
TOFFA: West Wales Legend Goes to Great Gig in the Sky
Toffa, fiddle player with Bhang II Rites, has left the building. News has reached us of the sad passing of Toffa, a larger than life […]
Toffa, fiddle player with Bhang II Rites, has left the building. News has reached us of the sad passing of Toffa, a larger than life […]
Mark Keds, of The Senselss Things, Jolt, the Lams, Trip Fontaine and, most recently, Deadcuts has passed away today. His former band mates in the […]
Welsh punk stalwarts 100,000 Bodybags have called it a day after almost three decades of disobedience. On 22nd May 2020 a statement appeared on their […]
A postcard from the road. Morocco under lockdown and all that jazz – from Sam ‘Van Dweller’ Sam ‘Van Dweller’ has been a blogger, musician […]
Festivals in the UK tend to insure themselves to the hilt against bad weather and have had, in the wake of the attacks on the […]
Legendary DJ and producer, Andrew Weatherall, has gone to get loaded in the great studio in the sky. We don’t have any personal anecdotes about […]
Legendary 90’s festival heroes The Headmix Collective have put their back catalogue goes up on Bandcamp for the first time. And there is new material […]
The Sporadics have formally announed that bassist and founder member Dave Bimble is stepping away from the band for health reasons. A post on the […]
And so it arrives. Match day. Azerbaijan v Wales. The reason we have come all this way. It feels a bit strange. There was a […]
The day started with picking up our tickets for the game. There was a time when getting tickets for Wales games was easy. These days […]
And so it begins. Finally in Baku. (NB: This is a live blog from my phone. Will tidy up with tidy pictures when I get […]
Azerbaijan away. They dont get much more exotic than this. But exotic often comes at a price. On this occasion the price is the journey […]
South Wales metal dub punk legends, Dub War are to play a one off special gig in the Cwmcarn Hotel this Christmas For the last […]
Up bright and early again ready for one last day of tourism mania. The gang was a little divided today. I dont like using real […]
Today’s adventures in Bratislava are mostly set, erm, not in Bratislava.
Walking tours. Uncool but invaluable. As we head out into the big bad city, it appears the only people out are tourists on walking tours. […]
It’s October. It must be Wales away again.
Still not quite done yet. We have another day of full on guided tourism to go. And there is a lot to see in Xian. […]
Another day, another one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It’s Terracotta Warrior day. I wake up knackered. At seven am I hear what appears […]
Dropping like flies now. Only two of us make it for today’s temple session. Excessive templing and late night drinking taking its toll. Today’s temple […]
We are to be based in the amazing Pingyao for a few days, although today we head out to check out some of the nearby […]
Our luxurious hotel was just about all we get to see of this ‘ancient’ city. Today we head for Pingyao. I head down for breakfast […]
The new week starts bright, fresh and full of hope and anticipation. Another day another city. This time we are travelling by minibus. We load […]
New Day – new city. Datong Up at the crack of dawn, we were ready and waiting for Lucas, our guide for the next few […]
Time to move on from Beijing. When we got back on Friday a note had been left in the room advising us Tiananmen Square would […]
A day off to roam free around Beijing, and perhaps finally find a pub. After the full Chinese breakfast, armed with a pretty, but rather […]
The big one. The Great Wall of China. But first, a trip to a jade factory. For factory, read gift shop. Quite impressive what they […]
Day one proper in China started with breakfast, as most good days do. It was surprisingly recognisable. Mainly, but not wholly, due to the fact […]
Part one of a daily blog of six tourists having touristy adventures in China. I suppose it started in earnest when I bought a new […]
Following on from this year’s one off, never to be repeated, Battle of the Bass in Shoreditch, plans are afoot for another one. In Bristol. […]
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