Tony Christie
Gwyn Hall Orchard Street, Neath, United KingdomSeasoned British crooner Christie reached 80 not out last year, and following new album {We Still Shine} dropping last month is touring the UK: despite battling the effects of dementia in the last few years, the {Amarillo} hitmaker says that when he hits the stage he’s still bright as a button.
Cenotaph
Fuel Rock Club 5 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CardiffThree scoops of brutal death metal according to Eradication, who are promoting this one. Isn’t all death metal brutal? Arguably, but some more so than others, and those bands are often called things like Coprocephalic Mutation – coincidentally the name of this evening’s opening act. The less bromidically-named Cenotaph, from Turkey, headline over them and …
Sherlock’s Excellent Adventure
Savoy Theatre - Monmouth Church Street, Monmouth, MonmouthshireThis show, one of many currently going which lampoon some classic of literature or other, is touring the UK for the third time and taking in two Welsh dates in doing so. James Barry has rewritten the characters of Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson and James Moriarty in comedic fashion, with another, Lucy Matravers, seemingly created …
Station 18 Festival
Hangar 18 Music Venue 50 Plymouth Street, Swansea, SwanseaReturn of this now-annual destination weekender for Welsh lovers of the whole New Wave Of British Hard Rock thing. Fri 3 May is a four-band evening show headlined by King Kraken, while Saturday (featuring The Virginmarys and Sons Of Liberty) and Sunday (featuring South Of Salem and White Raven Down) begin at lunchtime and run …
Obey Cobra
Clwb Ifor Bach 11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CardiffThis Cardiff foursome play a strain of noiserock that’s both overdriven and spaced-out, and they’re some of the finest doing it right now. Indie label Rocket, a go-to for music of this kind, agree and have picked up Obey Cobra’s second album {Mwg Drwg} for release – with a hometown launch gig on the same …
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