WALES AWAY – BELGIUM 2022: Day Six – Match Day (22/09/22)
Two days on and I still haven’t recovered from the session on the 12% beer (or at least I hope that’s the problem). So we […]
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WALES AWAY – BELGIUM 2022: Day Five, The Gap Year (21/09/22)
Today was to be our first day exploring Brussels. So we were up with the larks for breakfast. For €9 we could have cheese on […]
WALES AWAY – BELGIUM 2022: Day Four – Look out Brussels, The Welsh Are Coming (20/09/22)
DAY FOUR: We have been ‘in country’, as they used to say back in The ‘Nam, four days now. Time to head for the city […]
WALES AWAY – BELGIUM 2022: Day Three – Churches, River Boats, but not Towers (19/09/22)
DAY THREE: Diary of Clint Iguana Aged 59 and 3/4 – ish The day started with me getting me blog proofread, by a professional proofreader, […]
WALES AWAY – BELGIUM 2022: Day Two, In Bruges (18/09/22)
DAY TWO: Wandering around a UNESCO World Heritage City with camera in hand. First things first, breakfast. Whilst Posh and Becks were getting some much-needed […]
WALES AWAY – BELGIUM 2022: Day one, trains, trains and trains (17/09/22)
Diary of a trip to Belgium to watch Wales play away in the Nations League and celebrate me birthday whilst at it. Day one. It […]
WORLD BOG SNORKELLING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2022 @ Llanwtryd Wells (28/0822)
A trip to the middle of Wales, for the mythical Bog Snorkelling Championships. Yes, it really is a thing. With our boot lock repaired (thank […]
Gwen Gwen Fest 2022 – Kidwelly
The Carmarthenshire town of Kidwelly has a go a putting it’s name on the cultural map with Gwen Gwen, it’s first festival of music, art […]
LANDED FESTIVAL 2022: Who to see and what to do in the area
Landed festival is just around the corner – so we thought we would touch base with the crew to find out if they are as […]
SEVEN GO MILD IN WROCLAW: Poland v Wales part one.
Day one of a trip to Poland to watch Wales away. *All names changed to protect the guilty Flying at 7am doesn’t sound too bad. […]
PASSPORTS, BUCKET HATS AND BROWN ENVELOPES: Wales Away in 2022
A blog about football, football business, travel and war. Setting the scene for Poland v Wales, June 2022. The pandemic is petering out and the […]
THE LAZY EYES: Live @ Omera, London (20/05/22) – and other tales from the riverbank.
The Lazy Eyes, a gig review, thoughts on the state of music, the cost-of-drinking crisis and other ponderings. SETTING THE SCENE It was a bit […]
Groove Armada late Night Show @ Brixton Academy 17/04/22
Groove Armada play a ‘Late Night’ show at the Brixton Academy to a packed audience What is about to follow will probably involve lots of […]
IGUANA GIG! Tarantism, Dactyl Terra and Taffy Twp @Le Pub on 12/05/22
TARANTISM Stop off in LE PUB, NEWPORT on 12TH MAY as they hit the road to promote their new album, ‘A Pill to Purge All Melancholy’ – […]
Headmix Collective join exciting list of artists releasing albums this year.
Festival legends Headmix Collective are limbering up for what looks set to be a brawl for album of the year. Of course, we dont really […]
BURKE SHELLEY Goes to Great Gig in the Sky
Burke Shelly, bassist and vocalist with legendary Welsh power trio Budgie, has gone to the great gig in the sky. News reached us last night […]
2021: The Year in Gigs.
A reflection on 2021 in gigs. As I type, I’m sat on a bus heading down the M4, returning from a slightly different weekend in […]
LIVE REVIEW: Amyl and the Sniffers, Electric Ballroom, Camden (24/11/21)
Amyl and the Sniffers hit Camden’s Electric Ballroom on their latest UK tour Two years ago, just before the great plague, Australia’s Amyl and the […]
LIVE REVIEW: Gaye Bykers on Acid @ Le Pub, Newport (17/11/21)
A reformed, refurbished, and de-coked Gaye Bykers on Acid (GBOA) play Newport’s Le Pub. Lockdown has been eased for five months now and we have […]
LIVE REVIEW: Peatbog Faeries @ The Garage, Highbury (29/10/21)
Scotland’s number one folk-rave outfit, The Peatbog Faeries, bring their techno-ceilidh to north London We start the evening in The Famous Cock, soaking up noth […]
BACK TO THE PLANET – Have Left The Building
News has reached us that Back To The Planet have decided to hang up their stirrups. There will be no more gigs or new music […]
LIVE REVIEW: Milk + Pigeon Wigs – Loop, Cardiff (14/08/21)
Cardiff’s Supreme Riffmeisters return for first gig in two and a half years, to play Cardiff’s newest grassroots venue. After eighteen months of lockdown, I’d […]
GIG REVIEW: Landed Festival 2021
Landed returns after a Covid hiatus and reminds us why festivals are good for your heads, hearts and feets. Landed used to kick off the […]
WALES HAVE WON THE EUROS (Soundtrack mix)
No matter what happens on the pitch, Wales have produced some world beating tunes for this year’s Euros Tournament. In 2016 the whole of France […]
TOFFA: West Wales Legend Goes to Great Gig in the Sky
Toffa, fiddle player with Bhang II Rites, has left the building. News has reached us of the sad passing of Toffa, a larger than life […]
MARK KEDS: Senseless things guitarist goes to the great gig in the sky
Mark Keds, of The Senselss Things, Jolt, the Lams, Trip Fontaine and, most recently, Deadcuts has passed away today. His former band mates in the […]
100,000 Bodybags Split
Welsh punk stalwarts 100,000 Bodybags have called it a day after almost three decades of disobedience. On 22nd May 2020 a statement appeared on their […]
GUEST BLOG: Life on the Road during Covid-19 – Part 1
A postcard from the road. Morocco under lockdown and all that jazz – from Sam ‘Van Dweller’ Sam ‘Van Dweller’ has been a blogger, musician […]
‘It’s a case of holding your nerve’: festivals face coronavirus insurance disaster | Music | The Guardian
Festivals in the UK tend to insure themselves to the hilt against bad weather and have had, in the wake of the attacks on the […]
ANDREW WEATHERALL: A Loaded Tribute
Legendary DJ and producer, Andrew Weatherall, has gone to get loaded in the great studio in the sky. We don’t have any personal anecdotes about […]