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If being a home school teacher is becoming hard work for both yourself and your children, then why not incorporate some fun into their learning (and give yourself a break) …
If being a home school teacher is becoming hard work for both yourself and your children, then why not incorporate some fun into their learning (and give yourself a break) …
Quiet Marauder Eggs! Bubblewrap Collective If John Peel and his Festive 50 still existed, Quiet Marauder would probably dominate the upper echelons of it until kingdom come, just like Joy …
Muzz Muzz Matador Released 5th June 2020 The pandemic has caused havoc for release schedules, with many album releases now being postponed indefinitely, but all is not lost as there …
WHO SAVES THE HERO? **** Self-Destruction (Lost Music Collective) South Wales pop-punk powerhouse quartet Who Saves The Hero? have been grafting hard since their beginning in 2014, and secured an …
THE DEAD REDS *** Dictated Democracy (self-released) This is the fourth album from a Brighton five-piece who describe themselves as hard, loud and a bit like Led Zep meets …
ERLAND COOPER Hether Blether (Phases) **** While 2018’s Solan Goose looked at birdlife, and last year’s Sule Skerry pondered the sea, the third and final album in Erland’s Orkney islands …
Made during lockdown, Neil Bebbers play, ‘Breathe’ stars Jordan Bernarde who plays a homeless man trying to make sense of how and why he ended up homeless. Through a monologue …
A Hero’s Death – Fontaines D.C (Partisan Records) Fontaines D.C, the Dubliner post-punk five piece, are back, announcing their sophomore album with the release of it’s titular track “A …
Mark Lanegan Sing Backwards and Weep White Rabbit Books Out April 28th The author of this book, with his ‘six-foot-four cross-dressing drug buddy’ hail a cab and discover that …
DOOM ETERNAL | GAMES REVIEW Blow off some lockdown steam with Doom Eternal.Whether or or not you’ve had anything to do with games in your life, there’s a high …
BOARD GAMES TO RECREATE OUTDOORS… INDOORS Since lockdown began, the nation’s been looking for things to occupy themselves in the house and the popularity of board games has exploded …
KEIRON SELF PICKS THE BEST FILMS TO STREAM IN LOCKDOWN | FEATURE With the world on lockdown, who do we turn to for escapism? Streaming films and shows made …
FIFTY MILES WIDE Julian Sayarer (Arcadia) Sayarer is an award-winning travel writer: here we see why. This memoir traverses its world on two wheels, and despite his “Pedalling, always pedalling”, …
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS | GAME REVIEW Animal Crossing: New Horizons may be exactly what the world needs right now. Although that may seem a little hyperbolic, couldn’t we all …
Fight off the boredom with these five board game recommendations, from John-Paul Davies and Ben Woolhead You’ve Got Crabs (Exploding Kittens) This is a new one for us. A one-joke card game, with …
I’M AFRAID THAT’S ALL WE’VE GOT TIME FOR Jen Calleja (Prototype) From a London-based writer, a debut collection of short fiction that’s consistently inventive, envelopingly surreal and biting in its …
ALBUMS AND DEMOS | APRIL ALUN GAFFEY *** Llyfrau Hanes (Côsh) The second solo album from Alun Gaffey, ex-guitarist of Aberystwyth’s Race Horses, is a funky affair. With a mixture …
SUBMARINE (BFI Player) Set in 1980s South Wales, Richard Ayoade’s first film is a laugh-out-loud, coming-of-age comedy based on the novel by Swansea’s own Joe Dunthorne. Following the hopelessly …
News, views and reviews of Welsh brews by Neil at Wales Ales. The Great Welsh Beer Festival was supposed to take place this month, but is now unfortunately postponed until …
SORRY WE MISSED YOU (DVD) Not billed in any overt sense as a followup to 2016’s benefits system-denouncing I, Daniel Blake, this latest barrel of Newcastle-set grit from Ken Loach …
GOOD RIDDANCE Elinor Lipman (Lightning Books) The chocolatier protagonist of Good Riddance cannot really be described as an everywoman. However, like a good Austen novel, with whom Lipman has been compared …
THE PAINTED BIRD **** Dir: Václav Marhoul (18, 169 mins) A gruelling uncomfortable epic, brilliantly shot in monochrome, Václav Marhoul’s film has caused mass walkouts thanks to its unflinching brutality, …
VIVARIUM **** Dir: Lorcan Finnegan (15, 97 mins) A suffocating satire on suburban life, this dark drama feels like an episode of Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone. Jesse Eisenberg …
MULAN *** Dir: Niki Caro (12A, 120 mins) Another remake from the Disney back catalogue. Thankfully, this isn’t a shot-for-shot CGI folly (like the immensely successful but pointless The Lion …