Month: October 2022

In the mid-80s, Wiltshire-based punk bands Subhumans, Organised Chaos and AHeads all called it a day and members of each got together to create Culture Shock, who brought a refreshing original blend of reggae-driven bass, roller-coasting drums and punked up ska guitar to an alternative scene that welcomed their original combination of danceable tunes and…

One of our favourite acts returns to The Lost ARC for IVW 2023. Captain Accident is a reggae/ska/soul artist who creates a unique blend of rock-driven soulful roots reggae, ska, dub and rocksteady at his home studio in Cardiff. This sound is then brought to life on stage with the help of The Disasters –…

The Bug Club are self-described as “three groovy peas in a far out pod”, a three piece based in Caldicot, South Wales who play jangly, uplifting garage-rock. Following support from the likes of BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley for debut single ‘We Don’t Need Room For Lovin’, the Welsh trio’s star is still rising with debut…

Harriet Earis is a classically trained harper, reaching Grade 8 with Distinction on concert pedal harp. Asked to join a London-Irish band in her gap year, she had a religious conversion to trad music and has never looked back since. She is now considered one of the foremost exponents of the Celtic harp in the…

Exploding Cinema was founded in 1991 in a bunker at the back of a squat – a disused sun tan oil factory in Brixton. At that time it was a gathering of media misfits rejected by the ‘Independent’ film/video establishment who decided that rather than griping about the messed up state of the industry they…