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Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre
Big Mikey already played this venue twice on his {Macnificent} tour, which I personally think should be spelled {McNificent}, at the start of December. Now he’s back for five more dates here, which his website says are all sold out. He might consider playing, say, Cardiff City Stadium once instead and having the other six …
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Thoughts and prayers for the Swansea Amateur Operatic Society, who kick off May by putting on a Disney musical, albeit one obviously based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (featuring decently sized extracts from its text, in fact) in case rival operatic societies start getting fresh and casting aspersions.
Jellyskin
Jellyskin
Debut Welsh show (I think) for a Leeds duo who trade in a sort of experimental rock-informed version of electronic pop. Their debut album, {In Brine}, came out about a year ago on Shepton Mallet’s very own Wrong Speed label – a trademark of quality – and Maes Y Circles and Freyja Elsy should offer …
6 events,
Awen Ensemble
Awen Ensemble
A creditably extensive UK tour by Awen Ensemble of Leeds, comprising 16 dates spanning over a month, includes three early May shows in Wales. It’ll be the septet’s first performances in the country, though for Emyr Penry Dance – trumpet player, co-founder of the Ensemble and their de facto bandleader – a show in Aberystwyth …
Cenotaph
Cenotaph
Three scoops of brutal death metal according to Eradication, who are promoting this one. Isn’t all death metal brutal? Arguably, but some more so than others, and those bands are often called things like Coprocephalic Mutation – coincidentally the name of this evening’s opening act. The less bromidically-named Cenotaph, from Turkey, headline over them and …
Tony Christie
Tony Christie
Seasoned British crooner Christie reached 80 not out last year, and following new album {We Still Shine} dropping last month is touring the UK: despite battling the effects of dementia in the last few years, the {Amarillo} hitmaker says that when he hits the stage he’s still bright as a button.
5 events,
Station 18 Festival
Station 18 Festival
Return of this now-annual destination weekender for Welsh lovers of the whole New Wave Of British Hard Rock thing. Fri 3 May is a four-band evening show headlined by King Kraken, while Saturday (featuring The Virginmarys and Sons Of Liberty) and Sunday (featuring South Of Salem and White Raven Down) begin at lunchtime and run …
Obey Cobra
Obey Cobra
This Cardiff foursome play a strain of noiserock that’s both overdriven and spaced-out, and they’re some of the finest doing it right now. Indie label Rocket, a go-to for music of this kind, agree and have picked up Obey Cobra’s second album {Mwg Drwg} for release – with a hometown launch gig on the same …
Awen Ensemble
Awen Ensemble
A creditably extensive UK tour by Awen Ensemble of Leeds, comprising 16 dates spanning over a month, includes three early May shows in Wales. It’ll be the septet’s first performances in the country, though for Emyr Penry Dance – trumpet player, co-founder of the Ensemble and their de facto bandleader – a show in Aberystwyth …
6 events,
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
This concert programme is performed by the Rhondda Symphony Orchestra and was devised by its musical director Edward John, who noted the rarity with which Welsh classical performances feature domestic composition in more than token amounts. These two evenings, then, will include renditions of work by composers from the early 20th century – Nocturne by …
Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble’s most recent solo album The Bus Routes Of South London was written and partly recorded on the bus routes of south London, with the musician – whose work in Public Image Ltd makes him one of the most influential bassists of the 1970s and 80s – composing dubby ambient instrumentals on an iPad …
Al Murray The Pub Landlord
Al Murray The Pub Landlord
Bedford School’s very own Al Murray is back with his straight-talking publican character for a show titled {Guv Island}. Its premise is that the UK has “lost its way” and seeks someone or something to get it on its uppers again – “offend-o-trons” need not apply. That’s the Pub Landlord saying this of course. Not …
5 events,
Fam Jam: Lamache
Fam Jam: Lamache
This is a twin-segmented bank holiday party, starting in Jacob’s car park at lunchtime and ending up in the basement at 4am – gird your loins! Headliner Lamache moved from Toulouse to Paris before chasing the rave rainbow to L*nd*n, then B*rl*n. Also DJing: Lewy, Murder, Hywel & Elis, Knoll Beach, Corey & Deena and …
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Buzz’s John-Paul Davies spoke fervently of Bruce, and his “half a century of uncompromising songwriting,” that has led him up to his third ever show in Wales’ national stadium – and, with advancing years a reality in spite of renowned in-concert stamina fuelling sets of three hours or longer, potentially his last.
