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THROWING KNIVES / STITCHED UP / GINGER MOUSH

This particular gig saw our resident noise inventor being invited to play and open for two high-class welsh punk rock / roll bands! Due to The Shonk bi-laws it is forbidden to review any appointed […]

TROPIC / HAZE / WARMDUSCHER

Jacob Richards-Powell

Lead Upto… Still processing Monday’s top night at Hy-Brasil with SANS & CRACK CLOUD The Shoracle contacted me asking if I wanted a ticket to see Warmduscher at The Exchange on Thursday, at the time […]

SANS / CRACK CLOUD

Jacob Richards-Powell

Lead Upto… Sometimes the gig calendar looks bleak for us lowly writers. We look up at the big board on our writer’s floor and there are huge soulless gaps where we have to find things […]

AIDEN MOFFAT & RM HUBBERT

Jacob Richards-Powell

Aiden Moffat and RM Hubbert played their latest album called Here lies the Body released on Rock Action Records, in the gig room at Rough Trade Records in Bristol with support from Siobhan Wilson. I […]

NICK MASON’S SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS

Jacob Richards-Powell

Submitted by: Arbiter Titan. In this time of multitudinous cover bands catering to middle aged music fans wanting to relive past glories,Pink Floyd are one of the most represented. Virtually all of these tributes tend […]

SIOBHAN WILSON / AIDAN MOFFAT & RM HUBBERT

Jacob Richards-Powell

Lead Upto This was a night that Quiet Shoes, Dee-Scripter and myself had been looking forward to for some time. In fact Dee-Scripter had introduced me to Aidan Moffat via Arab Strap some 10 years […]

LACERTILIA / ASG / WEEDEATER

Jacob Richards-Powell

Lead Upto It’s not often that I attend a gig alone, certainly not gigs that you know are going to exceptionally loud and raucous, but when I bought my ticket I figured I’d probably see […]

MR BEN & THE BENS / ROB AUTON / THE LOVELY EGGS

Jacob Richards-Powell

RunUp Now and then we expect to go to a gig with the expectation of an enjoyably linear evening. One where everything is fine and grand and we have a nice time but nothing notably […]

B.A JOHNSTON

Jacob Richards-Powell

By this point it might be a seriously liberal use of the term ‘anti-folk’, I mean, what the fuck could have prepared me for this performance? And more to the point, who is ever going […]

QUIET MAURADER

Jacob Richards-Powell

Bringing us back to home soil and deviating to an entirely new arena of anti-folk was none other than one of our favourite Cardiff Indiearchi bands (or Marindie) Quiet Maurader. In fact I daresay they […]

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