ROGER TAYLOR | LIVE REVIEW
St David’s Hall may be a small venue for stadium songs, but every note was as big as Queen and Roger Taylor deserved.
St David’s Hall may be a small venue for stadium songs, but every note was as big as Queen and Roger Taylor deserved.
Company Of Sirens present Twelve Cabins Twelve Vacancies and Souvenirs Of A Killing, two Hitchcock-influenced plays by Chris Durnall.
For Queen devotees, this is a must-make night of stories, songs and very special insights from self-styled outsider Roger Taylor.
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 heavy music in various forms this week - and though Adia Victoria and Moor Mother prove that doesn't have to mean big rock riffs and the like, Carcass, Employed To Serve and Merthyr band Florence Black offer a bit of that anyway.
There were two forces at play when Del Amitri came on stage to a huge welcome – their musicianship, and signs of rust after so long out in the cold.
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.
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.
A crime-heavy week (with a bit of feminist sci-fi for good measure) as we ease into September with five new novels.
Bank holiday bangers (and things less appropriately described) by The Bug, Chubby & The Gang, Marisa Anderson & William Tyler, Voces8 and Yann Tiersen.
New albums by Welsh stalwarts from north and south alike, The Joy Formidable and Captain Accident; black metal crossover faves, Deafheaven and Wolves In The Throne Room; and folk-rock perfection from Martha Wainwright.
Reviews of new music by Mountain Movers, Quicksand, Sepultura, Suzie Ungerleider and the Goitse A Thaisce compilation: psych-rock, post-hardcore, metal, alt-country and Irish folk.