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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
The Proms are familiar to concertgoers in Cardiff via a bootleg Welsh version, yet the official BBC Proms have never graced the Welsh capital in all their decades of performing... Until now.
Cardiff isn’t Cordoba or Cadiz, and so it’s a bold move to open a Parador in the Welsh capital – but that’s what the Bar 44 group has just done.
Her Way, the debut feature from director Cecile Ducrocq, is an absorbing drama with a brilliant central performance from Laure Calamy.
Even in the height of summer, director Lee Haven Jones’ Gwledd (The Feast) is sending chills down Keiron Self’s spine. Allow him to tell you why!
Sri Lankan food is having a ‘moment’ in Cardiff right now. A sudden proliferation of pop-ups and brick-and-mortar openings means you have options, with Broadway’s Ceylon Spicy Pot the newest.
The nostalgia of pop-punk is always hard to resist, and while Pale Waves' third album Unwanted doesn't reinvent the wheel, it's a valiant effort to keep it spinning.
After years of speculation, two prolific musical heavyweights have teamed up to release this collaborative effort.
As melodic death metal goes, Deceivers ticks all the boxes: classical undertones, fast guitars, obligatory solos, heavy basslines and demonic vocals.
Kasabian’s seventh studio album - The Alchemist's Euphoria - is also their first since the sacking of frontman Tom Meighan for domestic assault.
Futuristic sci-fi cinematic soundscapes and heart-and-soul-fuelled pop cleverness: not many artists can sound this inventive 19 albums in.
Suddenly, the penny drops causing a cheer to break forth. Cranking it, the siren wails, and immediately... you know. This is war. Dub War!
Solid and always watchable, Eiffel never quite reaches the Tower’s actual dramatic heights, and has a Sunday afternoon movie feel.
Intended as a “record of resistance”, Land Of Change offers up a plethora of voices and views, with some central themes and threads being those of injustice, power, and politics.
Intellectual, accessible, and stylishly bound, Nuar Alsadir's Animal Joy is another clever, meaty, unpatronising book from Fitzcarraldo Editions.
The Passengers is an intimate and incredibly relatable look at what drives, moves and worries us as both individuals and a species.
A magnificent debut short story collection from Omer Friedlander, The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land is just one of the many intriguing titles featured herein.
Travis Alabanza's book is both an empowering and enriching read for those that are treated like outsiders on this confusing and cluttered planet.
The overall vibe here is one of laidback good times, with almost ska-like propulsion to tracks like Hot Coffee, while other tracks could be mistaken for lost Northern Soul classics.
Man In The Hot Seat, recorded with amazing clarity at Abbey Road, is a satisfying, convincing blend of JTQ’s acid jazz roots and the predominant influence of ‘70s soundtracks.
Political, discordant and relentless, Dub War’s return ought to both delight older followers and attract new ones to their message-laden, Welsh-infused take on the genre.
Noise & Flowers is both a brilliant introduction to Young’s music with modern production and a treat for completists.
Like the novels of Orwell that have inspired the imagery of DC Gore's debut release, there is something chilling and affecting that stays with you after listening.
In Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party, we find ourselves on the Wales/England border – under Pen y Ddraig mountain – on the morning after a raucous NYE party.
After almost 50 years in the business, Paul Weller is still moving forward, and for that, he can be commended.
