Music, festivals, gigs, parties, anarchy, reading, writing, web design, cardiff city fc, my kids
Music
punk, dub, ska, space rock, trance, dubstep, drum 'n bass, afrobeat, afrocelticdubdiddlyfolkrave.
Movies
dejavu, ronin, matrix, shawshank redemption, fahreneit 9/11, the corporation, lock stock and two smoking barrels, snatch, pulp fiction, breakfast at tiffany's, minority report, italian job, meet the parents, to kill a mockingbird, the game, layer cake, millers crossing
Television
have i got news for you, QI, i deal, newsnight, simpsons, planet earth, power of earth, power of nightmares, everybody loves raymond, star trek, babylon 5, life on mars
Books
cider with roadies, rebel alliances, 1984, demanding the impossible, John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes, fierce dancing, web of deceit, to kill a mockingbird, trainspotting, sheep shagging, hi fidelity, soul crew, as used on the famous nelson mandela, mr nice, winos rhinos and lunatics, adrift in the either, international discography of new wave 1983, cardiff city fc chronology 1920 to 1986
PEPPERMINT IGUANA is based in South Wales (UK) and has been around in one form or another since 1995. It is a Zine covering music, politics, and anything that interests us. We run a website www.peppermintiguana.co.uk/ and we put out old-fashioned paper fanzines occasionally (usually one a year to coincide with the festival season). Please feel free to send us stuff for review, send a message to get the adress off us.
THE BOOK: Our main project at the moment is a book. We are currently carrying out research and interviewing people for a book on the DIY music scene. We are looking at what is wrong with the music industry, why people choose to function outside of it and how they function perfectly will without the backing of major labels. We will be including things like zines, promoters, soundsystems, small lables etc. If you feel you have something you desperately want to say, or if you have any good anecdotes, please mail us and let us know. We are still trying to keep the website and zine going at the same time, but juggling everything (and a full time job) is not easy.
We used to put on gigs, and we might do in the future, if we feel like it… that’s the whole point, it’s a labour of love. Past gigs have included Tofu Love Frogs, P.A.I.N., Inner Terrestrials, Citizen Fish, Headmix, Tarantism, Dubmerge, The Top Cats, Astralaisa, New Model Army, John Otway, Terrorist Ballet Dancers From Hell, Captain Paranoid and the Delusions, Man, Spanner, This System Kills and many more.
What sort of music do we like? … Pretty varied really, lots of underground festy type stuff and anything else that takes our fancy, from chilled out vibes to full on sonic attack. The Zine tends to concentrate on the more obscure stuff… there would be no point trying to replicate the mainstream media, even if we wanted too!. Check out the website, you will soon get the drift. http://www.peppermintiguana.co.uk/
Who I'd like to meet: Noam Chomsky, Lemmy, johnny vegas, robert deniro, felicity kendal, and i would like a quiet word with maggie thatcher!
Next gigs: 27/08/09: BRUXELLES @ DADA bar + Costa Cosanostra + Dead Plants Live 04/09/09 LILLE @ la Rumeur + 500Mgr 18/09/09: Belgium + Heirs (aust) HELP 19/09/09: Belgium + Heirs (aust) HELP 20/09/09: Belgium, Bruxelles @ Dada Bar + Heirs (aust) 10/10/09: Belgium, Liège @ Carlo levi + last minute to jaffna (it) 11/10/09: Dunkerque @ le Kalvaire + last minute to jaffna (it) HELP 28/10/09: mini european tour: Germany HELP 29/10/09: WUERZBURG @ Lucky 7’s + Jaked Off Shorts And Loaded Heads 30/10/09: HALBERSTADT @ Salut e.V. HBS + In Dread Response + Under the Pledge of Secrecy + Days or Grace 31/10/09: LUCKENWALDE @ Trebbe12 + KINT 12/12/09: DORNBURG (De) @ GRIND 138 + Grant National + Malm
We just recently finished our EP and are so proud, all the hard work payed off! If you have a few minutes please give it a listen and tell us what you think :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol.
"The overall sound echoes that of Bloc Party but with great conviction and sophistication. Go see them live if you can." - iTunes review.
It's also available to buy through our website and itunes if you really do like it.
Thanks for being a Myspace friend. Here are some House Music DJ set podcasts... You can also check the official Wez G website http://djwezg.com or the facebook fanpage http://djwezg.info Thanks!
...if you are feeling the need for a some fresh new music please visit our page and give our new EP a listen. We've worked really hard on it and had some excellent feedback so far and would love to hear what you guys think.
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol.
"The overall sound echoes that of Bloc Party but with great conviction and sophistication. Go see them live if you can." - iTunes review.
It's also available to buy through our website and itunes if you really do like it.
This is Uranus calling Peppermint Iguana Zine, this is Uranus...
Check out 'A Testimonial to Boss Goodman: Portobello Shuffle : A Tribute to the Deviants and Pink Fairies for sound clips from Mick Farren and the Deviants featuring former Motorhead drummer Philthy 'Animal' Taylor;past
and present members of the Damned - Rat Scabies and Brian James, and Captain Sensible and Monty Oxymoron; Wilko
Johnson Band; Clark Hutchinson; Darryl Read, John Perry, Adrian Shaw and Rod Goodway; Pink FA featuring Nik Turner
and Terry Ollis; John Sinclair and His Ladbroke Grove Blues Scholars (AKA George Butler and Slim Tim Slide) and
Felix Dennis. Further clips forthcoming from Jello Biafra and the Pink Finks themselves, plus other surprises
maybe!
For more details visit http://www.myspace.com/deviants_pinkfairies ---------------------------------- Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and the Pink Fairies by Rich Deakin with an introduction by Mick
So glad you liked it. Its funny, cos im not even sure if the album is going to be called that... its just one of the ideas that somebody heard and said that that was it...
...maybe we should stick with it? But no really, so nice to hear some feedback, after all, not many have even heard it yet...
Nice video, would almost be funny if you'd never heard of Jon Toshak, do you remember him? He's the former Cardiff City player who took the Swans to runners up spot in the old division 1, but then Cardiff supporters don't remember the old division 1 do they? No the only way Cardiff could get into division 1 was for the league to be reorganised so that division 1 was effectivley the 3rd division. And where are they now? The Coca Cola Championship, a league in a forgine country named after a soft drink.
Maybe they should sign Herman Hess as thier youth coach?
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