LIVE REVIEW: Primal Scream @ Cardiff Castle (22/07/22)
Primal Scream and friends celebrate thirty years since the release of their seminal album, Screamadelica. When tickets first went on sale it was a no […]
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LIVE REVIEW: king Buffalo live @ the Exchange, Bristol (20/07/22)
Psychedelic riff masters King Buffalo drop by Bristol on their first European headline tour. After almost twenty-two thousand rotations of the planet, I still get […]
LIVE REVIEW: Hayseed Dixie @Theatr Brycheiniog (05/07/22)
Blue Grass shin kickers Hayseed Dixie, kick some shins in the heart of the Brecon Beacons The town of Brecon sits in the heart of […]
LIVE REVIEW: Cosmo and friends @ Water into beer (02/07/22)
Birds, booze and ballads. An unplugged evening in London’s best kept secret (shhhhh, don’t tell anyone). Not only had I never been to Brockley before, […]
LIVE REVIEW: Roughneck Riot: Live @ The Llanarth Club, Pontllanfraith (18/06/22)
Roughneck Riot trudge all the way down from Wakefield for a one-off gig in the South Wales valleys. That’s dedication to the cause. And we […]
THE LAZY EYES: Live @ Omera, London (20/05/22) – and other tales from the riverbank.
The Lazy Eyes, a gig review, thoughts on the state of music, the cost-of-drinking crisis and other ponderings. SETTING THE SCENE It was a bit […]
TARANTISM: Live in Newport and Lampeter (12+13/05/22)
One hundred and sixty miles, fourteen musicians, six months of planning, five bands, two venues, one review. A mash up blog post about Tarantism playing […]
TARANTISM: Live @ New Cross Inn, London (06/05/22)
Tarantism tour rolls into that there London. Tarantism’s long-awaited album is now out in the world and their tour to promote it is now well […]
EARTHLESS: Live @ The Thekla, Bristol (01/05/22)
Earthless play rare UK show in (or should that be on?) The Thekla, Bristol. We would have snapped up tickets to see Earthless wherever they […]
NICK MASON’S SAUCERFULL OF SECRETS: Live @ St David’s Hall (27/04/22)
Former Pink Floyd drummer brings his band, Saucerfull of Secrets, to Cardiff to play a set of early (pre Dark Side of the Moon) tunes. I like […]
Groove Armada late Night Show @ Brixton Academy 17/04/22
Groove Armada play a ‘Late Night’ show at the Brixton Academy to a packed audience What is about to follow will probably involve lots of […]
Asian Dub Foundation and Dub Pistols live in Hackney
Asian Dub Foundation and The Dub Pistols play a co-healine gig in a wicked new venue in Hackney Sitting in the North East of London, […]
LIVE REVIEW: Dub War @ Lost Horizon Bristol (16/12/21)
Dub War hit the road for a mini Christmas tour, kicking off in Bristol. Dub War split in 1999, but have been twitching intermittently since […]
LIVE REVIEW: Amyl and the Sniffers, Electric Ballroom, Camden (24/11/21)
Amyl and the Sniffers hit Camden’s Electric Ballroom on their latest UK tour Two years ago, just before the great plague, Australia’s Amyl and the […]
LIVE REVIEW: Gaye Bykers on Acid @ Le Pub, Newport (17/11/21)
A reformed, refurbished, and de-coked Gaye Bykers on Acid (GBOA) play Newport’s Le Pub. Lockdown has been eased for five months now and we have […]
LIVE REVIEW: Peatbog Faeries @ The Garage, Highbury (29/10/21)
Scotland’s number one folk-rave outfit, The Peatbog Faeries, bring their techno-ceilidh to north London We start the evening in The Famous Cock, soaking up noth […]
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 […]
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 […]