VARIOUS ARTISTS: #Fieldme
A thirty one track fund raising album for grassroots festival types struggling with the financial impact of ‘Lockdown’ We first came across Gail Something-Else at […]
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LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio #219 – Lockdown Session 8 (19/05/20)
Our eighth lockdown session went out live on www.dapperfm.co.uk on 19th May 2020. Once gain we had lots of new songs to play – including […]
‘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 […]
TARANTISM / EFA SUPERTRAMP / TRACEY CURTIS: Live @ Le Pub, Newport (29/02/20)
Tarantism turn Le Pub into Funkytown for Radical Wales crew. First off, a ‘declaration of interest’. We actually promoted this gig. You could argue that […]
THE LEVELLERS: Live @ Blackwood Miners Institute (28/02/20)
The People’s Champions, The Levellers, roll into the Valleys in the middle of a storm. Where to start? A difficult one. I’m not a massive […]
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 […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 199 – Landed Green Town Special
August is upon us, the month when the festival season goes into overdrive. So this week, we gave a few pointers of who to watch […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 197 – Shhhh – Surplus Special – Don’t tell anyone (02/07/19)
Our most recent show had a play list heavily dominated by bands playing the forthcoming Surplus Festival Cos Surplus Fest is back – yey! But […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 193 – SXS Wales take over (30/04/19)
For show 193, Lloyd George joined us to plug the SXS Wales Festival in Cardiff, being promoted by Students from the University of South Wales […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 187 – festival tribe awakens 26/02/19
The tribe is awakening from hibernation, stretching its wings and plotting for the summer. So this week’s play list will had an appropriately festival vibe. […]
BREAKING NEWS: ADM EVICTION
ADM, the squatted social space in Amsterdam, has been evicted today. Established in a derelict shipyard ADM has been a focus and meeting space for […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 178 – Landed, Griffstock, Not the end of the World and all that Jazz
Landed, Griffstock, Not the end of the World, Beautiful Days, Green Man. Just a few of the festivals coming up in the next two weeks. […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio 178 – Festival mayhem again
Festival season is now at that head spinning mind numbing stage where there are just too many gigs to be able to go to with […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 177 – Landed (part one) and Boom Town preview
Another one of our festival preview shows. Mainly Landed festival (part one) and a bit of Boomtown. When I were a boy there were not […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 177 – Landed Festival Preview innit.
August, the month when the festival season gets up a full head of steam and slams into top gear. We have already done our Green […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 176 Green Gathering Special with the boy Tom Fowler
With the Green Gathering is around the corner, we thought we might as well invite Tom Fowler around to do a special show. He was […]
LISTEN LIVE: Green Gathering preview with the boy Tom Fowler
Peppermint Iguana are squeezing in an extra show on Tuesday 24th July, a Green Gathering Special with our man Tom Fowler dropping in a guest […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana # 175. Toldpuddle, Out West and all that jazz
The festival season is now well and truly in third gear and picking up speed. Once upon a time in the west is in our […]
SURPLUS FESTIVAL NOT ‘APPENIN’ IN 2018
As the snows around South Wales slowly thaw, news comes in that Surplus Festival is being put on ice for 2018. A statement from the […]
FOLK DISCO – PLUS @ Le Pub, Newport 10/02/18
It would be a little bit egotistical to review a gig we have promoted ourselves, so here is a blog post about the first Peppermint […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 164 – Tarantism Special
Wow. What a beautiful evening this was, catching up with Mel and Magnus from Tarantism, our friends for over twenty years now. They picked fantastic […]
TARANTISM INTERVIEW: Archive interview dug out, dusted off and uploaded
We have dusted off another classic inteview and added it to this website – Tarantism from 2007 It was to be a telephone call we […]
THE BREWER’S DAUGHTER: Make Believe (Self Released 2016)
John Baine (AKA Attila) is not really a Stockbroker. Ray Burns is neither a Captain, nor Sensible. Rhiannon Crutchley, however, really is a Brewer’s Daughter. […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 153 – Equinox Festival Special (12/09/17)
On 12th September we broadcast our penultimate festival review show of 2017 – an Equinox special. We had a few technical problems but we think […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 152 – Feral Fest/Common Ground special (29/08/17)
As usual, the most recent Peppermint Iguana Radio Show featured a selection of some of the bands playing festivals in the next two weeks. With […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Surplus Fest Sampler Volume 1 (Surplus 2017)
Can’t wait for the festival season to start? Fear not, this fifteen track sampler from the Surplus Crew will help blow those winter blues away. […]