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 …
Awen Ensemble
Kings Road Yard Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomA creditably extensive UK tour by Awen Ensemble of Leeds, comprising 16 dates spanning over a month, includes three early May shows in Wales. It’ll be the septet’s first performances in the country, though for Emyr Penry Dance – trumpet player, co-founder of the Ensemble and their de facto bandleader – a show in Aberystwyth …
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