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WHAT’S ON JUNE 2018

FESTIVAL OF VOICE Returns to the capital

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I am listening to the LUMP album reviewed by editor Fed while typing this and it’s pleasant enough.

Cosmic jazz is actually better than reviewer Charlie reckons it is. The idea of Howlin Rain sounding like Bon Jovi is amusing to me but not implausible. And I think Hilary Woods really didn’t want anyone to remember she was in JJ72... bad luck. That’s my review of the reviews

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“Why Are People Clapping”

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Remember the halcyon summer of 2016? Everyone all bugaboo about Cardiff’s inaugural multi-concert Festival Of Voice? Well this month you can relive it, as it’s back for a second showing, and we chat to some of its finest names including Charlotte Church, Billy Bragg and The Tiger Lillies. John Lydon, Benjamin Zephaniah and Rachel Tresize also light up this section

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I’m the guy who, given 30 seconds’ notice to pitch the movie Book Club due to an administrative error, garbled “er, Jane Fonda reads, er, 50 Shades Of Grey and, er, gets horny, er, and goes out and pulls, er, Don Johnson. Er, that’s it,” and whose consequent large income more than makes up for criticism by Keiron Self

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Including a guide to some far-flung or unsung Welsh steak houses such as Tenby’s favourite, The Blue Ball.

Look, I don’t wish to seem immature, so won’t be saying anything that could be construed as such, but really, what’s next? An art exhibition by someone named Jenny Taylor?

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Lots of festival-y type things in here, as is poundingly inevitable for June. No quarrel, though, with the likes of Everyman Open Air Theatre, Swansea International Jazz Festival or the Balter Festival, a nitro-powered rave-up held at Chepstow Racecourse and dedicated to the worship of ancient equine medicine

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Who are the obvious demographic for vegan Birkenstocks? That’s right, dads! A page of gifts you could buy your dad for Father’s Day, very much the Beazer Homes League version of Mother’s Day

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Wales has some nice coastline and here are some highlights of it, including a beach “that will have you believing the Gods themselves designed this just for you”. I got a laugh in the office just now by reading this line out, followed by the name of the beach in a sort of Blackadder voice

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Worst band/musical act names in this issue, Balter Festival special: Popes Of Chillitown, Klitorix, Hurtdeer, Chunda, Fukrag McGinty, Busta Hymen

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Win tickets to the New Theatre, specifically a fresh adventure for one Sherlock Holmes – portrayed as an elderly part-time beekeeper, retired after a lifetime doing coke and occasionally solving mysteries. I believe this production to be in the pocket of Big Honey, having rejected the advances of Little Cocaine

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WALES NATIONAL AIRSHOW Last year the Wales National Airshow saw nearly 250,000 people visit Swansea over a sunny summer weekend, and this year the organisers are hoping to smash that record again. The show features plenty of plane-based action, including vintage models like the Spitfire, and a performance from the famous Red Arrows. There’s lots going on down on the ground too, with food tents, an inflatable assault course, a funfair, flight simulators and the chance to see a military Chinook up close. Entry is free, and the displays will be getting as close to the crowds are possible, so it promises to be a high-octane and exhilarating event.

Swansea Bay, Sat 30 June + Sun 1 July. Admission: free.

Info: www.walesnationalairshow.com

ENGLISH

Under the umbrella of Festival Of Voice, National Theatre Wales and Quarantine’s joint venture is a fascinating premise, depicted in a buoyant fashion. English is an exploration of language, but not in the traditional sense, so ignore those school flashbacks of the 8,000 ways to use colons and commas.

The performance centres around the issues with, and reasons behind, learning new languages, encompassing themes of immigration and inclusion. Despite a focus on English, the play, led by performer Jonny Cotsen, is a celebration of multiculturalism, with a commitment to broadcasting all voices and languages. Seminal to the performance is the scrutiny of the philosophical question; what happens to our sense of self when we cannot articulate who we are?

Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Thurs 14-Sun 24 June. Tickets: £15.

Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk

DINNER IN THE SKY If I told you there was a Belgian gastronomic experience heading to Cardiff, you’d be forgiven for picturing chocolate-drenched waffles and oddly-shaped bottles of beer. But Belgium’s newest culinary innovation is a different kind of pop-up restaurant – it’s 100 feet up in the air, and dangling from a crane.

The Dinner In The Sky team have been elevating dining to new heights (I couldn’t resist) all over the globe for the past 12 years. The restaurant will be serenely swinging above Cardiff City Hall for five days in September, but tickets are on sale from June, and will provide what can unequivocally be described as a unique dining experience.

City Hall, Cardiff, Wed 12-Sun 16 Sept. Tickets: £50-£150 Info: www.dinnerinthesky.com

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DECOLONISING ENVIRONMENTALISM

This three-day symposium, focused around the film Thank You For The Rain (directed by Julia Dahr), hopes to refocus discussions of environmentalism around marginalised communities and those from the global south, as well as Wales’ place in policy and action around environmentalism. Organised by Gentle/Radical, the symposium will also host speakers such as Asad Rehman from War On Want and Sakina Sheikh. Friday night's event will be a special youth screening.

Fri 29 June-Sun 1 July. Admission: £5-£15 Youth screening Friday night tbc YMCA, St. Helen’s Road Swansea (Sat 2-7pm) SKLP Samaj, Mardy St, Cardiff (Sun 2-7pm) info: facebook.com/gentleradical/

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

Anyone in south Wales whose interest lies in dance theatre and choreography should already be au fait with Alternative Routes, an annual event which begins in the rehearsal studio and concludes onstage. First established over a decade ago, dancers and design students from Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama collaborate, with the latter creating costumes, sets and soundtracks to match the movements of the former, which are unveiled in three days of performance. Alt Routes 2018 will feature four newly created pieces, including commentary on the hot topic of online security (Tim Volleman, Panopticon) and a performance based on Steve Reich’s experimental composition Clapping Music (Ed Myhill, Why Are People Clapping).

Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Thurs 7-Sat 9 June. Tickets: £12 Info: 0239 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk

BEYOND THE BORDER Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Beyond The Border’s birthday barnstormer promises to be a far cry from the couple of drinks down the pub that marks most of our birthday celebrations. St Donat’s Castle will once again host the Wales International Storytelling Festival – with its coastal location conjuring images more conducive with the Mediterranean, there couldn’t be a more appropriate venue for an event showcasing global talents, from Palestine to Italy.

Boasting a smorgasbord of performers, the festival is diversity personified, with acts ranging from poetry to puppetry – very much substantiating the cliché of offering something for everyone.

With a commitment to providing a platform for prospective storytellers, the festival will showcase a number of local talents alongside more established, internationally-acclaimed performers, such as Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden.

St Donat’s Castle, Llantwit Major, Sat 9 + Sun 10 June.

Tickets: weekend £75/£55 kids / day tickets £45/£30 kids.

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BOY AZOOGA On the eve of their debut album, head Azoogian Davey Newington chats to Fedor Tot about the band’s brisk rise from bedroom racket to nationwide TV. Cardiff’s premier psych-popsters Boy Azooga release their debut album 1, 2, Kung Fu! this month, while a recent appearance on Later... With Jools Holland, beamed their talents across the nation. We sat down for a chat with Davey to find out how the band took shape.

How influential were your parents in your musical upbringing?

There was always music around the house – my dad brought home a Queen VHS and I used to sit in front of the TV with two cricket stumps and a biscuit tin and play along. They encouraged me because they were musicians themselves. My older brother and sister also played music and my granddad was a jazz drummer in the Marines. And then my primary school teacher Ms Burridge was a drummer, so she was really supportive. I was just lucky that people were okay with me playing the drums – it’s not the most sociable instrument.

Now you’re at the front of the band. How has the change been for you?

I put it off for ages – I wanted to do my own project, but there’s the obvious kind of stigma attached to the singing drummer. But then I just thought “fuck it”. I realised loads of my heroes were drummers first, like Ty Segall. Daf [Davies, Boy Azooga drummer], he’s phenomenal. When we go on stage, the drums are nailed so I can just goof around while he does all the hard work.

You recorded and wrote the album yourself. How did that affect the songs?

Everything was written and recorded by me. A guy called Ed Al-Shakarchi produced it – he’s a phenomenal musician and producer. My dad played strings on three of the songs. I was playing drums in other bands and this project was my escape; I didn’t plan to take it on the road or anything, so I layered it and filled it with different stuff. When it did become a band I realised we have to try and perform this live now.

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Has there been any particular challenges in translating the songs to a live setting?

The other three members are such good musicians that it seems anything I throw at them we can replicate live. We do use a sample pad, but try not to do it to too many backing tracks. I’d love to get to a stage like LCD Soundsystem where there’s no track, and all human beings playing.

Your songs on this album sound noticeably studio-written. Are you going to change the way you write songs now with the band?

I still write the way I always have, in my flat with my guitar. I try and make sure the song can stand up on its own. We’ve already started recording the next record – we have a song called Jaki which is a tribute to Jaki Liebezeit, the drummer from Can, and I want us to never play it the same way twice. I thought we could have some wig-out experimental sections.

Have you ever had a vision or a sound for Boy Azooga or has it just come about naturally?

I kind of obsessed over it for ages – I had different notebooks and stuff that I lost, but I don’t know if there was one defining thing. I knew that I wanted it all to be done in Eddie’s place, cause loads of my favourite records had been made in someone’s bedroom or someone’s house. I remember Caribou saying that he wants it to sound like his music is being beamed in from another dimension, but he’s actually just making it in his flat. It’s cool that you can make a whole other world in justfilmed one room.

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The Parrot, Camarthen, Fri 15 June; Le Public Space, Newport, Sat 16 June (2pm + 7.30pm). Tickets: £8.

Info: 01267 231012 (Carmarthen) / www.lepub.co.uk (Newport).

1, 2, Kung Fu! is released by Heavenly on Fri 8 June.

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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Wed 4-Sat 28 July Tickets: from £15 Info: 029 2063 6464 www.wmc.org.uk

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SECRET SPACES: WALES NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL With an awards cabinet that’s slowly filling up, the Sherman Theatre is on the rise.

Fedor Tot talks to Rachel O’Riordan about the recipe to stage success.

The Sherman has been receiving plenty of plaudits and awards lately, including winning an Olivier. What is the secret behind that success?

I think we’re being recognised because the work we’re making is relevant and resonating with our audiences, and also is of a quality that is being recognised as top end in the UK theatre scene – which is shown through the Olivier Award. There’s no real secret to it, it’s a mixture of good planning, hard work, brilliant writing, brilliant acting, and an understanding of why we’re making the work we’re making.

With the Sherman’s original productions, how do you decide whether a particular play is worth producing?

I often choose the plays on instinct, although there is obviously planning involved. Every Christmas since I started here, we’ve produced a big colourful spectacle with live music, for the main stage show. I had an instinct that it would work and it’s proven to be the case – people love our Christmas shows. I also have a real focus on developing Welsh writers and playwrights. I ask myself, is this a writer I think will benefit from our support?

I’m also very committed to making sure our work doesn’t just begin and end in Cardiff, but that we showcase the work more broadly, on the global stage. Brad Birch, a Welsh playwright who we’ve produced recently with Tremor, his work is now in New York.

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What challenges are there for regional theatres outside of London being able to reach their intended audiences?

The concept of who is the intended audience is always a key consideration here – we are really committed to developing the next wave of talent, but there’s no point in that if there’s not an audience for it. We have to be proactive about finding an audience.

We’ve produced two community plays in the past two years, one called Home, and one called Love Cardiff, both of which are performed by members of the immediate community and are about [them]; you have to adapt constantly. If you’re a good artist you will adapt, but you’ll also lead and demonstrate why theatre is so important, because it’s how we understand society, and how society understands itself.

If you could recommend one unique place in Wales to a first-time visitor that not many people would know about, where would it be and why?

Cathays Park in the centre of Cardiff – it’s just the most calm and beautiful oasis in the middle of the city. There’s the Wales National War Memorial there, which is inscribed in Welsh on the outside and English inside.

I think it’s just the most extraordinary, peaceful place.

Info: www.shermantheatre.co.uk

ENGLAND V INDIA CRICKET – T20 INTERNATIONAL SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff Fri 6 July Tickets: from £12 Info: 029 20419 311 tickets.glamorgancricket.com

JASON MANFORD Grand Theatre, Swansea Fri 13 + Sat 14 July Tickets: £31 Info: 01792 475715 www.swanseagrand.co.uk

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Grand Theatre, Swansea Tue 17 July Tickets: £20.50 Info: 01792 475715 www.swanseagrand.co.uk

WELSHFEST

Coedarhydyglyn, Cardiff Fri 27-Sun 29 July Tickets: from £27.75 Info: www.welshfest.com

JAMES TAYLOR (WITH BONNIE RAITT) Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Tue 17 July Tickets: from £45 Info: 029 2022 4488 www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

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25 — 30 June • Mehefin

SUMMER • HAF 13 — 15 June • Mehefin

Festival of Voice – Susanne Sundfør + Novo Amor – Rhondda Rips it Up! SUSANNE SUNDFØR – Epilog + NOVO AMOR Yn / At New Theatre

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19 — 23 June • Mehefin

Tickledom: Basil and the Ice Witch A new musical adventure for families 1 — 3 July • Gorffennaf

Theatre Tours Get behind the scenes and learn about the New’s illustrious history.

7 — 8 July • Gorffennaf

Teletubbies Live Join Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po for their first ever theatre show.

10 — 15 July • Gorffennaf

Cirque Berserk!

Britain’s biggest theatre-circus spectacular.

“There is magic in the air as the audience is transported to 20th century London… expect witty dialogue, disguise and comic moments” WILTSHIRE TIMES

18 — 22 July • Gorffennaf

Mischief Movie Night Starring the award winning creators of The Play That Goes Wrong.

23 — 28 July • Gorffennaf

Thriller Live Celebrate the career of the world’s greatest entertainer, Michael Jackson.

newtheatrecardiff.co.uk 029 2087 8889 Mae’r New Theatre yn eiddo i ac, yn cael ei rheoli a’i harinannu Gyngor Caerdydd · The New Theatre is owned, managed and funded by Cardiff Council

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Fatoumata Diawara

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Laura Veirs. Pic: Jason Quigley

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LUMP (Laura Marling). Pic: Parri

With so much going on at Festival Of Voice, there's plenty that might slip under the radar. Buzz rounds up the best of the rest.

There’s plenty of excellent festivals throughout Wales, but the return of the biennial festival celebrating the power and majesty of the voice is surely one of the highlights. Fedor Tot looks ahead.

Music Compiled by Charlie Cottrell

Susanne Sundfør New Theatre. Wed 13 June. Tickets: £18 Hailing from the Norwegian capital, Susanne Sundfør brings an eclectic, experimental pop sound and an impressive back catalogue. Her latest album Music for People In Trouble takes a step back from previously electronic-driven outings and instead exhibits her impressive vocal range. Expect stripped-back, Joni Mitchell-esque melancholia from her live show.

After Festival Of Voice debuted in 2016, headlined by figures as diverse and exciting as Rufus Wainwright, Anna Calvi, Hugh Masakela and former Velvet Undergrounder John Cale, 2018 looks set to take the festival up another step. There’s a refreshing mixture of youthful energy and experienced heads prevalent in this year’s programme. Where some festivals seem to pick headliners based purely on whether they can play a greatest hits set or not, the two highest profile names at Festival Of Voice, Patti Smith and Elvis Costello [below] are still putting together interesting work that speaks to a searching creativity, unwilling to rest on its laurels.

The former will be spending two nights in Cardiff, firstly with a night of poetry in St. John’s Church on Mon 11 June, and a full performance at the Wales Millennium Centre the following night; the latter will close the festival on Sun 17 June.

There’s plenty of other expressive entertainment too. Singer-songwriter Laura Marling has teamed up with Tunng leader Michael Lindsay to create LUMP, a nocturnal electro-folk project that will envelop the Millennium Centre on Fri 8 June. Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys will take to the stage with the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales on Sun 10, whilst Gwenno will celebrate the work of poet Edrica Huws on Fri 15. Beyond the headline names, some of which we’ve interviewed over the next few pages, there’s also the ambitious Processions project [see p.24], ensuring that Festival Of Voice is going to cater to as many perspectives and, well, voices, as possible.

The Gentle Good & The Mavron Quartet

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Passenger & Stu Larsen. Pic: Jarrad Seng

Angelique Kidjo. Pic: Sofia & Mauro

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Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre Thurs 14 June. Tickets: £10 Real name Gareth Bonello, the Cardiff-based Gentle Good’s poetic lyrics in both English and Welsh demonstrate his talent as both a musician and a writer, with a folk style that subtly draws on influences both regional and international.

Here, Bonello links up once more with the Mavron Quartet, who feature heavily on the latest Gentle Good LP.

Tank And The Bangas Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre Fri 8 June. Tickets: £14 Fronted by Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball, this five-piece group originating from New Orleans merge a combination of jazz, hip-hop and Ball’s distinctive, soulful voice into a fascinating style. Latest single, Smoke.Netflix.Chill. is a jiving testament to their eclectic deep-groove influences, whilst 2017 release Quick was a huge success.

CHARLOTTE CHURCH

“After turning 30, I was just like, ‘oh my god, who am I? What am I doing?’”

Swapping the mic for the clipboard, Charlotte Church has curated the final night at this year’s Festival Of Voice. Charlie Cottrell asks her all about Utopia.

Charlotte Church is enjoying herself. Touring with her Late Night Pop Dungeon brought her to the stage in the guise of a genre-spanning cover band. Now filming documentaries and recently married, Church is evidently comfortable and happy.

Her latest project – curating her own night for Cardiff’s Festival Of Voice – sees her bringing unparalleled diversity to the capital.

What’s Utopia going to be about and how the night is going to take shape?

I’m curating an evening of delights, all centred around the voice. There’s Fatoumata Diawara, a Malian singer, and a guy called La Gateau Chocolat, who’s a drag artist. We also have Jonna Lee [one part of iamamiwhoami] as well. So I’ve booked a lot of stuff I really want to see! We’ll have DJs and party into the night, and I’m going to sing a bit as well.

Do you think it sends a positive message, having such female-oriented diversity within the festival?

I think we’re in dire need of some connection and some understanding, but also joy. I think that women – not exclusively, I do think there are many men who do this as well – but I think women have that real sort of healing vibe, and I just think that audience members need it currently, what with our world being how it is.

Having spent so much time on the stage, how is it being behind the scenes as a curator?

This is my first time doing it. When I’m organising things, I’m always trying to scale down my vision into something affordable! I’m going to get some set-pieces from Welsh National Opera. They let me go into their storeroom, which is amazing, and let me pick out pieces and have a little play. But it’s alright – we’ll keep it nice and tidy.

You were in the limelight from a young age. Have you seen positive changes in how women are perceived by the media? Or is there still a lot of work to be done in that area?

Well, the traditional media as we knew it before is not so much of a power any more. What’s happening on the internet with social media is what’s difficult.

In some ways, people are becoming more open and understanding, trying to be a bit gentler and a bit kinder to each other. But then you’ve got this other extreme with things like the alt-right rising up. It’s a double-edged sword really. I gave up my smartphone about two or three months ago. It’s really helping. I think I was pretty addicted.

For those young people who are disenfranchised with social media.

What kind of advice would you give them?

I think the best thing to do is to go out and socialise in real life. Go to gigs!

Absolutely go to gigs. It’s such an aesthetic experience, where you are fully present and actually in the moment. I think arts and music is absolutely essential.

You said you were going to perform on the peripheries of the show at Festival of Voice. Are you going to be go back out there and record a new album?

I’ve always just followed my nose in my career. But I think I’ve been stuck in a little bubble of fear for a while. After turning 30, I was just like, ‘oh my god, who am I? What am I doing?’ And so it’s just taken me a little bit of time to build myself back up, bat away that fear, and just express and create. So yeah, I’m working on an album currently, and it’ll be my first album in about 10 years! It’s exciting. I just want to help heal people, really. That’s what I want.

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Charlotte Church: Utopia, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Sat 16 June. Tickets: £20.

Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.festivalofvoice.wales

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A Filetta The Tabernacle. Fri 8 June. Tickets: £20 All-male singing group A Filetta bring Corsica to South Wales with their soaring, rich Mediterranean harmonies. The island itself is well known musically for its a cappella tradition, and for the past 35 years the group have continued to maintain and extend a reputation that brings so much pride to Corsicans. Together, the ensemble’s polyphonic style asserts national identity, but more than that, it inspirits the events of everyday life in a musical journey of unadulterated purity.

Laura Veirs St John’s Church. Sat 9 June. Tickets: £17.50 With over 20 years of songwriting and 10 full-length albums under her belt, Laura Veirs is something of a folk-music powerhouse. On latest album The Lookout, Veirs epitomises the solitary songwriter: determined to find beauty residing in a chaotic and divided post-election America. Ranging from exuberant to wistful, Veirs’ elegant consistency lies in her delicate, echoing reflections of the world and the people that surround her.

TIGER LILIES

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Veterans of the UK's cult music scene, The Tiger Lillies have long been purveyors of the weird and bizarre. Frontman Martyn Jacques talks to Charlie Cottrell about The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.

Any attempt to condense The Tiger Lillies into a single genre would be to do them a gross injustice.

The face-painted, accordion-wielding trio have carved out an impressive cult following since their formation in 1989; the ever-eccentric Martyn Jacques’ poetic tales of obscenities, debauchery and tragedy, delivered in his piercingly dispassionate falsetto, continue to strike a chord with fans and critics alike.

For the first time, the band brings one of their most popular performances to the UK, The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency.

The ballad, Jacques tells us, is supplemented with a backdrop of intimate photographs taken by American photographer, Nan Goldin. “Hundreds of images from [Goldin’s] life in Berlin and in New York in the 1980s and 90s. There’s people inebriated, people in clubs, people involved in their pre-sex rituals, things like that.”

The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency, much like the rest of The Tiger Lillies’ back catalogue, tackles uncomfortable topics: domestic abuse, drug use, promiscuity. This is the kind of culture in which Jacques himself once resided: “I suppose I saw lots of those kinds of images that Nan photographed. I’m BUZZ 12

very familiar with drug addictions, and the rest of it. I’d say I’m reasonably well qualified to write about it all.”

In keeping with the nature of his band, Jacques is nonchalant but refreshingly defiant in his rejection of the conventional. “You know, I’ve never even heard a Metallica album in my life. I wouldn’t even recognise their sound. I have no interest in any mainstream style of music.” Of course, The Tiger Lillies aren’t alone in their private rebellion. “We played to 2,500 people in Moscow last week. We have followings in the most unusual places. But we haven’t got the machine behind us, so I suppose it’s a more organic following.”

A two-week stint in London this May suggests that The Tiger Lillies’ fanbase stems far further than Eastern Europe, but Jacques is perpetually humble.

“We’re so lucky really, because we can make a living, and travel all over the world, because there’s this alternative group of people out there like us.”

Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Fri 15 + Sat 16 June. Tickets: £20. Info: 029 2064 6900 / www.shermantheatre.co.uk

Donald Gordon Theatre Stage, Wales Millennium Centre. Wed 13 June. Tickets: £15 Eno Williams, lead singer of London-based afro-electro ensemble Ibibio Sound Machine, never ceases to impart an infectious sense of enjoyment to the crowds before her. Having only been on the scene since 2013, Williams and co. have not looked out of place making high-profile performances on Jools Holland and at Glastonbury. The Donald Gordon Theatre Stage will be transformed for one night only into a dischoteque space worthy of hosting the outfit’s exciting and empowering Afro-electro soundscape.

Theatre/Non-music Compiled by Rhonda Lee Reali

Women & War: An Un-Silencing Jacob’s Antique Market. Sat 9 June £15/£5 unwaged Women are too often witnesses and victims caught in the crossfire and overlooked in the history of battles and carnage. Their contributions and resistance to the unspeakable are often silenced, while they’re left destitute and broken. Inspiring these talks are Komalên Jinên Kurdistan (the Kurdistan Women’s Freedom Movement), who earlier this year called for women worldwide to take up the cause for a violence-free future with women’s liberation.

Organised by Gentle/Radical, this is the struggle and fightback of females over a century of war.

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Dr Sally Austen In Conversation With Bella Bathurst: Sound Jacob’s Antique Market. Sun 10 June Tickets: £6.50 Are you deaf, going deaf or know someone who is? Then read up. Bella Bathurst, a writer and photojournalist, began to go deaf in 1997, but regained her hearing 12 years later. Bathurst investigates the science behind deafness and hearing loss in the population, among other topics. She’s joined by Dr Sally Austen, a clinical psychologist with 27 years of working in deafness and mental health (and an author herself) who’s also in Bathurst’s book Sound.

Body Language With Jennifer Hartley

B I L LY BRAGG Veteran activist and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg sat down with Carl Marsh to discuss the art of the protest song.

If anyone mentions the term protest song, more than likely people think of Billy Bragg. As part of Festival Of Voice, Billy is to play a night’s worth of protest songs with support from Nadine Shah, a songwriter with an equally outspoken worldview. With politics and current affairs having played a massive part of Bragg's life for decades, we ask if Brexit will be top of his agenda.

“I’ve got a song called Full English Brexit that I might perform in Cardiff which should get rousing applause; my only joy is that we are all in this together.” It will surprise people to know that Bragg actually gave up music after being a punk in his early days, eventually joining the British Army, albeit for only a few months – perhaps this was the catalyst for him being where he is today? “I wouldn't say it was a catalyst, it was more like a sabbatical.”

Still, there must have been some major impetus behind doing something as drastic as joining the army. “My problem was that one of the reasons I joined was to get rid of this stupid idea that I could ever be a singer-songwriter – pushing the eject button on my previous existence was a big part of my decision to join. Yet when I got there, it just made me write more songs. I found the situation very inspirational; I thought 'this isn’t going to go away'.

I had to hatch a plan, which was was to get out of the army and just start to play solo and see what happened – to just give it one last go.”

With Bragg’s passion for the politically-motivated protest song, it’s worth asking if there is still real value in left-wing songwriters these days?

“I think there always is value in offering a different perspective to the world and music is a good way of doing that. You cannot imagine a song encapsulating a moment like Free Nelson Mandela did. Having said that, there is This Is America, released recently BUZZ 14

by Childish Gambino. [Gambino] has clearly found something that resonates with people, offering a different perspective on the black experience in the USA. So yes, I still think there is room for music like that. It may not be white guys with a guitar making it anymore but it doesn't mean that people aren’t out there using music to put across ideas.”

Hearing him say this, it seems like the protest song has now made its mainstream home in the realm of hip-hop. “Well, everything now is around a hip-hop beat. Even Ed Sheeran is doing what I do but in a strange way on a hip-hop beat.”

So is there a changing nature to protest in song?

“You will find that black artists are making the most powerful music, whether that be Beyonce, or Stormzy calling out the Prime Minister over the Grenfell Tower fire [at the Brits]. That was incredibly powerful.

Theresa May and Downing Street had to respond; not just to what Stormzy said but the audience’s response at the O2 – no one ever responded to me in the old days, no one gave a shit. Together, the artist and the audience can bring about some form of accountability.”

Considering his political proclivities, has Billy Bragg ever considered becoming a Member Of Parliament?

He laughs. “Don’t you think we have enough middleaged white men in Parliament? I don't think we need any more of those!

“Our currency as musicians is empathy, whether it's a love song or a political one or whatever, that’s the currency that we have in our music that we can use.”

Voices Of Protest (with Nadine Shah), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Thurs 7 June. Tickets: £16-£26.50.

Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.festivalofvoice.wales

Jacob’s Antique Market. Fri 15 + Sat 16 June Tickets: £10 How do we communicate? Let’s count the ways – openly and together with Dr. Jennifer Hartley.

The founder and director of the UK-registered charity Theatre Versus Oppression leads this workshop on communication and will show various techniques to use direct and indirect communication, making participants aware of their own body language and facial expressions when interacting. She specialises in therapy through drama, so you might pick up some acting tips while learning to get cosy with your fellow humans.

English Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre Thurs 14-Sun 24 June. Tickets: £15 How frustrating is it when you want to say something but can’t find the right words in a tongue that’s not second nature? Cardiffbased deaf activist Jonny Cotsen is the lead actor in National Theatre Wales’ collaboration with Manchester’s Quarantine which suss out lingo, migration and identity. Pop songs will be dissected, grammar chewed up and spit out.

All languages welcome.

Sex Ed Assembly The Common Room, Chapter Arts Centre Sat 16 June. Tickets: £3 Regarding sex education, there’s much more discussion nowadays on the wide spectrum of human sexuality. Heterosexuality has never been the only game in town. Bedfellows, a group who make tools together to re-educate people about sex, are the hosts for this two-hour participatory forum.

Normality is a myth: get used to it. They want to hear your views on sex ed, your work in the field and what you’d like to accomplish. But, hey, not everything goes. Read the website to be safe.

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RHONDDA RIPS IT UP! Welsh National Opera’s latest commission is a song-and-dance suffragette celebration. Composer Elena Langer tells John-Paul Davies about the opera that’s not really an opera and what it’s like working on an all-women team.

Margaret Haig Thomas, or Lady Rhondda, tore up the rulebook on what-a-titledlady-should-do at the turn of the last century. To bring about the beginnings of women’s rights in the UK she jumped on top of the then-PM’s car, planned chemical attacks, spent time in prison and bought back her freedom through hunger strikes. Rhondda certainly ripped things up! Perfect dramatic material for the stage. But for an opera?

Well, Welsh National Opera have bravely ripped up their own rulebook and produced a vaudevillian romp that is part-opera, part-play, part-cabaret revue and all women. Composer Elena Langer tells us: “Well, it’s fun! I’ve never done it.

I’ve mostly worked with men – and I’ve enjoyed that! It really doesn’t matter who you’re working with – it’s all about talent and skill and I’m lucky to have such a talented and enthusiastic chorus. they treat this material as if it’s their own.”

Langer and librettist Emma Jenkins are less invested in transmitting a feminist manifesto than celebrating an extraordinary individual’s life through words and music – but with no wrong notes. “I protested at first! Emma didn’t want ‘Ee! Ooh, Argh!’” says Langer, a contemporary composer used to writing modern scores with plenty of dissonance and discord. “But I was asked to look at the libretto and then I realised that that was what I wanted to do. Of course, I did write some ‘wrong’ notes – it’s boring without them.”

Only the occasional wrong note! Songs with tunes! Dialogue! Is Rhondda a modern opera at all? “It’s hard to define its genre. Maybe it will be easier, and less threatening if it’s not an opera.”

But there are some elements of the show that stay true to operatic sensibilities.

The performers are all trained singers and there are no mics on stage. “It’s a risk, because we don’t have amplification. In your usual musical, everything would be amplified, especially if there is a kit on stage. I have clarinet and trumpet, trombone, tuba, drum kit, piano, violin, cello, double bass. And accordion, of course, my favourite instrument. It’s very much like a street band.”

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Lesley Garrett plays the emcee and Madeline Shaw is Lady Rhondda herself, so the soloists are of a very high standard. But it is the WNO’s placard-waving, strong standing, suffragette chorus that Langer keeps returning to. “They’re very imaginative – they suggest such things. The other day a soprano said, ‘I love this song – I’ll play along on my guitar.’ I said, ‘Of course, go ahead’.”

The organic, spontaneous work of the cast and creatives matches the irreverent tone of the piece and the bold character of its heroine. Placard slogans have been the inspiration for songs that sound nothing like anything WNO have produced before – but in breaking new ground, there are always challenges along the way.

“Chorus singers have beautiful voices, but they’re not as skilled at dialogue as drama actors. Emma and I decided that whenever there is dialogue in the piece I would underscore it.”

So the operatic underscoring is like a cushion for the spoken words. “Well, I realised – it’s a great thing – the music never stops in the show. It’s either travelling to the foreground or the background but it doesn’t stop as it would in a musical.”

That must make timing the dialogue fun. “Well, the singers need to remember which instrument plays where and when, through the process of rehearsals.

And the musicians are on stage – all women, all in costume. And if they hired any men, we will dress them – we’ll give them boobs and dresses.”

Somehow, Buzz feels Lady Rhondda would approve.

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Rhondda Rips It Up!, The Riverfront, Newport, Thurs 7 June (in south Wales until Fri 29 June) Tickets: £18/£15 Info: 01633 656757 / www.wno.org.uk

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RACHEL TREZISE The award-winning author and playwright Rachel Trezise chats to Carl Marsh about her latest play Cotton Fingers, written in commemoration of the NHS’s 70th birthday.

Since winning the first Dylan Thomas Prize (set up to recognise talented authors under the age of 30) in 2006 for her second book Fresh Apples, Treorchy-born Rachel Trezise has seized upon plentiful opportunities to write in different fields.

Her latest project is a monologue play called Cotton Fingers, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS. The project is being put together by National Theatre Wales as part of its Love Letters To The NHS season, and Trezise opted to tackle one of the more taboo issues in our great institution’s history, that of abortion.

Cotton Fingers tells the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Wales seeking an abortion. Due to the NHS, women in the mainland UK have been able to get abortions for decades now, but this still remains a controversial topic on both sides of the border in Ireland (and for that matter, here). The 1967 Abortion Act was never extended to cover Northern Ireland, where it is still illegal, with Europe's harshest penalty for abortion; any female having an abortion in Northern Ireland could in theory face life imprisonment.

What compelled Trezise to write about this topic? She mentions that she was drawn to the fact that, despite the project being called Love Letters To The NHS, it didn’t have to all be about “sweet letters about how people had their lives saved by the NHS.” Why did she opt for something more difficult?

“Mainly because abortion is controversial to lots of people. It’s just so radical, even the idea of the NHS is so radical in the first place, but then a large proportion of society would disagree with women being allowed to have funded abortions, and yet the NHS do it. I just think that is wonderful as there must be so much pressure for [the NHS] not to.”

She was shocked by the fact that National Theatre Wales even said yes to the idea, but perhaps even more daunted by the next step: “‘Oh no, now I’ve got to write it!’” she laughs. So is that why she choose to make an even bigger impact by having the story be about an Irish girl coming over from Belfast?

“It was to create more of an impact, but also the timing was lucky because, when I BUZZ 18

“A large proportion of

was writing the play, the law had society would disagree with just been changed”. As of June 2017, after 69 years, the NHS was women being allowed to have finally allowed to pay for people funded abortions, and yet the from Northern Ireland to come NHS still do it.” over to the mainland and have an abortion, stopping women from having to fund it all themselves, and since then there has been a 14% increase in the number of women from Northern Ireland having free abortions. In another moment of serendipitous timing with the play, the results of the referendum on abortion in the Republic Of Ireland will be known by the time you read this, and it will be interesting to see how, if at all, the context of Cotton Fingers changes in that time.

Regardless of how radical or not the NHS is or how taboo the subject matter of Cotton Fingers is, Rachel ends by saying: “I just want people to appreciate how wonderful the NHS is and what a difference it makes to people’s lives in the UK. The play is about two generations of women – one who is the mother who came to the UK a long time ago and had an horrific experience, then her daughter has an abortion as well. They don't talk about it amongst themselves but the daughter has a better experience.

“What I want people to take from the play is what an impact the NHS makes.

In the UK we take the NHS for granted a lot.”

Cotton Fingers, Memorial Hall, Aberaeron, Wed 4 + Thurs 5 July; Merlin Theatre, Haverfordwest, Fri 8 July. Tickets: £10-£15.

Info: 029 2035 3070 / www.nationaltheatrewales.org

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Laughter is the Best Medicine Caerfyrddin / Carmarthen _ 21 Gorfennaf / July 2018 Ymûnwch â ni am noson unigryw llawn sêr o gomedi fyw yn cynnws…

Join us for an all-star, one-off night of live comedy featuring…

Alan Davies _ Nish Kumar _ Elis James _ Angela Barnes _ Steve Day _ Ed Gamble Rosie Jones _ Nadia Kamil _ Jonny Pelham _ a / and Isy Suttie

NHS70:

As Long as the Heart Beats Casnewydd / Newport _ 21-22 Gorfennaf / July 2018 Gan dynnu ar straeon niferus y mae NTW wedi eu casglu gan bobl ledled Cymru, bydd y cynhyrchiad newydd sbon hwn yn dathlu’r ymroddiad a’r gofal a ddarperir bob dydd gan y GIG. Mewn grwpiau bach, gwahoddir y gynulleidfa i glywed straeon gan staff a chleifion sy’n rhannu eu profiadau o 70 mlynedd gyntaf y GIG.

NHS70:

This brand new production will celebrate the dedication and care provided every day by the NHS. In intimate groups, the audience will be invited to hear stories from staff and patients sharing their experiences of the first 70 years of the NHS. A performance which has care and compassion at its heart, just like the NHS itself.

Love Letters to the NHS Tredegar _ 12-14 Gorfennaf / July 2018 Abertawe / Swansea _ 26-28 Gorfennaf / July 2018 Pump sioe unigol newydd gan bump o awduron, yn cael eu perfformio ar hyd a lled Cymru. Bydd y monologau hyn yn llythyrau caru cariadus a theimladwy at sefydliad y mae pob un ohonom wedi cael – neu y byddwn yn cael - perthynas gydag ef, ar ryw adeg yn ein bywydau.

NHS70:

Five new, solo shows by five writers, performed the length and breadth of Wales. These monologues will be intimate, heartfelt love letters to an institution with which all of us have had – or will have – a relationship, at some stage of our lives.

Eczema!

Bae Caerdydd / Cardiff Bay _ 28 Gorffennaf / July 2018 Comedi ddu gan Maria Fusco yn cyfuno cylchoedd cosi a chrafu ecsema i mewn i sgôr abswrdaidd, llawn dathlu o eiriau a cherddoriaeth.

This black comedy by Maria Fusco will mingle the itching and scratching cycles of eczema into an absurdist, celebratory score of spoken word and music.

Tocynnau / Tickets _ nationaltheatrewales.org/nhs70-festival Rhif Cofrestredig Y Cwmni / Company Registration No.: 6693227 Elusen Cofrestredig Rhif / Charity Registration No.: 1127952

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These days the Public Image Ltd lead singer lives in sunny Los Angeles, and as he calls Buzz for the interview, it’s tempting to imagine him snarling down the phone in typically antagonistic style whilst relaxing by a poolside.

This writer was fortunate enough to catch Public Image on their last visit to Cardiff, and what was clear then was just how much emotional energy John Lydon gives to his performances. “It’s draining. I can barely think when I come off, but Cardiff is definitely a bang-on good audience – just makes you go that extra bit, you know.”

PiL’s influence has long been acclaimed: one of the progenitors of the icy-cold postpunk that took over after the initial punk wave of the late 70s, and as one of the UK’s longest-running bands (albeit with a break of a solid 20 years after 1992’s That What Is Not. Yet Lydon feels characteristically unimpressed with those accolades. “It’s kind of nice to see you’ve had your influences there, but it’s kind of nicer when the bands openly admit that and then that’s alright. Otherwise, if they’re not admitting and using the ideas, then it’s blatant ignorant thievery isn’t it?

“Everything triggers a thought and that’s why none of us live in a bubble without outside influences being incredibly important and relevant. It’s coming in touch with your own emotions and learning how to control them and understand them.

It’s the same thing as being directly influenced by everything you hear, see and touch and feel.”

After two decades out of the game, 2012’s comeback record This Is PiL marked the beginning of this current iteration of Public Image. How did it feel coming back to the band after so long?

“We were furiously eager to get into the studio and still are, and that’s carried on to the next one. It’s a different world now. I’ve learnt you can actually work with your real friends who really do care about you on a day-to-day basis. Very different points of view, but there’s no animosity there.”

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Going back to John’s early life, even a brief glance tells you it wasn’t that much fun. At the age of seven, he contracted meningitis, and as a result lost his memory.

He calls it “the most frightening experience I’ve ever had to endure. [My memory] came back in tiny fragments and I was then thrown back in school at eight and completely incapable of handling that. The isolation is something that I still have terrors about... the loneliness of that is incredible, as are the feelings of guilt when your personality comes back because you know the hurt you’ve caused all those around you.

