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Nye
Nye
Acting’s favourite Welshman playing politics’ favourite Welshman is not a huge leap for the theatrical imagination – especially as this particular actor has played a few real-life figures of history in his career – but that’s what we’re confronted with in Wales Millennium Centre and the National Theatre’s co-production of {Nye}, starring Michael Sheen. Port …
Unhinged: Yasmin Gardezi
Unhinged: Yasmin Gardezi
Unhinged’s mission statement is to “cultivate rising artists and bringing established talent to Welsh audiences,” and Yasmin Gardezi could be seen as fitting either or both of those categories. The Cork-based DJ has earned a rep in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe and Canada with trancey industrial techno sets; this is her Cardiff bow.
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
This 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 …
The Hackles
The Hackles
Another churchbound show booked by Roots N All, in conjunction with Barry Arts Festival – which despite its name is basically a company which promotes one-off events every few months. The Hackles are a three-piece from Astoria, Oregon who peddle quirky banjoed-up Americana and have formed a friendship with Michael Hurley, once of the Holy …
Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Ferguson was on the downlow one of the most successful {X Factor} contestants, both in terms of initial album sales and what happened later – songwriting for other artists, mainly. Her fifth album came out just before Christmas, this is the tour for it, and assuming she holds to a tweet made around the …
6 events,
Mini Pride
Mini Pride
Following on from yesterday’s ‘main’ Pride in Swansea the Waterfront are doing one with families in mind, featuring a mini twmpath, face painting, rainbow crafts and a silent disco among many other things. “Aggressive and abusive behaviour will not be tolerated and you may be asked to leave,” say the museum, really great this is …
It’s My Shout Awards Night
It’s My Shout Awards Night
It’s My Shout are an indie film production company and training scheme, based in Pencoed, and once a year they throw an awards ‘do’ that honours people who’ve come through that scheme. This one has a red carpet opening at 5pm followed by live music ahead of the ceremony itself, then an afterparty at 9.30pm.
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams
Following a show in Cardiff Castle circa summer 2022, in which Buzz’s John-Paul Davies reported a hit-packed set interspersed with observations about how big the seagulls are here, Bryan Adams is back in town, this time with a roof to raise – and not long after a Cardiff showing for Pretty Woman, the musical he …
4 events,
Nye
Sage Todz + Morgan Elwy
Sage Todz + Morgan Elwy
Sage Todz, north Walian drill MC living down south, returns back up this way for a Monday night show promoted by Focus Wales and Theatr Clwyd. He’ll be joined on the bill by Morgan Elwy, who like Sage is notable for being almost alone in his genre – in Elwy’s case, roots reggae – as …
The Vivienne
The Vivienne
Didn’t realise – as a person who didn’t watch Drag Race season 1, Drag Race All Stars season 7 or Dancing On Ice series 15 among other things – that The Vivienne is from Colwyn Bay. Of course like so many before her she moved to Liverpool at the first opportunity, but still here is …
Prowl
Prowl
This band, from Montreal, play crossover thrash/beatdown kinda gear a la Power Trip and use a slightly unflattering photo on their Bandcamp which shows a room full of people looking really bored while they play. I don’t reckon that’ll happen here, though, because they sound gnarly and mosh-ready on latest album The Forgotten Realms. The …
3 events,
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Welsh language kids’ TV show {Deian A Loli} becomes a Welsh language theatre show and tours Wales. {Y Ribidirew Olaf} finds Deian and Loli searching for their parents’ missing car keys, as you do, in Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Thurs 9-Sat 11); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (Tue 14 + Wed 15), Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen (Tue 21-Fri 24) …
Party Games
Party Games
Written by former Thatcher/Major adviser and unsuccessful Tory candidate Michael McManus, this is a play set in a hypothetical political landscape of the very near future with an ‘exaggerated for comedic effect… unless?’ air. A centrist party, One Nation, has formed a government in a hung parliament and now preside over a country circling the …
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The Katie Price Show
The Katie Price Show
In which this UK media personality and tabloid staple brings her podcast, {The Katie Price Show}, to Cardiff’s Glee Club as part of a six-venue tour. The podcast, which she hosts with younger sister Sophie, often features discussions of weddings, cosmetic surgery and home life, areas where you would expect the elder Price to be …
Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley
Having first found mid-90s success in Britpop band Longpigs, Richard Hawley is something of an elder statesman of Sheffield music – he even spent a brief period on guitar for Pulp – and drops his ninth solo album, In This City They Call You Love, the week after this unusually intimate north Wales gig (tickets …
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Penned by Ben Jonson over 400 years ago, The Alchemist has had its script and setting modernised in many eras in the last century or so. Not certain if the flower-power 1960s patina given to the play here is the brainchild of Abergavenny company Suitcase Theatre or if they’re doing someone else’s version of the …
Open Space: Rhian Elizabeth & Carrie Etter
Open Space: Rhian Elizabeth & Carrie Etter
This came in a little late to add to our ‘book-y events’ roundup elsewhere in the mag but happy to add it here. Two writers, south Wales’ Rhian Elizabeth and American in Bath Carrie Etter, have new poetry collections out – titled {Girls Etc} and {Grief’s Alphabet} respectively – and will be reading from, discussing …
Blodwen’s In Town
Blodwen’s In Town
This is a musical comedy with what sounds like something of a cabaret element from Emily Davis, whose character Blodwen leaves Wales for London and France in search of “adventure, love and friendship”. A review from 2022 notes the presence of a Tom Lehrer song in her repertoire, hopefully this is still the case.
Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity
With the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama strapped in for its NEW’24 season this week, they’re nipping over to the Sherman for a production of this late-60s musical, written by Neil Simon (albeit adapted from a decade-old Fellini movie) and set in New York. Sat 25 and Wed 29 May have shows at …
8 events,
NEW’24
NEW’24
The RWCMD’s annual festival of new theatre writing returns with seven productions, including four commissions from UK playwrights. Simon Longman’s Falling Falling Falling Falling lines up alongside Rhiannon Boyle’s reality TV-themed Couple Goals, Isley Lynn’s Airbnb-set The Glue and Paula B Stanic’s protest play Dissonance. Also featured are three short stories from RWCMD students: Liam …
MG Boulter
MG Boulter
The weather is getting nicer (disclaimer – it’s been pure shite while I’ve actually been gathering these listings) so it’s time for this west Wales brewery to start putting on gigs in a marquee again. This one’s on a folky tip, with Southend-based Boulter having amassed a solid body of releases over the last decade …
Porridge Radio
Porridge Radio
Brighton’s Porridge Radio are your classic ‘bedroom solo project that turned into a full band over time’ kinda deal, so in touring this month with nowt but herself and a guitar (and a support act, Naima Bock), Dana Margolin returns to her musical roots, seemingly on a quest to challenge herself in the process.
Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
This is May’s Conversations At The Chapel event, with David Laurence talking to immovable Guardian op-ed penner and unreconstructed New Labour stan Polly Toynbee. Presumably in the area for Hay, she seems to be promoting the paperback version of her latest book My Family And Other Radicals but maybe will discuss some slightly less softball …
11 events,
Fishguard Folk Festival
Fishguard Folk Festival
Mostly free folk festival held over Spring Bank Holiday weekend in Pembrokeshire, also featuring workshops, sessions and walks. This year’s lineup features Lancastrian folk-rock octet Merry Hell and Scotland’s Breabach in the two headline slots, with the likes of Baggyrinkle, Facing The Ocean and Julie Murphy & Ceri Rhys Matthews also in town. Tickets: Merry …
Two-day live bonanza CELEBRATE THIS PLACE brings CASISDEAD, WARMDUSCHER and more to Cardiff Tramshed
Two-day live bonanza CELEBRATE THIS PLACE brings CASISDEAD, WARMDUSCHER and more to Cardiff Tramshed
Two-day live bonanza CELEBRATE THIS PLACE brings CASISDEAD, WARMDUSCHER and more to Cardiff Tramshed
For its second year, Celebrate This Place is coming to Cardiff. Devised by Clwb Ifor Bach and with a celebratory lineup to match its name, 2024 sees mask-donning rapper Casisdead headline his first Cardiff gig, whilst the following day Warmduscher finish off the late-bank holiday shindig at Tramshed. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, …
Cardiff club staples CYNT are proud as punch to secure DJ HEARTSTRING’s trance-dance services
Cardiff club staples CYNT are proud as punch to secure DJ HEARTSTRING’s trance-dance services
This bank holiday jamboree is described in promoters CYNT’s blurb as “ biggest booking to date,” which seems implausible given their 15-year-plus history in the Cardiff club scene – but maybe far less so when the dust settles, who knows. Berlin’s DJ Heartstring are certainly getting talked about, with Polydor picking up a late 2023 …
The Very Last Green Thing
The Very Last Green Thing
Wales Millennium Centre’s Youth Opera returns with a new show, building on the success of last year’s equivalent effort. Directed by Rhian Hutchings of Anthem and designed by Greta Baxter, the 70+ member ensemble will be performing a story set in the year 2423 – where schoolteachers are androids… On at 3pm and 7pm on …
Lamerica: Jamie 3:26
Lamerica: Jamie 3:26
The latest DJ from the Defected stable to make it to Cardiff under the longrunning Lamerica promo banner, Chicago’s Jamie ‘3:26’ Watson favours more discofied, soulful and vocal house-y sounds, as has been Lamerica’s bread and butter over the years. Talking of house, there are posters for this daytime party around Cardiff that are about …
5 events,
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
