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4 weeks today and the inaugural Football 4 MVT 5 a side tournament will be underway!
Most of the spaces are now filled, but there may be one more slot. Thanks to everyone who has submitted a team!
We'd really love to see people there watching, cheering on and heckling the players.
We'll have a raffle with some really great prizes as well as we raise funds for this charity that helps us all so much in this community we are a part of.
Mark it in your calendar!
Congratulations to . Wildfire has been longlisted for Welsh Music Prize 2024.
Katie has picked up fans such as & the last few years, and this nomination is very much deserved!
Big shout out to on his brilliant production skills (plus keyboards/drums) and for those sublime guitar parts.
You can pick a copy of the album up from our shop and help keep this machine oiled!
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Why Don't People Love Me, the new single by , and 3rd off forthcoming Against All Reason EP, is out today!
Find it at all the usual places
A full statement from Mr Bewlay 👇
Check back at 8pm for a full statement from Mr Bewlay.
Congratulations to & The Royal Pharmacy for being Self Released Artist of the Month for August on
Each Sunday in August, Danielle is playing Old House on her Sunday Night Music Club show from 9pm.
Huge thanks for Danielle and Absolute Radio for playing the song. It's great that a national radio with such a huge reach are putting faith in independent artists. Means so much!
Saturday 14 September 🗓
Mr Bewlay - Against All Reason - Le Pub
Support from &
Tix £5 advance 🎫
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We are saddened to hear of the sudden loss of Carl Bevan, a brilliant musician and artist, and by all accounts a great person.
Joe was lucky enough to have been able to share a stage with him when they were both in The Lash, and they have remained good friends since.
Lots of love to Carl's family and friends, he will be hugely missed as an artist, but more importantly as a brilliant human being to those who knew and loved him.
Actually cannot believe I'm writing this, it doesn't feel real or fair. I am deeply saddened by the loss of Carl Bevan, my thoughts and sympathies are with his family and friends at this difficult time.
I first took to the Newport scene (that the Dolls pretty much started all those years before) under the wing of an unlikely group of misfits, with Carl at the helm. It was a baptism of fire as anyone who knew him can imagine. He taught me a lot of the world and I would certainly not be the person I am today if it wasn't for him.
There are very few people I know who are as dedicated to their family, friends and their craft as Carl, he was like a dog with a tasty bone. If he put his mind to something, he'd do it.
I've had the honour and absolute pleasure of sharing some of my best years with Bevvo, Erin, Chris & Kyle along with the many other weird and wonderful people he introduced me to.
There's not a week that goes by his that name doesn't pop up in conversation and that will never change.
You will live forever, my friend.
De la sneeb, de la Snarce ❤️
After a few days' rest (well, sort of), we can now reflect on 5 really great days at Beechwood Park for Summer Sessions.
A huge thanks to all of the brilliant artists who entertained really great crowds across the week.
Big shout out to Luke and Steve at and Shameless Promotion who we combined with to put together a great lineup.
And to Matt Pimm of Beechwood Park Community Group for glueing it all together and assembling a fantastic team of volunteers.
Finally, to Jon Baines doing a wicked job on sound duties as always.
Keep going to see live music!
Photos
1-4 & 6 Tom Damsell
5&7 Finley Chivers
Last minute addition!!
It wouldn't be a festival without a surprise set now would it 😅
We are thrilled to announce that The Rogues are playing tonight at 5:45 at Beechwood park.
Come and watch one of Wales' fastest up and coming bands for absolutely FREE.
All in partnership with Dirty Carrot Records and Beechwood Park Community Group
Day 5 (and the last day of Summer Sessions).
It has been absolutely brilliant and today won't be any different.
Unfortunately Small Miracles are no longer able to join us, but the lineup is still looking really great!
We'll see you from 2!
Waterpistol | Spencer Segelov & Great Paintings | Ophelia's Beard | Frankie Wesson Music
Beechwood Park Community Group | Newport City Radio
Day 4. Another stacked lineup await.
From 4.30.
Free entry for all.
Day 3 of Summer Sessions is here.
The music is brilliant. The sun is still out.
It has been very busy so get down early for a good spot!
See you from 4.30!
Beechwood Park Community Group | Newport City Radio
Day 2
More glorious sunshine and four brilliant Stand Up comedians await, courtesy of Shameless Promotion.
We've got food stalls and a bar to keep you hydrated (well, sort of).
Head to Weird Dad Brewery on your way up for 15% off great beer!