“But what doesn’t kill you make you stronger. For me, I’m kind of grateful for it, because it helped me to sort myself out at a really important part of my life. I don’t suppose I would be the person I am today without enduring that; it was very important in that period that to believe what everyone around me was telling me was true. I learnt a great deal of respect for telling the truth. Trying to make up and remember all the lies you told the day before – that’s not existence, that’s prison.”

Going to a Catholic school, Lydon didn’t have the greatest of times at the hands of the teachers. Amongst a litany of injustices was the fact that the nuns provoked fear in the boy by suggesting that his left-handedness was a sign of the devil. “At the time I was very isolated because of it and the other kids would have anything to do with me because I was somehow cursed.”

Libraries provided a great escape for the young John Lydon, allowing him to regain himself. “I was curious about the power of letters and how they could give information from what looked like, you know, mad irregular patterns to me.

The schools were no good to me, preaching Catholic nonsense which was utterly irrelevant to me when I needed help proper, and I only got that in the library.

“Every book is an opening to someone else’s thought process. That cannot be regarded as unhelpful, or old-fashioned or irrelevant because it’s the opposite. It’s absolutely important to develop character, to search and find out what something

It’s risky business to ta chance like w ke a e did but that’s the , devil-may-car e in us.

is really about rather than just accepting the current manifesto.”

That questioning attitude of course played much into the John Lydon who has since become a national figure. One particularly infamous moment in Public Image Ltd’s career happened when they appeared on American Bandstand, with an audience of millions across the States, and instead of miming proceed to roll about looking deranged.

“It was hilarious that day. They tried to operate us into miming and you can’t mime to PiL songs. We turned miming into a mockery and somehow or other that won us over an enormous audience. They loved the sense of fun of it. They were big things, those pop-shows in America, you know. They’re very corporately orchestrated. It’s risky business to take a chance like we did, but that’s the devilmay-care in us.”

The legacy of hellraising that the Pistols took part in has at times come across like an albatross on Lydon’s back. Before the formation of PiL, there was a long, drawn-out court case between Lydon and Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, which Lydon described now as “extremely frustrating and nerve-racking [as well as] unnecessary”, but the police interference that followed the Pistols as they attempted to gig in the UK also followed Public Image, partly prompting Lydon’s move to the US 30 years ago.

“It was impossible for PiL to get any gigs. We were still facing the harassment nonsense from local lawmakers and police who said ‘no crowd trouble’. We couldn’t get the insurance so we couldn’t play. And so it goes, the Sex Pistol legacy backfiring on us. Moving to New York seemed like the only thing to do. And

it was great: we would load up the transit and could drive in any particular direction every night of the week. Never spent a penny on rehearsals, all our rehearsals were live on stage.

Interesting period. Quite literally writing songs on stage in front of an audience!”

Politics has always been a key element of Lydon’s music – the Sex Pistols were nothing if not political, but Public Image saw a distinctly more nuanced approach from the singer.

Rise’s elusive lyrics were written directly about apartheid – what motivates Lydon’s desire to write about such topics?

“If you want it to be so blatant it might as well be three words. ‘Apartheid is wrong!’ There you go. It’s a song that’s connected to both sides. The interrogation techniques were not only used by the police against Mandela – I also got references in there to Mandela not being such a lovely person either when he was out running around. He was locked up for a little bit more sauciness than politics.

Sometimes these revolutions lead to innocent people’s deaths and for me those human causes isn’t worth anything at all if it causes the death of anyone.

“That’s why Ghandi is so all-important to me. Passive resistance. I think he proved it’s a very viable commodity and it really does work. You just have to deal with people’s greed. It’s not very easy to get back into the Garden of Eden. But,” he laughs, “I’ve booked a place for myself... and some choice friends.”

Public Image Ltd, Tramshed, Cardiff, Thurs 21 June. Tickets: £30 Info: 029 2023 5555 / tramshedcardiff.com

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BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH Author, poet, activist, musician: Benjamin Zephaniah remains one of Britain’s most distinct voices. “I’ve no interest in impressing government,” he tells Ruth Seavers.

Benjamin Zephaniah has spent much of his life being busy. He’s recently put out an autobiography, which he is currently touring to promote, and he’s lived across Birmingham, Jamaica, Newham, Egypt, Yugoslavia, and South Africa. How has he found it so easy to move around?

“It’s interesting because my last couple of novels – nearly all my novels, actually – are written about the East End of London, but they were all written in China. People can struggle with identity when it comes to nationhood. Once you’re a writer you’ve kind of got this in your head but I know very few people who are purely ‘one thing’.

“And I used to struggle with this. My mother’s from Jamaica, my father’s from Barbados and I was born in England. They all came from Africa. So am I African? Am I Caribbean? Am I British?

The British don’t welcome me. And they don’t recognise me as Jamaican when I go back to Jamaica. This thing that people have to understand is that the idea of a nation state, the idea of a passport and a flag, is a very modern one. Once you get rid of that, you realise that we’re just human beings.”

The Life and Rhymes Of Benjamin Zephaniah, his autobiography, was a challenge for the veteran author to write. “It was like three times bigger than it had to be, and I had to edit it down. That was a little bit difficult. In the writing process, you submit it and edit it down and then you get the uncorrected proof. Then I got the finished thing on a PDF and I read it as a reader.”

Did he find it difficult sitting down with his own work like that?

“It wasn’t so much difficult, it was really moving. I was the main character. And I thought ‘OK, if I’m moved by it, it should move other people’.”

Zephaniah rejected an OBE in 2003, saying he “didn’t want to take crumbs from the white man’s table”. 15 years later, this spring has brought both the Windrush scandal and the addition of Meghan Markle, a mixed-race woman, into the royal family.

How much does Zephaniah think things have changed?

“Well, I think in many ways we’ve moved on. My thing wasn’t just about race, it was about empire. This Order Of The British Empire was originally given to people for killing people.

People like me. And they wanted to make it a bit more civilian, so they started giving it to cleaners and poets. I don’t want the word ‘empire’ attached to my name. I write to connect with people, to move people at the real grassroots level. I have no interest in impressing government or monarchy.”

With the rise in racially-motivated hate crimes in the UK after the Brexit vote and the presence of Donald Trump in the White House, are things moving forward at all for tolerance and diversity? “I think that we have to be careful, people that write. We have to be a little bit careful because people have voted for these things. I don’t know if you’ve heard but the Flat Earth Movement in Britain,

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they were on the news the other day, sitting down, having a respectable conversation… and they’re growing.

“Somebody said to me years ago that he didn’t think people should be allowed to vote unless they could prove they had a certain understanding of politics and I just rubbished him, but there’s a part of me that’s leaning that way now.” A perhaps controversial statement for some, but evidence of the malleability of democracy.

“A woman living locally to me, who voted to leave, she said to me the other day, ‘It’s not going good, is it?’ I said, ‘Well, no. No, it’s not.’ And then she said, ‘Next year when they have the vote I’m gonna vote to remain...’ It’s scary because this is the free world.”

Benjamin Zephaniah, Glee Club, Cardiff Bay, Sun 17 June. Tickets: £22 Info: 0871 4720400 / www.glee.co.uk The Life And Rhymes Of Benjamin Zephaniah is available now. Price: £20 Info: www.simonandschuster.co.uk

KIZUNA Japan has been synonymous with innovative design in the last few decades, with Blade Runner famously encapsulating the country’s revered position as a global leader in technology and design, by depicting a future-vision LA saturated in Japanese products and design aesthetics. However, Japan’s refined design culture predates Harrison Ford by a good few hundred years. Kizuna is a classic portrayal of new meets old, like watching your grandparents trying to use a smartphone.

The exhibition incorporates classic 19th century pieces from Utagawa Kunisada, whose radical approach to Japanese woodblock print, redefined the genre – alongside original examples of Inro and Netsuke, whose innovative design is still prevalent in modern society. These historical pieces are juxtaposed besides contemporary examples – highlighting the changes that have occurred in the Japanese design scene, as well as depicting the nuances of influences that continue to impact upon current design across Japan across the globe.

More specifically, the name Kizuna, which means bonds, refers to friendship, with the exhibition exemplifying the historic yet often overlooked trade relationship between Wales and Japan. In the early 1900s Japan was a large importer of Welsh coal, which was key to powering their naval vessels. In the aftermath of the coalmine closures, the reciprocity of this trade relationship was felt, when the investment of a number of Japanese companies helped reboot the economy of Wales.

Kizuna will be in National Museum Cardiff throughout the summer, where visitors will be able to appreciate an incredibly diverse range of Japanese historic art and design – with exhibits ranging from a 400-year-old hand-painted scroll; to spectacular 1.6m by 3.6m painted screens of Tokyo. In addition to the exhibition itself, there are a number of supporting events, including the Tanabata Star Festival on Sat 7 and Sun 8 July, commemorating two Japanese gods, and a performance by renowned Japanese/ Welsh musician Hiroko Sue. Many of the items included in the exhibition have never been seen before in the UK, so this is certainly a great time to start investigating the richness and diversity of Japanese art and design. THEO HUNG National Museum Cardiff. Sat 16 June-Sun 9 Sept. Admission: free Info: 0300 1112333 / www.museum.wales

PROCESSIONS Processions is one of the most interesting and unique projects taking place this year as part of the Festival Of Voice – though it should be noted it’s arriving as part of a nationwide mission by outdoor art specialists Artichoke and 14-18 NOW, the WWI centenary group, to bring women together from all over the UK in its four capitals Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, and London.

This year marks a century since some women were granted the vote: the Representation Of The People Act in 1918 gave women over the age of 30 who were either married or owned property the right to vote. Nevertheless, this still marked a huge step forward in enfranchisement amongst the British public, with millions of working-class men also included, though it took until 1928 for both women and men over the age of 21 to be able to vote.

To mark that historic moment in 1918, women across the country are encouraged to join in with Processions. Each march will be festooned with hues of purple, white and green, the colours of the suffragettes. The sisters of the UK, whether identifying as women or non-binary, are invited to join banner-making workshops and join together in a march celebrating the vote for women. Joining them in Cardiff will be figures including Dilys Price OBE (interviewed on p.30) as well as award-winning journalist Carolyn Hitt and singer and actress Carys Eleri.

When asked about what she’s most excited about, as regards taking part in Processions, Eleri says, “Marching alongside modern women in Wales, [commemorating] our feisty, brave and loving female ancestors. Doing so on the streets of our beautiful city of Cardiff will be wonderful.”

Women’s rights have come a long way in 100 years – which, in the grand scheme of history, isn’t even exceptionally long. Yet the fight still carries on in this age of #MeToo and #TimesUp. Eleri adds: “We must continue with the strong voice give to us by the suffragettes and use its wonderful song so it can be heard, recognised, and accepted by all.” FEDOR TOT Processions will start at Cardiff City Football stadium, assembling at 12:15pm, and finish at Bute Park, Sun 10 June. Admission: free.

Info: www.processions.co.uk

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TIM KEY Perhaps most familiar to the casual comedy fan as Sidekick Simon on Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters, Tim Key has for a while now been one of Britain’s most imaginative, surreal standups, best known for his bizarre nonpoems. His latest show, Megadate supposedly includes “poeticals, standing, and Kronenbourg”, to name just three items on the list. But what is a Megadate, and what separates it from a standard night out with a prospective romantic partner?

“It’s a ridiculous, high octane and pretty much impossible date. It shouldn’t really work because of the laws of physics and time. It’s wilder than a standard date, certainly.”

Strange to think of it now, but when Tim Key started out in comedy in the late 90s, he was, he admits, terrible. Attempting a more conventional observational style, he says he still has flashbacks to horrible nights in Colchester and Bury St. Edmunds. “I was on the wrong track. I could have continued in that vein for years and not gotten anywhere. I walked away, broken, and then snuck back in with poems two years later. First gig with poems was ‘oh right, I can!’” – and up he went on his trajectory.

Today he works across comedy, acting and poetry. Initially, the choice to attempt all three was purely pragmatic. “When I was starting out I was unsuccessful at all three, but having these three horses in the race was useful as I trebled my chances of being able to eat that week.”

Now, it’s more of an escape. “If I’m going out of my mind having to read someone else’s lines or say the same thing every day, I can escape and write a shit poem or perform at some gig where you can say what you like.”

Key once described Sidekick Simon as the Didier Deschamps to Alan’s Zidane, the hard-working water carrier to Alan’s majestic elegance. What would Tim Key do if Alan headbutted someone in his final ever broadcast? “I think I’d stick by him. I’d be appalled but try not to show it. Bottom line, he’s my boss. Gotta back the guy up.” CARL MARSH Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Sat 23 + Sun 24 June; Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, Mon 25 June; Aberystywyth Arts Centre, Tue 26 June. Tickets: £16. Info: www.timkey.co.uk

A household name from the landscape of British journalism, Danny Baker’s four-decade career has led him to embody the notion of ‘been there, done that,’ having done everything from interviewing Michael Jackson to writing material for Kanye West. Recently, Baker’s taken to the stage to present his farewell tour, Good Time Charlie’s Back!, which sees him reflecting on his years in showbusiness.

Understandably, the tours are anything but a gentle stroll down memory lane. “I’m on stage for about three hours and I walk seven miles from side to side of the stage. It’s something I never planned on doing in all my life – to be a stage performer at the age of 60.”

When it comes to his tour, and what to expect, it appears there’s no set rules. “Every night is different, there’s no script. It takes me from when I left school to when I worked at a record shop. Elton John used to work at the same record shop before he became famous and then suddenly swept up into this huge thing with Rod Stewart and all these people.”

Reflecting on a journalistic career as diverse and eventful as his, it could seem that he has the key to getting into the business. Are there certain challenges facing young people aiming to become journalists?

“I’ve got absolutely no idea! I wouldn’t pontificate on that at all. I never trained or went to university. I left school at 14 to work in a record shop, and then me and my friend started a magazine when punk rock started, and then the NME asked me to join them. I’ve never applied for a job in my life, so I wouldn’t presume to tell people how to do it. I know working-class people don’t ever get asked to do it, but I’ve no idea. All I’ve ever had is this personality.”

Baker’s outlook on life is enviable. True to his word about his eternal optimism, he shows no sign of slowing down, or worrying about what’s next. “Don’t have a gap year, have a gap life. If you want, you can sit and look at your shoes and think ‘oh, isn’t everything terrible?’ or you can just get out there and rattle around – and that’s what I intend to do.” CHLOE EDWARDS Danny Baker – Good Time Charlie’s Back!, Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot, Wed 6 June. Tickets: £24.75 Info: 01639 7632 / www.npttheatres.co.uk

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RHIANNON LUCY COSSLETT Welsh journalist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s debut novel The Tyranny Of Lost Things is out in June, and when Buzz sits down to discuss the perils of debuts with the author, she admits to feeling trepidatious about the interview. “I've been steeling myself for the ‘So is it autobiographical?’ questions; it’s one that young women get asked particularly often – so it would be quite nice to be credited as an author of a work of fiction as opposed to just writing down what’s happened in your life!”

The novel, set during the 1980s and the riots of summer 2011, tells the story of Harmony, a university dropout haunted by nightmares who returns to the urban commune in which she grew up. Cosslett sees it as part of a tradition of coming-ofage novels where protagonists try to work out what makes them happy. “Harmony isn’t even at a point where she's acknowledging the possibility of happiness, because she's traumatized. A lot of the conversations with the older characters are about their idealism and what they hoped would bring happiness to society.”

The novel has had a long gestation, taking over four years to write. “It's something that was percolating in my head for a very long time. As a study of trauma it meant a lot to me, so it wasn't something I was going to bash out. I can’t work like that anyway – I don't have that discipline where I can sit down and say, ‘Today I will write 2,000 words.’ I’m in awe of people who can.”

In contrast to the much-discussed stranglehold of the privately-educated on the British media, Cosslett went to the same school as fellow journalist Ellie Mae O’Hagan, both having found national success. Does she feel like a role model for young people from Wales?

“I’ve been doing my best to try and mentor kids who come from those disadvantaged backgrounds to go into journalism or into writing as you really need the extra encouragement; it seems like such a closed-off world. Occasionally I might have some teenage girl come up to me and say, ‘You taught me so much about feminism when I was a teenager,’ and that is the most wonderful thing to hear. It beats any of the bad stuff.” DAVE WYN The Tyranny Of Lost Things is published on Thurs 21 June.

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MILES KANE Miles Kane has always been an anomaly of an artist – flamboyant in the spotlight but most known for being the quieter half of a side project with The Last Shadow Puppets, which cinematically captured the zeitgeist of the swinging 60s across two albums with his partner (and crooner) in crime, Alex Turner. Frustrated at times by his connection to the side project, Kane hopes to demolish that link with his third solo effort, Coup De Grace, due for release this summer.

Bristling with “fast, punky songs”, Coup De Grace is Kane’s most comprehensive collection thus far, radiating hues of punk and psychedelia but still peppered with the personality that gave him the title ‘Wirral Riddler’, simultaneously an ode to his hometown and his hubris.

It was the input and intuition of Jamie T that emboldened him to pen his latest body of work. “It couldn’t be more honest and to the point, both stylistically and lyrically,” he says. “I can’t speak highly enough of him. That whole process helped me – everything we did was from scratch. We’d just get in the room and jam on guitars, having a great time. He'd put a little drum beat up and within four hours we’d almost have a song finished.”

Bonafide perfectionist, it seems, is another title he upholds. His desire for utmost excellence seeps into both his working and everyday normalities. This disposition meant creating Coup De Grace became “too frantic” at times; following the demise of The Last Shadow Puppets, he found himself trapped in a lull.

“I think I tried to go into it too quickly. There was a moment that I found hard, finishing one thing and starting another. You get this slight panic, like, ‘what do you do now?’ You go back to the day job that you haven’t done for years and then you’re like, ‘I can’t even play the guitar now!’ It took me a minute to get my mojo back”. In laughing that statement off, he almost transcends his own secluded sense of self-awareness. From the outside, his response to this remark may seem surprising; after all, there are three certainties in life – death, taxes and Miles Kane's mojo. SOPHIE WILLIAMS Miles Kane, Tramshed, Cardiff, Fri 29 June. Tickets: £20 Info: 029 2023 5555 / tramshedcardiff.com BUZZ 28

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D I LY S P R I C E ‘Daredevil Dilys’ has broken world records and raised thousands for charity as a skydiver. Still wanting more at 85, Charlie Cottrell asks her for directions to the fountain of youth.

Dilys Price casts a remarkable figure not only for her daring exploits, but also for her ceaseless compassion. Holding the Guinness World Record for oldest female skydiver, Dilys has been pioneering in her efforts to provide help to those who need it most, founding Cardiff-based charity the Touch Trust, as well as raising thousands of pounds from her acclaimed skydiving escapades.

Your involvement with skydiving, which you are probably most famous for, is spectacular. It’s quite a niche activity for anyone to get into.

How did it come about for you?

I started skydiving at 54. I’m a dance lecturer and teacher, and although not a professional on the stage, I just love to dance. The point with skydiving being that I dance in the air! I got involved at 54 because my students had a club for children with additional needs, and we were running out of money. I said to them, “What you need to do is a parachute jump,” but if they were going to do it... I had to do it too.

Did you get nervous before your jumps?

Oh yes. I used to think, “If I eat too much I’ll be sick, if I eat too little I might faint.” But every time I came down, I wanted to go up again. I thought I’d give up when I was trained, but then I trained, and then I thought, “I’ll give up when I’ve done a

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hundred” – then of course I went on and I did a thousand. I’ve only given up now because I also accept that there is a finite life to one’s body.

Was the Guinness World Record ever a target for you, or did it just happen?

What really happened is that I retired, and I’d had a lovely life with lovely students, and I continued to love moving. But at the end of the day, we were raising money with the skydiving, with many older people who we were working with doing skydives too for The Touch Trust. So one of the reasons I didn’t give up, although I loved it, was because I thought “I can’t give up, we need the money!”

Keeping the money going has been good for me as well though, so it’s really a win-win.

You have often spoken about how passionately you feel about equality. What changes have you seen to women’s rights over time?

Well, women were second-class citizens. When I got divorced, I was in a situation where I didn’t know if I would I be able to get a mortgage for a house. And a little bit before my time, if a teacher got married then she had to give up work. It has been a man’s world, and there have been losses [because of that]. The best world is one where men and women both bring their talents and each talent is respected.

With these views and the things you’ve achieved later in life, how different are you to other people your age?

I’d say I’m an eccentric. I haven’t got the big car, the big house. But we’ve all got this flame in us, and we’ve got to keep that joy of life with us right until the end. I have a saying: “The bigger the pile of shit, the bigger the diamond in it.” And you have to go on until you find that diamond. And as we get older, we forget about the diamond.

Do you have any more gems of advice for us?

Well the other thing I tell myself, when I’m struggling to get out of bed or I’m feeling deflated, I say “If I fall off my bike, get back on and do wheelies”. And I think if there’s one piece of advice for youngsters, it would be to be robust. When you fall off your bike, get bloody back on and do wheelies!

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Info: www.skydiverdilys.co.uk www.touchtrust.co.uk Dilys is also taking part in Processions, Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff [starting point], Sun 10 June. Admission: free Info: www.processions.co.uk

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Big Pit Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru | Big Pit National Coal Museum

Gwledd Sul y Tadau Father’s Day FEASTival Ymunwch â ni yn Big Pit i fwynhau bwyd a diod,adloniant am ddim i’r teulu a paned a phicen am ddim i Dad.

Join us at Big Pit for food and drink stalls, free family entertainment, plus a free cuppa and welsh cake for Dad.

Teithiwch ar Reilffordd Pont-y-pŵl a Blaenafon, sydd am ddim i Dad*

Jump on board the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway where Dads ride free*.

Taith am ddim i Dad drwy Fragdy Rhymni a chyfle i fwynhau hanner peint o gwrw!*

A free Brewery Tour at Rhymney Brewery and a well-deserved free half of ale for Dad!*

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by Keiron Self

HEREDITARY ****

Dir: Ari Aster (18, 126 mins) An existential horror film that twists the gut, surprising and unsettling at every turn of its dread-inducing running time. Hereditary is a classy, uncomfortable experience with a fantastic central performance from Toni Collette, who plays Annie Graham, a conceptual artist who makes tiny creepy dolls which she then poses in scenes from her own life. There may be another macabre presence that is influencing her life, however: her sick mother Ellen, for whom she’s been caring, dies at the outset of the film, opening a massive can of potentially supernatural worms. Husband Gabriel Byrne and spliff-smoking teenage son Alex Wolff don’t know how to deal with the grief and the madness that the grandmother’s death unleashes. Then there’s daughter Charlie, played with discomforting sociopathy by Milly Shapiro. Creepiness builds whilst occult symbols, séances and Ann Dowd’s upbeat psychic add to the mix. The film is reliant on twists and jaw-dropping reveals so to give away too much more would spoil the proceedings. Writer/ director Aster has arrived on the scene with a confident shocker that definitely and defiantly scares but is also unafraid to allow time for character. Hereditary is admirably, truly horrific. Opens June 15

ADRIFT ***

Dir: Baltasar Kormakur (12A, 100 mins) Based on a true story, this seafaring adventure has couple Sam Claflin and Shailene Woodley, meeting, falling in love, and then sailing through a hurricane.

Avid sailors Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp decide to go on a boating journey of a lifetime: a 4,000-mile sail to California across the Pacific Ocean. So far, so lovey dovey. Unfortunately, they find themselves sailing straight into Hurricane Raymond and the romantic trip they had envisaged turns into a nightmare. Cue the giant CGI tidal waves! In the aftermath of the storm, Claflin is left incapacitated and it’s left to novice Woodley to try and salvage the ship and find a way back to land. Woodley and Claflin make a solid central duo, Icelandic director Kormakur has natural disaster and survivalist stories already on his CV, with the solid Everest, making this is a competently told story of resilience against all odds. Opens June 29

BOOK CLUB **

JURASSIC PARK – FALLEN KINGDOM ****

Dir: J.A. Bayona (12A, 120 mins) After the box office bonanza that was Jurassic World, a sequel was inevitable.

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, minus her high heels, are back, but this time they are on dino-rescue duties rather than simply running about screaming.

The theme park has been closed down on Isla Nebular for four years after peopleeating problems, the dinosaurs that were part of the attraction now living free.

A dormant volcano on the island has roared back into life, however, threatening inhabitants; Pratt’s Owen Grady is sent back to help capture the creatures, but soon uncovers a dastardly conspiracy to weaponise the beasts for military purposes. He finds his old velociraptor friend Blue and together with Howard, now head of the Dinosaur Protection Group, tries to preserve the species they brought back from extinction. What starts off epic becomes very claustrophobic as Grady and his nearest and dearest suffer a home invasion from the newest and deadliest manmade species of dinosaur: the Indoraptor. Nods to the past include a Jeff Goldblum cameo as original Jurassic Park chaos theoretician Dr Ian Malcolm, and a CGI T-Rex. A summer event movie without a superhero, and hopefully some nightmare-inducing scares, this will roar to success. Opens June 5

Dir: Bill Holderman (12A, 102 mins) Four old friends have their literary and private lives shaken up after reading Fifty Shades Of Grey in their book club. Oh dear. This is a criminal waste of the talents involved: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen are worthy of far better material, but do what they can with the wafer-thin premise and ageing hijinks om offer. They are four women who think their days of sex and new relationships are behind them, when E.L. James’ appalling book reawakens their libidos and they pair off with new beaus. Fonda gets Don Johnson, Keaton gets Andy Garcia, Bergen gets Richard Dreyfuss and Steenburgen gets a new lease of life with hubby Craig T. Nelson. Although the message is a positive one – there is potential for love after a certain age – it’s glibly handled, despite the best efforts of the capable cast and another plug for a shoddy bit of erotica.

Opens June 1

IN THE FADE ***

Dir: Fatih Akin (18, 106 mins) A compelling lead performance from Diane Kruger, in her first film in her native German, anchors this terrorism drama. While often compelling, it does veer into well-worn territory. Kruger plays Katja, married to a Turkish born ex-drug dealer, played by Numan Acar with whom she has a six-year-old boy, Rafael Santana. They are a happy family ripped apart by a terrorist nailbomb. A neo-Nazi group has destroyed her husband’s office, killing him and their son, whilst she is away enjoying herself at a spa. Obviously devastated, Kruger is determined to get justice, but her journey is a harrowing one, dealing with prejudice and suicidal thoughts until a pair of neo-Nazis are arrested. A rote courtroom drama with stereotypical supporting characters follows, yet Kruger remains the anchor for the film, portraying the anguish of loss and the desire for revenge well and showing the true cost of terrorism.

Opens June 22

ALSO RELEASED JUNE 2018: MY FRIEND DAHMER (15) Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was at school once – this is about that. Based on Dahmer’s friend John Backderf ’s graphic novel, this shows Dahmer messing about in class, then going home to torture animals, asking “what shaped the killer?” This offers no real answers. PATRICK (PG) A pug bequeathed to her by her grandmother brings joy to Beattie Edmondson’s singleton in this Britcom. THE BOOK SHOP (PG) Emily Mortimer opens a bookshop in a rural village in 1959 and finds herself at the receiving end of some political outrage. Bill Nighy co-stars in solid Brit drama. ZOO (PG) Family film has plucky Irish kids tr ying to BUZZ 32

OCEAN’S 8 ****

Dir: Gary Ross (12A, 140 mins) The initial remake of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack’s Ocean’s 11 by Steven Soderbergh was a slick, cool-as-ice, jaunty heist caper with George Clooney and Brad Pitt leading a star-studded cast, after which two less than super sequels happened. This Ocean has a complete gender change, with Sandra Bullock playing George Clooney’s estranged sister Debbie Ocean, leaving prison and promising to go straight. A lie of course. Instead she decides to rob the New York Met Gala, and to get past the hi-tech security she’s obviously going to need a crack team.

Cate Blanchett is right-hand woman Lou, Helena Bonham Carter is stylist Rose, Rihanna is hacker Nine Ball, the excellent Sarah Paulson is homemaker and fence Tammy, Awkwafina is street-con artist Constance and Mindy Kaling is jewel expert Amita. Anne Hathaway’s movie star Daphne Kluger is the target of the heist, or rather the diamond necklace she is sporting. Cameos abound, with Matt Damon sneaking in as a left-over from the original 11; Dakota Fanning and Damian Lewis are on baddie duties and, unfortunately, Peter Rabbit voicer James Corden also features. Another exercise in cool with a decidedly female take, this should be smooth, funny and sharp, a welcome caper to savour. Out June 22

LEAVE NO TRACE ****

Dir: Debra Granik (PG, 108 mins) Debra Granik, the director who launched Jennifer Lawrence into the stratosphere with her first feature Winter’s Bone, returns after an eight-year narrative hiatus with another drama, this time about a father and daughter. Ben Foster plays a former military man suffering from post-traumatic stress and living with his 13-year-old daughter, an excellent Thomasin McKenzie, in an off-the-grid encampment in an Oregon national park. However, when they are discovered, society imposes its rules upon them, something the daughter embraces, the father less so. The film slowly and steadily builds their relationship up and then shows how it needs to change. It’s a slow-burn of a coming-of-age tale with great performances from Foster and McKenzie; treated with compassion but without judgement. This is stronger than last year’s similarly themed Captain Fantastic and far richer.

Opens June 29

SUPERTROOPERS 2 **

SICARIO 2 : SOLDADO ****

Dir: Stefano Sollima (15, 110 mins) An unlikely sequel to the nailbiting thriller from Denis Villeneuve that gripped everyone back in 2015. The war on drugs on the US/Mexican border has got even dirtier and even more morally complex. Emily Blunt’s character is gone, leaving Benicio Del Toro to take centre stage as Alejandro Gillick, enlisted by the CIA in collaboration with Josh Brolin’s returning Matt Graver, to prevent Mexican drug cartels smuggling jihadi terrorists across the border. The duo capture the daughter of a Mexican drug lord (played by Isabela Moner), in a move designed to incite a war amongst the rival drug cartels and cripple them. Inevitably things do not go to plan, as the Mexican government discovers the subterfuge and all hell breaks loose. Brolin’s CIA man decides that Moner must be killed to cover their tracks, which Del Toro refuses to do, becoming a hunted man, trying to evade the many factions now after him. Whilst the first film was taut and dense, this has a wider scope, still full of duplicitous double-dealing and a classy supporting cast with Catherine Keener and Matthew Modine playing superiors with dubious morals.

Brolin provides good growl and Del Toro brings brutality and soulfulness under Gomorrah director Sollima; a worthy successor to the original. Opens June 29

Dir: Jay Chandrasekhar (15, 99 mins) Remember 2001 comedy Supertroopers? Nope? Not surprising: it wasn’t very good. Yet the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe, who made that film, have since been gifted cult status and so a belated and unwarranted sequel has happened. Supposedly an 80s comedy nostalgia-fest, this is less effective than Police Academy 6. The Broken Lizard quintet are supposedly top-notch American lawmen, who are actually druggedup lowlives who like to make cat sounds. They are dispatched to Canada when one of its border towns is realigned to become part of Vermont, pitting the asinine Supertroopers against some similarly angsty Canadian law enforcers. There are a lot of moustaches, a lot of lazy, cheesy jokes – including gags about the silliness of speaking French and the shaving of testes, with none of them being funny. The troopers weren’t super to begin with and this retread unfortunately demotes them further. Opens June 15

THE HAPPY PRINCE ****

Dir: Rupert Everett (15, 105 mins) The last days of Oscar Wilde are reimagined by director Rupert Everett, who relishes recounting his final few years. After his libel trial against the Marquess of Queensberry – with whose son Bosie Wilde had an affair with – his imprisonment in Reading Gaol and release to an exiled life in Paris, Wilde was a broken man. Nevertheless, he re-embarks on his love affair with Bosie, played with glee by Colin Morgan, but his life is now one of squalor and illness rather than frippery and plaudits. Friends Robbie Ross (Edwin Thomas) and Reggie Turner (Colin Firth) attempt to come to his aid but they are rebuffed. His wife Constance, played by Emily Watson, cuts him off from any money, leaving him in the gutter looking up at the stars, recounting his fairytale The Happy Prince to rent boys he encounters. In Everett’s hands, Wilde discovers redemption, raging at his fall from grace but still blessed with his indomitable wit. Opens June 15

save a baby elephant during the German air-raid bombings of 1941, based on a true stor y. Trumpety trump. McKELLEN: PLAYING THE PART (PG) The man who was Gandalf and Magneto together with many others reveals all about his life in this engaging documentar y. L’AMANT DOUBLE (15) Francois Ozon’s latest thriller involves doubles, and unhinged psychology, or does it? Top notch erotic psycho-drama. ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (15) Marion Cotillard stars in this drama about a filmmaker, played by Mathieu Amalric, whose life is turned upside down when an old lover reappears on the scene. C ’est la vie. McQUEEN (15) Documentar y about the controversial fashion designer.

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S A R A H P H I L P O T T: THE OCCASIONAL VEGAN With her new cookbook The Occasional Vegan out now, Mel Lynch speaks to self-described down-to-earth vegan Sarah Philpott about cooking, the dangers of clean eating and militant veganism.

With over 3.5 million people in the UK now identifying as vegan, and seven million of us having switched to a vegetarian diet, 2018 has revealed the nation’s plant-based tendencies. Upon turning 30, Sarah Philpott fancied shaking up her life, so took the plunge to switch to veganism practically overnight.

However, for those curious to try veganism, she doesn’t suggest going cold turkey – cold cauliflower, if you will – as the only way to make the change.

“Take it easy and don’t be too hard on yourself if you’re doing it gradually; don’t think that you have to do it overnight. I know I did myself, but you could slowly introduce things like oat or soy milk instead of cow’s milk, or just start eating meat once a week and gradually reduce it.”

Whilst veganism is the latest trend to sweep our Instagram feeds, with ‘influencers’ practically foaming at the mouth over all things avocado, Philpott is adamant that it’s not just a fad. “I don’t think it will fade out, I think it’s a shift in behaviour.

If anything, it will get more and more fashionable.”

The accessibility of vegan options in supermarkets and restaurants across south Wales is something she has noticed become steadily more prevalent. “There are vegan options in most independent places and there are some places that are solely vegan. There’s a lot of choice out there which there wasn’t a few years ago.”

Finding success through her blog, Vegging It, Philpott’s style of no-nonsense veganism has resonated with many in the community. Whilst acknowledging the existence of militant vegans, she is a huge advocate of the good the online vegan community does in terms of support and encouragement for those starting out. “Despite what people think, we are nice... we’re actually really welcoming, we’re not here to preach at you and we’re not going to judge you.”

To the continual eye-roll of vegans, the nutritional implications of the diet are often brought into discussion, “My mum was concerned that I wouldn’t get enough protein and iron,” recalls Philpott, of her experience ‘coming out’ as a full-time veg fiend to friends and family. “The only thing you can’t get from vegetables and nuts is B12, so I do take a supplement for that.” However, the image of uber-healthy greens for every meal isn’t entirely accurate. “It is possible as a vegan to be very unhealthy: you can just eat vegan junk food. Don’t get me wrong, I do eat vegan junk food, but I like to have a balance.”

Actively distancing herself from the ‘west London daddy’s girls’ vegan stereotype, Philpott rejects the notion that veganism has to be pricey. “I think it’s just knowing that stuff doesn’t have to be really expensive, like chia seeds or avocado on toast at a fancy café for brunch every day. It’s real food.”

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eating’ go hand in hand with the fruitarian lifestyle, but she suggests these terms may be doing more harm than good.

“When I first went vegan the idea of clean eating was quite appealing for me, but it’s actually quite dangerous because it means that you can become quite fixated with what you eat. I don’t think that any food is good or bad or ‘clean’ or ‘unclean’.”

Philpott’s mantra for veganism is “Do what you can and do what suits your lifestyle, your budget and

your body as well.” Her new vegan cookbook The Occasional Vegan stresses the importance of taking a balanced approach to eating, and it’s hard to argue with that.

The Occasional Vegan, out now.

Price: £12.99. Info: www.serenbooks.com/ productdisplay/occasional-vegan

pic: Jason Leung

OF THE BEST STEAK HOUSES

Steak, or mis-steak? Often, there’s a fine line between hit and miss when it comes to British brasseries.

Charlie Cottrell nudges you carnivores in the direction of the finest spots in south Wales.

MADEIRA

Tucked on the peripheries of Cardiff city centre, Maderia’s humble exterior conceals a well-lit, hearty dining space for both meat and fish lovers. Moderately priced steaks and an extremely welcoming body of staff make it a real treat for those looking to step away from the countless eateries on St Mary Street.

1 & 2 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff Info: 029 2066 7705 / www.madeirarestaurante.co.uk

THE BLUE BALL

Word of mouth has spread far and wide about The Blue Ball, and for good reason.

The restaurant sources their meat from local prize-winning butchers, and with a homely and unpretentious brick-wall interior, Tenby can proudly boast one of the finest steak houses in the land.

Upper Frog Street, Tenby Info: 01834 843038 / www.theblueballrestaurant.co.uk

LA BRASERIA

YELLOW SPLIT PEA AND COCONUT DAAL Words Alison Powell Cheap, healthy and tasty – this daal ticks so many boxes, so if you’re looking to eat healthy this is perfect.

INGREDIENTS (serves 4) • 2x tbsp of olive oil (or other vegetable or coconut oil) • 4 cloves of garlic • 250g yellow split peas • 1x 400ml tin of coconut milk • 3 medium sized onions • 1 x tsp salt (ideally sea salt) and a grind of black pepper • 500ml vegetable stock (feel free to use a stock cube) • 2x tsp turmeric • 1x tsp ground ginger • 1x tsp ground cumin • Chilli – to personal taste • 1x heaped tbsp panch phoron (this is a spice mix)

Donning an elegantly rustic feel, La Braseria is right under the nose of Swansea residents, located on the famous Wind Street. Offering a mighty selection of wine as well as a seductive midweek set dinner menu, there are countless draws to this popular city centre spot, with the numerous steak options being high on the list.

28 Wind Street, Swansea Info: 01792 469683 / www.labraseria.com

HOW TO

CAESARS

3. Add the peeled and crushed garlic, turmeric, ginger, cumin and chilli and cook for a minute.

aesars is located in the idyllic, rural spot of Creigiau. Less than 10 miles from Cardiff city centre, this family-run countryside brasserie has cemented itself as a real favourite among the locals, which is surely the highest endorsement possible. The wonderful setting, eclectic menu and accommodating staff are all indicative of why so many first-timers quickly become regulars.

Heol Creigiau, Cardiff Info: 029 2089 0486 / www.caesarsarms.com

SIXTEEN BRASSERIE

In the safe hands of award-winning chef Steve White, Sixteen Brasserie opened its doors in November of last year. Since then, the bar has been set very high due to their high-quality food and service, with the various selections of beef gathering much praise. Also boasting an impressive gin selection, with over 200 to choose from, Newport has got itself a real gem here.

Clarence House, Clarence Place, Newport Info: 01633 449948 / www.sixteennewport.com

1. Leave the yellow split peas to soak in a bowl of tap-warm water whilst you prep onions.

2. Roughly dice one and a half of the onions and cook them gently in a pot for 5-6 minutes with 1 tablespoon of the oil.

Don’t let them burn, you’re softening, not charring them.

4. Drain the peas and add to the pan with the salt and pepper, coconut milk and stock. Bring to the boil. Then reduce to a simmer for 30-40 minutes until the split peas are tender, stirring occasionally to ensure it doesn’t stick.

5. After about 20 minutes, add the panch phoron and stir through.

6. Slice the remaining onion and in a separate pan, gently cook in the remaining oil until they are soft. This could take about 10 minutes.

7. To serve, pile the daal in to a bowl, top with some of the fried onions and add a dollop of creamy yogurt. Naan or chapati is great for dunking. @ASPwriter

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ARBENNIG / TOMMY HEANEY

JUNE FOODIE FOCUS Elouise Hobbs searches out the best foodie events across South Wales in June, including a filmic treat in Swansea and a pop-up market at St. Fagans.

