LIVE REVIEW: Henry’s Funeral Shoe @ Jacs, Aberdare (14/03/25)
Henry’s Funeral Shoe return to the live circuit, with Heavy Flames and Next Day Shakes joining them for the ride. It’s been a few months […]
ALBUM FLASHBACK: The Damned: Play it at Your Sister: The Stiff Years, 1976/77 (Sanctuary Records 2005)
Limited edition box set of The Damned’s early years on Stiff Records The Damned don’t really need an introduction, but I’m going to anyway. The […]
LIVE REVIEW: James Oliver and Mark Kemlo @ Bourtons Live Music Cafe (06/03/25)
Local lad James Oliver plays Bargoed’s best music venue. Take an intimate and friendly venue, pour in a gifted guitarist, a consummately skillful drummer, some […]
LIVE REVIEW: Anonymous Iconoclasts @ Bourtons Live Music Bar (01/03/25)
The Anonymous Iconoclasts return to Bargoed, to a venue that is becoming second home for them. I have to be careful what I say here, […]
MUSIC REVIEW: Muddy Summers and the Dirty Field Whores – One Foot In Front of the Other (Self Released March 2025)
A new album, from a new Muddy Summers line up, ready for a new festival season. “We are getting a new musical project together called […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 337 (25/03/25)
An instrumental tribute to the victims of the Pulse Night Club fire in North Macedonia Our last show was a Special, featuring many young North […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 336 – North Macedonia Special (11/03/25)
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show #336 – putting the acid in North Macidonia. And punk. And ska, dub and deep house. Yes, it is that time […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 335 Drop Beats Not Bombs – Again (25/02/25)
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show went out live on Folk Friday Radio on 25th February. Along side the new releases, there were tasters of Landed and […]
FESTIVAL BLOG: The Laugharne Weekend Day Three (30/03/25)
A day of pairing drinks with music. We started the day by nipping over the road from the hotel for a Greggs, the breakfast of […]
FESTIVAL BLOG: The Laugharne Weekend Day Two (29/03/25)
First full day. Comedy, grammar lessons and walking through walls. And booze. Lots of booze. The day started with a healthy(ish) nosh up in the […]
FESTIVAL BLOG: The Laugharne Weekend Day One (28/03/25)
A weekend in Laugharne. In March. It must be The Laugharne Weekend. Our feet hadn’t really touched the ground. Less than twelve hours after getting […]
WALES AWAY BLOG: Macedonia Away – Day Four and The Sound of Naked Mountains (26/03/25)
Final day of trip, meeting local musicians and some reflections on Macedonia. Today we finally get to do what we had hoped to do on […]
FILM REVIEW: American Fiction (2024)
Brilliantly dry tale of a black author who dumbs down his writing to make a statement, and unwittingly becomes a best seller. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison […]
FILM REVIEW: I Get Knocked Down: The Remarkable Story of Chumbawamba
From revolutionary vanguard to washed up retired radical. Or is he? Dunstan Bruce reflects on his time with Chumbawamba, from bedsit anarchists, to chart topping […]
FILM REVIEW: Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (Dogwoof 2022))
Squaring The Circle is the fascinating story of the artists behind some of the most iconic album covers in history. Not only are Hipgnosis the […]