Shameless Promotion | Newport City Radio | Beechwood Park Community Group
Brilliant first evening of Summer Sessions.
Thanks to everyone who came.
Stand Up Comedy tomorrow from 4.30!
This is what today looks like!
4 fantastic artists & beautiful weather 🌞
Bring your family, bring your mates, bring a bottle or 2 🍾👨👩👧👦
See you from 4.30!
Milly Mason | JOSH HICKS | MACY | Pseudo Cool | Newport City Radio
Friday's lineup. The penultimate day of Summer Sessions!
From 4.30. Free entry. Obvs.
Bring the family, bring your mates. Head to Weird Dad Brewery for discounted beer!
Joe Kelly | Dan's People | Ruby Kelly Music | Act Happy | Alys Hardy
Newport City Radio | Beechwood Park Community Group
Thursday at Beechwood Park from 4.30.
Another superb night of live music awaits!
Tell your mates. Bring the family!
Otto Aday | Mr Bewlay | Daioni | The Humber Collective | Greg Ryan - Musician
Newport City Radio | Beechwood Park Community Group
Wednesday is for laughs!
Four brilliant stand up comedians courtesy of Shameless Promotion
Including Dani Johns Comedy previewing her Edinburgh Fringe show!
Join us from 4.30. Be prepared to chuckle all night!
Newport City Radio | Beechwood Park Community Group |
Our four brilliant artists kicking off the first Summer Sessions, next Tuesday at Beechwood Park.
Free entry. Get down early. We'll be waiting for you from 4.30!
Pseudo Cool | MACY | JOSH HICKS | Milly Mason
Newport City Radio | Beechwood Park Community Group
We've put together a great lineup for Summer Sessions next week at Beechwood Park along with & Shameless Promotion
Thanks to and shared prosperity funding, it is FREE ENTRY.
Starts 16:30 Tues to Friday and 14:00 Saturday
Tag your pals, let them know what's happening!
Congratulations to our competition winner! (Sorry, but we can't tag you!
Your vinyl and T-shirt will be ready for you to collect soon!
Huge thanks to everyone who entered and liked the post.
NOW! For the next week we're offering you all a 20% discount on Aaronson vinyl from our shop!
You've got 7 days!!
🔗 link in bio and story!
Super excited about bringing this tremendous selection of artists and comedians to Beechwood Park & House alongside Newport City Radio, Shameless Promotion and Beechwood Park Community Group!
And to top it off, it's all absolutely free!
Bring your picnic, bring some drinks and come and celebrate some incredible local talent with us from 30th July!
📣We’re merging music and football for a 5-a-side tournament this September at Gol Centre in Newport!
Raising funds in aid of the fantastic Music Venue Trust,100% of all profits will go towards supporting our grassroots music community.
⚽There is space for 8 teams of people connected to the grassroots scene here in South Wales.
We’re expecting this to be very popular, so please get your teams together ASAP.
E-mail us at [email protected] to submit your team and fire across any queries.
****COMPETITION****
We're giving away an Aaronson
Vinyl and Tee to celebrate The Great Swells That Carry Us Will Pull Us Under turning one!
Head over to Instagram to enter!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9dEqChI6y8/?igsh=MTh3N3BreTlucDJoaw==
*****COMPETITION*****
And just like that, The Great Swells That Carry Us Will Pull You Under is a year old!
To celebrate the occasion, we're offering you the chance to win a free signed vinyl and t-shirt! 💿 👕
All you need to do is 👇
1. Like this post
2. Tag a mate
Winner announced this Saturday!
*UK only
Really excited about this. Together with Newport City Radio we have put together a stonking music line up, all of which will be revealed soon!
Comedy from Shameless Promotion!
The whole week is completely free entry too!
🚨Big News🚨
We are excited to announce that the Summer Sessions will be held at Beechwood Park, Newport between Tues 30th July to Saturday 3rd August. Five days of original music and comedy completely free of charge.
Find out more below.
https://www.newportcityradio.org/2024/07/12/music-and-laughs-the-summer-sessions-coming-soon/
Love this creation to promote recent gig in clwb!
Sittin' pretty in DCR HQ! 👌🏽
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To our London sorts!
Mr Bewlay is in your big old city tomorrow night playing at the Glastone Arms.
Go see!
If you are in Central London and wanna hear some great music?
I'll be playing The Gladstone Arms tomorrow night.
Music starts at 7pm
Event below
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Worst of All Women - Out March 8 Single launch at Norwegian Church - March 14 @mrbewlay Ticket link in comments!
