EDITION INTERVIEWS RECORD REVIEWS CLASSIC ALBUM POETRY CORNER LIVE REVIEWS GIG GUIDE NEWS / REVIEWS / GOSSIP / HISTORY / POLITICS SOUNDBOARD MAGAZINE • ISSUE 7 INSIDE... THE LOAD-IN . 4 RISING STARS – IFY IWOBI . 5 BEHIND THE SCENES – THE COVER SHOT . 7 SWANSEA FRINGE FESTIVAL 2019 . 8 CLASSIC WELSH ALBUM – NEUTRONS . 10 BLACK HISTORY MONTH . 11 LOST FROM THE SCENE – MARK MONTINARO . 11 PAGE 8 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – KELLY STEWART . 13 Here’s where you can pick up your POETRY CORNER – TRUDI PETERSEN . 15 copy of Magazine: ARTS REVIEW – MARK JAMES . 16 SOUNDBOARD SWANSEA NEATH CARMARTHEN TOM EMLYN . 17 Derrick’s Music The Music Shop Parrot Records RECORD REVIEWS . 18 Psicon Music (Neath Indoor Market) CARDIGAN Sin City LLANELLI The Cellar Bar LIVE REVIEWS . 21 National Waterfront Cadno Music CWMAMAN Museum GORSEINON Cwmaman Theatre NIGE . 22 Cinema & Co. 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Personal views Ifi Iwobi, Jeremy Gluck, Andy Boyt, expressed in SOUNDBOARD are not necessar- EDITORIAL TEAM Jonathan Nichols . ily those of the publisher . Whilst every care FLIPSY MCCAW, JOEL MORGAN is taken, we cannot take responsibility for PHOTOGRAPHY 2019 unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or CHIEF CULTURAL CORRESPONDENT Johan Butenschøn Skre, the shoddy appearance of any singer . JACK SOUNDS Helen Louise Banham, Raymonty Thompson, Mike Kennedy, Steve © 2019 SOUNDBOARD MAGAZINE LTD Manley, Graham Morse, Shutterstock, Cover Photography & Image: & Johan Butenschøn Skre Billy Stillman, Carl Connikie, Barry Hill WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER? SoundBoardMagazineUK We want to hear from you. Send us your submissions. Email us. Please and thank you. [email protected] THE LOAD-IN SOUNDBOARD • OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2019 WELCOME TO ISSUE #7 OF SOUNDBOARD MAGAZINE, YOU LOVELY, SWEET, KIND, CULTURED, TASTEFUL PEOPLE. WE MANAGED TO MAKE IT THROUGH A WHOLE YEAR. AND WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT THAT WOULD HAPPEN? THIS ISSUE SOMEONE HAD THE LUNATIC IDEA TO DO A SGT. PEPPER’S STYLE PHOTOSHOOT IT’S A LOVELY FEELING: BEING SAT HERE LAZY IN THE Luckily, we had those resources at our disposal, so here we LIGHT OF A SOFT MORNING SUN, TAPPING AWAY IDLY AT are, a year later, about to embark upon another Swansea Fringe THE KEYS OF THIS WRETCHED LAPTOP AGAIN; PRETEND- Festival debauch, where twenty stages of righteous music, art, ING TO WORK, BUT ALL THE WHILE REALLY JUST WATCH- comedy, poetry and god-knows-what else, will converge on ING OUT FOR THE SPARROWS THAT WHIP PAST MY WIN- Swansea like a travelling army. We’ve got all the details (well, DOW EVERY COUPLE OF MINUTES LIKE A SQUADRON OF not all, that would be impossible. Go to www.theswanseafri- TINY, FEATHERY FIGHTER JETS. nge.com for a COMPREHENSIVE guide) and an interview with Meep-Meep-Meep! Whup-whup-whup! They’re very hand- festival founder/Svengali/spiritual leader Joe Bayliss in these some to my eye, and I’d much rather watch them go about their very pages, and we’ll even be venturing out of our ivory tow- joyous aerial business than be writing this editorial, but I’m an ers in order to host a stage at Hanger 18 on the Friday night. adult and I have responsibilities, so no more about sparrows. After that we’ll be negotiating bulk discount on ill-fitting Apart from to say that we’ve got a flock of about twenty of tuxedos for the inaugural Sound Board Awards, being held at the little buggers living in the trees, bushes and in the eaves the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea on November of houses nearby – not ours, sadly – and they treat the area 9th. Yeah, we’re having an awards ceremony. Why not? Best directly outside my house as a cross between a farmers market Band, Best Album, Best Single, Best Live Act, Best Solo Artist, et and a flight training zone. They’ve been here for about two cetera and so