out the photos!

Album Reviews

Celtic punk outfit The Rumjacks unleashed a collection of emotional tracks just in time to serve as the soundtrack for St. Paddy’s!

Some classic Celtic punk/rock from the German outfit Fiddler’s Green!

Get the Guinness! Quick you bastard! Sir Reg is here with an album filled with Irish fiddles and folk rock songs!

Flogging Molly is back to tell us that “Life Is Good” and that we should enjoy it. Not being blind for society’s flaws today, they bolster a lot of hope and positivism on their new release. Be welcome and dance along to the Irish tunes…

The Rumjacks is back with it’s fifth work; they made two EP’s and two full length albums before this Sleepin’ Rough album. Celtic punk and Sydney folk defines The Rumjacks: the members were raised with the Scottish and Irish record collections of their parents, before colliding headon with punk rock. The band was founded in 2008 by […]