SALEM | LIVE REVIEW
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.
Live
LAURA MARLING | LIVE REVIEW
Performing tracks from her Grammy and Mercury nominated album, Song For Our Daughter, Laura Marling stirs up an adoring Cardiff crowd.
ERASURE | LIVE REVIEW
Erasure hit Cardiff's Motorpoint, and Mab Jones was there to soak up a lively and glittery celebration of queerness from the tuneful duo.
NOTHING BUT THIEVES | LIVE REVIEW
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.
ROGER TAYLOR | LIVE REVIEW
St David’s Hall may be a small venue for stadium songs, but every note was as big as Queen and Roger Taylor deserved.
THE RHEINGANS SISTERS | LIVE PREVIEW
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.
SQUID / PVA | LIVE REVIEW
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.
ROGER TAYLOR | LIVE PREVIEW
For Queen devotees, this is a must-make night of stories, songs and very special insights from self-styled outsider Roger Taylor.
NEWTON FAULKNER | INTERVIEW
Close friends get to call this folk-rocking troubadour Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner, and while Buzz’s Carl Marsh can’t quite claim that status, he had a perfectly pleasant chat with the man you and I call Newton Faulkner ahead of his three Welsh dates in October.
808 STATE | INTERVIEW
A full year and a half after Manc rave legends 808 State were due to hit Cardiff’s Tramshed – we ran an interview and everything – they’re finally here! Carl Marsh spoke to one half of the duo, Graham Massey.
WOLF ALICE | LIVE REVIEW
To encourage people to return to live gigs, Music Venue Trust and The National Lottery's Revive Live Tour saw Wolf Alice playing select small UK venues including Sin City in Swansea.
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT | LIVE REVIEW
Canadian-Americana comes to theTramshed tonight as Martha Wainwright is in town, and her quintessentially American folk-pop sounds great in this venue.
NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS | LIVE REVIEW
There’s the sense of these performances being essential to both Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, a much-needed release after so long pent up in isolation, lockdown, and uncertainty.
I’M YOUR MAN: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN | LIVE REVIEW
James Ellis returns to Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre to see Steven Elliott pay tribute to soul poet legend Leonard Cohen.
BLACK STONE CHERRY | LIVE REVIEW
Black Stone Cherry’s energy is infectious and there wasn’t a dull moment on stage. When you leave a venue with sore hands you know it’s been a good night.
BRING ME THE HORIZON / YOU ME AT SIX | LIVE REVIEW
There aren’t many bigger bands in the UK than Bring Me The Horizon, a band that have grown from metalcore upstarts into full on arena pop rock icons.
STEVE HACKETT: GENESIS REVISITED | LIVE REVIEW
Ex-Genesis member Steve Hackett and his collection of talented musicians take to the road on another lengthy UK tour, this time playing 1977 Genesis live album Seconds Out in its entirety.
BIFFY CLYRO | LIVE REVIEW
What better way to start the Bay Series at Alexandra Head in Cardiff Bay than with a band that does live as gloriously as their prolific studio work? Biffy Clyro are here, and the crowd are eager for some respite and sheer entertainment amidst this unpleasantness.
DEL AMITRI | LIVE REVIEW
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.
THE SPECIALS | LIVE REVIEW
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.
JOHN | LIVE REVIEW
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.
LIVE AND UNLOCKED @ THE CASTLE | LIVE REVIEW
After 17 quiet months, bank holiday Monday saw live music back in the heart of Cardiff once more, under the banner Live & Unlocked.
WENDY JAMES | INTERVIEW
Wendy James is still full of rock’n’roll vim and hungry to gig three decades after Transvision Vamp, the lurid pop-punk band that made her a star, went their separate ways. She and her band are touring the UK for the entirety of September, including two Welsh dates, as she enthuses to Carl Marsh.
MANIC STREET PREACHERS | LIVE REVIEW
Watched by a socially distanced crowd of just 150, in a hall well over 10 times that capacity, and with rigorous COVID security measures in place, this was a strange setting for the return of the Manic Street Preachers.