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EDITORIAL ........................... 3 ADVERTISING FEATURE – PSICON MUSIC ...... 5 RISING STARS – LAUREN REED ............... 5 The Rise and Rise of the THE RISE AND RISE OF THE SMALL FESTIVAL . 7 CLASSIC WELSH ALBUM – ANDY COLLINS ..... 10 QUICK INTERVIEW – CADNO MUSIC LIVE ....... 11 OBITUARY – JOHN CORBETT ................ 11 Small Festival ARTIST IN RESIDENCE ................. 13 PAGE 7 VENUE FEATURE – ELYSIUM ............... 14 POETRY CORNER – ELEANOR SHAW .......... 15 THE COVER INTERVIEW – TAURUS 1984 ...... 16 RECORD REVIEWS .................... 18 Here’s where you can pick up your LIVE REVIEWS ....................... 21 copy of SOUNDBOARD Magazine: NIGE ............................... 22 SWANSEA LLANELLI Derrick’s Music Cadno Music OH PEDRO .......................... 22 Psicon Music GORSEINON Sin City Spider Music ROOBEH TOM EMLYN – .................. 23 National Waterfront Museum MERTHYR GIG GUIDE – JUNE & JULY ................. 24 Cinema & Co. 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Whilst every care FLIPSY MCCAW, JOEL MORGAN Thompson, Jacob Winter, James is taken, we cannot take responsibility for Weaver, Graham Morse, Shutterstock, unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or CHIEF CULTURAL CORRESPONDENT Johan Butenschøn Skre, the shoddy appearance of any singer. JACK SOUNDS Billy Stillman. © 2019 SOUNDBOARD MAGAZINE LTD Cover Photograph: Johan Butenschøn Skre. WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER? Sound Board Magazine We want to hear from you. Send us your submissions. Email us. Please and thank you. [email protected] EDITORIAL SOUNDBOARD • JUNE/JULY 2019 WELCOME TO THE FIFTH ISSUE OF SOUND BOARD MAGAZINE, KIDS! THIS MONTH WE’VE GOT ALL THE USUAL NEWS, REVIEWS, FEATURES, COLUMNS AND CONTRIBUTORS, PLUS A SHORT AND EXTREMELY DI- GRESSIVE GUIDE TO SOME OF THE MANY, MANY SMALL MUSIC FESTI- VALS CROPPING UP IN OUR PART OF THE WORLD AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, TOSSED IN LIKE A WELL-SUCKED LEMON AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE BY JACK SOUNDS. THAT OLD, UNRELIABLE, DEVIOUS ROGUE. THE WORLD FEELS LIKE IT HAS ITS VOLUME TURNED UP VERY, VERY HIGH AT THE MINUTE. HELLO ALL. HOW THE DEVIL ARE ing by the good people of the Welsh hip establishments where they charge YOU? COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR Riviera and its surrounding landscapes. five quid a pint and advertise the wifi ‘EW BEFORE WE BEGIN: 1) ARE YOU So, commune with your inner cat, password on the front door; you know SITTING COMFORTABLY? 2) DO YOU boys and girls. Look around you, dis- the kind of place? I think I heard the HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED? IF dainfully; wash your paws in a distract- word ‘vintage’ within seven or eight NOT, GO AND GET A BREW ON, OR ed manner and settle down for a good seconds of sitting down in their art- GET ANOTHER CUSHION OR A BIS- purr. I spent a very happy half hour fully ramshackle beer garden, and I’d CUIT OR A SHERBET FOUNTAIN OR A the other day watching a cat and two bet a case of Grolsch and a well-cooked CAN OF ORANJEBOOM OR WHATEVER magpies engaged in a short, intense war chicken that at least one of their spe- ELSE YOU FANCY; IT’S OK, I’LL WAIT. over a pack of over-ripe mince that I cials is served on some kind of recepta- After all, if you’re going to take time dumped in my back garden rather than cle other than a plate. out of your day to read our happy lit- throw out. It was better than any soap However, despite my hypocritical tle publication, then you might as well opera, telling you. I was laid up in a cynicism, one of the advantages of be comfortable whilst you’re doing it, chair watching the show, with a good these places is they tend to leave you right? Why not? fire burning and my beloved cwtched the hell alone after you’ve handed the Welcome to the fifth issue of Sound up next to me. Bliss. cash; and that’s what I really want, Board Magazine, kids! This month I, personally, am not particularly these days: some