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Explore the culture of Wales through Buzz Magazine's extensive and exclusive cultural features, previews, reviews, interviews and listings.

British metal is alive and well and ARCHITECTS are here to prove it

May 10, 2022

The future of metal is looking promising with Architects at the helm and don’t let the naysayers tell you any different.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

“The Pub Landlord thought it was a lock-in, not lockdown” – how AL MURRAY weathered COVID

May 10, 2022

Al Murray, aka the Pub Landlord, has returned to the fray post-lockdown to mull the topics of the day, with two south Wales dates on a big UK tour.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: South Wales

TOMBERLIN strips back layered folk sound for daunting Cardiff set

May 9, 2022

Sarah Beth Tomberlin played a daunting solo set at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach - dialling back her new material to you could take more notice of their vulnerability.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

PANIC SHACK kick up a joyful riot from diehard Cardiff fans

May 9, 2022

Panic Shack take to the stage in matching pink outfits, owning the promotion from downstairs Clwb Ifor Bach to upstairs.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

SHADES OF BLUE dance duo THE MATSENA BROTHERS on difficult conversations & commissions

May 9, 2022

Carl Marsh speaks to Swansea-based siblings Anthony and Kel Matsena, whose charged, eclectic dance theatre work is making big waves of late.

Category: Dance, Interviews Region: South Wales

Wales Festival Guide 2022: every major, unmissable event

May 7, 2022

With festival season now underway in Wales, Buzz presents our comprehensive guide to the array of weekenders, all-dayers and general rave-ups across Wales in 2022.

Category: Features, Festivals, Life Region: Wales-Wide

TSHA invites you to underground acid-house in latest FABRIC PRESENTS mix

May 6, 2022

The latest artist to feature in the Fabric Presents mix series is Teisha Matthews aka TSHA: a London-based, Ninja Tune-signed DJ and producer.

Category: Albums, Reviews

TV soundtrack fave PATRICK WATSON crafts another beauty of an album

May 6, 2022

Patrick Watson has created another beautifully crafted album that pushes his soft piano, light vocal, ambient electronic style further to the leftfield.

Category: Albums, Reviews

THE PARADIS FILES: new, inclusive opera spotlights forgotten female composer

May 6, 2022

The Paradis Files - now at the Royal Welsh College after a medium sized tour around the UK - remains perhaps the most inclusive piece of theatre out there.

Category: Reviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

A feast of colour & joy: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT

May 6, 2022

In Cardiff for just one week, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is a veritable feast of colour and movement – joyous, uplifting and fun.

Category: Reviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

HALESTORM: BACK FROM THE DEAD and louder than ever

May 6, 2022

A group of four musically gifted individuals, Back From The Dead confirms Lzzy Hale as one of the best female vocalists currently active.

Category: Albums, Reviews

First BELLE AND SEBASTIAN album in 7 years is winsome polished pop

May 6, 2022

This is Belle and Sebastian's’ first album to be recorded in Glasgow in more than two decades, and they’ve evolved into a slicker outfit over time.

Category: Albums, Reviews

Rising rock saviours JAMES AND THE COLD GUN make explosive Cardiff return

May 6, 2022

James And The Cold Gun are back for another round and if you witnessed the boundless energy they exerted in their debut show here a while back, consider yourself fair warned.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

SOFT CELL are back with gloomy boomer introspection on fifth album

May 6, 2022

What the hell has happened with the world? That’s what Soft Cell ask with their fifth album, *Happiness Not Included.

Category: Albums, Reviews

Flashes of incandescent brilliance: HOLY FUCK get punky & funky live in Cardiff

May 5, 2022

Times have changed for Holy Fuck in recent years but there were still flashes of incandescent brilliance present in their Cardiff live show.

Category: Live Region: South Wales

PERSIANS: as close as one can get to stepping back into the Persian Empire

May 5, 2022

Cardiff University professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones takes a different approach to chronicling the rise of the Persian empire: telling the story from a Persian standpoint, rather than a purely from a Western one.

