AREK MAZUREK QUARTET | LIVE REVIEW
AREK MAZUREK QUARTET | LIVE REVIEW Café Jazz, Cardiff Crammed onto the tiny stage at Cardiff’s Café Jazz are the Arek Mazurek Quartet, a chamber jazz ensemble whose understated …
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ALISON MOYET | INTERVIEW
With a new album under her belt and performances scheduled around the world, vocalist Alison Moyet talks to Heather Arnold about her next single and her love of touring. …
LIVE REVIEW | PARAMORE
LIVE REVIEW | PARAMORE Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Sat 21 Sept The smell of fried food, overpriced drinks, sweat and a thousand different kinds of perfume fills the air from …
MANIC STREET PREACHERS | LIVE REVIEW
MANIC STREET PREACHERS | LIVE REVIEW Newport Centre Fri 13 Sept With the final notes of the anthemic A Design For Life fading out to be replaced by one more blast of …
DEAN FRIEDMAN | LIVE PREVIEW
DEAN FRIEDMAN | LIVE PREVIEW History has now shown that the 1970’s was an incredibly diverse decade in the story of popular music. It started with the break up of …
LIVE REVIEW | LEONARD COHEN
LIVE REVIEW | LEONARD COHEN Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff Tue 3 Sept In the late 1960s, by far the largest proportion of Leonard Cohen’s fans were teachers of English at British …
LIVE REVIEW | DINOSAUR JR + THE COMPUTERS
DINOSAUR JR + THE COMPUTERS Solus, Cardiff University Students Union Mon 2 Sept The publicity spiel for this gig makes stark reference, as well it might, to the 20-year itch: …
GREEN MAN | LIVE REVIEW
“Thing is,” said my friend. He took a drag on his rollie and waited for a woman in a huge cardboard box to dance past us. “Thing is, I think Green Man’s at a kind of crossroads this year. It’s become big now, y’know? It’s not just be this mad little hippie thing anymore. It’s changing.”
Staying up late with The Gate
In order to champion local musical talent The Gate Arts Centre is Cardiff presents Eight at The Gate. The three day event, which starts Thurs 29th August, gives unsigned artists …
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | LIVE REVIEW
In an age of manufactured TV pop stars, instant online music access and short attention spans, Bruce Springsteen does things the old fashioned way says Steven Giddey.
SPACE JUNKIE PRESS LAUNCH PARTY | LIVE PREVIEW
Owen and Sion, the two gents behind Space Junkie Press, describe their new venture as “a fun way to lose money”.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce 'The Boss' Springsteen arrives in Cardiff for an evening of unbridled rock goodness.
HOT 8 BRASS BAND | LIVE REVIEW
Oxygen was at a premium and sweat glands put to the test as the packed out Moon Club hosted the much anticipated arrival of Hot 8 Brass Band at the start of their UK and Europe-wide tour on yet another sweltering evening in Cardiff.
TALONS / MASTS / WICKET | LIVE REVIEW
A relatively modest group escaped last Saturday's blazing heat to the cool air of Buffalo’s upper room for an intimate evening of punk and post-rock.
THE ORB | LIVE REVIEW
The Orb are in celebratory mood, and why not? Forming in the aftermath of the 1988 acid house big bang, this year marks a quite simply mind-boggling quarter of a century in the notoriously fickle music business.
HOT 8 BRASS BAND | LIVE PREVIEW
It’s a show that the guys at The Moon Club have “dreamed about getting in here” and sure enough, the New Orleans-based Hot 8 Brass Band will be making an appearance.
WIN GUESTLIST TICKETS TO GREEN MAN FESTIVAL | COMPETITION
Win a ticket to Green Man!! Need we say more?
SCOUT NIBLETT | LIVE REVIEW
With the release of It's Up To Emma Scout (Emma) Niblett has turned both her gaze and her righteous anger inwards.
FAIR OHS / KUTOSIS / GINDRINKER | LIVE REVIEW
Fair Ohs bring their distinctive "danceable, shouty punk" to Cardiff's Moon Club.
NANCY ELIZABETH / ISNAJ DUI | LIVE PREVIEW
As a folk artist, Wigan-born Nancy Elizabeth continues to go from strength to strength, having toured in remote and landmark venues in every corner of the globe...
DIRTY REVOLUTION | LIVE REVIEW
Simply put, ska + sunshine = good times, and that’s what’s delivered by Dirty Revolution, a Cardiff combo who occupy the ska-punk genre and don't let up for a second.
JACCO GARDNER | Q&A
Jacco Gardner chats to Molly Chinner ahead of his forthcoming date at Gwdihw, Cardiff.
GWYL PILI PALA FESTIVAL | EVENT PREVIEW
Kicking off the Welsh festival season nice and early this year is the inaugural Gwyl Pili Pala Festival.