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 […]
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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 […]
REGIME LIVE: Cwmcarn Hotel 22/06/18
Regime, one of the hottest bands in Wales, drop into one of the newest live venues in the valleys. The hills were alive with the […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Iguana Radio # 172 West Wales Vibrations
Last weekend the iguana crew spent many lazy hours looking out over Cardigan Bay, whilst soaking up some festival vibrations. And it was as we […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio Rides Again – Tuesday 1st May
YAY – WE ARE BACK! After being off air for a month, Dapper FM is now plotted up in its new home, Jacs Live Music […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 168 – Last Train from Cana Central
Our most recent show was a bit of a landmark, being the last show before the station moves to new home. Six and a half […]
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 […]
CRASS: My part in their downfall – Aberdare 11/07/84
Got into a chat about possibly the most famous gig ever to have taken place in Aberdare this week, so I thought I would use […]
MANIC STREET PREACHERS: Distant Colours video returns to the scene of riot
Blackwood’s most famous sons, the Manic Street Preachers return to the scene of their riotous gig in the Blackwood Little Theatre to film a video […]
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 # 165 – Lisa Dreads at the controls – 06/02/18
For this week’s radio show we looked back on the days when we used to put on gigs on a regular basis. The peppermint Princess, […]
PEPPERMINT IGUANA GIG: Folk Disco in Le Pub, Newport 10/02/18
Green Gathering Campaigns & Peppermint Iguana got sick of waiting for Summer, so came up with a plan to beat the winter blues: Let’s have […]
LACERTILLIA 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY: Clwb Ifor Bach – 03/02/18
To celebrate five years of ripping up stages all over the UK, Lacterilla teamed up with local promoters Pity My Brain to put on a […]
NINJAH: Keep Britain Lively (Tantrum Records 2018)
New album from one of Cardiff’s most eccentric artists, on Tantrum Records It’s quite possible that many of you will have seen Ninjah perform live […]
CLUSTERFUCK: Pesticide (Tantrum Records 2018)
Question: What do you get when you put a shed load of Cardiff’s most unhinged creative types in a room together? Answer: Clusterfuck. And this […]
KILLDREN: Overkill is Underrated ep (Self released, 2018)
One day, in the dim and distant future, Efa Supertramp will sit down, take a breather, or even possibly sleep. Until then, she is gonna […]
HEADNOISE Special Effects Improves The Defects (Self released 2017)
South Wales based electro pop band HEAD NOISE with their fourth release; a six track mini album – ep – ish – thing. This has […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 159: Unexpected show in the Dapper FM area
This ‘Selected highlights of 2017’ show is a bit unique, having been broadcast not once, but twice! “How can that be?” we hear you cry. […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio # 158 – Mind your head with CAPTAIN PARANOID
On 21st November the legend that is Captain Paranoid joined Peppermint Iguana in the studio for a very special radio show. Pick a few songs […]
LISTEN LIVE: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 158 – MIND YOUR HEAD – WITH CAPTAIN PARANOID
On 21st November, legend of the Cardiff music scene, Chas, AKA Captain Paranoid, will be joining Peppermint Iguana on the decks for a mind bending […]
HEAD NOISE: Dangerously Close – video preview of forthcoming album.
The South Wales valleys can be a dangerous place to live, being so close to so many heads making a noise. And to prove it […]
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING: Every Valley (PIAS Recordings 2017)
With their third album, Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) remind us that concept albums do not need to be about Topographic Oceans or operas about pubescent […]
REGIME: 3dB (2017 – Self Released)
Their first album, ‘Push’, laid the foundations. This second album, builds the walls and puts the roof on. Regime are the complete package, reggae, hip-hop […]
ARE YOU WATCHING GARETH BALE? Cardiff marches to fight for the right to party.
On 29th April thousands of music lovers marched through Cardiff under the banner ‘Save Womanby Street’. What’s that all about and why should we care? […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Lacertilia, “Fire up the Engine of God”
One does not have to wade far into Lacertilia’s 2016 debut album, We’re Already Inside Your Mind, to find the ethic by which the record […]
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTTING: New album to be previewed by two gigs in Ebbw Vale
Public Service Broadcasting are to release their third album this summer and will be previewing it with two low key shows in Ebbw Vale, South […]
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. […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio #120 Merthyr Rising Special
Over the weekend of 3rd/4th/5th June, Merthyr Tydfil will be celebrating its rich radical past by hosting the third annual Merthyr Rising Festival. Over the […]
LANDED – what’s that all about then?
The crew of Landed Festival have taken time out from building yurts and planting trees upside down to tell us what landed is all about. […]