Buzz Magazine - Interviews - The Ultimate Guide to What's On in Wales.

Shaking up fashion one fish leather handbag at a time – MORAY LUKE | INTERVIEW

October 30, 2021

Fish leather isnt' the first material you'd think of to craft designer handbags, but as Moray Luke argues, unusual needs to be the norm for sustainable fashion.

Category: Environment, Interviews Region: South Wales

Safeguarding the nation’s future generations – SOPHIE HOWE | INTERVIEW

October 29, 2021

Wales first Future Generations Commissioner, Sophie Howe speaks to Adam Williams about her unique post and the challenges ahead for the nation.

Category: Environment, Interviews Region: Wales-Wide

Heads Above The Waves say goodbye to Castle Emporium – COMMUNITY | INTERVIEW

October 26, 2021

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.

Category: Community, Interviews Region: South Wales

“My advice is always advocate for yourself” – SELF ESTEEM | INTERVIEW

October 22, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales

‘People standing motionless with their eyes closed, to me that’s flattering’ – BLACK MARBLE | INTERVIEW

October 19, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales

‘Our influences range from Slipknot to Abba’ – FLORENCE BLACK | INTERVIEW

October 19, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales

AQUILO | INTERVIEW

October 14, 2021

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.

Category: Culture, Interviews, Music

DEATH DROP RA’JAH O’HARA | INTERVIEW

October 14, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

RUBY WAX | INTERVIEW

October 8, 2021

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…

Category: Interviews, Well-being

PAUL HAYES | INTERVIEW

October 5, 2021

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.

Category: Food & Drink, Interviews, Life, Outdoors, Well-being

CLINTON BAPTISTE | INTERVIEW

October 4, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: South Wales

KARYN PARSONS | INTERVIEW

October 1, 2021

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.

Category: Film, Interviews

NEWTON FAULKNER | INTERVIEW

September 30, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Live Region: South Wales, West Wales

LOOKING GOOD DEAD: ADAM WOODYATT | INTERVIEW

September 28, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Theatre Region: South Wales

CATHERINE FISHER | AUTHOR INTERVIEW

September 28, 2021

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?

Category: Books, Interviews Region: South Wales

ONES TO WATCH | SKUNKADELIC

September 27, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Music Region: South Wales

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS | INTERVIEW

September 23, 2021

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 …

Category: Interviews, Music, Previews Region: North Wales, West Wales

PETER STEVENSON: THE FAIRYTALE OF WATER | INTERVIEW

September 17, 2021

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.

Category: Environment, Film, Interviews Region: Mid Wales, South Wales

KIMBERLY WYATT | INTERVIEW

September 17, 2021

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.

Category: Film, Interviews

CADY COLEMAN | INTERVIEW

September 16, 2021

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.

Category: Film, Interviews

JASON DONOVAN ON PRODUCING PRISCILLA | INTERVIEW

September 15, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, Previews, Theatre Region: South Wales

JOHN ACTIE: A KILLING IN TIGER BAY | INTERVIEW

September 9, 2021

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.

Category: Interviews, TV Region: South Wales

SIMON AMSTELL | INTERVIEW

September 8, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews, Previews Region: South Wales

HELP I SEXTED MY BOSS | INTERVIEW

September 7, 2021

HELP I SEXTED MY BOSS | INTERVIEW Communicative mishaps a-go-go with this popular podcast pairing and Buzz’s Carl Marsh, when William Hanson dials in from the Middle East. Jordan? No, …

Category: Interviews, Podcasts Region: South Wales

Shaking up fashion one fish leather handbag at a time – MORAY LUKE | INTERVIEW

Safeguarding the nation’s future generations – SOPHIE HOWE | INTERVIEW

Heads Above The Waves say goodbye to Castle Emporium – COMMUNITY | INTERVIEW

“My advice is always advocate for yourself” – SELF ESTEEM | INTERVIEW

‘People standing motionless with their eyes closed, to me that’s flattering’ – BLACK MARBLE | INTERVIEW

‘Our influences range from Slipknot to Abba’ – FLORENCE BLACK | INTERVIEW

AQUILO | INTERVIEW

DEATH DROP RA’JAH O’HARA | INTERVIEW

RUBY WAX | INTERVIEW

PAUL HAYES | INTERVIEW

CLINTON BAPTISTE | INTERVIEW

KARYN PARSONS | INTERVIEW

NEWTON FAULKNER | INTERVIEW

LOOKING GOOD DEAD: ADAM WOODYATT | INTERVIEW

CATHERINE FISHER | AUTHOR INTERVIEW

ONES TO WATCH | SKUNKADELIC

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS | INTERVIEW

PETER STEVENSON: THE FAIRYTALE OF WATER | INTERVIEW

KIMBERLY WYATT | INTERVIEW

CADY COLEMAN | INTERVIEW

JASON DONOVAN ON PRODUCING PRISCILLA | INTERVIEW

JOHN ACTIE: A KILLING IN TIGER BAY | INTERVIEW

SIMON AMSTELL | INTERVIEW

HELP I SEXTED MY BOSS | INTERVIEW

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