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Antiques Weekend
Antiques Weekend
The National Botanic Garden Of Wales, whose landmark glass house sits within 568 acres of land, will be hosting various stalls across its premises for two days. The antiques event, held across various parts of the site, will allow visitors to browse various vintage, rare and one-of-a-kind items.
The Smartest Giant In Town
The Smartest Giant In Town
Nothing gets the kids (presumably with the collusion of their parents) into the theatre like a live adaption of a book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Here’s one I don’t think’s toured to Wales before: co-produced by Little Angel Theatre and Fierylight, it concerns a badly dressed giant who wants some fresh garms. Tickets: …
Scooter
Scooter
Second Cardiff megashow in just over a year (following a summer ‘23 set down the bay) from the German band who took up Kraftwerk’s ‘techno pop’ baton and ran with it to the Hamburg city limits. Actually they probably don’t care about Kraftwerk much but they have certainly combined pop and techno with million-selling results.
Metal Soar
Metal Soar
Pipe organs are arguably the most metal (as in ‘throwing devil horns’ metal) instrument out there, but are most often played by more straight-laced types in church settings. However, Theatr Soar have recently had their Conacher organ restored and are showing it off with a composition by David John Roche, performed by local rock band …
The Death Of Money
The Death Of Money
This show takes place 20 years and 10 days after I first saw ethereal metal experimentalists The Death Of Her Money, in Newport’s Le Pub venue. Since then, they have made their name slightly shorter (while Le Pub have lengthened theirs, to Le Public Space), but have been a functioning band the whole time, remarkably. …
8 events,
Elis James
Elis James
Elis James – podcaster, football lover, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci superfan and my sister’s fellow uni student – is touring a new Welsh language standup show this autumn. Starting his comedy career in 2005, he won a National Student Radio Award the following year, further building his name on the circuit supporting fellow Welshman Rhod Gilbert. …
An Afternoon With Guenther Steiner
An Afternoon With Guenther Steiner
This fella is an Italian (from near the Austrian border, hence his Teutonic name) who’s worked as an engineer in motorsport since the 1980s, and in Formula 1 for over 20 years. Such careers don’t often result in spoken word theatre tours, however Steiner is notorious for his screen time in recent Netflix documentary Drive …
Warmduscher
Warmduscher
Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach pop up, promo-wise, in another Welsh city as is their occasional wont, with London funk oddities Warmduscher headline news this evening. Speaking to Buzz back in …
Hoso TerraToma & Niohuru X
Hoso TerraToma & Niohuru X
Good booking for this venue here, which for the most part hasn’t exactly attracted the most cutting-edge acts since opening in March. Hoso TerraToma & Niohuru X have an interesting …
2 events,
Elis James
Dad’s Army Radio Show
Dad’s Army Radio Show
An unusual gambit, in the 1970s as now, to take a hit TV sitcom and adapt it for radio, but that’s what was done with Dad’s Army, enabling this theatre …
6 events,
Grace Campbell
Grace Campbell
Like many who grow up without a father figure in the home – in her case because he was and still is serving life imprisonment for war crimes – UK …
Jessica Pratt
Jessica Pratt
Californian folk-rock type who writes and records songs with a straighter bat than many of her peers: her four albums to date betray a love of 60s pop and coffeehouse …
Shôn Dale-Jones: The Duke
Shôn Dale-Jones: The Duke
Two shows over three days here from innovative north Wales theatre performer Dale-Jones. The Duke (Tue 12 and Thurs 14) contrasts a mass exodus event with the plight of a …
5 events,
The Unexpected Guest
The Unexpected Guest
Newport Playgoers Society became a centurion this year, which is wild – are there any other Welsh theatre companies who date back as far as 1924? – and they seem pretty modest about it too. This month they’re having a bash at Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest, a mere stripling at 66 years old. Includes …
Shôn Dale-Jones: Cracking
Shôn Dale-Jones: Cracking
Two shows over three days here from innovative north Wales theatre performer Dale-Jones. The Duke (Tue 12 and Thurs 14) contrasts a mass exodus event with the plight of a …
Rosalie Cunningham
Rosalie Cunningham
London-based psych-prog-pop type Cunningham has been on the circuit since the late 00s, and has released three studio albums under her own name – the latest, To Shoot Another Day, …
8 events,
Murder On The Nile
Murder On The Nile
More Agatha Christie action, with this play having its 80th birthday this year and adapted from her novel of a few years prior. In Colwyn Bay, The Present Stage Theatre Company and director Carole Lauren are tackling its story of a honeymooning couple whose pleasant river cruise is interrupted in a murderous manner. Tickets: £17.50/£15.50.
