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Treasure Island
Treasure Island
A new version of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, offering creative and modern twists on the classic novel. While Stevenson’s adventurous tale stands out for its pirates, gold and swashbuckling, this version from the Richard Burton Company’s youth theatre wing was provided by Bryony Lavery, based on the National Theatre’s adaption.
Alfie Moore
Alfie Moore
Down the decades, many have asked the question “what would it be like if a police officer had a sense of humour?” Attempts to answer this via the Facebook page …
15 events,
Christmas Makers Market
Christmas Makers Market
This market comes but once a year, or twice if you count it as separate days I guess, and is probably the most extensive in-person place in south Wales to buy independently made craft type stuff with gifts in mind. Some more or less randomly chosen participating names: Folk Soap, Ivy Melts, The Unique Cushion …
Winter Vintage And Makers Market
Winter Vintage And Makers Market
Not wholly unlike the Christmas Makers Market in St Fagans, one of the Waterfront’s sibling museums, this one however features the input of Cow & Ghost Vintage, based in Talybont-On-Usk and regular features here. So as well as newly made crafty bits you can buy second-hand items in what C&GV are calling an “eclectic and …
Christmas Traditions: The Mari Lwyd / Hunting Of The Wren
Christmas Traditions: The Mari Lwyd / Hunting Of The Wren
A Welsh folk ritual dance performance with educative tendencies, taking place here at 11am and 2pm on both Saturdays and 1pm and 3pm on both Sundays. Cwmni Dawns Werin Caerdydd, a local folk dancing troupe, act out the Mari Lwyd (featuring customary horse’s skull) and Hunting Of The Wren (not featuring actual wren).
Pantomeim Nadolig 2024
Pantomeim Nadolig 2024
Sorry to the good honest folks of Dyffryn Aeron who want a simple traditional panto about some magic beans or a beauty who is sleeping, because this appears to be a metatextual work about the challenges of putting on such a production in a small Welsh town. Also it’s in Welsh, with “assistance” promised for …
Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit
The Richard Burton Company’s vintage adult drama for the first half of December (running concurrently with their family one, Treasure Island), is an adaption of Noël Coward’s wartime-era farce centred round a man and wife, a spirit medium and a ghost – or rather, in due course, two ghosts, who gang up on the aforementioned …
9to90 Christmas Craft Fair
9to90 Christmas Craft Fair
9to90 is a ‘creative community’ who produce artwork of various types under the wing of Swansea gallery GS Artists. Today, from 11am-5pm, they are selling it to the public, with …
Railway Gardens Winter Fair
Railway Gardens Winter Fair
Afternoon event (1-5pm) in collaboration with The Eco Market Collective, at the laudable Railway Gardens site on Adeline Street in Splott. You can just turn up but feel free to …
Falling In Reverse
Falling In Reverse
High-profile exponents of the popification of metalcore, with their music often adding big glossy choruses or EDM sections to the standard compressed rifferama, US band Falling In Reverse are fronted …
10 events,
Drag Queen Story Hour UK
Drag Queen Story Hour UK
In which a drag queen reads you and/or your kids a story, for an hour or thereabouts. The drag queen, Aida H Dee, has written a kids’ book so the …
Please Mind Your Head X
Please Mind Your Head X
Or, for any staunch decimal fans reading, ‘Please Mind Your Head 10’ – because this ribald charity alldayer is back for the first time since its ninth edition, in 2019. …
Dylan John Thomas
Dylan John Thomas
Folk-rock singer-songwriter from Scotland (with a name like his you can tell, etc) who got his break thanks to the support of Gerry Cinnamon and has to an extent followed …
4 events,
Treasure Island
Pantomeim Nadolig 2024
Blithe Spirit
Culture Club
Culture Club
On this day last year, Boy George was also onstage in this venue, starring as Captain Hook in a production of Peter Pan which toured UK arenas. For 2024, he …
6 events,
Grace Petrie
Grace Petrie
