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: Anonymous Iconoclasts @ Bourtons Live Music Bar (01/03/25)
The Anonymous Iconoclasts return to Bargoed, to a venue that is becoming second home for them. I have to be careful what I say here, […]
MUSIC REVIEW: The Mahouts – A Love That Satisfies (Self Released March 2025)
New four-track EP from Aberdare’s Mahouts. Or is it? It could be argued that the Mahouts have gone in a new direction with this release. […]
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 […]
BOOK REVIEW: Wales: 100 Records (Y Llofa 2024)
A reflection on 100 records, providing a taste of some of the eclectic sounds that have come out of Wales. Think Wales is about male […]
ZINE REVIEW: Alternative Wales Issue Sixteen (December 2024)
Latest issue (#16) of Alternative Wales, a zine dedicated to all things Welsh football. Alternative Wales is a professional-looking A5 zine that covers all aspects […]
BOOK REVIEW: International Velvet: Neil Collins (Calon 2024)
The story of the Welsh music scene of the 1990s, and how it briefly popped it’s head above the parapet to invade the charts. The […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 333 (28/01/25)
This week’s Peppermint Iguana Radio show was a little bit more retro than usual. It featured some oldies I had forgotten about but recently dusted […]
Newport’s Le Pub Secures Long Term Future (10/01/24)
Le Pub, in Newport, has been confirmed as the fifth UK venue to become a ‘Community Owned Venue’, with a little bit of help from […]
NEWS: In Aid Of The Moon: Rainyday Rainbow Release Lysergically Loony Live Concert Film
Rainyday Rainbow are doing their bit to help the staff of the ill-fated Moon Club in Cardiff by releasing a video recorded live in the […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Iceland Away Part One (Getting There – 06/10/24)
Day one: Following in the footsteps of Professor Otto Lidenbrock, Arne Saknussemm and Aron Gunnarsson, we are travelling to Iceland. Armed with long-johns, bobble hats and […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show #326 – Iceland V Wales Special (08/10/24)
This week’s show marks the start of a new chapter. After forty-two years of shirk, I have finally retired from gainful employment. We mark the […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 325 (24/09/24)
This week’s show featured some new releases, some hidden gems and tracks from artists we have seen recently, or will be seeing shortly. It sounded […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Montenegro or Bust : Part Three (09/09/24)
Match Day. Things can only get wetter. Up at the crack of noon, we dress in our finest replica shirts and bucket hats, so there’s […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Montenegro or Bust: Part One (07/09/24)
Wales Away always throws up some complications, but this trip to Montenegro takes the biscuit. It started so simply. A trip to Montenegro, a new […]
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 […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show #232 – Montenegro or Bust (27/08/24)
There’s an international flavour to this week’s show, as Wales are due to play Montenegro in Podgorica. To mark this occasion the play list includes […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 321 (23/07/24) Festival Special
Peppermint Iguana Radio show # 321 went out on Folk Friday Radio on 23rd July 2024 It featured a mix of tunes previewing the forthcoming […]
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 […]
ZINE REVIEW: Alternative Wales # 14 (June 2024)
Latest issue of Alternative Wales, a zine that focuses on Welsh football culture, written by fans, for fans. Or in their own words: Celebrating the […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 – Part Five – Trnava And All That Jazz (09/06/24)
After fitting in three gigs in grassroots venues, we bring our tour to an end with a stadium gig.
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part Four – Four Weddings and a UFO (08/06/24)
First full day in Bratislava. Things start to actually get a bit footbally today. First off, hi to Alan. Or was it Dave? No it […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part Two – Viennese Whirl (06/06/24)
First (and last) full day in Vienna. We were up at the crack of noon. We watched some more Buster Keaton silent movies – I […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part One (The Vienna Bit)
Never mind the Euros, here’s the away friendly in Slovakia. Ish. Spoiler Alert. Blog features Japanese Psychedelic Stoner Drone, Costa Rican Surf Punk, Austrian Sludge […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 315 (27/12/23)
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show returned to the airwaves between Christmas and New Year 2023. 27th December to be precise. It featured many of the new […]
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 […]
MUSIC REVIEW: Doghouse – Mongrel (2023)
Twelve tracks of electronica madness from Cardiff’s, ever so slightly barking, Doghouse. Doghouse has been cocking his leg up on dancefloors and tentpoles for quite […]