Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
Tristan Thomas, singer, guitarist and frontman of Florence Black, tells John-Paul Davies how everything from Abba to Slipknot influenced the making of this Merthyr Tydfil hard rock band’s debut album, Weight Of The World.
Carl Marsh hits up Ben Fletcher and Tom Higham, aka electro-indie-chill duo Aquilo, ahead of their long-awaited third album A Safe Place To Be.
Close friends get to call this folk-rocking troubadour Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner, and while Buzz’s Carl Marsh can’t quite claim that status, he had a perfectly pleasant chat with the man you and I call Newton Faulkner ahead of his three Welsh dates in October.
A full year and a half after Manc rave legends 808 State were due to hit Cardiff’s Tramshed – we ran an interview and everything – they’re finally here! Carl Marsh spoke to one half of the duo, Graham Massey.
Skunkadelic, aka Tumi Williams, is a Cardiff hip-hop MC whose vocals take centre stage in many-membered funk ensemble Afro Cluster. He’s got a solid rep in solo mode too, with new single No Time teeming with anger and optimism alike over the events of the last year and a half.
Carl Marsh speaks to Roy Stride, frontman of pop-rock juggernaut Scouting For Girls, about the band’s revitalising cover album and his stance on the modern-day music landscape. “We were one of …
Of the many strings to Kimberly Wyatt’s bow, you may know her best as one-fifth of the Pussycat Dolls, but she gets up to all sorts. Right now, she’s got a new movie, Override, to promote, and wanted Carl Marsh to know exactly how brassic it was on set. That, like Kimberly herself, is showbiz.
Ahead of their first new album tour in 20 years, Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie tells John-Paul Davies how Nothing Ever Happens came to be the band’s first Scottish hit and the true story behind their classic Top Of The Pops performance.
Wendy James is still full of rock’n’roll vim and hungry to gig three decades after Transvision Vamp, the lurid pop-punk band that made her a star, went their separate ways. She and her band are touring the UK for the entirety of September, including two Welsh dates, as she enthuses to Carl Marsh.
Chris Andrews profiles the men behind MusicBox – a Cardiff rehearsal studio that’s been a cornerstone of the region’s rock scene for 25 years – and hears from some of the bands to darken its doors too.
It’s new album time again for boyish Nottingham troubadour Jake Bugg, and so Carl Marsh pinned him down for a quick chat about that, and this and that, including a healthy bout of football nostalgia.
American folk-rocker Lissie is getting her operation back to working order, in much the same way we all are. First up, she tells Buzz’s Carl Marsh, is a reissue of her debut album, a decade after it established her. Except they had to delay it, so it’s 11 years now. Ah well!