Food and Wine Taster Experience, Cathedral 73, Cardiff, Fri 15 June The Orangery Restaurant at Cathedral 73 Boutique Hotel is renowned for its creative, indulgent menu and now they have opened up their doors for special evening of food and wine tasting. On the night, guests will be welcomed with a signature cocktail before being treated to a five-course tasting menu. Dishes will include foraged nettle soup with edible flowers, slow roasted caramelised pear with honey caviar and sea bass with samphire and lemon foam. Alongside the food, participants will be hosted by Gilbert Viader, the in-house wine connoisseur, who will guide everyone though the accompanying wines.

Price: £42.50. Info: www.cathedral73.com

Brunch Unearthed, Stretchy Suzie’s, Cardiff, Sun 24 June Brunch usually conjures ideas of overindulgent breakfast dishes washed down with Bloody Marys and prosecco. But now, the people behind Brunch Unearthed are helping to rewrite the rulebook and provide a great alternative that is all vegan and refined sugar-free. The dishes served here will range from hearty salads to guilt-free sweet treats, with lots of intolerance-friendly food. Alongside the main course, there’s also going to be a great chance to meet and with others who are interested in eating a natural diet and best of all, every guest leaves with a goody bag containing tasty treats and wellness products.

Price: £25.39. Info: www.stretchysuzies.com

Walk With Me with Govinda’s Cafe, Cinema & Co, Castle St, Swansea, Mon 7 June It’s time for a cinematic experience with a culinary difference. Walk With Me [pictured], directed by Max Pugh and Marc James Francis, follows Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, who practices the art of mindfulness in an isolated monastery, narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. And, what better way to enjoy this than with food from Govinda’s? The local vegetarian and vegan café is hosting a buffet style pop-up kitchen to go with the film, making it a truly immersive experience.

Tickets: £8.50-£16. Info: www.cinemaco.co.uk

St Fagans Real Food Market, National History Museum, St Fagans, Sat 16 June Hosted at one of Europe’s largest open-air museums, St Fagans Real Food Market is the latest addition to Cardiff’s growing range of farmers and fresh markets. This pop-up food market is set to welcome nearly 20 of Cardiff’s best local food producers. In the past, the market has hosted everyone from Pettigrew Bakery to Penrhiw Farm Organic Meats and Shirley’s Raw Chocolate. Alongside the delicious edible delights, the food market also plays host to some amazing beverage stalls including Manumit Coffee Roasters, Afal y Graig Cider and Bang On Brewery. And, once finished with the food market, there is always the option of exploring the grounds of the museum and enjoying a picnic in the beautiful grounds.

Admission: free. Info: www.museum.wales

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Pontcanna-based Arbennig has been Cardiff’s leading provider of fine dining since opening three years ago, having achieved the capital’s highest score in the Good Food Guide every year since. So when news broke that the owners were moving on, there was dismay amongst the foodie community – but, when God closes a door and all that…

And through that window stepped Tommy Heaney. Heaney has an admirable reputation of his own, through his Laleston-based restaurant, and his performances on Great British Menu. He promises to maintain the high standards of Arbennig’s previous occupants, and the reopening – slated for July – will undoubtedly be on the radar of culinary enthusiasts.

6-10 Romilly Crescent, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

Info: 01656 657644 / www.tommyheaney.com

SMALL BAR INTO CRAFTY DEVIL For Cardiff’s craft beer fans, Small Bar on Church Street has been another welcome addition to the city, so the news that they were looking to have someone take on their lease worried most hipster-bearded boozers.

Stuck at a crossroads, help appears to have arrived in the form of Crafty Devil, whose crowdfunded bar Beelzebubs has been stuck in limbo for months now, due to issues with negotiations. Whilst many will miss Small Bar, the presence of Crafty Devil in its place will no doubt make many very happy. What the devil taketh with one hand, he giveth with the other.

17 Church St, Cardiff.

Info: www.craftydevilbrewing.co.uk

THE BUSH INN

St Hilary, nr Cowbridge. 01446 776888 / www.bushinn-sthilary.com Food **** Atmosphere **** Off the A48 just before Cowbridge, hidden at the bottom of a country lane on a bend, is The Bush Inn, a delightful country pub serving great food, real ales and homecooked fayre. Owners Liz and Andy are on hand pretty much all the time, serving up lovingly prepared food and their famous homecooked pies.

Talking of pies, the Bush is renowned for their many varieties, of which there are up to ten to choose from: salmon, prawns in a tomato sauce with “a few chillies”, 8oz fillet of beef with pate, onions and mushrooms, and chicken Cotswold with bacon and stilton. Our choices, amongst the many, were chicken Monte Cristo with spinach, ham and cheddar in a rich tomato sauce and, for myself, a delicious fish pie in a flaky pastry top. All pies come with a choice of potatoes and seasonal veg, and some with an additional sauce. We shared a salted caramel chocolate pot with a honeycomb and biscuit base, which is as delicious as it sounds. On the day we visited, slow-roasted pork belly served on a bed of mash – what else? – and a rich jus, a ballotine of chicken and pan-fried hake were on offer.

The Bush Inn also hosts the village cycling team, one which appears to have been formed by a couple of blokes casually chatting over a few drinks at the bar several years ago, and which has now mushroomed into a 35-strong team that regularly embarks on trips and tours. (New members are welcome, so keep an eye on the website.) A 16th century inn which has retained its original charm, immaculate thatched roof, flag stone floors, beautiful inglenook fireplaces – and, I’m sure, some of the locals. It was even featured in the BBC’s Sherlock a few years back, I’m informed. You would be hard pressed to find a more welcoming and comfortable place to enjoy traditional ales, a packet of pork scratchings and good banter with the locals.

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MORAWELON WATERFRONT CAFÉ BAR & RESTAURANT

Parrog, Newport, Pembrokeshire. 01239 820565 Food **** Atmosphere **** This tucked-away little restaurant on a Pembrokeshire beachfront is a real little gem in a part of the country full of them. The town of Newport slopes away into the sea gradually, with the centre being crammed full of little country pubs and the harbourside opening out onto a stunning beach that shifts dramatically with tides. The day we went, the weather was temperamental – as we entered, it was perfectly sunny, if not altogether warm, but as we left the weather turned positively thunderous. No matter – this part of the country is beautiful whatever the weather; the cosy but occasionally beige décor of the inside of Morawelon is more than trumped by the views outside.

The food on offer was routinely good around, with a menu of quality pub food – nothing fancy, and everything we sampled was done well. Price-wise, it’s nothing too dear, most of the mains around £10 to £15, and service also very friendly.

Our choice on this trip was a shared crab bisque, with croutons, which was full of flavour – crab can be an overpoweringly strong ingredient, and it was balanced excellently here.

The mains chosen were smoked haddock with eggs and spinach, and a roast leg of lamb. The lamb was very good, if a little bit too watery at times, although the roast potatoes and salad were wonderful. The smoked haddock was the real winner here, hitting the sweet spot between the natural saltiness of haddock, infused with its smokiness, but also the lightness of the eggs and spinach working in with the meal. I only regret that it was my partner that ordered it and not me.

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YAKITORI #1

Unit 10, Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. 029 2049 5050 / www.yakitoricardiff. co.uk/ Food **** Atmosphere *** In the past few years, Mermaid Quay has lost a lot of footfall to central Cardiff as a result of St. David’s Centre, not helped by extortionate parking and the sense that area is being given over to big chain restaurants and cafes rather than local businesses. Still, it remains one of the city’s premier dining spots, with a number of restaurants serving food from all four corners of the globe between them.

One of the best is Yakitori #1. Japanese food tends to be on the expensive side, particularly sushi; Yakitori perhaps costs slightly more than average, but the food here is absolutely worth the price.

A variety of sushi, gyoza, and a beef skewer formed our party of four’s starter, averaging about £5. The sushi and gyoza were fresh and presented with care, whilst the beef skewer was exceptionally succulent – some of the most well-cooked beef I’ve ever had the pleasure to taste. The mains were all equally excellent. Most of my party ordered variations of noodles with seafood, duck, or chicken, while I went with ramen beef (all between £12-£17). Again superb, the broth was just the right level of spiciness.

The décor of Yakitori is a little faceless, and it’s not quite in the ideal location in the Bay for gazing out the window. However, something about the Mermaid Quay buildings means that most phones don’t get any signal inside, which is a blessing: people actually have to talk to each other. Even if unintended, this extra touch ensures that Yakitori’s atmosphere is at least full of people engaging in conversation. FEDOR TOT BUZZ 37

Pic: Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos

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JENNIFER TAYLOR: TIME-SEA

Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan Sat 16 June-Sun 15 July Jennifer Taylor is a Welsh performance artist who specialises in absurdist scenes, usually featuring people in morph suits in surreal, almost dystopian situations. Currently based in Cardiff, Taylor uses remote, apocalyptic environments combined with live actors to create her pieces, which are thought-provoking to say the least.

She recently put on a reenactment of the Lupercalia in Rome, an ancient Roman festival (with roots in preRoman times) that is meant to purify the city. Her previous work includes a litany of such surreal exhibitions and performances; her latest work will be on display at Theatr Mwldan in Cardigan, with a special closing performance on the final day. No details have yet been released about exactly what the exhibition will feature, apart from the enigmatic title of the piece, Time-Sea. The small but unmistakeably beautiful seaside town of Cardigan may be a far cry from the drama and chaos of Rome, but Taylor’s exhibition fits well with Mwldan’s brave programming – evidence that, even in the most tucked away places, if you build something worth exploring, people will come.

Admission: free. Info: 01239 621200 / www.mwldan.co.uk (TH)

Karen Williams sea oak and whelk necklace

Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay Wed 6-Fri 29 June In the universe of British cities, Cardiff is very much a star on the rise, having transformed into a thriving, cosmopolitan entity in the last 20 years. However, for Gemma Jayne Paine, Cardiff’s seismic changes have had an undesirable impact on the architecture of the city. In her latest exhibition, the artist attempts to encapsulate this architectural shift from elegant, Victorian buildings to contemporary, towering structures.

Whilst the focus is on the city, the exhibition is in equal parts a visual manifestation of the personal and artistic changes Paine has undergone since she first began in the late 90s.

Paine first dipped an apprehensive toe into the cityscape pool when studying a Foundation Art and Design course.

It wasn’t long before she had fully immersed herself in the genre, allowing her to move beyond emulating the work of others, to manufacturing her own unique creations. A descendent of Folmer Bendtsen, a Danish artist and former rag and bone man, Paine’s work appears to be a merger of both her ancestor’s trades, with an emphasis on the inclusion of found objects in her creations.

Admission: free. Info: 0845 0105500 / www.pierhead.org (RF)

Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran Sat 2 June-Sat 21 July Residing in Abertillery all his life, Roger Cecil (1942-2015) quietly forged a lasting impression with his approach to painting. From the outset, Cecil was uninterested in breaking into the inner circles of the art world. He rejected a scholarship to London’s Royal College Of Art, unwilling to have his work homogenised, as he believed was inevitable for art school attendees. Such an attitude prompted a BBC documentary that branded him ‘The Quiet Rebel’.

Spending his life residing in the tranquillity of solitude, Cecil lived in the family home of his late parents, Charles and Hilda. His placidity, and love of the gritty, rural surroundings of his hometown, is reflected in his predominantly abstract work. Often exploring unorthodox materials in his painting – plaster, car-body filler and grate blacking – he consistently aired his uniquely creative flare. Through the sensual use of pinks, yellows and oranges amongst these household materials, Cecil demonstrated that he really was endowed with a profound intelligence and subtlety as a colourist.

Though making occasional sales throughout his career, Cecil often had to take on labouring jobs to keep his head above water financially. But the economic benefits of artistic success were never the driving force behind Cecil’s work, and he was certainly not inclined to forge connections for the benefit of business. When the BBC returned to Cecil in 2008 to follow up on their original documentary, he told them: “I always think my work’s not that good. What do they want it for?”

Like so many artists, Cecil was perpetually plagued by self-doubt. However, the work displayed at Llantarnam Grange for this exhibition demonstrates that though his modesty may have been restrictive, his talent was truly extraordinary. This exhibition will display the best of Cecil’s body of work, including some previously unseen jewellery and 3D pieces. CHARLIE COTTRELL Admission: free. Info: 01633 483321 / www.lgac.org.uk

Pic: Dave Daggers

Tim Pugh

GEMMA JAYNE PAINE: A RETROSPECTIVE: CARDIFF BAY & BEYOND

ROGER CECIL

MAKERS MERGE WALES / SOUTH TYROL

Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay Sat 30 June-Sun 19 Aug Sitting discreetly amongst the Italian Alps, bordering Austria, lies South Tyrol. From an area with such a strong cultural legacy resonating through the art community, curator Gabi Veit has plucked several artists to be hosted in the Welsh capital by the Makers Guild In Wales. Co-ordinated by Veit and Beate Gegenwart, Makers Guild members and South Tyrolean artists are paired together.

As well as organising the exhibition, Veit and Gegenwart are contributors; Veit’s contemporary nods to naturalism in her craft will no doubt be integrated in her collaboration with Snowdonia-based silversmith Rauni Higson. Meanwhile, Gegenwart links up with Othmar Prenner, an artist and sculptor whose portfolio spans from artisan pine boxes and containers, to the conversion of his South Tyrol alpine farmhouse into a parquet-infused work of supreme modern art. Shelley Doolan and Alessandra Piazza will capitalise on the naturally-lit exhibition space to present their striking glass work, whilst Karen Williams returns to this gallery after her successful Christmas exhibition in 2015.

Admission: free. Info: 029 2048 4611 / www.makersguildinwales.org.uk (CC)

MAURICE SELDEN: RALLY PHOTOGRAPHY

Andrew Lamont Gallery, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon Thurs 28 June-Mon 20 Aug Since his first rally in Morocco in 1973, Maurice Selden’s motorsport photography tenure has spanned 45 years and nearly 450 World Rally Championships. This summer, Theatr Brycheiniog is exhibiting the finest captures of one of the sport’s photography heavyweights, with images ranging from the intimate to the outrageous. Now retired, the Llandybieborn photographer has previously contributed to the popular Pirelli World Rallying annuals, as well as countless other publications and exhibitions.

Now, Selden’s best photographs will be presented in their entirety, seeking to showcase the thrills, atmosphere and colour that encompass his photographic prowess.

Transcending the boundaries between motorsport and aesthetic beauty, Selden has been consistent in his endeavour to expose the beauty of the surrounding landscapes of rally courses across the world. In capturing both the breathtaking speed of the races and their rural or rustic environments in which the courses often take place, Selden’s work candidly embodies the ironic contrast of its subject.

Admission: free. Info: 01874 611622 / www.brycheiniog.co.uk (CC)

Arddangosfa am ddim 無料展覧会 Free exhibition Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd

National Museum Cardiff

Parc Cathays, Caerdydd CF10 3NP amgueddfa.cymru/kizuna

Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP museum.wales/kizuna

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OPEN AIR THEATRE FESTIVAL

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Thu 21 June-Sat 28 July Cardiff’s Everyman Theatre has long been at the heart of lively and exciting theatre in the Welsh capital, placing a high value on its role in the city – for example, the company was instrumental in the opening of Chapter Arts Centre in the 1970s. Today, Everyman is currently gearing up for its annual Open Air Theatre Festival, now in its 35th year.

The festival began in 1983 with a production of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, and since then the event has gradually snowballed over the years, now attracting over 15,000 visitors. Running against the backdrop of the city centre’s luscious Sophia Gardens, the festival prides itself on its rich programme with something to please every demographic.

The festival opens with its chosen Shakespeare production, and audiences this year can enjoy The Merchant Of Venice, a comedy of love, power and revenge.

Additionally, Everyman’s Youth Theatre are later presenting one of the playwright’s most beloved tragedies, King Lear. For those hoping for something lighter, the Walmington-On-Sea platoon of Dad’s Army will be heading to Sophia Gardens in a specially-adapted run of the much-loved sitcom in July. For little theatre-goers, families can enjoy daytime performances of Seussical Jr, a ‘madcap musical’ featuring the Cat In The Hat and other favourite Dr. Seuss characters.

The festival is far from limited with its musical offerings. The heart-warming Fiddler On The Roof is the perfect summer evening entertainment, and Hello Cabaret In The Park will showcase a collection of treasured musical theatre moments. Alongside Stand Up In The Park’s evening of comedy in support of Amnesty International’s Cardiff group and a singalong screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, visitors can enjoy on-site food and drink thanks to The Grazing Shed and the Festival Bar. CHLOE EDWARDS Tickets: prices vary. Info: 0333 6663366 / www.cardiffopenairtheatrefestival. co.uk Pic: Northedge Photography

ME & MY BEE

Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Fri 29 + Sat 30 June Unsure of your political alliance or which party to join? Well, suspend that uncertainty for an hour in Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre while you join the Bee Party. Learn how to save the world while Me & My Bee buzzes around the UK on its national tour.

Created and performed by multi-awardwinning theatre company, ThisEgg, Me & My Bee is one of many of their successful family comedies, and it’s intended to showcase just how large an impact our “fuzzy little friends” have on the environment.

Between the delightful hosting duo of Josie Dale-Jones and Greta Mitchell, joined by the bee-leotard-wearing Joe Boylan, we can expect the usual mixture of humour, emotion and critical engagement with the world for which the theatre company has become acclaimed, all in a way that leaves the audience hopeful for a better world, rather than depressed by the prospects of a dying one.

The best productions for children are those that are entertaining and educational without making them feel like they’ve been tricked into watching a nature documentary... with bonus points if it’s enjoyable for adults, too.

Tickets: £9. Info: 029 2064 6900 / www. shermantheatre.co.uk (MT) BUZZ 40

OFFSIDE

The Riverfront, Newport Tue 12 June ‘A glorious tale of struggle and sweat’ perhaps isn’t the usual selling point for most dramas, but Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish’s bold production of Offside isn’t like most productions.

A tale of football and feminism, this one-night stop at Newport’s Riverfront Theatre isn’t one to miss.

Acclaimed during its Edinburgh Fringe run, the production portrays the lives of four women across three centuries – beginning in 1892, touching down in 1921 in the midst of the suffrage movement before ending in the presentday 2018. Despite its connections to the past, the play’s theme and message is by no means history, and as each of the four women in the story face different obstacles and live different lives, they come to realise just how much the beautiful game has the ability to change their stories and the world around them.

Praised by the likes of actress Emma Thompson and broadcaster Clare Balding, the show will be followed by a question-and-answer session chaired by panel specialists featuring Sarah Powell, Chief Executive of Sports Wales. Welcoming questions about the performance, sport and women in sport, the session is the perfect way to round off this production.

Admission: £11-13. Info: 01633 656679 / www.futurestheatre.co.uk (CE)

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL CURTAIN

New Theatre, Cardiff Mon 25-Sat 30 June Whether you know him thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch or Robert Downey Jr, or maybe even from the classic Basil Rathbone films, Sherlock Holmes remains a rich character for adaptations in whatever medium. In Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain we are presented with a different Sherlock than we’re used to. No longer at 221B Baker Street, he is instead retired and living on the south coast of Britain. But as ever, a mystery unravels, and Sherlock is forced out of retirement to solve it. The play centres around Sherlock’s paranoia, as he grows older and fears his enemies could take advantage of his old age.

The case, brought to him by Mary Watson, the wife of his former partner, forces him to face his demons.

The play stars Robert Powell, who received a BAFTA nomination for his performance as the title role in Jesus Of Nazareth, and Liza Goddard as Mary Watson. Written by Simon Reade with direction by David Grindley, who has worked with Powell before on Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell and Single Spies, this current UK tour is bound to bring a heft of mystery to Cardiff.

Tickets: £16-£36. Info: 029 2087 8889 / www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk (TH)

THE WOLF TATTOO

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wed 20Sat 30 June; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Tue 3 + Sat 4 July Company Of Sirens are renowned for bringing acclaimed stylistic and contemporary plays to Wales, and here they return with a new play written by Lucy Gough. Set in a concrete wasteland and centered around two characters, Graf and Rose, The Wolf Tattoo is about the dangers of gang culture and violence towards the vulnerable.

As of late May, more than 60 people have been killed in London since the start of 2018. With violent crime currently on the rise in parts of the UK, this play should be no less relevant than the company’s past productions. Under the direction of Chris Durnall, The Wolf Tattoo premieres at Chapter for 10 performances before visiting Aberystwyth in early July.

Lucy Gough is not short of credits either, having written extensively for television, radio and theatre. She is a published writer, working on stage commissions for National Theatre Wales, Theatr lolo and Sherman Cymru. The track record of both Gough and Company Of Sirens ensures that The Wolf Tattoo looks like a great addition to the Welsh theatre calendar over an already packed summer.

Tickets: £12/£10 (Cardiff); £6-£10 (Aberystwyth). Info: 029 2020 4400 / www.chapter.org (Cardiff); 01970 623232 / www.aberystwythartscentre. co.uk (Aberystwyth) (TH)

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DJ FETT BURGER

Beat Alliance @ Level 2, Kongs, Cardiff Fri 15 June Promoters Beat Alliance’s first event will start with a bang thanks to a headline set by Norwegian-born, Berlin-based DJ Fett Burger. The brother of DJ Sotofett, who played a City Bass night in the capital back in 2014, Fett Burger is known for his cross-genre, vinyl-only DJ style, mixing between house, techno and everything percussive and beat-driven in between.

His releases on Sex Tags Mania, his own label, have held a firm stance in the electronic underground since 2004.

Speaking direct with the lads from Beat Alliance, they’re keen to establish their plans to bring a series of future events to the city, with a mixture of musical styles rooted in their house, techno, garage and electro-driven tastebuds – hopefully, they’ll be ones to watch out for on the Cardiff club scene this year.

For June, though, expect mindbending, bass-driven electronic goodness served up by the Norwegian burger master, with support on the night from Beat Alliance organizers LÄUFT, Lew James and former City Bass head and all-round solid selector Ben Hunter.

All powered by Cardiff’s infamous Submerge soundsystem, it’s expected to be a banger.

Tickets: £8. Info: info@kongsbars. co.uk (BH) BUZZ 42

BALTER FESTIVAL

Chepstow Racecourse Fri 8 Sun-10 June Balter, by all appearances, has the promise to be something weird and overstimulating for everyone, Boomtown for your mate’s evasive, faintly glassy-eyed older brother. Picture the essence of Stokes Croft in Bristol, palm-oil free jasmine incense and vegan burrito spices aside: a hundred billion clubs, pubs, cafés and kebab shops with live music licenses crammed higgledy-piggledy with everything from jungle, drum’n’bass and breakcore through to gypsy-punk, jazz hip-hop and ska blaring across each other’s doorways all day and night.

The gutter run off from that street has been ever so slowly oozing its way towards us around the Severn and, for a second summer, congeals at Chepstow Racecourse in somewhat of a seismic tone shift for the venue, aboard some 18+ low-brow hijinks. Founded in Devon and nurtured on the afore-mentioned Bristol night scene, Balter clearly dresses in the morning with no intention other than being a heavy one. The lineup is an afterparty’s floating aux cable-worth of misfit styles and alternative tones, but there’s a silly sense of humour and heart-warming fondness for chaos that ties as a theme together nicely.

Big-name acts like Ed Rush and Devilman play opposite MC Devvo ‘from the internet’ and someone called DJ Scotch Egg, who I like to think brings a packed lunch. The action is split amongst a fair few stages for such a small festival, to allow you to mix-and-match the malarkey depending on what mood you’re in – Balter pack hay bales around each of them so that you must truly confront your selected DJ head-on before a rogue soaring bassline can gut you from head to toe. There are stages aimed at all manner of d’n’b, jungle, bassline and the like, with the main Caravan stage given up to assorted live acts such as Backbeat Soundsystem and noisy gypsy-punk babblers Pas De Problème. Also worth a gander are Henge, an alien mix of non-contemporary funk beats, synth loops and wacky stage gimmicks that make them worth the spectacle alone.

Tickets: £120. Info: www.balterfestival.com JASON MACHLAB

KALLIDA FESTIVAL

Baskerville Hall, nr Hay-On-Wye Fri 22-Sun 24 June Held in what seems like a manor house deserving of a Gatsby-esque soiree, the intimate yet decadent Kallida Festival returns for its second year. Due to the success of their inaugural event, they have decided to expand their horizons by adding an extra day to this 600-capacity festival. And there’s a particular buzz around the quality of sound systems that are going to be stocked up around the hall.

One of the most intriguing aspects of Kallida is the way in which they’ve divided the daytime and nighttime sessions. The likes of Rockwell, Daniel Avery and Moxie [pictured] will be performing, come the evenings, under the chandeliers of Baskerville Hall, issuing sounds across a multitude of dance genres from Rockwell’s eclectic and authoritative drum’n’bass to Avery’s ethereal downtempo ambience. In the daytime, alongside art installations and pub grub, there will be live hip-hop and Afrobeat performances from a host of underground artists.

A small but stylish festival, spending the day on the lawn at Kallida’s behest sipping cocktails on deckchairs and the evening under strobe lighting and heavy vibrations sounds like an appealing merge of two cultures.

Tickets: £105. Info: www.kallida.co.uk (CP)

LOGIC HARDCORE: SCHOOL IS OUT!

Rainbow Rooms, Gorseinon, Swansea Sat 9 June Calling all Hippo Club lovers and Escape megafans! Dust those glowsticks off and dig those mixtapes out, as Logic Hardcore: School Is Out is coming west to Gorseinon this month. Brought to you by the organisers of Swansea’s Logic Festival, the night promises the best of old and nu-skool hardcore.

Featuring sets from some serious old-skool titans – including Dougal [pictured], best known for compilation series Bonkers, and the scratchmaster DJ Sy – this promises to be a night of euphoric hardcore, and one not for the faint-hearted. Representing the nu-skool sound is Ben Manic, Studioslave and Travis, fusing the older, 1990s-vintage sound of the hardcore movement to with their own newer, updated style.

MCs including Wotsee and Energy will be spitting rhymes and keeping spirits high, something which might be needed given the marathon 12-hour duration of this event. New talent is also being introduced, with winners of the local MCing competition to be featured on the night. Additionally, school uniform dress is greatly encouraged for the evening, so if you’re a cheerleader, geek or teacher, get your tickets now. If hardcore is your thing, this is not to be missed.

Tickets: £12.50. Info: 07563 111225 (KRB)

SAM REDMORE & THE MIGHTY MAGOO

Tropical Soundclash @ Gwdihw, Cardiff Sat 16 June We all know the sun can be an elusive character in Britain, but Gwdihw have got some surefire sunshine in the shape of Tropical Soundclash. Prolific DJ and producer Sam Redmore, plus The Mighty Magoo on percussion, bring styles and flavours that transport you around the globe from one paradise dancefloor to the next.

Tropical Soundclash have been packing shows in Birmingham since they launched last October with their infectious show, which takes afrobeat, highlife, samba, salsa and cumbia, and then pours house, broken-beat and bass into the mix. Redmore has had heavy support from Craig Charles, who regularly plays his releases on his Radio 6 show, and when Gilles Peterson and Quantic are big fans too, you know you’re in good hands.

Meanwhile, Magoo’s live work with Overproof Soundsystem, 1Eye and Manos Pa’arriba has already seen him tour the world.

The Afrobeat Edit of James Brown’s I Feel Good is a great place to start for anyone new to Redmore’s stuff.

Umbrellas in drinks suggested, dancing shoes a must!

Admission: £tbc. Info: 029 2039 7933 (PC)

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AMSERJAZZTIME FESTIVAL

Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff Thurs 7-Sun 10 June Derived from the weekly live session of the same name, RWCMD’s AmserJazzTime Festival is a four-day celebration of world class jazz featuring top names as well as emerging talent, much stemming from the college itself. This year there will be a particular focus on female performers, a detail which shouldn’t be overlooked, as just a cursory glance through the annals of jazz history is enough to reveal to you just how vital it is.

On Thurs 7 Evelyn Glennie, dubbed the first person in history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, will be demonstrating her considerable dexterity together with Trio HLK – three more extraordinary musicians blurring the boundaries between contemporary classical music and jazz.

Another who seeks to shift the concept of musical subgenres is British Bahraini trumpet and flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed [pictured], at the RWCMD on Fri 8. Her captivating sound illustrates her mixed heritage and spiritual connection to Arabic musequally impressive accolades include work with Radiohead and These New Puritans as well as composing an entire suite of music, Polyhymnia, inspired by courageous and influential female role models.

Also performing, for free on Fri 9 in the foyer, are London all-woman seven-piece Nerija. Well versed in the sounds of afrobeat, jazz, hip-hop and South African township music, they effortlessly stun with their exceptional arrangements and formidable musicality. Like Yazz Ahmed, they are alumni of the pioneering scheme Tomorrow’s Warriors, committed to the development of artists from diverse backgrounds with considerable skill and aiming to build opportunities for future generations of jazz musicians. With free admittance sessions in the foyer totalling four full days of music, this event illustrates a perfect example of what those future generations will look like and it is very inspiring indeed. CHARLIE PIERCEY Tickets: £18/£16 (Trio HLK) / £14/£12 (Yazz Ahmed) / foyer performances free. Info: 029 2039 1391 Pic: Veleda Thorsson

BELLY

Glee Club, Cardiff Bay Mon 11 June Back in the latter half of the 1980s, two bands – the Pixies and Throwing Muses – emerged from America’s east coast.

Strange, primal, well-read and putting American alt-rock on the map, both bands had strong women at their core: Kim Deal in Pixies, Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly at Throwing Muses.

Donelly added a sweetness to Hersh’s acerbic voice and the Muses’ angular melodies, taking them closer to the mainstream on their fourth LP The Real Ramona, then teaming up with Deal in The Breeders.

From there, Donelly jumped ship to create Belly, releasing the Star LP in 1993. Its best known song, 90s indiepop classic Feed The Tree (“Take your hat off boy when you’re talking to me...” – that one) was supplemented by the likes of Gepetto.

Followup LP King, from 1995, didn’t perform as well, despite being the more coherent album – songs like Seal My Fate delivering six-pack gusto with a soft underbelly. Now, though, Donelly is bringing Belly back, just as The Breeders also return after a hiatus. Following a reissue of King, new album Dove sounds like they’re picking up right where they left off.

Tickets: £20. Info: 0871 4720400 (CS)

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DEAP VALLY

The Muni, Pontypridd Sun 3 July This Los Angeles duo formed in 2011 after meeting in one of the least rock’n’roll situations ever: a crochet class taught by drummer and vocalist Julie Edwards. Since then Edwards, alongside guitarist and lead singer Lindsey Troy, have taken their music – a hybrid of bluesy alternative rock, with a punk defiance à la The White Stripes or Royal Blood – around the world.

Activists getting their point across with great music, Deap Vally’s latest album Femejism covers all the challenges faced by women in the modern world, from mental health to the patriarchy.

Songs like Gonnawanna and Two Seat Bike promote individuality and free thought, with layers of hard hitting guitar riffs coupled with Troy’s unapologetic lyrics and Edward’s frantic drumming.

The pair have already supported some huge acts, including Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Vaccines, and begin their latest visit to the UK in Pontypridd’s Muni arts centre, which hosted fellow alt-rockers Wolf Alice last year. Easily one of the most exciting things to happen to the Californian rock scene in a long time, this show promises to be an unmissable one.

Tickets: £12. Info: 01443 490390 (TH)

SWANSEA INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

Various venues, Swansea The biggest jazz fest in Wales waves in the return of summer to Swansea for the fifth year running. Come mid-June, the Maritime Quarter erupts in a flurry of brass squeals and moody basslines as a vibrant mix of 50 events takes place over 16 different venues.

Alongside a host of Welsh and British acts, such as Swansea-born bassist Laurence Cottle and his All-Star Big Band, the fest welcomes big-league jazz giants. Brazilian guitarist Daniel Marques will display his own compositions and plenty of the classics; Dutch singer Judith Nijland [pictured] and Czech guitarist Libor Šmoldas pay tribute to Wes Montgomery, Italian trumpeter Jim Rotondi is a modern titan of the New York scene.

Louis Prima Jr, son of the legend, and his band The Witnesses fly in from the States to pay homage to Prima Sr’s work and the Jump Jive era in general, while Stevie Wonder is the subject of ‘Some Kinda Wonderful’ from saxophonist Derek Nash and vocalist Noel McCalla.

Beyond ticketed events at the Dylan Thomas Centre and Dylan Thomas Theatre, the surrounding Swansea marina will support 40-odd free performances and workshops.

Tickets: £10-£25 per ticketed event; fringe events free.

Info: www.jazzwales.com (JM)

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM

The Globe, Cardiff Thurs 28 June One of the US metal scene’s most consistently fascinating acts bring their Invocation Of Lightning tour to Wales’ capital this summer in support of their sixth full-length, Thrice Woven. A ferocious return from an experimental, synth-heavy period, to the take on black metal that first propelled Wolves In The Throne Room to recognition.

The band’s 2006 debut LP, Diadem Of 12 Stars, created waves by demonstrating an knack for the raw savagery of old-school black metal, overlaid it with melodic, post-rock touches. It managed to move an already progressively-inclined genre further forward, while maintaining a deep appeal to purists still craving the bludgeoning force that initially characterized black metal.

Both the expansive approach and the high esteem of critics and fans have been ever-presents in WITTR’s career, along with an aesthetic which channels their deep relationship with their natural environment. This is reflected in song titles such as Woodland Cathedral and Bridge Of Leaves, and which is maintained on Thrice Woven – whether in the forest chorus that precedes album centrepiece Angrboda, or in the medieval-esque cover painting of an occult woodland ceremony.

Tickets: £16. Info: 07590 471888 (HR)

Thur 21st June 2018 Sat 16th June 2018 Fri 15th June 2018

Nick Heyward The Levellers + Dreadzone!

The Bootleg Beatles + The Bowie Collective

The Globe, Cardiff

Caerphilly Castle

Sat 14th July 2018

Caerphilly Castle

Sat 14th July 2018 Fri 13th July 2018

Paloma Faith + Jack Savoretti

Thunder

Stadiwm Zip World, Colwyn Bay

+ Hand of Dimes + Cats in Space

The Selecter & The Beat feat.

Ranking Roger + Sonic Boom Six

Caerphilly Castle SOLD OUT

Mon 15th October 2018

Caerphilly Castle

Sun 29th July 2018 Sat 28th July 2018

Dermot Kennedy Catfish and the Bottlemen

Pete Tong

with the Heritage Orchestra

Y Plas, Cardiff University

Cardiff Castle SOLD OUT

Fri 16th November 2018

Cardiff Castle SOLD OUT

Sat 20th October 2018 Tue 16th October 2018

GoGo Penguin Freya Ridings

The Feelng Twelve Years and Home Tour

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

The Globe, Cardiff

Tramshed Cardiff

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reviews albums BENIN CITY *** Last Night (Moshi Moshi) Benin City’s third album is a treatise and threnody on London’s nightlife. The closure of places like Plastic People and, briefly, Fabric is reflected in a melancholy album that veers between the soapbox and the night bus. While Last Night feels like a grower, it’s entering a crowded indie-dance market. So it doesn't help that Joshua Idehen’s delivery pitches exactly between Maxi Jazz and Ghostpoet. The bumping Reluctant and the woozy horns of This Is LDN III are the highlights. SE

CALYPSO ROSE *** So Calypso! (Because) I am tired of hearing include people moan that no-one’s making political music like the punks did. Short-sighted and untrue, Tobago-born Calypso Rose is a perfect case in point – doing big things as a musician and activist since 1963, on this latest album she pays tribute to artists that have inspired her. The calypsos are exuberant and infectious but the lyrics are key; I’m posting my review copy of this album to Theresa May and will ask her to buy a copy for Amber Rudd. GT

A CERTAIN RATIO ***** Good Together/ACR-MCR/Up In Downsville (Mute) By the end of the 1980s, Manchster’s A Certain Ratio developed a sound that was more acid-drenched P-funk than dark and moody punk-funk. After leaving Factory Records, Good Together was ACR's first album for A&M and a euphoric trip it is, with both Bernard Sumner and Shaun Ryder both featuring on the title track. ACR-MCR saw the band expand further on their electro-funk sound, bringing on board future Primal Scream singer singer Denise Johnson, while with Up In Downsville, ACR really hit their stride with their infectious groove. DN

CHAOUCHE *** Safe (Night Time Stories) Aisha Chaouche’s debut single only came out in 2017, but a cursory Google highlights her first late-00s stirrings as a Swansea folk-pop teen – so Safe has been percolating for a while, although she moved to Bristol some years back. Her mode is now low-lit, minimal, electro-acoustic soul built around piano and rarely rising above snail’s pace. Chaouche’s own production is a major asset, conscious of the need for breathing space while linking up classic and modern tropes. NG

EMANATIVE ***

HOWLIN RAIN***

M.A.N.D.Y. ****

Earth (Jazzman)

The Alligator Bride (Silver Current)

Cosmic jazz. A label readily thrown at improvised jam sessions that encourage musical freedom and often total more than 10 minutes each. A one-sided summation, granted, but it’s certainly a struggle to get involved in such affairs when the music seems as though it would be more enjoyable for the musicians as opposed to the listener. I don’t hate this album – there is a lot on offer, particularly if you are feeling metaphysical – but if you were hoping for a tune you might look elsewhere. CPI

This is the fifth album from the rock‘n’roll pranksters led by Ethan Miller and man, the joke is stretching a little thin. Either Miller has too many side projects, or they’ve deliberately set out to be a chickenwire-stage version of Bon Jovi, but I swear that at one point I thought I was listening to Blaze Of Glory. Howlin Rain are better when balls-out, though, so stick with Rainbow Trout, Missouri, and The Wild Boys and you'll have a good ol’ time. CS

Double Fantasy (The Club Versions) (Get Physical)

FATOUMATA DIAWARA**** Fenfo (Wagram) Fatoumata has not been idle since her 2011 debut, acting, travelling aboard Albarn’s Africa Express and more, and she pours seven years of experience into a beautiful travelogue on Fenfo – from the lilting titular track and its snaking Malian rhythms which evaporate into a hazy strum, to the cello and kora purity of Mama.

Single Nterini, a song about heartbreak, and Kanou Dan Yen, with its throbbing drumbeat emboldened by some lovely kora playing are also fine demonstrations of her rare talent. CS

GHOST ***** Prequelle (Spinefarm/Loma Vista) Ghost’s fourth album feels like the band’s mid-noughties Slipknot moment. Dave Grohl’s favourite Swedish metal band may not have the sense of mystery from their first couple of albums, but Prequelle is an album of genuine creative and commercial breakthrough. Not a single harpsichord, organ or even saxophone note feels out of place on an album that comes across like a contemporary spin on Alice Cooper’s best moments; dark and occult-themed, but enough pop hooks to do the country that brought us Abba proud. AE

HILARY WOODS **** Colt (Sacred Bones) Nowhere in the press release accompanying Hilary Woods’ debut LP is it mentioned that she was the bassist in Irish indie alsorans JJ72.

