FESTIVAL OF VOICE – BUZZ RECOMMENDS | FEATURE
Festival of Voice – Buzz Recommends! There’s so much going on at Festival of Voice beyond the big-hitting headliners like Patti Smith and Elvis Costello, it can be hard to …
Festival of Voice – Buzz Recommends! There’s so much going on at Festival of Voice beyond the big-hitting headliners like Patti Smith and Elvis Costello, it can be hard to …
Charlotte Church’s Utopia Swapping the mic for the clipboard, Charlotte Church has curated the final night at this year’s Festival Of Voice. Charlie Cottrell asks her all about Utopia. Charlotte Church is …
Festival of Voice: The Tiger Lillies Veterans of the UK’s cult music scene, The Tiger Lillies have long been purveyors of the weird and bizarre. Frontman Martyn Jacques talks …
SEÁN MCGOWAN | LIVE REVIEW Tiny Rebel, Cardiff, Sun 3 June Having sat through two similar single-male support acts, Heartwork and Anna’s Anchor, and not understood a word on …
Albums BENIN CITY *** Last Night (Moshi Moshi) Benin City’s third album is a treatise and threnody on London’s nightlife. The closure of places like Plastic People and, briefly, …
Logic Hardcore: School Is Out! The Rainbow Rooms, Gorseinon, Swansea Sat 9 June Calling all Hippo Club lovers and Escape megafans! Dust those glowsticks off and dig those mixtapes out, as …
Belly Glee Club, Cardiff Bay Mon 11 June Back in the latter half of the 1980s, two bands – the Pixies and Throwing Muses – emerged from America’s east coast. …
DEPOT IN THE CASTLE | LIVE REVIEW Cardiff Castle, Sat 2 June If there’s one thing Depot know how to do, it’s run a festival. After the success of …
AmserJazzTime Festival Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff Thurs 7-Sun 10 June Derived from the weekly live session of the same name, RWCMD’s AmserJazzTime Festival is a four-day …
Balter Festival Chepstow Racecourse Fri 8 Sun-10 June Balter, by all appearances, has the promise to be something weird and over-stimulating for everyone, Boomtown if for your mate’s evasive, faintly …
Billy Bragg: Voices of Protest Coming to Festival Of Voice with a night entitled Voices Of Protest, veteran activist and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg sat down with Carl Marsh to discuss the …
FRIday 1 JUNE Aubrey Parsons Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info [email protected]. Belly Of The Beast Rap Battles NosDa, Cardiff. 6-11.30pm, £5. Info 029 2037 8866. Hosted by Pryme Cut. Bon …
ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University. 01970 623232 / www. aberystwythartscentre.co.uk Sun 17 Big Fish Little Fish 2pm, £8/£6. Baby/toddler/parent raver brand visits this town for the first time …
Rhondda Rips It Up! Welsh National Opera’s latest commission is a song-and-dance suffragette celebration. Composer Elena Langer tells John-Paul Davies about the opera that’s not really an opera and what it’s …
CARDIFF PSYCH & NOISE FEST | LIVE REVIEW Womanby Street, Cardiff, Fri 25-Sun 27 May The May bank holiday weekend saw the first Cardiff Psych & Noise Fest, which …
The Gilden Merkin: Burlesque and Cabaret **** Glee Club, Cardiff, Sun 20 May The Glee Club in Cardiff Bay was turned into a twinkly, velvet draped caberet club as The …
NILS LOFGREN | PREVIEW Nils Lofgren returns to St David’s Hall, Cardiff as he celebrates 50 Years… Up The Road. This will be a night of celebration as the legendary …
BLACK PEAKS / CASEY / CHROMA | LIVE REVIEW Grand Theatre, Swansea, Tue 22 May In the wake of one of the biggest weekends of music ever to grace …
Loefah + Pangaea Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Fri 1 June The mid-to-late 00s saw UK dance music mutate into new forms, with a swathe of producers and DJs marrying creaking …
STELLA DONNELLY | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Wed 16 May Anyone pondering the origins of Annabel Allum’s angst during her opening slot this evening is presumably unaware …
The Valleys town has been undergoing something of a resurgence, thanks in part to the Merthyr Rising Festival. Fedor Tot speaks to organiser Lyn Williams about its ethos and significance. …
HowTheLightGetsIn 2018 With more than 400 events, 150 debates and talks, and hundreds of musicians, HowTheLightGetsIn2018 is set to be a cracker. Renowned figures such as philosopher and political activist …
ANONYMOUS ICONOCLASTS **** A.I. (Bywyd) You can almost smell the pubs these songs were honed in. At first a seeming tribute to the era of dad-rock, there’s a definite late …
JUNGLE **** Cardiff University Great Hall, Sat 5 May Is there a better way to spend the Saturday evening of the hottest Early May Bank Holiday weekend on record than …