kind of quiet soli- we’ve got all the usual news, reviews, cwtchy at the minute though, hidden tude; a safe haven from my storms... features, columns and contributors, away in my quarter-built living room, because... because the world feels like plus a short and extremely digressive surrounded by bikes, guitars, laminate it has it’s volume turned up very, very guide to some of the many, many small offcuts and boxes full of bubble wrap; high at the minute, and a soft, sopo- music festivals cropping up in our part the smell of coffee, tobacco, mortar and rific sojourn through a dreamy af- of the world at this time of year, tossed bike oil fills the air as I frantically tap ternoon of beer, chorizo and tasteful in like a well-sucked lemon at the very away (late, always) on this wretched music, being piped gently through last minute by Jack Sounds. That old, laptop, which is balanced on top of hidden speakers, holds a strong ap- unreliable, devious rogue. a speaker cabinet (Marshall 2x12, if peal to the jaundiced middle-aged lib- Putting together this issue has been you’re interested) in front of me, next erals amongst us. I might finally un- a typically herculean task, and I’d like to my defiantly-muted phone and the derstand why my parents’ generation to take this opportunity to offer sincere assorted paraphernalia of my perennial abandoned politics for a greasily-aspi- thanks to all those who have contribut- bad habits. rational world of buy-to-let mortgages ed, advised, lobbied or otherwise worked This chair could do with some work. and misplaced moral superiority, but I heroically to bring you the publication No good for at all for a tall man, this. still dream of a better world. you hold in your hands; it hasn’t always My back. My back and my neck. My Ah, dreams and reveries; reveries and been an easy road, I know, but it’s a back and my neck and my back and dreams. We all have dreams. I dream of damn sight easier one to walk when you my... never mind. Perhaps I’ll move this the day they put a beer garden in The look around and see so many fine and whole impromptu office, lock stock and Brunswick, for instance; or the day that (mostly) sensible people, putting their biscuit barrel, down to some dark, seedy the foul people who let their dogs crap shoulders to the same wheel. corner of some dark, seedy, nearby pub, all over the pavements in Mount Pleas- Indeed, in spite of the relentless ob- and see if I can’t cure my physical dis- ant are forced to clean up their animals’ stacles thrown at us by a callow and comfort with a few tasty jars of the ol’ disgusting leavings using only a soggy uncaring world, we’ve managed once amber dummy-juice. You got to take paper cup and their bare hands. again to wade through the rivers of dis- your comfort where can you find it, af- traction, personal devilment and shift- ter all; and, if you can’t find it, light out It’s good to dream. ing printing costs, in order to deliver after it with a big stick. But better to do. Right? a fully-loaded and hopefully entertain- Yes. And that’s what I did in the end. I ing swing through some of the myriad chucked the laptop in a bag and ambled cultural delights being coaxed into be- down the hill to one of those achingly- JACK SOUNDS 3 ADVERTISING FEATURE – PSICON MUSIC SOUNDBOARD • JUNE/JULY 2019 RISING STARS IIIII LAUREN REED When Cranes finally closed its doors earlier this year it was a sad day 24-year-old for Swansea. Following in the footsteps of John Ham, Picton Music, photography Wilkes and DrumNutt they left the city centre without a music shop and Swansea musicians without a place to hang out and buy their essentials. sensation, Lauren Reed from Ebbw Vale, That is, until Conrad Mason-Davies & Si- now’s the time to do it, or we never will. has been making waves in the mon Jones decided enough was enough, MK: So what will you guys we offering? Welsh valleys with her stunning took up residence above Derrick’s Music CMD: A selection of guitars, amps, PAs, images of live bands. and opened up Psicon Music. The rest strings, pedals and accessories.