1984: THE YEAR POP WENT QUEER charts an iconic year in music
While pop music had been covertly queer, as Ian Wade's book When Pop Went Queer suggests in its title, 1984 was the year it finally came out.
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Stoner rock bastions FU MANCHU are back with THE RETURN OF TOMORROW
All hail the triumphant return of the AC/DC of stoner rock: Fu Manchu are back with The Return Of Tomorrow.
THE CRAZY TRUTH: Gemma June Howell’s dark coming-of-age tale of pungent prose
Gemma June Howell's The Crazy Truth is a warts‘n’all, coming-of-age tale encompassing drink, drugs, and tough love verging on neglect.
FAT WHITE FAMILY & JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN are bright and brilliant at Cardiff’s Globe
Fat White Family's famed combustible volatility isn't on the menu at Cardiff's Globe: instead, the controversial band are bright and brilliant.
PETER SERAFINOWICZ returns to Cardiff with entrepreneurial wisdom as alter ego BRIAN BUTTERFIELD
Peter Serafinowicz's self-styled “businessman, entrepreneur and businessman”, Brian Butterfield is as larger-than-life as ever at the New Theatre.
BEAK>: experience profound psychedelia with their fourth LP
Beak>’s fourth LP delivers a genuinely psychedelic experience that’s both Can-nily mesmeric and profoundly mind-mangling.
GOAT GIRL return with BELOW THE WASTE: from serene ballads to heady stews
Once your palate gets used to the variety of flavours and textures, Below The Waste stands as ample evidence of the capability of the Goat Girl.
BOOMERANG LOUNGE: a full Welsh breakfast with purpose in Cardiff
Why trek as far as Victoria Park for a full Welsh? Well, if you fancy getting a nice warm glow inside, give the Boomerang Lounge your business.
DIIV: navigating shoegaze’s resurgence with reflective depth
Frog In Boiling Water directs its gaze not footwards but out at a fractured late-capitalist world without breaking decisively with Diiv’s sonic traditions.
ENGLISH TEACHER live in Cardiff: sonic conundrums and bold ambitions
Headlining live in Cardiff, English Teacher, go big and bold early, creating a dilemma of how to follow it up.
Subversive comedy meets post-punk mastery: NIGHTINGALES & TED CHIPPINGTON live review
With no breaks between songs, tedious tuning up, or encore, Nightingales deliver a tight, focused demonstration of why they deserve their cult status live in Newport.
WOMAN’S WALES? asks how Welsh women’s lives have improved post-devolution
Have women’s lives have markedly improved since devolution in Wales? The question mark of the tiitle of Woman's Wales? is a giveaway: ‘not much’.