Happy Winter Villains album release day!
The day is finally upon us – following their sold-out show at Chapter in Cardiff on Saturday night, Winter Villains incredible debut album “February” is out today both on digital and digital download! It’s been a good while in the planning – we were originally going to release the record last September, but decided to … Read more
New shows – Hail! the Planes, Best Friends, Hop Along…
After two relatively successful gigs at The Old Blue Last back in January (thanks to everyone that came out to see Birthmark and 1994!), we’re fully back on promoting shows. We’ve already announced four shows between now and the end of May, and still have several more than we’re confirming line-ups for as we speak, so … Read more
Welcome to the team – Jen Moseley!
Leaving Cardiff for the bright lights of London was a difficult decision for us. On the one hand, we were pretty excited to be moving because of the new opportunities it presented, but on the other hand leaving behind the thriving music scene in Cardiff and all of friends that we’d grown up with, both … Read more
Welcome to the family: Without Maps
It seems like 2013 is the year where we get committal, finally bringing bands into the fold that have been unofficially a part of the Barely Regal family for a good while now. Nottingham lads Without Maps maybe haven’t been on our radar for quite as long as our last “signing”, Theo, but they’ve been a … Read more
Winter Villains – “The Air” out today!
So the first of two very exciting bits of news we have for you this week – Winter Villains new single “The Air” is out today! The second single from their debut album, February (which will be out this April), it’s yet another song by the melancholy lads and lasses that leaves you wondering how … Read more
Without Maps On Tour
Without Maps are hitting the road next month with the excellent Bloody Mammals next month for a string of dates around the UK. You can catch them at the following fine rock music establishments: Fri 31 – CARDIFF – Clwb Ifor Bach w/ The Summer Breeze Sat 1 – EXETER – The Cavern w/ Abel … Read more
Looking Forward To 2010
As you can see 2010 will involve, among other things, more bad photoshopping. 2010 and the years following look to be pretty important for the music industry. There look to be a lot of changes in terms of the way the industry works, and hopefully some answers to the various questions 2009 threw up (“are … Read more
Joegazi
This weekend was a productive one, so we’ve got a few bits of exciting news. First and foremost, the first few tracks from bands for the compilation arrived safely into the Barely Regal inbox, and with more tracks in transit as we speak we can (at long last) start blogging about who’ll be on the cd later this … Read more