Simon Evans
Simon Evans
Evans, a UK comedian from perhaps its more outwardly intellectual wing – take that as positively as you wish – returns with a show titled {Have Me Met?} which mulls ailing memory, including his own (pushing 60, he can feel his faculties fraying at the edges), and conceptions of memory in Greek mythology and culture …
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Fam Jam: Lamache
Johnny Flynn & Robert McFarlane
Johnny Flynn & Robert McFarlane
Music and storytelling intertwine onstage, as British actor and singer-songwriter Johnny Flynn joins forces with the acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane for a sold-out Tramshed show. Where Flynn has starred in a sequence of acclaimed movies, including The Outfit, Emma. and The Dig, writer Macfarlane has published books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which …
2 events,
Unfortunate: The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch
Unfortunate: The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch
Think you know {The Little Mermaid}’s Ursula? Well, think again. {Unfortunate: The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch} is what really happened… from her point of view at least. In 2022, {Unfortunate} made a big splash (sorry) in Edinburgh – I couldn’t fit it in to my festival schedule, but the posters caught my …
Lady Maisery
Lady Maisery
An esteemed name on the ‘provincial town arts centre’ folk music circuit, Lady Maisery are an all-female trio whose number includes Rowan Rheingans, also of the Rheingans Sisters. Their latest album {Tender} – eight Maisery originals plus covers of Björk, Tracy Chapman and Lal Waterson – is now some 18 months old but a widespread …
6 events,
Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike
Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike
What may well be the first Welsh performance of this 2012 play by American writer Christopher Durang, in which two sisters and a brother live a strange life in their country pile, further disrupted by one sister’s douchebag boyfriend. If you’re wondering why most of them have Russian names, they’re named after Chekhov characters. Tickets: …
Keane
Keane
Keane are one of many British bands who emerged in the 00s and, following a few years of popularity, were diagnosed with terminal uncoolness – before a revival that found them playing bigger venues than at their supposed peak. This tour’s toasting 20 years since debut album {Hopes And Fears}, which definitely wasn’t an arena-filler …
Alasdair Beckett-King
Alasdair Beckett-King
This standup, originally from Durham, also displays intellectual airs and graces in his comedic style, though maybe a bit more of the ‘can quote entire {Monty Python} episodes verbatim’ type. This new show is titled {Nevermore} and Beckett-King will hope to capitalise on the popularity of his YouTube channel, the most regular place to see …
The Mingus Project
The Mingus Project
Swansea Jazz, in their current weekly home at this Mumbles bar, entice a young Cardiff-based octet to Swansea for the purpose of honouring the great Charles Mingus. The Mingus Project have come together while studying at the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama and are headed by bassist Cameron Saint.