Described as “an imaginative retelling of the classic fairytale”, the synopsis of this production by the Bohemians Theatre Company seems to list more differences than similarities. This Pinocchio is, in the words of the play’s subtitle, a ‘radical robot girl’ living in postapocalyptic Wales and on a quest to save the planet, singing a few …
Big Chimney
Big Chimney
You can call this music old-timey, but good-timey is likely as appropriate when a top quality stringband get going – and Big Chimney, who hail from the Alaskan mountains, have earned themselves a strong rep through years of global touring. Fiddle, banjo, standup bass and guitar combine in the time-honoured Appalachian style.
Julian Clary
Julian Clary
This show is titled A Fistful Of Clary, thereby setting its target audience to people in their forties or older or who have read Julian Clary’s Wikipedia page, but it opens the door for the show to have a “Western theme” and the tour spiel to include jokes about chaps, Rawhide etc.
6 events,
The Brick People
The Brick People
Six hours of Lego-related fun, where participants young and old can build models etc either competitively or otherwise. The Brick People are an events company from Surrey who arrange family shows, teambuilding days etc themed around Lego, which they are (contractually?) obliged to write as ‘LEGO®’ each time.
Girli
Girli
According to Buzz’s review archives, Amelia Toomey aka Girli played Cardiff six years to the day (as I write), prompting Jasper Wilkins to muse: “If she keeps up her current trajectory, Girli may well be the future.” The ascendency from Clwb Ifor Bach to the Globe is fairly minor, size-wise, so this maybe didn’t quite …
9 events,
Sarah Millican
Colm To?ibi?n
Colm To?ibi?n
This is one of a fair few late-May events taking place within an hour or so’s drive of Hay-On-Wye which has tapped up authors due to be there for the Hay Festival and asked if they fancy coming to their place for one evening. Irish literary titan Colm To?ibi?n is there on Tue 28 May, …
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín
Esteemed Irish writer reads from/talks anout his novel Long Island. Tickets: £12/£25 with a signed book.
Sonny Tennet
Sonny Tennet
Every UK city now either has a singer-songwriter guy who tries to go viral and/or get sports broadcast theme music placement by singing about their locale, or is going to have one soon. Sam Fender arguably does this for Newcastle already, but a challenger has appeared in Sonny Tennet, who just released inspiringly titled single …
14 events,
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Mid-afternoon trio of comedians tailoring their sets for a youthful audience. Runi Talwar, from Sydney but London-based, headlines over musical funnywoman Katie Pritchard and South Shields’ Lee Kyle. They say that being able to adapt one’s repertoire to these sorts of shows is the real test of a comic’s chops. At least that sounds like …
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
Described as “an imaginative retelling of the classic fairytale”, the synopsis of this production by the Bohemians Theatre Company seems to list more differences than similarities. This Pinocchio is, in the words of the play’s subtitle, a ‘radical robot girl’ living in postapocalyptic Wales and on a quest to save the planet, singing a few …
Brujeria
Brujeria
Longrunning concept-metal extremists play what I think is their first ever Swansea show. With grindcore-y songs in Spanish about drug lords, serial killers etc Brujeria have featured several household names (by metal standards) over the years though Shane Embury of Napalm Death seems to be the only really head-turning one now.
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Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy
Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy
Empathy is the third and final touring project devised by Welsh jazz trumpeter Tomos Williams, and for this observer’s money the most impressive musical assembly of all three. The first Cwmwl Tystion lineup, in 2019, drew from the Welsh jazz landscape, the second expanding into England; this time, Williams has pulled off two coups by …
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