Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
Mab Jones’ latest appreciation of verse opens with an appreciation of Wordsworth – William’s sister Dorothy that is – but never fear, it’s still new! And it’s, as Mab says of her first subject, “a sheer joy to read”.
Welsh National Opera’s first large-scale new production after the pandemic has triggered debate. Directed by Lindy Hume, Buzz's James Ellis finds some interesting takes, yet fairly traditional at hear.
Directors Pepe Andreu and Rafael Moles reel in the audience with a documentary, of the Bryggjan Café in Iceland, to warm the cockles of the heart.
Rhonda Lee Reali reviews a documentary about the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon, showing as part of Wales One World Film Festival's Ecosinema season.
A fascinating, empathetic documentary about a neurologist who was interested in stories, finding fame through his books but never losin his desire to learn from his patients and tell their tales.
BBC documentary When Nirvana Came To Britain explores the special relationship that developed between this island and a bunch of scruffy Seattle punks who slummed it around the country on tour before somehow becoming the biggest band in the world.
There aren’t many bigger bands in the UK than Bring Me The Horizon, a band that have grown from metalcore upstarts into full on arena pop rock icons.
Unlikely reggae covers selected by Don Letts; kick-ass American rock and country women Melissa Etheridge and Mickey Guyton; Bristol jazzers Run Logan Run and Vangelis soundtracking a mission to Jupiter, like he was born to.
A very British love story, sweet and heartfelt and set on a holiday park, Nell Barlow is AJ, a socially awkward teenager struggling to decipher who she is.
It’s a family affair in more ways than one in this stylish if somewhat uneven prequel to HBO’s epochal drama The Sopranos.
In between titles offering broadsides against, respectively, bad food on trains and Welsh neoliberalism, we find novels about Turkish gangsters in London, a world without working electricity and a man who get uploaded into his group chat...
A rather empty exercise in style and violence, Gunpowder Milkshake criminally wastes its female action heroines such as Karen Gillan and varies widely in tone.
Priscilla is an all-out guffaw-fest, full of quips, one-liners and singalong/shake-your-ass numbers.
As promised by the enigmatic title and psychedelic poster design, Simon Amstell’s Spirit Hole brought to the stage all the beautiful, left-wing, loving open-mindedness one only fantasises about existing in the heart of the 1960s.
Ex-Genesis member Steve Hackett and his collection of talented musicians take to the road on another lengthy UK tour, this time playing 1977 Genesis live album Seconds Out in its entirety.
The latest roundup of newly released Welsh music features dance, metal, rock, indie, pop, punk, folk, psych and experimental sounds from all over Wales
What better way to start the Bay Series at Alexandra Head in Cardiff Bay than with a band that does live as gloriously as their prolific studio work? Biffy Clyro are here, and the crowd are eager for some respite and sheer entertainment amidst this unpleasantness.
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.
