Ivan has made quite an impression on live music fans in his adopted city of Cardiff in recent months, gaining attention from BBC Radio Wales DJs and Radio 6 new music champion Tom Robinson along the way. The Mine Canary EP captures the world weary ache that flows through Ivan’s songs, delivered with a trademark vocal tenderness that demonstrates an intriguing maturity and intelligence of a young man finding his own way in the world.
Cardiff based duo Laura and Gareth make lovely acoustic lo-fi pop which they wouldn't be ashamed to call just a little 'twee'.
Local Sports Team are a hard working rock band, heading for the top.
Purple Spiral Project was formed in the summer of 2008 when Jon and Matt Griffiths also known as the renowned Cardiff duo 'Kinky Wizzards' allied with John Evans, the guitarist from long-running and well-known Welsh rock act S.E.X, with the shared ambition of creating a new and exciting band with a totally fresh sound. For this purpose, the line-up couldn't be better, not only because bass guitar player Matt with his mix of funky slap and melodic riffs...
The Gentle Good is a Welsh folk project devised by Gareth Bonello from Cardiff, Wales. He plays folk songs on his acoustic guitar in both English and Welsh. He appeared on 'In the City - Unsigned 2006', a compilation album from the In The City festival with the song 'Amser'. In the summer of 2007 an EP titled 'Dawel Disgyn' was released by Gwymon Records and this was followed by the debut album 'While you slept I went out walking' on the same label in November 2008.
There are several artists named Fjords: 1) Fjords are Tyler Taormina and Jon Davies, a drone/ambient/experimental guitar and keyboards duo from Boston, MA. Recordings available at http://fjords.bandcamp.com 2) Fjords is http://www.myspace.com/fjordsmusic from Corvallis. 3) Fjords is also an indie tropical experimental ukulele music project out of Munich,Germany/Sarasota,Florida.
Julia Harris was born in Cardiff but spent the first few years of her life in Cape Town, South Africa whale watching and riding on the cable car up to Table Mountain. Life growing up in South Wales was full of adventure too, camping, singing around bonfires, mud sliding down hills in the country and putting on talent shows for the local kids in the street. At 7 Julia was given a Casio VL-1 Keyboard from Santa and started playing along to her parents record collection. Zeppelin, Floyd, Squeeze, Paul Simon and Motown classics made a big impact on her.