Embarrassment? Perhaps – but, more likely, that her musical past bears no resemblance to her musical present. Colt’s elegantly orchestral dronescapes find Woods neatly aligning herself with Sacred Bones labelmates Jenny Hval and Marissa Nadler, though the occasional lightness of touch and tinkling piano balance out the sombre overtones and make Julia Holter an even closer cousin. BW

JORJA SMITH **** Lost & Found (FAMM) Current BRIT Critics’ Choice winner Smith amazes with this debut: a range reminiscent of Amy Winehouse and Minnie Riperton, and style ranging from hip-hop to soul, jazz and pop. The classically-trained, 20-year-old songwriter sings about black youth, street violence and the police (Blue Lights), love gone wrong, too-fast love (Teenage Fantasy), says goodbye to a departed friend and learns to stand on her own two feet in this voyage of self-discovery from adolescence to young adulthood. Gorgeous arrangements and beats. She’ll only get even better with time. RLR

LICE *** It All Worked Out Great Vol. 1 & 2 (Balley) Suddenly in a position of influence, Idles are making the most of the opportunity to champion the likes of Lice, taking their fellow Bristolians out on tour and putting out this double EP. Very much like cult outfit Country Teasers, Lice are demented, seedy, bitterly cynical provocateurs inspired by the vision of Mark E Smith violently deconstructing country and rockabilly for spilling his pint. My promo copy came with a free nit comb, which could well come in handy for a record that might leave your skin crawling. BW

LUMP **** LUMP (Dead Oceans) Laura Marling has teamed up with Tunng founder Mike Lindsay to produce this startlingly beautiful folktronica collaboration. Still only 28, Marling has been on the UK music scene for a decade now and has grown into an ambitious, intelligent songwriter; here, the duo fuse Marling’s ear for melody and storytelling lyricism with a nocturnal, organic sound based around synth arpeggios and reverb-drenched guitar. Reminds one of Fever Ray’s self-titled debut with more of an Englishwoodland sensibility. Wonderful. FT

One half of M.A.N.D.Y. and Get Physical label boss Patrick Bodmer joins forces with Bristol’s mighty talented Dubspeeka in reworking M.A.N.D.Y.’s album Double Fantasy, originally released in 2016.

Artists involved in the project include Booka Shade, Francesco Tristano and Jimmy Vallance of Canadian duo Bob Moses, and all nine tracks are reworked with the club in mind. With sharp percussion throughout and a nod to the darker side of the dancefloor, the album does not disappoint. EJ

MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER ***** Bon Voyage (Domino) Melody's Echo Chamber return after a lengthy hiatus with their deliriously inventive second album. Where their debut offered succinct and tasteful psych-pop chanson, this time you'll find a bit of that along with, it seems, every other genre ever invented. Kitchen sink assistance comes this time from Swedish band Dungen and the sheer joy of creating music is palpable in every second of this record. It may be too much for some listeners but adventurous ears will find much to love here. AJ

THE MYSTERY OF THE BULGARIAN VOICES ***** BooCheeMish (Prophecy) Guest vocalist/composer, Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard, lends her otherworldly tones to this unique female choir’s first recording in over two decades of multi-part folk arrangements. The women use open-throated singing that‘s created in the larynx and resonates in the chest; upbeat and sometimes haunting but always mesmerizing and spiritual, revel in tales including unrequited love, bad/ good omens, dancing, and a mournful orphaned lamb: a match made in heaven echoing through the Bulgarian hills. RLR

ORANGE GOBLIN ***** The Wolf Bites Back (Candlelight) Orange Goblin are best enjoyed live, and with a relentless tour schedule it’s astounding they find time to record. Produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano, whose credits include Ghost and Cathedral, The Wolf Bites Back is a darker, doomier version of the London quartet we know and love. The album covers all bases, from classic Goblin stoner-shaped rock to garage punk and blues. After more than 20 years they’re still packing a punch, breaking the mould of their own making. AP

GAMES REVIEWS RAGING JUSTICE

All major platforms (MakingGames) {Raging Justice} is a callback to the mid-90s when, for a brief time, digitised brawlers took over from the pixel style. Whilst an interesting concept with driving music and a vibrant, nostalgic visual style, the clunky, repetitive gameplay, samey boss fights and claustrophobic, left-right level design overwhelms any fond memories that the player may have for this genre. Various challenges and a good cop/bad cop option can’t save this from being more than a nostalgia act. **BR

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DEATH ROAD TO CANADA

Nintendo Switch / Steam (RocketCat) This has to be an early contender for game of the year.

A joyous, pixelated romp through a zombie holocaust from Florida to Canada, Death Road To Canada mixes the gameplay of The Oregon Trail with the zany humour of The Super Hero League Of Hoboken and throws in awesome arcade action in a mash-up for the ages. Funny, tense, with great co-op and eminently replayable, it’s a must-have title for any Switch owner. *****BR

SPOCK’S BEARD *****

SEX CELLS **

Noise Floor (InsideOut)

Are You Ready / Hell Is Where The Heart Is (Pretty Ugly)

It’s obvious that the influence of this Californian five-piece is seventies progressive rock. Musically and vocally you can’t fault their new material – the tracks, which were all written by individual members, slot together seamlessly and give Noise Floor the feel of a concept album. But this is Genesis revisited – organs, synths and rousing beats, albeit Ted Leonard’s vocals are slightly more mellow than Gabriel’s – and it’s this familiar sound that makes the album instantly likeable. LN

VIRGINIA WING **** Ecstatic Arrow (Fire) The joy of Ecstatic Arrow, the fourth album in quick succession from this Manchester band, is in the constantly shifting musical backdrop to Alice Merida Richards's vocals – little microclimates of naive, almost shonky sounds swirling around intoned words that variously recall Trish Keenan of Broadcast, Cate Le Bon or (swoon) Laurie Anderson. The lopsided haze of synth, sax and weird percussive loops occasionally coalesce into hypnotic bangers, much like London's great Bamboo, which is praise enough in these grey days. WS

WITCHSKULL ** Coven’s Will (Rise Above) A niche riddle: how can a band name be previously unused by anybody, according to available data, but also deeply generic and unoriginal? By the band being called Witchskull and playing pat Sabbathian proto-doom fodder with a bouncy desert rock underlay. This Australian trio’s second album is energetic enough, with a nice bass tone, but brings nothing new or personable to the party. Song titles – Lord Of The Void, Priestess – further suggest a group working with fridge magnets in place of a dictionary. NG

singles ACCÜ **** Did You Count Your Eyes? (Libertino) Allegedly a long lingering concept prewritten in her mind, this mesmerising slice of psychedelic pop has manifested rather nicely. It’s very much a successful reimagining of the kind of mystifying, hazy sound many are nostalgic for.

The Welsh singer-songwriter’s repertoire is small at the moment but an album, Echo The Red, will surface later this year. CPI

ARCHIE & THE BUNKERS **** Play The Damned (In The Red) Onetwothreefour! covers of everyone's favourite vampire-fronted punk band here, played only in the A&TB style, which is: queasy organ and drums ramalama from two amped-up teenage brothers from Cleveland, Ohio. No famous songs are touched, but pure adrenalised absurdism suits See Her Tonight, tickles Suicide, and generally does both parties proud. WS

FAR OUT MONSTER DISCO ORCHESTRA ***** Step Into My Life / The Two Of Us (Far Out) John Morales’ M&M main mix (with slick string/ brass arrangements by master Arthur Verocai) gets a reissue on a new 12”. It’s 1977 and 2018 at 2001 Odyssey Disco in a suave fantasy James Bond film set in Brazil. Second up is a cool and easy techno chillout; Fab Mia Mendes handles lead vocals on both. RLR

Why is earnestness so easy to mock? A squat London synth duo with probably at least one Aleister Crowley book on their floor, Sex Cells aim for dark, esoteric electro but Are You Ready recalls Mighty Boosh-botherers Robots In Disguise, while Hell... comes off like a Channel 5 Coil. At least it's not steampunk. WS

SURREAL KINNOCK ***** (Don’t Get Me) Started (Strangetown) Brothers Gruff (formerly of Third Party) and Meredydd Russell-Jones have appeared with something compelling and different. (DGM)S is a lively piece with drums and energy worthy of early SFA, while Strong & Stable is a tune with bounce and attitude.

Strangetown and producer Daf Ieuan should be pleased – Surreal Kinnock have vigour and skill worth celebrating. JE

YOUTH MAN ** Five Songs (Alcopop!)

Mainland, track one of Youth Man’s first EP as a two-piece, has interesting part-spoken lyrics and is quite poetic. After that, though, it’s all downhill – the vocals become screamy and words become incoherent, which is a shame.

Five songs, but only one that doesn’t offend the ears. LN

demos DRUNK TOURIST facebook.com/drunktourist Drunk Tourist’s bio cites their “mutual respect of beige”, which is asking for trouble, but while their five-song debut EP isn’t quite the barnstorming rock racket they might be confident it is, it’s diverting enough that I’ll skip the obvious zinger. Their brand of alt-rock sounds heavily studio-tweaked, but to add extra spit rather than polish. Basslines have a goth/postpunk rumble, both guitar and vocals sometimes suggest a Pixies fixation and The Worms Will Get Their Man does nice things with a dance-punk backbeat. NG

THE BIG SLOUCH facebook.com/the-joytowngypsies-1696695610560231 This CD is, I believe, the fruits of an occasional night in Cardiff pub the Roath Park, hosted by The Joytown Gypsies, hence the URL and its annoying number string. The gents involved seem to be middle-aged, going on the back cover photo, and uphold a Cardiff tradition of eclectic, part-comedic bands birthed in boozers, from The Hennessys to Railroad Bill.

Songs variously touch on jazz, skiffle, ska (Turn It Round lifts from A Message To You, Rudy shamelessly), folk and music hall, or its legacy. NG

THEY LIVE | WE SLEEP tlws.bandcamp.com There are a lot of post-Converge type bands – a little bit grind, a little bit D-beat, but fundamentally angsty metallic hardcore – in the world, but it’s useful to have a good one in your region, and They Live | We Sleep fill that brief for south Wales. Self Harm, their fivesong debut EP, has cool squealy guitar parts and clearly aspires to that ‘mastered by Brad Boatright’ sonic fullness. People really need to stop sampling dialogue from the movie Network at this point, though. NG

WE'VE BEEN WATCHING...

ROUGH JUSTICE (All4)

]If you subscribe to the view that crime drama on the small screen has been done to death, think again. Belgian police procedural Rough Justice, the latest Euro import broadcast under the auspices of Channel 4’s Walter Presents, has, in its chain-smoking, drum-kit bashing, surreptitiously lesbian lead detective a character every bit as memorable as Sarah Lund in The Killing or Saga Norén in The Bridge.

Superintendent Liese Meerhout, steadfastly underplayed

by Hilde De Baerdemaeker, heads up Antwerp’s homicide division in a compelling series spliced into thirteen selfcontained episodes, which place character, atmospherics and Hitchcockian suspense ahead of impenetrable plotting. *****KM

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (SEASON 2) (Netflix)

Just as the first season translated the first four books of Lemony Snicket’s popular book series, the second season covers the next five, with each book divided into two hours.

It’s perfectly bingeable, with just the right amount of dark humour and adventure to keep a variety of ages entertained.

Neil Patrick Harris is exquisite as Count Olaf, a role which he wrests away from Jim Carrey’s decade-old film version and makes his own. They have stayed remarkably true to the original material, so fans of Snicket’s work will not be disappointed. ****SB

INNOCENT (ITV Hub)

What would you do if you were released from prison after seven years? That is the question that ITV’s latest drama Innocent attempts to answer. Lee Ingleby stars as David Collins, a man trying desperately to rebuild his life following his imprisonment. When new evidence arises that may acquit David of his conviction, he is led on a twisted trip down memory lane to explore his past and that of his friends and family to uncover the truth. Lee Ingleby is as reliable as ever as the progatonist, whilst Hermione Norris delivers a compelling performance as his sister-in-law. Innocent is a harrowing tale with a genuinely shocking ending. ****GE

PATRICK MELROSE (Sky Atlantic)

Patrick’s life is a mess. His father has just died, for one thing. But Patrick’s relationship with his dad was clearly not a positive one, to put it mildly. In the first episode of this new series from Sky, we see the world through the addled eyes of Benedict Cumberbatch’s upper-class drug addict. And the first 60 minutes are quite a ride, as our ‘hero’ spends the bulk of the time either on a high or massive low. Based on Edward St Aubyn’s novels, Cumberbatch’s eccentric energy and magnetism gives hope for some compelling viewing. ***MH

TASKMASTER (UKTV Play)

Very occasionally, television will cough up a gem which is so insanely simple that you can’t help but wonder why nobody else thought of it first. Enter Taskmaster, a show dreamt up by comedian Alex Horne at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010, and brought to television by Dave. Six series in, it’s still as hilarious as ever; each week five celebrities tackle ludicrous challenges to win over the Taskmaster, Greg Davies, with hilarious results. With three more series already commissioned and several international editions, there’s no end in sight; it’s the funniest thing in recent memory, and a must-watch. ****JJM

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The fourth edition of Horizons, the BBC’s year-long project which selects 12 upcoming Welsh musical acts and lavishes them with promotion and mentoring, has just launched. Drawn from all across Wales, the team behind Horizons emphasise the uptick in female representation this year, with all-women acts (Adwaith [pictured], I See Rivers) and solo artists (Aleighcia Scott, Eadyth, Marged and Nia Wyn) featuring. Other acts to get the nod for 2018-19 are Alffa, Campfire Social, Chroma, Himalayas, No Good Boyo and The Pitchforks Sleep / Walk / Listen, an ongoing linkup between established electronic producers/DJs and forwardthinking visual artists, returns this month with the launch of its eighth such collaboration. With previous DJs including John Tejada and Hiroshi Watanbe, eclectic German Simon Hinter supplies the music this time.

He’s composed some dreamy retromodern house jams to accompany four minutes of futureworld visuals by Cardiff video artist Rodisiac, and there’ll also be a mix of Hinter’s own productions dropping at the same time. In addition to this, S/W/L co-founder Matthew Evans aka Snowskull is having a selection of his paintings exhibited at The Globe, Hay-On-Wye until Tue 26 June In further art exhibition/music events, Nicholas Jones is to have his talents recognised by Tenby Museum this autumn with a show titled Paintings And Polaroids. The museum, clearly no fools, have added parentheses to their listing noting that Jones is better known as Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire, whose camera work was previously captured in 2011 Manics-themed

hardback Death Of A Polaroid. Tenby, meanwhile, might not seem an obvious place for the Gwent-born Jones to display his practice, but he has been visiting there regularly since his youth and continues to do so. In a recent interview, he claimed to also be working on a sitcom script with his brother Patrick Jones Nicky Wire once said he was such a big golf fan he “used to wear Pringle jumpers,” but leaving aside the validity of that litmus test, there’s another Welshman graduating from the fairway to the stage this month, as James Williams releases his debut single. Williams, from Pontypridd, represented Wales in golf on the European Challenge tour before making his mark on the X Factor in 2008. This gave him the impetus to pursue music over golf, becoming an in-demand name on the club and private function circuit, and on Fri 1 June he issues a double A-side of bombastic Bond-theme type crooners, Private Property and What Brings Us Together Stephen ‘Sweet Baboo’ Black, who appeared on this page only last month as half of Group Listening, is back once again with another full-length. The promise behind it is bunconventional: nine songs, seven of which were written to be given away with purchases of farm produce from a vending machine. The machine is inside Cardiff’s Castle Emporium and was set up by cured meat purveyors Charcutier Ltd, fans of Black’s idiosyncratic songcraft. The Vending Machine Project is released on very limited vinyl by Bubblewrap Records on Fri 29 June, and with the possible exception of Barnyard Rhumba the titles do not suggest a meat-centric lyrical tack.

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Seeing as we’ve given Boy Azooga a nice big page to themselves in this issue, ahead of their actually-anticipated debut album, it would be good and synchronous to assign a (smaller) space to Sock – a band who started playing live in Cardiff last summer, sometimes even on the same bill as Boy Azooga, and whose own LP exhibits a taste for cheerful, open-eared guitar pop. So let’s do that.

You might think that a band calling themselves ‘Sock’ are asking to be ignored; likewise that their album title, Fresh Bits, is suspiciously throwaway. This suspicion might continue into the 10 songs, each named with a single word: lexical shrugs like Bored, Groove and Wot2Do. Could this be what they dubbed ‘slacker rock’ back in the 90s, and thanks to cyclical trends sometimes do now? At times, yes very much so. Guitars lope, lollop and chime like a certain era of Pavement (Crooked Rain to Brighten The Corners, since you didn’t ask) crossed with 1980s Flying Nun Kiwi-indie; vocalist Jacob Church sounds like a schoolboy trying to disguise his stonedness with adorability. Elsewhere in the LP, for example Leopard, a certain jazzy, yacht-y grooviness makes itself heard – Bubblewrap, the label releasing Fresh Bits, mention Steely Dan in their bio blurb.

For a less than innovative album, Fresh Bits is a subtly distinctive one, which could feasibly blow up with a certain type of smoove-indie fan. Indeed, they’ve been picked to play August’s Green Man Festival, which suggests someone thinks something similar. facebook.com/sockcardiff

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PICTURE yourself of a morning, browsing social media like the modern malaise causes many of us to do, when you see a gig, taking place at a venue you like. This could be fun! Here’s a thing, though, you realise. The person who booked the gig is notorious, if only on a fairly hyperspecific level, for being a disagreeable and outspoken racist. (Within many circles, being an outspoken racist will gain you notoriety. Some people, you suppose, must want that.) It’s just a hypothetical scenario – but what would you do?

Perhaps due to his being shunned by most of his former acquaintances, the racist’s notoriety only extends so far. Ostensibly, he’s just some guy booking some bands to play with his band. You feel confident, however, that those bands’ political beliefs would render them uncomfortable about associating with him, given knowledge of some of the opinions he’s been known to express. This confidence is well placed, and the other bands decide not to perform.

With this comes an insistence by the racist that he and his band have been misunderstood. The evening was just supposed to be a good time, not a platform for his or anyone else’s ideologies. Could his detractors be wrong here? You listen to the band’s music: it appears to be harmless, if not very good. Where they have undermined this defence is in their choice of promotional image, which is a painstakingly arranged photo of both members in a bath with various items of ‘alt-right’ symbolism on display. There’s raw bacon, to supposedly offend the Muslims and/or Jews; milk, to distinguish them from the dreaded ‘soy boys’; and a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN cap. Oh, and the guy wearing the cap has a tattoo of a sort of repetitive maze which creates swastika patterns in between the ink. Very unfortunate!

The purpose of this sort of imagery is essentially to say to the world “I am a bigot”, but in a way that’s ambiguous enough to allow a reverse ferret. Some people think this event, given the above detail and context, runs counter to the values of its venue, which has a long and respectable history of working with refugees and other marginalised groups. Some of those people are from the venue itself; others there are more cautious. Their rationale is that denying people a platform – that is to say, stopping the gig from taking place – ought to require a greater body of evidence (hearsay is hearsay; social media posts are only quasi-public; alt-right photoshoots may not constitute a smoking gun, legally speaking).

Otherwise, it’s implied, the spotlights might turn to reveal you doing the marginalising.

Nevertheless, this topic has gained momentum and travelled beyond the initial small community. Unusual in its specifics, blurring the lines between publicly and privately-expressed racism, and certainly not an everyday occurrence for the people involved, you sense it’s prompted a review of certain values.

Eventually, it’s agreed upon that the gig will not take place in this venue.

If this was a real gig, Buzz would certainly not give it the oxygen of publicity, but as it’s merely hypothetical, don’t go looking for it – it doesn’t exist. And so long as decently-minded people remain vigilant about fascists trying to gain ground within their subcultures, hopefully it never will.

Here are some things you can attend instead: S.H.I.T., GAME, ASID and PERIL (The Moon, Cardiff, Mon 4 June); CAOIMHÍN Ó RAGHALLAIGH (Swansea Studios, Thurs 7); A FOREST OF STARS (Fuel, Sat 9); ANALOG ON (Swansea Studios, Thurs 21); EVA BARTOK, I AM DRUG and others (The Moon, Sat 23) and JEMMA ROPER (Tiny Rebel Cardiff, Fri 29). NOEL GARDNER

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BOOK OF THE MONTH

HOME BOYS Alex Wheatle (Arcadia)

Inspired by personal experiences, Alex Wheatle has put together a brutal account of life under the control of social services in the 1970s. Born in Brixton, Wheatle spent the majority of his childhood in a Surrey care home. Home Boys is a brave story of four friends, brought together by the social stigma of living in care, who run away to escape the horror and abuse they suffer on a daily basis. But the initial feelings of excitement and freedom quickly turn as the woods itself presents its own power; what happens there will shape the rest of the boys’ lives.

The beauty of this book is presented in the boys’ youthful hijinx, as days away from their homes are spent playing cricket and football in the park and only going home when it gets dark. Being of similar age to Wheatle, I can identify with those halcyon ‘jumpers for goalposts’ days. But it is in stark contrast to the horror and abuse suffered by them at the hands of their carers – the sudden changes in the story can be quite jarring, as their adolescent innocence is replaced by resentment and anger.

This book is impossible to put down. A tale of camaraderie, survival and revenge, Home Boys is in parts a British equivalent of Stephen King’s classic Stand By Me, albeit with a more immediate and harrowing background.

CHRIS ANDREWS Price: £8.99 Info: www.arcadiabooks.co.uk TAKE ME IN

Sabine Durrant (Mulholland Books)

Another marriage on the rocks that seems on the surface to be serene. This is a recurring theme for thrillers this year. Here, the solution for protagonists Tessa and Marcus is to go on holiday together and paper over the cracks. But it is not that simple, especially when, on the first day of the vacation, their toddler son is saved from drowning – not by Marcus, but a complete stranger who then inveigles his way into their lives and shoves a wedge even deeper into their relationship. This is a beautifully-written series of marital car crashes about to happen, as the couple slip closer and closer to a precipice from which there is no going back. Domestic noir at its finest. (MT) Price: £12.99. Info: www.mulhollandbooks.com

THE GOLDEN ORPHANS

Gary Raymond (Parthian)

A funeral with one attendant; a Russian benefactor with a curious preoccupation with his dreams and the secrets of his past; a struggling painter and a city in Cyprus like a realm of a fairy tale. I wrote this almost immediately after having finished reading The Golden Orphans in the hopes that I would be able to transfer the high I felt from this fast-paced and energetic story. What’s impressive is not only how Raymond manages to make a reasonably complex storyline seem simple and light, but also by how the short length of the novel in no way makes it seem incomplete. It’s packed with the detail, characterisation and flair of a doorstop-sized literary thriller, keeping us asking more questions the more that get answered. (MT) Price: £8.99. Info: www.parthianbooks.com

THE TYRANNY OF LOST THINGS

Rhiannon Lucy Coslett (Sandstone Press) The Tyranny Of Lost Things, Rhiannon Lucy Coslett's first novel, is as fine a debut as you'd be likely to read – page-turning and thought-provoking at the same time (very few pieces of writing strike me as being so important that I read them aloud to my wife). The novel, set in a London commune, focuses on protagonist Harmony, who has a keen grasp on the importance of possessions, although it's notable that this dissipates as the novel reaches its climax. Speaking of climaxes, there’s plenty of sex and drugs in this book of London post-Swinging Sixties.

Coslett obviously cares a great deal about people, about issues and about her book, and has succeeded in that most vital of features for a first novel: the reader cares about the characters, making it quite a pleasure to devour. (DW) Price: £8.99. Info: www.sandstonepress.com BUZZ 50

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June begins with the Crime & Coffee Festival, which takes place at Cardiff Central Library Hub on the Fri 1 and Sat 2. Award-winning authors Belinda Bauer and Christopher Fowler will be joined by Rebecca Tope, Kate Hamer, Mark Ellis, Katherine Stansfield and many more. With talks, readings and panel discussions, plus workshops where writers can develop their skills with published authors, there’s a packed bill to enjoy. Tickets begin at just £3, and are available from ticketsource: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ cdfcrimefest.

On Sun 3, then, you can continue your development as a writer with Write On! Sundays, which takes place at Cardiff Made Gallery, Lochaber Street each month. Suitable for writers in every form and genre, and of any (or even no) experience, this two-hour workshop begins at 11.30am and promises to enrich and inspire you. With a professional writer-tutor, it costs £25 (£20 concessions) which is payable on the day.

Paper is provided, but bring a pen, plus your own notebook or laptop if you wish.

Following this, Voices On The Bridge provides another gay gauntlet of great writers and musicians on Fri 15 at Pontypridd Museum from 7pm. The event is free, and features Kathy Miles, Nick McGaughey, Rufus Mufasa, Unity, Christina Thatcher, Kate North, Cara Gwen, Des Mannay and Rob Cullen, who is also the organiser and host.

On Tue 26, Wales Book Of The Year announces its winners in a grand and glittering live event at the Tramshed in Cardiff. Beginning at 6.30pm, this is one of the highlights of the Welsh literary calendar.

Tickets are £6; for more information please contact Literature Wales on 029 2047 2266, post@ literaturewales.org, or via their website.

Finally, we finish the month with the Cellar Bards’ sixth birthday. The guest poet at this popular Cardigan literary night is Susan Richardson. Open mic spots are available for writers of poetry, short stories, micro-fiction and novels. Entry is just £3, so get there for an 8pm start. I’m told that there will also be cake…

Enjoy your month, then, lit lovers, and try not to overindulge! See you in July.

SUSTAINABLE FATHERS DAY It’s Father’s Day on Sun 17 June. Instead of the usual tat that will be kept in his sock drawer, put some imagination into your gifts and introduce some sustainability in your dad’s possessions Vegan Birkenstocks – Boston Micro Fibre

Solitary Bee Hive The ‘good life’ the easy way, this beehive is constructed from FSC timber and designed for solitary bees – so he won’t need to dress in a beekeepers’ kit and it can manage itself when he gets bored.

Solitary Bee Hive – £21.99 gardenature.co.uk

Your dad loves his decades-old slippers but they are a bit embarrassing when he pops down the shops in them. A pair of these will go down a treat, give him street cred with the hipsters and they don't use any animal products either.

Boston Micro Fibre (Anthracite) – £70 www.birkenstock.com

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Collar for your dad’s best mate

Does dad bore you with stories of his childhood, running through the woods, making bows and arrows, tree houses etc? How about him reliving his childhood to make his own cutlery in the woods in Wales, he could work up to a lovespoon next year.

Weekend course – £210 www.thecoppiceplot.com

Have you got one of those selfless dads who ‘don’t want anything’?

Get him something for his pooch instead and see if he says that next year, these collars & leads will last forever and are handcrafted by craftspeople using Italian leather and brass fittings.

Dog collar & lead – £70 www.tannerbates.co.uk

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Has he, like most dads, taken up a hobby recently? If it’s cycling he’s probably chosen some awful lycra to embarrass himself (and you) with.

Get him a lovely jacket to cover up his dignity, it’s also waterproof so he doesn't have to be a fairweather rider anymore.

Clearim Jacket – £59 www.howies.co.uk

Every dad is Tesla curious. Fact!

It may be way out of your budget so how about letting him have a three-hour drive in one. You never know, he may even end up buying one and adding you to the insurance.

Three hours in a Tesla – £215.00 www.virginexperiencedays.co.uk

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Is your dad obsessed with his lawn as much as his iPhone? With this neat product he can mix his two passions and save lots of water too – result.

GreenIQ Smart Garden Hub WiFi Irrigation Controller – £199.00 www.vesternet.com

This will be put in the sock drawer and he'll wear them with pride.

They are woven in Wales by Royal Warrant Corgi Hosiery. If you got him the Birkenstocks he'll be able to wear them together just to show you up.

Carthen socks for men (pewter) – £18.50 www.mabli.co.uk

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G O I N G C O A S TA L This country is renowned for its coastlines and beaches.

Jake Young and Ffion Riordan-Jones celebrate a few of the prime coastal spots around Wales.

Wales has a total of 47 blue flag beaches – England, by contrast, has a proportionally smaller 65 – an award given for cleanliness and beauty by the Foundation For Environmental Education. Take a look at some of the best places to be sitting by the shoreside in Wales.

NORTH WALES PORTMEIRION Portmeirion is a Mediterranean-inspired treat for those who love architectural delights, almost entirely designed by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. In popular culture it was the setting for the cult TV series The Prisoner, with Festival No. 6 no residing in the town too. You can walk through the Central Piazza and then take a stroll down The Quayside, with this picture-perfect town presenting a southerly beauty atypical to the northern half of Europe.

PORTH TRECASTELL ANGLESEY Picking a surfing spot along the north Wales coast can at times prove difficult, as the swells are slightly unpredictable. If you want a bay where the swell is renowned for great waves, Porth Trecastell on Anglesey, also known as Cable Bay, is a brilliant spot. It’s a secluded beach with consistent waves, albeit not the longest ride – and great for anyone interested in water-based adventure shenanigans, as kayaking has also proven popular in this area.

PORTH DYNIEWAID, LITTLE ORME Near Llandudno, this astonishing secluded beach is sometimes taken over by seals (in which case, stay away!), but when free it is one of the best beach spots on the coast. It might be a challenge to get to, but well worth the trouble for the intrepid hiker/beach bum, if such a thing exists.

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SOUTH WALES CEFN SIDAN No need to go somewhere tropic to find a white sand beach – Wales has its very own. Cefn Sidan in Carmarthenshire is the perfect spot for families, surfers, dog walkers and weekend getaways. With the tide going far out you will find its vast expanse of majestic clean sands, making it easy to relax or spice up your day to the beach with the numerous activities on offer, from kite-karting, horse riding, surfing or all the easily accessible local leisure facilities in town.

ROYAL PORTHCAWL GOLF CLUB As the name might suggest, this course offers a regal atmosphere to your leisure time. Feel the magnificence as you play a tranquil game of golf against the backdrop of a stunning grand vista of the Welsh coastline. This spot has been described as one of the most challenging yet delightful courses to play on, and unlike a certain golf course in Scotland, you don’t have to worry about Donald Trump turning up.

BLUEPOOL CORNER This rockpool on the northwestern tip of the Gower peninsula is stunning. Sitting atop the beach, as if a step onto the cliffs above, this rockpool is deep enough to dive into freely, a surefire win for swimmers and rockside loungers. Most people think of nearby Rhossili Bay or Worm’s Head when it comes to the Gower, but the entire peninsula is full of treasures like this.

BARRY ISLAND It’s a cliché, yes, but most of us in the southern half of Wales have at least one childhood memory of trodding down to Barry and playing in the sand all day, and for good reason. This blue flag beach has plenty of the yellow stuff to play in, and all but the most stone-hearted cynics can wallow in the seafront promenade’s mixture of kitsch and sincerity.

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TENBY An obvious choice perhaps, but no list of Welsh beaches would be complete without Tenby for good reason. The South Beach spans over a mile and a half, which is bustling with activities over the summer months. On the flipside of the town you have the smaller North Beach, where you are met with quaint multi-coloured houses and pubs aplenty.

MWNT BEACH This not-so-well-kept secret gem of a beach is tucked away and out of sight in a small cove against the sensational sea of Cardigan Bay. You can walk by the now-iconic white church into the sheltered sandy beach that has an unescapable tranquillity. Let the calming breeze coast away your stresses and worries, grab a bite to eat at the cosy café and enjoy a picturesque sunset.

SAUNDERSFOOT Just north of Tenby is Saundersfoot, with a beautiful harbour buried away in the surrounding hills. It’s perfect for those who do love to be beside the seaside but a slightly more relaxed experience than Tenby. A brilliant walk to take is through the mining tunnels that lead you away from the centre to Coppet Hall Beach and Wiseman’s Bridge.

ABERYSTWYTH WAR MEMORIAL Despite the crashing of waves and the sound of seagulls in the sky, the Aberystwyth War Memorial is a wonderfully soothing place to be. Soak in the history beside the memorial and take in the wonderous view of the colourful Aberystwyth and its pier, or gather friends and family for a picnic on the grass with the ruins of a castle behind you. Offering easy transfer to a striking walk along the pier or into the quaint town, it’s a location that offers peace of mind and natural beauty.

LINDSWAY BAY If you want somewhere isolated, a top pick would be Lindsway Bay on the outskirts of Milford Haven. Once you walk through the playing fields of Ishmael Village, you are greeted with a secluded beach hidden amongst the red stone cliffs.

This beach in particular is ideal for those who love an adventure and get a thrill from discovering something new.

ST DAVIDS Travel up to the northern quarter of the county and you’ll find St Davids, where the bays of Caerbwdi and Porthmeglan are sheltered nearby – again, they might be a challenge to get to, but are well worth the effort. Officially the smallest city in Britain, the area around St. Davids is brimming winding roads to unknown coves of beauty, with the cathedral like a beacon in the distance. If you love your wildlife, a boat trip to Ramsey Island, an RSPB reserve where razorbills and guillemots nest.

ABEREIDDI BLUE LAGOON Created when an old slate quarry was breached and filled by the sea, this accidentally man-made lagoon is a great place to dive into the waters – if you’re feeling brave! The Pembrokeshire Coastal Path curls around here, so you can either wander off on a walk afterward soaking the (let’s face it, almost certainly freezing) sea.

BORTH SANDS Home of the mythic ‘Welsh Atlantis’, this three-mile stretch of golden sandy beach reveals the expansive prehistoric forest of ossified tree stumps when the tide withdraws. Accompanied by varying hills of soft blissful sand, this is a truly ethereal place. Let your imagination run wild – delicate and rich landscape will certainly add a touch of magic to your travels that will have you believing the Gods themselves designed this just for you.

TRAETH BACH Situated midway between Cardigan and Aberaeron, this cove-like beach has a long expanse of soft sand, and island just off the side, which the intrepid explorer can swim to, even exploring the cave piercing through its centre. Facing west into the vast expanse of the Atlantic, this is a dreamy little place to while a beachside day away.

Info: www.visitwales.com

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There's plenty of exciting events to gander at in Wales this June. Thomas Hadfield and Rhys Fisher roundup the best on offer

WALES RUGBY SUMMER TOUR Before the FIFA World Cup begins, and the tide of coverage inevitably engulfs every sporting conversation across the country, there’s a small window of opportunity for those of you more concerned with the oval ball than the round one.

The Welsh rugby team kicks off their summer tour with a transatlantic tussle against South Africa in Washington DC, where they’ll be attempting to channel the spirit of Ireland’s famous victory against southern hemisphere opposition on American soil in 2016. This is followed by back-to-back tests against Argentina, whose domestic team, the Jaguares, are poised to complete their most successful Super Rugby season to date.

In keeping with past traditions, the Welsh squad has a developmental feel about it, with a list of superstars that Band Aid would be proud of rested for the tour.

But with the World Cup looming, there’s clear opportunities for players to stake a claim for a seat on the plane to Japan.

Wales v South Africa Sat 2 June, 10pm UK time Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington DC, USA Wales v Argentina Sat 9 June, 8.40pm UK time San Juan del Bicentenario Stadium, San Juan, Argentina Wales v Argentina Sat 16 June, 8.40pm UK time Estadio Brigadier López, Santa Fe, Argentina All on ChannelFour Info: www.wru.co.uk BUZZ 54

MAN V HORSE If you’ve ever thought “I love to race, but humans are too easy, I need a challenging opponent,” then boy, do we have the race for you. Every year, the smallest town in Wales, Llantwrtyd Wells, plays host to the Man V Horse race. It does what it says on the tin – humans from all over the world flock to the town to run a course, usually around 21 miles long, against horse riders. Although it sounds like a near-impossible battle, humans have beaten horses on two occasions since the creation of the race in 1980, the last being Florian Holzinger in 2007. There’s a cash prize waiting for any human who can cross the finish line before the first horse, and it currently stands at £2,500. Entries for runners have closed, but it’s a great spectacle to get down to and support your fellow species.

Or the horses, if you prefer them to people.

Llantwrtyd Wells, Sat 9 June. Entry: £25 Info: 01591 610666 www.green-events.co.uk

FIFA WORLD CUP - THE WELSH CONNECTION With the royal wedding finally over (David Beckham easily best dressed for me), and the nation’s obsessive hysteria beginning to smoulder and burn out, the FIFA World Cup is ready to reignite the flames and plunge Britain back into chaotic fandom.

Unfortunately, after the Welsh team failed to qualify, there’ll be no repeats of the heroics of France 2016, and the pubs of South Wales won’t be adorned with cries of “don’t take me home”. However, there’ll be chances to support Wales in a very roundabout fashion, by following some of your favourite players from Swansea and Cardiff. Swansea’s duo of Lucasz Fabianski and Martin Olsson will be looking to banish the demons of relegation with a strong World Cup showing for Poland and Sweden respectively, whereas Cardiff’s Icelandic talisman Aron Gunnarsson [right] will have the unenviable task of attempting to stop Argentina’s Lionel Messi in the group stages.

FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, Thurs 14 June-Sun 15 July Info: www.fifa.com/worldcup

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STADIUM CONCERTS SPECTACULAR This summer, south Wales’ three biggest stadiums will house hundreds of thousands of exhilarated fans throughout June, when five musical colossi descend upon Cardiff and Swansea. First on the list, Jay Z & Beyoncé [pictured]. America’s answer to Duffy and Mike Phillips kick off their epic On The Run II tour – 36 stadium shows across Europe and the US – in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium (Wed 6 June. Tickets: from £51. Info: www.principalitystadium.wales).

A few days later, and just over the river, Wales’ most beloved band – no, not Goldie Lookin Chain, Stereophonics – return to the Cardiff City Stadium (Sat 9 June. Tickets: from £43. Info: www. stereophonics.com). Thus will Kelly Jones’ distinct vocal reverberate around the stadium in the ultimate promotion party.

From Wales’ most beloved, to one of rock’s most beloved: The Rolling Stones cannot be done justice in a few lines, so I won’t try. They’ll be

in the Principality Stadium on Fri 15 June (Tickets: from £59.95.

Info: www.principalitystadium.wales); don’t miss your chance to see genuine musical royalty.

Almost 50 years separate Mick Jagger and Ed Sheeran, whose rise in the past few years is nothing short of meteoric. He’ll be playing four consecutive nights at the Principality Stadium from Thurs 21-Sun 24 June, with tickets starting at £45 but sold out on every date.

South Wales’ month of big-league music culminates with The Killers at Swansea’s Liberty Stadium on Sat 23 June (Tickets: from £45. Info: 0844 815 6665). Expect Wind Street DJs to be even more liberal than usual with Mr Brightside.

Stadium gigs have their naysayers, but the seas of crowds and scale of sound is incomparable. Nobody was complaining about a lack of intimacy at Knebworth.

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art ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE University Of Wales, Aberystwyth. Free. Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. 01970 621903 / www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre A'r Lan Y Mor / At The Edge Of The Sea Group exhibition celebrating the sea through the mediums of textiles, ceramics, paintings, photographs sculpture and films. See Art. (Until Sun 8 July) Suzie Larke ‘In The Mind’s Eye’ Work described

by Larke herself as “an attempt to visualise depression and anxiety through conceptual photography”.

(Until Sun 15 July) Masters Of Print Fifty-nine printrs selected from photographs taken by members of The Photographic Alliance Of Great Britain. (From Sat 2 until Sat 30 June) ALBANY GALLERY 74b Albany Road, Cardiff.

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Free. 029 2048 7158 / www.albanygallery. com Kyffin Williams Centenary Exhibition Retrospective exhibition of this esteemed Welsh painter’s work at the Gallery to include many unseen works, some of which will be for sale. Indeed the gallery is inviting people to sell any Williams paintings they happen to own as part of this show. Bugger! Must have left mine in another coat. (Until Sat 2 June) Tim Fudge Work from popular Welsh painter. (From Thurs 7 until Sat 30 June)

ANDREW LAMONT GALLERY (THEATR BRYCHEINIOG) Canal Wharf, Brecon. Open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm. Free.

01874 611622 / enquiries@ brycheiniog.co.uk / www. brycheiniog.co.uk Genetic Moo ‘Microworld: Brecon’ Lumen Prizewinning artists Genetic Moo will be filling the gallery with computer-driven animations for an innovative digital art exhibition. (Until Sun 24 June) Maurice Selden Selden’s photography chiefly concentrated on rallying, with the photographer covering a record-breaking 449 WRC (World Rally Championship) rallies worldwide. This show features shots taken between 1972 and 2017. (From Thurs 28 June until Mon 20 Aug) ARCADECARDIFF Queens Arcade, off Queen Street, Cardiff. Usually open Wed-Sat 12.305.30pm. www.arcadecardiff.co.uk Lydia Halcrow & Nicolette McGuire Artists document the changes to an area of beach land in the south of England using found objects, maps, drawing and photography. (Until Sat 16 June) Helen Grant Details TBC. (From Wed 20 June until Sat 7 July) ART CENTRAL Barry Town Hall, King Square, Barry. Tue-Sat 11am-4pm. Free. 01446 709805.

