2007

December

A Very Cherry Christmas!

Neil Jones on a Pop Miwsig Christmas

Sipping On The Sweet Nectar

Neil Jones on a week of live music with Jens Lekman, Shrag, Josh Rouse and King Alexander

November

Affection and Swearwords, Banjos and Ukuleles

Neil Jones on The Bobby McGee's, The School, Their Hearts Were Full of Spring and Bobby Conn at the inaugural Swn festival

Wake The President - Remember Fun?

Neil Jones on new realease by Wake The President

Let's Wrestle - I Won't Lie to You

Neil Jones on new release by Let's Wrestle

Mi Vida Loca

Rocio Flores in a blaze of colour at Tijuana's Festival de la Ciudad

Back to Abraxxus

Neil Jones argues against morality in modern music

The Bobby McGee's - S'Amuser Com des Fous EP

Neil Jones on The Bobby McGee's new release

October

Where There's Loneliness, There's Romance

Neil Jones on new releases from Ladybug Transistor, Yea Big + Kid Static, Radio Luxembourg and Frightened Rabbit

Political Confusion: Cocktail no. 44

Paul Griffiths on a psychedelic cocktail at the Old Orleans

Dance and Love a Little

Neil Jones juxtaposes Malik’s Days of Heaven and Godard’s Une Femme est une femme and draws lines to modern indiepop  

Punches of Love

Paul Griffiths on Country legend Jim White and Jenny Owen Youngs at The Point, Cardiff

The Loves - One-Two-Three

Neil Jones on new release by The Loves

Shocking Pinks - End of the world

Neil Jones on new release by Shocking Pinks

Where are the Kids for the Pop Show?

Neil Jones with a Pop Miwsig October Mix

New Radio Slot

Pop Miwsig on Pennsylvanian college radio

Zoey Van Goey - Foxtrot Vandals

Neil Jones on a new release by Zoey Van Goey

Charleston House Party

New album by Yea Big + Kid Static

September

Twee as F***

Neil Jones on Pete and the Pirates, Silence at Sea, and the last performances at the 2007 Red Violin Festival

Silence at Sea

Neil Jones on Silence At Sea at Clwb

Out like the sun

Neil Jones on The Go! Team, Operator Please, Santa Dog, The National Orchestra of Wales and a week of South-West discovery

The Donnas - Bitchin (Cooking Vinyl)

Neil Jones on new release by The Donnas

PJ Harvey - When Under Ether (Island)

Neil Jones on new release by PJ Harvey

Bishi - Never seen your face (Gryphon)

Neil Jones on new release by Bishi

On With The Dance

Returning home from festival season

Pop Pillaging in the Countryside

Neil Jones on Darren Hayman, Jens Lekman, Scout Niblett and I'm from Barcelona at Salisbury's End of the Road

Waking the Ghosts

Neil Jones on blue psychedelic suits, Thomas Truax, Brakes, Fanfarlo and Idlewild at Oxfordshire's Truck

August

In Behind the Dance Stage

Neil Jones on streetwise Gregarian monks, Manic Cough, The Loves, Mr Huw and Magic Numbers at Carmarthen's Gwyl Macs

Apollo's Rainbow

Neil Jones on roadkill auctions, Flipron, and all the magic of Shambala 2007

Dreaming of Dorset

The 8th in Miwsig's summer festival series looks ahead to Salisbury's pastoral/indie feast, End of the Road

Not Willing to Leave the Visual World

Life Without Buildings lyrics

Surrealist Shadows in the Park

Neil Jones on Radio Luxembourg, The Research, Tim Ten Yen and Death at Margam Park's Tapestry Goes West

Roman Emperors, Proper Welsh Indie and stuff: The rough guide to Wales

The 7th in Miwsig’s summer festival series takes in Carmarthen’s Gwyl Macs

Where the Wild Things Are

Richard Bowen on Prinzehorn Dance School, I'm From Barcelona, Mia Riddle and Of Montreal at Huntingdon's Secret Garden Party

It Ended Here and Started There

Neil Jones on The Besties, The School, Silence at Sea and A Smile and a Ribbon at O’Neill’s, Cardiff

