FILM REVIEW: Free Party – A Folk Tale (2023)
A documentary about the free party scene of the early nineties, and how the state tried to make it illegal to party. As I type, […]
festivals
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Landed (Rhayader) – 28th to 30th July 2023
Landed Festival has been one of our favourite festivals since we first set foot on the hallowed turf of Doldowlod House back in 2016 – […]
LIVE REVIEW: RDF + Friends @Fighting Cocks, Kingston (26/12/22)
Radical Dance Faction and a host of festival friends put on barnstorming night of entertainment in West London. Kingston Upon Thames is not a place […]
INTERVIEW: Gaudi @ Landed Festival 2022
We have just uploaded an interview with the amazing Gaudi, based on a chat we recorded at Landed Festival 2022. We lazed about our campervan, […]
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Landed 2022, Rhayader (29th to 31st August 2022)
Landed. A hidden gem of a festival held in the heart of Mid Wales FRIDAY Day one of a ten-day adventure in festival land My […]
Gwen Gwen Fest 2022 – Kidwelly
The Carmarthenshire town of Kidwelly has a go a putting it’s name on the cultural map with Gwen Gwen, it’s first festival of music, art […]
LANDED FESTIVAL 2022: Who to see and what to do in the area
Landed festival is just around the corner – so we thought we would touch base with the crew to find out if they are as […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 312 – Landed Festival and Green Gathering Showcase (19/07/22)
Peppermint Iguana Radio show #312 was recorded on the hottest day of the year, ever (till the next one), whilst I was sat in Iguana […]
ALL ROADS FESTIVAL: The King Arthur, Glastonbury (29/04 to 01/05/22)
All Roads lead to Glastonbury for the Beltane weekend. All Roads Festival was a late comer to our party, but was the final piece in […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 309 (06/04/22)
Peppermint Iguana Radio show #309 was recorded live in Peppermint Iguana HQ on 6th April 2022. Of the twenty-nine tunes on the play list only […]
IGUANA GIG! Tarantism, Dactyl Terra and Taffy Twp @Le Pub on 12/05/22
TARANTISM Stop off in LE PUB, NEWPORT on 12TH MAY as they hit the road to promote their new album, ‘A Pill to Purge All Melancholy’ – […]
TARANTISM: A Pill to Purge all Melancholy (self released, 2022)
Long awaited Tarantism seventh studio album is locked and loaded, ready for release in May. Tarantism have been creating dust clouds and mud baths in […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 284 – Equinox, One Heart, Balter Special (14/09/21)
Peppermint Iguana Show 284 went out live and direct on Jacs Radio on Tuesday 14th September 2021. Despite being September, the show was dominated by […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 285 (07/09/21)
The Peppermint Iguana Show on Jacs Radio went out live and direct on 7th September 2021 Alongside the usual new releases and hidden gems, we […]
GIG REVIEW: Landed Festival 2021
Landed returns after a Covid hiatus and reminds us why festivals are good for your heads, hearts and feets. Landed used to kick off the […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 278 – Landed Festival Special Part 2 (27/07/21)
Our second Landed Festival Special radio show on Jacs Radio went out live and dangerous on 27th July 2021 and sounded an awful lot likes […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 277 Landed Festival Special Part 1 (20/07/21)
Wow, feels like a lifetime ago, but festivals are slowly edging their way back into diaries. This week we did our first festival special for […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguna Radio Show # 270: Battle of the Beanfield Special (01/06/21)
The Peppermint Iguana Radio Show on June 1st 2021 was a Battle of the Beanfield special On 1st June 1985. the police brutally trashed the […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 269 – Gail Something Else Special (25/05/21)
Way Hey! Gail Something-else joined us in the studio for Peppermint Iguana Radio Show 269 on Jacs Radio on 25th May 2021 Gail is the […]
THE BREWER’S DAUGHTER: Jara (2019)
Second album from The Brewer’s Daughter, AKA, Rhiannon Crutchley. Rhiannon will be a familiar face to anyone that has been to a half decent festival […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 232 – Festival Flashback 4 (01/09/20)
On 1st September we launched our fourth and final (for this year) festival flashback radio show. We went way back to our festival roots some […]
LISTEN AGIAN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 231 – Festival Flashbacks Pt 3 (18/08/20)
Our third Iguana Radio Show Festival Flashback featured memories of Landed Festival, Shambala, Blue Lagoon, Harvest Fair, Once Upon a Time in the West and […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 230 – Festival Flashbacks Part 2 (11/08/20)
This week’s festival special included stories from Green Gathering, Glastonbury (1985, 1995 and 200), The Square Festival (Borth 2007), Spring Fair (Trecastle 1995), Eastern Haze […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 229 – Festival Flashbacks Part 1 (04/08/20)
For this show, and for the rest of August, we are going to have some festival flashbacks. We are to take you on a journey […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio Festival Flashbacks – August 2020
This year’s festival season has been decimated by the Covid 19 Pandemic. So throughout August we will be looking back to festivals of years gone […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS: #Fieldme
A thirty one track fund raising album for grassroots festival types struggling with the financial impact of ‘Lockdown’ We first came across Gail Something-Else at […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio #219 – Lockdown Session 8 (19/05/20)
Our eighth lockdown session went out live on www.dapperfm.co.uk on 19th May 2020. Once gain we had lots of new songs to play – including […]
‘It’s a case of holding your nerve’: festivals face coronavirus insurance disaster | Music | The Guardian
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 […]
TARANTISM / EFA SUPERTRAMP / TRACEY CURTIS: Live @ Le Pub, Newport (29/02/20)
Tarantism turn Le Pub into Funkytown for Radical Wales crew. First off, a ‘declaration of interest’. We actually promoted this gig. You could argue that […]
THE LEVELLERS: Live @ Blackwood Miners Institute (28/02/20)
The People’s Champions, The Levellers, roll into the Valleys in the middle of a storm. Where to start? A difficult one. I’m not a massive […]