Shôn Dale-Jones: The Duke
Shôn Dale-Jones: The Duke
Two shows over three days here from innovative north Wales theatre performer Dale-Jones. The Duke (Tue 12 and Thurs 14) contrasts a mass exodus event with the plight of a family heirloom, while Cracking (Wed 13) finds Dale-Jones visiting his mother on Anglesey – and incurring the wrath of strangers due to an unlikely egg-based …
Mike Rice
Mike Rice
The Boho Club is the basement place just by Cardiff Market that changes its name about once a year. They seem to be doing comedy nights and have Kilkenny’s Mike Rice in this month. “Before the hour is up, everyone in the pub has been called devious, a big eejit or a paedophile at best,” …
Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote
Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote
Murder She Wrote is one of the best TV shows of the last 40 years! If you agree with my, admittedly quite bold, statement then you’ll love Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote, and even if you’re less than familiar, the show is at paints to affirm that newbies are more than welcome into the world of JB Fletcher. At …
12 events,
Eradication Festival 2024
Eradication Festival 2024
Annual extreme metal festival returns, either in slimmed-down form or with a bunch more acts TBC: there’s currently 11 bands listed over Eradication’s three days, with top billing going to UK-based Poles Black Altar, wacky Austrian goregrinders VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC and Boro death metal veterans Malediction. Verletzen and Iselder are worth checking from the local crop.
Impact Driver
Impact Driver
Eve Stainton’s Impact Driver fuses welding, choreography, and live sound to explore queer identities. The work examines suspense and tension through time-stretching, non-traditional storytelling, and decision-making. With a diverse ensemble, it foregrounds lesbian and transmasc experiences, challenging conventions in contemporary dance and embodying raw alchemical energy.
Within Temptation
Within Temptation
Pomp-and-circumstance symphonic metal of the type one often thinks of as being massive in mainland Europe – which it is – though Dutch band Within Temptation are one of a select few bands in the style who can ram out UK arenas too. Main support Tarja Turunen is the former singer of Nightwish, themselves another …
Pagliacci
Pagliacci
Mid Wales Opera return this autumn with Pagliacci, also known as Clowns. This is Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo’s gripping operatic thriller, one which blurs the lines between the stage and reality. Featured within, comedy actor Canio must perform as a husband whose wife is having an affair, even as his real-life marriage unravels.
14 events,
The Big CD Revival Fair
The Big CD Revival Fair
A daytime (10am-4pm) event named after a drum I happen to have been beating for a while now. It’s organised by More Music and the flyer for it declares this …
Young Storytellers Festival Of Wales 2024
Young Storytellers Festival Of Wales 2024
This afternoon event (12-4pm) is organised by the Llangollen Storytelling Café but takes place a fair distance away. It looks worthwhile should you be a storyteller, or aspiring one, aged 7-20, though. A workshop, open mic session, ‘story surgery’ and competition split into three age groups take place over four hours.
Amazing Animals
Amazing Animals
This show pitches itself at all ages from toddlers up, and takes place twice today – from 12.30-1.45pm, then from 3.30-4.45pm. These are the animals who feature (in some sort …
6 events,
Seamus Fogarty
Seamus Fogarty
Fogarty is a folky type based in London, originally from County Mayo and who got his career started with Scottish label Fence, whose leftfield take on the genre is typical of his own outlook. Promoted in Hay by Nawr, support comes from Herefordshire folk duo Alula Down and Zurich-living American experimentalist Jason Kahn.
Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro
A tour, burbles the blurb for this show, to “mark the 60th year of reign as the queen of rock’n’roll”. It may be stretching a point to claim she held such status in 1964, when she joined her big sister’s garage band aged 14, but in the early 70s glam boom years Suzi was a …
Trust Fund
Trust Fund
Around the middle of last decade, it felt like I saw live performances by Trust Fund – aka acoustic indie-rock fellow Ellis Jones – more often than my own reflection, but at some point he took a long hiatus. Last year saw a return to the stage, though, and this month there’s a new Trust …
1 event,
Trust Fund
Trust Fund
Around the middle of last decade, it felt like I saw live performances by Trust Fund – aka acoustic indie-rock fellow Ellis Jones – more often than my own reflection, but at some point he took a long hiatus. Last year saw a return to the stage, though, and this month there’s a new Trust …
1 event,
RWCMD Student Showcase
RWCMD Student Showcase
“A two-setter where two student bands put on some great music,” says Brenda who books these gigs.
7 events,
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Legendary kids’ book by Eric Carle is adapted for the stage (along with three of his others), with all the roles performed by puppets. They could have saved money by just having one person in a sleeping bag onstage, eating all the food the caterpillar eats in the book. Anyway it’s on at 2pm and …
Bellowhead
Bellowhead
Celebrated Brit-folk big band Bellowhead celebrate 20 years as a band, with their debut EP having been released shortly after their formation. Standing strong at 11 members, they’ve captivated live audiences with their energetic performances and unique blend of contemporary folk, often repurposing traditional songs and shanties.
Xiu Xiu
Xiu Xiu
This is, I believe, Xiu Xiu’s first Welsh gig since 2010, when the shortlived Cardiff Arts Institute somehow managed to have them play a free entry show. This one isn’t free, which may indicate Clwb Ifor Bach’s superior business acumen, and the band – centred on founder Jamie Stewart – now have seven more, often …
Amy Rigby
Amy Rigby
Few contemporary artists are as capable of songcraft – from storytelling and lyrics to melodies and strong choruses – as exceptionally talented American Amy Rigby. Combining insight and humour in her pop-rock-folk songs with classic rock flourishes and a punk spirit, Rigby can boast the endorsement of Steve Earle, who’s compared her to “Randy Newman …
11 events,
Pirates Of The Odyssey Inn
Pirates Of The Odyssey Inn
Hijinx have a busy November, what with their film festival in Chapter Arts Centre earlier in the month and this desert island-set show by Odyssey, their theatre group. It concerns two young folk, Billy and Jemima, who’re inspired to travel by sea in a search for buried treasure. On at 7pm each night with an …
Ensemble 360: Pierrot Lunaire
Ensemble 360: Pierrot Lunaire
Sheffield-based ensemble perform works by Brahms, Schoenberg and Helen Grime. Tickets: £8-£16.
Voya
Voya
Cardiff synthpop duo Voya make a virtue of working slowly and carefully, but they’ve got a new single in the oven and are launching it (and the video they made for it) at the Globe tonight. Newsoundwales, supporters of the project since its early days, are promoting the show, and have booked Bristol’s Freddie Lewis …
The Great Rock N Roll Show: A Tribute To Carl Bevan
The Great Rock N Roll Show: A Tribute To Carl Bevan
Best known for his time in mid-90s Newport rockers 60ft Dolls, Carl Bevan’s death in August, aged just 51, prompted a flurry of tributes. This one features sets from Jump …
11 events,
Dathliad Cymru Affrica 2024
Dathliad Cymru Affrica 2024
After two late-August events in Pembrokeshire and Cardiff, the Successors Of The Mandingue collective present their final Dathliad Cymru Affrica salvo of 2024. “African food, workshops, dance and Afro-Welsh collaborations” are promised alongside live music from 2024 (Friday): Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou (Fri 22) followed by Ibibio Sound Machine and Asya Satti with Yaz …
Anastasia The Musical – Youth Edition
Anastasia The Musical – Youth Edition
Not fully clear if ‘youth edition’ means the content of Anastasia is altered for younger audiences, as I’m unsure how many of today’s teens are actively interested in mythic spins on the aftermath of Imperial Russia (or even the glamour of 1920s Paris), but it does mean that young actors are performing the roles, according …
Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood
“In the year it enters the public domain, Volcano returns to the play we were banned from performing by the Dylan Thomas estate all those years ago.” It seems they’re making up for lost time, with no less than 20 performances of this most lauded work by Swansea’s exalted son. Fri 22 and Sat 23 …
Seska
Seska
Following wins at Colchester Fringe Festival, Mumbai Theatre Festival and Banjul Arts Festival, Seska’s comedy magic show Cooking Up Fun is brought to Newport. In fact, families across the UK and Europe can vouch for the fast-paced interactive humour of Seska, who describes himself as “a charming, charismatic gypsy boy from Izbekistan”.