The Modern Lovers

Neil Jones on the inaugural Indietracks festival at the Midlands Railway Centre, Butterley, Derbyshire

July

Tijuana: The City of Eternal Thoughts

Miwsig’s Rocio Flores on her Mexican homeland

Indietracks - an indiepop festival with steam trains headlined by Darren Hayman

Golden Bowlie quotes

Hope and Visions

Neil Jones on Daniel Johnston at The Point, Cardiff

A Different Wave

Ronnie Parry on the 15th annual Sessiwn Fawr in Dolgellau

June

Heartbeats and Wanderlust

Rachael Neiman on Das Wanderlust at the Ritz Ballroom, Manchester

Building Blocks and Breathing Flames

Paul Griffiths inhales large Cuban cigars and juggles pedestrians to the White Stripes' Icky Thump

Tea Dancing by the Lake

The 6th in Miwsig's summer festival series takes in Northamptonshire's unique Shambala

I Quite Like a Bit of Drizzle

Neil Jones on returning to this world

Post Punk Fellini Expressionist Wonder

Neil Jones on The Voices at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach

Running to the Sea

Diana Hoagland on the educational journey of Truffaut’s Les 400 Coups/The 400 Blows

Postcard and Envelopes

Neil Jones on Envelopes, Good Shoes and The Moths at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach

The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?

Neil Jones on new release by The Young Playthings

A Magical Poignancy

Neil Jones on Life Without Buildings' Live at the Annandale Hotel

Tangnets, a History

Tangents, a formidable narrative of the Pop underground

Heartfelt Journeys and Swamp Missions

Paul Griffiths on Nina Nastasia, Richard Swift and Adem at Cardiff's The Point

A Dissolute Smile and Charming Aside

The fifth in Miwsig's summer festival series takes in Huntingdon's Secret Garden Party

Green Dreams

Poetry by Diana Hoagland

Fanfarlo - Fire Escape

Neil Jones on new release by Fanfarlo

May

Yea Big + Kid Static - The Heavy 7"

Neil Jones on new release by Yea Big + Kid Static

Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! / It Started with a Mixx

Neil Jones on new release by Los Campesinos!

My Sad Captains - Bad Decisions

Neil Jones on new release by My Sad Captains

Operator Please - Just a Song About Ping Pong EP

Neil Jones on new release by Operator Please

It's the Same - It's insane

Neil Jones on The Apples in Stereo, Pagan Wanderer Lu and Homescience at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach

Long-Haired Giants and Beautific Pop Kids

The fourth in Miwsig's summer festival series takes in Port Talbot's Tapestry Goes West

Rainbows Through Clouds

Neil Jones on The Electric Pop Group's Popgirly

Interprid Inspiration

Neil Jones on The Little Ones at Cardiff Coal Exchange

Dogboy Vs Monsters

Neil Jones on Flipron in the Rhondda's Maindy Con

Bobby Conn at Clwb

Neil Jones on Bobby Conn live at Clwb

Screaming Tea Party - Death Egg

Neil Jones on new release by Screaming Tea Party

Plant Duw at Clwb

Paul Griffiths on Plant Duw at Clwb

Catch the Train to Indiepopland!

You have to see this! The third in Miwsig’s summer festival series takes a look at Derbyshire’s ace Indie Tracks

Pure Punk Goodness

Rachael Neiman on Partyline, Trouble Vs Glue, Vile Vile Creatures and Bobby-Haired Bandits at Manchester’s Retro Bar

Instant Pop Thrills

Rachael Neiman on Hotpants Romance

New Punk Apple Throwing

David D Unpopular with a matrimonial dream

Beautifully Twisted

The absurd, bizarre and the pure genius Episode 1: Moondog by Paul Griffiths

Twangy Cow-Punk Spaghetti Magic

Ellie Harwood on The Sadies at St Bonaventures, Bristol

April

Fliprrrrron!

So now's the time to shout it: M*w**g presents Flipron at the (decadent) Maindy Con, Ton Pentre on May the 18th!!!