Category: Books, Reviews Region: South Wales

SIX: historical divas compete in this clever, current & campy musical

May 4, 2022

This musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss is as modern a piece as you can get: this is not Hilary Mantel’s Tudor Queens.

Category: Reviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

Power, politics & religion collide in Louise Kennedy’s astonishing debut novel TRESPASSES

May 4, 2022

Following Kennedy’s superb short story collection, The End Of The World Is a Cul De Sac, it’s no surprise that her debut novel has proved to be such an impressive story.

Category: Books, Reviews

CAST A LONG SHADOW: Welsh women’s crime anthology mixes melodrama & myth

May 4, 2022

With 20 short stories featuring everything from an avenging gorgon to a little girl impaling the schoolyard bully on a spike, there is enough crime on display in Cast A Long Shadow to make even Wind Street at closing time look quiet.

Category: Books, Reviews Region: Wales-Wide

Witness the birth, boom and bust of Britpop in Adams & Pooler’s literary chronicle

May 4, 2022

The decade that brought us the last truly great chart battle and some of the most iconic songs to ever grace a gig is both brilliantly analysed and celebrated in Britpop: Decades.

Category: Books, Music, Reviews

THE HERRING MAN beautifully embraces Welsh oral storytelling tradition

May 4, 2022

A fine example of Welsh nature writing, The Herring Man is embellished by beautiful hand-drawn sketches that graciously lead you by the hand through this personal story.

Category: Books, Reviews Region: South Wales

This May in TV + streaming: it’s Disney vs. Netflix with OBI-WAN & STRANGER THINGS

May 3, 2022

With Stranger Things and Obi-Wan Kenobi releasing on the same day, it's battle of the streamers this May in TV world. Hannah Collins reports from the frontlines.

Category: Culture, Features, TV

METRONOMY bring bank holiday Cardiff crowds to sugary pop high

May 3, 2022

Metronomy do a cracking job of highlighting their full range, spanning seaside-inspired new wave to nu-rave, across their seven albums to date.

Category: Live, Reviews Region: South Wales

WHITE SUN: a perfectly imperfect middle-class critique

May 3, 2022

It feels purposeful that Will Dickie and Peader Kirk's play White Sun's only audience at Chapter is also directly in its firing line.

Category: Reviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

British metal is alive and well and ARCHITECTS are here to prove it

“The Pub Landlord thought it was a lock-in, not lockdown” – how AL MURRAY weathered COVID

TOMBERLIN strips back layered folk sound for daunting Cardiff set

PANIC SHACK kick up a joyful riot from diehard Cardiff fans

SHADES OF BLUE dance duo THE MATSENA BROTHERS on difficult conversations & commissions

Wales Festival Guide 2022: every major, unmissable event

TSHA invites you to underground acid-house in latest FABRIC PRESENTS mix

TV soundtrack fave PATRICK WATSON crafts another beauty of an album

THE PARADIS FILES: new, inclusive opera spotlights forgotten female composer

A feast of colour & joy: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT

HALESTORM: BACK FROM THE DEAD and louder than ever

First BELLE AND SEBASTIAN album in 7 years is winsome polished pop

Rising rock saviours JAMES AND THE COLD GUN make explosive Cardiff return

SOFT CELL are back with gloomy boomer introspection on fifth album

Flashes of incandescent brilliance: HOLY FUCK get punky & funky live in Cardiff

PERSIANS: as close as one can get to stepping back into the Persian Empire

SIX: historical divas compete in this clever, current & campy musical

Power, politics & religion collide in Louise Kennedy’s astonishing debut novel TRESPASSES

CAST A LONG SHADOW: Welsh women’s crime anthology mixes melodrama & myth

Witness the birth, boom and bust of Britpop in Adams & Pooler’s literary chronicle

THE HERRING MAN beautifully embraces Welsh oral storytelling tradition

This May in TV + streaming: it’s Disney vs. Netflix with OBI-WAN & STRANGER THINGS

METRONOMY bring bank holiday Cardiff crowds to sugary pop high

WHITE SUN: a perfectly imperfect middle-class critique

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