INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL | CLUBS PREVIEW
Bute Park, Cardiff Sat 30 Sept Say what you like about global warming – and many do – but amongst the litany of Bad Things its responsible for, one pleasant …
Bute Park, Cardiff Sat 30 Sept Say what you like about global warming – and many do – but amongst the litany of Bad Things its responsible for, one pleasant …
WHITNEY – QUEEN OF THE NIGHT | LIVE REVIEW St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Sun 17 Sept Whitney Houston was undoubtedly one of the greatest female singers of all time …
THE vast, vast majority of what is produced under the banner of ‘journalism’ in the modern era is a pointless waste of energy. You know this, I know this and …
Got Bass @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Wed 27 Sept Bass! You’ll get plenty of it at Got Bass, which is just as well really as otherwise it looks like …
NEIL SEDAKA | LIVE REVIEW St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wed 20 Sept Neil Sedaka is like the cuddly grandad of classic American rock and pop, and a sell-out audience …
JOHN LEGEND | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Tue 19 Sep Sat almost an arm’s length away from the stage, it was a fantasy-full set for this reviewer, absorbing …
Shangri-La @ The Vaults, Cardiff Bay Fri 29 Sept The Vaults is the most headily intense venue for a night out in the Welsh capital, but by god, is it …
Tramshed, Cardiff Sat 23 Sept Forced from his native Timbuktu by a jihadist group who banned the most important elements of rock’n’roll, namely cigarettes, alcohol and music, guitarist Garba Touré …
Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff Sat 23 Sept While London’s North Sea Radio Orchestra are at root a classical music ensemble, there are many other styles within their orbit: pop, folk and …
CLUBS + LIVE MUSIC Selected by DAFYDD HAINE and HELEN PAYNE JACOB’S ANTIQUES Located behind the Central Station, and ironically surrounded by gleaming, everyday office blocks, Jacob’s Antiques is one …
Our immovable style guide calls them THIS, my own sense of propriety is inclined to call them This, but this magpie-like rock quartet from south Wales’ valleys call themselves THiS. …
Shelter @ Buffalo, Cardiff Thurs 21 Sept ‘Hutchison & Mango’. Say it to yourself and it sounds almost like an odd-couple crime fighting duo, eponymous heroes of a forgotten 1980s …
Chris Andrews speaks with half of Go West, Richard Drummie, about the highlights of his career and what’s next. When you first formed Go West who were your influences? Well …
Motorpoint Arena Cardiff Tue 19 Sept Following the release of his new album Darkness & Light last December, this effortlessly cool singer-songwriter is back for a 24-date tour starting in Glasgow …
ADWAITH **** Lipstick Coch / Femme (Libertino) A step up from their more folk-based early singles, this double-A indicates why people are putting Adwaith in the ‘hot tip’ category. Lipstick …
ÍMAR | INTERVIEW Be prepared to be swept off your feet by the sounds of Glasgow-based traditional Celtic quintet Ímar, who’ll be doing two shows in Wales this month. …
THE PITCHFORKS facebook.com/thepitchforksuk Weirdly, just before writing this review I was googling for something else that took me to a regional blogpost about The Pitchforks from four years ago, when …
The Welfare, Ystradgynlais Fri 15 Sept Musical heritage. The guys in Ímar – Mohsen Amini (concertina), Adam Brown (bodhrán), Tomás Callister (fiddle), Ryan Murphy (uilleann pipes, flute, whistles) and Adam …
The Big Tribute Festival, Aberystwyth Fri 25 – Sun 27 Aug It’s been 10 years since my last festival and, with only hazy memories of portaloo problems and the sound …
The regressive, fun-hating agenda of today’s social justice warriors was denounced online by dads galore last month, Newport’s Goldie Lookin Chain being the martyrs in this battle. Having been booked …
Ben Woolhead talks to Outpost’s Matt Jones about brewing coffee and selling records. For Matt Jones and Sophie Smith, it all started, appropriately enough, over a cup of coffee. “Last …
Ben Woolhead talks to Matt Jarrett, one half of Cardiff promoters Fuelled By Jealous Lovers. What sort of thing do you put on? Matt: We joke that we put on …
HORACE ANDY | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Thurs 31 Aug It’s pay day, football transfer deadline day and a week when Bake Off re-emerges on a different …
AMADOU & MARIAM **** La Confusion (Because) Their first studio album since 2012 – the same year in which Mali erupted in an ongoing civil war – Amadou & Mariam’s …