LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio 148: The virtual Surplus Fest after party – 04/07/17
With the dust of surplus festival barely washed off, and us still trying to account for our lighters, there was no time to waste, it […]
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LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 148 – Virtual Surplus Festival After Party
Next live show, Tuesday 4th July, a day when we traditionally celebrate Independents – bands that do it themselves without the assistance of ‘the music […]
Fourteen reasons why Surplus Fest is better than Glastonbury
Wondering where to go next weekend? Here are fourteen reasons why Surplus Festival is better than Glastonbury 1: YOU DON’T HAVE PEOPLE WANDERING AROUND SAYING […]
REGIME: 3dB (2017 – Self Released)
Their first album, ‘Push’, laid the foundations. This second album, builds the walls and puts the roof on. Regime are the complete package, reggae, hip-hop […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 147 – Solstice/Surplus Festival Special
Peppermint Iguana don’t do festivals, if they did they would look a bit like Surplus Fest. In the last four years they have held six […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 147 – Surplus Festival/Solstice special
Our next show goes out on the eve of the summer solstice and will preview the forthcoming Surplus Festival, which takes place in South Wales, […]
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. […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio 146 – 06/06/17
As usual, our most recent show featured bands we have recently caught live, bands we are going to see in the next two weeks and […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 145 – Pre Merthyr (rising) Tuneage – 23/05/17
With Merthyr Rising on the horizon and an election around the corner, we lined up a play list heavy on the politics to get us […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 145 – PMT (Pre Merthyr (rising) Tuneage) 23/05/17
Music and Politics. Do they mix? Of course they do. And to prove it, this week’s Peppermint Iguana Radio Show (also sponsored by UNISON) will […]
CHALK OUTLINES: Chalk Outlines (Self Released 2017)
Tucked away on the western fringes of the UK, hide the best ska band you have never heard. The Chalk Outlines. This is their long […]
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015)
In 2013 Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson is a peak behind the curtain to find out what […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio 144 – abnormal service resumed
After skipping a week, Peppermint Iguana were back live and dangerous on the 9th May 2017. To listen again to the show, click on the […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 144 – 09/05/17
We are back! Abnormal service is resumed. It’s a month since our last show and we have uncovered a shed load of new music and […]
ARE YOU WATCHING GARETH BALE? Cardiff marches to fight for the right to party.
On 29th April thousands of music lovers marched through Cardiff under the banner ‘Save Womanby Street’. What’s that all about and why should we care? […]
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (Madman Entertainment 2008)
If you thought ‘Mad Max’, ‘Crocodile Dundee’ and ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ were the only films ever to come out of Australia you would be […]
TEENAGE KICKS – Sandinistas live at UNISON Young Members gig
Tredegar’s six legged Sandinistas continued their rise to the top with a blistering set for young members of UNISON, the union for public service groovers, […]
No Radio Show This Week
Plese note, due to a family bereavment, there will be no radio show on 25th April. There will, however, be a repeat of our last […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 143 – Dave and Cath’s Wedding Present
Whether you be getting ut in the garden, walking up a mountain or getting Married – this week’s show will be the perfect soundtrack for […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 143 – Penywaun is Burning
Barbeque weather? Well make sure you got ya speakers out in the garden cos Peppermint Iguana Radio will be coming at ya live and direct […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Lacertilia, “Fire up the Engine of God”
One does not have to wade far into Lacertilia’s 2016 debut album, We’re Already Inside Your Mind, to find the ethic by which the record […]
BANKRUPT PUG: I Can’t Believe I Ate The Whole Thing (self-released 2017)
Anyone that is stupid enough to let a dog have a bank account is in no place to complain when the dog goes bankrupt. And […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Iguana Radio # 142 – Merthyr Rising 2017 Special
On 28th March Lyn Williams, one of the directors of the Merthyr Rising Festival, joined us in the studio to chat about what is coming […]
GROWN UP: Keith Allen (autobiography)
Anyone that has spent a life time working nine to five and paying into a pension will read Keith Allen’s autobiography, Grown Up, and be […]
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTTING: New album to be previewed by two gigs in Ebbw Vale
Public Service Broadcasting are to release their third album this summer and will be previewing it with two low key shows in Ebbw Vale, South […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 142 – Merthyr Rising Special
The Merthyr Rising Festival will be back for a fourth year between the 22nd and 28th May 2017. Peppermint Iguana has invited the people behind […]
DON’T TAKE ME HOME (2017)
In 2016, Wales qualified for the finals of a major football tournament for the first time in fifty eight years. Needless to say the whole […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio show # 141 – the Ed Sheeran Free Zone
Ed Shearn might have 16 tunes in the ‘top twenty’, but there be plenty of tidy new music out there that aint Ed Sheeran. Some […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio 141
Its hard work writing new blurbs every week to tell you how tidy this show is. If you have heard it before you will already […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 140
With a shed load of cracking new music to play with and loads of gigs coming up, this show was a bit of a belter […]