A live performance by the Leicester folk artist, activist, and queer icon who first emerged on the scene in 2010, then toured alongside the likes of Billy Bragg and Frank Turner. Blending folk with a modern, ‘protest’ type of rebellion and a fierce stage presence, Grace’s most recent album full of wit and rawness, Build …
Celebrations At The Funeral Of Capitalism
Celebrations At The Funeral Of Capitalism
Unfortunately, capitalism is alive and well, at least in the real world, but a new performance at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre trumpets the ideology’s death. Performance art trio Clark/Heinecke/Wierer host these Celebrations At The Funeral Of Capitalism. The piece combines multiple performance elements, including live art, theatre, dance and music. The evening culminates in a …
Shakespeare Link: Have A Go
Shakespeare Link: Have A Go
Held in the Clore Learning Space here and one of a succession of fortnight sessions in various mid-Wales locations, this late-morning informal event invites Shakespeareans of all scholarly levels to …
6 events,
Eyehategod + Goatwhore
Eyehategod + Goatwhore
The sole Welsh date on a decently extensive UK tour for Eyehategod and Goatwhore – both sludge metal notables from the fertile New Orleans scene – also features Silverburn as …
9 events,
BBC NOW: Handel’s Messiah
BBC NOW: Handel’s Messiah
The period covered by this issue of Buzz sees the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales perform no less than five times in its de facto home venue, the WMC’s Hoddinott …
After Hours: Christmas
After Hours: Christmas
It is once again time for south Wales’ leading family science centre Techniquest to become, merely, south Wales’ leading science centre for an evening, as local adults are urged to leave any children they may have at home or other temporary location and come on down for the grownups-only, Christmas-centric edition of After Hours. In …
Louise Young + Rob Deering
Louise Young + Rob Deering
Little Wander’s final event of 2024 – another hectic year for the Welsh comedy promoters, with two weekend festivals and myriad tours included – is their monthly Comedy Club night up in Bangor. Geordie comic Louise Young towers over (in terms of the running order at least) marathon-running gagsmith Rob Deering and Wales’ Carwyn Blayney. …
9 events,
Jack And The Beanstalk
Jack And The Beanstalk
Down Pembrokeshire way, it’s a tale of dairy economics and crop growth acceleration as {Jack And The Beanstalk} plants itself onstage at the Torch for a fortnight of family panto larks. Speaking of families, son Jack has dropped himself in it with his mother when he trades their only cow for some magic beans – …
Festive Feastival
Festive Feastival
The people behind Street Food Circus are going to mid-Wales for their Christmas al fresco eating residency. There are 13 traders listed at time of writing, including Hills Burgers, Keralan Karavan and Soft Serve Bros, and SFC have got hold of a vintage roller disco rink. Add a Santa’s grotto and a circus to that …
Cats In Space
Cats In Space
Co-promoted by fellow Gwent venue the Patriot – I guess the Memo is a little bigger? – Cats In Space emerged from the UK hard rock scene but exhibit poppier …
Judge Jules
Judge Jules
A bit of an odd man out in this venue’s events schedule, which tends more towards Welsh-language indie/rock and the groovier iterations of what still gets called ‘world music’, Judge Jules – so named because he has a law degree, some classic British humour for you there – will no doubt pump out the peaktime …
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas
“If you don’t know what he does ask your parents,” chuckles the blurb for activist comedian Mark Thomas’ latest tour: wouldn’t have imagined the under-30s share of his audience circa 2024 to be that large but I daresay he knows it better than me. Gaffa Tapes sounds like a kind of greatest hits collection of …
12 events,
Christmas Traditions: The Mari Lwyd / Hunting Of The Wren
Christmas Traditions: The Mari Lwyd / Hunting Of The Wren
A Welsh folk ritual dance performance with educative tendencies, taking place here at 11am and 2pm on both Saturdays and 1pm and 3pm on both Sundays. Cwmni Dawns Werin Caerdydd, a local folk dancing troupe, act out the Mari Lwyd (featuring customary horse’s skull) and Hunting Of The Wren (not featuring actual wren).
