JAKE BUGG | INTERVIEW
It’s new album time again for boyish Nottingham troubadour Jake Bugg, and so Carl Marsh pinned him down for a quick chat about that, and this and that, including a healthy bout of football nostalgia.
It’s new album time again for boyish Nottingham troubadour Jake Bugg, and so Carl Marsh pinned him down for a quick chat about that, and this and that, including a healthy bout of football nostalgia.
American folk-rocker Lissie is getting her operation back to working order, in much the same way we all are. First up, she tells Buzz’s Carl Marsh, is a reissue of her debut album, a decade after it established her. Except they had to delay it, so it’s 11 years now. Ah well!
BBC One’s Ghosts has been lauded for its supernatural achievement of making a sitcom that appeals equally to adults and kids. The denizens of the haunted Button House have just returned to screens for a third series, before which seven of its cast took part in a virtual round table for an audience including Buzz’s Billie Ingram Sofokleous.
Welsh standup queen and smash hit podcaster Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s latest venture arrives via the airwaves. If Carl Marsh’s enthusiastic testimony is anything to go by, Radio Wales’ The Learners is one of the best sitcoms set in a language learning class you will ever encounter.
One of this generation’s most esteemed English theatre directors has recently dipped a toe or two into cinematic waters, with his latest project a Benedict Cumberbatch spy flick, The Courier. Carl Marsh spoke to Dominic Cooke about it.
Since picking up a guitar at the age of nine, Barry solo artist Jason Staddon has never looked back. Chris Andrews speaks to Jason, whose newest single Without The Fire is out now.
Mr Jukes, the funky solo alias of Bombay Bicycle Club frontman Jack Steadman, returns for his second album The Locket – and this time he’s teamed up with an MC named Barney Artist for a full set of jazzy hip-hop. Carl Marsh hears what makes the pair tick.
We catch up with these folky Brit-Americana types, who have slimmed down to a two-girl-one-boy trio for their brand new self-titled album, The Wandering Hearts. “We finished recording in Nashville …
For Cardiff-based artist Rhiannon Lowe, it’s been a long journey to her recently opened exhibition at Swansea’s Mission Gallery, Cekca Het: Trans Panic. Patrick Driscall finds out about her background, practise, influences and much more.
All aboard, me hearties! Karla Brading has been talking to Lancashire lass Susan Brownrigg about her recent swashbuckling release, Kintana And The Captain’s Curse, illustrated by the talented Jenny Czerwonka.
"Things Can Only Get Better", sang D:Ream in their mid-90s heyday – but things couldn’t have got much better at the time, so frequently did they bother the charts. And they’re back with a brand new album! Carl Marsh chats to Peter Cunnah and Al Mackenzie, and it turns out has some catching up to do…
Carl Marsh speaks to the man behind this newly released documentary about WITCH – short for We Intend To Cause Havoc, they were Zambia’s biggest rock band in the 1970s, and Gio liked them so much he’s now their manager too!
Ben Woolhead pops into Cardiff city centre, takes a look at an exhibition of work by a fella you may know as ‘the guy who makes pictures of people out of food’, likes what he sees and speaks to Nathan Wyburn, the food people picture guy in question, to find out more.
Carl Marsh hears from this all-round entertainer and housewives’ favourite as his latest TV show, Michael Ball’s Wonderful Wales, arrives onscreen after a springtime spent jaunting across the nation.
The man behind Australian sci-fi romp 'Occupation: Rainfall', in which aliens invade Sydney with explosive results, speaks to Carl Marsh about how it all came together.
Carl Marsh speaks to Daniele Davoli, founder member of Italian pop/house colossi Black Box – if we wrote in tabloidese we’d call them something like “Ride On Time hitmakers” – about events old and new, including latest release Dreamlanders: a home listening-friendly rework of their debut album.
TRIUMPH: RJ MITTE | INTERVIEW You may know this American actor as Breaking Bad’s Walter White Jr – a role which, since its end, propelled him to a burgeoning …
Vicious Fun is a brand new slasher movie which tips its hat to the genre’s 1980s heyday in multiple respects. “Death by intestine strangulation, trepanning and slo-mo machete” reports Buzz’s …
LUKE PALMER | AUTHOR INTERVIEW Poet, author and teacher Luke Palmer has battled with the theme of ‘radicalised youths’ in his thought-provoking and unsettling new novel, Grow. Karla Brading …
NATIONAL THEATRE WALES: SHÔN DALE-JONES | INTERVIEW Possible, the latest production from Wales’ eminent theatre company, has been some two years in the making, and not so much set …
“We’ve always wanted a giant cheque!” says Hannah Garcia. And cheques don’t come much bigger than the £460,808 of Lottery funds awarded to Green Squirrel, the Cardiff-based environmental organisation she …
RUFUS MUFASA | INTERVIEW Flashbacks & Flowers, Rufus Mufasa’s debut poetry collection, is but the tip of her practice’s iceberg. Hip-hop MC, writer in residence, educator, activist, speaker of …
BETHAN NIA | INTERVIEW Self-described “ethereal Celtic folk from Wales”, a long, strange trip across the rivers and valleys of the music industry has finally yielded a debut album, …
DOMINIC MONAGHAN | INTERVIEW British thesp, mainstay of the blockbusters and possessor of the secret of eternal youth, DomMon’s latest step into the cinematic breach is Edge Of The …