Shiftwork Work by Dr. Daniel Baker, Billy Kerry, Artur Conka, and Shamus McPhee who, through their work, address aesthetic and politi-

cal issues concerning Gypsy, Roma and Traveller lives and their cultural representation.

(Until Sat 2 June) Cardiff & Vale College End Of Year Show 2018 (From Sat 9 until Sat 23 June) THE ART SHOP & CHAPEL 8 Cross Street, Abergavenny. Tue-Sat 9.15am-5pm. Free. 01873 852690 / www. artshopandgallery.co.uk William Brown ‘Bogeyman – The Man Of Myth’ A collection of drawings and works on paper, supported by paintings and silkscreen, lino and woodcuts, from this esteemed painter who was born in Canada in 1953 and died in south Wales in 2008. (Until Sat 9 June) BARKER GALLERY / TORFAEN GALLERY Pontypool Museum, Park Buildings, Pontypool. MonSat 11am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm.

Free Wed/Sun 2-5pm. 01495 752036.

Generation Games Play your way through the history of home computer games consoles, following developments in the technology, the programming industry and entertainment in the home. Showing here until the autumn having previously been in Swansea until earlier this month. (Until Sun 28 Oct) Painting In Pontypool Park Showing the results of a four-day competition, from Wed 13-Sat 16 June (see Events listings), where entrants do indeed paint in Pontypool Park. (From Sun 17 June until Tue 31 July) CARDIFF & VALE COLLEGE City Centre Atrium, Taboo - T Willeman. Pic - D Poole

TABOO Workers Gallery, Ynyshir, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Thurs 7 June-Sat 4 Aug Admission: free. Info: 01443 682024 / www.workersgallery.co.uk When you picture the Rhondda valley, who doesn’t automatically think of bold, taboo-confronting art exhibitions? Whilst the small village of Ynyshir may seem a surprising location, Gayle Rogers’ exhibition is committed to shining a light on the sorts of topics that make people feel uncomfortable. Chief amongst these pieces are Victoria Carter’s exploration of female genital mutilation, and Taz Wileman’s striking ‘human puppy’ masks. With a collection of works engaging with themes of fear and forbidden desire – the exhibition undoubtedly navigates a precarious course between shocking and thought provoking, but is certainly worth a visit. As you may have guessed, parental guidance is advised for the exhibition, and some people may find the works disturbing and/or offensive.

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Dumballs Road, Cardiff.

029 2025 0250 / www.cavc. ac.uk

Creative Department 2018 Summer Show End of year one-evening-only student showcase featuring work from across the creative department including a fine art exhibition, a fashion catwalk, live music and performances.

(Fri 8 June only, 5-8pm) CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff. 029 2041 6190 / www.cardiffmet. ac.uk Creative Exhibition 2018 Showcase of work produced by south Wales secondary school pupils in art and design, design and technology, ceramics, 3D artwork, product design, design and make, fashion, textiles and engineering. (From Wed 20 until Tue 26 June) CARDIFF STORY The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff. Daily 10am-4pm.

Free. 029 2034 6214 / cardiffstory@cardiff.gov.uk Whitchurch Hospital Discover more about this building’s history, which goes back over 110 years, and that of people who worked and were treated there. (Until Sun 3 June) Protest! Objects For Change Discover the stories behind the protest objects in our new display, from badges and banners to T-shirts and embroidery.

(Until Sun 30 Sept) CARNEGIE HOUSE Wyndham Street, Bridgend.

01656 815757 / www. carnegiehouse.co.uk Bridgend College Art, design, media and photography exhibition from students at said college. (From Thurs 21 until Sat 23 June) CHAPTER GALLERY Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff. Tue, Wed, Sat + Sun 12-6pm; Thurs + Fri 12-8pm. Free. 029 2030 4400 / www.chapter.org Fiona Grady ‘Shadow Play’ Art In The Bar exhibition consisting of site-responsive drawings on walls, windows and floors using sequences of dispersing geometric shapes. (Until Sun 24 June) A Slight Ache Exhibition curated by James Richards, the previous artist to feature in this gallery, and featuring work from Tolia Askavili, Wojciech Bakowski, Christian Friedrich, Isa Genzken, KHISHVI, Dani ReStack, Torsten Slama, Cathy Wilkes and JX Williams.

(From Fri 15 June until Sun 30 Sept) CRAFT IN THE BAY The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff. Mon-Sun 10.30am-5.30pm. Free. 029 2048 4611 / www. makersguildinwales.org.uk Karen Ingham ‘Deluge’ Through film, digital textiles and hybrid craft, Ingham encourages the audience to

see and become aware of the incredible miscroscopic imagery and structures of plankton, the behaviour of pollinating insects and the movement of the oceans. (Until Sun 24 June) Makers Merge Wales/South Tyrol See Art for more on this collaborative show between Makers Guild Wales and artists from the South Tyrol region of Italy: pairings of Shelley Doolan and Alessandra Piazza; Jon Bull and Laurenz Stockner; Beate Gegenwart and Othmar Prenner; Karen Williams and Daniela Chinellato; and Rauni Higson and Gabi Veit. (From Sat 30 June until Sun 19 Aug) CWTSH COMMUNITY AND ARTS CENTRE 226 Stow Hill, Newport.

01633 664498 / www. cwtsh.org Clive McCarthy ‘Bettws And Other Landscape Paintings’ Paintings of the landscape near Newport by fine artist McCarthy. (From Sun 3 until Sun 24 June) CYFARTHFA CASTLE MUSEUM Cyfarthfa Park, Brecon Rd, Merthyr Tydfil. 01685 727371 / museum@ merthyr.gov.uk 100 Years Ago – Merthyr Tydfil And The Great War Exhibition highlighting Merthyr Tydfil’s involvement in WWI, through films, artwork, objects and more all created and donated by the local community. (Until Sun 15 July) DYFFRYN GARDENS Dyffryn Close, St Nicholas, Cardiff. Daily 10am-5pm. £9.90/£4.95 kids. 029 2059 3328 / www.nationaltrust. org.uk/dyffryn-gardens Takumasa Ono ‘Henro’ A display of this Japanese artist’s watercolours, screen prints and Japanese ink paintings capturing National Trust properties. (Until Sun 17 June) ELYSIUM GALLERY 16 College Street, Swansea.

Wed-Sat 12-5pm. Free. www.elysiumgallery.com Sophie Kumar-Taylor Artist in residence who graduated from Carmarthen School of Art in 2017, and whose work explores geometry, distortion and optical illusions whilst experimenting with abstraction and colour relationships with her sitespecific installations.. (Until Sat 14 July) FFOTOGALLERY Turner House, Plymouth Road, Penarth. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm. Free. 029 2070 8870 / turnerhouse@ ffotogallery.org Chronicle Ffotogallery is 40 years old in 2018 and thus is having a retrospective show this summer, highlighting exhibition posters, past projects and event images. (Until Sat 4 Aug) FOUNTAIN FINE ART Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. Mon-Sat

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10.30am-5pm. Free. www. fountainfineart.com

Summer Group Exhibition Mixed and changing exhibition of new work from the gallery artists. (From Sat 9 June until Sat 14 July) FUTURES GALLERY / ORIEL GALLERY Pierhead Building / Senedd, Cardiff Bay. Daily 10.30am4pm. Free. 0845 0105500 / www.pierhead.org Gemma Jayne Paine ‘A Retrospective: Cardiff Bay and Beyond’ Exhibition described by Paine herself as “an attempt to show the progress of an artist’s development and a journey following twenty years of creativity”. (From Wed 6 until Fri 29 June) G39 Oxford Street, Roath, Cardiff. Saturdays 11am5.30pm. Free. 029 2047 3633 / post@g39.org Sightseers A presentation of new work and research by artists, writers and curators who were involved in the Wales In Venice exhibition by James Richard in May last year. It’s a replica of the artists’ rented house as a framework to combine and assemble the work created there. See Art. (Until Sat 2 June) Y GALERI, CAERFFILI Lower Ground Floor, The Visit Caerphilly Centre, The Twyn, Caerphilly. Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 029 2132 2570 / www.ygalericaerffili. co.uk Jeremy Thomas, Rhiannon Roberts & David Chamberlain Exhibition of original paintings & limited edition prints from artists who mix reality with fantasy. Also on display: ceramic and wire sculptural work inspired by the animal kingdom from Jan Beeny, Garry Jones, Helen Higgins & Nina Lazarou. (Until Sun 17 June) Flower Inspired Exhibition Arranged to coincide with Caerphilly In Bloom and the town's annual flower festival. Plus a profile of artworks from artists who work in textiles and felt. (From Tue 19 June until Sun 22 July) THE GATE Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 10am9pm. Free. 029 2048 3344 / info@thegate.org.uk Storytelling, Martín Rilla & Nicola Yeoman Three separate exhibitions running concurrently. Storytelling is an open exhibition for local artists, submissions close on May 30 and will be chosen immediately after. Rilla is from Uruguay but lives in Roath; Yeoman is a Cardiff resident who has travelled extensively in the last 18 years.

(Throughout June) THE GLOBE AT HAY Newport Street, Hay-OnWye. Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm, Free. 01497 821762 / www. globeathay.org Snowskull: A Retrospective Cardiff-

based multimedia artist Snowskull, aka Matthew Evans, was guest artist for the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in late May. This show carries on for approximately a month after, featuring 30 pieces of work ranging from physical paintings, digital manipulations and video art projections. (Until Tue 26 June) GLYNN VIVIAN ART GALLERY Alexandra Rd, Swansea.

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Free.

01792 516900 / www. swansea.gov.uk/glynnvivian Käthe Kollwitz Kollwitz (1867-1945) was one of the leading artists of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, notable for the emotional power of her drawing, printmaking and sculpture. The exhibition is organised in partnership between Ikon and the British Museum. (Until Sun 17 June) GRAND PAVILION The Esplanade, Porthcawl.

Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 01656 815995 / www. grandpavilion.co.uk Lydia Nicholson & Jan Hoskins Self-taught local artists. (Until Sun 10 June) KING STREET GALLERY 33 King Street, Carmarthen. Free. 01267 220121 / gallery@kingstreetgallery. co.uk Geoff Brown Spotlight exhibition from a painter who says of his work, “I have always been concerned with the tension between the actuality of the painting as an object in itself and its representational or suggested imagery.”

(Throughout June) LLANTARNAM GRANGE ARTS CENTRE St. David’s Rd, Cwmbran, Torfaen. Mon-Sat 10am5pm. Free. 01633 483321 / www.lgac.org.uk Roger Cecil Cecil (19422015) has been described as one of the great abstract artists of his generation, while being little known outside a circle of fellow painters. This exhibition features paintings, jewellery and previously unexhibited 3D work. (From Sat 2 June until Sat 21 July) Fibre And Form Exhibition showing the results of Criw Celf primary and secondary participants creating wet felt forms alongside textile artist Claire Cawte. (From Sat 2 June until Sat 21 July) Kate Temple Craft showcase from a London-based designer who makes hand-stitched menswear inspired by Liberty prints and heritage wools.

(From Sat 2 June until Sat 21 July) Antonella Figlia Jewellery showcase inspired by geometry, optical illusion, and photography. (From Sat 2 June until Sat 21 July) M.A.D.E. GALLERY 41 Lochaber St, Cardiff.

Wed-Sat 10am-6pm. Free.

029 2047 3373.

Flourish Annual affordable exhibition of works by over 50 local artists, inspired on this occasion by ‘nature’ and ‘growth’. (Until Sun 3 June) Lynne Cartlidge & Glenn Carney Joint exhibition of new landscapes and interiors by two painters based in Cardiff. (From Fri 15 June until Sun 1 July) MARTIN TINNEY GALLERY 18 St Andrew’s Crescent, Cardiff. Mon-Fri 10am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Free.

029 2064 1411 / mtg@ artwales.com John Macfarlane ‘Tosca’ Macfarlane, a Glaswegian living in Wales, is both a painter and theatre designer, and here presents working drawings of both the set and costumes for the 2018 production of Puccini’s Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (From Thurs 7 until Thurs 28 June) MISSION GALLERY Gloucester Place, Swansea.

Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. Free.

01792 652016 / www. missiongallery.co.uk Claire Barclay ‘Deep Spoils’ Scottish artist known for creating large-scale installations, often made in situ and in response to the spaces in which they are shown. (Until Sun 3 June) Sketty Primary School Sixty pupils from said school worked with artist Keith Bayliss to produce designs inspired by the work of artist Glenys Cour. A Maker In Focus show. (Until Sat 9 June) The March: A Collective Pilgrimage Work in the [...] space: students and faculty at Swansea College Of Art reimagine events from 1913, when Welsh women took to the road to petition parliament and demand equal rights. (Until Sat 9 June) Raising The Bar & Portfolio Showcase of work created as part of Mission Gallery’s flagship education programme, Criw Celf West. (From Sat 16 June until Sat 14 July) NATIONAL MUSEUM CARDIFF Cathays Park, Cardiff. TueSun 10am-5pm. Free except where noted. 029 2057 3500 / www.museumwales.ac.uk/ cardiff Cerith Wyn Evans ‘Radiant Fold (...The Illuminating Gas’) Installation commissioned for Amgueddfa Cymru through the Contemporary Art Society’s Great Works scheme, and referencing Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Batchelors, Even. (Until Sun 2 Sept) Who Decides?

Long-term exhibition from the collections of the Museum and the Derek Williams Trust, curated by service users from The Wallich homelessness charity. This detail seeks to highlight issues around curation and the narrow demographic of those usually involved in it. (Until Sun 2 Sept) Kizuna Exhibition exploring the links between Japan and Wales in terms of art, culture and trade. See

Upfront. (From Sat 16 June until Sun 9 Sept) NATIONAL WATERFRONT MUSEUM Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea. Daily 10am-5pm.

Free. 01792 638950 / museum.wales/swansea Michael Blackmore ‘Portraits Of The Past’ Detailed studies recreating scenes from Wales’s industrial past, bringing back to life canals and ironworks that were centres of activity during the Industrial Revolution.

(Until Sun 24 June) Pirates: The Truth Behind The Tales As Wales celebrates its Year Of The Sea, discover the truth behind the legends in an exhibition explaining the history of pirates, privateers and buccaneers throughout the world. (Until Sun 30 Sept) NEWPORT MUSEUM & ART GALLERY John Frost Square,

ORIEL CANFAS Glamorgan Street, Canton, Cardiff. Tue-Fri 1-4.30pm, Sat 10.30am-4.30pm. 029 2066 6455 / www. orielcanfas.co.uk On The Third Day Multimedia exhibition featuring work by Lydia Dier, Catherine Fisher, Chris Griffin and Alun Hemming. (Until Sat 16 June) ORIEL CRIC Beaufort Street, Crickhowell. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-1pm.

Free. 01873 813669.

Crickhowell Open Art Exhibition An annual highlight of Cric’s gallery programme, showing a rich variety of work. (Until Sat 7 July) ORIEL DAVIES The Park, Newtown, Powys.

Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm.

Free. 01686 625041 / enquiries@orieldavies.org

On the evening of Fri 8 June, drop in to Cardiff And Vale College on Dumballs Road for a showcase of the work produced by this year’s Creative Department. There’ll even be a fashion catwalk.

Newport.Tue-Fri 9.30am5.30pm, Sat 9.30am-4pm.

Free. 01633 656656 / museum@newport.gov.uk

Maurice Barnes Paintings from this gallery’s collection by an underrated Newport artist who died in 1971 and captured many moments of change in the landscape of the town. (Until Sat 14 July) Newport Library, Museum And Art Gallery – 50 Years In John Frost Square Photographic exhibition, plus film footage, of the opening of said building

by Princess Margaret, who generously broke off her busy schedule of extramarital affairs to visit Newport on 5 Apr 1968. (Until Sat 15 Dec) Women’s Suffrage Banners Rotating exhibition to mark a century since the Representation Of The Peoples Act was passed. Two banners will be on display at a time, one in the Museum and one in the Art Gallery. (Until Sat 29 Dec) NORWEGIAN CHURCH ARTS CENTRE Harbour Drive, Cardiff Bay. Daily 11am-4pm. Free.

029 2087 7959 / www. norwegianchurchcardiff. com The Gallery Gift Shop A collaboration of artists, artisans, crafters and photographers from around South Wales offering their products at this exhibition-cum-pop-up.

(Throughout June)

Miranda Whall ‘Crossed Paths’ Film installation featuring footage from the Cambrian Mountains last year, where Whall dressed as a sheep, strapped 14 GoPros to herself and crawled around on all fours. The results seek to highlight humanity’s relationship with the environment and the hierarachy of our biped status. (Until Wed 13 June) Oriel Davies Open 2018 Contemporary practice by established and emerging talent across the UK and overseas, selected by Sacha Craddock, Jane Simpson, Matthew Collings, Steffan Jones-Hughes and Alex Boyd Jones. (From Sat 23 June until Wed 5 Sept) ORIEL JOANNA FIELD Torch Theatre, St. Peter’s Road, Milford Haven. Free.

01646 695267 / www. torchtheatre.co.uk Alison Kaye Fowler Welsh painter inspired by the coastlines of West Wales, creating highly textured and evocative seascapes which emphasise the unique light qualities Pembrokeshire has to offer.

(Until Fri 29 June) ORIEL MWLDAN Bath House Rd, Cardigan.

Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. Free.

01239 621200 / helena@ mwldan.co.uk James Moore ‘Strange Eden’ Paintings with elements of photorealism, abstraction, collage and sampling, and with reference points such as museums dioramas, video games and

dreams. (Until Sun 10 June) Jennifer Taylor See Art for more on this multimedia artists, who works with film and live performance to create absurd scenarios. (From Sat 16 June until Sun 15 July) ORIEL MYRDDIN Church Lane, Carmarthen.

01267 222775 / www. orielmyrddingallery.co.uk Chair A selection of chairs from the collection of the Design Museum, previewed in Art last month. (Until Sat 7 July) ORIEL Q The Queens Hall, High Street, Narberth. Wed-Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 01834 869454 / www. orielqnarberth.com Sarah Poland ‘Numinous Light, Dazzling Night’ A series of paintings, lithographs and drawings made over five years, including three years living off-grid in an 80-acre Welsh oak woodland.

(Until Sat 16 June) Jess Woodrow ‘The Sound Of Water’ Painter showing work which represents a short period of time where she relocated from the city to a tiny ancient settlement in the Black Mountains. (Until Sat 16 June) ORIEL Y PARC The Grove, St Davids, Pembrokeshire.

Free. 01437 720392 / info@orielyparc.co.uk Coterir Leather and Pampeliska Jewellery Exhibited in the windows of the Discovery Room.

(Throughout June) Kate Freeman ‘Tide And Time’ Artist In Residence exhibition set to comprise drawings of the marks and textures of rocks in the locale, then using this to create paintings in the studio. (Throughout June) Indir Mukherji Contemmporary art exhibited in the St Davids room. (Until Thurs 19 July) William Stott ‘Le Passeur (The Ferryman)’ Stott, a leading figure among a group of late19th century British artists influenced by French naturalism, has his best-known work shown here, alongside works from Amgueddfa Cymru, chosen to explore rural life.

(Until Sun 2 Sept) Square Pegs Craft group with a popup exhibition. (From Mon 18 until Sun 24 June) PENARTH PIER PAVILION The Esplanade, Penarth.

Free. 029 2071 2100 / www. penarthpierpavilion.co.uk My Song My Story Poetry and photography created by the Forget-Me-Not Chorus, a local charity, and poet Patrick Jones. (From Fri 8 until Sat 23 June) PONTARDAWE HERITAGE & VISITORS CENTRE Herbert Street, Pontardawe.

Free. facebook.com/ pontardaweheritagecentre Hilary Bryanston & Jane Carpenter ‘Gower To The Gwrhyd’ Contemporary and traditional glass by Carpenter;

ceramics, original prints and watercolours by Bryanston.

(From Sat 23 June until Fri 31 Aug) PONTYPRIDD MUSEUM Bridge Street, Pontypridd.

Mon-Sat 10am-4.30pm.

Free. 01443 490748 / www. pontypriddmuseum.cymru Pontypridd’s Coastal Connections Mixed show celebrating Wales’ Year Of The Sea and showcasing the town’s nautical links. (Until Fri 27 July) REDHOUSE Old Town Hall, High Street, Merthyr Tydfil. Free. 01685 384111 / info@ redhousecymru.com FD Art Practice Selected artwork from the end of year show by The College Merthyr Tydfil’s FD Art Practice department. (Until Thurs 14 June) Andrew McNeill A humanitarian photographer concentrating on the human condition. (From Tue 19 June until Sat 14 July) ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC & DRAMA Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Free. 029 2039 1391 / www.rwcmd. ac.uk Balance 2018 Annual show in which graduate designers, stage managers, composers and performers combine to present a fresh look at the work of the RWCMD. Showing in London from Fri 29 JuneSun 1 July. (From Thurs 14 until Wed 20 June) THE SHO GALLERY Upstairs, The Castle Emporium, Womanby Street, Cardiff. Free. www. thesho.co.uk Year Of The Dog Caninethemed group exhibition, featuring over 20 artists and aiming to raise money for Friends of the Dogs Wales. (From Sat 9 June until Sat 28 July) SINCLAIR MERCEDESBENZ CARDIFF Cardiff Gate Business Park, Mulberry Drive, Pontprennau, Cardiff.

6.30-9pm. £12.50/£29.50 VIP. www.offbeatlounge. co.uk/cbc Still – Music In Revolution The latest rock photography exhibition to tour British car showrooms, presumably with an ulterior motive of advertising cars to the prospective audience, this crop is taken from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and covers several decades of blues, jazz, rock’n’roll and the hitmakers of the 1960s and 70s. (Thurs 21 June only) SPIT & SAWDUST Rhymney River Bridge Road, Cardiff. Free. 029 2049 4741 / www. spitandsawdust.co.uk Chris Alton ‘Crudely Plucking The Strings’ S&S’ inaugural Billboard Commission, located in the park’s yard space and depicting/reimagining the flood of the Bristol Channel in 1607.

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(Until Mon 12 Nov) THE SUSTAINABLE STUDIO 7 Curran Buildings, Curran Rd, Cardiff. Daily 11am-4pm. Free. 07852 275498 / www. thesustainablestudio.com Kieran Lyons ‘Open Hinge’ An exhibition of drawings of footballs, and why not? (From Fri 18 until Fri 15 June) SWANSEA GRAND THEATRE Singleton St, Swansea.

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Free.

01792 475715 / www. swanseagrand.co.uk Gower College Graduate Exhibition (From Mon 4 until Fri 29 June) TENBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Castle Hill, Tenby. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, £4/£3/£2 kids.

01834 842809 / www. tenbymuseum.org.uk Alec Lewis Sales exhibition of works by Tenby artist Lewis featuring images of Augustus John, Dylan Thomas and Leonard Cohen among others.

(Until Sun 10 June) THEATR HAFREN Llanidloes Road, Newtown, Powys. Mon-Sat 10am5.30pm. Free. 01686 625007 / thehafren.co.uk AIG Work by a confederation of artists, working in a variety of media, who originate from different cultures (Britain, Russia, USA, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Italy and Germany) and wish to explore cultural diversity and promote international understanding. (Until Thurs 23 Aug) TOWER GALLERY 49 High Street, Crickhowell.

Wed-Sat 10am-5pm. Free.

01873 812495 / www. towergallery.co.uk Hannah Firmin & Philippine Sowerby Firmin is an illustrator and printmaker inspired by the countryside; Sowerby is a sculptor in wood whose work reflects on power and vulnerability. Also showing work by all members of the Usk Valley Artists’ Co-operative. (Until Sat 7 July) VICTORIA FEARN GALLERY 6B Heol y Deri, Rhiwbina, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 9.30am5.30pm, Sun 10am-3pm.

Free. 029 2052 0884.

Jeremy Thomas A series of A6 ink drawings produced in very limited quantities, and with key features handembellished with silver ink.

(Until Sat 2 June) THE WELSH QUILT CENTRE Town Hall, Lampeter. TueSat 11am-4.30pm. Free.

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examples from the Jen Jones collection; room two a glimpse into Welsh Samplers, many of which were made by very young girls in the 19th century. (Until Sat 10 Nov) THE WORKERS 99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir, nr Porth. 11am-4.30pm Thurs-Sat and by appointment. Free. 01443 682024 / wood4tt@gmail.com Taboo Exhibition exploring dark desires, fears and ‘the forbidden’ through art, design, craft and the written word.

Some visitors may find the exhibition content disturbing or upsetting, advise the gallery. (From Thurs 7 June until Sat 4 Aug) WYESIDE ARTS CENTRE Castle Street, Builth Wells.

Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm. Free.

01982 552555.

PowysArt & The Winifred Francis Art Gallery As well as featuring the works of the late Winifred Francis, abstract pieces by Jack Francis, sculpture from Georgie Fergusson and a combined show by photographers Annette Mills, Phil Davies, Laura Shepherd and David Nesbitt. (Until Thurs 7 June)

clubs ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University.

01970 623232 / www. aberystwythartscentre. co.uk Sun 17 Big Fish Little Fish 2pm, £8/£6. Baby/toddler/parent raver brand visits this town for the first time (I think) with Bunf from the Super Furry Animals DJing.

ATLANTICA Market Street, Newport.

01633 252611.

Sat 2 Saiyan Techno Sessions 9pm-4am, £3. Deep and dark techno with a lineup TBC, presumably locals.

THE ATTIC 5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/ theatticswansea Sat 30 Con7rol 9pm4am, £15-£17 adv. Techno crossover faves Dense & Pika headline Con7rol’s seventh night, alongside Taz Meah, Alexander Eley, Lloyd Haines, Natasha Denby, Jamie Morgan, Martin Dibble, Bode and Vedra.

BALTER FESTIVAL Chepstow Racecourse. info@balterfestival.com / www.balterfestival.com Fri 8-Sun 10 Balter Festival £120 adv/£40 Sun 10 only. The return of this shouty, serotonindepleting rave weekend. See Clubs for more, here’s the lineup. Caravan stage (live bands): Pás De Problème, Nubiyan Twist, Backbeat Soundsystem, MC Devvo, Lazy Habits, Captain

Hotknives, Roughneck Riot, Popes Of Chillitown, Fat Panthers, Skata Tones, Sage Jungle Drummer, Ed Cox & E-Coli, Big Lad, Bad Fractals, Smiley & The Underclass, Rotten Foxes, Freddy Frogs & The Balter Circus, Mondo Wave, The Glitzy Baghags and Miss Balter. Jigsore stage (jungle, breakcore etc): Audio, I:Gor, The Satan, Alryk, Djipe, Asphalt Pirates, Mark EG, Mandidextrous, Stivs, DJ L.A.B, Ruby My Dear, Stazma The Junglechrist, Klitorix, Dr..Um, Ben Pest and Pastaman b2b Bosslady.

The Hex (drum’n’bass, jungle etc): Ed Rush, The Upbeats, Kasra, QZB, Koan Sound, Asbo Disco & Gardna, Fields and Boundary. Rumble In The Jungle Sunday Soundclash: Bryan Gee, Solo Banton, DJ Hybrid, Kamoh, Pull Up Collective, Apprentice MC, Tremor Soundsystem, JFB, Dope Ammo, Dutty Moonshine, Father Funk, Bear Twists, Octo Pi, Maria Laveau and Trafic MC. The Drawing Room (mostly UK breakcore madheads who I thought had stopped making music years ago): Wrong Music takeover featuring DJ Scotch Egg, Shitmat, Ladyscraper, DJ Floorclearer, Judith Priest, Ebola, Demon Cabbage, Mully, Sorry, Roger Species and the Countryside Alliance Crew; Methlab takeover featuring Broken Note, Malux, Cause4concern and War; Offmenut takeover featuring Spongebob Squarewave, Smiley Maxx, Korse & Basshound, Venz, DJ Gurl Power, Vincent Van Sloth, Daddy Long Legs, Ben Suff Donk, GM Ben, Neika, Gamm@, Heatzy, Breakforce One, Biohannya, Numb’n’Dub, Savage States, Yoko Urameshi, Figcake, General Waste, Algorithmic, Major Upset, Default, Wombcorps, DubLiner, Selector Spinach, Darkcity Sisters, Hurtdeer, Ars Dada, Sariuo and Krimp & Squiffy. Balkanical Circus (live Balkan bands): 3 Daft Monkeys, Henge, Buffo's Wake, The Roustabouts, Mango Factory and Biere De Luxe. 24 Hr Garage Girls (garage and bassline): Shaun Dean, DJ Cartier, Kanji Kinetic, Mikey B, Phatworld, Squire Of Gothos, Deadbeat UK, Dr Cryptic, Vital Techniques, Thorpey, Shosh, Riffs, Forca MC, Sketchi, King Hydra, Zenji, Audio Gutter, Sample Junkie, Ali Monsta, In:flux Audio, Link UK, A-Bee, Iller Instinct, Wamjam, Tino, Chef-Bozwan and Dert Bagginz MC. SIKA Studios (hip-hop): Babylon Dead, Inja, Killaz Army, Devilman, Badness, Kuedon, Fiyahman, Flash Harry, Tenchoo, Danja, Mal, King Bracket, Snoopy Dubz, Omus One, Chucky, Inspecta Veg, Bonafyde, Joe Burn, Kelvin 373,Tich Dextrix, Lezley D, Booogieman, Brookie, NK, Enso and Mantis. Irie Bingo stage (dub and reggae): Radikal Guru, Demolition Man, Parly B, Deemas J, Bustawidemove, Joe Burn, Shire Roots, Blazenstein, No Ice Cream Sound, Boa Kusasa, Reason Soundsystem, Gwarn Owl, James Tsoia,

Frenchy, Hidden Riddim, Castrum and Freddy Pimms.

Buckyham Palace (jungle): Aries b2b Nicky Blackmarket, Remarc, Kelvin 373 b2b Selecta J-Man, Matt:Scratch / C3B / T.Menace, Buckfast Boys Club, Hkay, Raptus, Sebby T, Lemmy Dubz, Gorilla Tactics takeover featuring Phibes, Audiomission, Bish, Underkind, Denzie, Binksy, Big Mon, Scratch Bandikoot, Balter Crew takeover featuring Raggamortis, Cosmic Leo, Jak MCs, Lady Lox, Moley Grail, The Hadi Lama, Alk-M-E, Miki Taiki, DJ Fully Booked, DJ Slanty, Tapeworm, Garfed, Lemon Girl, Emcee Ellis D, DJ Madwaaan & MC Ro Sheen and Chunda.

Dutty Disco (disco/cheese): Abba Gabba, Breakwhore b2b Gizmode, All ‘Ravers’ Are Going Straight To Hell Ft. The Dyson Twins & Friends, Raggamortis, AAA Badboy, DJ Theme Tunes, Shut Up FM, The Ket Shop Boys, Barry Von Weedhousen, Jeremy Carbine b2b Bloatorious P.I.G., Drake Mallard, The Scrolling Stones, Freear, Uncle Bulgaria, Fukrag McGinty, G.L.A.R.C, Bozak, DJ F*k’s Dangerous Disco, Soup Kitchen Radio, Tina Gurner, Dads On Tour, Hand Bagginz, DJ Dry Hump, Disco Finger, Busta Hymen, Slug Lips, Chaka Carnage b2b Unspunn and Brain Rays & Stoogie Houzer presents The Fug. BAMBU BEACH BAR 51-52 Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 651651 / www.bambu-bar.co.uk Fri 8 Intirave: International Fridays Reggaeton Vibes 8pm-3am, £3/free before 10. DJ Lucia and Adam Cariad play reggaeton, electrolatino, salsa, dembow, bachata, commercial hits and r’n’b. Also in Soda, Cardiff on Tue 12.

BAR COCOA Broad Street, Barry. facebook.com/cocoabarry Thursdays Reggae Nights DJs Gadget and The Candyman (Love & Harmony Sounds) play lovers rock, classic and new reggae jams weekly. Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3.30am, £3.

With DJ James Bourne and sopecial guest appearances/ live sets.

THE BIG TOP / 10 FEET TALL 11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / thisis10feettall@yahoo. co.uk Thursdays Rock hits from DJ Andy Rhys Lewis.

Fridays + Saturdays Resident DJs playing soul and funk. Fri 15 Killing Moon 10pm, £4. Eighties alternative hits. Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10.

Funk and neo-soul.

BLIND TIGER 49 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 243500.

Wednesdays Wild Wednesdays Cocktails, drink deals and tunes as part of a cross-city midweek session. Fridays Koncept

& Friends 11pm, £3-£5.

House, techno and bass music with guest DJs, breaking producers and residents from Wales’ freshest nights.

Saturdays Re:work 11pm, £5. Underground and cutting edge club music promised.

BUFFALO 11 Windsor Place, Cardiff.

Open Mon-Thurs 11am-3am, Fri + Sat 11am-4am, Sun until 4am. 029 2031 0312 / www.buffalocardiff.com Mondays Bump &

u – repeated

Tue 5 CYNT 10pm-3am, £5-£7. Headlined by Mall Grab, this sold out immediately but people always buy more tickets than they need so check the Facebook page.

Viewpoints, Eben Rees and Elliot Mitchell also DJ. Wed 6 Crush On The Run 10.30pm, £3.50 adv. An unofficial afterparty, presented by coffee shop Hard Lines, for the Jay-Z & Beyoncé concert over the road. The event page for this night mentions Beyoncé 10 times

Dense & Pika are a British duo of established techno bods, and their sound has taken them places in the last couple of years. On Sat 30 June, it takes them to the Attic in Swansea, where they headline a night for promoters Con7rol.

Grind 10pm-3am, from £2. R’n’b/hip-hop night.

Fri 8 Canopy 10pm-4am, £5 adv. Drum’n’bass night headlined by T>I. Fri 22 Stickylemons 9.30pm-4am, £6-£10. Drum’n’bass night headlined by Mr Traumatik, an MC doing a live PA show here. Saturdays The Shake Up 10pm-4am, £3.

Pop, chart, house, r’n’b funk and soul from residents over two floors.

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / www. cardiffstudents.com Wednesdays YOLO 9pm2am, £4/£3 adv/free before 11. New midweek club night promising both your favourite tunes and great offers.

Good name, really on trend.

Finishes on Wed 13 June until September. Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop. Finishes on Sat 9 June until September.

CLUB ICE Broadway, Pontypridd.

07771 920726 / www. clubiceponty.com Fridays Flashback 10pm3am, Retro hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s. Saturdays Gravity 10.30pm-3am, £7/£5 before 11. House, techno and dance every week on the club’s Void soundsystem.

CLUB OXYGEN 1 Northampton Lane, Swansea. 0844 8849171 / www.globaloxygen.co.uk Fridays Dance Anthems 11pm-6am, free. House and commercial music all night from Big Al, Nicky G, 3 Bird, Jordan Steins, LJ Isaac and Tom Chizzy. Saturdays 11.30pm-5am, £5/free before 1. House, house & bass (what is this?), progressive and big room tunes.

CLWB IFOR BACH Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net

and Jay-Z once. That’ll take him down a peg or two! Wed 13 Flatline 11pm-4am, £6-£10 adv. Drum'n'bass from DJ Limited, Bou, Oni, Dox, Raudi TT ft Razkid, Jay Sun and Ez Ra plus host Commadee. Thurs 7 Brooklyn Zoo 11pm, £5-£8.

Hip-hop and grime upstairs, r’n’b downstairs. Last one of these until autumn. Fridays (bottom) Seventy Times 7 11pm-3am, £3-£5. Weekly clubnight offering alt-rock and pop-punk. *Fri 1 Rinse FM 11pm-4am, £10-£15. Featuring dubstep pioneer Loefah and Hessle Audio panelbeater Pangaea, plus City Bass DJs and Läuft. Fri 29 Submerge 10.30pm-4am, £5-£10. Outlook Festival launch party with Truth, Sepia, Finwa, Ransom, Blokey, Benny Bootleg and Pedeadstrian b2b Tailored Sound. Saturdays Dirty Pop 10pm-4am, £5. Three floors of fun: The Vinyl Vendettas’ top floor resident indie shindig; Dirty Pop and Mr Potter’s proper disco.

COURTYARD 48 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.

Wednesdays Wild Wednesdays Upfront dance anthems and “Urban Vibes”. Fridays Spotlight Sessions / The Kickstart 5pm, £3/free before 9.

Urban and club anthems and drinks deals. Part of the NPCLUBHOP price deal which also includes entry to Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Lambaba. Saturdays Mischief Beat-driven anthems is the ambiguous description for tonight’s music policy. Sundays Good Time Social Club 8pm, free.

DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights. Sun 10 Eclipse – Adults Special Needs Night 6.30-10.30pm, free. New club night aimed at adults with autism, Downs Syndrome, or a physical or mental inability.

CREATURE SOUND Ken Bu Kan, 1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 01792 301178 / www. creaturesound.com

FICTION & VINYL The City Gates, Little Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 828777 / www.fictionclub. co.uk/swansea

Fri 22 Tribe Of Swan 10pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12.

Psytrance from Psykinetic, DJ Iah, Chris B v Sizey and Zulus.

THE DEPOT Dumballs Road, Cardiff.

029 2034 1199 / www. depotcardiff.com

Mondays Quids In 10.45pm-2.30am, £3.50/£2 before 11. Chart, cheese, r’n’b, dance and house.

Wednesdays Underground 11pm-3.30am, £3.50/£2 before 1. House, chart, r’n’b and cheese across two rooms.

Fridays 11pm-3am, £5/£3 adv. Drinks offers and, uh, music I guess. Saturdays Agenda 10.30pm-3am, £3.50/£2 before 1. Fiction: house, r’n’b, EDM. Vinyl: pop and party.

THE FLORA Cathays Terrace, Cardiff.

029 2115 1016 / www. theflora.co.uk

Sat 16 Psychedelic Funhouse 2.30-6.30pm + 7.30-11.30pm, £14.99-£22.50.

“Take a trip with us on a kaleidoscopic adventure, via altered realities, surreal experiences and other worlds with mind bending entities.”

Golly gee! What music will soundtrack this? “An eclectic mix of genres including psy, drum’n’bass, jungle, bassline, garage and tropical.”

DE VALENCE PAVILION Upper Frog St, Tenby.

01834 218228 / www. devalencepavilion.co.uk Sun 3 Big Fish Little Fish 2-4.30pm, £7.50 adv/prewalkers free. Baby rave brand debuts in this seaside town with a DJ set by Bunf of the Super Furry Animals. Fri 29 Craig Charles Funk And Soul Club 8pm-12am, £17.50 adv. Radio and TV personality with his DJ night that seems to sell out everywhere, including here. He’s also playing the Rainbow Rooms in Swansea tonight though.

EDDIES 4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co Fri 22 Housewerk 9.30pm, £5. House and techno from Lloyd Haines, ADR, Lewis John and Spctrm b2b Barn-E

Tue 12 Get Funky Day Party 1-8pm, £6-£12. End of term garden party featuring DJ sets from Eben Rees, Brynn Salter and Swales. All the tickets sold out immediately for this. Whoever Get Funky are, I have to assume they will be absolutely raking it in from this relative to the effort and outlay involved.

FUEL 5 Womanby Street, Cardiff.

07970 063107 / facebook. com/fuelcardiff

Swansea. 01792 475147 / www.whitez.co.uk/#garage

Sat 9 Delusion Free Thank You Party 10pm3am, free. The occasion is one of the Delusion promoters’ 30th birthday and you have a sign up to a mailing list to get your free ticket (go to facebook.com/delusionevents).

GLAM Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.

029 2022 9311 / info@ glamnightclub.co.uk Mondays Bed 10pm-3am, £2/free before 11. A mashup of chart, r’n’b, cheese and dance across two floors. Formerly known as The Fest. Fridays Gasolina 11pm-4am, £4 before 12. Reggaeton, r’n’b and club bangers. Launching on Fri 1 June. Saturdays Rumour 9pm-3am, £5-£10.

Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity. Sat 30 Groove Rooftop Summer Series 2018 Part 2 4-10.30pm, £12-£18. Featuring a headliner TBC, it is however already selling well without anyone announced, hey ho.

