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 […]
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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 […]
Newport’s Le Pub Secures Long Term Future (10/01/24)
Le Pub, in Newport, has been confirmed as the fifth UK venue to become a ‘Community Owned Venue’, with a little bit of help from […]