LIVE REVIEW: South London Punx Picnic, New Cross Inn (21/08/21)
Inner Terrestrials headline a feast of punk rock in the New Cross Inn. The last time we set foot in Fordham Park was for the […]
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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 […]
LIVE REVIEW: Tun, Common Spit and Atomic Supermen. Jacs Aberdare (09/07/21)
Exactly fifteen months and three days since our last gig (can you tell we have been counting?), live music is back on the menu at […]
BARSTOOL PREACHERS: Live @ Rough Trade, Bristol (06/03/20)
Brighton’s Barstool Preachers play in one of Bristol’s newest venues, Rough Trade Records. Heading over the Severn Bridge the radio was filled with doom and […]
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 […]
DUBIOZA KOLEKTIV: Live @ The Globe, Cardiff (18/02/20)
Dubioza Kollektiv. Balkan-beat-folk-punk-hip-hop-ska-techno-rap-fusion in the Globe, Cardiff. Just another Tuesday night in the world of Peppermint Iguana. Buckle up sisters and brothers. We are going […]
THE GENTLEMEN’S DUB CLUB: Live @ Cardiff Students Union (16/02/20)
Gentlemen’s Dub Club go down a storm in Cardiff’s Students Union. 16th February 2020 will go down in the history books for the storm that hit […]
REZILLOS / PIZZATRAMP / FATAL BLOW: Live @ Jacs Aberdare (14/02/20)
The Rezillos bring a crowd from all over South Wales and beyond to Aberdare’s Jacs live music venue. On a cold, wet, Valentine’s night, there […]
THE HU: Live @ O2 Academy, Bristol (10/02/20)
Mongolian Folk Metal legends, The Hu, hit Bristol on a stormy winter’s night. Battling through the tail end of storm Ciara, hail stones and good […]
ANONYMOUS ICONOCLASTS: Live @ Cwmcarn Hotel (07/02/20)
The mysterious Anonymous Iconoclasts make an intimate public appearance in the Valleys. The last time we were in the Cwmcarn Hotel, the mighty Dub War […]
RADICAL PLANET SHOCK: Live @ Fox and Firkin, Lewisham (01/02/20)
They’re back. Radical Dance Faction, Back to the Planet and Culture Shock bring their Radical Planet Shock package to sarth Landan. By the time we […]
THE INTERUPTERS: Live @ The Tramshed, Cardiff (27/01/20)
The Interupters make first welsh appearance. They drop by Cardiff for the final leg of a two year long world tour to promote their most […]
THE BLUNDERS: Live @ Rockaway Park (25/01/20)
The Blunders rock Rockaway Park on a wet january night. We couldn’t leave Wales till Cosmo could find his trousers, so unfortunately we had to […]
SHARP KNIVES/MANIFESTA/EFA SUPERTRAMP + live @ Moon (21/01/20)
Sharp Knives, Manifiesta and Efa Supertramp bring their package tour to Cardiff. Locals Taffy Twp and Trigger Warning and the Safe Spaces join in the […]
THE BELLRAYS: Live @ Le Pub (17/01/20)
The amazing Bellrays return to Le Pub as part of their 30th Anniversary tour. First up, the Charlemagnes. Hailing from that London, but having welsh […]
WONK UNIT: Live @ Clwb Ifor Bach 11/01/20
DIY Punk heroes Wonk Unit headline the last ever Punk Rock Bowling Trophy Disaster – awards night thingy. The name Bottlekids has been cropping up […]
Subhumans + Blunders live @ Clwb Ifor Bach 10/01/20
Subhumans, eighties anarcho-punk pioneers, swing through cardiff to wake up the locals. I’m afraid the cider in the City Arms is too enticing these days […]
DUB WAR: Live @ Cwmcarn Hotel (28/12/19)
As the decade draws to a close, Dub War pop their heads out of retirement for an intimate rare gig in Cwmcarn. The Cwmcarn Hotel […]
THE HANG MASSIVE: Live @ The Globe, Cardiff- 24/10/19
The Hang Massive kick off UK tour with first ever Welsh gig. I can’t think of any other gig where I have felt the need […]
LIVE REVIEW: Public Service Broadcasting @ Caerphilly Castle
Public Service Broadcasting put on spectacular show in the grounds of Caerphilly Castle. Caerphilly Castle is a magnificent monument to how communities rise, fall and […]
BEANS ON TOAST: Live Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 30/01/19
Beans on Toast opens up his ‘A Bird in the Hand’ tour in Cardiff’s legendary Clwb Ifor Bach. Performers tend to attract like minded people […]
CRASS: My part in their downfall – Aberdare 11/07/84
Got into a chat about possibly the most famous gig ever to have taken place in Aberdare this week, so I thought I would use […]
DREADZONE: Live @ The Globe, Cardiff 17/02/18
Dreadzone make their first trip of the year into the land of song – and dub. Rumours that the earthquake that shook wales on 17th […]
LACERTILLIA 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY: Clwb Ifor Bach – 03/02/18
To celebrate five years of ripping up stages all over the UK, Lacterilla teamed up with local promoters Pity My Brain to put on a […]
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING: Ebbw Vale Album Launch 08/06/17
As the ballots papers were rolling in, hoisting Theresa May by her own petard, Public Service Broadcasting were in Ebbw Vale, launching their new album. […]
PENETRATION: Live @ Clwb Ifor Bach 02/04/16
Penetration were born out of the maelstrom that was the first wave of punk back in 1976, before the chord police dictated that you should […]
Slaves @ Velvet Coalmine 2015
Hype is rarely all it is cracked up to be. It can be counterproductive, leading to audiences being disappointed. It usually brings a crowd out […]
Dub War @ Velvet Coalmine 2015
The lights went out, searchlights lit up the sky and the sound of an air raid siren pierced the air. But it was not the […]