9 events,
Hamlet
Hamlet
You might wonder what the threshold of potential interest is for a production of {Hamlet} to be included in this list of events – well, Vision Arts, who are putting this one on, call it “a {Hamlet} for the TikTok generation”. That’s the sort of line that gets me, a secondary school teacher who calls …
Jam Baxter
Jam Baxter
Jam Baxter is a London MC associated with labels like Blah (owned by Lee Scott, also on tonight’s bill) and High Focus, and deals in the kind of dense, boom-bappy, quasi-psychedelic UK hip-hop which ticks along nicely without being much fussed if outsiders are paying it attention. Sammy B-Side, another High Focus alum, opens the …
BBC NOW: Bartók’s Concerto For Orchestra
BBC NOW: Bartók’s Concerto For Orchestra
May’s edition of BBC NOW’s now-regular WMC-Brangwyn hop’n’skip finds Giancarlo Guerrero of Costa Rica conducting a programme headed up by the orchestra’s rendition of this WWII-era Béla Bartók work. Sergio Tiempo is at the keys for Ravel’s {Piano Concerto In G Major} and there’s a UK premiere for {The Observatory}, by Caroline Shaw. Tickets: £5-£12. …
Boss Cass
Boss Cass
Last I checked, Boss Cass was billed by the venue under his old artist name, Fluff, but appears to have changed it in recent months. Either way he is a solo act from Exeter who plays guitar and sings to a backing track, and has been described as “punk music for people who don’t like …
16 events,
Circus Extreme
Circus Extreme
Beware those of you thinking of running away to join the circus – the Cardiff stint of Circus Extreme’s tour alone has 43 shows in 24 days, with this tireless troupe serving up high wire stunts, freestyle motocross, clownery and aerial hoop tricks in a venue which has been allowed to host entertainment in the …
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Welsh language kids’ TV show {Deian A Loli} becomes a Welsh language theatre show and tours Wales. {Y Ribidirew Olaf} finds Deian and Loli searching for their parents’ missing car keys, as you do, in Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Thurs 9-Sat 11); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (Tue 14 + Wed 15), Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen (Tue 21-Fri 24) …
Once A Catholic
Once A Catholic
This play was a critical success on opening in 1977, when its topic – convent schools in 1950s London, as experienced by {Once A Catholic}’s writer Mary O’Malley – were very much in the memories of many watching. This number will have inevitably shrunk decade on decade, making revivals such as this one from The …
BBC NOW: Bartók’s Concerto For Orchestra
BBC NOW: Bartók’s Concerto For Orchestra
May’s edition of BBC NOW’s now-regular WMC-Brangwyn hop’n’skip finds Giancarlo Guerrero of Costa Rica conducting a programme headed up by the orchestra’s rendition of this WWII-era Béla Bartók work. Sergio Tiempo is at the keys for Ravel’s {Piano Concerto In G Major} and there’s a UK premiere for {The Observatory}, by Caroline Shaw. Tickets: £5-£12.
GirlBand!
GirlBand!
Described as “the new alternative three-piece from Nottingham,” GirlBand! have existed for about two years and are on their first UK tour this month. Not to be confused with the all-male Irish group formerly known as Girl Band until the ethical vapours overcame them, you have to hand it to GirlBand! for their opportunism here.
Nick Jonah Davis
Nick Jonah Davis
The UK has, from at least Davy Graham onwards, produced a powerful flow of folk guitarists who experiment with the form in attractive ways – many would say the very best came from this isle. A lot of them have been demure types, rarely seeking attention: an endearing trait, yet you kinda wish they were …
13 events,
Kelly Jones
Kelly Jones
Eight live shows – two per evening, with a day off on Sun 12 – for Jones, stepping away temporarily from the Stereophonics to release {Inevitable Incredible}, his first solo studio album since 2007. Buzz’s review this month says it’s “too polished to truly convince”, but whether this will cause a spate of returned tickets …
Jack!
Jack!
The Jack who stars in this family musical – performed by Little Seeds Music and promoted by the larger Theatr Clwyd down the road – is Jack of ‘& The Beanstalk’ fame, and here we’ll be finding out more about this critically acclaimed bean-barterer’s origin story, often in the medium of song. On at 11am …
Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons
Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons
The Campbell clan, headed by former Motörhead guitarist Phil and joined by three of his offspring plus unrelated vocalist Joel Peters, pop out for three quick domestic dates they’ve dubbed the {Kings Of Wales Weekender} – referencing latest album {Kings Of The Asylum}, anointed with a five-star review from Buzz on release.