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
Chapter, Canton’s hub of art innovation, has announced that Dan Johnson will be their artist in residence for the autumn/winter season. Through his six-month tenure at the arts centre, the artist aims to offer a varied suite of performance and teaching to a wide range of new audiences. In practice, Johnson is a percussionist, performance …
Graham The Bear’s Christmas Day Disco
Graham The Bear’s Christmas Day Disco
Graham The Bear is a member of Goldie Lookin Chain, but it seems that his music tastes diverge from the sound of that group, as his DJ set (running from …
Twrw Trwy’r Dydd
Twrw Trwy’r Dydd
The return of this possibly biannual (the last one was in May at any rate) Welsh-language indie and pop showcase. The distinctly Pavemental local lads Hyll headline, with Sywel Nyw …
8 events,
CARDiff Card Show
CARDiff Card Show
‘Festive’ edition of this regular, well stocked events for south Wales’ trading card collector community. “Pokemon, Disney Lorcana, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball Super, Magic The Gathering and beyond!” is …
Stealing Christmas Cheer
Stealing Christmas Cheer
‘Tis the season of giving, receiving, joy, jollity and sidestepping trademarked terminology. That’s what The Little Dance Project appear to be doing with Stealing Christmas Cheer, aimed at a universal …
Drag Queen Story Hour UK
Drag Queen Story Hour UK
In which a drag queen reads you and/or your kids a story, for an hour or thereabouts. The drag queen, Aida H Dee, has written a kids’ book so the …
3 events,
Grace Petrie
Jack And The Beanstalk
Georgia Ruth
Georgia Ruth
Georgia Ruth Williams has been a recording artist for over 15 years now, and if her sound hasn’t necessarily changed entirely in that time – you can trace a line …
3 events,
Winter Tales
Winter Tales
Ieuenctid Byd Bach Youth Theatre present an evening of theatrical storytelling drawing on ancient yarns from northern Europe. One, Deer Mother, dates from Neolithic times and concerns reindeer and the winter …
3 events,
Matt Johnson
Matt Johnson
If you know this fella, it’s probably off your TV, most notably This Morning or the lottery draws on BBC One. If you’re from Caerphilly like he is, maybe you …
5 events,
BBC NOW: Christmas Celebrations
BBC NOW: Christmas Celebrations
The period covered by this issue of Buzz sees the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales perform no less than five times in its de facto home venue, the WMC’s Hoddinott …
Wynne Evans
Wynne Evans
After a busy few years – including being a contestant on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing and winning 2023’s MasterChef – Welsh opera star Wynne Evans and his acclaimed tenor …
Guy Masterson’s A Christmas Carol
Guy Masterson’s A Christmas Carol
More storytelling, in this case helmed by Guy Masterson, often found in these parts giving dramatic readings of this nature. He does all the characters in A Christmas Carol and …
9 events,
Festive Feastival
Festive Feastival
The people behind Street Food Circus are going to mid-Wales for their Christmas al fresco eating residency. There are 13 traders listed at time of writing, including Hills Burgers, Keralan Karavan and Soft Serve Bros, and SFC have got hold of a vintage roller disco rink. Add a Santa’s grotto and a circus to that …
Logic: David Rust
Logic: David Rust
Certain pockets of Wales (among many other places) will forever be havens for euphoric pumping trance, blissfully adrift from what might be going on elsewhere, and promoters Logic are likely as not to have involvement in that. As, for that matter, is Scottish DJ David Rust, making one of his regular appearances here for Logic’s …
PRTY: Lessss
PRTY: Lessss
PRTY are Scottish promoters who specialise in hard dance, and are encroaching on Wales for the first time with a Vaults night headlined by Leslie ‘Lessss’ Goldsztejn, a French DJ with an industrial and acidic approach to hard techno. This looks to be her only UK booking on a busy winter tour, so should make …
Wynne Evans
Wynne Evans
After a busy few years – including being a contestant on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing and winning 2023’s MasterChef – Welsh opera star Wynne Evans and his acclaimed tenor …
