Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike
Dolman Theatre Kingsway, Newport, GwentWhat may well be the first Welsh performance of this 2012 play by American writer Christopher Durang, in which two sisters and a brother live a strange life in their country pile, further disrupted by one sister’s douchebag boyfriend. If you’re wondering why most of them have Russian names, they’re named after Chekhov characters. Tickets: …
Jam Baxter
Clwb Ifor Bach 11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CardiffJam Baxter is a London MC associated with labels like Blah (owned by Lee Scott, also on tonight’s bill) and High Focus, and deals in the kind of dense, boom-bappy, quasi-psychedelic UK hip-hop which ticks along nicely without being much fussed if outsiders are paying it attention. Sammy B-Side, another High Focus alum, opens the …
BBC NOW: Bartók’s Concerto For Orchestra
Wales Millennium Centre Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomMay’s edition of BBC NOW’s now-regular WMC-Brangwyn hop’n’skip finds Giancarlo Guerrero of Costa Rica conducting a programme headed up by the orchestra’s rendition of this WWII-era Béla Bartók work. Sergio Tiempo is at the keys for Ravel’s Piano Concerto In G Major and there’s a UK premiere for The Observatory, by Caroline Shaw. Tickets: £5-£12. …
Boss Cass
BunkHouse 93 St Mary Street, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomLast I checked, Boss Cass was billed by the venue under his old artist name, Fluff, but appears to have changed it in recent months. Either way he is a solo act from Exeter who plays guitar and sings to a backing track, and has been described as “punk music for people who don’t like …
The Nightingales + Ted Chippington
Le Public Space 14 High Street, Newport, Gwent, United KingdomTwo acts who made their name in the 80s UK postpunk underground before returning to the fray in the current century: Birmingham’s Nightingales regularly release new albums of croony crankiness, and tour frequently too. Ted Chippington is an infamous ‘anti-comedian’ who, like The Nightingales, has benefitted from the patronage of Stewart Lee.
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