After being whittled down from 2500 entries, Wrexham’s Andy Hickie has made it…

North Wales’ largest alternative club night Rebellion, is turning 4 years old very soon. To coincide with this they are making a few BIG changes.
Here is a taster of what is expected on 12th March onwards:
MAIN ROOM - KERRANG ROOM
Playing all the tunes you love to hear on the Kerrang side of things:
+44 : [...]

YOU are invited to the launch of March’s edition of the wrexhammusic magazine.
Take your good selves down to The Old Swan in Wrexham this Saturday 1st March between 8.30pm and 10pm to pick up your sneaky free advance copy (general release in the usual places from Monday 3rd).
Stick around after for Manchester’s the Whiskey Cats [...]

The In New Music We Trust show, hosted by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1, featured Wrexham band’s Gwildor and Heal The Last Stand on Wednesday 27th February.
Firstly, Huw played the full length remix by James Yuill of the Gwildor song ‘Toe the line’.
Every week the show focuses on a regional music scene in the [...]

Sam Jones, guitarist with Wrexham band Leaving Isaacs Shop is also a student at North Wales School of Art and Design in Wrexham. He has jointly won the Music Media Award at this year’s student moving image festival of Wales, Ffresh 2008.
Sam’s winning entry is a promotional trilogy for Leaving Isaac’s Shop filmed to [...]

The final of the NEWI Battle of the Bands takes place this Friday 8th February at the NEWI Student Guild, Wrexham.
The final features the winning bands from each of the previous 4 heats:
Iguana - Indie/Rock/Funk (link)
Tonnica - Tribal Rock (link)
A59 - Rock/Punk (link)
Smack Rats - Ska/Punk (link)
Doors open at 8pm and the first band is [...]

The Young Knives are offering local bands a chance to win a support slot at their forthcoming ‘Off The Beaten Track’ tour. They visit Central Station on February 26th and Wrexham bands are being encouraged to send their songs and demos to offthebeatentrack@gmail.com for a chance to get a slot at the gig.

Official press [...]

Hundreds of people gathered at Wrexham’s William Aston Hall at NEWI to see a band from Warrington win the final of a UK competition for unsigned bands.
The four member band, The White Company, clinched the top spot, beating off competition from Wrexham band, The Collards and others from across the UK.
They take away a publishing [...]

Digital Strategies for Success:
You, your music and the digital revolution
NEWI (North Wales Institute of Higher Education) Mold Road, Wrexham
Thursday 7 February, 10.30am-5.30pm
If you are involved in the music industry at the moment you’ll know everything is changing at a rate of megabits per second. Welsh Music Foundation and Musicians’ Union have put together an event [...]

Heal The Last Stand are picking up where Mooi left off. When Mooi decided to call it a day a couple of years back they left a large hole in the spectrum of our music scene, which hasn’t been filled in since. Until now. Heal The Last Stand are providing us with [...]