HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN | FESTIVAL REVIEW
Cate Le Bon, Sweet Baboo, Jonathan Powell & more at the philosophy and music wing of Hay festival.
Cate Le Bon, Sweet Baboo, Jonathan Powell & more at the philosophy and music wing of Hay festival.
Nicolas Cage is on remarkable form in this entertaining tale of a cop gone bad.
Shakey cam's most feverish disciples are back with a horror that cranks up the tension.
Islet have achieved remarkable success despite an almost complete lack of self-promotion. That's because they're a really good band.
The hyperactive, multi-accented, well-educated Russell Kane prances into Swansea.
Clinigol play bubblegum pop music that isn't afraid of embracing its inner Alphabeat.
Four emerging Welsh artists tackle everything from mermaids to tap dancing, to mixed results.
An enjoyable look back at the Welsh School of Architectural Glass' impressive history.
"Sweet Baboo's voice – on record a charmingly eccentric thing, emanating from somewhere near the back of his throat – bouncing off the marble pillars sounded a little like a frog being kicked down a well"
"Rolo Tomassi have evolved into an excellent band who are doing something which sounds like little but themselves"
Idlewild + Sparrow & The Workshop Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Tue 20 Apr words & photos: Tom Hartrey Clwb Ifor Bach played host for the Cardiff leg of rock stalwarts …
"This is a play about gay life in Wales. Does that mean it’s only a play for gay people? No."
"Like a library, it successfully summons that sublime feeling of being deluged by an impossibly rich and unknowable world"
You could be forgiven for thinking you could predict in advance what Lauren Pritchard sounds like. Folksy, low-key, earnest-yet-charming, right? Wrong.
Death Of A Salesman Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Fri 26 Mar *** Their timing was spot on. A few days before this critic attended Death Of A Salesman, Obama passed …
Singer Meilyr Jones: like the actress from Psycho in a biopic about Os Mutantes
*** "His observations would undoubtedly brighten up any evening at the pub, but as a stand-up performance, you find yourself waiting for a pay-off that's only intermittently delivered."
"The dancers toy with their audience, joking around with one another, knowing full well that they are making light work of superhuman stuff."
"The struggle with the past is the real meat of this play, and it’s all around, from the crumbling walls of the institute to the Woolworths pencils doled out to the audience for a game of bingo."
"'Am I dead?' inquires Deborah in A Kind Of Alaska, and not without good reason, since the reaction to her emergence from a 30-year sleep is nothing short of funereal."
"The audience is filled with the sort of well-intentioned, corduroy-wearing people who very much appreciate having their opinions reasserted in likeminded company."