
LIVE REVIEW: 808 State @ Camden Dingwalls (13/10/23)
Old ravers never die, they just stand at the back. An evening of old skool rave, with 808 State, playing a venue with a pedigree, […]
Old ravers never die, they just stand at the back. An evening of old skool rave, with 808 State, playing a venue with a pedigree, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cor baby that’s really meat free. John Otway does, what only John Otway can do, in South London’s number one vegan record shop pub – […]
Gaudi and friends bring warm vibrations to Lewisham on a cold South London Night. We had tickets for this gig months ago, but as the […]
Ruts DC bring out the old heads on a wintry Sunday night in Cardiff. Back to an old haunt tonight. The Globe. Originally a cinema, […]
Henge, escapees from a fifties science fiction B Movie, play Planet Cwmcarn. You can count on one hand the number of live music venues in […]
Infected Mushroom bring their 25th Anniversary tour to London. “It was the third of September, a day I’ll always remember…”, sang the Temptations. I’ll always […]
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 […]
Goldie Lookin’ Chain, in Le Pub. You can’t get much more Newport than that. *Having read through this ‘gig review’, I realise that a lot […]
Three amazing bands on one bill, The Interrupters, The Skints and The Bar Stool Preachers, playing The Marble Factory, Bristol. Any one of these bands […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, a gig review, thoughts on the state of music, the cost-of-drinking crisis and other ponderings. SETTING THE SCENE It was a bit […]
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 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 play rare UK show in (or should that be on?) The Thekla, Bristol. We would have snapped up tickets to see Earthless wherever they […]
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 […]
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