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MUSIC REVIEW: Checkpoint 303 – Gaza Mixtape (2023)

November 10, 2023 clintiguana 0

Four track EP, showing solidarity with the ordinary people living in the Gaza Strip, trying to live a normal life in difficult circumstances.  To put […]

LIVE REVIEW: 808 State @ Camden Dingwalls (13/10/23)

October 13, 2023 clintiguana 0

Old ravers never die, they just stand at the back. An evening of old skool rave, with 808 State, playing a venue with a pedigree, […]

MUSIC REVIEW: Anonymous Iconoclasts – Send in the Suits (self released 2023)

August 28, 2023 clintiguana 0

Third, and probably final, album from Welsh shadowy figures of chaos, The Anonymous Iconoclasts. With this being probably their last album, the guys have pushed […]

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Landed (Rhayader) – 28th to 30th July 2023

August 1, 2023 clintiguana 0

Landed Festival has been one of our favourite festivals since we first set foot on the hallowed turf of Doldowlod House back in 2016 – […]

LIVE REVIEW: The Cult, The Alarm, The Mission @ Cardiff Castle (04/07/23)

July 4, 2023 clintiguana 0

‘Where were you hiding when the storm broke?’ Nowhere, because there was no ‘Shelter from the storm’ and Ian Astbury ‘loves the rain’ For years […]

LIVE REVIEW: Zion Train @ Rockaway Park (17/06/23)

June 17, 2023 clintiguana 0

Zion Train return to the scene of the grime, Rockaway Park Art, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder.  One person’s unmade […]

LIVE REVIEW: The Damned – Cardiff University (31/03/23)

April 2, 2023 clintiguana 0

Punk Pioneers The Damned return to Cardiff Student Union. The Damned. First UK punk band to release a single, first to release an album.  But […]

LIVE REVIEW: Bob Log III @Le Pub, Newport (16/03/23)

March 16, 2023 clintiguana 0

Bob Log III brings his surreal brand of blues to Newport. Le Pub is one of our favourite pubs. It’s bloody ace. But you don’t […]

LIVE REVIEW: Killing Joke live @ Royal Albert Hall (12/03/23)

March 12, 2023 clintiguana 0

Killing Joke take their chaotic post-punk magic into the heart of the establishment. I’m constantly banging on about small grassroots venues being better than big […]

LIVE REVIEW: Anonymous Iconoclasts @ Bourtons Live Music Bar, Bargoed (18/02/23)

February 18, 2023 clintiguana 0

Anonymous Iconoclasts play Bargoed for the first time. Only our second visit to Bourton’s Live Music Bar, but owner Chris already remembers us. But that […]

LIVE REVIEW: Skapa Collective ‘Fork ‘n Tune, Cwmcarn (11/02/23)

February 11, 2023 clintiguana 0

Cardiff’s Skapa Collective venture up into the valleys to spread their good time vibes. I take my hat off to anyone trying to put on […]

LIVE REVIEW: Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary @ St David’s Hall, Cardif (03/02/23)

February 3, 2023 clintiguana 0

A celebration of the album Tubular Bells, to mark fifty years since it’s release. Tubular Bells was probably the second album I ever listened to*, […]

LIVE REVIEW: Tarantism Acoustic Disco @ Ruperra Arms (28/01/23)

January 28, 2023 clintiguana 0

Tarantism Acoustic Disco lands in New Tredegar. With visitors from that there England due on the weekend,  we had spent two weeks wracking our brains […]

LIVE REVIEW: The Viagra Boys – Cardiff Student Union (24/01/23)

January 24, 2023 clintiguana 0

An evening of dirty post-jazz-punk-blues with the Viagra Boys in the Welsh capital. Cardiff’s Student Union is a beast of a place. Built over the […]

LIVE REVIEW: Dropping Like Flies @ Bourton’s Live Music Bar, Bargoed (14/01/23)

January 14, 2023 clintiguana 0

Dropping Like Flies play an intimate show at new valleys venue. For my entire life I have never lived more than two miles from Bargoed, […]

LIVE REVIEW: John Otway @ Live Lounge, Sutton (08/12/22)