Jon Langford & His Men Of Gwent
Jon Langford & His Men Of Gwent
Jon Langford – a Newport boy by upbringing, though one whose 45-year musical career was launched in Leeds before he settled in Chicago – records intermittently with some buddies from back home as the Men Of Gwent. Their {Lost On Land & Sea} came out in late 2023 but is having a launch show this …
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Circus Extreme
Kelly Jones
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Y Ribidirew Olaf
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Welsh language kids’ TV show {Deian A Loli} becomes a Welsh language theatre show and tours Wales. {Y Ribidirew Olaf} finds Deian and Loli searching for their parents’ missing car keys, as you do, in Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Thurs 9-Sat 11); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (Tue 14 + Wed 15), Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen (Tue 21-Fri 24) …
6 events,
Sick Of It All
Sick Of It All
Wouldn’t bet the house on it, but I think this might be New York hardcore veterans Sick Of It All’s first Welsh date since 2006, when they played Newport TJ’s. With the Corn Exchange going some way to filling the long-term gap left by that venue’s closure, it’s no shock this one’s sold out in …
Amer-Imeri
Amer-Imeri
Learn Georgian song through the teachings of three-part harmonies, and accompanying dance and rituals, taught by Georgian ensemble Amer-Imeri. No experience is required for the workshop, which will be followed by a performance later in the evening, with Amer-Imeri and fellow group Mtiebi performing traditional polyphonic material.
Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr, HMRC’s bad boy of comedy, laughs funny. That’s not a personal remark (although he indeed does laugh like a goose with whooping cough), it’s the name of his brand new tour, hitting smaller theatres like Port Talbot’s Princess Royal for two shows a night – at 7.30 and 9pm respectively, in this case. …
6 events,
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
Dating from the mid-1960s and set by playwright Frederick Knott in New York, Ucheldre Rep have used Notting Hill Gate as {Wait Until Dark}’s setting, staying true to a UK adaption from 2003. A series of blunders has led a woman to be in possession of a large amount of heroin, something known to its …
The Women Of Llanrumney
The Women Of Llanrumney
The Llanrumney of the title is not the suburb of Cardiff, rather the Llanrumney sugar plantation in the Saint Mary Parish, in Jamaica circa 1765, Accordingly, new play {The Women Of Llanrumney} confronts Wales’ colonial past. The women in question are Annie and daughter Cerys, two enslaved women ‘owned’ (even writing that word in a …
The Silly Cabaret: It’s Giving Pride
The Silly Cabaret: It’s Giving Pride
As recently as five years ago, if you’d called your event ‘It’s Giving Pride’ most people would have assumed you had a suboptimal grasp of English and took pity on you. These days, however, it serves (!) as in-group signalling for those who may wish to attend a “magical selection of queer, fabulous, and tantalising …
Granny’s Attic
Granny’s Attic
Not to be confused with sprightly young indie band Grandma’s House, this trio have 15 years of gigging on the UK folk scene under their belts, and purport to blend the trad and the innovative via guitar, violin, melodeon and concertina. Their most recent album is instrumental but they do vocal turns too.
Amy Mason
Amy Mason
It’s another Dolly Chicken Comedy standup night upstairs at the Flute. Host and promoter Anita Shaw pieces together a four-strong bill of comics: Paul Hilleard, Jeff Japers and Ben Lycett warm up for Bristol’s Amy Mason, depicted on the event page for this drinking a can of Thatchers while standing in what looks like a …
7 events,
Wel-Fest
Wel-Fest
They’re calling this the “first annual music festival” in The Welfare, nestled in Powys’ most southwesterly point – and stating a pledge to feature some of “Swansea Valley’s finest bands” on the Saturday, to underline this county border-themed quirk. That day will also feature performers from the venue’s regular open mic nights, with an evening …
Locally Sauced
Locally Sauced
This is a night devised and promoted by Elliot Brussalis, once of Welsh rap-rockers Astroid Boys and now making UK garage kinda stuff as Douvelle19. It’s intended as a showcase for local producers’ new tracks, which normally amounts to a bunch of people playing to themselves but in Locally Sauced’s case seems a popular draw.
