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“I’m buzzing to come back to Cardiff” – MILES KANE on taking his new vintage sound on tour

May 16, 2022

Carl Marsh is full of praise for 2022’s more grown-up and raring-to-go Miles Kane – back in Wales this month.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales
Read more“I’m buzzing to come back to Cardiff” – MILES KANE on taking his new vintage sound on tour
Waitress, Wendy Mae Brown 'Becky', Chelsea Halfpenny 'Jenna' and Evelyn Hoskins 'Dawn' - credit: Johan Persson

“I’ve been obsessed with WAITRESS since it opened” – Chelsea Halfpenny on bringing her “dream” musical to Cardiff

May 13, 2022

Waitress star Chelsea Halfpenny jumped at the chance to trade the world of TV soaps for pie-based musicals. But that journey has brought her back to her old Casualty stomping ground in Cardiff Bay.

Category: Culture, Interviews, Theatre Region: South Wales
Read more“I’ve been obsessed with WAITRESS since it opened” – Chelsea Halfpenny on bringing her “dream” musical to Cardiff
Kae Tempest - credit: Wolfgang Tillmans

“Spotify never knows what category my music is” – KAE TEMPEST on chart success, connecting with listeners

May 12, 2022

Kae Tempest’s new album The Line Is A Curve has proved the best chart performer of their career to date. May’s tour, including a stop in Cardiff, is Kae’s biggest so far too. Sarah-Jane Outten grabbed a word.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales
Read more“Spotify never knows what category my music is” – KAE TEMPEST on chart success, connecting with listeners

“Representation is often unfairly reserved for minor characters” – Welsh novelist Caryl Lewis on debut kids book SEED

May 12, 2022

Karla Brading speaks to a novelist who has written variously in Welsh and English, and has a new title Seed, her debut kids’ novel, out this month.

Category: Books, Interviews Region: Mid Wales
Read more“Representation is often unfairly reserved for minor characters” – Welsh novelist Caryl Lewis on debut kids book SEED
The Twin

“The twists utterly changed my perspective on the film” – STEVEN CREE on Scandi-horror THE TWIN

May 11, 2022

The Twin finds a bereaved family in Finland navigating creepy scenarios. British actor Steven Cree, who plays dad Anthony, spoke to Carl Marsh about the making of the film.

Category: Film, Interviews
Read more“The twists utterly changed my perspective on the film” – STEVEN CREE on Scandi-horror THE TWIN
The Adventures of Maid Marian

The creators of THE ADVENTURES OF MAID MARIAN on making their female-led Robin Hood film

May 10, 2022

Carl Marsh speaks to three people behind The Adventures of Maid Marian on bringing the Robin Hood character to the screen, and the trials therein.

Category: Film, Interviews
Read moreThe creators of THE ADVENTURES OF MAID MARIAN on making their female-led Robin Hood film
Al Murray

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

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
Read moreSHADES OF BLUE dance duo THE MATSENA BROTHERS on difficult conversations & commissions
Jac Yarrow as Joseph, 2021 - credit Tristram Kenton

Roll up Cardiff, there’s a new Joseph in town… Jac Yarrow dons the Dreamcoat

April 28, 2022

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’s current tour brings rising West End star Jac Yarrow back to his old stomping ground at the New Theatre this month.

Category: Interviews, Previews, Theatre Region: South Wales
Read moreRoll up Cardiff, there’s a new Joseph in town… Jac Yarrow dons the Dreamcoat
Gŵyl Crime Cymru's Mark Ellis

“There was a crying need for this” – Wales’ first crime writing festival GWYL CRIME CYMRU returns

April 27, 2022

As Wales' first crime writers' festival Gwyl Crime Cymru returns this month, Billie Ingram Sofokleous found out what to expect from the cloak and dagger lovers' event.

Category: Books, Interviews, Previews Region: Mid Wales
Read more“There was a crying need for this” – Wales’ first crime writing festival GWYL CRIME CYMRU returns
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“Embody the character, craftsmanship comes later” – Swansea cosplayers geek out over their art

April 26, 2022

During his visit to the recent Swansea Comic & Gaming Convention, Gwil Williams spoke with a few fellow cosplayers about their love of the art.

Category: Culture, Interviews Region: West Wales
Read more“Embody the character, craftsmanship comes later” – Swansea cosplayers geek out over their art
Bianca Del Rio

“I’d never cancel tour dates to film a TV show” – BIANCA DEL RIO on her mega world tour, DRAG RACE ‘winners’ season

April 26, 2022

In between a tight schedule for her biggest comedy tour yet (coming to Cardiff in May), Bianca Del Rio talks post-pandemic comedy, All Stars 7, and her unexpected love of Greggs.

