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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
How does Smokin’ Griddle stack up against established heavy hitters like Hoof and the nearby Ansh? We take a look.
An autumnal harvest of new releases by Circuit Des Yeux, Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, John Carpenter (with son and godson) and the Melvins.
Cardiff's Victoria Park area is not short on curry houses, but Maasi’s serves up a menu that draws on tried-and-tested family recipes to offer a flavour of Pakistani cuisine.
Experimental indie from Denmark's Efterklang, Arabic avant-garde from Montreal's Jerusalem In My Heart, gritpop from Tyneside's Sam Fender and two compilations of trad Irish folk and Italian horror scores.
With its sister event in Aberystwyth having fallen victim to the pandemic last year, it’s a relief to see the return of the Northern Eye Photography Festival to Colwyn Bay – and with a stellar lineup of speakers.
Reviews of newly published titles by Ruth Ozeki, JR Moores, Annie Ernaux, Kate Bowler and Montserrat Roig (that one's newly translated from Catalan to English)
If you can embrace the incomprehensibility and just surrender yourself to them, you soon find that Squid are trustworthy tour guides guaranteed to take you to interesting, out-of-the-way places.
Rhondda gallery the Workers has assembled a challenging bill of photographic exhibitions for October, including Dale Evans' look at gay subcultures, Lorna Cabble's homage to burlesque and Mohamed Hassan's show Self Wort
BBC documentary When Nirvana Came To Britain explores the special relationship that developed between this island and a bunch of scruffy Seattle punks who slummed it around the country on tour before somehow becoming the biggest band in the world.
In between titles offering broadsides against, respectively, bad food on trains and Welsh neoliberalism, we find novels about Turkish gangsters in London, a world without working electricity and a man who get uploaded into his group chat...
A week of marquee releases including Manic Street Preachers album number 14 and a bumper-sized Metallica reissue/tribute album package. Plus Elvis Costello is redone in Spanish and there's comebacks from Martina Topley-Bird and Saint Etienne.
Punk rock tour diaries, Black Mirror-esque speculative fiction, thoughts on cultural and racial dividing lines in Britain, photographs from Troubles-era Northern Ireland, and a couple who encounter uncanny situations when they travel to adopt a child.