December 8, 2022 clintiguana 0

Cor baby that’s really meat free. John Otway does, what only John Otway can do, in South London’s number one vegan record shop pub – […]

LIVE REVIEW: RDF + Friends @Fighting Cocks, Kingston (26/12/22)

November 26, 2022 clintiguana 0

Radical Dance Faction and a host of festival friends put on barnstorming night of entertainment in West London. Kingston Upon Thames is not a place […]

LIVE REVIEW: Gaudi + Danny Ladwa + The Turbans @ The Fox and Firkin’ Lewisham (26/11/22)

November 26, 2022 clintiguana 0

Gaudi and friends bring warm vibrations to Lewisham on a cold South London Night. We had tickets for this gig months ago, but as the […]

LIVE REVIEW: Ruts DC @ The Globe, Cardiff (20/11/22)

November 20, 2022 clintiguana 0

Ruts DC bring out the old heads on a wintry Sunday night in Cardiff. Back to an old haunt tonight. The Globe. Originally a cinema, […]

LIVE REVIEW: Henge Live @ The Fork ‘n Tune, Cwmcarn (13/10/22)

October 13, 2022 clintiguana 0

Henge, escapees from a fifties science fiction B Movie, play Planet Cwmcarn. You can count on one hand the number of live music venues in […]

LIVE REVIEW: Infected Mushroom live @Troxy, London (03/09/22)

September 3, 2022 clintiguana 0

Infected Mushroom bring their 25th Anniversary tour to London. “It was the third of September, a day I’ll always remember…”, sang the Temptations.  I’ll always […]

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Landed 2022, Rhayader (29th to 31st August 2022)

August 31, 2022 clintiguana 0

Landed. A hidden gem of a festival held in the heart of Mid Wales FRIDAY Day one of a ten-day adventure in festival land My […]

LIVE REVIEW: Goldie Looking Chain @ Le Pub, Newport (27/08/22)

August 27, 2022 clintiguana 0

Goldie Lookin’ Chain, in Le Pub. You can’t get much more Newport than that. *Having read through this ‘gig review’, I realise that a lot […]

LIVE REVIEW: The Interrupters, The Skints and The Bar Stool Preachers – Live @ the Marble Factory, Bristol (21/08/22)

August 21, 2022 clintiguana 0

Three amazing bands on one bill, The Interrupters, The Skints and The Bar Stool Preachers, playing The Marble Factory, Bristol. Any one of these bands […]

LIVE REVIEW: Primal Scream @ Cardiff Castle (22/07/22)

July 22, 2022 clintiguana 0

Primal Scream and friends celebrate thirty years since the release of their seminal album, Screamadelica. When tickets first went on sale it was a no […]

LIVE REVIEW: king Buffalo live @ the Exchange, Bristol (20/07/22)

July 20, 2022 clintiguana 0

Psychedelic riff masters King Buffalo drop by Bristol on their first European headline tour. After almost twenty-two thousand  rotations of the planet, I still get […]

LIVE REVIEW: Hayseed Dixie @Theatr Brycheiniog (05/07/22)

July 5, 2022 clintiguana 0

Blue Grass shin kickers Hayseed Dixie, kick some shins in the heart of the Brecon Beacons The town of Brecon sits in the heart of […]

LIVE REVIEW: Cosmo and friends @ Water into beer (02/07/22)

July 2, 2022 clintiguana 0

Birds, booze and ballads. An unplugged evening in London’s best kept secret (shhhhh, don’t tell anyone). Not only had I never been to Brockley before, […]

LIVE REVIEW: Roughneck Riot: Live @ The Llanarth Club, Pontllanfraith (18/06/22)

June 18, 2022 clintiguana 0

Roughneck Riot trudge all the way down from Wakefield for a one-off gig in the South Wales valleys. That’s dedication to the cause. And we […]

X-SLF, FATAL BLOW, DROPPING LIKE FLIES: Live @ Jacs, Aberdare (27/05/22)

May 28, 2022 clintiguana 0

X-SLF. As the name suggests, ex members of Stiff Little Fingers, drop by Aberdare. With little bit of help from some local legends. When is […]

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