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Egg Spectrum’s Stinky Sketchbook 2025

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December 29, 2025 Comments Off on Egg Spectrum’s Stinky Sketchbook 2025

Responding to someone’s request on Facebook to ‘review their latest album’ can be dangerous territory. I vowed never to do it again, since most of the stuff I hear, I can’t articulate words for, holistic […]

The Diegetic Joy of LC Pumpkin

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December 6, 2025 Comments Off on The Diegetic Joy of LC Pumpkin

I’m at the 2025 Skynet LAN event and due to requiring an update the software that I use that strips ads from my Facebook feed isn’t working properly. As a result, certain adverts are creeping […]

ShonkPhonic Bands

  • WAKEY!

    Howdy partn'rs remember me? It's ol' Mad Moush from the rock & roll band Moush - but I'm not here to talk about them and [...]

  • THE GOOD MOURNINGS

    The Good Mournings are an industrial, poet-punk band from Newport, South Wales. Featuring song-writing front man Jase Cannon (Hundred Cannons, Beta Pavilion) and guitarist Moush [...]

  • BLACK WESKER

    Black Wesker comprise a fusion of punk, indie and jazz with improvisation and stylistic changes that subvert the expecations of audiences and regular viewers. The [...]

  • LAST MAN ON THE MOON

    Last Man On The Moon is a solo, outsider artist from South Wales. Known for his eclectic works that range from Lynchian inspired showtunes, to paired [...]

  • GREAT WITH CUSTARD

    Great With Custard are a three-piece upbeat covers band from South Wales, comprising of Robert Murphy (vocals & drums), Gregg Jones (lead guitar) and Damir [...]

  • TA MALAKA MATIA

    Ta Malaka Matia take their name from the Greek for ‘Soft Eyes’ (Τα μαλακά μάτια) TMM comprise of Jacob Richards-Powell (Moush, Black Wesker, WAKEY!) and [...]

  • MOUSH

    Moush is the creative alias of Jacob Richards-Powell, the owner, principal writer and label manager for The Shonk and Shonkphonics. He started making music around [...]

  • THE HOLISTIC HOUSE BAND

    An organic music generator comprising a liquidious core group of multi-instrumentalists. During live performances audience members are encouraged to join the band on stage and [...]

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Established circa 1850, The Shonk is a family established holistic music journalist organisation. Currently owned by The Great John Jenks Shonk and overseen by Arbiter Titan, the journalist team travel the lands and document their experience of the great music they witness.

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YouTube Video UC7lQQVYRoHGtgwdIUs-_2IA_MWelBhVXem4 His name is Jim E Brown The song is called There's a Queue at Greggs You can read our review about Jim E Brown here: https://www.theshonk.co.uk/his-name-is-jim-e-brown/ Performed The Queue at Greggs on stage at Le Pub in Newport in 2025.
His name is Jim E Brown The song is called There's a Queue at Greggs You can read our review about Jim E Brown here: https://www.theshonk.co.uk/his-name-is-jim-e-brown/ Performed The Queue at Greggs on stage at Le Pub in Newport in 2025.
The retelling of Oedipus Rex with Adam Ant & Karaoke. Performed live by Ta Malaka Matia at the Pen & Wig Newport in October 2025. Guitar & loops - Steven George Jones Drums - Jacob Richards-Powell Film edited by Steven George Jones Sound engineering / live recording - Jacob Richards-Powell / Tyron Sullivan Live audience participation through the medium of karaoke featured throughout the performance. https://malakamatia.bandcamp.com/album/ta-malaka-matia Shonkphonics is a DIY record label based in South Wales www.shonkphonics.bandcamp.com
Dissonant Static opening for Ta Malaka Matia Friday 17th October 2025 at the Pen & Wig Newport. dissonantstatic.bandcamp.com malakamatia.bandcamp.com
The official music video to the hit song Evil Avocado by Black Wesker. Find the song and many others at: www.shonkphonics.bandcamp.com Directed, filmed & edited by: TheNOTHING
a band whose entire catalogue is dedicated to cannabis. do we need to say more? the absolute joy in hearing those gutteral vocals from that delightful Muppet mouth... the utter delight in that big bastard bear's eyes rolling back as those THC infused fingers dance across the fret board behind his head. The bass player climbing his instrument like a ladder whilst making that face your gossipy neighbours make when they're trying to remember some juicy news. the absolute octopus of a drummer with his extending arms stretching out like some copy pasta horror concept... reaching across the drums like soon to be sacrificed subjects. lung baby.
Mould were booked as a last minute stand in band due to a guitarist breaking his leg. they were very polite and sent some grainy demos as proof they were real. we were not ready. these sweet young men defied all that is holy with their rigamarole of doom-charged dungeon core. these anti-runescape charmed demons tore our flesh off and bathed in the blood, taunting us like evil nymphs. entire villages were plundered by dark forces, children taken in the night, wives dragged away by orks... Christmas trees set aflame. it was total fucking carnage. it was beautiful. thank you. please please go and see these lunatics.
this year we hosted a real doomy night down at the pit in Newport. the subterranean lair shook with base and vibrated with naughty noodles. the air thick with sound it was hard to breath, speakers trembled like your mom when I last saw her. a real nasty feast, a punishment on the ears. kicking the night off was the nightmare from Soton that is Haeze, a dirgy tribute to your dad's rock n roll collection. husky vocals thrown up in a tornado of delay coming at you like a sandstorm, vast spacious drums like kicked bins and that relentless base carrying you off into the abyss.
Bristol's Versus Savannah will take you back to packed sweaty gigs of the mid naughties, a fusion of forgotten memories, tight beats, thick bass lines and guitar riffs, you've heard it before but it hasn't hit like this in a looooooong time. 4.5 Greggs.
Welsh avante-garde artpop experimental theatrical duo HeadNoise dominating the stage at The Pit in Newport. https://givemeheadnoise.bandcamp.com/album/scram-electro-ep
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SHONK OPEN BROADCASTING

Shonk Open Broadcasting (Or S.O.B for short) is the film branch of The Shonk Holistic Music Services. In 2021 The Shonk purchased some cheap cameras and accessories and established an entirely separate entity to their music creation and publication house.
This channel is home to such programmes as Cripple Quest, Hospi-Quest and The Adventures of Moush. As well as a plethora of short films and productions that have been certified by the board of meetings at The Shonk.

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Found VHS footage of an interactive woodland adventure. Help the band Black Wesker find their singer who has wandered into the woods. Do this before the rain comes and traps you for eternity. Let the Wood-Hound guide you but don't trust him. Avoid the cave. It WILL take your voice. Don't let the wrong thoughts in. Avoid the threats. Most of all, HAVE FUN! https://blackwesker.bandcamp.com/ #analoguehorror #foundfootage
an interpretation of Dune, filmed in less than five minutes using things in my kitchen and loads of stupid effects. Well done. #parody #artfilm #abstract
a short film about walking at night #analoguehorror #nightwalking
a new series where we have a look at the items I buy from buyology, a discount store in Newport South Wales.
Martin is back with a few things to say about the M4, air quality and welsh government's zany ideas. what are your thoughts? let Martin know
how to cook a meal during the ever worsening 'cost of living' crisis. or as weike to call it 'being robbed by fat cats and politician crisis' what else is new?
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