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Talent undercut by brilliant wit and dry humour – JON GOMM | LIVE REVIEW

October 19, 2021

Jon Gomm has taken percussive guitar playing, melodic retuning, two-handed tapping and a host of other techniques to a different level.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: West Wales

Equally immense and intense – FONTAINES D.C. | LIVE REVIEW

October 19, 2021

Postpunk Dublin five-piece Fontaines D.C. arrived promoting second album A Hero’s Death, having had to reschedule, and both crowd and band seemed to revel in each other’s company during this sold-out gig.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

‘People standing motionless with their eyes closed, to me that’s flattering’ – BLACK MARBLE | INTERVIEW

October 19, 2021

For a contemporary take on the early 80s British synthpop sound – slightly wobbly mechanical arrangements, melancholy vocals – you won’t find much better than Chris Stewart’s Black Marble, whose new album Fast Idol is released on the same weekend as his Cardiff debut.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales

Cardiff’s long-running new music fest returns – SŴN FESTIVAL 2021 | PHOTODIARY

October 19, 2021

Womanby Street bustling all of last weekend. Hannah Nicholson-Tottle got in on the act and captured some of the finest young locals in their element…

Category: Festivals, Photography Region: South Wales

‘Our influences range from Slipknot to Abba’ – FLORENCE BLACK | INTERVIEW

October 19, 2021

Tristan Thomas, singer, guitarist and frontman of Florence Black, tells John-Paul Davies how everything from Abba to Slipknot influenced the making of this Merthyr Tydfil hard rock band’s debut album, Weight Of The World.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales

A live performance that transcends anticipation – KASABIAN | LIVE REVIEW

October 18, 2021

Every doubt about how well Kasabian will perform in their new incarnation is quickly swept away, As we bustle out of the Great Hall, remarks of “that was amazing” and “what a show” can be heard.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

Utterly captivating, free and full of choice – FOCUS WALES | FESTIVAL REVIEW

October 18, 2021

Laura Fedeli journeyed up to Wrexham, and the return of the town’s regular music industry weekender FOCUS Wales, to do some ‘proper work’ but with the ulterior intention of supporting the south Wales hip-hop-and-more contingent. And that’s just what she did!

Category: Festivals, Reviews Region: North Wales, South Wales

Con7rol return with a double Swansea party – EATS EVERYTHING | CLUB PREVIEW

October 18, 2021

Eats Everything plays two sets in Swansea this Friday, meaning twice as much upfront house chug and techno-adjacent bounce for your buck.

Category: Clubs, Reviews Region: West Wales

GOOD LIFE: FOLAMOUR + ELKKA | LIVE REVIEW

October 15, 2021

Good Life's immersive Motel Malice tour stopped at Cardiff’s Tramshed last Friday with headliners Folamour and Elkka.

Category: Clubs, Reviews Region: South Wales

SALEM | LIVE REVIEW

October 15, 2021

One of those gigs that will live long in the memory for those in attendance – and where people who didn’t attend will question, in years to come, what could possibly have been more important that night.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

LAURA MARLING | LIVE REVIEW

October 15, 2021

Performing tracks from her Grammy and Mercury nominated album, Song For Our Daughter, Laura Marling stirs up an adoring Cardiff crowd.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

October 15, 2021

An autumnal harvest of new releases by Circuit Des Yeux, Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, John Carpenter (with son and godson) and the Melvins.

Category: Albums, Reviews

ERASURE | LIVE REVIEW

October 14, 2021

Erasure hit Cardiff's Motorpoint, and Mab Jones was there to soak up a lively and glittery celebration of queerness from the tuneful duo.

Category: Culture, Live, Music, Reviews

AQUILO | INTERVIEW

October 14, 2021

Carl Marsh hits up Ben Fletcher and Tom Higham, aka electro-indie-chill duo Aquilo, ahead of their long-awaited third album A Safe Place To Be.