The Sleeping Pixie

Terry the Pixie jumps aboard the Cinematic Orchestra by Paul Griffiths

The Nobler Edge

The Second in Miwsig’s Summer Festival series takes in Suffolk’s Latitude

Pop Justice

Rachael Neiman on the first two Shrag singles

Hills So Green/A Tan So Red

David D Unpopular with a brief rallying call from the valleys

The Devil and the Fiddler

Roll up, roll up and let us enter the Mean fiddler world.

Are You Real/Shy Kid?

shivers down the spine...

John Evans - Workshop

The man responsible for the vocal terror of ‘Tax Exiles'

Fruits and Griffnurs

Neil Jones on meeting John Evans

Picnic on Pluto

Neil Jones on recent listening and the first intrepid journey of the Pop Miwsig Disco

The Battle of M

Paul Griffiths visits the Merthyr Media Project

Gruff, Flipron, free drinks, and whatever else is happening tonight...

All this going on near you

The Green Man Festival

The first in Miwsig's Summer festival series looks at Brecon's burgeoning Green Man.

Envelopes - Smoke in the Desert, Eating the Sand/Hide in the Grass

Neil Jones on new release by Envelopes

Joan As A Police Woman - Flushed Chest

Neil Jones on new release by Joan As A Police Woman

Pop Levi

Pop Levi Live at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff.

Apollo and Dionysus in Rural Wales, The Laugharne Weekend

Paul Griffiths on The Laugharne Weekend

March

The Roots of Reality

Ronnie Parry toasts Don Letts, Meic Stevens and a grand weekend in Laugharne

Sexy, Cool, Romantic and, You Know a Little Bit... Fucked Up

Neil Jones with Howling Bells at The Point

Talkers at Gigs: By categorisation

John D Traynor on the finer points of gig etiquette

So Many Feathers

Neil Jones on Au Revoir Simone's The Bird of Youth

Bellies of Fire

Paul Griffiths on The Fall at The Point

Radio Luxembourg

Neil Jones on Radio Luxembourg

Why I love Country music - and So Should You...

Silver Spurs' Ellie Harwood on the merits of an idiotically maligned genre

Check Your Sheds Check Your Sheds I Think I've Lost My Mind!

Neil Jones sees Half Man Half Biscuit grace the hallowed spires of The Point

Flaming limbs on the Front Line

Neil Jones on Foals and Attack and Defend at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

February

Leigh Edwards

Caressing the kindness of the wind swept rain.

Death of a Turd

Paul Griffiths on Damien Hurst

Idlewild

When the hell did Idlewild become uncool?

Voxtrot

Neil Jones on Voxtrot

You Make Me Want to Measure Stars in the Backyard

Neil Jones on discovering Au Revoir Simone

Fuck me, it's Peppermint Patti!

Manic Cough and Ebony Bones play Peppermint Patti at Chapter Arts (Paul Griffiths)

The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me

Neil Jones on The Loves at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach

On the road, Venus Elixir

"... one night we suddenly went mad together again...." by Paul Griffiths

Jimi Hendrix Covers the Arctic Monkeys!

Paul Griffiths on a dubious discovery

CSS- Yes!

Paul Griffiths on the '07 NME Indie Rave Tour at Cardiff University Great Hall. February 11th, 2007

Metal Detecting Shamans: Gruff Rhys - Candylion

Ronnie Parry raises a glass to our Gruff's solo gem.

Bogart, Sinatra, and Herman Dune

Neil Jones sees Pop’s greatest family distil years of Northern magic.

Father Ted Shenanigans

Paul Griffiths on Tedfest 07 (oh yes)

January

Mathematical Perfection

Neil Jones on an erotic business interaction at the Barfly

Planting seeds: The Merthyr Media Project

Darren Weaver on the Merthyr Media Project, January 2007

Back to the Future: Fragments and Fairytales

Miwsig's Neil Jones looks forward to a 2007 steeped in the values of ’06.

Love Me Do: A Robin Hood story: The Con Artists at Cwmparc

Neil Jones on a night of Valleys' magic

Bubbling Dreamscape Sounds

Paul Griffiths on the Super Furry Animals

Croeso Y Cymru: Kaleidoscopic Havens

Neil Jones on the latest Welsh pop intrigues

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