The Wales Coast Path – the Cardiff bit

The 870 mile path along the coast of Wales has some fantastic scenery and geography to view and to navigate too. Officially titled ‘The Wales Coast Path‘ it’s the first path in the world to follow a country’s coastline in its entirety. So from the glorious sights of Gower to the angelic Anglesey coast – the […]

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Green green grass of CVMK

A sunny day in The ‘Diff and what better than to paint a huge bit of street art on Grangetown’s 300 foot long graffiti wall! Oh yes purlease! On the first day it was unclear who was collaborating on this piece but a bright green wash had been applied to the wall and extended rollers […]

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STREET ART – ‘Tan out’ by Squid

In March amid the latest protest walks and the latest going ons at Cardiff City Football club – local artist, Squid, painted this amazing piece featuring a gorilla type character with a minature Vincent Tan figure in his hands.   The previous piece can be viewed in all it’s glory by clicking the link below:- […]

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CCFC STREET ART – Anti Vincent Tan graffiti

What great timing for some topical street art to appear in Sevenoaks Park just days before a protest march of Cardiff City fans is planned – the art illustrates how some fans are feeling since the current owner took over at Cardiff City Football Club. Just a short distance from the Cardiff City Stadium – […]

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DR WHO – Filming in Bute Park

The familiar bright yellow signs emblazoned with the terms ‘LSW’ and ‘LOC2’ led me to Cardiff’s Bute Park. These signs pop up rather sporadically around Cardiff but signify a location shoot for Dr Who around the capital city. Broadcast vehicles, cherry pickers and marquees were all situated just infront of the Royal Welsh College of […]

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VIDEO – Barry Island Pleasure Park

Anyone living in the HTV region during the 1980’s must surely remember this iconic commercial for Barry Island Pleasure Park! The advert seemed to run for many years and had that familiar theme tune which someone has uploaded to Youtube in all it’s glory. The advert first aired when Barry Island Pleasure Park had an […]

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GRAFFITI – Gorfjam 2014 in Sevenoaks Park

A wander into Grangetown’s Sevenoaks Park revealed a whole host of brand new graffiti on the 140m legal wall that runs along the perimeter of the city’s park. Previously being used for Roxejams over the past few years it was time to hold the latest Graffiti Jam-type event this time called The Gorfjam! Held in […]

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STREET ART – 3dom takes part in The Gorfjam

From the latest Graffiti Jam event to be held at Sevenoaks Park in Cardiff – it’s time to showcase another amazing creation from 3dom. The Gorfjam is held in memory of Tom(aka Gorf) with a whole host of street and graffiti artists from across Britain attending to decorate this 600ft long wall. The first one […]

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GRAFFITI by 3Dom, Sepr and Epok

A fantastic legal graffiti wall is housed alongside a railway track at Sevenoaks Park in Grangetown, Cardiff. The wall is ceremonally painted each year as part of The Roxejam event with other updates throughout the year. A walk past on a chilly Sunday afternoon brought my attention to a really colourful piece that I have […]

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GRAFFITI-Banksy in Los Angeles

Travelling through the Downtown area of Los Angeles and meandering through the business, fabric and the Theatre districts – I discovered that I have never felt such a bad vibe from a city ever – this place really un-nerved me! Nothing particularly jumped out at me and I didn’t really take much notice of anything […]

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CARDIFF CITY – Rebranded stadium for 2012/2013 season

Out with the old and in with the new…blue…well sorta red really. Earlier in the year the Malaysian backers agreed to invest £100 million pounds in Cardiff City football club but with the understanding that the club strip would become RED and also losing the name Bluebirds and rebranding the team as The Dragons to […]

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GRAFFITI – Roxejam 2012

Now in it’s sixth year the ‘RoxeJam’ was originally set up in 2007 by Lou Lockwood as a memorial to her son Bill (aka local street artist Roxer), who had died in a road accident. After a wash-out Summer this was luckily the one week when it was dry and extremely sunny with pure blue […]

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OLYMPICS-Rusty Shackle play at the Torch Relay Party

As Bute Park was closed for the main Olympic Torch Relay concert and the Cardiff Castle moat full of unsavoury types (drinking White Storm today rather than Oranjeboom!) I decided to head to Cathays Park to chill near the Olympic Ring sculpture. To my surprise there was a Cardiff Council event going on complete with […]

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GRAFFITI-Cartoon Characters around Cardiff

I have recently noticed that cartoon characters have made their way into the graffiti scene in Cardiff and are springing up everywhere. From Disney’s Mickey Mouse to Laurel and Hardy, Bugs Bunny and even old skoolers Heckle and Jeckle! Can anyone name all the characters featured? More to come real soon!

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GRAFITTI-Boilerhouse and Hailey Park in Winter

Within the suburb of Llandaff, Cardiff, there is an amazing display of talent flourishing out of the first official dedicated grafitti and street art gallery – known as The Boiler House. This is taken from The Boiler House Press Release in February 2010 when the project opened:- The Cardiff based arts collective ‘Peaceful Progress’ has […]

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