MR BEN & THE BENS | LIVE REVIEW
MR BEN & THE BENS | LIVE REVIEW The Moon, Cardiff, Thurs 31 Oct A cold Halloween evening is lit up by the visit of Mr Ben & The …
MR BEN & THE BENS | LIVE REVIEW The Moon, Cardiff, Thurs 31 Oct A cold Halloween evening is lit up by the visit of Mr Ben & The …
BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON **** Dir: Paul Downs Colaizzo (15, 104 mins) Jillian Bell shines in this nuanced underdog tale of a slacker forced to take charge of her life …
SORRY WE MISSED YOU **** Dir: Ken Loach (15, 101 mins) Ken Loach returns after the heartbreaking I, Daniel Blake with another social polemic, this time about the cruelties of …
NSG | LIVE REVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Sun 27 Oct If afrobashment is the new pop music, then NSG are East London’s answer to One Direction. Following in the footsteps …
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN *** Dir: Edward Norton (15, 144 mins) A complex film noir set in the 1950s with an unconventional hero, a detective with Tourette Syndrome embroiled in corruption in …
JAMES ARTHUR | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Sat 19 Oct To write James Arthur off as just another product of the Simon Cowell assembly line is doing the …
THE CULT | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Fri 18 Oct In the late 80s, The Cult chucked goth and the UK in for a Stateside …
LONGA TURKISH CAFÉ 180 Whitchurch Rd, Cardiff. 029 2063 2082 / longacafe.co.uk Food ***** Atmosphere **** The recently opened Longa Café has got a lot of people talking – and …
PHO Church St, Cardiff. 029 2269 0020 / phocafe.co.uk Food **** Atmosphere *** The night we went to Pho saw rain in what can only be described as biblical proportions, …
EYEHATEGOD / BILLYCLUB / TUSKAR | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Thurs 17 Oct You’d think it was poor gig etiquette to wear the T-shirt of the band …
AMANDA PALMER | LIVE REVIEW St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Sat 19 Oct Playing in a new city for the first time, after a career spanning nearly two decades, is …
SWN FESTIVAL 2019 | LIVE REVIEW Various venues, Cardiff, Fri 18-Sun 20 Oct ALFFA (Fuel, Sun 20) Slow-burning, Welsh-speaking, and heavy-hitting, the punk-blues duo well and truly showcased what …
THE STRUTS | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Thurs 17 Oct There are few bands out there that can match The Struts for swaggering showmanship, but …
BLACK3LVIS **** See Love EP (Newsoundwales) Chuck a dusting of Cardiff grit over slick LA funk-pop and you’ll get Black3lvis, South Wales’ latest hot tip. The four-piece formed earlier this …
A FLAME OUT AT SEA Dmitry Novikov, trans. Christopher Culver (Glagoslav) A Flame Out At Sea is full of neat character descriptions, and Novikov has an eye for effective metaphor. …
ALICE COOPER / THE STRANGLERS / MC50 | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Sat 12 Oct Alice Cooper shows no signs of slowing down, even as a septuagenarian. Appearing …
FLESH-COLOURED DOMINOES Zigmunds Skujiņš, trans. Kaija Straumanis (Arcadia Books) Fans of Bulgakov will have much to admire in this charming, playful novel, first published in Latvia in 1999. Though its …
Curtains *** New Theatre, Cardiff, Mon 14 Oct The opening night for this rambunctious comedy musical might not have been as wild as its creators had hoped. However, along with …
CAR PARK LIFE Gareth E. Rees (Influx Press) This is the type of book one picks up without knowing what it is about, opens it to read the first page, …
BLACK FLAG / TOTAL CHAOS | LIVE REVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Sat 12 Oct Total Chaos come across as a bit of a cartoonish parody, a vision of what the …
THE STRUTS | INTERVIEW Ahead of their date in Cardiff University’s Great Hall on Thurs 17 Oct, Buzz spoke to Gethin Davies – an Aberystwyth boy in a Derby …
PUNCH Kate North (Cinnamon) Punch’s title summarises the spirit of these short stories: they are punchy, pack lots of it, and like the character of the same name seem to …
PLAID | LIVE REVIEW Electric Soup @ Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff, Sat 5 Oct As part of an Arts Council Of Wales scheme to get the city’s music public …
THE EX-GIRLFRIEND Nicola Moriarty (Penguin) Aussie noir is all the rage at the moment and The Ex-Girlfriend is as grand guignol a slice as anyone could wish for. Georgia is …