Interviews Archives

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

Wizard dreams and spontaneity – groove-laden psychedelic rockers DACTYL TERRA are ONES TO WATCH

March 26, 2022

Some start from song ideas, some from jams. We like to jam more than anything, so we just meet up and play.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: Mid Wales, South Wales

“We all love trying new foods and recipes, and we are proud of our own” – Pepper and Honey Interview

March 22, 2022

With the question “Where do I belong?” more pertinent than ever, this theatre show – on at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre on Tue 22 Mar – deals with belonging, change, cultural differences, heritage, homesickness, identity, love, loss, migration and tradition.

Category: Interviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

“We didn’t make decisions – we were flying by the seat of our pants!” – the inimitable WET LEG talk influences, not being taken seriously

March 21, 2022

Carl Marsh hears the distant call of the Hottest New Band klaxon and springs into action to interview viral indie duo Wet Leg, whose debut album follows a Cardiff 6 Music gig in April.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales

Cymruvision? Llinos Mai’s new stage show ANTHEM searches for Welsh singing stars

March 21, 2022

Anthem promises wind machines, key changes and finalists from every corner of Wales getting ready to battle in the nation’s biggest TV singing competition.

Category: Interviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

“These venues give so much back culturally, and to the community” – ahead of album debut, indie up-and-comers CHROMA champion small venues

March 17, 2022

Not only do Chroma have a 6 Music Festival Fringe gig and a long-awaited debut album in the pipeline, but they have also become ambassadors for the Back To Live Music Venue Prize.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales

“There’s no fear of self-expression and shame attached to what I’m doing” – STRICTLY star JOHANNES RADEBE on getting back to his roots with new tour

March 17, 2022

Ahead of his new tour Freedom, South African dance star Johannes Radebe tells Sarah-Jane Outten how the idea was developed, how much it means to him personally and the importance of his Strictly Come Dancing success.

Category: Dance, Interviews, Theatre Region: West Wales

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

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

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

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

“Embody the character, craftsmanship comes later” – Swansea cosplayers geek out over their art

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

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

METRONOMY 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wizard dreams and spontaneity – groove-laden psychedelic rockers DACTYL TERRA are ONES TO WATCH

“We all love trying new foods and recipes, and we are proud of our own” – Pepper and Honey Interview

“We didn’t make decisions – we were flying by the seat of our pants!” – the inimitable WET LEG talk influences, not being taken seriously

Cymruvision? Llinos Mai’s new stage show ANTHEM searches for Welsh singing stars

“These venues give so much back culturally, and to the community” – ahead of album debut, indie up-and-comers CHROMA champion small venues

“There’s no fear of self-expression and shame attached to what I’m doing” – STRICTLY star JOHANNES RADEBE on getting back to his roots with new tour

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