Today is my son, Sean Simpson's 27th birthday. When Sean was much younger back in 2004 one of his all time favourite bands was Hondo Maclean. My favourite dad moment with the label was taking Sean and some of his friends into Mighty Atom while Hondo were recording their first…
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Pointblank live at the Mumbles Fishing Club
Today I take you all the way back to the beginning. Here is some footage of Pointblank at the very first Mighty Atom Showcase exactly 19 years ago today in 1999 - last millennia! The audio is a bit rough, the camera was old and shit, and the camera operator…
Kubrick – Reverie live at the Garage
Over the years we did record quite a number of live shows for many of the bands. Generally I would organise a multitrack recording for one of the shows - the main idea being to have some live tracks available to use as b-sides on singles. When we did a…
Along Came Man – Believe There’s Nothing
In 2005 we released this track from Along Cam Man in conjunction with The Pop Factory in Cardiff. Great track, great band - well worth a listen if you haven't heard this before.
Liberty 37 – All Of Myself
OK, here's a bit of a rarity. This is a video for the Liberty 37 track, All Of Myself. It never saw the light of day back at the time for various reasons. It was directed by Martin Thomas and was filmed completely inside the BBC building where Mighty Atom…
Union Sound Set – Hiding Places
27th September 2010 we released the lead single for Union Sound Set's debut album Start/Stop - here's the video for it. If you haven't checked out this album then please do - available on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. It is an epic album!
Hiding With Girls – Take Your Eyes Off The Blade
Over the years, Adam Mason directed a bunch of videos for us. I always really liked his work - the lighting and feel to every one of them was epic. This video by Hiding With Girls is from their debut album The Torino Scale released in 11 October 2004. Great…
The Spill Canvas – All Hail The Heartbreaker
In 2004 we got the chance to release the debut album by US band The Spill Canvas. They came over to tour the UK in November that year. The last show of the tour was at the London Metro. In the archives I found multitrack audio and video for the…
3 Colours Red – The World Is Yours
In early 2004, 3 Colours Red came down to Swansea to start recording their third album Union Of Souls at Mighty Atom. They also played a show at the Patti Pavilion - long before it became a shitty Indian restaurant. the Patti was a great live venue in its time…