We are very excited to announce that we have signed Mr Bewlay for the release of his forthcoming EP Against All Reason. We've been fans of Mr Bewlay for some time, so we're really happy for him to join our ranks, bolstering our already fantastic list of acts! Join us for the launch of Worst of All Women, the first single from the EP at the unique Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay on March 14. Ace support from Rebecca Hurn and Feral Generation. You can get your tickets for the show in the comments below. It's gonna go off! Be there! More soon...
First DC radio play of the year (that we're aware of) Thanks Adam Walton for playing Small Miracles Sign of The Times on his BBC Introducing show last night! The Live At Rockfield EP is out now to stream and available to pre-order on 10" vinyl (link in comments) A mini documentary, shot at Rockfield Studios will accompany the release. Another exciting year awaits us all!!
@thefoundrybrecon have put together this fantastic promo video using The Westgate Sessions for the Roadshow event on Nov 25. This is going to be some day! Tickets in comments below!
Well here it is, the end of the road, our series is complete. We could think of no better way to wrap up this musical journey that with the final track from Cardiff glam-punk giants, Small Miracles and their incredible track, Bad Stars. Thank you to everyone who's kept up with us over the past few months, it's been a pleasure sharing these truly amazing performances and watching these bands grow in the real world, through a whirlwind of a festival season. We couldn't have done it without The Westgate Hotel, Wide Island Films, Record One, Jon Greening (Gwyrdd Studios) and of course Horizons / Gorwelion so thank you all for your hard work and support. Keep supporting these incredibly talented artists as they have so much exciting work in the pipeline you will certainly not be disappointed!
WESTGATE SESSIONS As our series nears its end, we a excited to share with you our final track from Usk based singer-songwriter. Katielou. 'For The Taking' was filmed as part of a day of live sessions at The Westgate Hotel, Newport on 1st April 2023. Get your tickets now, for Katielou's intimate performance at The Phyllis Maud - Performance Space with Small Miracles' Finn Pelling on 6th October. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dirtycarrotrecords/1000594?fbclid=IwAR3-0pCQcWLxvC2GonRikj06w2w52uxjUyei61r62DmvkK7W5DJU5ux36yc Filmed by Wide Island Films Recorded by Record One Produced by Jon Greening (Gwyrdd Studios( Funded by Horizons / Gorwelion
WESTGATE SESSIONS We're coming to the end of a fantastic run of music from some truly exceptional rising Welsh musicians, thank you to everyone who's stuck with us so far. You should all be very pleased to know that we still have two tracks left to share from the incredible Small Miracles! The first of which is this absolutely captivating performance of their track 'Berlin'. Filmed at The Westgate Hotel Filmed by Wide Island Films Recorded by Record One Produced by Jon Greening (Gwyrdd Studios) Funded by Horizons / Gorwelion
WESTGATE SESSIONS The final instalment from postrock band Aaronson. The title track from their recently released album ‘The Great Swells That Carry Us Will Pull Us Under’ Recorded at The Westgate Hotel by Wide Island Films, engineered by Record One and mixed by Jon Greening of Gwyrdd Studios. Horizons / Gorwelion funded the project via their Launchpad scheme, an annual initiative to support grassroots music in Wales. Next week is the amazing Small Miracles
It's been a busy week for Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy with their Green Man Festival debut, a headline slot at Brecon Jazz Festival and a return to the ever-expanding world of Between The Trees Festival this weekend. It seems only fitting then, for us to share with you their third and final track from our most recent sessions at The Westgate Hotel. 'Holding On' is a track from the band's forthcoming album 'Cast Me Down' which, along with the rest of the sessions was filmed and recorded by Wide Island Films and Record One with mixing duties falling in the more than capable hands of @Jon Greening (Gwyrdd Studios). All of these tracks could not have been made without the support and funding from Horizons / Gorwelion and their Launchpad Scheme.
WESTGATE SESSIONS It's been a busy few weeks for Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy with their @Green Man Festival debut, a headline slot at Brecon Jazz Festival and a return to the ever-expanding world of @betBetween The Trees Festival this weekend. It seems only fitting then for us to share with you their third and final track from our most recent sessions at The Westgate Hotel . 'Holding On' is a track from the band's forthcoming album 'Cast Me Down' which, along with the rest of the sessions was filmed and recorded by Wide Island Films and Record One with mixing duties falling in the more than capable hands of Jon Greening (Gwyrdd Studios). All of these incredible tracks could not have been made without the support and funding from Horizons / Gorwelion and their Launchpad Scheme.
