TRAVEL BLOG: French Toastie (31/08/23)
Our first (and only) full day in Nice, began with factor forty suncream and two bottles of chilled water. The heat has returned with le […]
Our first (and only) full day in Nice, began with factor forty suncream and two bottles of chilled water. The heat has returned with le […]
Today we peeled off the Montferrat layer, and moved on to the Nice layer. With a combination of Air Traffic Control meltdowns and most of […]
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” Or something like that. We went to bed safe in the knowledge that […]
Today we got out to visit Tourtour, so good they named it twice. Overnight the rain poured and poured and poured. There was thunder. I […]
Third, and probably final, album from Welsh shadowy figures of chaos, The Anonymous Iconoclasts. With this being probably their last album, the guys have pushed […]
Zut alors, when will this rain stop? After several days of unbearable heat, we wake up to the sound of rain on the roof. Not […]
All quiet on the southern front. Today Trixy and John are our saviours. They provide a lift to Carrefour and back. Megan returns with 5.5% […]
Wedding Day! Yay! Today was the main reason for our trip. The wedding of two dear friends, Lee and Alka. Don’t be expecting a review […]
Day one of an adventure in the South of France Well, I say day one, it’s day 0.5, it’s travelling day. We were up with […]
Landed Festival has been one of our favourite festivals since we first set foot on the hallowed turf of Doldowlod House back in 2016 – […]
‘Where were you hiding when the storm broke?’ Nowhere, because there was no ‘Shelter from the storm’ and Ian Astbury ‘loves the rain’ For years […]
Zion Train return to the scene of the grime, Rockaway Park Art, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. One person’s unmade […]
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show rides again. It has been a while since the last show, six months to be exact. But we still have our […]
Finally getting into the Fjords proper. We have got into a routine of sleeping with the curtains open so we can be woken up by […]
I’m up early to watch us sail into Stavanger. Fourth largest city in Norway. It is the gateway to the Fjords. A bit like Trehafod […]
We were up reasonably early, waking up to the sight of the North Sea scrolling past our bedroom window. The sea was much calmer than […]
Part one of a travel blog about a cruise around the Norwegian fjords. Don’t expect any revelations or insight to lost tribes or anything, it’s […]
Fourth installment of the ever so slightly bonkers ‘John Wick’ series. OK. For the uninitiated – in the first film retired hit man John Wick […]
The story of author Robin Ince’s odyssey, visiting one hundred independent bookshops in one hundred days. Robin Ince is impossible to categorize. He co-hosts […]
Punk Pioneers The Damned return to Cardiff Student Union. The Damned. First UK punk band to release a single, first to release an album. But […]
A weekend of culture, tsunduko and gin drinking in the spiritual home of Dylan Thomas. The Laugharne Weekend is a literary festival in West Wales. […]
Bob Log III brings his surreal brand of blues to Newport. Le Pub is one of our favourite pubs. It’s bloody ace. But you don’t […]
Killing Joke take their chaotic post-punk magic into the heart of the establishment. I’m constantly banging on about small grassroots venues being better than big […]
Dub War cross the bridge to rock the boat, in Bristol Harbour. Tonight, we return to one of my favourite Bristol venues, the four hundred […]
Anonymous Iconoclasts play Bargoed for the first time. Only our second visit to Bourton’s Live Music Bar, but owner Chris already remembers us. But that […]
Cassette, a nostalgic look back at the days of cassette culture, featuring the man who invented them, the people who used them and the people […]
Cardiff’s Skapa Collective venture up into the valleys to spread their good time vibes. I take my hat off to anyone trying to put on […]
A celebration of the album Tubular Bells, to mark fifty years since it’s release. Tubular Bells was probably the second album I ever listened to*, […]
Tarantism Acoustic Disco lands in New Tredegar. With visitors from that there England due on the weekend, we had spent two weeks wracking our brains […]
An evening of dirty post-jazz-punk-blues with the Viagra Boys in the Welsh capital. Cardiff’s Student Union is a beast of a place. Built over the […]
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