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 […]
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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: 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Fork ‘n’ Tune Relaunches with Nookee and the Carltones (31/08/24).
Cwmcarn live music pub relaunches itself after revamp. Vinny and Anja Franco have been running the Cwmcarn Hotel for seven years now. They immediately put […]
MUSIC REVIEW: Dactyl Terra – Fee Fi Fo Fum (2024)
Fee fi fo fum, I smell the vinyl of a new album. A Dactyl Terra album to be precise. Here at Peppermint Iguana HQ we […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part Three – Goodnight Vienna (Hello Bratislava) (07/06/24)
A tale of two cities. Today we head from Vienna to Bratislava, the two closest capital cities in the world. Or it might be Europe, […]
NEWS: Lacertillia Announce 10th Anniversary Show
LACERTILIA ANNOUNCE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW AT THE GLOBE, CARDIFF, SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER. PRESS RELEASE CELEBRATING A DECADE OF HEAVY, SPACED-OUT ROCK WITH SUPPORT FROM SUNS […]
LIVE REVIEW: Ozric Tentacles and Gong Live at The Globe, Cardiff (10th March 2024)
The psychedelic prankster bus pulls into Cardiff, dropping off Ozric Tentacles, Gong and The Fruit Salad Lightshow at The Globe, for one night only. With two […]
REVIEW: Tarantism Acoustic Disco (December 2023)
The legendary Tarantism Acoustic Disco. A CD review crossed with a gig review. In the run up to Christmas 2023, on Christmas Eve Eve to […]
LIVE REVIEW: RUTS DC @Clwb Ifor Bach (20/12/23)
Probably the best rhythm section in punk rock, roll into Cardiff in the run up to Christmas. Of all punk bands that have their roots […]
LIVE REVIEW: Son Nacaxtle @ Le Pub, Newport (19/12/23)
Son Nacaxtle, three travelling minstrels, bring warm Mexican vibes to Newport on a cold December night. The circumstances were very different when we first crossed […]
LIVE REVIEW: The Family Battenberg @ Clwb Ifor Bach (02/12/23)
Fun for all the Battenberg Family, in the legendary ‘Welsh Club’ As soon as we saw that The Family Battenberg were playing Clwb Ifor Bach, […]
LIVE REVIEW: 808 State @ Camden Dingwalls (13/10/23)
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, […]
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Landed (Rhayader) – 28th to 30th July 2023
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)
‘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)
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)
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)
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)
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: Skapa Collective ‘Fork ‘n Tune, Cwmcarn (11/02/23)
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)
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)
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)
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: John Otway @ Live Lounge, Sutton (08/12/22)
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: Gaudi + Danny Ladwa + The Turbans @ The Fox and Firkin’ Lewisham (26/11/22)
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)
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)
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 […]