2025’s biggest shows, festivals & live music to look out for
These are the biggest shows, festivals and live music events happening in Wales over 2025 for those looking to be entertained in a big way.
These are the biggest shows, festivals and live music events happening in Wales over 2025 for those looking to be entertained in a big way.
On the hottest day of the year, hordes of indie fans descend on Cardiff Castle for the first of two sell out Catfish And The Bottlemen headline sets.
Anyone in Cardiff last Friday could be forgiven for thinking the city centre was being invaded by a menacing horde of 6 Music dads; in fact, it was an occurrence no more worrisome than postpunk titans Idles headlining the Castle.
The weather could have been better for the Manic Street Preachers and Suede, but spirits at Cardiff Castle couldn't be dampened.
The National, whose career spans over 25 years and 10 studio albums, are visiting Cardiff, and the atmosphere in the Welsh capital is festival-like from the start.
Just over two decades since she exploded to almost insta-fame in a tie, sideways baseball cap and chunky eyeliner, Canadian pop-rock icon Avril Lavigne lights up Cardiff Castle in black and pink for her Greatest Hits tour.
Eve Davies caught up with backflip sensation Aston Merrygold and farmer-turned-pop-icon JB Gill ahead of their Cardiff Castle show on Sun 7 July.
Ohio quintet The National’s rise to stardom is an ongoing, 25-year project, and if you’re unlikely to find long-lens pap shots of the members in Heat, seeing them onstage in front of 10,000 people in Cardiff should say everything it needs to.
As they return to Wales on a co-headline tour with the Manic Street Preachers, we count down Suede's top five tracks.
Antipodean melancholy oozes from Crowded House's back catalogue, laden with polished arrangements, and all this is on glorious display in the Welsh capital.
This evening concludes a UK tour for the Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer while beginning six weeks of open-air concerts in Cardiff Castle.
From 80s meme man Rick Astley to a double bill of American alt-rock from the following decade, here’s what’s on offer this summer for outdoor live music in Cardiff, Swansea and more.