ELECTROLYTE | STAGE PREVIEW
ELECTROLYTE Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Tue 18 June Sixteen million people in the UK – around one in four adults – will experience a mental illness at some point each year. …
ELECTROLYTE Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Tue 18 June Sixteen million people in the UK – around one in four adults – will experience a mental illness at some point each year. …
The Consul **** Tues 12 Jun, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff When it was first performed in Philadelphia and later on Broadway in 1950, Gian Carlo Monetti’s opera The Consul — about …
The grand queens of British girl groups, with more charting hits than even the Spice Girls, Bananarama remain in the hearts of British pop fans. Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward talk to …
HEFT PRESENTS DJ HAZARD Sin City, Swansea. Sat 15 June Heft debut at Swansea’s top venue Sin City by properly laying all their cards down for what they’re about. If …
TAKE THAT | LIVE REVIEW Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Sat 8 June When this show was booked, no doubt fans were looking forward to an afternoon with their favourite boys …
CARDIFF PSYCH & NOISE FEST | LIVE REVIEW Womanby Street, Cardiff, Fri 24-Sun 26 May The humidity probably had the biggest turn out for this, the second Cardiff Psych …
PIP BLOM | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Thurs 6 June Pip Blom and her band are only young and their first album only came out this year, …
KELLY JONES | LIVE REVIEW St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Sat 8 June Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones is on a solo tour for only the third time in his life, …
IMPERIAL WAX / GINDRINKER / ALEX DINGLEY | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Fri 7 June “Is it still thundering and lightninging out there?”, Alex Dingley asks those …
ALBUMS AKA TRIO ***** Joy (Bendigedig) Complete harmony with acoustic debut album from virtuosos Antonio Forcione (guitar), Seckou Keita (kora and lead vocals) and Adriano Adewale (percussion). It’s so relaxed …
Lead singer of the Stereophonics, still filling stadiums after 20-plus years, Kelly Jones is stepping out on his own for a solo tour this month. He chats to Carl Marsh. …
Undertone, Cardiff Fri 7 June This month will see the sixth event under the Red Room banner, also marking a year since setting up. The previous five have hopped at …
ETHAN JOHNS & THE BLACK EYED DOGS Druidstone Hotel, Haverfordwest. Sat 8 June Not sure Buzz has written about anything at this venue before, and statistically speaking our readers are …
Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff Thurs 6-Sun 9 June As the Royal Welsh College celebrates its 70th year, this year’s AmserJazzTime Festival, an extension of the weekly …
ELECTRIC SOUP #10 Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff. Sat 8 June Electric Soup is a semi-regular night usually held at M.A.D.E., an art gallery and shop in Roath, Cardiff. Its approximate …
QUEENS OF REGGAE Los Amigos, Newport. Sat 8 June Event organiser Reggae In Motion brings Queens Of Reggae to Newport for a night of feelgood, hip swaying Jamaican music. Los …
THE FUTUREHEADS / NOVACUB | LIVE REVIEW The Globe, Cardiff, Tue 28 May It’s a measure of how far Bloc Party have fallen that while former drummer Matt Tong …
The nation’s favourite animated duo arrive in the capital in early June for Wallace And Gromit’s Musical Marvels, created by Carrot Productions in partnership with Aardman Animations, the famed studio …
BALTER FESTIVAL Chepstow Racecourse. Fri 31 May-Sun 2 June Balter is something else. If festivals are where the normals go to cut loose, Balter is where the loose go to …
ANNE MARIE | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Fri 24 May If Taylor Swift had been born in Essex, she might have been called Anne Marie. The two pop …
THE AMAZONS | ALBUM REVIEW Future Dust (Fiction) After a smashing two years, a sold-out UK tour and making their way onto almost every reputable ‘hotly tipped’ and ‘ones …
OH SEES / PRETTIEST EYES | LIVE REVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Thurs 23 May Californian trio Prettiest Eyes, tonight’s main support and labelmates of the Oh Sees on John Dwyer’s …
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS | LIVE REVIEW Cardiff Castle, Fri 24 May The picturesque setting of Cardiff Castle is in for a treat of music this summer, and …
INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL Bute Park, Cardiff. Fri 31 May + Sat 1 June Visitors to Cardiff’s most central park are usually rewarded with visions of feeding birds and picnicking in …