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 […]
MUSIC REVIEWS
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 […]
LIVE REVIEWS
GREEN MAN PT1 2018
Many months ago I got the hankering for a festival. I didn’t fancy the fast paced turbo charged carnage of Boomtown, a festival so amazing that you never see any of the acts you have […]
BY BAND
THE BURNING HELL 1
The Burning Hell… without doubt are one of the greatest bands to exist in all of time and I can say that with confidence because I have lost count of how many times I have […]
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
39TH & THE NORTONS / EL GOODO
Every Christmas The Shoracle buys me a record of something I’ve never heard before. It’s an exciting gift experience that has always yielded great results given that as a being of near psychic power such […]
BY BAND
TOBY HAY / JIM GHEDI
From the mind & desk of Arbiter Titan! Before talking about the evening I must first mention tonight’s stunning venue. St John’s church in Canton in Cardiff is a wonderful venue to hold a show […]
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 […]