Muriel
Chapter Arts Centre Market Road, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomSomewhere between post-rock, Midwest emo and countrified alt-rock, Muriel is the ostensible solo project of Cardiff’s Zak Thomas, very much expanded for the purposes of live performance – up to eight people onstage at last count. The Friday show was booked up sharpish so they added another the day before.
The Warning
Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union Cardiff, South GlamorganDaniela, Alejandra and Paulina Villarreal Vélez are three siblings from Monterrey, Mexico who first got noticed doing Metallica covers in YouTube in the mid-2010s but have since become popular in their own terms. Keep Me Fed, The Warning’s fourth album, will drop a couple of months after this UK tour, of which Cardiff is the …
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Five years since their last release, husband-and-wife duo Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have returned with seventh album {Almost A Sunset}. Recorded in their Dartmoor studio, the two folk musicians blend the traditional with the contemporary and are promoting it with a sizeable UK tour encompassing four Welsh dates: Acapela, Cardiff (Wed 24 Apr), Aberystwyth …
The Leisure Society
Acapela Heol Y Pentre, Cardiff, Cardiff, UKGrownup indie vibes from a band with friends in high places: as a teen, frontman Nick Hemming played in a band with Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine, while The Leisure Society have cowritten songs with Ray Davies and, most recently, Brian Eno. Fare for fans of The National, or maybe the ‘Mumfords’ before they went …
Noizzefest
Fuel Rock Club 5 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CardiffNoizze is a metal-leaning music blog/review site which started in Cardiff 10 years ago though is based elsewhere now. They’re back on Womanby Street for an alldayer spread across two venues and featuring Clt Drp, Vexed, The St. Pierre Snake Invasion, Death Goals, Nightlives, Slash Fiction, Burner, El Moono, Wallowing, Delaire The Liar, Blank Atlas, …
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