BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE & TRIVIUM share the headline spoils in Cardiff
Celebrating the 20th anniversaries of BFMV’s The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy, these metal heavyweights start their co-headline world tour in the Welsh capital.
Celebrating the 20th anniversaries of BFMV’s The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy, these metal heavyweights start their co-headline world tour in the Welsh capital.
Saxophonist Xhosa Cole and his quartet are establishing themselves as a major force on the British jazz scene with this bold interpretation of the work of Thelonious Monk.
All 14 songs on Saint Etienne’s 12th studio album are meditations in their own right, but feel like tasters and leave you wanting more.
Twin Atlantic lit up Cardiff’s Tramshed even on a less than favourable day with indie-alt-rock warmth and vigour.
Art Garfunkel and son blend classic harmonies in Father And Son, an album rich in emotion and poignant vocal layers.
Max Richter’s In A Landscape revisits his signature style with a plea for unity, blending electronic elements with classical beauty.
Cogent storytelling has always been part of The Script’s repertoire, but new album Satellites carries greater poignancy given the death of band member Mark Sheehan in 2023.
Catalan writer Eva Baltasar's last novel in a triptych, Mammoth features a mid-twenties crisis in uproarious in incorrigible fashion.
A guide to the highlights of Hijinx’s Unity Festival, a biennial programme of inclusive and disability arts, with an emphasis on dance theatre.
Ohio quintet The National’s rise to stardom is an ongoing, 25-year project, and if you’re unlikely to find long-lens pap shots of the members in Heat, seeing them onstage in front of 10,000 people in Cardiff should say everything it needs to.
The first show of Tom Walker’s I Am tour makes for nothing short of a musical spectacle, featuring a soulful performance from the headliner in Cardiff's SU.
CEO of the Association of Independent Festivals Jon Rostrum examines the multiple and complex challenges to UK festivals, making people’s patronage more valuable than ever.
King Perry is the last album from Lee Perry, an important musician and studio engineer who changed what was considered possible for a large swathe of recorded sound.
Old detectives, and one gothic author, are given new leases of life in James Patterson’s latest novel Holmes, Margaret And Poe.
Madness' Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie is an arresting album full of tension and mystique, updating their kitchen-sink drama appeal into a further-fractured world.
The guys at Steelhouse have hit upon the idea of hosting an away day four months after everyone has come down from the musical and literal high of the 2023 festival.
Dizzee Rascal celebrates 20 years since Boy In Da Corner, his debut album - and one of the most influential grime records in history - with the Welsh stop of his tour.
Brisk indiepop, lyrical narratives and jangling melodies populate anti-'corporate' indie band Swansea Sound's new album, Twentieth Century.
A short story to savour, Claire Keegan's So Late In The Day is moving and intimate, despite its misogynistic narrator.
Relive the magic of Liam Gallagher's Knebworth 22 performance at home, featuring an electrifying setlist and connection with the crowd.
Cormac Neeson of The Answer discusses their sterling comeback album Sundowners and their epic return to the Steelhouse Festival.
Fusing dub, reggae, and Ghanian melodies in African Head Charge's latest studio album, A Trip To Bolgatanga creates a rich musical journey.
Blending visual circus with creative audio description, director Kate Lawrence shares insights into her aerial hoop performance Holes at Beyond The Border's 30th-anniversary festival.
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson returns with RökFlöte, a new album that celebrates his 55th year with the iconic band, exploring prog-rock and folk, as well as Norse mythology and lyric poetry.