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
This production of Tchaikovsky’s big ballet bonanza is handled by Brecon Festival Ballet, and not for the first time. With some 85 dancers and an orchestra featured, it’s a lavish …
Christmas @ Everyman
Christmas @ Everyman
Everyman Theatre round off another busy year – just ahead of beginning 2025 with their latest production Amadeus, also listed in this section – with a Christmas cabaret evening in …
8 events,
Mumbles A Cappella
Mumbles A Cappella
What does a Soundcloud rapper do when his backing track cuts out? Mumbles A Capella! Four days ahead of that joke appearing in a cracker near you, this Swansea-based choral …
Wynne Evans
Wynne Evans
After a busy few years – including being a contestant on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing and winning 2023’s MasterChef – Welsh opera star Wynne Evans and his acclaimed tenor …
Jackie Oates & John Spiers
Jackie Oates & John Spiers
More Britfolk nobility, from its more eclectic end to boot, Jackie Oates is in fact a former Unthanks member (albeit under their previous name, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset). Spiers, …
6 events,
Drag Queen Story Hour UK
Drag Queen Story Hour UK
In which a drag queen reads you and/or your kids a story, for an hour or thereabouts. The drag queen, Aida H Dee, has written a kids’ book so the …
Continents
Continents
Having opened a few months back, making Bridgend a town with a music venue once again, the Black Cat is cracking on with rock and metal shows and delivers this …
Davey Macmanus
Davey Macmanus
Irish musician and writer, though arguably claiming as strong an artistic association with Wales on account of starting his career there: The Crocketts, a group of Aberystwyth Uni students, made …
3 events,
Grace Petrie
Jack And The Beanstalk
Festive Feastival
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Time Flies Legends Of House
Time Flies Legends Of House
Thirty years since its inception, Cardiff big room dance promoters Time Flies roll out another night of nostalgia. NYC house legend Todd Terry heads up the bill, with Time Flies …
Spiritualized
Spiritualized
Not exactly a one-off gig, taking place a week before a headline slot at Bognor Regis’ cobweb-clearing indie weekender Rockaway Beach, but neither part of any touring schedule as such, Spiritualized visit Cardiff for the first time in over 20 years at a time of year generally considered a wilderness for live music of note. …
2 events,
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Grace Petrie
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CUE NYE 12 Hour Dance
CUE NYE 12 Hour Dance
This runs from 6pm-6am and claims to be planning a spread of 25 or more DJs in that time, with Alish and Dxnby heading it up.
Mad Hatter’s New Years’ Eve Midday Madness Ball
Mad Hatter’s New Years’ Eve Midday Madness Ball
Cabaret, dancing and a chance to meet the Alice In Wonderland characters. It’s for kids and so the madness happens at midday rather than the more traditional midnight.
Kimberley Wyatt’s Don’t Cha Disco
Kimberley Wyatt’s Don’t Cha Disco
Yes, her from the Pussycat Dolls. She lives in Surrey now and according to the itinerary will begin DJing while people are eating hog roast.
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WNO Orchestra: A New Year’s Celebration
WNO Orchestra: A New Year’s Celebration
January 3, one of the best days of any year wouldn’t you agree? Just kidding, it’s a certified grueller, but maybe an evening appointment with Welsh National Opera’s orchestra will …
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
There’s simply no time to stop and think about what a recordbreakingly horrific year 2025 is going to be because The Willow Globe Theatre Company – based in Llandrindod Wells, …
WNO Orchestra: A New Year’s Celebration
WNO Orchestra: A New Year’s Celebration
Touching down in Swansea (Fri 3 Jan), Brecon (Sun 5), Bangor (Fri 10), Newtown (Sat 11) and Cardiff (Fri 17), the Welsh National Opera Orchestra presents a touring program of …
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