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PETER STEVENSON: THE FAIRYTALE OF WATER | INTERVIEW

September 17, 2021

Rhonda Lee Reali interviews the co-director of a new Welsh animated short, The Fairytale Of Water, showing on Sun 19 Sept as part of the Wales One World film festival’s EcoSinema programme.

Category: Environment, Film, Interviews Region: Mid Wales, South Wales

KIMBERLY WYATT | INTERVIEW

September 17, 2021

Of the many strings to Kimberly Wyatt’s bow, you may know her best as one-fifth of the Pussycat Dolls, but she gets up to all sorts. Right now, she’s got a new movie, Override, to promote, and wanted Carl Marsh to know exactly how brassic it was on set. That, like Kimberly herself, is showbiz.

Category: Film, Interviews

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 17, 2021

A week of heavy music in various forms this week - and though Adia Victoria and Moor Mother prove that doesn't have to mean big rock riffs and the like, Carcass, Employed To Serve and Merthyr band Florence Black offer a bit of that anyway.

Category: Albums, Reviews

CADY COLEMAN | INTERVIEW

September 16, 2021

Having written her name in history by leaving earth and boarding the International Space Station in 1995 – her first of several space flights – Cady Coleman is one of the standout figures in new documentary film The Wonderful: Stories From The Space Station. She recalled her experiences to Carl Marsh.

Category: Film, Interviews

KATE | FILM REVIEW

September 16, 2021

Mary Elisabeth Winstead proves an adept assassin in her own action movie which, although wearing its influences on its sleeve to the point of derivativeness, entertains crunchingly.

Category: Film, Reviews

DEL AMITRI | LIVE REVIEW

September 16, 2021

There were two forces at play when Del Amitri came on stage to a huge welcome – their musicianship, and signs of rust after so long out in the cold.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

THE DJINN | FILM REVIEW

September 15, 2021

A brisk horror that is often like a supernatural Home Alone, The Djinn is a diverting shocker with a strong central performance from child actor Ezra Dewey amidst the jump scares.

Category: Film, Reviews

THE SPECIALS | LIVE REVIEW

September 15, 2021

You could be forgiven for forgetting that The Specials are foremost a protest band. Terry Hall’s bitter lyrics sting when the man himself is glaring the arena down as the rest of the band skanks around him.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 15, 2021

A photographic diary of COVID in Welsh hospitals, a personal account of a more mysterious ailment, an Aussie rocker's attachment to a piece of chewing gum and two novels set in a Johannesburg suburb and on a Greek island.

Category: Books, Reviews

JASON DONOVAN ON PRODUCING PRISCILLA | INTERVIEW

September 15, 2021

Jason Donovan turns his hand to theatre production, pulling the strings for this UK tour of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert - set to light up Cardiff’s New Theatre from Mon 20-Sat 25 Sept.

Category: Interviews, Previews, Theatre Region: South Wales

DREAM HORSE | FILM REVIEW

September 14, 2021

A fantastic feelgood comedy drama based on a true story, Dream Horse races on to DVD delivering a homegrown, crowd-pleasing hit.

Category: Film, Reviews Region: South Wales

BRIDGET CHRISTIE | PREVIEW

September 14, 2021

This Gloucestershire-born comedian's show Who Am I? is a menopausal march through myriad ailments and complaints brought on by the passage of time.

Category: Comedy, Previews Region: Mid Wales, South Wales

HERSELF | FILM REVIEW

September 13, 2021

Directed sensitively by Mama Mia’s Phyllida Lloyd, this is an often surprising drama, managing to combine gritty social realism with genuine, magical heartwarming moments

Category: Film, Reviews

JOHN | LIVE REVIEW

September 13, 2021

John will never be a stadium rock band: they belong in low-ceilinged sweat-pits like this, stirring up chaos and then splitting with no encore.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE | STAGE REVIEW

September 13, 2021

Wales’ leading opera company return with a safe-bet, classic production of The Barber Of Seville from 1986, writes James Ellis.