THE GLOBE 125 Albany Rd, Cardiff.

07590 471888 / www. globecardiffmusic.com

Thursdays FUBAR 10pm2am. Rock, metal and alternative clubnight. Fridays + Saturdays Rock and metal anthems each weekend, plus special guests when such types are in town. Fri 1 Dear Maria 10pm-4am, £3/£2 NUS. Launch of a new pop-punk and emo night which also promises giveaways and beer pong.

Sat 9 Club Tropicana 9pm-2am, £5 adv. Eighties pop disco night. Sat 16 Star Shaped 9pm-2am, £5 adv.

Britpop disco night. Fri 22 Black Parade 10pm-2am, £4 adv. Emo anthems from the 00s disco night.

GWDIHW Guildford Crescent, Cardiff.

029 2039 7933 / www. gwdihw.co.uk

THE GARAGE 47 Uplands Crescent,

Sat 2 Sure Shot 9pm. Jazz, funk, afro-disco and more

KINDIEGARTEN Tramshed, Cardiff, Sat 23 June Tickets: £8.50. Info: 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com Time was, rearing children would put paid to one’s prospects of pursuing a life going to clubs and listening to one’s favoured music. In recent years, this has began to change with the onset of clubnights – make that afternoons – aiming to entertain babies, toddlers and their parents. So in the slipstream of Big Fish Little Fish, a throwback to rave’s golden era, comes the debut of Kindiegarten, which is set to be rolled out as a UK-wide venture but which debuts in Cardiff this month. An indie disco with hits from the genre selected by DJ Dan of Propaganda, itself an established multi-city club brand, Kindiegarten will also feature soft play and craft areas, plus cartoons in Tramshed’s cinema, across its three-hour duration.

from Pete of On The Corner Records plus Miles Day. This evening is also something to do with the Soundwave Festival. Thurs 7 The Smooth Guide 9pm-2am, free. New night hosted by DJ Veto, this month concentrating on records on or around the 100bpm mark. Fri 8 3D Brass 9pm, £4/£3 adv. Live brass covers of EDM hits (you heard) plus DJs playing a mixture of both those things.

Tue 12 Cardiff Electronic Producers 7.30pm, free.

In association with Cardiff Ableton User Group, plus an open decks session from 7.309pm. Fri 15 The Mixtape 9pm. Eclectic house, disco, techno and boogie. Sat 16 Tropical Soundclash 9pm, £5/£3 adv. See Clubs for a preview of tonight, featuring DJ Sam Redmore and live percussionist The Mighty Magoo.

Sat 23 Rhythmically Applied 9pm. Can’t even take a punt on what this is sorry.

Fri 29 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Electro, synthpop, Italo disco, new wave, funk and more. Sat 30 Boom Bap BBQ 9pm. Hip-hop, disco, funk and more, hosted

by Comfort from Astroid Boys.

GWYL HAF SUMEMR FEST Llettymaeliog New Inn, Llandeilo. facebook.com/ robotmonkeyofficial Sat 30 Robot Monkey Gwyl Haf Summer Fest 3pm-3am, £25 adv. Featuring a five-hour deep house with live percussion set by Robot Monkey, pus techno, funk anmd soul sets before and after. Also a two-course meal.

Not sure if that’s included in the price. Proceeds to the Wales Air Ambulance Charity.

JACOB’S MARKET West Canal Wharf, Cardiff.

029 2039 0939. *Sat 2 Teak: Miami Vice 2018 3pm-5am. Annual two-venue alldayer from Teak, with Jonny Rock and Paramida in this building’s carpark in the daytime, then Vladimir Ikovic and Teak residents in the basement in the evening. Kongs on St Mary Street will have Lena Wikikens and Studio 89 DJs, also in the evening. Fri 6 July Lamerica: One Last Dance 10pm-4am. This is an extra date booked to meet demand after the other, in a secret Cardiff venue (see a few entries along), sold out quickly. I think this one is sold out too though.

KALLIDA FESTIVAL Baskerville Hall, nr HayOn-Wye. 01685 388872.

Fri 22-Sun 24 Kallida Festival 12pm, £105 adv.

Three days of multi-genre dance music, here for a second year. See Clubs for a preview. Lineup (schedule to be confirmed approx a week before): Daniel Avery, Channel One, Rockwell, Moxie, Teki Latex, Henge, Kokoroko, Jus Now, Afriquoi, L-Vis 1990, Nookie, Children Of Zeus, Trellion, Manara, The Busy Twist, Spinee, K.o.g, Nilüfer Yanya, Lord Apex, Phatworld, Hipsters Don’t Dance, Lean

Low, Rawkid, Jazzi Bobbi, Superior Cornrows, Nic Baird, Rupes & Rubin, City Guys, Clarks, Itoa, Bbz, Lil C, Kontiki, Sacha Kella, Proteus, Harleylikesmusic, Morriarchi, Smiley Maxx, Stevie T, Zeeni, Satsumas, Kushie , Aupac Trio, Reuben G, Dankle, Razzmatazz, Colder Tech Support, Limit Break, Hugh Taylor, Funsby and more.

KARMA 75 St Mary Street, Cardiff.

Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. karmaclubcardiff@gmail. com Sat 2 United Sounds Meets Circle 8 9pm-6am, £5.50-£13.50. Jump-up drum’n’bass and jungle from MC Evil B, Nicky Blackmarket, Hizzleguy, MC Juiceman, Hoodfellas Development, Nick The Greek and MCs Some White Kid and Donzilla.

Plus an all-female showcase featuring DJ Lady Y Len, Shanny Shan and MCs Y-Zer and Missy G; Joe Blow and T-Bone with MCs Reeality and Jaydee; a Next Level Takeover with Kallista, Juice and MCs Skamma and C-Za; Pabz, Frenzee and Bason with MC Slim Teng and many more TBC. LAMERICA: ONE LAST DANCE Venue TBC, Cardiff city centre. lamerica@ btinternet.com Sat 7 July Lamerica: One Last Dance 8pm. Cardiff’s top purveyors of soulful/classic house are bowing out for good, it seems, with a night in a venue close to their original home of the Emporium and vowing to continue “until the lights come on”. DJs: Craig Bartlett b2b Dave Jones, Gareth Hopkins, Darren Stewart, Neil Young, Dan Stephens, Nick Reeves and Simon Quinn. Another night has been booked in Jacobs Market, for Fri 6 July.

LASER STATION Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen.

01267 235648 / www. laserstationwales.com Sat 2 Fat Soul 8pm-3am, £6-£10. Jungle, hip-hop and dub in various measures, with Bristol DJ Kreed headlining over Skunkadelic & Veto, Miss Mitten, Optimystic, Doc P, Synapse, Jake Radar and MC Shrubz. Sat 16 90-Naughties Old Skool Classics Night 10pm-3am, £8/£6. Club classics from the days of the Waterside and Jolly Tar. I went to the Waterside once in about 2006, it was pretty fun.

THE LAST RESORT 207 High Street, Swansea. www.lastresortswansea. com Sat 16 Dogruff Open Air Summer Series 3pm-4am.

Techno and minimal specialists return for an alldayer and allnighter. Daytime: Kofi Tarris, Luke Tainton, Alex Taylor, Mikki James b2b Dan Knight, Aled Wynne b2b Gareth Richards and Kye. Evening: Murder, Amy Amor and Shaun Edwards.

Rescheduled from Sat 2

June. Wed 13 Music & Mind 3pm-4am, £5 adv.

Charity event in aid of MIND, featuring DJs from these stables: Sink, Rise, Polymer, Bermuda, Hustle, Sin Savers, Beats Not Bombs, Live Music Society and DJ Society. On the basis of those last two and the fact this is on a Wednesday I’m guessing this is mainly aimed at students.

Sat 2 June + Sat 7 July Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.

LEVEL 2 @ KONGS 114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. info@kongsbars. com / www.kongsbars.com *Sat 2 Teak: Miami Vice 2018 10pm-4am, £tbc. See the Jacob’s Market listings for the full lineup; this venue’s part of the bonanza will feature sets from Lena Wikikens and Studio 89 DJs. Fri 8 The Spin Doctors 10pm-3am, £6-£12. Not to be confused with the 90s pop-rock act, these Spin Doctors are doing something far more useful and necessary and starting another new drum’n’bass night in Cardiff. It’s headlined by Frankee, not to be confused with the early 00s hip-hop act, and also features Ransom, JuicE, Kingdom, Bassfox, Calamity, Ark and hostMC XL. *Fri 15 Beat Alliance 10pm-3am, £8 adv. See Clubs for more on this debut night, and especially its headline act DJ Fett Burger. Läuft, Lew James and Ben Hunter also feature in this night of wonky eclectic techno etc.

MARY’S 89 St Mary Street, Cardiff.

Mon-Thurs 4pm-2am, Fri 4pm-3am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-1am. 029 2066 8647 / www.maryscardiff. co.uk Wednesdays Wednesday Club 8pm-2am. Dance and chart toppers with DJ Chris.

Thursdays Mixxet 8pm2am. Fun, games, and cabaret with Amber Dextrous and Alphaa Heart. Fridays Non Stop Party 8pm-2am. DJ Lee plays tunes from the 90s onwards. Saturdays 8pm2am. Dance, pop and chart with DJ Billy Joe. Sundays Service 5pm-2am, free. Bingo with Aunty Ade and Aunty Betty from 5pm, with cash prizes; DJ Mary Golds until 9pm; guest cabaret at 9pm and DJ Billy Joe on the tapes (this is an odd turn of phrase but I like it) until 1am.

METRO’S Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www. metroscardiff.com Wednesdays Cheapskates 10pm-4am, £4/free early bird. Hywel plays ‘alternative mayhem’ and old skool cheese. Fridays Havoc 10.30pm-4am, free before 11.

Mismatched alternative tunes from Hywel. Saturdays Lose Yourself 10.30pm-4am, free before 11. Stereo Brain playing indie, beats, treats and pop-punk.

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* – recommended MINSKYS SHOW BAR Cathedral Walk, St David’s Centre, Cardiff. 029 2023 3128 / www.minskysshowbar.com Fridays & Saturdays 8pm1am. Dancing and cabaret with regular drag acts including Tina Sparkle, Miss Babs and Jolene Dover.

MISSOULA 84-86 St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 1315 / www.missoulabars.co.uk/ missoulacardiff Mondays Mojito Mondays 5pm-12am. Motown classics and mojitos 2-4-1 all night.

Thursdays Rock The Night 5pm-12am. Indie classics. Fridays #Friday 5pm-2am. Funky house and half price drinks from 5-10pm.

MOCKA LOUNGE Mill Lane, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 11am-late. 029 2022 1295 / www.mockalounge.com Thursdays The Social Affair 9pm-3am. Over-25s night with chart hits through the ages. Fridays Feeling Soul, funk, disco, rare groove and r’n’b. Saturdays The House Of Play Club hits from DJs Neeko, Dozzer and Boogie Pimp plus Ashley on live sax. Sundays Secret Two-for-one cocktails, half price food and back bar spirits.

THE MOON Womanby Street, Cardiff.

029 2037 3022 / info@ themooncardiff.com Wed 27 Womanby’s Clubbing 5.30-8pm. Monthly clubbing events for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health conditions. Run in partnership with Student Volunteering. Fridays Gigantic Until 4am, free.

Funk, punk, rock’n’roll, hiphop, indie, reggae and soul after bands finish playing.

Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Until 4am, free. Bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between, after bands finish playing.

NEON LOUNGE Market Street, Newport.

01633 533666 / theneon. co.uk/neon-bar-lounge Fri 1 Old School R’n’B Night 9pm-2am, free. With some old skool hip-hop and reggae too, on the first Friday or every month. Saturdays Urban Dance Night 9pm3am, free. Classic urban, house and r’n’b from DJ Steve C. Sat 30 Fixate & Freebass present Welshfest: The Warm Up 9pm-3am, £5. House and techno over two floors.

Lounge: Liam O’Connoll, John Flatt, Shaun Llewelyn, Guzzy, D-Sia, Delta Victor and Loaded Spider. Basement: Paul Blandford, Owen Kilby, Madame Twisted, Dan Waite, Jack Edinborough and Tom Mahoney.

PITCHER & PIANO Wind Street, Swansea.

01792 461312 / www. pitcherandpiano.com/ BUZZ 60

Sat 9 Shangri-La 4-11pm, £10. A day and evening of good time house headlined

by Michael Bibi of the Solid Grooves stable.

POPWORLD 96 St Mary Street, Cardiff.

Mon, Tue + Thurs 9pm3am; Wed 8pm-3am; Fri 5pm-3am; Sat 1pm-3am.

029 2023 5825.

Mondays Pop Rocks 9pm.

A night of what they call alternative pop but their examples (Green Day, Blink, Linkin Park) seem to suggest will be pop-punk and nu-metal.

Ah, it’s all just names at the end of the day. Fridays + Saturdays Popworld Party Until 3am. Drinks deals from 5-11pm (Fri) and 3-8pm (Sat).

POPWORLD Wind Street, Swansea. MonFri + Sun 8pm-3am; Sat 3pm-3am. 01792 470676.

Wednesdays Quids In 8pm-3am. Student night where drinks are £1. Fridays Ain’t No Party Like A Popworld Party 8pm-3am, £2-£4. Saturdays Club Classics 8pm-3am, £2-£4.

PRYZM Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.

029 2023 3854 / www. pryzm.co.uk/cardiff Mondays Quids In 10pm4am, £1 adv. Student night.

Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”. Saturdays Agenda 10pm-3am, £5. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff.

PULSE 3 Churchill Way, Cardiff.

029 2064 1010 / www. pulsecardiff.com. Gay venue.

Wednesdays Kapow!

10pm-4am. Student night with Jolene Dover and DJ Warren.

Fridays Full On 10pm-5am, £4/£3. DJ Craig downstairs, Opal upstairs. Saturdays Pop Til You Drop 10pm5am, £5/£4 b4 11. The very best chart remixes and classic hits all night long.

THE RAINBOW ROOMS 12 High Street, Gorseinon, Swansea. 07563 111225 / www.the-rainbowrooms. com Sat 2 Raver Tots 2-4pm, £11/£9 adults; £9/£6 kids.

Family rave aimed at babies/ toddlers and their parents/ guardians, this time with hardcore pioneer Slipmatt supplying the tunes. In Cardiff on Sun 1 July. Sat 2 Logic New Town 8pm-4am. Later this evening, a funky house night headlined by Pukka Up residents False Face and Shocker. Chris Logic Miller, Lee Grey, Daniel Pritchard, Rob Rees, Jason Pea, Jay Pufal, Trixta and James Wilding are the other DJs. Sat 9 Logic Hardcore: School Is Out! 6pm-6am, £12.50 adv. Half a day of full-scale stomp, see Clubs for more, here be the lineup. DJs: Sy,

Dougal, Marc Smith, Fallon, Miss Special K, Racy, Travis, Ben Manic, Studioslave, Conrad, Rob Rees & Jason P, Misteve, Arnie, Pesky & Onyx and a competition winner.

MCs: Enemy, Wotsee, Energy, 3Man, Skyz, Swifty, Venom, MCV and a competition winner. Fri 22 Wonkcrafts 9pm-4am, £15/£10 adv.

Drum’n’bass from Aksrevenge b2b Traumatik, Llew b2b Matenj, Teejay and DJ Pie Fi b2b Top Grot. Fri 29 Craig Charles Funk And Soul Club 10pm-3am, £17.50 adv.

Craig appears to be playing in Tenby this evening also, that one’s an earlier finish though so it’s probably easy enough to do both so long as he can find an efficient and understanding driver.

REVOLUTION Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk Tuesdays Mode 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Popular student night.

Fridays + Saturdays 9pm-3am. DJs, drinks offers, free area hire.

SIN CITY Dilwyn Street, Swansea.

01792 468892 / www. sincityclub.co.uk Tuesdays Hustle 10pm3am, £3/£2 before 12.

Motown, r’n’b and hip-hop.

Thursdays Sin Savers 10pm-3am, £3. Student night.

Fridays Monsters Of Rock 10pm-3.30am, £4/£2 before 12.30. Indie in room 1, metal in room 2. Sat 2 Bassline 10pm-4am, With special guests the 24 Hour Garage Girls, a DJ collective who play garage, and are girls. I had to check that last bit as it occurred to me it might be some blokes playing silly buggers. Saturdays Sink 10pm3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South.

SODA St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3363 / www. sodacardiff.com Tue 12 Intirave Cardiff: Welcome Summer 11pm4am, £3-£5. DJ Lucia and Adam Cariad play reggaeton, electrolatino, salsa, dembow, bachata, commercial hits and r’n’b. Wednesdays Replay 9pm-4am, £4. Chart, cheese and r’n’b for students.

Fridays Fade 10pm-3am, £4/£6 VIP. R’n’b, hip-hop, house and UK garage from Vijay, Jigga, Monique B and Dan Willow. Saturdays Soiree 9pm-4am. Three rooms including the Attic which is “the social playground for the high flyers and social elite, the only place to be seen.” Imagine catching your reflection in the mirror just after writing that.

Sundays Soda Sundays 9pm-3am, £4/£8 VIP. Three floors of music for students and industry workers.

TIGER TIGER Friary House, Greyfriars Rd, Cardiff. Open Mon-Fri 12pm-2am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-12.30am. 029

2039 1944 / www.tigertigercardiff.co.uk

Every Day Lucky Voice Karaoke From £2.50 per session. The UK's leading private karaoke experience each day of the week. Wednesdays Shotgun Rules 10pm-3am, £5/£3.50. Exclusive midweek student party. You don’t need NUS to get in though.

Fridays Tic Toc 10pm-3am, £4. “Forget the DJs who play the stuff you've never heard of, ours will be playing your favourite tracks all night long.” Fri 1 has specila guest DJ Cable; Fri 8 is an End Of Term Summer Party; Fri 15 is titled “Bye Uni, Hello Cardiff”; Fri 22 is billed as an Ed Sheeran afterparty and Fri 29 is The – not A, The – Officioal A-Level Blowout. Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc. Sat 2 has a special guest DJ set from Barry out of The Fratellis, who are playing in Cardiff Castle this same evening.

TRAMSHED Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com Sun 10 Good Life Cardiff 4pm-1am, £16/£13. Daytime/ evening party with nu-disco faves Crazy P and Dan Shake, plus Just William and Good Life residents. Plus there’s more! According to Good Life themselves: “The venue will undergo a colourful makeover as we channel the 1970s Woodstock scene with our Summer of Love theme!” These people are taking thousands of pounds of your money at a time promoting music they know literally nothing about. Sat 23 Kindiegarten 2-5pm, £8.50/£6 early bird/free prewalkers. This is basically like those raves for babies/toddlers (see below), but with indie music, in this case DJed by Dan from Propaganda. Sun 1 July Raver Tots 2-4pm, £11/£9 early bird (kids £9/£6 early bird). “A family rave where kids and grownups can hit the dance floor and let off some steam together,” and very much the Dennis Leary to Big Fish Little Fish’s Bill Hicks.

UNDERTONE (BASEMENT OF 10 FEET TALL) 11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com Fri 1 Groove Theory 10.30pm-4am, £6 adv.

Featuring locals Darkhouse Family and the Dimensions Soundsystem, aka some DJs from the Eastern Europe dance festival which this night is a co-pro with. Sat 2 Flatline 10pm, £5/£3 before 11. Bassline from Bandit, Oni, 10Sion, Onslaught and Pedeadstrian. Thurs 7 Pull Up 10pm, £5/£3 adv.

Bassline and jump-up. Fri 8 Unity 11pm-4am, £5/£3 NUS. House and techno from Spctrm, Oliver Harvey and AC Martinez. Sat 9 Paranoize 10pm-4am. Drum’n’bass to mark the end of exams, from JE3, Benny Bootleg, Oni, Havoc, Onslaught, Shell

Supply and hosts Hayez and Odd Sox. Tue 12 Luna 10pm-3am, £4/£2. Techno, acid and house from Matic, Varndell, Benek and Rhobo.

Thurs 14 Pressure 10pm.

Drum’n’bass. Fri 15 Selecta 11pm, £5/£3 adv. UK garage classics. Sat 16 Beat Cartel 11pm, £5/£3 adv. Last month I complained in these listings that these guys gave no indication of what kind of music they do. Turns out it’s “funky good time riddims”. Thanks for that. Tue 19 Wile Out 11pm, £4/£2 adv. Bassline. Fri 22 Helium 10pm. House.

Sat 23 XL Invites 10pm.

Drum’n’bass. Tue 26 Skank Ground 10pm. Bassline and drum’n’bass. Fri 29 Disko Rekah 11pm-4am, £4. Jungle and drum’n’bass. *Sat 30 Doppler 10pm, £7/£5. Techno with Árni (from the Plútó radio station in Reykjavik) plus Jessie Belters. J Nixon and Reed.

VALE WAREHOUSE Location TBC, Cardiff. www.cynt.uk / cyntcardiff@googlemail.com Sat 9 C-Y-N-T Warehouse Party 6pm-1am, £10-£17.

Cardiff club promoters’ annual warehouse party, headlined by Artwork with more acts TBC. THE VAULTS / PORTLAND HOUSE The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents. com Fri 8 Cellar Door 10pm5am, £12 adv. The return of this popular house and techno night to its original venue.

WAREHOUSE 54 54 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.

Wednesdays Krazy Wednesdays Cocktails, drink deals and tunes as part of a cross-city midweek session. Thurs 21 Big Tingz Promotions 7-11pm, £10 adv/£8 early bird. Featuring a headline set from London grime/rap MC K Koke.

Fridays Live Forever 12am, £3. Britpop classics.

Part of the NPclubhop multivenue deal. Saturdays The Indie Rock Disco 12am.

(Former) Meze Lounge DJs playing indie and rock classics. Also an NPclubhop night.

WOW BAR 4 Churchill Way, Cardiff.

Gay venue. Free all day Sun-Thurs; before 11pm Fri + Sat. 029 2066 6247 / www.wowbarcardiff.com Wednesdays Get Pounded Free. Hosted by Gypsy Divine, soundtracked by DJ Basil and named in reference to the £1 drinks offers. And nothing else. Thursdays Let’s Have A Kiki Free. DJs Basil and Chris soundtrack non-stop fun and games. Fridays Kitty’s Kabaret Free before 11. With WOW Showgirls Miss Kitty and Marcia, plus special guests every week.

Saturdays Hi Energy Free before 11. Pop and party upstairs, chart and dance downstairs. Sundays The Cuckoo Club Free. DJ Krys plays the tunes until late.

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events EVERY MONDAY Beat It: Drumming For Dementia Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 10.30am12.30pm, free. Info beatitpercussion@gmail.com.

Hosted by Lynn – contact her on the above email.

Beginners Belly Dance Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff. 6.307.40pm, £7/£30 for 5-week course. Info info@ burlesquecardiff.co.uk. With Stephanie. Every Monday apart from holiday breaks.

Bharatanatyam Dance Classes For Adult Beginners Bayview House, Cardiff Bay. 8.15-9.15pm. Info 029 2075 1158.

Book Club Evergreen Hall, Bridgend. 2-3.30pm, £3/£1 members. Info 01656 815757.

A group for reading and discussing literature.

Brecon Town Band Rehearsals Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623650. Hosted by Dave Jones – contact him on the above number.

Cardiff Inter Varsity Club Meeting The Plum Tree, Canton, Cardiff. 8.30pm, £5 (three-month trial membership). Info 07526 141392. A friendly social group offering the chance to “liven up your social life and meet new friends” through a varied events programme including theatre, live music, walks, badminton, table tennis and pub nights. More info at www. cardiffivc.org.uk.

Ceroc The Gate, Cardiff.

7.45-10.45pm, £8/£6 NUS. Info 029 2048 3344. A fusion of salsa, ballroom, tango, hip-hop and jive. Classes are easy and relaxed.

Children’s Ballroom Dancing Classes Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7-9pm. Info 01495 243252.

Community Choir Rehearsals Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd. 7-9pm, free. Info 01443 491424.

Community Choir Sessions Cornwall Street Church Hall, Grangetown, Cardiff. 7.30-9.30pm, free. Info 07952 752823. Led by Pauline Down and taking place every Monday during term time.

Drop-in Meditation And Mindfulness Classes The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 7-8.30pm, £5/£3 unwaged. Info 01792 458245.

New weekly class led by Mike Garside, Resident Teacher of Dharmavajra Kadampa Buddhist Centre in Swansea.

FAN Group Meeting Grange Pavilion, Grangetown, Cardiff. 11am, free. Info 07512 638792. FAN (Friends And Neighbours) groups offer the chance to meet people, speak about a chosen topic for one hour, and have a chat and a cuppa. More FAN meetings are elsewhere in Cardiff every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

FAN Group Meeting Grangetown Hub, Cardiff.

9.30am, free. Info 07512

638792.

FAN Group Meeting Whitchurch Library, Cardiff.

2pm, free. Info 07512 638792.

Freestyle Fitness Yoga Pontcanna Dojo, Cardiff.

7.15-8.15pm, £7.50/£35 for five classes. Info sarasclasses4@ gmail.com.

Funkypump Fitness Various venues across south Wales. 6am-8pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk.

Boxing-based high-intensity workout with a house soundtrack. Today’s lineup looks like this. Ware-house, Swansea: Bootcamp 6-7 + 10-11am; Funkypump 5-6 + 6-7pm; Warehouse ABC 5-7pm.

Ware-house, Port Talbot: HIIT 5-5.45pm. Rainbow Rooms, Gorseinon: Funkypump 6-7pm. First Choice Fitness, Llantrisant: Funkypump 6-7 + 7-8pm. Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Funkypump 6-7pm. Elympia Fitness, Ely, Cardiff: 6.157.15pm. Funkypump Fitness, Carmarthen: Funkypump 6.15-7.15pm.

Health Qigong Glyndwr Community Hall, Penarth.

10.30-11.30am. Info 07772 657692.

Little Monkey Club Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

9.30am. Info 01656 649190.

9.30am: Heigh-Ho; 10.25am: Rock’n’Roll; 11.05am: JiggetyJig. Also on Fridays.

Musical Theatre The Riverfront, Newport. 5.45-8pm, £6/£5. Info 01633 656757. 7-11 years old: 5.45-6.45pm; 12 and up: 6.45-8pm.

Newport Badminton Club Bettws Active Centre, Newport. 7-8.30pm. Info 07789 965285. One of the largest badminton clubs in south-east Wales. Also on Thursdays.

NoFit State Circus Classes And Courses Four Elms Road, Adamsdown, Cardiff. £4-£12 per class.

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule looks like this. 4.30-6pm: Youth: Wookies (7-9 years); Youth: Padawans (9-11 years).

6-8pm: Aerial Hoop Level 2, Static Trapeze Level 3. 7.459.45pm: Aerial Hoop Levels 3 and 4, Static Trapeze Level 4.

Pilates-Based Back Care Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

10.30am. Info 01874 625992.

With Katy Sinnadurai. Also on Wednesday afternoons.

Pilates-Based Body Conditioning Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 11.45am.

Info 01874 625992. With Katy Sinnadurai. Also on Wednesday evenings.

Qigong Class The Sunhouse, Gwaelod-y-Garth, Cardiff. 6-7.15pm, £5. Info 07779 151916. More at www. bringingbalance.co.uk.

Ruff Folk Dance Club St Andrew’s Methodist Church Hall, Birchgrove, Cardiff. 8pm.

Info 029 2051 3440. With Ian Lewis.

Salsa Classes Horse & Groom, Cowbridge. 8-10pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 07800 565651.

Beginners for the first hour, then improvers/intermediate.

St Donats Atlantic Chorale St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

7.30pm. Info 01446 799100.

Choir rehearsals.

Tango Dancing Argentine

Barocco, Cardiff. 8-10.45pm, £3/£1. Info 029 2023 7332.

Tang Soo Do Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff.

7-9pm. Info 07734 557767.

Learn traditional Korean karate; beginners welcome.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff. Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 3-6pm Open training; 6-8pm Intermediate Aerial Hoop And Circus Fitness; 8-10pm Beginners Aerial Hoop.

Yoga Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 12.301.15pm. Info 029 2087 7959.

On tomorrow also.

Yoga With Valerie Price St Mary’s Church Hall, Canton, Cardiff. 6.30-9.30pm. Info admin@yoga-works.co.uk.

6.30-8pm: intermediate; 8.109.30pm: beginners.

EVERY TUESDAY A Ballroom Dance Memorial Hall, Newbridge.

7-11pm. Info 01495 243252.

Adult Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

6.30-7.50pm, £15. Info 029 2048 4880. Every Tuesday to Thursday.

Aikido Village Hall, Heol Syr Lewis, Morganstown. 8-10pm.

Info 07790 167560. Every Tuesday and Friday.

Beginners Ballet Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 6.157.30pm, £6. Info 029 2063 5614. Covering key ballet principles including developing core strength, improving posture, basic steps, flexibility and coordination. Hosted by National Dance Company Wales.

Beginners Contemporary Dance Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30-8.45pm, £6. Info 029 2063 5614. Exploring the basic principles of contemporary dance through a set of exercises. Hosted by National Dance Company Wales.

Beijing 24 Step Tai Chi St Mary’s Church Hall, Canton, Cardiff. 6.30-8pm. Info 07772 657692.

FAN Group Meeting Butwtown Community Centre, Cardiff Bay. 12.15pm, free.

Info 07512 638792. Men-only group.

FAN Group Meeting City Church, Riverside, Cardiff.

10.30am, free. Info 07512 638792. Women-only meeting.

Funkypump Fitness Various venues across south Wales. 6am-8.15pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk.

Ware-house, Swansea: TRX & Kettlebell 6-7am; Buggy Blast 10.30-11.30am; HIIT 1.15-1.45pm; Funkypump 5.15-6 + 6-7pm; Funkypump Kidz 5.15-6pm; White Collar Boxing Training 6-7pm; Funky Pump Lite 7-8pm. Ware-house, Port Talbot: HIIT 6.30-7.15pm.

Rainbow Rooms, Gorseinon: Bootcamp 6-7am. Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Bootcamp 6.15-7.15pm; Bags 7.15-8.15pm. Ufit, Cardiff: Funkypump 6-7pm. Daleon Fitness, Merthyr: Funkypump 6-7pm.

Gitananda Yoga St David's

Uniting Church, Pontypridd.

7-8.30pm, free. Info 01443 408065.

Glam Dram St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

7pm. Info 01446 799100.

Amateur theatre company for adults.

Jazz Workshops For Beginners Atradius Offices (4th floor), Cardiff Bay. 6.208pm, £10. Info 07806 625717.

All instruments and ages welcome.

Karate Classes Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.15-8.15pm. Info 029 2087 7959. With Emma Robins.

Knap Art Group All Saints Church Hall, The Knap, Barry.

2-4pm. Info glyn@glynpooley. com. Hosted by Glyn Pooley.

Get in touch if you are interested in developing your creativity through learning to draw or paint.

Laughter Yoga Llandaff North Community Centre, Cardiff. 7.15-8.15pm, £5 (suggested donation). Info www.sparklylaughter.co.uk.

“No experience required, no stretching and no mats needed,” promise the organisers.

Learn To Rock’n’Roll 50s Style Kenfig Hill Rugby Club, Bridgend. 8-10.30pm, £5. Info 07400 080101. Hosted

by Frank. Lessons are from 8.15-9pm; there’s a disco from 9-10.30. First dance lesson free.

Life Drawing Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6-8pm, £7.50. Info 07830 381930.

Hosted by Cardiff Life Model.

Lindy Hop Dance Classes & Social Swing Dancing The Garage, Swansea. 6-10pm.

Info 01792 475147.

Little Monkey Club Old Church Rooms, Radyr, Cardiff.

9.45am. Info 01656 649190.

9.45 + 11.05am: Rock’n’Roll; 10.25am: Jiggety-Jig. Also on Thursdays.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219. With Lesley Walker. Also on Thursdays, Fridays aand Saturdays.

Morning Yoga Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8-9am, £6.

Info 029 2063 5614. A Vinyasa flow class, aimed to develop functional, athletic abilities and maximise strength.

Hosted by National Dance Company Wales.

Music Tots The Riverfront, Newport. 9.45am-1.45pm, £3 per session. Info 01633 656757. Music and movement class for babies aged eight weeks to five years.

NoFit State Circus Classes And Courses Four Elms Road, Adamsdown, Cardiff. £4-£12 per class. Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 5-6pm: Youth: Ewoks (5-7 years). 6-7pm: Hula Hoop.

6-8pm: Supervised Training.

7.45-9.45pm: Beginners’ Mixed Aerial.

Open Mic Night Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Pregnancy Yoga Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

6-7.15pm, £35/£30 (five-week blocks). Info kalavathi@ omstudio.co.uk.

Qigong Class Bute Park,

L’ETAPE DRAGON TOUR CYCLE RACE From Glanusk Estate, Crickhowell to Port Talbot, Neath Fri 8-Sun 10 June. Entry tickets: £47.50-£150. Info: www.letapeuk.co.uk Run in association with the iconic Tour De France, the Dragon Tour cycle race returns to South Wales for its fourth year this June, with a change of venue that ought to excite any prospective Bradley Wigginses. Beginning in the shadow of the Black Mountains, the event will carve its way through the spectacular scenery of the Brecon Beacons, where riders will benefit from a lack of busy towns and cities, allowing for unencumbered, serene cycling.

The three-day stage riding event is a smidge smaller than its 3,500km, 23-day neighbour from across the channel – but still measures out at a commanding 490km. Spaces are limited to 750 participants, so be sure to sign up soon.

Cardiff. 6-7pm, pay by donation. Info 07779 151916. More at www.bringingbalance.co.uk.

Salsa Classes Kapu, Cardiff.

7.30-10.30pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 07800 565651. Beginners’ class starts 7.30pm; improvers 8.30; bachata 9.30.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Mines & Mountains National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com. Every Tuesday and Friday. This one visits Big Pit Mining Museum of Wales and Brecon Beacons National Park (including BBNP visitors centre).

Student Night Cardiff City Table Tennis Club, Dominion Way, Cardiff. 7-9pm, £2. Info 01446 412352. Featuring 16 table tennis tables; players of all ages and abilities are welcome. Check in advance on the sessions as the hall is occasionally booked by someone else.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff. Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 10am6pm Open Training; 6-8pm Trapeze For Beginners And Acrobalance; 8-10pm Chinese Pole.

WorldSong Choir Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff.

10-11.30am, £40 (five weeks). Info 07549 526527.

Unaccompanied harmony singing class with Pauline Down.

Yoga Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 5.30-6.30 + 6.45-8pm. Info 029 2087 7959.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

7-8.30pm, £9. Info 07727 139379 / www.omstudio.co.uk.

With Kalavathi Devi.

Yoga Share M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 5-7pm, £4 (suggested donation). Info 029 2047 3373. Led by Ashtanga practitioner Sarah Cleary.

Yoga With Tori Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

6-7pm, £6. Info 029 2048 4880. Every Tuesday and Wednesday.

Yoga With Valerie Price Llandough Institute, Penarth.

8.30-9.30pm. Info admin@ yoga-works.co.uk. Mixed level class.

Zhan Zhuang Qigong Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 12.301.30pm, £12/£10 adv. Info 029 2087 7959. ZZQ is an ancient Chinese health system based on a series of static postures.

Zumba: Dance Exercise Classes Fairwater Social & Athletic Club, Cardiff. 6-7pm.

Info 07891 712344. Led by Irene Davies, as is...

Zumba: Dance Exercise Classes St Faith Church Hall, Llanishen, Cardiff. 8-9pm. Info 07891 712344.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Adult Drama Carnegie House, Bridgend. 7.30-9pm, £6. Info 01656 815757.

Develop performance skills using impro, drama games and scripts. .

Adult Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

6.30-7.50pm, £15. Info 029 2048 4880.

A Tea Dance Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 2-4pm. Info 01495 243252.

Ceramics For Adults The Riverfront, Newport. 6-8pm.

Info 01633 656757.

Ceroc Dance Class Dockers Club, Swansea. 7.45pm-12am, £6/£8 freestyles. Info cerocsouthwales@gmail.com.

Cheer Tots The Riverfront,

Newport. 9.30-10.15am, £3.

Info 01633 656757. Movement session for babies.

Circus Club Carnegie House, Bridgend. 5.30-7pm, £1. Info 01656 815757. Come and learn a range of simple circus skills with Organised Kaos.

City Of Cardiff Rotaract Meeting Refectory Cafe, Windsor Place, Cardiff.

6.30pm. Info 07768 108394.

An 18-30s community group that integrates young professionals, students and refugees through community projects and social events.

Creative Wednesdays Evergreen Hall, Bridgend.

2-4pm, £3/£1 members. Info 01656 815757. Workshops in drawing, painting, ceramics, textiles etc.

Djembe Drumming Workshops Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff. 6.309.30pm, £5/£3. Info oceanartscardiff@gmx. co.uk. 6.30-8pm: beginners (£3); 8.15-9.30pm: intermediate/ advanced (£5). Drop-in classes.

Drop-in Exploring Drawing Workshop Workers Gallery, Ynyshir, Rhondda. 7-9pm, £10. Info 01443 682034. With tutor Chris Williams.

FAN Group Meeting Canton Library, Cardiff. 5.30pm, free.

Info 07512 638792. Make friends and practise English.

More info at www. thefancharity.org.

FAN Group Meeting Oasis, Splott Road, Cardiff. 1pm, free. Info 07512 638792.

FAN Group Meeting Severn Road Neighbourhood Learning Centre, Canton , Cardiff. 1pm, free. Info 07512 638792. Women-only group FAN Group Meeting The Gate, Cardiff. 10am, free. Info 07512 638792.

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ROOTS ROUND UP JUNE 2018 Arguably, it’s possible to get the measure of a songwriter by the company they keep. Whether it’s the people they write songs for, the singers who cover their songs or the artists they collaborate with, the ‘star quality’ of those people is often a good indicator of the writers standing.

Based on that assumption, Nashville’s Gretchen Peters is doing just fine. She’s written for Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill among others; has had her songs covered by the likes of Pam Tillis, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Neil Diamond, George Strait and Etta James and has collaborated with some of country, folk and Americana’s finest including Bryan Adams and Tom Russell with whom she released the album One To The Heart, One To The Head.

All of which pretty much makes Gretchen Peters Nashville royalty, something borne out by her induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who described her as "both a songwriter and a poet who sings as beautifully as she writes.”

Since the release of her debut album in 1996, Gretchen’s star has slowly but surely continued to rise to the point where she’s currently enjoying perhaps her most successful commercial and critical period. Her 2015 album Blackbirds debuted at number 1 on the UK Country chart and appeared in the top 40 UK pop chart, garnering awards for International Album Of The Year and Song Of The Year, which also coincided with the Telegraph naming her as one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time.

Gretchen’s latest album Dancing With The Beast is another collection of brilliantly observed songs featuring strong female characters and a distinctly feminist slant, which she says was inspired by recent events including the 2017 Women’s March and #MeToo Movement.

Currently touring to promote the album, Gretchen will appear at Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall on Tue 12 May, with support from another great country songwriter Kim Richey.

BUZZ ALSO RECOMMENDS: Gower Folk Festival Well-established festival finds a new home. Weobley Castle, Llanrhidian, Gower (Fri 8-Sun 10) Karine Polwart The acclaimed Scottish singer presents her stunning show Wind Resistance.

Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff (Fri 15 + Sat 16) Ralph McTell & Wizz Jones Two veteran folkies, one hell of an evening! Acapela Studios, Pentyrch, Cardiff (Fri 22) Please send your folk and roots listings to listings@buzzmag.co.uk or phone them in to 029 2022 6767

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Various venues across south Wales. 6am-8pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk.

Ware-house, Swansea: Bootcamp 6-7 + 10-11am; Bag Circuit 5-6 + 6-7pm; Warehouse ABC 5-7pm; Abs 7-8pm. Ware-house, Port Talbot: HIIT 6.30-7.15pm.

