Heads Above The Waves say goodbye to Castle Emporium – COMMUNITY | INTERVIEW
Heads Above the Waves are just one many shops forced to suddenly close on Cardiff's Womanby St. Sarah Bowdidge commiserates with co-founder, Hannah.
Heads Above the Waves are just one many shops forced to suddenly close on Cardiff's Womanby St. Sarah Bowdidge commiserates with co-founder, Hannah.
With her second album Prioritise Pleasure out, a largely-sold out autumn tour soon to begin and more dates added for the spring, Chloë Edwards spoke to Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka Self Esteem.
For a contemporary take on the early 80s British synthpop sound – slightly wobbly mechanical arrangements, melancholy vocals – you won’t find much better than Chris Stewart’s Black Marble, whose new album Fast Idol is released on the same weekend as his Cardiff debut.
Tristan Thomas, singer, guitarist and frontman of Florence Black, tells John-Paul Davies how everything from Abba to Slipknot influenced the making of this Merthyr Tydfil hard rock band’s debut album, Weight Of The World.
Carl Marsh hits up Ben Fletcher and Tom Higham, aka electro-indie-chill duo Aquilo, ahead of their long-awaited third album A Safe Place To Be.
Life’s such a drag in the theatre world at the moment. No, it is – literally. Everywhere you look there’s a drag show happening, such is the effect RuPaul’s Drag Race has had. One such show is murder mystery Death Drop, featuring Ra’Jah O’Hara. Jamie Rees dropped in to meet her a day after her arrival in Wales from the States.
Thirty years ago, Buzz introduced itself to the world with its first cover star, American comedian and TV fave Ruby Wax. In the spirit of celebration and circularity, we thought we’d do it all over again, and got Carl Marsh to speak to Ruby about the long, strange three decades since…
YouTuber Paul Hayes's Haze Outdoors channel has become a sensation in the wild camping world. Carl Marsh chats to him off the beaten track.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Skunkadelic, aka Tumi Williams, is a Cardiff hip-hop MC whose vocals take centre stage in many-membered funk ensemble Afro Cluster. He’s got a solid rep in solo mode too, with new single No Time teeming with anger and optimism alike over the events of the last year and a half.
Carl Marsh speaks to Roy Stride, frontman of pop-rock juggernaut Scouting For Girls, about the band’s revitalising cover album and his stance on the modern-day music landscape. “We were one of …
Rhonda Lee Reali interviews the co-director of a new Welsh animated short, The Fairytale Of Water, showing on Sun 19 Sept as part of the Wales One World film festival’s EcoSinema programme.
Of the many strings to Kimberly Wyatt’s bow, you may know her best as one-fifth of the Pussycat Dolls, but she gets up to all sorts. Right now, she’s got a new movie, Override, to promote, and wanted Carl Marsh to know exactly how brassic it was on set. That, like Kimberly herself, is showbiz.
Having written her name in history by leaving earth and boarding the International Space Station in 1995 – her first of several space flights – Cady Coleman is one of the standout figures in new documentary film The Wonderful: Stories From The Space Station. She recalled her experiences to Carl Marsh.
Jason Donovan turns his hand to theatre production, pulling the strings for this UK tour of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert - set to light up Cardiff’s New Theatre from Mon 20-Sat 25 Sept.
the subsequent trial and the institutional police corruption that led to five local men being framed, wrongly convicted and jailed. One of the five, John Actie, has taken part in the documentary and also spoke about the case to Carl Marsh.
Simon Amstell has surfed the TV-to-standup-to-film-director pipeline with plenty of success, but like the best of us, he still wallows in shame, tied down by the society we live in. New live show Spirit Hole is about escaping that… hole, and ahead of its Cardiff date he spoke about it to Carl Marsh.
Carl Marsh speaks to podcast hosts Jordan North and William Hanson
Ahead of their first new album tour in 20 years, Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie tells John-Paul Davies how Nothing Ever Happens came to be the band’s first Scottish hit and the true story behind their classic Top Of The Pops performance.
Carl Marsh speaks to Israeli film director Yoav Paz, who with his brother Doron is the architect of Plan A: a new thriller, based on a true story, concerning a group of Holocaust survivors who hatch a plan to poison the German water supply and kill millions in the spirit of revenge.