Head in the stars time. Cramming these three bands into the Louisiana may be like bottling a black hole, but more fun. Expansive, noisy space rock will fill the bits between what’s left of your brain cells and ear holes. This is a double-headed tour of the Julian Cope-dug White Hills and the equally riff-happy [...]

Some sad news this week, as Cardiff indiepop institution Little My waves goodbye with their 55th and last gig on Tuesday March 9th at 10 Feet Tall.
Little My’s Wake will see them open their own gig with a short acoustic set to placate the complaint-happy Italian restaurant next door (the band are a lot louder [...]

Double Errors. Double weekend Errors. Two chances to wig out on their dusty anologue and drums go gleaming dance thrill. They may look like escapees from a geography field trip but this Glasgow band will make you move in awesome twitches and spasms. Real heart on time. Anyway, the choice is available: Bristol with the [...]

Not to get all Cardiff-centric, but hey, International Women’s Day brings a lot of treats if you happen to be around the Welsh capital over the next week or so. Look at the gig-stuffed selection below: particular highlights would be abrasively ace hollerers Drunk Granny, hot ex-Pipette action in the Indelicates, and in Paper Aeroplanes, [...]

More a big old celebratory get together than a usual gig, this night will see Cardiff’s lovelorn, underrated and very, very good The School finally release their long-promised debut album. If you’ve ever danced or sung along to any sort of song on the radio then this will be right up your passageway. They are [...]

In other news, there was much rejoicing and touching of strangers when it was announced that the HOT BOYS from the Joy Collective popular website would be literally playing some records between and after the bands at this imminent Buffalo gig. Others raised questions about the venue’s music policy. Either way there will be much [...]

Earlier in the afternoon, Billy Bragg was in Chapter to talk about his charity Jail Guitar Doors, and brough a couple of ex-convicts who’d benefitted from the scheme’s rehabilitation through musical education aim. They sounded like Jamie T obviously, but even these men who’d probably been locked up for bumming swans had more fire and [...]

Let’s gripe first and salute later: the wholly admirable and totally fucking great idea behind this Bethan Elfyn-curated night was to give the unlovely people of Cardiff an evening of surf guitar music, one of the finest musical styles this wretched planet has coughed up yet. In the event that third surf band couldn’t be [...]

Hey, it’s ’90s night! Shouting “All you motherfuckers better like the Coral!” is a strange way for Lawrence Arabia to start a gig, which is why he doesn’t do it. But the jaunty indie payload the bushy-faced New Zealander delivers (plus equally cute and hairy band) is disturbingly Britpop and occasionally quite good. Look out, [...]

For a line-up playing out of order comes a review written out of order. First up are headliners Lucky Delucci (playing 3rd out of 4 bands). Remember that Wall of Sound business that murderer came up with? Well imagine a wall made out of jelly, pebble-dashed with those little Malteser shaped poos [...]

Why is surf music better than almost anything else? Don’t ask me. All I know is it’s like wearing a suit made of catnip, like Leslie Nielsen popping round your house, like the buzz of the third beer in good company. Even bad twang is good twang. From Gerlan, North Wales, Y Niwl are more then [...]

Not that any right-thinking musician finds my misshapen face in front of them an aid to performance, but normally, as close to the stage as possible is the place to be.