Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
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.
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.
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.
Canadian-Americana comes to theTramshed tonight as Martha Wainwright is in town, and her quintessentially American folk-pop sounds great in this venue.
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.
James Ellis returns to Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre to see Steven Elliott pay tribute to soul poet legend Leonard Cohen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
