Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
I Belong Here is moving and beautifully written, but so much more: it is an inspirational testament to strength and resilience that is unquestionably informative and compelling.
Designed by artists Tom Slater and Jeremy Keenan, Illusory Contours allowed attendees to experience what it might feel like to enter the world of The Matrix in Cardiff.
Will Varley and Jack Valero invest the audience through gorgeous wordplay and melodic progressions with their sets in Cardiff.
Idrissa Camara’s latest piece Spirit of Nimba is an absolute joy: an hour of music and dance that left his Cardiff audience feeling that they had just been reset last Friday.
Humorous. Chaotic. Intense. Just a few of the words that came to mind in the first five minutes of Alice Birch’s play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, in Porters’ pub theatre The Other Room.
Sumptuously designed, sensitively acted and bursting with pure imagination, Everything Everywhere All At Once is a sheer pleasure to behold and a tour de force to experience.
Puppy’s no-frills headline performance at Clwb Ifor Bach was a reminder that, at the end of the day, the music should always take centre stage.
Formidable pugilists righteously fighting the corner of the maligned and marginalised, Bob Vylan are a product of our times – and a band at the top of their game.
Production duo Subjective, made up of Goldie and James Davidson, weaves in various soulful musicians on their second collaborative album.
Malicious Intent is a giant of an album and represents a massive step on the upward curve that Malevolence find themselves on.
Florence + The Machine have done well to lambast themselves without losing any of their apparently genuine uniqueness on Dance Fever.
How does one revolutionise modern pop music? This was something Everything Everything wanted to combat on Raw Data Feel, their sixth studio album, after 2020’s songwriting-focused Re-Animator.
Alison Cotton's fourth solo album The Portrait You Painted Of Me is a strange, foreboding record, entrancing and unsettling in equal measure.
Sandi Toksvig’s post-lockdown tour Next Slide, Please is named after Chris Whitty’s catchphrase from the daily COVID briefings. However, Sandi’s slides were full of joy, silliness and fun.
With Goodsheds delivering both quality and variety, Barry is fast gaining a reputation for more than just fish and chips.
Well-intentioned sporting drama based on a true story that can’t help but stir the emotions, Jungle Cry sees 12 orphan boys travel from India to take part in 2007’s under-14s Rugby World Cup Championship in Wales.
Heavy on atmosphere and deeply unsettling, occasionally stomach-churning horror A Banquet tensely explores family relationships and grief.
Rock of Ages is as un-subtle and devoid of depth as the music it celebrates. But perhaps that’s entirely the point.
Sophie Haydock’s debut novel The Flames is an electrifying blend of fact and fiction: a well-researched look at Egon Schiele, Viennese painter and protege of Gustav Klimt.
Philippa Holloway’s The Half-Life Of Snails is a vivid and emotional exploration of human connections and the surrounding landscapes.
Psychiatrist John Barker was inspired to found The Premonitions Bureau in 1966 after hearing of a Welsh schoolgirl who had foreseen the Aberfan disaster.
Spring’s Green Shadow’s focus on women’s emancipation lends contemporary relevance to scenes from a century past, in what remains a magnificent read.
Revealing testimonies from Shaun Ryder, Rufus Wainwright, Lisa Maffia, Lloyd Cole and more make Exit Stage Left an enlightening, humorous and extremely entertaining read.
Many Illuminati Hotties tracks are smeared thick with jaded millennial irony - bratty chantalong choruses that animate the crowd, but all too often spark is sacrificed for smirk.
