LET'S GET THIS BLOG BACK ON THE ROAD

Liverpools legendary Kop, watch out lads, the Blue Army is coming... calm down calm down

I was so pleased with myself, managing to keep this blog going for so long, updated on a regular basis. Things seem to have fallen by the wayside though. No point going into the reason for that, I am sure I have mentioned them before, but in an effort to kick-start some life back into this site, here is an A-Z of what is in my head this morning.

1. ANFIELD: Tickets have arrived today for Cardiff city’s first game against Liverpool in 50 odd years in the legendary (and soon to be demolished) scouse ground.
2. BEATRIX POTTER: Just watched her life story on DVD with my little un
3. CRUMPETS: What I wanted for breakfast this morning
4. DON BRADMANS: Got to get my head around writing up the interview I did with them in the summer
5. EATER: Ordered a CD by them ages ago and it has not arrived yet, must chase it up
6. FIRE: Off to Hay On Wye later for this years Hay on Fire
7. GRANGE END: Building work progressing on the new Cardiff City stadium, gonna miss the old one
8. HEMP COAT: had it 18 months now, bought it in Amsterdam, but it is so warm I have hardly worn it since… gonna wear it to Hay tonight
9. INTERVIEW: received notification this week that I have been short listed for a two day long interview in Brighton
10. JUICE IN MY HAND: Apple
11. KAVA KAVA: Downloaded Beats For Cheats EP this week
12. LONG WAY DOWN: Current book I am reading
13. MESS: The state on iguana HQ… it has GOT to be sorted!
14. NO IDEA why I am writing this
15. OPTIMISTIC: My mood… as it usually is
16. POLICE BASTARD: Back catalogue CD landed here recently, awesome
17. QUALITY TIME with Tara Iguana this weekend, gets better all the time
18. RESTARTS: Getting my head around reviewing latest CD
19. STRIKE: Awaiting result of strike ballot which closed yesterday
20. TOASTED BAGELS: What I had for breakfast.. Tara over ruled the crumpet idea
21. UNRELIABLE CAR KEY ZAPPER THING: doing my head in
22. VICIOUS POP: debut album by the Spectaculars landed this week.. needs a pronto review
23. WASTING TIME: Wring this list when I could be doing something on the main website… or tidying HQ even!
24. XENOPHOBIC… A one time friend that has been in touch today
25. Y-CANT Cardiff City keep a clean sheet?
26. ZION TRAIN REMIX; On the Kava Kava EP

ABNORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED... ONE DAY

Well…. It has been a long time has it not? I have not abandoned this blog, merely been busy doing things and not writing about them. The summer is now officially over, so theoretically I should have more time, but it don’t quite work like that.

The football season has started and there have been a few good away trips with Cardiff City already; and now that the festival season is almost over (Skanival still to come next weekend) indoor gigs are the order of the day again.

There is much to be done on the Peppermint Iguana website and I really should be concentrating on writing for that rather than blogging, but just by a way of letting you know we are still alive, here be a bit of a list of things that will be added to the web in the near future…..

Interview with Nick Turner, one time member of Hawkwind but now busy with a shed load of other musical projects (this one is going to be a long one, boy can he talk!)

Interview with Ozric Tentacles, contenders for out favourite band of all time, unfortunately not quite as talkative as Nik

Interview with The Don Bradmans, the champions of ‘Chap Rock’ and as it turns out mates of ours from previous bands we have worked with, such as Tofu Love Frogs and Headmix Collective

Review of Workhouse Festival… it was muddy! tales of mud, mud and more mud.

Review of Eastern Haze festival… it was a long way away and took forever to get to, but was worth it! Tales of backstage shenanigans, AOS3 slot being rearranged so many times we ended up missing it, meeting old friends from all over the country, the sun showing its face for the first time all summer and generally having a wonderful time. Ohh… and Chris Bowsher on stage with PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review of Big Green Gathering… a bit of a rip off for the punters really, but luckily we did not have to pay! Tales of running an anarchist stall, facilitating workshops, strikes by horse drawn travellers, vegan breakfasts, goblin gong baths, farm house cider and seeing Inner Terrestrials five times in four days.

