Hammerfest IV, Prestatyn (MWJ’s weekend)

(review n pix by mwj)

After being borne from the deaf from born from death on the Thursday I set sail for the Thor’s Day and the annual free ticket frenzy that is Hammerfest. This years event has a Viking theme, subtitled “Hammer of Thor” (Thor, IV, see what they did there?) so what better preparations than a couple of bottles of Skullsplitter ale and a donation/booking to the RNLI for when I predicted floating of the coast of Valhalla/Rhyl in the early hours in a flaming dinghy.
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Hammerfest – Pontins, Prestatyn (Duncan’s Friday)

Words: Duncan Black / Pictures: Dan Alexander
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Skinflick, Inferno, Weapons of Mass Belief on BBC Radio Wales


BBC Radio Wales, Adam Walton Outdoor Broadcast from RNA Club, Holyhead

(review and pix by MWJ)
Holyhead doesn’t have the best of reputations. I think the last time I was there was on some primary school trip to look at the ferries. It was dismal then, and then all I’d heard in the meantime, on the Under 5’s ear hunting missions, the environment that inspired Wendykurk to drugs and fury, and it literally resembling the end of the earth, hadn’t encouraged me to return. However, from the gutter you can see the stars as they say and partly through deprived area funding and a lack of anything else to do, the town has become the hub of a rising Anglesey music scene. This has a pretty heavy vibe to it, and tonights outside broadcast for Adam Walton’s Radio Wales show brought a wider focus onto happenings in the area.
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Sminchfest @ Hendre Hall, Bangor

Formerly the hugely successful Stwnchfest last year, the event is again showcasing the best of North Wales talent with an eclectic range of bands playing in the relaxed atmosphere of Hendre Hall, all for the nominal fee of five pounds.  The event has doubled in size and there will be two stages for 16 new and established acts as well as an art installation in the third room.

…Bands confirmed…  David Wrench (pic), Zabrinski, Kentucky AFC, Ectogram, Dethkit, The Dreaming, The New Dodo’s, Bovine Wife, Green Marine Sun, Salem, Inferno, Iris, Nixon and Jarvis and Anaemic.

A compilation CD  promo  was released after this.
(pic by huw prestatyn)