FASCINATING AÏDA | INTERVIEW
Delighting audiences with their sophisticatedly silly songs since 1983 and now viral sensations, Fascinating Aïda have established themselves as the undisputed queens of cabaret. Buzz talks to chief songwriter Dillie …
Delighting audiences with their sophisticatedly silly songs since 1983 and now viral sensations, Fascinating Aïda have established themselves as the undisputed queens of cabaret. Buzz talks to chief songwriter Dillie …
LIL MOSEY | LIVE REVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Tue 4 Feb **** Lil Mosey is far from your average 18-year-old. With a string of hit singles since bursting onto the scene …
THE WILDHEARTS / BACKYARD BABIES / CKY | LIVE REVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Mon 3 Feb Newcastle hard rockers The Wildhearts [top] are returning to the stage for the first …
COSMIC GATE Club Logic, Swansea Sat 8 Feb This night of high-energy trance music in Swansea’s Club Logic will be headlined by Grammy-nominated German duo Cosmic Gate. Claus Terhoeven and …
KANO | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Sat 1 Feb Long before he arrives on stage, Kano’s name reverberates around Cardiff University’s Great Hall. The chants …
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH / MEGADETH / BAD WOLVES |LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Thurs 30 Jan Big, brash American metal has often found a home away from home …
AL WOOTTON Binary @ Kongs, Cardiff Sat 8 Feb “We are delighted to welcome him to Cardiff for the first time,” write Binary of Al Wootton, headline DJ for their …
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA’S SPRING SEASON With the arrival of a new Artistic Director imminent, WNO is in a state of flux. In 2019, Yvette Vaughan-Jones became the first woman to …
MARTYN JOSEPH | LIVE REVIEW St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Tue 28 Jan The irony of the situation could not have been lost on Cardiff-born singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph. As he …
KACY & CLAYTON City Hall, St Davids, Pembrokeshire Fri 7 Feb Following previous records Strange Country and The Siren’s Song, Kacy & Clayton are bringing their new album, Carrying On, …
THE GAME | LIVE PREVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Thurs 6 Feb Compton rapper The Game comes to the Tramshed this month with what’s rumoured to be his farewell tour, having …
LIVE MUSIC LISTINGS | FEBRUARY 2020 SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY All Ears Avow + Floorboards Sin City, Swansea. 7pm, £7/£5 adv. Info 01792 468892. Al Moses + Tiger Bay + Death …
CLUB LISTINGS | FEBRUARY 2020 16’AN HALF MEN Location TBC, Cardiff. [email protected] Sat 15 Space Dimension Controller 10pm-3am, from £7. Mad Irish cosmic electro fella headlines a bill also featuring …
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Fri 24 Jan Bombay Bicycle Club seem to be playing out a film of their own lives …
SLIPKNOT | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Wed 22 Jan Hard to believe it’s been two decades since the nine-piece from Des Moines shocked the world with the heaviest metal …
A LONG time ago, this column used to just be about gigs the writer thought looked good in the month ahead, but at some point, for reasons …
MACHIAVELLIAN ART / SQUALOR FAN / HORRIBLE MEN / HAQ123 | LIVE REVIEW The Moon, Cardiff, Fri 10 Jan The most remarkable thing about Haq123 is not that they …
KANO Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union Sat 1 Feb London-born rapper Kano burst into the grime scene in 2004 with P’s And Q’s, a striking debut single which laid …
INSANE CLOWN POSSE Tramshed, Cardiff Sat 18 Jan Juggalos assemble. Now if that means nothing to you, then move along, but to a certain group of fans, that can only …
PETROL GIRLS Le Public Space, Newport Tue 14 Jan Armed with vocalist Ren Aldridge’s sharp tongue, coarsened with abrasion and anger, and an array of gorgeously erratic instrumentation, post-hardcore quartet …
ASHANTI Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union Thurs 30 Jan Since attaining instant stellar status in 2002, with a self-titled debut album preceded by spots on Fat Joe and Ja …
THEATRE Compiled by Sam Pryce NATIONAL THEATRE WALES’S NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Since 200 actors, writers and theatre-makers signed a petition last year criticising the NTW’s poor output and bias towards …
DERMOT KENNEDY | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Sat 14 Dec As horrendously wet and windy as it was when venturing out to see Dermot Kennedy, …
BUBBLEWRAP 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Sat 14 Dec For anyone still feeling bewildered and numb following the election results, tonight is a timely …