Rainbow Rooms, Gorseinon: Bootcamp 6-7pm. First Choice Fitness, Llantrisant: Funkypump 6-7 + 7-8pm.

Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Funkypump 6-7pm. Funkypump Fitness, Carmarthen: Funkypump 6.15-7.15pm.

Jazz Workshops For Beginners Zion Chapel, Ponthir, Newport. 6.30-8.30pm, £10. Info 07806 625717.

All instruments and ages welcome.

Little Monkey Club Primo School Of Music, Insole Court, Cardiff. Info 01656 649190.

Newport Youth Dance The Riverfront, Newport.

4.15-6.15pm, £3 per session.

Info 01633 656757. 7-10 years old: 4.15-5.15pm; 14-18: 5.156.15pm.

NoFit State Circus Classes And Courses Four Elms Road, Adamsdown, Cardiff. £4-£12 per class.

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 4.15-6pm: Youth: Jedi Acrobatics (11-18 years); 6-8pm: Adult Acrobatics; 8-9.30pm: Handstands; 8-10pm: Physical Theatre & Clown with George (every Wednesday in May only).

Pilates The Gate, Cardiff.

10.30am-1.30pm. Info info@ harnisch-lacey.com. 6pm: general; 7pm: advanced; 8pm: beginners.

Pilates-Based Back Care Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

5.45pm. Info 01874 625992.

With Katy Sinnadurai.

Pilates-Based Body Conditioning Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7pm.

Info 01874 625992. With Katy Sinnadurai.

Pub Quiz The Pilot, Penarth.

8pm. Info 029 2071 0615. With Hayley.

Qigong Class The Hub Community Centre, Llandaff North, Cardiff. 2-3pm. Info 07772 657692.

Salsa Classes Rhiwbina Recreational Club, Whitchurch, Cardiff. 8-10pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 07800 565651.

SeeWales Sightseeing Tour: Romans And Ruins National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Day tours from Cardiff, every Wednesday and Saturday. This one visits Caerleon, Caerwent, Tintern Abbey, the Wye Valley, Abbey Mill Craft Centre and Raglan Castle.

Toddler Time Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 10-11am. Info 01685 384111. Pre-school stories, rhymes and crafts for toddlers.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 10am6pm Open Training; 6-8pm Introduction To Aerial (begin-

ners mixed); 8-10pm Aerial Silks Intermediate.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff. 9.3011am, 1-2.15pm + 7-9pm, £9/£8. Info 07727 139379 / www.omstudio.co.uk.

Yoga Trwy Gyfrwng Y Gymraeg Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 7-8.30pm.

Info admin@yoga-works. co.uk.

Yoga With Tori Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

6-7pm, £6. Info 029 2048 4880.

Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments The Freaks Geeks and Autographs Store, Swansea.

5.30pm, £3.50. Info 07914 683534.

EVERY THURSDAY Adult Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

6.30-7.50pm, £10. Info 029 2048 4880.

Alexander Technique & Yoga M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11.30am-1pm, £16/£80 for six sessions. Info 029 2047 3373.

Art Club Penarth Pier Pavilion. 4.15-5.15pm, £5. Info 0844 8700887. Creative fun for 5-11-year-olds with tutor Becky.

Ballet Academy Wales Classes – Children 6-11 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

4-5pm, £4.95. Info 07837 937351.

Beijing 24 Step Tai Chi Albert Rd Church & Community Centre, Penarth.

7.45-9pm. Info 07772 657692.

Bingo Market Street Club, Barry. 8.30pm. Info 01446 733863.

Biodanza Bishop Of Llandaff High School, Cardiff.

7-9pm, £6/£5. Info antoinette@biodanza4all.com. “A fusion of music, movement and feeling” taught here by Antoinette Lorraine.

Breakdance The Riverfront, Newport. 6.30-7.30pm, £3.50 per session. Info 01633 656757. Learn break dancing styles, uprock, freezes and power moves. For ages 8-18.

Ceroc Dance Class Lysaght Institute, Newport. 7.3010.45pm, £8/£6 NUS. Info cerocsouthwales@gmail.com.

Children’s Latin/Ballroom Classes Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 4.30-8pm. Info 01495 243252.

FAN Group Meeting Cardiff Central Library. 5pm, free.

Info 07512 638792. Make friends and practise English.

More info at www.thefancharity.org.

FAN Group Meeting Cardiff MADE Cafe, Roath, Cardiff.

11am, free. Info 07512 638792.

FAN Group Meeting Cathays Heritage Library, Cardiff. 2.05pm, free. Info 07512 638792.

Fitsteps FAB The Riverfront, Newport. 10-11am, £4. Info 01633 656757. Low intensity dance fitness workout.

Funkypump Fitness Various venues across south Wales. 6am-8.15pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk.

Ware-house, Swansea: TRX & Kettlebells 6-7am; Buggy Blast 10-11.30am; HIIT 1.151.45pm; Funkypump 5-6 + 6-7pm; White Collar Boxing Training 6-7pm; Funkypump Lite 7-8pm. Ware-house, Port

Talbot: HIIT 6.30-7.15pm.

Rainbow Rooms, Gorseinon: Bootcamp 6-7am. Ufit, Cardiff: Funkypump 6-7 + 7.15-8.15pm. Elympia Fitness, Ely: Funkypump 7.158.15pm. First Choice Fitness, Llantrisant: Funkypump Lite 6-7pm. Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Funkypump 6-7pm. Funkypump Fitness, Carmarthen: Funkypump 6.15-7.15pm.

Hand Drumming Group Canton Uniting Church, Cardiff. 6-7pm, £25 (five weeks). Info 07980 742328.

Hosted by Ronald Macauley.

Hatch Youth Theatre The Riverfront, Newport. 4.306.30pm. Info 01633 656757.

Hosted by Tin Shed Theatre.

Learn To Roller Skate Cardiff Central Youth Club, Cardiff. 6-7.30pm, £4/£40 for eight weeks at two sessions per week. Info www.brawlers. co.uk. With Cardiff roller derby team Tiger Bay Brawlers. Also on every Sunday.

Little Monkey Club Old Church Rooms, Radyr, Cardiff.

9.45am. Info 01656 649190.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219.

Newport Badminton Club Pill Millennium Centre, Newport. 8-10pm. Info 07789 965285. Coached by Rhys Pritchard who represented Wales at the Junior Commonwealth Games.

Newport Junior Badminton Club Pill Millennium Centre, Newport.

7-8.30pm. Info 07789 965285.

Coached by Rhys Pritchard.

NoFit State Circus Classes And Courses Four Elms Road, Adamsdown, Cardiff. £4-£12 per class. Info 029 2022 1330 / www.nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 6-8pm: Ropes & Silks Level 2, Static Trapeze Level 2.

7.45-9.45pm: Static Trapeze Level 2, Ropes & Silks Level 3, Ropes & Silks Level 4.

Pilates Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff. 6.30-7.30pm, £7.50/£35 for five classes. Info sarasclasses4@gmail.com.

Pilates Tramshed Studio, Cardiff. 12.30-1.30pm, £10/£8.

Info www.tramshedstudio. com.

Qigong Albert Rd Church & Community Centre, Penarth.

6.30-7.30pm. Info 07772 657692.

Quiz Night NosDa, Cardiff.

8pm, £1. Info 029 2037 8866.

With money, beers and pizza to be won.

Salsa & Bachata Classes Kapu, Cardiff. 7pm-2am, £4-£7. Info 07800 565651.

Beginners 7.30pm; improvers/intermediates 8.30. Free bachata dancing from 9.45pm.

Salsa Dancing Classes Revolucion De Cuba, Cardiff.

8-10pm, £6/£5 NUS. Info 029 2023 6689. Salsa, bachata, zouk and kizomba.

Samba Band Carnegie House, Bridgend. 6.30-8pm, £1. Info 01656 815757.

Re-create the sound of Brazilian Carnaval with Sallie MacLennan. No experience necessary, instruments provided.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Golden Gower

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National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com. Thursday and Sunday. This one visits the Gower, Swansea Bay, ParcLe-Breos, the Dylan Thomas Centre and more.

Story And Rhyme Time In Welsh For Babies Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. 10-11.30am, free.

Info 029 2057 3650. Every Thursday during term time; aimed at 0-4 years.

The Alexander Technique M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11am-12pm, £16. Info info@yogaskies.co.uk. Small group class hosted by Mike Young.

University Of The 3rd Age Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

Info richard-walker@live. co.uk. Hosted by Richard Walker – contact him on the above email.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff. Info 029 2048 8854 / info@upsidedowncircus.co.uk. Today’s schedule: 6-8pm Introduction To Aerial; 8-10pm Beginners Aerial Silks.

Yarny Army Evergreen Hall, Bridgend. 10am-12pm, £2/£1 members. Info 01656 815757.

Knitting and crocheting; beginners welcome.

Yoga Classes Cardiff Steiner School, Llandaff North, Cardiff. 6-7 + 7-8pm, £8/£6.50. Info info@yogaskies.co.uk. Hosted by Mike Young.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

7-8am + 1-2.30, 6-7.15 + 7.30-8.45pm, £9/£8. Info 07727 139379 / www.omstudio.co.uk.

11am: Mums & Baby yoga; 7.30pm: Pregnancy yoga.

EVERY FRIDAY Aikido Village Hall, Heol Syr Lewis, Morganstown. 8-10pm.

Info 07790 167560.

Bingo Lingo The Depot, Cardiff. 6pm, £5. Info www. depotcardiff.co.uk. Features street food, a wheel of fortune and “rubbish prizes”.

Cardiff Aikikai The Dojo, Roath, Cardiff. 6.30-10pm.

Info mcaluan@cardiffaikikai. co.uk.

Bookworm Boogie Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 10-11am, £4.50/£3 for each child thereafter. Info 01874 611622.

Babies/toddlers session with Sarah Kilbride, featuring a mixture of drama, stories, movement and art..

Cardiff Table Tennis Community Club Upper Hall, Sport Wales, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. 7-9pm. Info 01446 412352. Featuring 16 table tennis tables; players of all ages and abilities are welcome. Check in advance on the sessions as the hall is occasionally booked by someone else.

Children’s Tap/Ballet Classes Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 10.30-11.30am.

Info 01495 243252.

Community Choir Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 9.4511.45am, £72/£48 (12 weeks).

Info 01446 401209.

Dance Tots The Riverfront, Newport. 9.30-10.05am +

10.15-10.50am, £3 per session.

Info 01633 656757. Parent/ toddler dance and exercise session.

FAN Group Meeting Salvation Army, Grangetown, Cardiff. 11am, free. Info 07512 638792. Make friends and practise English. More info at www.thefancharity.org.

Women-only group.

FAN Group Meeting STAR Hub, Tremorfa, Cardiff. 10am, free. Info 07512 638792.

FAN Group Meeting Women Connect First, Riverside, Cardiff. 11am, free. Info 07512 638792. Women-only group.

Funkypump Fitness Various venues across south Wales. 6am-7pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk. Warehouse, Swansea: Bootcamp 6-7 + 10-11am; ABC 5-7pm; Kettlebell 5.15-6pm; Bag Circuit 6.15-7pm. Ware-house, Port Talbot: HIIT 6-6.45pm.

Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Funkypump 6-7pm. Rainbow Rooms, Gorseinon: Bag Circuit 6-7pm.

Little Monkey Club Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

9.30am. Info 01656 649190.

9.30am: Heigh-Ho; 10.25am: Rock’n’Roll; 11.05am: JiggetyJig. Little Monkey Club TrrRex Soft Play, Cardiff. Info 01656 649190.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219.

Movement And Music For A Fuller Life Bishop Of Llandaff High School, Cardiff.

7.45-9.30pm, £5. Info 07726 360584. Biodanza session, on most weeks (ring ahead to check) aiming to help you “discover the joy of living, feel better and happier, benefit from more energy, and be more flexible”.

Newport Photographic Club Skip Jennings Hall, Maindee, Newport. 7.30pm.

Info 01633 400685.

NoFit State Circus Classes And Courses Four Elms Road, Adamsdown, Cardiff. £4-£12 per class. Info 029 2022 1330 / www.nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 4.15-6pm: Youth: Jedi Aerial Skills (11-18 years); 6.307.30pm: Hula Disco!

Older Adult Dance/ Exercise The Riverfront, Newport. 11am-12pm, £3. Info 01633 656757. Low impact dance and exercise class aimed at the over 50s.

Rhiwbina Farmers Market The Butchers Arms, Rhiwbina. 10am-1pm, free.

Info 029 2022 7982.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Mines & Mountains National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Tango Argentine Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff.

7.30-8.45pm, £7/£4. Info 029 2023 7332. No experience or partner required.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff. Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 6-8pm Circus Fit; 6-8pm Supervised

training.

Zumba: Dance Exercise Classes Sbectrwm Community Centre, Fairwater, Cardiff. 1-2pm. Info 07891 712344. With Irene Davies.

EVERY SATURDAY African Drumming Sessions Glyndwr Community Centre, Penarth.

10-11.30am, £7. Info 07974 635502 / dan@phelpsmusic. com.

Ballroom Dancing Class Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

10am kids / 11am adults, £4 per class. Info 01685 384111.

10am: kids; 11am: adults; 12pm: private tuition.

Family Saturdays Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2063 6464. Craft workshops for kids and parents.

FAN Group Meeting United Reformed Church Cafe, Windsor Place, Cardiff. 11am, free. Info 07512 638792. Make friends and practise English.

More info at www. thefancharity.org.

Funkypump Fitness Various venues across south Wales. 6am-7pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk.

theatre and performance coaching in dance, acting, musical theatre and singing.

Roath Real Food Market Mackintosh Sports Club Car Park, Roath, Cardiff. 9.30am1pm, free. Info 029 2022 7982.

SeeWales Sightseeing Tour: Romans And Ruins National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Sewing Workshops Barnabas Arts House, Newport. 10am-1pm. Info 01633 673739. Hosted by Ellery Design – see www.ellerydesign.com for details of how to book and/or contact them.

St Mary Street Cardiff Market St Mary Street, Cardiff. 11am-5pm, free.

Info 029 2019 0036. Selling artisan foods, vintage clothing, antique furniture and bric-a-brac.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 10am-12 pm Introduction to Aerial (begin-

Montgomery town hall, Powys, is the setting for a Welsh Occult Conference on Sat 2 June. Is it an occult conference in Wales or about the Welsh occult specifically? Not sure.

Ware-house, Swansea: Abs 8-9am; TRX & Kettlebells 9.15-10.15am; Funkypump Kidz 10.30-11.30am; Bag Circuit 10.30-11.30am.

Ware-house, Port Talbot: Bag Circuit 10.30-11.30am. Ufit, Cardiff: Bag Circuit 9.3010.30am. Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Bag Circuit 10.30-11.30am. Funkypump Fitness, Carmarthen: Boot Camp 8-9pm.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219.

Movement For Children Volcano, Swansea. 10am12pm, £4. Info www. volcanotheatre.co.uk.

Energetic classes with a focus on creativity, supporting physical development and building confidence. Ages 4-7: 10am; 8-12: 11am.

NoFit State Circus Classes And Courses Four Elms Road, Adamsdown, Cardiff. £4-£12 per class.

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 10-11am: Family: Prewoks (2-4 years, with an adult); 10-11.30am: Youth: Wookies (7-9 years); 11.30am12.30pm: Youth: Ewoks (5-7 years); Youth: Padawans (9-11 years); 2-4pm: Youth: Jedi Performance Skills (11+); 4-6pm: Youth: Jedi General Skills (11-18 years).

Performance Academy Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

10am-1pm, £10. Info 01685 384111. Offering professional

ners mixed); 10am - 12pm Introduction To Chinese Pole; 12-2pm + 2-4pm Drop-in Training.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

8-9.30am, £8. Info 07727 139379 / www.omstudio.co.uk.

With Kalavathi Devi.

EVERY SUNDAY Ballet Academy Wales Classes – Adults Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 12-1pm, £6.50. Info 07837 937351.

Bridgend Undercover Car Boot Sale Multistorey Car Park, Bridgend Town Centre.

7am-12pm, free (selling cars £6; selling cars with trailers £10). Info 01656 661338.

Cooper’s Quiz Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm, £1 to play. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Hosted by Ben Cooper.

Draw Somebody’s Sunday Body Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 1.30-3.30pm, £7.50.

Info 07830 381930. Hosted by Cardiff Life Model.

Hold Up Sunday Social Cardiff Speaker Hire, Cardiff.

2pm, free. Info 029 2009 5590. Pool, table tennis and access to The Hold Up’s jam/ rehearsal space.

Learn To Roller Skate Cardiff Central Youth Club, Cardiff. 12-1pm, £3/£40 for eight weeks at two sessions per week. Info www.brawlers. co.uk.

Lindy Hop Dance Classes & Social Swing Dancing Pontardawe Arts Centre.

6-10pm. Info 01792 863722.

NoFit State Circus Classes And Courses Four Elms Road, Adamsdown, Cardiff. £4-£12 per class.

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 1-3pm: Flying Trapeze Beginners & Improvers; 3-5pm: Flying Trapeze Level 1; 5-6.30pm: Acrobalance; 5-7pm: Flying Trapeze Intermediate & Advanced.

Open Breaking/ Breakdance Training Session Cardiff Speaker Hire, Cardiff. 5-8pm, £3. Info 029 2009 5590. Hosted by Cardiff City Breakers, The Hold Up and Elemental Force. *Riverside Farmers’ Market Fitzhammon Embankment, Cardiff. 10am2pm, free. Info 029 2022 7982.

Always worth a trip.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Golden Gower National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Sunday Board Games Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 3pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. Weekly session featuring a mixture of competitive and co-operative games.

FRIDAY 1 JUNE u3 Cool Things To Make With A Balloon! National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

12.30-3.30pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. (Until Sun 3) A Dinosaur Encounter Cardiff Castle. £6. Info 029 2087 8100. Half-term activities including a close look at dinosaur models and eggs, plus a chance to meet a baby T Rex. Or a model of one.

All Aboard! A Creative Writing Workshop For 8-11 Year Olds Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

2-4pm, free.Info 01792 463980.

Hosted by Emily Hinshelwood.

Arts & Craft Table Top Sales Ebenezer Chapel, Tonypandy. 10am-1pm, £5 to set up a table. Info ebenezercraftsfair@gmx. co.uk. First Friday of every month.

Beginners Cross Stitch The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

6.30-8.30pm, £15. Info twinmadethings@gmail.com.

Twin Made craft workshop. uBig Pit Explorers Trail Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. 12-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3650. Kids’ activities where you can spot objects around the museum and get prizes for doing so. (Until Sun 3) Bridgend’s Wartime Cinemas Carnegie House, Bridgend. 7-9pm, free. Info 01656 815757. A talk by Mike Clubb and Rhian Edwards.

Cardiff Inter Varsity Club Meeting Park Plaza Hotel, Cardiff. 8.30pm, £5 (threemonth trial membership). Info 07526 141392 / www.cardiffivc. org.uk. Meeting here on the first Friday of each month. uCircus Vegas Car Park B, Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff.

3 + 7.45pm, £13-£37. Info 0845 3451400. Touring circus production which, as its name suggests, originates in Las Vegas. On at 3pm and 6pm tomorrow; 2pm and 5pm on Sun 3. (Until Sun 3)

Cricket: Royal London One-Day Cup – Glamorgan v Sussex SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff.

11am. Info 029 2040 9380. uCrime & Coffee Festival Central Library Hub, Cardiff.

10am-8pm, £3-£10. Info 029 2038 2116. Crime literature festival with author talks, workshops, panel discussions and ‘in conversation’ events, plus coffee from Big Moose Coffee Co. Authors today include Christopher Fowler, Rebecca Tope, John Wake, Katherine Stansfield, Alis Hawkins, Graham Miller, Derec Jones, Evonne Wareham and Phil Rowlands; authors tomorrow include Belinda Bauer, Mark Ellis, Kate Hamer, Matt Johnson, Rosie Claverton, Cheryl Rees-Price, Bev Jones, Judith Barrow, Sally Spedding and Thorne Moore. uDanger Area & Cinemas Exhibition Carnegie House, Bridgend. 10am-2pm + 7pm.

Info 01656 815757. A screening of a 20-minute film set in a Royal Ordnance factory in south Wales (10am-2pm) and a talk about the Bridgend Arsenal (7pm). On tomorrow Dylan’s Travels: Family Self-Led Activities Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

10am-1pm, free. Info 01792 463980. Free themed self-led creative writing activities, puzzles, word searches and crafts all inspired by Dylan’s adventures and travels. On from 10am-4pm tomorrow and Sun 3. (Until Sun 3) Farmers Market High Street, Merthyr Tydfil. Free.

Info 01685 725106. Quality produce from no more than 50 miles away, on the first Friday of each month. uFire & Light Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee. Info 029 2047 5475.

The science of fire, fireworks etc. On until Sun 3, then every Saturday and Sunday until Sat 30.

Flying Kites And Lazy Owls Caerphilly Castle. 11am4pm, £8.50/free members.

Info 0300 0256000. Hosted by Pembrokeshire Falconry. uGrubshed Pop-Up Academy Espresso Bar, Barry. 6-9pm, free. Info 07557 773723. Hereford-based “honest British street food”. On tomorrow also. uHay Festival 2018 Various venues, Hay-On-Wye. 11.30am-11pm. Info 01497 822629 / www.hayfestival. com. Today includes Terry Eagleton, Alexander McCall Smith, Fergal Keane, Adam Kay, Alicia Kopf, Richard Dawkins, Meg Wolitzer, Tony Hawks, Lionel Shriver and Evelyn Glennie. Sat 2: David Miliband, Philip Pullman, Rose McGowan, Amy Lamé, Alan Hollinghurst, Lucy Worsley, Chelsea Clinton, Shirley Collins, Joan Bakewell, Chris Bonington, Donna Brazile, Show Of Hands and Bridget Christie. Sun 3: AC Grayling, Simon Jenkins, Alex Jones (One Show not Infowars), Kehinde Andrews, Gordon Brown and Colm Tóibín. (Until Sun 3) uLittle Explorer Activity Boxes Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. 10am4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3650.

Themed activity boxes aimed at families with younger children, and available to use in the Kersely Room. (Until Sun 3) Little Mice Club: Planes And Trains National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

10.30am-12pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Bilingual playtime for babies/toddlers. uMakers Market National History Museum, St Fagans.

10am-5pm, free (small charge for some activities). Info 029 2057 3500. (Until Sun 3 June) uMundo Dance Fitness And Choreography Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 6.307.30pm. Info 07549 526527.

Low impact classes suitable for adults out of condition or recovering from injury. Every Friday this month. uMuseum Premium Ghost Walk National History Museum, St Fagans. 8.30pm, £15.50. Info 029 2057 3500.

Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Fri 8, Sat 16 and Fri 29. uPawprints In The Summer Sky Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee. Info 029 2047 5475.

Discover the stories of mythical creatures in the stars, like the winged horse Pegasus or Draco the Dragon. Suitable for under-7s. On until Sun 3, then every Saturday and Sunday until Sat 30.

Scrappy Sheep Club: Make A Shaker National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, Llandysul. 12-3pm, free. Info 029 2057 3070. uSoft Play Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon.

12-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3650. Sessions for kids aged 4 and under. (Until Sun 3) Spice World (India To Far East) Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan.

9.30am-3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk. uStar Tours Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee. Info 029 2047 5475. Find out more about some familiar constellations, the planets, how stars are born and how they die. (Until Sun 3) Tea Dance St Donats Art Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

2pm, £5. Info 01446 799100.

With Alan Taylor. uTraditional Fairground National History Museum, St Fagans. From £1 per ride. Info 029 2057 3500. (Until Sun 3) uUrdd National Eisteddfod Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells.

7am, £13.50 per days/£5.50 under-16s and competitors.

Info 0345 2571613. Annual youth-oriented festival for/ about/promoting the Welsh language and culture visits Builth Wells this year, with various concerts and other performances; visit www.urdd. cymru for a fuller programme.

On tomorrow also. uVolvo Ocean Race Cardiff Race Village, Cardiff Bay Barrage. Info 0845 2930897. Two-week event coinciding with the time that this global yacht race spends in Cardiff, the last of 12 cities on its agenda since it started in October 2017. A BUZZ 63

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BAFTA CYMRU JUNE 2018 June will be a great month for those wanting to know more about opportunities to work in the film and TV industry. We have a great event that will offer insights into film distribution for our members and the public.

Paul Higginson from 20th Century Fox will join us on Mon 25 June to talk about his career since leaving Rhyl, his top tips for those interested in sales and distribution of blockbuster feature films, and a chance to ask your own questions.

We’ve also announced a new cinema tipi for the Barry Island Weekenders at the end of July, which will offer three days of free screenings of classic films like Human Traffic and Tiger Bay, plus workshops on music for film for kids.

We’re also hosting a Hetty Feather/ Worst Witch directing workshop and much more.

Our entries are now closed for the 2017 Cymru Awards and we are starting on the process of hosting our industry juries.

Nominations will be announced on Thurs 6 Sept and tickets will go on sale on the same date for the Awards – which will be hosted once again at St David’s Hall in Cardiff, on Sun 14 Oct. You can follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook to be among the first to find out who will be competing in all our craft, performance and production categories this year.

The BAFTA Cymru membership year starts on Fri 1 June, with new applications flooding in from students, career starters and professionals. If you would like to apply to join the other 630 members please have a look at all the benefits of membership, including free cinema, on our website.

Info: www.bafta.org/wales

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variety of entertainment (live music, street theatre and a light show) plus Volvo Ocean Race-themed attractions will feature during that time, as well as segments of the race itself. (Until Sun 10) Wine Tasting Talk: Wines Of South America National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

7pm, £15/£12.50. Info 029 2057 3600. uWorkshop Bike Sale Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 1-5pm. Info www.cycletrainingwales.org. uk. Adult bikes on sale from £60; kids’ bikes from £10. Also on tomorrow, from 10am12pm, and every Friday this month.

SATURDAY 2 JUNE Angela’s Summer Recipe Kitchen Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am-3.30pm, £185. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk. Price includes a signed copy of Angela’s book. uArt Trolley Saturday Drop-In Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 12.303.30pm, free. Info 01792 516900. Every Saturday this month.

Bee-Keeping Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth.

10am-4pm, £115. Info 01600 714595.

Bum Bag The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 2-5pm, £25. Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Cardiff DIY Fair Gwdihw, Cardiff. 12pm, free. Info 029 2039 7933. Art, zines, records, crafts and live music.

Cardiff Independent Comic Expo 2018 Mercure Holland House, Cardiff. 10am5pm, £6/£5/free under-12s.

Info 029 2047 3456. Featuring independent comic artists, writers, illustrators, publishers, retailers and more, from south Wales and beyond.

Cardiff International Women’s Day Celebrations City Hall, Cardiff. 11am-3.30pm, free.

Info wenwales.org. The Women’s Equality Network host a day noting the last 100 years of women’s rights – it was booked here in early March, but snowed off. Speakers: Tanni GreyThompson, Laura McAllister, John Edmonds, Kully Thiarai, Lisa Marie Brown, Jack Monroe and Francesca Martinez.

Castle Court Craft Fair Castle Court, Caerphilly. 9am4pm, free. Info 07800 995109. uCraft & Gift Fayre St. Peters Civic Hall, Carmarthen.

10am-4pm, £9 to set up a table. Info 07989 593795. Also on Sat 23 and Sat 30 this month.

Craft Fair Coffee Cove Cafe Bar, Barry Island. 10am3.30pm, free/£10 to set up a stall. Info 07948 399111. Every first Saturday of the month.

Dewch i Ganu National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

11am, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Join musician Delyth Jenkins and learn Welsh through song.

Dribuild Beer & Cider Race Night Chepstow

Racecourse. 3-10.30pm, £20-£49. Info 01291 622260.

Featuring a bunch of races, the Epsom Derby on telly and live music from The Wurzels and an Ed Sheeran tribute.

Eclectic Crafters Centenary Hall, Maryport Street, Usk. Info eclectic.crafters@gmail.com. Craft fair held on the first Saturday of each month.

Enfys Craft Fair St. Francis Millennium Centre, Barry. 10am-4pm. Info 01446 792149. Every first Saturday of the month. uHedgehog Helper Morning Howey Hedgehog Rescue, Llandrindod Wells. £20. Info 01874 749092. Be a volunteer at a hedgehog rescue for a morning, helping their work to nurse sick and injured hogs and hoglets. Also on Wed 6, Sun 10, Wed 13, Sun 17, Wed 20, Fri 22 and Sun 24 this month.

Machen Rural Market Machen Church Hall. 10am2pm. Info 07737 630657.

Featuring 15-20 stalls selling food, art and craft. uMonmouthshire Food Festival 2018 Caldicot Castle & Country Park. 10am4.30pm, £5/free under-12s.

Info 01291 420241. On tomorrow also.

Open Haus The Printhaus / The Boneyard, Canton, Cardiff. 10am-2pm, free. Info 029 2022 0349. Monthly open studios here, an opportunity to meet the artists and makers in this creative community.

On the first Saturday of every month.

Prom Queen Social Club Girls Skate Night Spit & Sawdust, Cardiff. 7-10pm. Info 029 2049 4741. Female-only skateboarders event aimed at all abilities. uBecome A Legend!

National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon. 10am5pm, £8/£6 kids. Info 029 2057 3550. Re-enactment special with displays of soldiers, horsesm gladiators and other stuff.

On tomorrow also. uSea Plastic Creatures National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 12.30-3.30pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3600. Create sea creatures from upcycled beach plastic and find out more about the impact of plastic in our oceans. On tomorrow also. uSheep Trekking Crai, Brecon Beacons National Park. £35/£25 under-16s. Info 01874 749092. Take a sheep for a walk on a lead in a 200acre organic farm. A Good Day Out event. On tomorrow also .

TEDxSwansea: Embrace National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 5-9pm, £12.50 adv.

Info 029 2057 3600. uVintage Kilo Sale Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff. 10am-6pm, free. Info 029 2037 3144. Designer labels at £15 a kilo they’re saying!

On tomorrow also.

Welsh Occult Conference Montgomery Town Hall, Powys. 11am-6pm, £12 adv. Info 01686 668442.

Featuring the following speakers: Jake Stratton Kent on ‘The Greek Magical Papyri’; Sian Humphries on ‘Hekate’; Mrs Midian on ‘The Sacred Landscape’; G.StM.

Nottingham on ‘Working With the Solomonic Grimoires’, and Tracy Thursfield on ‘The Magical History Of The Pentagram’. Sounds badass!

SUNDAY 3 JUNE Birth Art Circle Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

1.30-3.30pm, £3. Info 01792 516900. Devised by antenatal educator Holly Morse and artist Menna Buss as creative and personal way to reflect on birth and motherhood. Book in advance please.

Bring And Share Supper Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff. 6.30-9pm, free. Info oceanartscardiff@gmx.co.uk.

Community social, every first Sunday of the month.

Cardiff Storytelling Circle: Tales For The Turning Year Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7pm, £4. Info 029 2030 4400.

Chilli Experience Day Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £95.

Info 01600 714595.

Friars Walk Market Friars Walk, Newport. 11am-4pm, £24 to set up a table. Info 07954 654220. On the first Sunday of every month, on John Frost Square (in good weather) or inside the Mall (in normal weather).

Cwmbran Craft Fayre Our Lady’s School Hall, Cwmbran.

1-4pm. Info cwmbran_ crafts@hotmail.co.uk. Every first Sunday of the month.

Gordon Brown: My Life, Our Times Ricoh Suite, Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff.

12-2pm, £20. Info 0845 3451400. My Life, Our Times being the slightly naff title of the former prime minister’s new autobiography, which he will be discussing and signing here. Price includes a paperback copy of the book.

Meet The Beekeepers National History Museum, St Fagans. 11am-1pm + 2-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500. uProp Shop Carnegie House, Bridgend. 1.30-4.30pm, free. Info 01656 815757. Join a professional prop maker to construct a full-sized Anderson bomb shelter. Also on Sat 16.

Simple Summery Shift Dress The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 2-5pm, £35. Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Swing Dance Sunday Bootlegger, Cardiff. 7pm, £4.

Info 07495 657407. Taster classes, every first Sunday of the month, with Anna Rogers from Lindy Hop Cardiff.

SWYD Sprint Triathlon Whitmore Bay, Barry Island (starting point). 7am, £59 to enter. Info 01446 704867.

Organised by Matt Pritchard of Dirty Sanchez et al, in his ongoing quest to purify his once mistreated body; indeed we interviewed him about it in the May issue.

The Friendship Tree Festival Knap Lake & Gardens, Barry. 11.30am, free.

Info 07854 375891. Annual arts festival hosted by Art4U and featuring various musicians, artists and dancers.

Confirmed so far: the Hank Hillman Band, To Bear Sir, Dylan Morgan, Persian Bells

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dance group, Bel Blue and more TBC. Write On! Sundays M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11.30am-1.30pm, £25/£20. Info 029 2047 3373.

Monthly writing workshop hosted by Mab Jones; email mabananajones@gmail.com to book. A further workshop is on Sun 1 July.

MONDAY 4 JUNE Gwd Mondays: Musical Bingo Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 7933. uPiggy Walking With A ‘Pig-Nic’ Senni Valley, Brecon Beacons. £25/£10 under-16s. Info 01874 749092. Take a pair of friendly Kune Kune pigs (from New Zealand, look a bit like Ewoks) for a walk, then return to the smallholding for refreshments. Also on Tue 5, Sun 10, Mon 11, Mon 18Tue 19 and Sun 24 this month. uPilates The Gate, Cardiff.

10.30am-1.30pm. Info info@ harnisch-lacey.com. Gentle fitness for the first hour, general for the second two.

Every Monday until 23 July. uWrite On Writers Morganstown Village Hall.

6.30-8.30pm. Info 07512 235758. An open group of writers who encourage others to write and also critique work. Also on Mon 21; it takes place here every first and third Monday of the month.

TUESDAY 5 JUNE uAmerican Line Dance The Gate, Cardiff. 2-4pm, £4.50. Info 029 2048 3344.

Every Tuesday until 24 July. uArt Babas Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 10.3011.30am, free. Info 01792 516900. Sensory playtime in the gallery for babies and their grownups. Also on Tue 19.

Arts Society Brecknock Talk Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 2.30pm, £8 nonmembers. Info 01874 611622.

‘Russian Painting In The 19th Century’, with Jane Angellini. uBeginners Burlesque Course: Bad Things Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff.

8-9.15pm, £7/£60 for 10-week course.Info info@burlesquecardiff.co.uk. With Stephanie.

Every Tuesday until 19 June.

(Clothes) Swap, Don’t Shop! Cinema & Co, Swansea. 6-9pm, £5. Info 07982 624959. Get a new wardrobe for summer. Bring five or more things of your own to swap. Price includes a glass of bucks fizz and some nibbles. uContemporary Conversations Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 1-2pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Session to provide a supportive environment for people with an interest in creating art work and discussing contemporary issues. Also on Wed 19.

Book in advance please. uExplore Books National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

10.30am, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Discuss books and authors in a casual setting (no obligation to have read the books in advance). Every Tuesday this month.

uExtend The Gate, Cardiff.

10-11am, £4. Info 029 2048 3344. Over-60s exercise, every Tuesday until 24 July. uPainting For Pleasure Carmarthen Community Education Centre. 10am-12pm + 1-3pm, £65 (10 weeks). Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail. co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Tuesday until 19 June. uRemember When...?

Newport Museum & Art Gallery. 2pm, free. Info 01633 656656. Join museum volunteer Peter Brown and share memories of growing up in Newport. Every Tuesday untyil 18 Dec. uRoath Writers The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £3. Info 029 2048 3344. A space for writers of all levels to write, develop and share their work in an informal workshop environment. Every first two Tuesdays of the month (also on Tue 13).

Rules Of Play The Gate, Cardiff. 6.30-11pm, £3.50. Info 029 2048 3344. Board game evening on the first Tuesday of every month. uYoung Strings The Gate, Cardiff. 5-6.30pm, £5. Info helen@cardiffyoungstrings. com. A small orchestra for children and young people of all ages and abilities. Every Tuesday until 24 July.

WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE An Evening With Bret Hart Portland House, Cardiff Bay. 6.15pm, £35 adv/£75 VIP/£150 premium VIP. Info 029 2048 7602. WWE icon returns to Cardiff to talk about his career and stuff. uBeginners Burlesque Course: Lollipop Talent Shack, Penarth Road, Cardiff.

6.30-7.45pm, £7/£60 for 10-week course. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com. With Stephanie. Every Wednesday until 20 June. uChair Dance Talent Shack, Penarth Road, Cardiff.

8-9.15pm, £7/£60 for 10-week course. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com. With Stephanie. Every Wednesday until 20 June.

Community Get-Together National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, Llandysul.

11am-3pm, free. Info 029 2057 3070.

Danny Baker Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot.

7.30pm, £24.75/£22. Info 01639 763214. TV/radio/soap powder ads/talking about the alleged golden age of the music press/calling footballers worms for subpar performances guy. See Upfront.

Fenners’ Footy Speedquiz Bierkeller, Cardiff. 7.3010.30pm, £30 per table of six.

Info 0845 533 3000. Fenners is a guy from Soccer AM and this is a football-based quiz which apparently uses smartphones in a non-cheating way. uGlynn Vivian Young People Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am-12pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Anyone aged 16-24 can participate in discussing plans and organising events for other young people in Swansea.

Also on Wed 20 this month.

Hoop N Move Cardiff & Vale

College, Cardiff. 7-8pm, £7.

Info elliecoptor@hotmail.com.

Hoop dance/aerobics class, with Elliecoptor Pilott. uMidnight Dark Castle Ghost Tour Cardiff Castle.

11pm, £12.50/£10 kids. Info 07538 878609. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings.

Also on Wed 27. uMindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. £95 (eight weeks). Info 07549 526527. With Clare McRobbie.

Every Wednesday until 20 June.

Reminiscence Monthly Cardiff Story, The Hayes, Cardiff. 11am-1pm, free. Info 029 2034 6214. Come to the museum and share your memories of Cardiff, on the first Wednesday of every month.

THURSDAY 7 JUNE Alun Havard The Met, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £10. Info 01495 355945. Spirit medium.

In Swansea on Wed 13; Narberth on Thurs 28.

An Evening With Riuchard Johnson Chepstow Racecourse. 7-10pm, £25. Info 01291 622260. Hosted by exchampion jockey Richard, this also features food, a quiz and an auction.

Audio Description Tour: Meet Your Garden Birds National Museum Cardiff.

2-4pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. A multi-sensory session for visitors who are blind or visually impaired.

Cardiff Animation Nights Kongs, Cardiff. 7.30-11.30pm, free. Info 029 2064 4114.

Showcase of animated short films from around the world. uDrawing Carmarthen Community Education Centre.

2.30-4.30pm, £65 (10 weeks).

Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail. co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Thursday until 21 June.

First Thursday Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £2.50. Info 029 2030 4400.

New poetry and fiction, this month with Elizabeth Parker and Christopher Meredith.

Nataly Churchill Paget Rooms, Penarth. 7.30pm, £8 adv. Info 029 2070 0721.

Psychic medium.

Ocean Mic Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff.

7-10pm, £2 corkage fee. Info oceanartscardiff@gmx.co.uk.

BYOB open mic night, hosted

by Jonathan Powell and on every first Thursday of the month.

Open Mic Poetry Night Imperial Hotel, Merthyr Tydfil.

7pm, free. Info 01685 722555.

With guest poet Mike Church. uPainting For Pleasure Carmarthen Community Education Centre. 10am-12pm + 1-3pm, £65 (10 weeks). Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail. co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Thursday until 21 June.

Summer Italian Kitchen Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk. uThat Fish Guy PopUp Academy Espresso Bar,

Barry. 6-9pm, free. Info 07557 773723. On tomorrow also. uWatercolours Carmarthen Community Education Centre.

2.30-4.30pm, £65 (10 weeks).

Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail. co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Thursday until 21 June.

Where Are All The Women? Women In Classical Musicians Symposium USW Newport City Campus, Newport. 5pm, £15. Info 01633 656757.

Hosted by Welsh National Opera and The Riverfront.

