Everything you ever wanted to know about Landed Festival but were afraid to ask
Landed? What’s that all about then? Well, it is a cracking little festival in Mid Wales. The fact that Roughneck Riot, Captain Ska and the […]
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LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 151 – another muddy festival show
If you are getting ready for festival, at a festival or just sat in your box wishing you were at a festival, the most recent […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio 150 – Landed Festival Special 2017
With Landed Festival just three weeks away, we took the opportunity to focus on bands playing Landed, and gave away two tickets for the festival! […]
LANDED FESTIVAL TICKETS COMPETETION OVER (But you can still sign up to mailing list)
Over the weekend of 18th to 20th August 2017 the hills will be alive to the sound of Landed Festival. We have two tickets, generously […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana # 150 – In a Field of Their Own – (Festival Focus – Landed Special)
The Peppermint Iguana Radio Show will be coming at ya live and direct on Dapper FM again on Tuesday 1st August and, once again, the […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 149 – Tom Returns For Green Gathering Special
He nagged and nagged to be invited back, so we gave in and said yes. On 18th July Tom Fowler swept into the studio, swore […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 149 – The Return of the Fowler 18/07/17
The boy Fowler has been nagging to come back and do another radio show, so we have let him come back on the 18th July […]
SURPLUS FESTIVAL 2017: The tribes gather
For the last four years the Surplus Festival in South Wales has been one of the highlights of the grass roots festival scene. Over the […]
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING: Every Valley (PIAS Recordings 2017)
With their third album, Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) remind us that concept albums do not need to be about Topographic Oceans or operas about pubescent […]
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 […]
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 […]