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WOLF ALICE | LIVE REVIEW

September 30, 2021

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.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: West Wales

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT | LIVE REVIEW

September 29, 2021

Canadian-Americana comes to theTramshed tonight as Martha Wainwright is in town, and her quintessentially American folk-pop sounds great in this venue.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS | LIVE REVIEW

September 28, 2021

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.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

I’M YOUR MAN: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN | LIVE REVIEW

September 28, 2021

James Ellis returns to Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre to see Steven Elliott pay tribute to soul poet legend Leonard Cohen.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

BLACK STONE CHERRY | LIVE REVIEW

September 27, 2021

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.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

BRING ME THE HORIZON / YOU ME AT SIX | LIVE REVIEW

September 24, 2021

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.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

STEVE HACKETT: GENESIS REVISITED | LIVE REVIEW

September 20, 2021

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.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

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.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

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 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

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

LIVE AND UNLOCKED @ THE CASTLE | LIVE REVIEW

September 2, 2021

After 17 quiet months, bank holiday Monday saw live music back in the heart of Cardiff once more, under the banner Live & Unlocked.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

WENDY JAMES | INTERVIEW

August 26, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Live, Music Region: South Wales, West Wales

MANIC STREET PREACHERS | LIVE REVIEW

August 13, 2021

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.

Category: Live, Music, Reviews Region: South Wales

BLUE EVOLUTION | LIVE REVIEW

August 12, 2021

John-Paul Davies checks out these crack south Wales blues-rockers, hailing the return of in-person live music with a fine set in the grand surroundings of Cardiff Castle.

Category: Live, Music, Reviews Region: South Wales

WOLF ALICE | LIVE REVIEW

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT | LIVE REVIEW

NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS | LIVE REVIEW

I’M YOUR MAN: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN | LIVE REVIEW

BLACK STONE CHERRY | LIVE REVIEW

BRING ME THE HORIZON / YOU ME AT SIX | LIVE REVIEW

STEVE HACKETT: GENESIS REVISITED | LIVE REVIEW

BIFFY CLYRO | LIVE REVIEW

DEL AMITRI | LIVE REVIEW

THE SPECIALS | LIVE REVIEW

JOHN | LIVE REVIEW

LIVE AND UNLOCKED @ THE CASTLE | LIVE REVIEW

WENDY JAMES | INTERVIEW

MANIC STREET PREACHERS | LIVE REVIEW

BLUE EVOLUTION | LIVE REVIEW

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