Taking Back Sunday
Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union Cardiff, South GlamorganOne of only three UK dates for prototypical 00s emo-rockers Taking Back Sunday: I’m slightly surprised there are still tickets left at the time of writing (albeit this is mid-February), but Cardiff gonna Cardiff I guess. The Long Island band recently released {152}, their eighth album, and claim that the existence of Nando’s helped convince …
Anna Anise / Boci
Bank Vault 1 New Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United KingdomMore music entitled to the ‘folk’ and ‘Cornwall’ tags on your preferred streaming service in the shape of Anna Anise, who grew up there before moving a little up country. Initially cutting her live teeth as a teen in Plymouth, she’s currently living in Devon having found a healthy indie-folk type scene in Bristol – …
Dream State
Patti Pavilion Mumbles Road, Swansea, SwanseaA listen to {Still Dreaming}, the new seven-song release by Swansea quartet Dream State, will affirm that they’re a band with skyscraping ambitions. Giant rock/metal hooks power songs built in equal measure from Paramore-like emo anthemia, industrial crunch and heavily synthesised production textures. If the band, who unveiled a new singer in Jesse Powell last …
Wales Goes Pop! 2024
The Moon 3 Womanby Steet, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomThis indietastic annual Easter weekender took a bath in 2023 and is back this year at the Moon, venue of WGP!’s main organiser Liz Hunt. Basically it’ll be three alldayers …
Evolution Drone Light Show
Sophia Gardens Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomThe story of the universe, summarised within 27 minutes – yes, that is the very exact time given – above Glamorgan’s cricket ground. A procession of light-emitting drones will be …
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