Articles by Jacob Richards-Powell

Space Cat are the idiosyncratic machinations of a devious duo. Exploring the outer realms of space with a cat like malaise. Laying down unsettling, explorative, electronic layers, piercing through with jagged guitar and angular mechanical […]

Great With Custard are a three piece band performing a mixture of cover songs and originals. Led by lifelong friends Robert Murphy (Drums, vocals) and Greg Jones (lead guitar) GWC are known for their energetic […]

Ginger Moush has been making music in all kinds of capacities since around 2004. He purchased his first acoustic guitar for £5, learnt three chords and brought joy to campfires and family events with renditions […]

Formed in 2019 at The Shonk’s first show hosted at the then New Le Pub on Newport High Street, billed simply with a question mark on the poster – the intention was a group of […]

The Good Mournings formed around 2011 when two carboot sale friends started writing songs together. Jase Cannon recites from his notebook, esoteric observations of his hometown, vague aggressions towards people we don’t know, simple lines […]

Ta Matia Malaka (The soft eyes) is a two-piece no-wave band from Newport, South Wales. Focused on layering guitar loops, idiosyncacies and energies into an ever thickening prescription. Dialled back drums like failing machinery carry […]

LMOTM is the solo work of Paul T Lawyer, an outsider bedroom artist with a calling to write and produce music. Tracks will encapsulate and hypnotise a la David Sylvian, a la David Lynch. A […]