FILM REVIEW: Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii MCMLXXII (2025)
Remastered reissue of Pink Floyd’s iconic 1972 film, Live at Pompeii. Originally released in 1972, this film has had numerous edits and reissues over the […]
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LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 339 All Roads Festival Warm Up Show (22/04/25)
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 339 is an All Roads Festival warm up show, featuring a selection of the bands playing this years event along […]
FILM REVIEW: Steven Wilson: Home Invasion Concert At The Royal Albert Hall (2018)
Home Invasion is a stunning concert film capturing the final night of Steven Wilson’s three night sold out residency at the Royal Albert Hall, London […]
FILM REVIEW: Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025)
The first ‘authorised’ documentary telling the story of possibly the biggest band in the history of Rock n Roll. Led Zeppelin. Firstly, let’s address the […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 338: Cymru / Macedonia Special (08/04/25)
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show #338 is a Macedonian / Welsh sonic cultural exchange thing, showcasing the Naked Mountain Collective label from Macedonia, and just a […]
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 […]
WALES AWAY BLOG: North Macedonia Part Three : Match Day (25/03/25)
Burning the candle at both ends: a jam-packed day including lakes, picnics and football. And beers It’s a funny old game. If your team scores […]
WALES AWAY BLOG: North Macedonia Away Part Two (24/03/25)
An emotional day in Skopje, for several very different reasons I wake up to cancel the 9:30 walking tour. Partly because of the rain, partly […]
WALES AWAY BLOG: North Macedonia Part One (23/03/25)
First Wales Away trip of a new campaign, the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. The first away trip of a campaign should be a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MUSIC REVIEW: The Mahouts – A Love That Satisfies (Self Released March 2025)
New four-track EP from Aberdare’s Mahouts. Or is it? It could be argued that the Mahouts have gone in a new direction with this release. […]
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 […]
LIVE REVIEW: Sharp Class @ Le Pub, Newport (22/02/25)
A personal reflection on the Mod scene, disguised as a review of Sharp Class live in Newport’s Le Pub. In the interest of openness, I […]
LIVE REVIEW: China Shop Bull @ The Fork n Tune (21/02/25)
Leeds’ finest hip-hop-ska-punk-rappers, China Shop Bull, put four hundred and fifty miles on their van to play unique valleys venue, The Fork n Tune. No […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 334 (11/02/25)
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show went out live on Folk Friday Radio on 11th February . It sounded like this PLAY LIST Dog Scratched Ear – […]
GIG REVIEW: Attila the Stockbroker @ The Lost Arc, Rhayader (08/02/25)
An evening of punk, poetry and pints with Attila the Stockbroker in Mid Wales. We don’t normally do a one-hundred-and-twenty mile journey to listen to […]
BOOK REVIEW: Wales: 100 Records (Y Llofa 2024)
A reflection on 100 records, providing a taste of some of the eclectic sounds that have come out of Wales. Think Wales is about male […]
ZINE REVIEW: Alternative Wales Issue Sixteen (December 2024)
Latest issue (#16) of Alternative Wales, a zine dedicated to all things Welsh football. Alternative Wales is a professional-looking A5 zine that covers all aspects […]
GIG REVIEW: Chris Tofu, Headmix and Friends @ Lost Horizon, Bristol (01/02/25)
Chris Tofu, and friends, including Headmix, bring an evening of festival vibes to Bristol. Sitting in an industrial estate just on the edge of the city centre, […]
BOOK REVIEW: International Velvet: Neil Collins (Calon 2024)
The story of the Welsh music scene of the 1990s, and how it briefly popped it’s head above the parapet to invade the charts. The […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 333 (28/01/25)
This week’s Peppermint Iguana Radio show was a little bit more retro than usual. It featured some oldies I had forgotten about but recently dusted […]