Shai Maestro Trio
Shai Maestro Trio
Jazz pianist who some believe is an example of nominative determinism, at least I assume so on the basis of all the Critical Acclaim that has come his way. His …
Mitch Benn
Mitch Benn
Tidy-bearded musical comedian tours his latest show, The Point, so named because it finds him wondering if his jaunty, politically moderate songs are doing much to change the world. Strange that this should be a concern, with the Labour government Mitch advocated for so staunchly measurably improving people’s lives every day, but there we are.
17 events,
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Legendary kids’ book by Eric Carle is adapted for the stage (along with three of his others), with all the roles performed by puppets. They could have saved money by just having one person in a sleeping bag onstage, eating all the food the caterpillar eats in the book. Anyway it’s on at 1.30pm and …
Robots
Robots
This is a live taping of an internet TV show, Mechmania, which is very similar to {Robot Wars} and done by people who previously built Robot Wars robots but is definitely not {Robot Wars}. It’s also the grand final following various prior dates this year, the winner gets “a cash prize” it says here.
Yousef Presents Circa 2000
Yousef Presents Circa 2000
‘Circa 2000’ was , with all due respect, the time when UK prog-house DJ Yousef was at his most relevant, so you can see why he’s doing a tour harking back to that year and the nine which followed.
New Xpectations Audio Camp
New Xpectations Audio Camp
Cardiff-based experimental music and arts collective Shift, who are without a venue at the time of writing, have a day out in Ceredigion and team up with the Welsh Music Alliance for a free entry day of discussion and performance. These come from Maggie Nicols, Henry McPherson, Leona Jones and May Swoon and will be …
My Brother Terry
My Brother Terry
November’s instalment in the monthly lunchtime theatre series (lunchtime here being 12.30-1.30pm, clockpunchers) by Fluellen. My Brother Terry is a new play by Jaye Swift, set in the 1970s but …
Tristwch Y Fenywod
Tristwch Y Fenywod
It’s quite unusual for a Welsh language band to play their first Welsh gig two and a half years or so after forming, and after around a dozen live shows elsewhere, but Tristwch Y Fenywod are quite an unusual band. Two of the trio live in Leeds, the other in France, and their music is …
8 events,
Fontaines DC
Fontaines DC
I remember Fontaines DC’s first Cardiff show – a little under six years ago – very vividly, as I was promoting a gig next door which was attended by about …
Beenie Man
Beenie Man
The Tramshed isn’t exactly an established stopoff for touring dancehall royalty, but Jamaica’s Beenie Man could reasonably be described thus. In the biz for over 40 years, having cut his …
2 events,
Under Milk Wood
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Hamilton
Hamilton
Possibly the most widely lauded musical of the last decade or two, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s song-based retelling of USA Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's story will land in Cardiff across the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025, meaning the 10th anniversary of its off-Broadway premiere will be spent at the Wales Millennium Centre. Which is nice. …
The Odd Couple (Female Version)
The Odd Couple (Female Version)
Everyman Theatre’s first production proper since summer’s Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival is a revival of a revival. You’ll be most likely to know The Odd Couple in one of its original, male-centred incarnations – a Broadway production first, in the mid-1960s, then a movie and TV series. Neil Simon, who wrote the original play, …
Billy Nomates
Billy Nomates
Following a brace of well-received postpunky indie albums, Tor ‘Billy Nomates’ Maries returns to Cardiff with a set that combines reworked versions of better known songs with others that haven’t …
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd
His tour spiel calls him “the wee guy with the glasses from Glasgow,” his own social media “the postpunk Ronnie Corbett”. This is Christopher Macarthur-Boyd’s first proper UK headline tour and presents him with an opportunity to cultivate his own profile, after a few years making a name in the podcast game and as a …
Luke Evans
Luke Evans
Here’s your Local Boy Makes Good content for this month, as Aberbargoed’s Luke Evans publishes his Boy From The Valleys autobiography and promotes it live in the New Theatre with an interview/Q&A session where attendees are invited to quiz him about his time in the movie biz etc. Tickets: £22-£42.
