Swn Day #1
Holy shit, last night was incredible. The most fun we’ve had in AGES. Proper blog post about our stage next week sometime, but just wanted to say a huge thanks to the bands that played, all of whom were mindblowing, and everyone who came down to Dempseys. It was pretty busy all night, and the … Read more
Swn festival preview – Samoans and Yucatan
Amidst all the frantic last minute preparations for our Swn stage we’ve got a tad behind with the previews. Our grasp of the English language is declining in parallel with lack of sleep, but here are a few words about the last two bands playing our stage (probably not in actual coherent sentences, but still): Samoans Samoans have been … Read more
How Swn is Now
BOOM! Here it is: The product of hours of cutting, folding, sticking and burning (CDs that is, introducing fire to the production line would’ve been relatively counter productive). Last night felt reminiscent of evenings spent making mix CDs for girls, the key difference being that this time we were making mix CDs for 50 girls. And some … Read more
Swn Festival Preview – Among Brothers
Third on, we’ll actually be taking to the stage ourselves at 10pm as Among Brothers. To dispel any notions of big-headedness we should probably clarify we didn’t pick ourselves to play our own stage as Swn! It just made sense to have us play Dempseys as opposed to elsewhere to minimise rushing around – we’re … Read more
Swn Festival Preview – Right Hand Left Hand
Second up we have the instrument swappin’, loop pedal playin’ Right Hand Left Hand, on at 8:45pm. Members Rhodri and Bernie have played in some of finest bands to come out of fair city (including Vito and Ratatosk), and RHLH sees them indulging their math-ier inclinations. Impressive on record and infinitely more so live, save yourself … Read more
Swn Festival Preview – KUTOSIS
The first band on the Barely Regal-curated Swn stage at Dempseys on Thursday 21st October are Cardiff’s KUTOSIS. Each time we’ve seen KUTOSIS play has been better than the last, and we’re sure that Swn will be no exception. If you haven’t seen them already, you’ve missed some amazing shows! I hear that they also … Read more
Probably speaking too soon here, but…
In a shocking first for us, all thing Barely Regal seem to be running to schedule. If this worrying trend continues it looks like we’re actually going to be fully prepared in plenty of time for Swn. Flyers are ordered, emails have been sent, caffeine products bulk bought, and soon we’ll be able to start … Read more
South By South Wales
As if we haven’t mentioned this enough already, another reminder here that we’ve been kindly asked by the Swn team to curate a stage at Dempseys on the Thursday night of Swn festival (October 21st). All the times for all stages/bands on the Thursday night are up on Swn’s Facebook page, but as far as our … Read more
Strange News From Another Blog
As promised in our previous blog post, we’ve set up a blog specifically for the Strange News From Another Star/Samoans split release: http://www.snfasvssamoans.com Heavily considered putting that link in gigantic, flashing letters in an effort to get more clickthroughs, but decided to keep it small and unassuming instead (the marketing equivalent of ‘playing hard to get’). … Read more
