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Conwy Falls Cafe, Betws y Coed
Richard Herring @ Machynlleth Comedy Festival
(review n pic by mark williams)
Now in its third year the Machynlleth Comedy Festival is well on its way to achieving its vision of a boutique comedy festival taking place in Wales, taking inspiration from other unique Powys events that grew from individuals with a passion for the arts, such as The Green Man Festival, Hay Literature Festival and Brecon Jazz. It boasts the kind of top-quality line-up that’s beyond many of its rivals; it’s a small but perfectly formed antidote to some of the more sprawling festivals coming up.
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Rozzys Rock night in Holyhead
Radio Friendlies said, ‘The gig went really well. we’re pretty happy with the result. We met some cool people and we got to see some cool fucking bands. Managed to blow up both amps, but I think our set went down well with the crowd. We cant wait to come back.’
Jamie of Sona (pic below) says, ‘Pretty busy, Orient Machine and Radio Friendlies were awesome. I got the Friendlies to come over from Ireland as I sort of know the lead singer- they were great to be fair, had a good laugh with them too. We’re going over to Dublin next for the away leg.’
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Record Store Day in Spillers, Cardiff
http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk
SATURDAY APRIL 21st
Spillers has been there since the start of RSD and is proud to be participating in yet another celebration. This year sees more limited releases than ever before, along with the usual DJ sets, live performances and whatever else we can squeeze in to the day!
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Aberystwyth Calling
If you don’t ask, you don’t get…
We asked and we got…
My previous Aberystwyth encounters were playing twice at the University with 4Q, once in 1989 to a packed out house with U Thant, Fflaps, Byd Afiach and the second time to an empty house for a Hunt Saboteurs Benefit with the excellent Mavis Riley Experience and some free hash cakes that made the journey back to Colwyn Bay a very colourful one!
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Roadburn Festival, Tilburg Holland – Day 3
(review n pix by mwj)
After the peaks of the Friday night our last day on the Saturday could have just been a mellow after glow. I was certainly still beaming with the memories as I had my breakfast and breakfast beer at the excellent food station set up at the campsite, and it was quite a placid opener for the day when we got into the main hall for 40 Watt Sun. A new project from the former Warning main man Patrick Walker, it is very reminiscent of the Jesu-vibe of mammoth melodic riffs, especially with the pace and solidity of the bass vibe. The vocals are more prominent (and arguably a bit better!) but soon I get the urge to check something with a bit more life and go in search of Dark Buddha Rising.
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Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, Holland – Day 2
Up bright and early (in the afternoon) for the second and most anticipated round of the three. Bussed in early enough to have a mooch about to get some food from a cheap but quality snackbar, and of course some fine pint sampling along the strip of bars leading to the venue, we first attempted to catch a bit of Wino (St. Vitus, The Obsessed, etc) and his recent collaborator Conny Ochs doing an acoustic set in Patronaat but as might have been expected for a side project of one of the traditional Roadburn heroes it was packed to the rafters so we moved on. Prompted by our friends from Doom we took the time to wander down to a gallery just round the corner for an exhibition by Michel/Away from Voivod. He had produced all the bands artwork over the years and was great to see the detail in the originals of his surreal future visions, as well as to chat with the man himself there, a soft spoken and friendly guy who is overflowing with talent.
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Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, Holland – Day 1
(review n pix by mwj)
As I’m sure you’ll remember, in my review of my first visit to Roadburn last year I said after the joy of two of their sets how wonderful it would be to get Voivod playing one of their albums in its entirety. Lo and behold, the power of my will triumphed again and not only were they back to play my favourite “Dimension Hatross” but they were also curating a day of the event. That album would be enough to get me here (3000 tickets selling out in 7 minutes permitting), as was Godflesh’s “Streetcleaner” last year, but as time went on gem after gem of salivating prospects were unveiled and for all its relative expense it was a blow out to look forward too.
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Boltfest @ The Forum, Kentish Town, London
(review n pix by mwj)
Easter Saturday offers a time of quiet reflection on the sacrifice made by a Coventry death metal war machine as they randomly celebrate their 26th anniversary with a birthday bash in London town. Not only have they invited truly special supporting cast but the whole thing is a £6 a throw charity fundraiser at their own cost, summing up their uncompromising down to earth approach and further endearing them to us all who’ve enjoyed their aural battering over the years. The first time for me was an all-dayer in Liverpool Planet X, them co-headlining with Carcass when both where on their first album, a show I only heard about via John Peel, and after which it was fair to say I was never the same again. As they say themselves, it’s very easy to reach these anniversaries just by not splitting up, in 7 years their career will have outlasted Jebus and its arguable that they’ve brought a lot more spiritual ecstasy to a lot of people rather than wholesale slaughter in the latter’s name. Should have stuck to carpentry.
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