Keane
Utilita Arena Cardiff Mary Ann Street, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomKeane are one of many British bands who emerged in the 00s and, following a few years of popularity, were diagnosed with terminal uncoolness – before a revival that found them playing bigger venues than at their supposed peak. This tour’s toasting 20 years since debut album {Hopes And Fears}, which definitely wasn’t an arena-filler …
The Mingus Project
CU Mumbles 7 Castleton Walk Arcade, Newton Rd, Mumbles, Swansea, United KingdomSwansea Jazz, in their current weekly home at this Mumbles bar, entice a young Cardiff-based octet to Swansea for the purpose of honouring the great Charles Mingus. The Mingus Project have come together while studying at the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama and are headed by bassist Cameron Saint.
Welcome To My World Of Colour
Theatr Brycheiniog Canal Wharf, Brecon, Powys, United KingdomThis is a Powys People First show performed by members of Theatr Wildcats, a theatre group for adults with learning disabilities. With a policy of bringing their own experiences into the plots of their shows, this latest one posits a colourless, song-free world with one inhabitant, Luna, who dreams in colour and wants her fellow …
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 …
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