WESTGATE SESSIONS As the series draws.to a close, we have one last song to share from Cardiff's Dan's People who are currently making waves on the South Wales scene. 'Permanent Sabbatical gives us another side of the band and really shows off what can be expected from the live show. Recorded at The Westgate Hotel by @Wide Island Films, engineered by Record One and mixed by Jon Greening of Gwyrdd Studios. Funding the project is @Horizons / Gorwelion through their Launchpad scheme which is an annual initiative to support grassroots music in Wales.
WESTGATE SESSIONS After a brief hiatus, we return to our weekly sessions with Usk based singer-songwriter Katielou and her track, 'Embers' from her much anticipated debut album 'Wildfires' The entire series of tracks were recorded live on a Saturday in April at The Westgate Hotel by Wide Island Films. Sound was recorded on the day by Record One and mixed by @Jon Greening at Gwyrdd Studios. The project was made possible by funding from @Horizons / Gorwelion and their annual Launchpad scheme.
WESTGATE SESSIONS We're just over the halfway line for this second series of #westgatesessions and we hope you've enjoyed watching these incredible live performances as much as we enjoyed watching them get made! Here's another one from rapidly rising Newport band @The Rogues with 'California No Show! Big love to all involved, from Wide Island Films , @Record One and Jon Greening (Gwyrdd Studios) to The Westgate Hotel for letting us use such a beautiful space again and Horizons / Gorwelion for so kindly funding the project! Stay tuned for the second track from Katielou next week!
It's been a very busy week for Aaronson with the release of their debut album 'The Great Swells That Carry Us Will Pull Us Under' on Friday and one hell of a launch night at Clwb Ifor Bach yesterday with FORT! It only seems fitting to round off the week with a live version of album track 'Return To Surface', recorded at The Westgate Hotel by Wide Island Films, engineered by Record One, produced by Jon Greening (Gwyrdd Studios) and funded by Horizons / Gorwelion. You can pre-order Great Swells via our website now! https://www.dirtycarrotrecords.co.uk/product-page/the-great-swells-that-carry-us-will-pull-us-under
Big thanks to Adam Walton for playing Extra Terrestrial by Small Miracles on his show last Saturday. Also thanks for the kind words about both the song and us! Extra Terrestrial is the latest in a growing line of superb Small Miracles tunes and we're really proud to have our name attached to their music. Extra Terrestrial is out July 27 and features a guest vocalist (listen to the clip above to find out!) You can see Small Miracles play Tiny Rebel in Cardiff on July 27 and in Le Pub the following evening to celebrate the release!
WESTGATE SESSIONS Featured this week is the second track from Newport's own Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy. 'Matilda' is a track from the band's forthcoming album, 'Cast Me Down' which we are proud to be releasing later this year.This week, with a track from their upcoming second album we have Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy. Filmed at The Westgate Hotel by Wide Island Films, all the tracks in the #westgatesessions series were engineered by Record One and produced by Jon Greening of Gwyrdd Studios. This series and many other initiatives in Wales simply couldn't be possible without the support of Horizons / Gorwelion and schemes such as Launchpad.
WESTGATE SESSIONS Thank you to everyone who has been keeping up with the #westgatesessions these past six weeks, we've been so happy to share these fantastic videos with you! Tonight's session is the second track from Cardiff's Dan's People, 'See You Cry'. Be sure to check out our previous posts and to tune in next week for the next song from Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy. Recorded live at The Westgate Hotel by Wide Island Films Engineered by Record One, produced by Jon Greening at Gwyrdd Studios. Funded by Horizons / Gorwelion for Dirty Carrot
*****WESTGATE SESSIONS***** Week 5 and it’s Newport indie band The Rogues with their brand new, debut single ‘Lizzy’ Filmed and edited by Wide Island Films at The Westgate Hotel Sound recorded on the day by Kenny of Record One Mixed and mastered by Jon Greening at Gwyrdd Studios Thanks to Horizons / Gorwelion for the funding
WESTGATE SESSIONS Wrapping up the first leg of our Westgate Sessions, we have Katielou with her track 'In My Blood'. We'll be going full circle next week and returning with the second track from Cardiff folksters Dan's People Filmed at The Westgate Hotel and edited by Wide Island Films. Engineered by Record One and produced by Jon Greening at Gwyrdd Studios. These sessions were generously funded by Horizons / Gorwelion via Dirty Carrot. #westgatesessions #livemusic #welshmusic #westgatehotel #recordone #horizonscymru #gwyrddstudios #recordone
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