OBEY COBRA have a cracking new album and are launching it with a Friday night Cardiff gig
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 …
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
All Saints Church, Mumbles Church Park Lane, Mumbles, Swansea, Swansea, United KingdomThis concert programme is performed by the Rhondda Symphony Orchestra and was devised by its musical director Edward John, who noted the rarity with which Welsh classical performances feature domestic composition in more than token amounts. These two evenings, then, will include renditions of work by composers from the early 20th century – Nocturne by …
Al Murray The Pub Landlord
Grand Theatre Swansea, UKBedford School’s very own Al Murray is back with his straight-talking publican character for a show titled {Guv Island}. Its premise is that the UK has “lost its way” and seeks someone or something to get it on its uppers again – “offend-o-trons” need not apply. That’s the Pub Landlord saying this of course. Not …
Jah Wobble
Tivoli Brunswick Road, Buckley, Flintshire, United KingdomJah Wobble’s most recent solo album The Bus Routes Of South London was written and partly recorded on the bus routes of south London, with the musician – whose work in Public Image Ltd makes him one of the most influential bassists of the 1970s and 80s – composing dubby ambient instrumentals on an iPad …
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