Buzz Magazine - Culture - The Ultimate Guide to What's On in Wales.

FOCUS WALES | FESTIVAL PREVIEW

October 4, 2021

The team behind this annual takeover of Wrexham town centre have faced their fallow year with a doughty spirit, and the programme they’ve assembled looks like the strongest and most eclectic yet.

Category: Festivals, Previews Region: North Wales

CLINTON BAPTISTE | INTERVIEW

October 4, 2021

Remember glamorous Lancashire clairvoyant Clinton Baptiste on Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights? What were all that about? About to visit Cardiff as part of an extensive UK tour, that’s what, with the character having taken on a life of its own – recently in the podcast ‘medium’ and now once again in the live setting. Carl Marsh hopped on the psychic hotline.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: South Wales

ROGER TAYLOR | LIVE PREVIEW

October 1, 2021

For Queen devotees, this is a must-make night of stories, songs and very special insights from self-styled outsider Roger Taylor.

Category: Live, Previews Region: South Wales

FRESHMAN YEAR | FILM REVIEW

October 1, 2021

Notwithstanding its original title of Shithouse, Freshman Year is both moving and funny: a painfully well observed snapshot of college life and the feeling all university students when they’re away from home for the first time.

Category: Film, Reviews

KARYN PARSONS | INTERVIEW

October 1, 2021

You most likely know Karyn Parsons from playing Will Smith’s cousin Hillary Banks in The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. but here's she's talking to Carl Marsh about her new movie, Sweet Thing.

Category: Film, Interviews

WORKERS GALLERY OCTOBER PHOTOGRAPHY | PREVIEW

October 1, 2021

Rhondda gallery the Workers has assembled a challenging bill of photographic exhibitions for October, including Dale Evans' look at gay subcultures, Lorna Cabble's homage to burlesque and Mohamed Hassan's show Self Wort

Category: Photography, Previews Region: South Wales

INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL | CLUB PREVIEW

October 1, 2021

The return of Cardiff dance festival Inside Out to Bute Park for its fifth edition, featuring sets by the likes of Ghetts, MoStack and Rudimental.

Category: Clubs, Festivals, Previews Region: South Wales

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

October 1, 2021

Including pioneers of Detroit techno, 2-tone and progressive rock - those'd be Kevin Saunderson, The Specials and Yes - plus newcomers to the trip-hop and gothic metal subgenres, namely Tirzah and Unto Others.

Category: Albums, Reviews

NEWTON FAULKNER | INTERVIEW

September 30, 2021

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.

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

HELLO WORLD | FILM REVIEW

September 30, 2021

Tomohiko Itō's Hello World is the kind of ambitious and interesting storytelling you’d expect from a filmmaker finally let loose from the franchise pen.

Category: Film, Reviews Region: Mid Wales, South Wales

BARRY ADAMSON | FEATURE

September 30, 2021

With his long-awaited memoir out now, what better time for a look at the life and work of Barry Adamson: Mancunian musical cult icon and collaborator with the likes of Nick Cave and David Lynch. David Nobakht has the goods.

Category: Features, Music

808 STATE | INTERVIEW

September 30, 2021

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.

Category: Clubs, Live, Previews Region: South Wales

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

COWBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL | LIVE PREVIEW

September 30, 2021

Having been obliged to skip its 10th birthday bash last year, the Cowbridge Music Festival returns for 2021 with nine concerts across four venues in the well-heeled Vale Of Glamorgan town.

Category: Festivals, Previews Region: South Wales

THE STARLING | FILM REVIEW

September 29, 2021

A mawkish drama with a tin ear for emotion, The Starling is a misjudged exploration of grief with awkward performances and cringey insincerity.

Category: Film, Reviews

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 29, 2021

From a post-Atwood dystopian novel, to a snazzy hardback history of wildlife photography, to the latest from TV's Richard Osman, to some brief thoughts on spaghetti, to comedian Phil Wang on racial identity... we get this week's books column.

Category: Books, Reviews

DIFFUSION 2021 | ART PREVIEW

September 29, 2021

The fifth edition of Diffusion, a biennial celebration of international photography, will return to Cardiff in October, expanding to Newport too this time, and in Noel Gardner’s view looks better than ever.

Category: Photography, Previews Region: South 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

LOOKING GOOD DEAD: ADAM WOODYATT | INTERVIEW

September 28, 2021

Adam Woodyatt has been the concrete holding Albert Square together, playing the only character to feature in EastEnders since its 1985 launch, but for the mo he’s bailed on Ian Beale, instead hitting up Cardiff’s New Theatre in an adaption of Peter James’ novel Looking Good Dead. Carl Marsh lends an ear.

Category: Interviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

THE GREEN KNIGHT | FILM REVIEW

September 28, 2021

A dream-like retelling of the 14th Century chivalric tale of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, David Lowery’s film is breathtakingly beautiful and haunting, with a strong central performance from Dev Patel

Category: Film, Reviews

THE BOY WITH TWO HEARTS | STAGE PREVIEW

September 28, 2021

The Wales Millennium Centre has collaborated with Hamed Amiri and his family to bring their extraordinary story, The Boy With Two Hearts, to the stage, and it’s one which could inspire viewers and give insight into one family’s struggle for freedom and safety.

Category: Previews, Theatre Region: South Wales

ANFAMOL | STAGE PREVIEW

September 28, 2021

Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru are taking Rhiannon Boyle's latest play on the road, with Anfamol visiting eight Welsh locations over three weeks.

Category: Previews, Theatre Region: Wales-Wide

CATHERINE FISHER | AUTHOR INTERVIEW

September 28, 2021

Karla Brading talks with Catherine Fisher about her new evocative, blood-fizzling release The Red Gloves And Other Stories, where two stepbrothers share one nightmare, red gloves reach for your throat, a stranger asks to swap lives with you… and who is the ghost in the rain?

Category: Books, Interviews 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

FOCUS WALES | FESTIVAL PREVIEW

CLINTON BAPTISTE | INTERVIEW

ROGER TAYLOR | LIVE PREVIEW

FRESHMAN YEAR | FILM REVIEW

KARYN PARSONS | INTERVIEW

WORKERS GALLERY OCTOBER PHOTOGRAPHY | PREVIEW

INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL | CLUB PREVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

NEWTON FAULKNER | INTERVIEW

HELLO WORLD | FILM REVIEW

BARRY ADAMSON | FEATURE

808 STATE | INTERVIEW

WOLF ALICE | LIVE REVIEW

COWBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL | LIVE PREVIEW

THE STARLING | FILM REVIEW

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

DIFFUSION 2021 | ART PREVIEW

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT | LIVE REVIEW

LOOKING GOOD DEAD: ADAM WOODYATT | INTERVIEW

THE GREEN KNIGHT | FILM REVIEW

THE BOY WITH TWO HEARTS | STAGE PREVIEW

ANFAMOL | STAGE PREVIEW

CATHERINE FISHER | AUTHOR INTERVIEW

NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS | LIVE REVIEW

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