“With heavier music, the problem is the Welsh language scene” – Ones to watch: BREICHIAU HIR
Breichiau Hir have a heavier sound than most of their indie-leaning peers, which, as they tell Noel Gardner, is what the Welsh language scene is missing.
Breichiau Hir have a heavier sound than most of their indie-leaning peers, which, as they tell Noel Gardner, is what the Welsh language scene is missing.
After a spate of lockdown concerts, Katherine Jenkins tells Carl Marsh that she's eager to take Cinema Paradiso on tour at home.
With OMD's most popular album, Architecture & Morality, celebrating its 40th anniversary, Carl Marsh caught up with one of the Liverpudlian synth stars.
With her second album Prioritise Pleasure out, a largely-sold out autumn tour soon to begin and more dates added for the spring, Chloë Edwards spoke to Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka Self Esteem.
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.
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.
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.
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