BY BAND

SUNFLOWERS

Having seen, and been blown away by these guys at Bristol Psych Fest, we at The Shonk were eager to catch these guys in a much smaller, more personal setting at one of our favourite […]
BY BAND

SUNFLOWERS

Having seen, and been blown away by these guys at Bristol Psych Fest, we at The Shonk were eager to catch these guys in a much smaller, more personal setting at one of our favourite […]
BY BAND

OH SEES & FLAT WORMS

From the desk and mind of Arbiter Titan! The Shonk overcomes The Beast from the East to face their psyche quest. Back in March, The Shonk prepared a scouting team to venture to That London […]
REVIEWS

IDLES AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE

Jeni Hell has been a busy girl; IDLES Joy exhibition followed by the Rough Trade Bristol show. There’s another one but I am sure she’ll talk about that later… The gig room in Bristol’s Rough […]
LIVE REVIEWS

GREEN MAN PT3 2018

I’m going to admit at this point that I’ve lost the second itinerary that I wrote out for this exercise. I lost the one that I made for the festival so wrote out another by […]
LIVE REVIEWS

GREEN MAN PT2 2018

Saturday… and my head was pounding! I had spent far more energy tokens than I had intended on Friday night deep into Saturday morning, I even introduced gin into the equation (some peer pressure may […]
PUZZLES

SHONK CROSSWORD 1

As part of our ongoing endeavour to bring joy to music lovers here is the first Shonk crossword puzzle. True to our form it should be pretty out there. The top three fastest people to […]
Non music things

ALL YOUR BRYCHEINIOG ARE BELONG TO US!

Video games are great. If you disagree with that statement I would advise you to continue reading as by the end of it you might understand facets of them that you never knew existed. If […]
BY BAND

DR. CHAN / CHRIS FORSYTH

A few years ago Arbiter Titan and I took a little roadtrip up to Evesham to see an exceptional band that played right into our love of Cardiacs called The Dowling Poole which was an […]