Category: Reviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 10, 2021

A week of marquee releases including Manic Street Preachers album number 14 and a bumper-sized Metallica reissue/tribute album package. Plus Elvis Costello is redone in Spanish and there's comebacks from Martina Topley-Bird and Saint Etienne.

Category: Albums, Reviews

MYRA DUBOIS | STAGE REVIEW

September 9, 2021

Have you ever imagined what you’d get if Bianca Del Rio was a character created by Victoria Wood? If not, then watch a Myra DuBois show.

Category: Comedy, Reviews Region: South Wales

SIMON AMSTELL | INTERVIEW

September 8, 2021

Simon Amstell has surfed the TV-to-standup-to-film-director pipeline with plenty of success, but like the best of us, he still wallows in shame, tied down by the society we live in. New live show Spirit Hole is about escaping that… hole, and ahead of its Cardiff date he spoke about it to Carl Marsh.

Category: Comedy, Interviews, Previews Region: South Wales

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 8, 2021

Punk rock tour diaries, Black Mirror-esque speculative fiction, thoughts on cultural and racial dividing lines in Britain, photographs from Troubles-era Northern Ireland, and a couple who encounter uncanny situations when they travel to adopt a child.

Category: Books, Reviews

DELETE PRESENTS HAMISH & TOBY | CLUB REVIEW

September 7, 2021

As COVID restrictions ease, 2021’s been anticipated as the UK’s third ‘summer of love’, and this was certainly the case at Delete’s August bank holiday party, their first event in 18 months.

Category: Clubs, Reviews, Uncategorized

SHANG CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS | FILM REVIEW

September 6, 2021

Marvel gets its first Asian superhero in Shang Chi, an enjoyable martial arts/CGI mysticism mashup with classy action, witty banter and plenty of subtext about claiming your identity.

Category: Film, Reviews

GREEN MAN 2021 | FESTIVAL REVIEW

September 6, 2021

"After 18 months of misery, it didn’t feel real. This was the pristine Green Man experience preserved, unwrapped, presented." Jason Machlab had a blast down by the Brecon Beacons...

Category: Festivals, Reviews Region: Mid Wales

DEL AMITRI | INTERVIEW

September 6, 2021

Ahead of their first new album tour in 20 years, Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie tells John-Paul Davies how Nothing Ever Happens came to be the band’s first Scottish hit and the true story behind their classic Top Of The Pops performance.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales

PLAN A DIRECTOR YOAV PAZ | INTERVIEW

September 3, 2021

Carl Marsh speaks to Israeli film director Yoav Paz, who with his brother Doron is the architect of Plan A: a new thriller, based on a true story, concerning a group of Holocaust survivors who hatch a plan to poison the German water supply and kill millions in the spirit of revenge.

Category: Film, Interviews

PETER STEVENSON: THE FAIRYTALE OF WATER | INTERVIEW

KIMBERLY WYATT | INTERVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

CADY COLEMAN | INTERVIEW

KATE | FILM REVIEW

DEL AMITRI | LIVE REVIEW

THE DJINN | FILM REVIEW

THE SPECIALS | LIVE REVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

JASON DONOVAN ON PRODUCING PRISCILLA | INTERVIEW

DREAM HORSE | FILM REVIEW

BRIDGET CHRISTIE | PREVIEW

HERSELF | FILM REVIEW

JOHN | LIVE REVIEW

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE | STAGE REVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

MYRA DUBOIS | STAGE REVIEW

SIMON AMSTELL | INTERVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

DELETE PRESENTS HAMISH & TOBY | CLUB REVIEW

SHANG CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS | FILM REVIEW

GREEN MAN 2021 | FESTIVAL REVIEW

DEL AMITRI | INTERVIEW

PLAN A DIRECTOR YOAV PAZ | INTERVIEW

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