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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
WALES AWAY BLOG: Armenia Calling – Day One, the Journey (11/11/23)
First day of our last international trip of the year: Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: following […]
WALES AWAY: Latvia Calling, Part Two (09/09/23)
After a slightly messy first evening, we were up at the crack of noon, ready to explore Riga. The day started slightly bizarrely. Favourite son […]
MUSIC REVIEW: Anonymous Iconoclasts – Send in the Suits (self released 2023)
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
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 […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show #314 Iguana Rides Again (27/05/23)
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show rides again. It has been a while since the last show, six months to be exact. But we still have our […]
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 […]
REVIEW: The Laugharne Weekend 2023: Laugharne (24 to 26/03/23)
A weekend of culture, tsunduko and gin drinking in the spiritual home of Dylan Thomas. The Laugharne Weekend is a literary festival in West Wales. […]
LIVE REVIEW: Anonymous Iconoclasts @ Bourtons Live Music Bar, Bargoed (18/02/23)
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)
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 […]