Daniel O’Reilly
Daniel O’Reilly
Readers still stuck in 2014 – how about that Ed Miliband huh? Also, you probably know this guy as unpleasant lad comedian Dapper Laughs, but since then O’Reilly has reverted to his government name, got into – and then out of – booze and drugs, and parlayed that into a podcast about men’s mental health …
Paul F Taylor
Paul F Taylor
UK standup regular who, save for some moonlighting on a Harry Hill show, has barely touched the TV circuit and prefers appearing in short films rather than TikTok videos. Refreshing to see! Noted for his surreal trains of thought onstage, latest show {Head In The Clouds} throws an ADHD diagnosis into the works as Taylor …
12 events,
Nye
Nye
Acting’s favourite Welshman playing politics’ favourite Welshman is not a huge leap for the theatrical imagination – especially as this particular actor has played a few real-life figures of history in his career – but that’s what we’re confronted with in Wales Millennium Centre and the National Theatre’s co-production of {Nye}, starring Michael Sheen. Port …
Unhinged: Yasmin Gardezi
Unhinged: Yasmin Gardezi
Unhinged’s mission statement is to “cultivate rising artists and bringing established talent to Welsh audiences,” and Yasmin Gardezi could be seen as fitting either or both of those categories. The Cork-based DJ has earned a rep in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe and Canada with trancey industrial techno sets; this is her Cardiff bow.
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
This concert programme is performed by the Rhondda Symphony Orchestra and was devised by its musical director Edward John, who noted the rarity with which Welsh classical performances feature domestic composition in more than token amounts. These two evenings, then, will include renditions of work by composers from the early 20th century – Nocturne by …
The Hackles
The Hackles
Another churchbound show booked by Roots N All, in conjunction with Barry Arts Festival – which despite its name is basically a company which promotes one-off events every few months. The Hackles are a three-piece from Astoria, Oregon who peddle quirky banjoed-up Americana and have formed a friendship with Michael Hurley, once of the Holy …
Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Ferguson was on the downlow one of the most successful {X Factor} contestants, both in terms of initial album sales and what happened later – songwriting for other artists, mainly. Her fifth album came out just before Christmas, this is the tour for it, and assuming she holds to a tweet made around the …
6 events,
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams
Following a show in Cardiff Castle circa summer 2022, in which Buzz’s John-Paul Davies reported a hit-packed set interspersed with observations about how big the seagulls are here, Bryan Adams is back in town, this time with a roof to raise – and not long after a Cardiff showing for {Pretty Woman}, the musical he …
The Gilded Merkin
The Gilded Merkin
These furry critters are basically the Glee Club’s in-house burlesque troupe, performing at three of their venues on a rotating basis, and this month’s it’s Cardiff’s turn. Self-described “drop dead redhead” Scarlett Daggers is your host, with Stage Door Johnny, Coco Deville, Chi Chi Revolver, Fancy Chance and Darryl Carrington her fellow performers.
6 events,
Circus Extreme
The Women Of Llanrumney
Nye
Sage Todz + Morgan Elwy
Sage Todz + Morgan Elwy
Sage Todz, north Walian drill MC living down south, returns back up this way for a Monday night show promoted by Focus Wales and Theatr Clwyd. He’ll be joined on the bill by Morgan Elwy, who like Sage is notable for being almost alone in his genre – in Elwy’s case, roots reggae – as …
The Vivienne
The Vivienne
Didn’t realise – as a person who didn’t watch {Drag Race} season 1, {Drag Race All Stars} season 7 or {Dancing On Ice} series 15 among other things – that The Vivienne is from Colwyn Bay. Of course like so many before her she moved to Liverpool at the first opportunity, but still here is …
Prowl
Prowl
This band, from Montreal, play crossover thrash/beatdown kinda gear a la Power Trip and use a slightly unflattering photo on their Bandcamp which shows a room full of people looking really bored while they play. I don’t reckon that’ll happen here, though, because they sound gnarly and mosh-ready on latest album {The Forgotten Realms}.