5 events,
Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe are sometimes conflated with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, understandably but incorrectly. The latter group pioneered a minimalist, quasi-classical sound from the 70s to the 90s, disbanding after guitarist Simon Jeffes’ death in 1997. His son Arthur picked up the baton as Penguin Cafe, often performing concerts of PCO music – as is the …
Michael Blanchfield / Ryan Thrup / Clem Seynor Trio
Michael Blanchfield / Ryan Thrup / Clem Seynor Trio
Cardiff-based pianist Blanchfield, Bristol-dwelling drummer Thrup and bassist/second Cardiffian Seynor see out November’s jazz programme upstairs in the Flute. Expect, says Brenda who books these gigs, “some of their fabulous jazz originals and arrangements of their favourite tunes”.
6 events,
Dracula
Dracula
He’s a sharp dresser who owns his own castle, with a title and an interesting foreign accent. Say what you will – and there are a lot of negatives – but Dracula is the perennial alluring gothic character. Landing a bit far to the east of Whitby (in Cardiff), Blackeyed Theatre Company’s production of Bram …
Melys
Melys
Very much a fixture of the late 90s/early 00s Welsh gig scene, where the melodic nous of their records was often spiked by industrial metal drumming, this year has been the busiest for Betws-Y-Coed band Melys since those days. These three dates in north, mid and west Wales precede new music in 2025.
The Silver Field
The Silver Field
Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby: not four of the firemen in Trumpton but in fact an experimental synth-folk artist who’s released music on Tim Burgess’ label O Genesis and Jacken Elswyth’s Betwixt & Between. I dig her sound actually.
12 events,
Sort Yourself Out
Sort Yourself Out
“House, breaks and anything else that hits the spot,” is the slogan of Sort Yourself Out, who are having their first party for a little over 18 months I believe. Emma Jayne, Hooligan and more TBC will be rinsing the tunes from 6pm-1am.
Electronic Music Open Mic
Electronic Music Open Mic
“Whether you’re into techno, ambient, or experimental sounds, EMOM nights provide a platform for performances using various equipment like laptops, synths, and drum machines.”
7 events,
Lamerica Groove & Graze Bottomless Brunch
Lamerica Groove & Graze Bottomless Brunch
So this is a pretty regular style bottomless brunch, but with Craig Bartlett from Lamerica doing a DJ set so you can alternate between eating/drinking and dancing, or maybe trying to combine the two but careful out there OK. For your £40 you get a cocktail on arrival followed by unlimited prosecco for 90 minutes, …
Ballet Cymru: Daydreams And Jellybeans
Ballet Cymru: Daydreams And Jellybeans
Alex Wharton, or ‘August 2023 Buzz cover star Alex Wharton’ as some know him, has played a role in adapting his two kids’ poetry collections, Daydreams And Jellybeans and Red Sky At Night, Poet’s Delight into a ballet. As well as high quality choreography by Ballet Cymru’s dancers, there’s original music by Frank Moon.
Melys
Melys
Very much a fixture of the late 90s/early 00s Welsh gig scene, where the melodic nous of their records was often spiked by industrial metal drumming, this year has been the busiest for Betws-Y-Coed band Melys since those days. These three dates in north, mid and west Wales precede new music in 2025.
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Melys
Melys
Very much a fixture of the late 90s/early 00s Welsh gig scene, where the melodic nous of their records was often spiked by industrial metal drumming, this year has been the busiest for Betws-Y-Coed band Melys since those days. These three dates in north, mid and west Wales precede new music in 2025.
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