Category: Culture, Interviews, Music

NOTHING BUT THIEVES | LIVE REVIEW

October 11, 2021

Southend five-piece Nothing But Thieves brought their long-awaited Moral Panic tour to the Motorpoint on a crisp autumn night, with a communal feeling of “it’s good to be back” in the air.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

NINA KRAVIZ | CLUB PREVIEW

October 11, 2021

Swansea club promoters Solo having announced this event in March and sold it out in April, it seems a thousand or so people are willing to pay up to £35 to see Russian techno maven Nina Kraviz.

Category: Clubs, Previews Region: West Wales

SŴN FESTIVAL | PREVIEW

October 11, 2021

Annual new music jamboree returns to the fray and compels hundreds of (mostly, probably) young people to bounce back and forth between a series of tightly-situated locations, shout a bit, climb on each other’s shoulders and generally get up close and personal.

Category: Festivals, Previews Region: South Wales

ROOTS UNEARTHED: KITTY MACFARLANE | LIVE PREVIEW

October 8, 2021

Rising star of the British folk scene Kitty Macfarlane, a songwriter and guitarist from Somerset, writes music rich with visual imagery and an eco-eye. She appears at Cardiff St David's Hall on Tue 12 Oct.

Category: Music, Previews Region: South Wales

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

October 8, 2021

Experimental indie from Denmark's Efterklang, Arabic avant-garde from Montreal's Jerusalem In My Heart, gritpop from Tyneside's Sam Fender and two compilations of trad Irish folk and Italian horror scores.

Category: Albums, Reviews

ROGER TAYLOR | LIVE REVIEW

October 7, 2021

St David’s Hall may be a small venue for stadium songs, but every note was as big as Queen and Roger Taylor deserved.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

FOLAMOUR / ELKKA | CLUB PREVIEW

October 5, 2021

Good Life have announced their ‘Malice Motel’ tour, bringing a series of themed, immersive events to venues across the UK and arriving in Cardiff with headliners Folamour and Elkka.

Category: Clubs, Previews Region: South Wales

THE RHEINGANS SISTERS | LIVE PREVIEW

October 5, 2021

You might hunt high and low for British folk acts with any sort of profile who make similar music to The Rheingans Sisters, who play four Welsh dates on their October UK tour.

Category: Live, Previews Region: Wales-Wide

SQUID / PVA | LIVE REVIEW

October 5, 2021

If you can embrace the incomprehensibility and just surrender yourself to them, you soon find that Squid are trustworthy tour guides guaranteed to take you to interesting, out-of-the-way places.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

FOCUS WALES | FESTIVAL PREVIEW

October 4, 2021

The team behind this annual takeover of Wrexham town centre have faced their fallow year with a doughty spirit, and the programme they’ve assembled looks like the strongest and most eclectic yet.

Category: Festivals, Previews Region: North Wales

Talent undercut by brilliant wit and dry humour – JON GOMM | LIVE REVIEW

Equally immense and intense – FONTAINES D.C. | LIVE REVIEW

‘People standing motionless with their eyes closed, to me that’s flattering’ – BLACK MARBLE | INTERVIEW

Cardiff’s long-running new music fest returns – SŴN FESTIVAL 2021 | PHOTODIARY

‘Our influences range from Slipknot to Abba’ – FLORENCE BLACK | INTERVIEW

A live performance that transcends anticipation – KASABIAN | LIVE REVIEW

Utterly captivating, free and full of choice – FOCUS WALES | FESTIVAL REVIEW

Con7rol return with a double Swansea party – EATS EVERYTHING | CLUB PREVIEW

GOOD LIFE: FOLAMOUR + ELKKA | LIVE REVIEW

SALEM | LIVE REVIEW

LAURA MARLING | LIVE REVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

ERASURE | LIVE REVIEW

AQUILO | INTERVIEW

NOTHING BUT THIEVES | LIVE REVIEW

NINA KRAVIZ | CLUB PREVIEW

SŴN FESTIVAL | PREVIEW

ROOTS UNEARTHED: KITTY MACFARLANE | LIVE PREVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

ROGER TAYLOR | LIVE REVIEW

FOLAMOUR / ELKKA | CLUB PREVIEW

THE RHEINGANS SISTERS | LIVE PREVIEW

SQUID / PVA | LIVE REVIEW

FOCUS WALES | FESTIVAL PREVIEW

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