5 events,
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Welsh language kids’ TV show {Deian A Loli} becomes a Welsh language theatre show and tours Wales. {Y Ribidirew Olaf} finds Deian and Loli searching for their parents’ missing car keys, as you do, in Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Thurs 9-Sat 11); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (Tue 14 + Wed 15), Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen (Tue 21-Fri 24) …
Party Games
Party Games
Written by former Thatcher/Major adviser and unsuccessful Tory candidate Michael McManus, this is a play set in a hypothetical political landscape of the very near future with an ‘exaggerated for comedic effect… unless?’ air. A centrist party, One Nation, has formed a government in a hung parliament and now preside over a country circling the …
6 events,
Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley
Having first found mid-90s success in Britpop band Longpigs, Richard Hawley is something of an elder statesman of Sheffield music – he even spent a brief period on guitar for Pulp – and drops his ninth solo album, {In This City They Call You Love}, the week after this unusually intimate north Wales gig.
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Penned by Ben Jonson over 400 years ago, {The Alchemist} has had its script and setting modernised in many eras in the last century or so. Not certain if the flower-power 1960s patina given to the play here is the brainchild of Abergavenny company Suitcase Theatre or if they’re doing someone else’s version of the …
Blodwen’s In Town
Blodwen’s In Town
This is a musical comedy with what sounds like something of a cabaret element from Emily Davis, whose character Blodwen leaves Wales for London and France in search of “adventure, love and friendship”. A review from 2022 notes the presence of a Tom Lehrer song in her repertoire, hopefully this is still the case.
Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity
With the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama strapped in for its NEW’24 season this week, they’re nipping over to the Sherman for a production of this late-60s musical, written by Neil Simon (albeit adapted from a decade-old Fellini movie) and set in New York. Sat 25 and Wed 29 May have shows at …
8 events,
NEW’24
NEW’24
The RWCMD’s annual festival of new theatre writing returns with seven productions, including four commissions from UK playwrights. Simon Longman’s {Falling Falling Falling Falling} lines up alongside Rhiannon Boyle’s reality TV-themed {Couple Goals}, Isley Lynn’s Airbnb-set {The Glue} and Paula B Stanic’s protest play {Dissonance}. Also featured are three short stories from RWCMD students: Liam …
MG Boulter
MG Boulter
The weather is getting nicer (disclaimer – it’s been pure shite while I’ve actually been gathering these listings) so it’s time for this west Wales brewery to start putting on gigs in a marquee again. This one’s on a folky tip, with Southend-based Boulter having amassed a solid body of releases over the last decade …
Porridge Radio
Porridge Radio
Brighton’s Porridge Radio are your classic ‘bedroom solo project that turned into a full band over time’ kinda deal, so in touring this month with nowt but herself and a guitar (and a support act, Naima Bock), Dana Margolin returns to her musical roots, seemingly on a quest to challenge herself in the process.
13 events,
Fishguard Folk Festival
Fishguard Folk Festival
Mostly free folk festival held over Spring Bank Holiday weekend in Pembrokeshire, also featuring workshops, sessions and walks. This year’s lineup features Lancastrian folk-rock octet Merry Hell and Scotland’s Breabach in the two headline slots, with the likes of Baggyrinkle, Facing The Ocean and Julie Murphy & Ceri Rhys Matthews also in town. Tickets: Merry …
Celebrate This Place
Celebrate This Place
For its second year, Celebrate This Place is coming to Cardiff. Devised by Clwb Ifor Bach and with a celebratory lineup to match its name, 2024 sees mask-donning rapper Casisdead headline his first Cardiff gig, whilst the following day Warmduscher finish off the late-bank holiday shindig at Tramshed. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, …
CYNT: DJ Heartstring
CYNT: DJ Heartstring
This bank holiday jamboree is described in promoters CYNT’s blurb as “ biggest booking to date,” which seems implausible given their 15-year-plus history in the Cardiff club scene – but maybe far less so when the dust settles, who knows. Berlin’s DJ Heartstring are certainly getting talked about, with Polydor picking up a late 2023 …
The Very Last Green Thing
The Very Last Green Thing
