Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
A week of heavy music in various forms this week - and though Adia Victoria and Moor Mother prove that doesn't have to mean big rock riffs and the like, Carcass, Employed To Serve and Merthyr band Florence Black offer a bit of that anyway.
Mary Elisabeth Winstead proves an adept assassin in her own action movie which, although wearing its influences on its sleeve to the point of derivativeness, entertains crunchingly.
There were two forces at play when Del Amitri came on stage to a huge welcome – their musicianship, and signs of rust after so long out in the cold.
A brisk horror that is often like a supernatural Home Alone, The Djinn is a diverting shocker with a strong central performance from child actor Ezra Dewey amidst the jump scares.
You could be forgiven for forgetting that The Specials are foremost a protest band. Terry Hall’s bitter lyrics sting when the man himself is glaring the arena down as the rest of the band skanks around him.
A photographic diary of COVID in Welsh hospitals, a personal account of a more mysterious ailment, an Aussie rocker's attachment to a piece of chewing gum and two novels set in a Johannesburg suburb and on a Greek island.
A fantastic feelgood comedy drama based on a true story, Dream Horse races on to DVD delivering a homegrown, crowd-pleasing hit.
Directed sensitively by Mama Mia’s Phyllida Lloyd, this is an often surprising drama, managing to combine gritty social realism with genuine, magical heartwarming moments
John will never be a stadium rock band: they belong in low-ceilinged sweat-pits like this, stirring up chaos and then splitting with no encore.
Wales’ leading opera company return with a safe-bet, classic production of The Barber Of Seville from 1986, writes James Ellis.
A week of marquee releases including Manic Street Preachers album number 14 and a bumper-sized Metallica reissue/tribute album package. Plus Elvis Costello is redone in Spanish and there's comebacks from Martina Topley-Bird and Saint Etienne.
Have you ever imagined what you’d get if Bianca Del Rio was a character created by Victoria Wood? If not, then watch a Myra DuBois show.
Punk rock tour diaries, Black Mirror-esque speculative fiction, thoughts on cultural and racial dividing lines in Britain, photographs from Troubles-era Northern Ireland, and a couple who encounter uncanny situations when they travel to adopt a child.
As COVID restrictions ease, 2021’s been anticipated as the UK’s third ‘summer of love’, and this was certainly the case at Delete’s August bank holiday party, their first event in 18 months.
Marvel gets its first Asian superhero in Shang Chi, an enjoyable martial arts/CGI mysticism mashup with classy action, witty banter and plenty of subtext about claiming your identity.
"After 18 months of misery, it didn’t feel real. This was the pristine Green Man experience preserved, unwrapped, presented." Jason Machlab had a blast down by the Brecon Beacons...
New sounds ranging from Amyl And The Sniffers' Aussie punk to Auri's Finnish metal, DJ Seinfeld's Swedish club sounds and Suuns' Canadian indietronica, with a token blast from the past courtesy of the Small Faces.
After 17 quiet months, bank holiday Monday saw live music back in the heart of Cardiff once more, under the banner Live & Unlocked.
Treading the often-precarious path between exploitative action movie and pointed social critique, this sinewy cop thriller from Danish directing duo Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid makes its intentions clear from the outset.
A crime-heavy week (with a bit of feminist sci-fi for good measure) as we ease into September with five new novels.
Bank holiday bangers (and things less appropriately described) by The Bug, Chubby & The Gang, Marisa Anderson & William Tyler, Voces8 and Yann Tiersen.
Just when Jamie Rees thinks he's seen it all, along comes Tracey Collins with a new show that does what it says on the tin. It’s Cher, dressed in a shell suit, and we play bingo.
A clumsy and laboured road movie, The Last Bus follows Timothy Spall’s widower Tom from John O’Groats to Land’s End, supposedly offering a snapshot of Scotland and England.
Murderous thrillers, Russian historical fiction, a perfume-scented journey to 19th-century Edinburgh, explorations of identity and belonging, and a graphic novel devised by Line Of Duty's main brain.
