Current & vital, BOB VYLAN are at the top of their game live in Cardiff
Formidable pugilists righteously fighting the corner of the maligned and marginalised, Bob Vylan are a product of our times – and a band at the top of their game.
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Wales’ grassroots music venues reflect two years after lockdown – in their own words
Laura Fedeli speaks to the people who’ve kept small Welsh venues running, through the good and bad times, and finds out how they did it as restrictions took over.
“These venues give so much back culturally, and to the community” – ahead of album debut, indie up-and-comers CHROMA champion small venues
Not only do Chroma have a 6 Music Festival Fringe gig and a long-awaited debut album in the pipeline, but they have also become ambassadors for the Back To Live Music Venue Prize.
GNOD / CODEX SERAFINI kick up a raucous, psychedelic storm
Not many could follow up a "Saturnian Ritualistic band hailing from outer-space," but the Gnod do their best at The Moon in Cardiff.
MILLIE MANDERS AND THE SHUTUP bringing British ska-punk party to Cardiff
Having accrued word-of-mouth popularity on the UK’s ska-punk scene, Millie Manders and the Shutup are bringing the party to Cardiff.
SŴN FESTIVAL | PREVIEW
Annual new music jamboree returns to the fray and compels hundreds of (mostly, probably) young people to bounce back and forth between a series of tightly-situated locations, shout a bit, climb on each other’s shoulders and generally get up close and personal.
LIVE AND UNLOCKED @ THE CASTLE | LIVE REVIEW
After 17 quiet months, bank holiday Monday saw live music back in the heart of Cardiff once more, under the banner Live & Unlocked.
ROUNDUP | SEPTEMBER 2021
Openings, reopenings, announcements, returns, beginnings, projects, schemes, things happening this very week and others that are several months away. Here’s where they are, as the name suggests, rounded up.
ROUNDUP | AUGUST 2021
A quickfire rattle through some noteworthy things in and/or relating to Wales and the Welsh, in the fields of art, culture, socialising, development, awards and so forth.
THINGS TO DO (INDOORS) THIS WEEK | CULTURE IN QUARANTINE
As venues, galleries and cinemas close to prevent the spread of coronavirus, you might feel like you’re not quite getting your usual cultural fix. That’s why we’ve compiled a little …
MACHIAVELLIAN ART / SQUALOR FAN / HORRIBLE MEN / HAQ123 | LIVE REVIEW
MACHIAVELLIAN ART / SQUALOR FAN / HORRIBLE MEN / HAQ123 | LIVE REVIEW The Moon, Cardiff, Fri 10 Jan The most remarkable thing about Haq123 is not that they …
MAN FOREVER / JAXSON PAYNE | LIVE REVIEW
MAN FOREVER / JAXSON PAYNE | LIVE REVIEW The Moon, Cardiff, Thurs 12 Dec Jaxson Payne is proof that, with a little bit of forethought and imagination, electronic musicians can …