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 […]
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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 […]
Head Mix Collective Back Catalogue Now Online and New Material in Pipeline
Legendary 90’s festival heroes The Headmix Collective have put their back catalogue goes up on Bandcamp for the first time. And there is new material […]
DAVE BIMBLE STEPS BACK FROM SPORADICS
The Sporadics have formally announed that bassist and founder member Dave Bimble is stepping away from the band for health reasons. A post on the […]
BAKU BEYOND : PART FOUR: Wales, Bales and local Ales (Azerbaijan 0 Wales 2)
And so it arrives. Match day. Azerbaijan v Wales. The reason we have come all this way. It feels a bit strange. There was a […]
BAKU BEYOND: PART THREE: You can take the boy out of the valley, but you cant take the valley out of the boy
The day started with picking up our tickets for the game. There was a time when getting tickets for Wales games was easy. These days […]
BAKU BEYOND: PART TWO: Instagram City
And so it begins. Finally in Baku. (NB: This is a live blog from my phone. Will tidy up with tidy pictures when I get […]
BAKU BEYOND: PART ONE: Moscow Calling.
Azerbaijan away. They dont get much more exotic than this. But exotic often comes at a price. On this occasion the price is the journey […]
DUB WAR: One off gig in Cwmcarn – get them while they are hot
South Wales metal dub punk legends, Dub War are to play a one off special gig in the Cwmcarn Hotel this Christmas For the last […]
BRATISLAVA OR BUST: PART FOUR
Up bright and early again ready for one last day of tourism mania. We were up remarkably early and off out for final day of […]
BRATISLAVA(ish) OR BUST: PART THREE
Today’s adventures in Bratislava are mostly set, erm, not in Bratislava.
BRATISLAVA OR BUST PART TWO
Walking tours. Uncool but invaluable. As we head out into the big bad city, it appears the only people out are tourists on walking tours. […]
BRATISLAVA OR BUST PART ONE:
It’s October. It must be Wales away again.
SIX GO MAD IN CHINA: PART TWELVE: we finally find a decent pub
Still not quite done yet. We have another day of full on guided tourism to go. And there is a lot to see in Xian. […]