Review of Endorse It In Dorset Festival… If was hot! Tales of factor 40 sun cream, cementing relationships from last year, kids losing milk teeth and the return of The Tofu Love Frogs.

Reviews of some books…. ‘The Hawkwind Saga’, ‘Diary of Teenage Punk Rocker’ (Autobiography of Andy Blade from Eater), 'Bash The Rich' (Autobiography of Ian Bone, founder of Class War)

Reviews of CDs, including…. Alabama 3, Sendelica, Scrap Records Punk Compilation, Broken, Powersteppers meet Molara, Temple Hedz, Sub Giant, Peyote Mothership, Babyhead, Smerin’s Anti Social Club, Citizen Fish/Left Over Crack, Rob Zombie, Undercover Hippy, the Symptoms, Police Bastard, the 2007 Endorse It In Dorset sampler …. and that’s just some of the new ones we have added to the collection over the summer.

On top of all this I am supposed to be redesigning the South Wales Anarchist website, bringing about the downfall of capitalism and saving the planet. If that was not enough, I am toying with the idea of writing a book! It’s a hard life. Could be worse, I could be sat watching the telly worrying about who to vote for in ‘Can’t sing, Wont Sing’

THE SUMMER THAT BLOGS FORGOT: Excuses for not posting

Ozric Tentacles @Eastern Haze

Why the lack of blog posts? To be honest, we have been so busy doing things we have not had time to write about them…. We aim to post some back dated blogs when we have five minutes, but this post is intended to give you a flavour of some of the things we have been up to.

"Now where did i put those wet wipes?"

Well, this definitely will be labelled the summer that the sun forgot. It has rained. Big Time. The Workhouse Festival was mud city; we had to get towed ON to the site. It did not dampen our spirits though and it was still a cracking festival. We were luckier with the Eastern Haze though, despite forecasts that East Anglia would catch it worse than the rest of the country, most of the weekend was spent in shorts and sunglasses. Our mate Sam was not quite so lucky, we received a text from her during the festival to say she had been flooded out in Gloucester.

"Taxi for Mr Blair!"

There have been several gigs, including AOS3 and Citizen Fish but most notably a trip down the Thames on a boat Sex Pistols stylee, to launch the Sick Note single ‘Taxi For Mr Blair’ on the day of Big Toe’s last day in Parliament.

Blogging has not been helped by the fact that we have finally have to admit we have over committed ourselves in good old cyber space. Now that the Peppermint Iguana website is on line we have given that top priority, so although we are not posting here, we are updating the website when we can, plus there’s the Myspace, plus the various message boards, plus the fact that we are trying to re-design the South Wales Anarchist site.

"Taxi for Mr Knevil!"

Add to all this things like Scott May’s Daredevil Stunt Show, the Caerphilly Big Cheese, The Welsh Cider Championships, the release of the Simpson’s Movie and trips to Llandudno and London with work and all in all you get BUSY. As we mentioned, we aim to do some back dated blog posts when we have five minutes, but not sure when that will be because we still have the Big Green Gathering and Endorse It In Dorset to come, not to mention the start of the football season!

REALLY FREE MAN: pSYchEDELic AND wEirD bLOGs

Have happened across some interesting psychedelic blogs of late, some of them with MPFREEs to download… check out …

http://fm-shades.blogspot.com/

http://tofuhaus.antville.org/

http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/

http://lost-in-tyme.blogspot.com/

http://ezhevika.blogspot.com/

http://chocoreve.blogspot.com/

http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/

http://www.curved-air.com/

http://jrfg.blogspot.com/

http://shapeless-fish-tribune.blogspot.com/index.html

http://evidenceof.blogspot.com/

And if you want SERIOUSLY Weird http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/

Many of these were pointed out to us by Colin Powerstepper… nice one you old fish

IGUANA VIDEO BLOG LAUNCHED

We have created yet another blog…. we have been sniffing around You Tube a lot lately and rather than clutter this blog up we have decided to create a PEPPERMINT IGUANA VIDEO BLOG. It will be fairly random, mixing politics, music and fun… plus anything else we like. We will TRY to do one a day, but we have chucked a handful up today to kick things off….