Wales Millennium Centre’s Youth Opera returns with a new show, building on the success of last year’s equivalent effort. Directed by Rhian Hutchings of Anthem and designed by Greta Baxter, the 70+ member ensemble will be performing a story set in the year 2423 – where schoolteachers are androids… On at 3pm and 7pm on …
Lamerica: Jamie 3:26
Lamerica: Jamie 3:26
The latest DJ from the Defected stable to make it to Cardiff under the longrunning Lamerica promo banner, Chicago’s Jamie ‘3:26’ Watson favours more discofied, soulful and vocal house-y sounds, as has been Lamerica’s bread and butter over the years. Talking of house, there are posters for this daytime party around Cardiff that are about …
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The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
Described as “an imaginative retelling of the classic fairytale”, the synopsis of this production by the Bohemians Theatre Company seems to list more differences than similarities. This Pinocchio is, in the words of the play’s subtitle, a ‘radical robot girl’ living in postapocalyptic Wales and on a quest to save the planet, singing a few …
Big Chimney
Big Chimney
You can call this music old-timey, but good-timey is likely as appropriate when a top quality stringband get going – and Big Chimney, who hail from the Alaskan mountains, have earned themselves a strong rep through years of global touring. Fiddle, banjo, standup bass and guitar combine in the time-honoured Appalachian style.
Julian Clary
Julian Clary
This show is titled {A Fistful Of Clary}, thereby setting its target audience to people in their forties or older or who have read Julian Clary’s Wikipedia page, but it opens the door for the show to have a “Western theme” and the tour spiel to include jokes about chaps, {Rawhide} etc.
7 events,
Girli
Girli
According to Buzz’s review archives, Amelia Toomey aka Girli played Cardiff six years to the day (as I write), prompting Jasper Wilkins to muse: “If she keeps up her current trajectory, Girli may well be the future.” The ascendency from Clwb Ifor Bach to the Globe is fairly minor, size-wise, so this maybe didn’t quite …
10 events,
Sarah Millican
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín
Esteemed Irish writer reads from/talks anout his novel Long Island. Tickets: £12/£25 with a signed book.
Sonny Tenet
Sonny Tenet
Every UK city now either has a singer-songwriter guy who tries to go viral and/or get sports broadcast theme music placement by singing about their locale, or is going to have one soon. Sam Fender arguably does this for Newcastle already, but a challenger has appeared in Sonny Tenet, who just released inspiringly titled single …
Toby Lee
Toby Lee
Blues-rock fans seem to love it when a young guitarist appears and plays some ‘licks’. Toby Lee, now 19, has been doing this for nearly a decade and is no stranger to stages much bigger than this one: after starring in {School Of Rock} at the West End back in 2016, he’ll be supporting Jools …
15 events,
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Mid-afternoon trio of comedians tailoring their sets for a youthful audience. Runi Talwar, from Sydney but London-based, headlines over musical funnywoman Katie Pritchard and South Shields’ Lee Kyle. They say that being able to adapt one’s repertoire to these sorts of shows is the real test of a comic’s chops. At least that sounds like …
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
Described as “an imaginative retelling of the classic fairytale”, the synopsis of this production by the Bohemians Theatre Company seems to list more differences than similarities. This Pinocchio is, in the words of the play’s subtitle, a ‘radical robot girl’ living in postapocalyptic Wales and on a quest to save the planet, singing a few …
Brujeria
Brujeria
Longrunning concept-metal extremists play what I think is their first ever Swansea show. With grindcore-y songs in Spanish about drug lords, serial killers etc Brujeria have featured several household names (by metal standards) over the years though Shane Embury of Napalm Death seems to be the only really head-turning one now.
4 events,
Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy
Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy
Empathy is the third and final touring project devised by Welsh jazz trumpeter Tomos Williams, and for this observer’s money the most impressive musical assembly of all three. The first Cwmwl Tystion lineup, in 2019, drew from the Welsh jazz landscape, the second expanding into England; this time, Williams has pulled off two coups by …
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