on. The whole kit and caboodle. Bad jokes and months now, and I’ve grown very fond of watching them; malfunctioning auto-cues. We figure it’s the perfect way to I like to imagine various factions in the flock having Wacky celebrate another great year for music in our fair city, and we Races-esque rivalries with each other, and then all going off intend to hold it every year from now on. So, put it in your on mysterious adventures together. diaries. I know I have. What else is in there? Oh yeah – it’s But I’m an odd soul who missed a lot of sleep, so you’ll my birthday in a fortnight and the Rugby World Cup right in have to forgive me my eccentricities; it’s too late to do any- the middle of everything else. Morning games, too. Oh, Jesus. thing about them now, anyway, the die has been cast and the And I have two weddings to go to. Oh, my life and my wallet time has passed, and – according to Bob Dylan – those who and my liver. Pray for me. were first will later be last. Good old mumbling Bob. I find As far as the awards are concerned, what we need from you that, in these troubled times, I’m turning to Bob, old Bob, – the public – are NOMINATIONS. It’s no good us sitting here 1963-Huckleberry Finn-Bob, more and more often; maybe it’s and saying what WE like. We want to know what YOU like. about hearing echoes from a more hopeful time, or maybe Contact us on Facebook or email: flipsy.soundboardmagazine@ I’m just a romantic musical dinosaur. gmail.com. Then we’ll hand over your nominations to ten care- Now I’m imagining a romantic dinosaur getting ready for fully selected and wholly-impartial judges drawn from musi- a date: shining his scales; checking his claws; looking in his cally-inclined business owners and other local luminaries, who dinosaur mirror and singing his dinosaur songs. between them – over coffee and arguments – will pick the win- Right! That’s enough! FOCUS. No tangents ‘til the middle ners. Then the winners get a tasteful little prize on the night, as or the end, bub. Never at the front. Remember the rules. well as the opportunity to give a misjudged and well-lubricated So welcome to Issue #7 of SoundBoard Magazine. Who’d speech in front of an audience of their peers. What could pos- have thought that would happen? Not me, certainly. Not by sibly go wrong in that scenario? I can’t think of a single thing. a long bloody chalk; I thought we’d have gone down in a hail Elsewhere in this issue you’ll find the usual mix of reviews, pre- of ignominy, failure and vicious accusations, right after Issue views, interviews and columns from our regular and irregular con- #2. Heh. I’m only joking, kids; I had every faith that, despite tributors, as well as the ever-popular (and usually quite profane) us being a bunch of nobodies, we’d manage to win out and Roboscopes and the hammy-based adventures of our favourite rev- save the day. It’s a matter of drive. And chance, of course. And olutionary pug, Pedro. One day we shall all bow down to his mag- having a lot of people willing to work hard for no salary or nificence, the workers shall break free of their chains, and there’ll reward beyond the occasional pint washed down with lash- be adequate hammy for everyone. Vive la raza. Patrone Pedro. ings and lashings of prestige. We hope you liked the CD on the front #6. It was appar- ently very much sought after, so we apologise to anyone who couldn’t get hold of a copy. It’ll be on the streaming sites very F***-UPS... soon, so follow us on Facebook for updates on that score. We HERE AT SOUNDBOARD HQ WE AIM TO BE AS weren’t really sure how we were going to top that for this ACCURATE AS WE CAN, BUT WE’RE HUMAN AND issue, but then someone (Hi Mike!) had the lunatic idea to SOMETIMES WE MAKE MISTAKES. ask anyone who’d been involved in music in the city over the last fifty years to turn up to the Grand Theatre for a Sgt. Sorry to TOM EMLYN for (ho ho) ACCIDENTALLY using a pic that Pepper’s style photoshoot.