Breaking and Entry with Roger Paez / @aibarqs @gruffingtonpost @KliphScurlock @gwennosaunders @Sweet_Babs @flowerofphong and others @From_Now_On_   @from-now-on-cardiff May 2017

Farm Hand is the solo guise of Mark Daman Thomas from Islet. He lives and works in the hills of rural Mid Wales. Moving Hills was recorded at home in Radnorshire by Stephen Black with additional mixing by JT at Pontvane. 02 July - Caerleon Arts Festival (Diverse Stage) 20 August - Green Man Festival (Casey & Ewan's Crystal Massage)

Them Squirrels have taken a leisurely journey towards the debut album that finally emerges in 2015. The Them Scribbles EP (Shape Records), way back in 2009 now, was effectively a solo-with-friends bedroom enterprise from frontman JT (also of Islet), a cut-and-paste patchwork of stuttering rhythms, jabs of ticklish guitar, thickets of mangled synth and tape noise and JT’s keening, folkish vocals. Their intermittent live appearances transfer the approach to a full band, a jumble of percussion, violin, frenzied tempo shifts and knotty prog/pop wonder. Epic album taster ‘Echo Chant’, previewed last year, touches on Do Make Say Think and airy Krautrock across ten blissed-out minutes. Awkward and cuddly in appropriate measures, and always hugely welcome. Words by Will Steen, Joy Collective https://themsquirrels.bandcamp.com

We will be making our return at the brill From Now On Festival - Tickets available here

Almost a North Wales cottage industry over the last few years, Wrexham's Mowbird interrupted a stream of singles, EPs and zines to release their debut album 'Islander' last year on Shape Records. A culmination of their spiky, lo-fi zeal, it's a short and resolutely sweet 26 minutes of fuzzy, surf-punk earworms, a smile factory that throws Pavement, Times New Viking and Grandaddy onto the beach, and brushes sand off them. Delicious, addictive. https://mowbird.bandcamp.com/

23 April - Focus Wales @ Central Station, Wrexham

Tickets from Spillers Records & here