SPOTLIGHT
Popular poet Hollie McNish is your wittiest best friend in new collection, LOBSTER
Lobster, the newest collection by the highly prolific author and poet Hollie McNish feels honest, fresh and like a conversation with your wittiest friend.
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BUZZ PICKS
SUM 41’s final album is a dynamic farewell of nostalgia and evolution
The scene this band grew up as part of is one that many are nostalgic about, yet through their musical evolution, Sum 41 proved they could transcend it.
DECLAN MCKENNA treats Cardiff SU to a batch of new songs on first stop of UK tour
As Saturday night was the first date of a nationwide tour for Declan McKenna, Cardiff’s Students Union gets to christen a handful of new songs.
New Welsh music you may have missed in March, from doomy riffs to classical disco
From even more dungeon synth to improv drumming to sludgy fuzz, here’s what’s been rattling around Wales’ music scene lately.
GOSSIP: pop, indie & punk converge in a dynamic comeback
Gossip’s Real Power brings together pop, indie and disco, with their punk convictions intact, stamped with Beth Ditto’s unmistakably punchy vocals.
JULIA HOLTER’s SOMETHING IN THE ROOM SHE MOVES: ethereal melodies from another dimension
Julia Holter claimed that her sixth LP, Something In The Room She Moves, has “a corporeal focus”, yet like its predecessors it feels like another out-of-body experience.
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THEATRE
Musical renegades BONNIE & CLYDE don’t hit the right notes on stage in Cardiff
Bonnie and Clyde, folk heroes of the Great Depression, make interesting subjects for a musical, although, on the evidence of this production, I’m not sure the execution completely works.
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: macabre CHRISTIE adaptation makes its way to the Cardiff stage
An eerie and authentic adaptation, even after 85 years And Then There Were None can resonate with a contemporary audience.
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is quintessential Matthew Bourne magic at the WMC
There’s something special about Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands that requires repeat viewing, or even the first time if you haven’t seen it before.
KILL THY NEIGHBOUR: playwright Lucie Lovatt on her dark comedy about holiday homes
We speak to Lucie Lovatt about her new play, Kill Thy Neighbour, where real-life issues with holiday home hoarders provide the basis for some dark comedy.
DEATH IN VENICE: Britten’s final curtain unites WNO & NoFit State in an impassioned fusion
Britten’s opera adaptation of Thomas Mann’s controversial Death In Venice gets a marvelous mounting by WNO, with help from NoFit State circus.
Books
food & Lifestyle
International Women’s Day: 8 influential women in Wales you should know
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we spotlight some women in Wales who are and have been making a big impact of late, in all sorts of walks of life.
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS’ endgame is coming
As Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, the big cheese of the TTRPG world is celebrating by resurrecting a multiversal threat: Vecna.
Spring fever: from farm holidays to secret sites, shake off winter blues with these outdoor activity ideas
From working farm holidays to flower walks, secret sites to cultural days out, we’ve got a bountiful crop of suggestions for where to go this spring.
Things that made me: KATHERINE JENKINS on crying at BARBIE, naked TV shows & her Welsh gin
From watching naked people on telly to Tudor fangirling to producing her own Welsh gin, Cygnet 22, there’s much more to Katherine Jenkins than singing.
Breaking down barriers: how ActivAvenue makes health & wellness accessible to all
ActivAvenue, a groundbreaking online platform is revolutionising the way we approach wellness by making it accessible and inclusive for everyone.