33⅓: COLOSSAL YOUTH | BOOK REVIEW
Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero (Bloomsbury) Included in the latest round of additions to the 33⅓ book series – compact volumes dedicated to albums, be they classic, underappreciated or maligned – …
Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero (Bloomsbury) Included in the latest round of additions to the 33⅓ book series – compact volumes dedicated to albums, be they classic, underappreciated or maligned – …
ROBBIE WILLIAMS / ERASURE | LIVE REVIEW Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wed 21 June It’s lucky that we are not in the middle of a heatwave in Cardiff tonight, as …
Chapter Culture Café, Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay Food **** Atmosphere **** Buzz was invited to sample the new menu for the exciting launch of Caffi Sïo in Cardiff …
Simon Edge (Lightning Books) One of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most famous poems is The Wreck of the Deutschland and it’s from this that Simon Edge has taken his inspiration. Edge cleverly weaves …
KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM ***** Squad, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Wii U This space flight sim has famously received support from NASA and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, and gets the player …
Lakeside Road West, Cardiff. 029 2045 5123 / www.juborajgroup.com Food *** Atmosphere **** The Juboraj Restaurant Group count among their curry houses some of the oldest Indian and Bangladeshi restaurants …
Tove Jansson (Sort Of Books) To note that Tove Jansson is best known as creator of the Moomins is an understatement. It all but swallows the rest of her work, …
TAKE THAT / ALL SAINTS | LIVE REVIEW Liberty Stadium, Swansea, Wed 14 June Pandemonium descended on Swansea as yet another high profile act added their name to the …
LIMMY | COMEDY REVIEW Glee Club, Cardiff Bay, Mon 12 June Limmy’s career up to this point, a sold-out UK tour of standup comedy venues, is notable for how …
Chapter Arts Thursday 8 June – Saturday 10 June Before the show even starts, the audience is entertained by the flower display which incorporates a piano and a mannequin. The music …
GNOD / MAI MAI MAI / SUNSHINE | LIVE REVIEW The Moon, Cardiff, Thurs 8 June On an election day marked by downpours of biblical proportions, a few of …
At the end of this month’s Hey Mary, a queer/alternative/inclusive club night in Cardiff, it was remembered that June 12th was a year since the massacre in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. Hey …
City Gates, Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 476222 / www.jamaicanjills.com Food **** Atmosphere *** We get a warm Caribbean welcome stepping off Wind Street into the vibrant colours of Jamaican Jills. …
CLÈMENTINE MARCH *** Les Étoiles À Ma Porte EP (Water Baby/Freaksville) Some pleasant hopscotching here, across musical styles and goegraphical boundaries. French Londoner March’s time spent in Brazil has lent …
ALISON MOYET **** Other (Cooking Vinyl) Since Yazoo broke up in the early 1980s, Alison Moyet has gone on to sell millions of albums. Moyet has a voice that has …
MELT-BANANA / GINDRINKER | LIVE REVIEW The Globe, Cardiff, Sun 4 June “What are you doing, you prog rocker?” scoffs a smirking DC Gates. His bandmate Graf’s crime? Having …
JESS GLYNNE | LIVE REVIEW Parc Y Scarlets, Llanelli, Sat 3 June As a pretty keen rugby fan and follower of the Ospreys, I should be quite familiar with …
Tom Vaughan MacAulay (Red Door Publishing) The fast-paced and cut-throat working environment of the city is at the heart of Being Simon Haines, which as the title suggests follows the …
THE BESNARD LAKES | LIVE REVIEW The Globe, Cardiff, Tue 30 May There’s a point approximately 50 minutes into tonight’s performance when suddenly it all adds up and the …
ELROW TOWN CARDIFF SINGER MORNING | LIVE REVIEW SSE SWALEC, Cardiff, Sun 28 May The Singer Mornings day festival in the SSE SWALEC cricket ground opened its gates to …
FROM NOW ON | LIVE REVIEW Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Fri 19 + Sat 20 May Into Chapter’s dark spaces and weird corridors for the fourth year running, and …
ECHOBELLY | LIVE REVIEW The Globe, Cardiff, Thurs 18 May Nineties Britpop band Echobelly are back on tour. I had no idea who they were until I saw them …
NOTHING BUT THIEVES | LIVE REVIEW The Globe, Cardiff, Tues 23 May Southend five-piece Nothing But Thieves returned to Cardiff for the first time since 2015 to kick off …
IRON MAIDEN / SHINEDOWN | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Wed 24 May Defiance is very much the word for tonight. After the terrible events that took place in …