Category: Comedy, Culture, Interviews Region: South Wales
Read more“I’d never cancel tour dates to film a TV show” – BIANCA DEL RIO on her mega world tour, DRAG RACE ‘winners’ season
Panic Shack full band

“It’s been a natural growth” – PANIC SHACK on touring, new songs & boy bands

April 25, 2022

Listen, watch or read our conversation with Meg Fretwell of Panic Shack, as they ascend the music industry ladder.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: Wales-Wide
Read more“It’s been a natural growth” – PANIC SHACK on touring, new songs & boy bands
Metronomy

METRONOMY founder Joe Mount on approaching 40, the (creative) bank of mum & dad

April 25, 2022

With the seventh album still warm on the shelves, Metronomy are taking it on tour. A Cardiff stop off was the prompt for Carl Marsh to talk to bandleader Joe Mount.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales
Read moreMETRONOMY founder Joe Mount on approaching 40, the (creative) bank of mum & dad

“It’s more about entertaining than educating” – Marti Pellow takes WET WET WET’s greatest hits on the road

April 19, 2022

With a show at St David’s Hall in Cardiff included in the Greatest Hits tour, Carl Marsh grabbed a quick word with Wet Wet Wet frontman, Marti Pellow.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales
Read more“It’s more about entertaining than educating” – Marti Pellow takes WET WET WET’s greatest hits on the road
Melanie Blake - credit Nicky Johnston

“If I can make it, God, anyone can!” – ‘bonkbuster’ queen MELANIE BLAKE on her unlikely author success

April 17, 2022

Self-styled “author returning to escapism” Melanie Blake was a go-nowhere schoolgirl, but the runaway success of Ruthless Women changed all of that.

Category: Books, Interviews
Read more“If I can make it, God, anyone can!” – ‘bonkbuster’ queen MELANIE BLAKE on her unlikely author success
Nish Kumar

“The only bread roll thrown at me was an act of love” – NISH KUMAR on politics, comedy & doughy heckles

April 14, 2022

Familiar TV face, ideological lightning rod and sound geezer Nish Kumar is in the midst of a very long tour, titled Your Power, Your Control, which visits Brecon and Cardiff over Easter.

Category: Comedy, Interviews, Previews Region: Mid Wales, South Wales
Read more“The only bread roll thrown at me was an act of love” – NISH KUMAR on politics, comedy & doughy heckles
Neil Maskell in Bull

“We’d laugh about how far he went – cauterising wounds on kitchen hobs!” – PEAKY BLINDERS’ NEIL MASKELL on the brutality of BULL

April 14, 2022

With the newly-streaming Bull, Neil Maskell is back doing what he does best. Except, as Carl Marsh observed, with even more violence.

Category: Culture, Film, Interviews
Read more“We’d laugh about how far he went – cauterising wounds on kitchen hobs!” – PEAKY BLINDERS’ NEIL MASKELL on the brutality of BULL
Walt Disco - credit Furmaan Ahmed

“We get to do whatever the hell we want” – Glasgow glamour goths WALT DISCO unpack debut album

April 12, 2022

These glamtastic Glaswegians caught Carl Marsh’s ear with their recently released debut album Unlearning, so much so that he had to find out how they go about their biz.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales
Read more“We get to do whatever the hell we want” – Glasgow glamour goths WALT DISCO unpack debut album
Simple Minds' Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr - credit Dean Chalkley

SIMPLE MINDS frontman Jim Kerr on 45 years of high standards and riffs by the pound

April 12, 2022

Two years after Simple Minds were initially due to play Cardiff, it’s finally happening. That’s Carl Marsh’s cue to have a chat with frontman Jim Kerr.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales
Read moreSIMPLE MINDS frontman Jim Kerr on 45 years of high standards and riffs by the pound
Bastille - credit Sarah Louise Bennett

Future-pop luminaries BASTILLE emerge from the garden shed, back into arenas

April 12, 2022

Give Me The Future, implores the title of the new album by Bastille. Their immediate future includes a show at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena, which they talk to Carl Marsh about, amongst other things.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales
Read moreFuture-pop luminaries BASTILLE emerge from the garden shed, back into arenas
Jamie Miller - credit Jessica Spohr

Singer JAMIE MILLER talks getting out of Cardiff, coming out and breaking out

April 11, 2022

Cardiff lad and 2017 Voice bronze medallist Jamie Miller has gone places in every sense since his onscreen moment. As he gears up for a bumper 2022, Carl Marsh spoke to him.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales
Read moreSinger JAMIE MILLER talks getting out of Cardiff, coming out and breaking out
Ray Mears

Living off the land, or “get off my land!” – Ray Mears has some thoughts

April 5, 2022

Ray Mears is once again stepping out of the screen and going on tour, titled We Are Nature - which includes dates in Aberystwyth and Brecon.

Category: Environment, Interviews Region: Mid Wales
Read moreLiving off the land, or “get off my land!” – Ray Mears has some thoughts
Killing Joke

“I like to welcome everybody into the gig personally” – KILLING JOKE’s JAZ COLEMAN

March 26, 2022

Ahead of their first show in Cardiff since 2015, Killing Joke frontman and sometime classical maestro Jaz Coleman speaks to Buzz’s Carl Marsh.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales
Read more“I like to welcome everybody into the gig personally” – KILLING JOKE’s JAZ COLEMAN
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