Author Archives: Jarrett

The Cardiff based male/female duo create harmonic, beautifully constructed music which both inspires and uplifts with more than a hint of the spirit of 1970s Laurel Canyon/ West Coast California singer/songwriters.

Zervas & Pepper join the wave of bands committed to song craft that both entertain and engage their audience. They find company in bands such [...]

Nigel Jarrett, according to Martin Amis, is someone he’s never heard of. Despite phone calls to all three, Julian Barnes, Germaine Greer and Clive James also admitted not having come across him or his work. To put this quartet of nobodies out of their misery (revise if they ring back -NJ), Nigel Jarrett won the [...]

Poet, musician and songwriter Rhian Edwards was born in Bridgend, Mid-Glamorgan. In her performance career, she has racked up over 300 stage and radio performances worldwide, including the Verb, BBC Radio 3, Latitude, Green Man, Ledbury, Ruigoord and Laugharne Literary Festival, as well as playing with her band at the Jazz Cafe, Camden Barfly, The [...]

Kai Lena is an emerging artist from the North West of England with a growing fan base. A forest pixie in essence whirlygigging around with vocal melodies and soaring piano and experimentation. Mermerizing and enchanting her audiences wherever she goes with her melodic tales and messages, she gets under your skin and alerts you to [...]

Holly Muller is an unpublished writer and postgraduate student at the University of Glamorgan, enrolled on the MPhil in Writing. She is currently working on her debut novel in between the day job and pool hustling. She also sings and plays violin in the band Hail! The Planes. Holly will be showing off her [...]

FACTS
Jamie Neasom is a relatively average size human male who has a face, arms, legs etc. He occasionally emits a soft hum in moments of changing atmospheric pressure or general tension, and uses his flexible limbs to signal distress or joy.
He is located in Cardiff at grid reference ST 1938 7731.
With little training he [...]

This is what The Joy Collective said about them in 2009.
‘What place do bands like Cats & Cats & Cats spring from? Hard to believe there was a group meeting where someone said “Let’s write songs that flit between shouty post rock, thumping waltz number, jinking indie and clattering noise every thirty seconds, with [...]

Delta Sleep hail from Canterbury, their music combines guitar driven melodies, held together by jazz influenced percussion and relentless bass, topped with sprinkles of left-field electronica. To coin Delta Sleep’s sound is a hard task indeed, but has once been described by a wise old man as an “enchanted battle between At The Drive-In and [...]

Richard Owain Roberts has two stories in the forthcoming Parthian Books anthology, Nu2, out in July this year. He blogs HERE. He lives in Cardiff. He is writing a novel. He is a stand up guy with many relevant skillsets.

Effort are a two-piece (duo sounds wrong) that are relative newcomers to the Cardiff music scene in this guise but veterans in their own right. Frost plays guitar and keyboards for The Automatic and Jen Long presents BBC Introducing In Wales on Radio One.
The band were formed in 2010. In early 2011 the band recorded [...]

“Kong might just be the best band in Britain right now. Ferociously powerful, stunningly inventive, and equal doses of scary and humorous.” Dirtyzine
Kong is not a name chosen by accident. It does not describe an effeminate collection of callow fuckers thrust together by a desire to look plucked or sound eager to please.
All are/were/shall [...]

Byron in his own words:
In this section I will be talking in the third person about how I’m well awesome and properly big time.
You heard me, not only will I be bragging, but I’ll be doing it whilst referring to my self as an entirely separate entity. I am utterly convinced that this is [...]

Brandyman comprise three members of Cardiff’s musical undergrowth: ex-Truckers Of Husk and FTSE100 man Ben Woods plays guitar, lankily; Matt Thomas, escapee from Joy Of Sex, is an equally good looking guitarist; while DC Gates, one half of Gindrinker and beloved as Billy The Seal round these parts takes up distressed caterwauling and acerbic one [...]

Chris Killen was born in 1981. He currently lives in Manchester. His first novel, The Bird Room, published by Canongate Books, is out now.
here are some blurbs:
‘Chris Killen’s first novel is either disturbingly brilliant or brilliantly disturbing. Whichever, I loved it.’ STEVEN HALL, author of The Raw Shark Texts
‘The Bird Room is [...]

This fantastic double bill marks an overdue return to South Wales for husband and wife team Steve Dawson and Diane Christiansen who have been singing, writing, and recording together for well over a decade. They’ve performed to capacity audiences and critical raves all over the U.S. and Europe as a duo, and with their band, [...]

Magnolia Summer is a St. Louis-based rock band that has a rolling cast of members who also do double time in other bands (such as Grace Basement and the Bottle Rockets). Centered around singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, Chris Grabau, Magnolia Summer has released three records (via Undertow Music) to critical acclaim.
Over the years, Magnolia Summer has toured throughout [...]

Opening the gig will be a short solo acoustic set from The Doublecross’ main player Jon Greenwood, a man so respected around the Cardiff area that he had more than 20 of Wales’ finest musicians play on his album Things Will Never Change. Springsteen, Hot Water Music, Evan Dando and Walter Schriefels influence his gruff, [...]

Simone Felice is a celebrated songwriter, author, and poet. Simone was born in 1976 in Palenville, New York, and grew up there along the creek that rushes down from the Kaaterskill Falls. Considered one of America’s natural wonders in the nation’s youth, this hidden Catskill Mountain waterfall attracted early landscape painters, transcendental philosophers, and [...]

Jeb Loy Nichols is an artist, writer and musician living a sustainable life in Wales. ‘Strange Faith And Practice’ is his new album.
Since moving to the UK from his native America and finding himself living in an East End squat with Neneh Cherry, Adrian Sherwood and Ari Up from the Slits, Jeb has variously been [...]

Deer Park is a rock n roll band based in London but from all over. Our debut record is out now. It features guest appearances from Paul Megna (The Oxygen Ponies), Randi Russo, Mark Andrew Hamilton (Woodpigeon) and Tom Lewis (Stagecoach). It was produced by Paul Hollingsworth and mastered by Billy Stull (Okkervil River, Midlake, [...]