Songs and personality that can entrance a room – PALOMA FAITH | LIVE REVIEW
A Monday night at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena turned Mab Jones from a Paloma Faith liker into a Paloma Faith fan.
A Monday night at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena turned Mab Jones from a Paloma Faith liker into a Paloma Faith fan.
Erasure hit Cardiff's Motorpoint, and Mab Jones was there to soak up a lively and glittery celebration of queerness from the tuneful duo.
From a post-Atwood dystopian novel, to a snazzy hardback history of wildlife photography, to the latest from TV's Richard Osman, to some brief thoughts on spaghetti, to comedian Phil Wang on racial identity... we get this week's books column.
Mab Jones’ latest appreciation of verse opens with an appreciation of Wordsworth – William’s sister Dorothy that is – but never fear, it’s still new! And it’s, as Mab says of her first subject, “a sheer joy to read”.
Unlikely reggae covers selected by Don Letts; kick-ass American rock and country women Melissa Etheridge and Mickey Guyton; Bristol jazzers Run Logan Run and Vangelis soundtracking a mission to Jupiter, like he was born to.
Murderous thrillers, Russian historical fiction, a perfume-scented journey to 19th-century Edinburgh, explorations of identity and belonging, and a graphic novel devised by Line Of Duty's main brain.
nth, Mab Jones returns with the next of her monthly roundups of contemporary independent poetry. Everything from Powys owls to Jim Morrison to mythical Cornish lands awaits…
Including a familial rock memoir from Baxter Dury, ruminations on vintage UK TV by Rob Young and a marquee late-summer novel release by Leïla Slimani.
Relationship drama, an experimental Welsh novel, Greek mythology updated for the celeb era, the cultural implications of Chinese ear-cleaning and an illicit tryst in a summer house...
Welcome to the first of Buzz’s monthly roundups of fine independent poetry! Welsh, British and international verse will feature in here, selected and appraised by our writer with her ear to the poetic ground, Mab Jones.
Mab Jones plunges back into the wild world of up-close, not-on-your-computer-monitor visual art with a thrilling nationally-sourced group show at Cardiff’s G39.
This week’s five items includes a (sometime) Buzz writer! Big shout out to Emily Garside for that. Plus wildlife illustrator Matt Sewell, August Corteau’s (translated) Greek novel and books by Nancy Tucker and Adam Mars-Jones.