Newport Events Presents FEEDER THE HOMECOMING! Friday 9 July 2021 Feeder have announced they are coming home to perform in Newport’s Tredegar Park on Friday 9 th  July 2021. Tickets will go on general sale from 10am Tuesday 4th May via  www.newport-events.com .  Support for the homecoming will come from special guests The Magic Gang and Welsh bands Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard and Tom Auton and the Bottle Breakers. As ever, Grant Nicholas leads from the front, alongside bass player and comrade Taka Hirose. The British rock mainstays are responsible for some of...

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On his laden career bicycle Johnny Onions or Sioni Winwns meets paramours and cousins  the names the lives of names the routes of commerce way from Armorica to corner Cymru an unnamed lorry driver flat cap trim moustache hooded eyes 1956 registration number PO 5384 brake lights brighten pre dawn hedgerows in the squeal of stopping on a stretch where the farm is unseen  he carefully steers metal milk churns  from the concrete stand to the flatbed of his vehicle  replacing them with empties  the mornings will lighten then darken then back again for this employee  dependable essential...

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Nick Evans 34 · 03 She Has Spoken Released physically via Ffynnone Records on the 28th of May, 'For Morgan', the beautiful debut album by Dawn-Song will be available on Limited Edition Vinyl and Compact Disc. Come with us on an epic journey from Dark to Light, an extraordinary tale of total excess to finding ones inner calm, a musical time-capsule 'For Morgan' is an audio letter from Father to Son. Welshman Nick Evans originally from Penarth, South Wales found himself in the centre of London's consuming Music Business in the 90's. His Elemental Records a pioneering Label was home...

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The debut single ‘LUNGS’ from Freyja Elsy - an epic, yet introspective look at the end of a relationship. Freyja Elsy is an independent singer songwriter and composer with a nomadic past and a sound that pushes into the future. Creating songs with a keen ear whilst pursuing music education, she found herself within the vibrant, engaging Cardiff scene. Through both outside musical influence and internal personal conflict she started to establish a clear identity, forging a path forward to create ‘ Lungs ’, her first single. Based around very real, very intimate voice...

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We are delighted to welcome  My Name Is Ian  back onto our release schedule after an uncharacteristically long development period for their latest album,  Fantastic Company , out via  Bubblewrap Collective  on  4 th June 2021 . The band’s standard ‘prolific-and-terrific’ approach, culminating in no less than 18 releases since 2010, has been put to one side, with their latest being written and recorded over two years, with time spent in four different locales (Cardiff’s  Rat Trap  and  King’s Road Studios , the pop-up  Snowbird Studios in Riofreddo, Italy and  Axe and Trap Studio in...

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bubblewrap.collective · Little Arrow - Poetically Diseased(Live In Four Bars 18.12.14) It’s been 10 years since Little Arrow emerged with their debut album, ‘Music, Masks & Poems’ way back in 2011. In marking this monumental milestone, we also celebrate the life and music of frontman, William Hughes, who we sadly lost to cancer in December 2018. The release charts some of the many aspects of Will’s artistic life with a ‘Words & Art’ booklet showcasing his sculptures and lyrics; all accompanying the heavyweight, marbled blue vinyl of music. The digital...

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Bandicoot’s description of their new single FUZZY perfectly incapsulates its timeless, joyful energy ... “FUZZY is a deranged attempt at seduction which draws on 70s ‘Top of the Pops’, glam rock and memories of misguided adolescence.” Following hot on the heels of the bands successful debut single on Libertino ‘Dark Too Long’, FUZZY shares DTL infatuation with the decade where you cycled to catch your dreams on your trusted ‘chopper bike’ and ‘glittered teenage anthems filled the airwaves as much as your imagination’. With FUZZY Bandicoot are Gene Vincent’s lustful, greasy-haired,...

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Wales is known as ‘the land of song’ and the Welsh are renowned for their love of hymns – perhaps no other nation has sung them with such fervour. This passion is celebrated in a new comprehensive history of hymn writing and singing in Wales and amongst the Welsh diaspora in North America.  A Nation of Singing Birds: Sermon and Song in Wales and Among the Welsh in America  by Ronald Rees looks at the time between the Protestant Revivals in the late 18 th  century until the present day. Described as “Lively, entertaining, and valuable – a real gem” by the journalist, presenter...

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Following swiftly on from last year’s Tiny Men Parts EP, Quiet Marauder re-enter the sonic fray with their latest Bubblewrap Collective long-player, The Gift, on 9th April 2021. Taking a strong divergence from the bombastic pop-punk of its predecessor, The Gift sees backing vocalist Kadesha Drija step to the foreground for the majority of the album, standing afront a richly crafted, multi-instrumental acoustic-folk backdrop. Recorded pre-pandemic, January 2020, in The Burning Hell’s (Canada) pop-up Snowbird Studios, aka an art deco villa in Riofreddo, near Rome (Italy), this release...

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So what if he'd won big on X Tractor that night with the other grinning hopefuls of the combined Young Farmers of his county but fame and its fickle flame didn't burn long with the fattening catalogue of demise and enough freshly signed death certificates to fill a library of uncomfortable learning  he should have been sated busier than ever with  the practiced condolences the pressing of the flesh and the liaising with  the dependables of the funerary industry despite this unexpected windfall Tomb Jones was restless seeing no end to a career  of infinite possibility and beginning  to...

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