FRIDAY 8 JUNE Cycling: L’Etape Dragon Tour Glanusk Estate (starting point). £47.50-£92.50 to enter.

Info www.letapeuk.co.uk/ wales/dragon-tour. Three days of riding through mid-Wales over distances of 79-104.5km (today); 70-85.5km (tomorrow) and 100-305km (Sun

Dara Khan Manganiyar & Sawai Khan Manganiyar, Stacey Blythe, Stelios Pelasgos, Steve Killick, Syed Najibi, Tamar Eluned Williams, The Swamp Girls, Tinc y Tannau, Tom Van Outryve, Tony Evans, Torgrim Mellum Stene and Xanthe Gresham.

On tomorrow also.

Botanical Art Course Dyffryn Gardens, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10.30am-4pm, £37.50. Info 029 2059 3328.

Monthly workshop hosted by Debbie Devauden.

Caerwent Craft Fayre Caerwent Village Hall, Monmouthshire. 2.30-4.30pm.

Info cwmbran_crafts@ hotmail.co.uk. Every second Saturday of the month.

Chepstow Farmers’ Market Cormeilles Square, Chepstow. 8.30am-1pm, free.

Info 01291 626370. Every second and fourth Saturday of the month (also on Sat 24).

Fathers are renowned the world over for loving big pits, and this Father’s Day – Sun 17 June – Big Pit Coal Museum in Blaenavon invites them to partake in a Feastival. On offer: food and drink stalls, a tour of Rhymney Brewery and a ride on the terribly quaint Pontypool & Blaenvaon Railway.

10). This is an officially Tour De France-affiliated ride, I believe. (Until Sun 10) Dinky Dragons Cardiff Story, The Hayes, Cardiff.

10am-3pm, free. Info 029 2034 6214. Family fun day for 0-5-year-olds on the second Friday of every month.

Toddler Days Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £5.50/free under-4s. Info 029 2047 5475.

Monthly term-time events for toddlers and their parents, this month’s theme being ‘marvellous minibeasts’.

SATURDAY 9 JUNE uBeyond The Border St Donat’s Castle, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am-10pm, £75 weekend/£55 kids (£45 per day/£30 kids). Info 01446 799100. Biannual festival of storytelling returns, this year featuring performances from Angharad Wynne, Barracwda, Ben Haggarty, Bina Williamson, Cath Little, Dafydd Davies Hughes, Daniel Morden, Elizabeth Garner, Emily Hennessey, Fiona Collins, Flossy & Boo, Flying Seagull Project, Francis Maxey, Guto Dafis, Gwilym Morus, Hugh Lupton, Jez Danks, Joanne Harris, Joe Baele, Jonah Brody, Lynne Denman, Markus Luukkonen, Megan Lloyd, Michael Harvey, Mikael Öberg, Myrddin de Cauter, Oli Wilson-Dickson, Pandvani 108, Paola Balbi & Davide Bardi, Petals And Claws, Robin Jenkins, Robin Williamson, Sally Pomme Clayton, Sheema Mukherjee, Sioned Davies, Smita Bellur,

uDinky Donkey Walking Venue TBC, Brecon Beacons. £35/£25 under-16s. Info 01874 749092. Spend a couple of hours with a pair of Miniature Mediterranean Donkeys . Also on Sun 10, Sat 16, Sun 17, Wed 27 and Sat 30 this month.

Espadrilles The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 10am1pm, £35. Info twinmadethings@gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Farmers’ Market Twyn Community Centre, Caerphilly.

9.30am, free. Info 01656 658963. Every second Saturday of the month.

Ffiliffest Caerphilly Castle.

11am-7pm, free. Info 0300 0256000. A Welsh language festival of arts, language and music, in partnership with Menter Iaith Caerffili.

Funky Craft Fayre Ostreme Centre, Mumbles, Swansea. 10am-4pm. Info nigel.mason@ntlworld.com.

Taking place here on the second Saturday of each month.

Garden Photography National History Museum, St Fagans. 10am-4.30pm, £110/£85. Info 029 2057 3500.

With Jason Ingram. uGoodfillas Pizza PopUp Academy Espresso Bar, Barry. 6-9pm, free. Info 07557 773723.

Heritage Day Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 10am-4pm, free (talks £5 each). Info 07549 526527. Including talks on ‘170 Years Of The Insole Family And Insole Court’ (Elaine Davey, 10.30am); ‘Researching And Publishing Your Family History’ (Nick

Barratt, 12pm) And ‘Votes For Women And The Suffragettes’ (Ritchie Wood, 1.30pm). Plus stalls and kids’ activities.

In Conversation With Clementine Schneidermann National Museum Cardiff. 1pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7951. lunchtime talk in which photographer Schneidermann and stylist Charlotte James discuss their ongoing series, Ffasiwn Project. uKrafty Kids Carnegie House, Bridgend. 10.30am1pm, free. Info 01656 815757.

Join Claire Hiett for a morning of crafting, making and painting. Also on Sat 16 and Sat 23.

Learn To Throw A Pot Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am-4.30pm, £70. Info 029 2048 4611. With Isabella Bilstein.

Level 1 Bike Maintenance Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 9.30am-4pm, £65. Info www. cycletrainingwales.org.uk. uLights In The Sky Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee. Info 029 2047 5475. The science of fire, fireworks etc. Every Saturday and Sunday until Sat 30.

Llantrisant Big Picnic Castle Green, Llantrisant.

11am-7pm, free/£10-£40 to set up a table. Info dean@ llantrisant.net. Proceeds going towards the Llantrisant Guildhall Project.

Macramé Sandals The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

2-5pm, £35. Info twinmadethings@gmail.com.

Twin Made craft workshop.

Man Vs Horse Llanwyrtd Wells, Powys. £25 to enter/ free to spectate. Info 01591 610666. Annual event, organised by Green Events, with some cult appeal. Men on foot race against men on horses, on hooves. If man beats horse this year, the man in question will win £2.500. Also it’s now sponsored by a brand of peanut butter which you can buy in hippy shops.

Mumbles Produce Market Seafront Car Park, Mumbles.

9am-1pm, free. Info 01792 361012. Every second Saturday of the month.

Newport Craft Fayre The Gallery, Newport Indoor Market. 9am-4.30pm, free. Info 01633 656656. Every second Saturday of the month.

Nimble Fingers Craft Fayre Victoria Hall, Mumbles, Swansea. 10am-4pm, free. Info 07790 298913. On the second Saturday of every month until the end of the year.

Pre-Loved Vintage Kilo Fair National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10am5pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600.

Vintage clothes at £15 per kilo.

Saturday Family Workshops Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 10am-1pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Spirit Festival City Hall, Cardiff. 12-4.30pm + 6-10.30pm, £11. Info www. spiritfestival.co.uk. UK-wise festival visits Cardiff to showcase/flog over 140 gins, rums and vodkas.

Spoken Word Saturday Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 3pm, £3.

Info 0845 2263510.

Summer Supper For

Friends Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am-3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk.

Surface Pattern Design (Textile Design) UWTSD Dynevor Campus, Swansea.

10.30am-3.30pm, £25. Info 01792 652016. Adult workshop hosted by Swansea College Of Art tutor Anna Lewis and presented by Mission Gallery.

Tell Your Own Story Jacob’s Antiques, Cardiff.

11am + 1pm, free. Info 029 2039 0939. Workshop delivered by tutors from The Open University in Wales in conjunction with Festival Of Voice.

T-Shirt Printing The Printhaus, Canton, Cardiff.

12-3pm, £45. Info 029 2022 0349. Monthly course aimed at beginners.

Welsh Wrestling Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7pm, £12/£9. Info 0300 0040444. In Abertillery on Fri 29.

Women & War: An Un-Silencing Jacob’s Antiques, Cardiff. 3-7pm, £15.

Info 029 2039 0939. Talks curated by Gentle/Radical, in partnership with Festival Of Voice.

Young Makers Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2-4pm, free. Info 01792 516900. Book in advance please.

SUNDAY 10 JUNE Barry Festival Of Transport Various locations, Barry Island. 10am-5pm, free. Info www.ctpg.co.uk.

Vintage cars, bikes, buses and coaches. Hosted by the Cardiff Transport Preservation Group.

Barry Island Handmade Market Barry Island train station. 11am-3pm, free. Info facebook.com/ barryislandhandmademarket.

Every second Sunday of the month.

Cardiff Preloved Vintage Kilo The Depot, Cardiff.

10am-4pm, £1.50. Info www. depotcardiff.co.uk. Clothing sale at £15 per kilo. uDark Castle Ghost Tour Cardiff Castle. 10pm, £12.50/£10 kids. Info 07538 878609. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Tue 26 and Thurs 28.

Dr. Sally Austen In Conversation With Bella Bathurst Jacob’s Antiques, Cardiff. 4pm, £6.50. Info 029 2039 0939. A talk about sound presented by Festival Of Voice.

Fleece To Felt Shearing Experience Venue TBC, nr Crickhowell. £45/£35 kids.

Info 01874 749092. Spend the day on a farm in the Brecon Beacons learning how to shear a sheep, then felting the wool. Price includes lunch. A Good Day Out event.

Marina Market National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

10am-3pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600.

Mediterranean Feast Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Open Mic Poetry Night Deli Rouge, Cardiff. 7.309.30pm, free. Info 029 2048 3871. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre BUZZ 65

Festival event. *Processions Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff (starting point). 12.15pm, free. Info www.processions.co.uk. A walk through Cardiff towards Bute Park, taking place simultaneously in the four UK capital cities and celebrating 100 years since the first British women gained the right to vote.

Rhondda Rips It Up! National Museum Cardiff.

1-4pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. Various events relating to the WNO stage production of the same name (see Stage listings and Upfront) including percussion games, music, prop making and treasure hunts.

Stretch Revive and Relax Workshop Tramshed Studio, Cardiff. 10.30am-12.30pm, £20. Info sarasclasses4@ gmail.com.

Swansea Vintage And Artisan Fair National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

10am-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. uTuneless Choir Cardiff Aspire Fitness, Canton, Cardiff. 7.30-9.30pm, £10 first session/£7 drop-in/£40 for eight weeks. Info 07745 683723. Choir, led by Mei Gwynedd, for people who want to sing but can’t carry a tune.

Also on Sun 24 this month.

MONDAY 11 JUNE uJoy Of Living Mindfulness Group Meeting Gaia Yoga Studio, Roath, Cardiff. 7.30-9pm, free (donations welcome). Info 07412 346054. On the second and fourth Monday of every month (also Mon 25 in June).

Natural Dyeing And Printing Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.30-9pm, £11.

Info hannah@greencityevents.co.uk. Hosted by Tudor Cat and Green City Events. uSix Week Art Course Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 4.306.30pm, £75 (six weeks).

Info 029 2087 7959. Hosted

by Rachel Rasmussen, this is every Monday until 16 July. Each class will include demonstrations by Rachel, working with landscapes, seascapes and abstract art.

Talk: TV Drama Development The Atrium, Cardiff. 12-2pm, free. Info 0345 5760101. An introduction to Bad Wolf, Screen Alliance Wales, and the process of TV drama development. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

Book in advance please. uVelotech Gold Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 9.30am-4pm, £495 (four days). Info www. cycletrainingwales.org.uk.

(Until Thurs 14) TUESDAY 12 JUNE A Clown’s Perspective On Physical Theatre The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff. 1-3pm, free. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com. Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival workshop hosted by George Fuller.

Steve Parrish Miners Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £20.50/£19. Info 01495 227206. Motorsport personalBUZZ 66

ity who seems to enjoy doing practical jokes, just like Gazza did. And where did that get him? That’s right, the celebrity speaking circuit.

WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE Alun Havard Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £10. Info 01792 473238.

Bike First Aid Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.30-9pm, £11. Info hannah@ greencityevents.co.uk. Hosted

by Cycle Training Workshop Wales and Green City Events.

Hoop Yoga Cardiff & Vale College, Cardiff. 7-8pm, £7.

Info elliecoptor@hotmail.com.

With Elliecoptor Pilott. uPainting In Pontypool Park Competition Pontypool Park. £18 to enter/£15 adv/£10 NUS. Info 01495 752036. Annual event featuring prizes of £250, £100 and £75. Following four days of painting (until Sat 16), judging and prize-giving will be on Sun 17, and an exhibition of the work will open in the town’s Barker Gallery.

(Until Sun 17) THURSDAY 14 JUNE Arts Society Cardiff Lecture Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2pm, £7. Info 029 2030 4400. Jonathan Foyle on ‘Henry VIII’s State Bed’.

Bearded Taco Pop-Up Academy Espresso Bar, Barry. 6-9pm, free. Info 07557 773723.

Crafty Beer Evening NosDa, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £15.

Info 029 2037 8866. Do crafts and drink some drinks, with your hosts Twin Made. Price includes one drink and crafting materials/equipment. uHowl Mozarts, Swansea.

8pm, free. Info 01792 649984.

Poetry open mic, every second and third Thursday of the month (also on Thurs 17 in May).

How To Win Friends And Influence Critics The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff.

FRIDAY 15 JUNE uCraft*Folk Craft Market Tacoma Square, Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077.

(Until Sun 17) Derek Acorah Miners Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £20 adv. Info 01495 227206. uExtinct Cardiff city centre.

6pm, £5 adv. Info 029 2063 6464. A city centre live action roleplaying experience, “based on the increasing use of technology in our everyday lives”. Festival Of Voice event produced by Yellowbrick. uJennifer Hartley: Body Language Jacob’s Antiques, Cardiff. 2pm, £10. Info 029 2039 0939. Talk presented by Festival Of Voice. On tomorrow also, at 11pm. uLansdowne Community Beer Festival 2018 The Lansdowne, Canton, Cardiff.

5pm, free. Info 029 2022 1312.

Featuring 17 ales and eight ciders across three days, plus live music and family events on Sat 16. (Until Sun 17) Little Man Quiz Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 7-9pm, £1 to play. Info 07933 844234.

Every second Friday of the month. Er, apart from this one. uQueen Pepiada PopUp Academy Espresso Bar, Barry. 6-9pm, free. Info 07557 773723. Venezuelan street food. Also on Thurs 21, Fri 22, Fri 29 and sat 30.

Scriptdawg The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff. 12-2pm, free. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com. Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival workshop limited to 10 participants.

So You Think You’re Smart? Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7pm, free. Info 01495 243252. Quiz night, every third Friday of the month.

Specialization: Hydraulics & Suspension Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 9.30am-4pm,

Fri 15-Sun 17 June sees the Lansdowne, a pleasant alehouse in Canton, Cardiff, host its annual Community Beer Festival. There’s about 25 nonregular beers and ciders being poured in the back garden, and some live music and that too.

1-3pm, free. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com. Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival workshop hosted by Guy O’Donnell. uSt Fagans Dark Museum Tour National History Museum, St Fagans.

10pm, £12.50/£10 kids. Info 029 2057 3500. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings.

Also on Thurs 21.

Talk: WWI Medicine Memorial Hall, Newbridge.

7pm, £3. Info 01495 243252.

Hosted by Roger Morgan.

Young Art Force Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

11am-2pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

£105. Info www. cycletrainingwales.org.uk. uSt Fagans Dark Castle Tour National History Museum, St Fagans. 10pm, £12.50/£10 kids. Info 029 2057 3500. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Fri 22.

Valleys Folk Dance Night Bethlehem Chapel, Blaenavon.

7.30-10.15pm, £7. Info rodjacdenleyjones@gmail. com. With caller Rod DenleyJones. No experience needed.

Voices On The Bridge Pontypridd Museum. 7pm, free. Info 01443 490748.

Poetry, spoken word and literature evening with

guests Kathy Miles, Nick McGaughey, Rufus Mufasa and Unity, Christina Thatcher, Kate North, Cara Gwen, Des Mannay and Rob Cullen.

Wild Food Foraging Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £95.

Info 01600 714595.

SATURDAY 16 JUNE An Animated Discussion with Bec Hill And Friends Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

4pm. Info 029 2030 4400. Part of a series of screenings etc here celebrating women in animation, comedian Hill discusses women in video game culture.

Brecon Craft Fair Market Hall, Brecon. 9am-4.30pm.

Info 01495 753782. Every third Saturday of the month.

Bubble Rush Cardiff Coopers Field, Cardiff.

10am-4pm, £18 to enter. Info events@tyhafan.org. A 5K run in which participants will get covered in foam in four bubble stations situated around the course. Charity event for Ty Hafan.

Drovers Walk Llanwyrtd Wells, Powys. £2 to enter on the day/free to spectate. Info 01591 610666. Green Events host a walk of 10, 15 or 25 miles through the countryside across the old drovers’ trails.

Headdresses The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 2-4pm, £30. Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop, in collaboration with Fizz Goes Pop. Introduction To Stand-Up Comedy For Beginners The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff. 12-2pm, free. Info info@otherroomtheatre. com. Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival workshop hosted by Carri Munn.

Made It Market St David’s Church, Neath. 10am-3pm, from £15 to set up a stall.

Info 07971 242730. Quarterly craft and produce fair. Also on Sat 22 Sept and Sat 1 Dec this year; there’s also one in Llanelli this month, on Sat 23.

Motorpoint Polo At The Manor 2017 Celtic Manor, nr Newport. 11.30am, £8-£128.

Info 01633 413000. Annual event with various pricing grades. You can also get a 10-person gazebo for £650.

Neon Signs The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 5-7pm, £35. Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Pawsome Fete! Cat Protection Adoption Centre, Bridgend. 11am-4pm, £1/50p kids/free under-3s. Info 01656 724396. Featuring a cake stall, raffle, tombola, stalls, BBQ, bouncy castle, children’s corner, face painting, garden games, competitions and much more. uPrintmaking Masterclass Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am4pm, £80 (two days). Info 01792 516900. With Swansea Print Workshop. On tomorrow also.

Quilt Club National History Museum, St Fagans. 10.30am12.30pm, £5. Info 029 2057 3500. Monthly session for adults. Book in advance please.

Re:Joyce! Celebrating

Ulysses On Bloomsday Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff.

7.30-10pm, £8 adv. Info 07933 844234. Weeping Tudor Productions present a celebration of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, featuring readings, songs, performance art and installations. You can dress up in Bloomsday attire and win prizes for being the best dressed, if you’re more educated than me and know what Bloomsday attire is. uRoyal Society For The Protection Of Birds Margam Park, nr Port Talbot.

10am-4pm, free. Info 01639 881635. Find out which habitats are on the Park and some of the birds and animals that you might be able to spot. Also on Sat 23.

Seafood Masterclass Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Sex Ed Assembly Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2-4pm, £3. Info 029 2030 4400.

Festival Of Voice event offering people the chance to talk about their sexuality, and their experiences of and thoughts on sex education.

Shoe To Shore Poetry Tour All Saints, Penarth.

7-9pm, £20 adv. Info 029 2070 3170. Featuring Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Makar, Jackie Kay, Imtiaz Dharker and Stephen Payne. Ticket price includes a glass of wine, nibbles and a copy of Off The Shelf, a poetry book published to coincide with the tour.

St Fagans Real Food Market National History Museum, St Fagans. 10am3pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500.

Vintage Kilo Sale Creature Sound, Swansea. 10am, £3.

Info 01792 301178. Selling vintage gear at £15 per kilo.

Wartime Bridgend Bridgend town centre.

10am-5pm, free. Info 01656 815757. Transport the whole family back to WWI and WWII, willingly or otherwise, with various era-specific activities, events and displays. uWoolly Weekend National History Museum, St Fagans.

11am-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500. Call into Llwyn yr Eos farm to see the museum’s sheep getting their annual haircut and learn about the journey from fleece to fibre.

On tomorrow also.

Writing History In Medieval Durham, 9951130 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 11am, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Dr Charlie Rozier traces the history of St Cuthbert’s cult and community SUNDAY 17 JUNE *Benjamin Zephaniah Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £22. Info 0871 4720400.

Radical UK poet of a good 40 years’ standing.

Cardiff Raft Race Llandaff Rowing Club, Cardiff (starting point). 10.30am, £50 to enter a team/free to spectate. Info info@cityhospice.org.uk. A City Hospice event.

Father’s Day Feastival Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. 11am-4pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3650. Including

food and drink stalls, live music from Ragsy (your dad’s favourite), a ride on the Pontypool & Blaenavon railway and a tour of Rhymney Brewery.

Gourmet Barbecue Course (Father’s Day) Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Juke The Moon, Cardiff.

7-10.30pm, free. Info info@ themooncardiff.com. Writers’ open mic featuring Rufus Mufasa this month. uLearn How To Shear Sheep Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am4pm, £115. Info 01600 714595.

Also on Sun 24.

Tea Dance Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff. 4-7pm, £5. Info oceanartscardiff@ gmx.co.uk. Every third Sunday of the month.

Willow Garden Structures Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £105.

Info 01600 714595.

Wartime Bridgend Carnegie House, Bridgend.

10am-4pm, free. Info 01656 815757. Featuring an array of interactive stalls, demonstrations, re-enactments and exhibitions.

MONDAY 18 JUNE Gwd Mondays Music Quiz Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7933.

TUESDAY 19 JUNE Tea Dance Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 2.30pm, £6. Info 0845 2263510.

WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE Spice Preview Night Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

Info 07376 604291. Monthly evening offering a chance for you to go along and see what you might get out of this adventure, activity, sports and social group.

Spin Your Own Yarn Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.309pm, £11. Info hannah@ greencityevents.co.uk. Hosted by shepherdess Jane and Green City Events. Currently fully booked though.

Toddler Time At The Play Lab Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon.

1.30-2.45pm, free. Info 029 2057 3650. With the theme of weather this month.

THURSDAY 21 JUNE uCamp Elsewhere Merthyr Mawr, nr Bridgend. £35 pitch fee/free under-18s. Info www.campelsewhere.co.uk.

Coinciding with the Sumer Solstice, this is a “human-centred forest camp” which has various wholesome activities and pop-up food things in the daytime, then lots of DJs and a few live acts from (primarily) Cardiff, curated by Blue Honey. (Until Sun 24) Hugh Thomson Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £9.50-£11.50. Info 01874 611622. Travel writer discusses his recent book, whose premise is his attempt to travel across the north of England on a mule.

Skybration 2018 Kite Festival Knap Lake & Gardens, Barry. 5pm, free.

Info 07854 375891. Ninth year of this annual event hosted

by Art4U. Features a kite and windsock-making workshop, plus a parade at 6pm.

Strawberry Afternoon Tea Swansea Museum.

2-4.15pm, £6 adv. Info 01792 653763. Hosted by the Royal Institution Of South Wales.

FRIDAY 22 JUNE uCardiff Mini Film Festival Various venues, Cardiff. £45 (three days). Info cardiffminifilmfestival.co.uk.

Three-day showcase for cinematic shorts, also featuring Q&As, workshops, live music and additional classic film screenings. Taking place in the following venues: The Big Top, Kongs, Bootlegger and empty shop spaces in Capitol Shopping Centre, Duke Street Arcade, Morgan Arcade and Royal Arcade. Schedule is currently TBC so check the website for that. (Until Sun 24) Lunch Club Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10.30am-2.30pm, £39. Info 01443 222716 / www. angelagray.co.uk.

Level 2 Bike Maintenance Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 9.30am-4pm, £75. Info www. cycletrainingwales.org.uk. uThe Monster UK Tour Motorpoint Arena Cardiff.

10am, £23. Info 029 2022 4488. A whole arena of bouncy obstacle courses and suchlike, for adults (cocktails, craft beer and street food is also available). (Until Sun 24) SATURDAY 23 JUNE Armed Forces Through The Ages Caerphilly Castle.

11am-4pm, £8.50/free kids.

Info 0300 0256000. Discover the evolution of the armed forces thanks to reenactors of the following wars: Medieval, Tudor, Civil, Napoleonic and World (I and II).

Back To Basics Screenprinting Workshop The Printhaus, Canton, Cardiff. 10am-4pm, £60. Info 029 2022 0349. Get to grips with the basics of the screenprinting process. Email info@ theprinthaus.org to book. On once a month until November.

Blackwood Beach Party Blackwood Town Centre.

9am-5pm. Info 01443 815588.

Annual event in which a big pile of sand is scattered in this very much landlocked location, and seaside-themed activities take place as well as live music etc.

Cyantotype Print Making Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-1pm, £45.

Info 01600 714595.

Dye And Print An Organic Scarf National History Museum, St Fagans. 10.30am4pm, £90/£70. Info 029 2057 3500. With Catherine Lewis.

Gwyl Fawr Aberteifi: Proclamation Ceremony Guildhall / Cardigan Castle, Cardigan. 2.30pm, free. Info 01239 621200.

Historical Association Swansea Branch – Outreach Classes

Information Day National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

10am-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. uJoust! Cardiff Castle.

10am-5pm, £8.50-£11/free under-5s. Info 029 2087 8100.

Annual event showcasing the ancient sport of getting on a horse and running at another guy on a horse with a big pointy stick. On tomorrow also.

Kidsmarkets Summer Mega Market Howells School Sports Hall, Llandaff, Cardiff. 11am-12.30pm, £1.50/ kids free. Info 07760 802088.

Featuring great quality new and pre-loved kids’ toys, clothes and baby equipment.

Life Drawing Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2-4pm, £3. Info 01792 516900.

Made It Market St Eli Shopping Centre, Llanelli.

Info 07971 242730. Craft and produce fair.

Midnight St Fagans Dark Castle Tour National History Museum, St Fagans. 10.30pm, £13.50/£11 kids. Info 029 2057 3500. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings.

Sheepdog Shepherding Morning Venue TBC, nr Crickhowell. £45. Info 01874 749092. Learn how to work with a sheep dog on a Welsh hill farm, and move sheep from field to field. A Good Day Out event.

Soapbox Science Oxford Street, Swansea. Free. Info soapboxscienceswansea@ gmail.com. This is part of the Wales Festival Of Innovation and aims to engage the city centre-going public on the topic of women in STEMM roles.

Summer Solstice Make And Take National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

12.30-3.30pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Celebrate the start of summer by making a thematic craft. uSummer Solstice Temple Cardiff Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff.

6.30pm. Info oceanartscardiff@gmx.co.uk. Today features, in Ocean Arts’ words, Live Music, Ommadom Dancers (tribal/ spiritual dancing to live drumming), poetry and wordsmithery.

Tomorrow features therapies, Indian head massage, henna, stalls, and live music.

The Great Get Together St John’s Churchyard Garden, The Hayes, Cardiff. 10am3pm, free. Info 029 2034 6214.

Activities all day including craft, colouring and trails.

Presented by the nearby Cardiff Story museum, indeed it’ll take place in there if the weather is bunk.

Weekend Adult Workshop Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 10am-1pm, £5. Info 01792 516900. This month with a theme of narrative illustrations. Book in advance please.

SUNDAY 24 JUNE Classic Greek Mediterranean BBQ Angela Gray’s Cookery School

At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Dogs Trust Bridgend Fun Day Pencoed College, Bridgend. 10.30am-4pm, £40 to set up a stall. Info linda. feagan@dogstrust.org.uk.

Gong Bath with Aaron Meli Tramshed, Cardiff.

7-8.30pm, £14. Info 029 2023 5555. Aaron, no relation to Roger I assume, hosts his second gong bath here. You just have to dress comfy, everything else is provided for you.

Lead The Way Charity Dog Walk Margam Park, nr Port Talbot. Free. Info 01639 881635. Burns Pet Nutrition launch their new community dog walking scheme.

Pontcanna Brocante Vintage Flea Market Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

10am-4pm. Info www. pontcannamarket.co.uk.

On the last Sunday of every month until October.

MONDAY 25 JUNE uCricket: Specsavers County Championship– Glamorgan v Northamptonshire SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff.

11am. Info 029 2040 9380.

(Until Thurs 28) The Gay Men’s Book Club Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. This month it’s a discussion of Saturday Night And Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe.

TUESDAY 26 JUNE Ekphrastic Writing Group The Gate, Cardiff. 7-459.30pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344. Readings and discussions. On the fourth Tuesday of every month.

Wales Book Of The Year Awards Ceremony Tramshed, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £6.

Info 029 2023 5555.

WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE Hula Hoop Class For All Levels Cardiff & Vale College, Cardiff. 7-8pm, £7.

Info elliecoptor@hotmail.com.

With Elliecoptor Pilott.

Science Cafe National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

7.30pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600.

Talwrn Y Beirdd Cardigan Castle. 7.30pm, £5. Info 01239 621200. Bardic contest, like a rap battle but with fewer bars about having had sexual relations with opponents" mothers, as part of Gwyl Fawr Aberteifi.

THURSDAY 28 JUNE Alun Havard Queens Hall, Narberth. 7pm, £11. Info 01834 869323.

An Evening with Joanna Quinn Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 6pm. Info 029 2030 4400. Quinn is known as the ‘queen of animation’ and is also based in Chapter; here she talks about her work as part of a wider programme of events relating to women in animation.

Kim Rosen Small World

Theatre, Cardigan. 7-9.30pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 01239 615952. Poetry event with some sort of hippyish sounding musical backing.

Maurice Selden Q&A Session Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, free. Info 01874 611622. Related to the new exhibition of rally photography (see Art listings), Selden will talk about his career and be joined by Phil Mills of Viking Motorsports in Llandrindod Wells plus Welsh rally driver Sara Williams.

Superbugs – The End Of Modern Medicine As We Know It? Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. 6-10pm, free. Info 029 2047 5475. Event for all the family on the topics of antibiotics, germs, medics etc.

Taith Iaith National Museum Cardiff. 1.05pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7951. Welsh learner tour, this month relating to the Kizuna exhibition which opened here recently.

FRIDAY 29 JUNE Raku Pottery Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth.

10am-12.30pm, £50. Info 01600 714595.

Terry Hetherington Award Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 7pm, free.Info 01792 463980. An evening marking the achievements of this year’s entrants into the award, which is for writers under 30.

The Cellar Bards Cellar Bar, Cardigan. 8pm, £3. Info 07818 056599. Monthly literature event with special guest Susan Richardson.

Welsh Wrestling The Met, Abertillery. 7pm, £12/£9. Info 01495 355945.

SATURDAY 30 JUNE Armed Forces Day Tea Dance Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 2pm, free. Info 01495 243252. uBeats, Eats & Treats Various locations, Barry Island. 11am-7pm, free. Info 01446 704867. Craft stalls (hosted by Craft*folk), live music (hosted by Bro Radio) and food/drink from Meat And Greek, the Welsh Italian Pizza Company, Vale Cider, Tomos A Lilford and Mr. Croquewich.

On tomorrow also. uBoutique Gift Markets Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am5.30pm. Info 029 2087 7959.

On tomorrow also.

Decolonising Environmentalism Symposium YMCA, Swansea. 7pm. Info 01792 652032. Including a screening of the documentary Thank You For The Rain. uFundamentals of Improv Comedy Weekend Class The Arches Rehearsal Studios, Cardiff. 11am-5pm, £95 (two days). Info cardiff@ nathanimprov.com. With Nathan Impro, and aimed at everyone as opposed to just actors and comedians. uGolf: The Celebrity Cup Celtic Manor, nr Newport.

9am, £5-£170. Info 01633 413000. Annual event where teams of slebs (this year including Brendan O’Carroll – with his wife Jenny and son

Danny – Ronan Keating, Brian McFadden, Peter Jones and Rob Brydon) form golf teams to represent Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland. On tomorrow also.

Macramé Plant Hanger The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.30-8.30pm, £25. Info twinmadethings@gmail.com.

Twin Made craft workshop.

Once Upon A Labrador West Farm, Southerndown, Vale Of Glamorgan. 7.30pm.

Info 01656 815757. This seems to be some sort of performance in which one Charles Garland reads poems about his dog..

Phone Photography Carnegie House, Bridgend.

10am-1pm, £3. Info 01656 815757. A tutorial on how to take better photos on your phone.

Rhondda Rose Society Show National History Museum, St Fagans. 11am4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500.

Spanish & Italian Charcuterie Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth.

10am-4pm, £145. Info 01600 714595.

Summer Supper Club Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 6.30pm, £55. Info 01443 222716 / www. angelagray.co.uk. uTafwyl Llandaff Fields, Cardiff. 11am-9pm, free. Info www.tafwyl.org. Multi-faceted two days (on tomorrow also) of entertainment aimed at Welsh speakers, and those who want to learn. As well as stalls promoting Welsh produce, workshops, literary sessions, music, cookery, art and drama sessions, live music today will come from Adwaith, Omaloma, Chroma, Meic Stevens, Lleden, Band Pres Llareggub, Eden, Cadno, Garmon and DJ Ian Cottrell (main stage); Danielle Lewis, Mabli Tudur A’r Band, Palenco, Lleuwen, Patrobas, Aled Rheon, Alys Williams and DJ Gareth Potter (acoustic stage); Wigwam, Sybs, Serol Serol and Ffracas (Yurt). Sun 1 July: Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog, Y Cledrau, Cadno, Vri, No Good Boyo, Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Daniel Lloyd & Mr Pinc, Candelas, Bryn Fon, Garmon, Elan Evans and DJ Dilys (main stage);Glain Rhys, Gai Toms, Welsh Whisperer, Gareth Bonello, Tecwyn Ifan and DJ Gareth Potter (acoustic stage); Eady Crawford, Beth Celyn, Los Blancos and Hyll (Yurt).

Velvet Owl Monthly Yard Party The Velvet Owl Brewing Company, Caerphilly. 12pm, free. Info 07415 933486. New thing at this, itself fairly new, Welsh craft brewery on the last Saturday of each month, with beers from this and other companies plus local spirits and street food. uWales National Airshow Swansea Bay. Free. Info www. walesnationalairshow.com.

See Roundup. On tomorrow also.

live FRIDAY 1 JUNE Aubrey Parsons Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Belly Of The Beast Rap Battles NosDa, Cardiff.

6-11.30pm, £5. Info 029 2037 8866. Hosted by Pryme Cut. Bon Jovi Experience The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 07590 471888.

Tribute band.

Captain Accident & The Disasters + Fat Cat Sound The Lost Arc, Rhayader. 7.30pm, £7.50. Info 01743 860246.

Conductors’ Showcase: Russian Icons Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6 adv. Info 029 2039 1391. Thomas Crane, Christopher Holley and Andrew Thompson conduct a programme of Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian and Shostakovich.

Democratus + Sepulchre + Second Sons The Duke, Neath. 1-4pm, free. Info 01639 643892.

Drew Martin The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events. uFire In The Mountain 2018 Cwmnewidion Isaf, Cnwch Coch, Aberystwyth.

12pm, £125 weekend/£50 teens/£30 2-12-year-olds/£5 under-2s. Info www.fireinthemountain.co.uk. Small but cutely formed festival which leans towards folk, bluegrass etc, and emphasises jam sessions, workshops etc.

Lineup (schedule TBC): Sam Amidon, Afriquoi, Lankum, Martin Simpson, Henge, Honeyfeet, Julie Murphy & Ceri Rhys Matthews, Martha Tilston, Sheelanagig, The Langan Band, Tim Eriksen, Zong Zing All Stars, Zri, A Fistful Of Spookies, Dogshow, Ewan McLennan, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Junior Bill, Mama Jerk & The Lady Fingers, Mikey Kenney & Damon Kilcawley, Silken Same, The Carny Villains, The King Driscolls, The Sneaky Fourth, Three Legg’d Mare, Assembly Lane, Ben Somers String Band, Cut A Shine, Josh O’Keefe, Judelman’s Interstate Express, Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow, Murston Bapchild & The Braxton Hicks, Stray Local, The Farwells, The Often Herd, The Old Time Wasters, The Waggonhoppers Three Cent String Band, Truckstop Honeymoon, Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno and The Wanton String Band, plus DJs AAA Badboy, Indian Man and Joey Fingers. (Until Sun 3) F-Troop District Club, Pontypridd. 7pm. Info 01443 402550. Rock and pop covers.

Hashtag Acoustic City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913. Presented by Nailed It Events.

JUST ANNOUNCED FOR JULY: GINGER WILDHEART (The Globe, Cardiff, Mon 16) LOWKEY (Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Fri 20) KELIS (Tramshed, Cardiff, Thurs 26) HOBO JOHNSON & THE LOVEMAKERS (Cardiff University Students Union, Tue 31) JUST ANNOUNCED FOR AUGUST: CHAKA BUZZ 67

* – recommended

UNEARTHED IN A FIELD Yurt Field, nr Solva, Haverfordwest, Fri 29 June-Sun 1 July Tickets: £85 weekend/£55 12-17-year-olds.

Info: www.unearthedinafield.co.uk Sixth year for a west Wales fest that’s musically multi-genred, wholesome and varied activity-wise, but always leaning towards the hippy side of the fence.

“The philosophy of this event is about the expansion of consciousness,” Unearthed In A Field say on their website, and who better to soundtrack efforts to that end than Macka B [pictured], Black Country toaster who emerged in the UK reggae explosion of the 1980s and, more recently, has gained a foothold in meme culture by uploading videos of himself singing cheerfully about his favourite food. Other musical names on the bill include dubby Afrobeat sorts Soothsayers, folk-pop crooner Ivan Moult and I See Rivers, three Norwegian women who now live in Tenby for some reason.

Jets To Zurich + French Alps Tiger The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

John Mouse + Beach Fatigue + Cursor Major Le Public Space, Newport.

7.30pm, £5. Info sam@lepub. co.uk. Presented by Keep Me In Your Heart. John is playing in Treorchy on Sat 30. uLazzmatazz 2018 Castle Hotel, Llandovery.

5pm, free. Info mtyremanw@ gmail.com. Three-day festival of live (folk) music, poetry, literature, a craft market, open mic sessions, a songwriting workshop and real ale at the bar. (Until Sun 3) Live Acoustic Night The Pilot, Penarth. Free. Info 029 2071 0615. On the first Friday of each month.

Open Night Glais Rugby Football Club, nr Clydach, Swansea. 8pm, £3. Info 01792 425231. A Valley Folk Club night.

Paul Ashton Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Prudent Primate Gwdihw, Cardiff. 9pm. Info 029 2039 7933. Funk, pop and jazz from Bristol.

Punchline Black Boy, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 299469. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Sock + Buzzard + My Name Is Ian Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £4. Info 029 2023 2199. Sock’s debut album is released today and they are also in Buzz’s One To Watch section this month. uSoho Sopranos Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free.

Info 029 2048 0077. Playing outdoors (subject to it not tipping down) as part of the Volvo Ocean Race festivities

here until Sun 10. This group are in fact here on Sun 10 also.

Take@That + The Ultimate Robbie The Neon, Newport. 7pm, £16.50 adv. Info 01633 533666.

Tribute acts.

The Andro Sisters St Fagans Village Hall. 7.30pm, £8/£6/£4 kids/free under12s. Info 029 2023 2970. A Pentreffest Noz folk night, with a music/dance workshop from 7.30pm and live music from 9.15.

The Chicago Blues Brothers St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £26 adv.

Info 029 2087 8444. Blues, soul and Motown hits. The performers dress up like the characters from the movie but there doesn"t seem to be any other real theatrical element.

The Decoy + Calling Apollo + We Come From Ashes + Epsilon + Trep The Dragonffli, Pontypool.

6pm, £5. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com.

Fundraising gig for someone named Jacob.

The Fugitives Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026. Blues.

The Sex Pistols Experience + AddMission Jac’s, Aberdare.

8pm, £12.50/£10 adv. Info 01685 879491. Tribute band who even go so far as to give each member tribute bandesque pun names: Johnny Rotter, Kid Vicious, Steve Clones and Paul Crook. uViking Fest VI Ebbw Vale Institute. 7pm, £10 per day/£16 both days. Info 01495 708022. Two days of metal and hard rock. Today features Hand Of Dimes, Kaned, Those Damn Crows

and The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk; tomorrow features Blaze Bayley, Mason Hill, Austin Gold and Kill 66.

Welsh Chamber Orchestra Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire. 7.30-10pm, £15. Info 01239 841387.

XY&O The Big Top, Cardiff.

Info 029 2022 8883. Local electronic pop producers with the fourth instalment of their residency.

SATURDAY 2 JUNE uAcoustic Duos The Plum Tree, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2022 5235. Local acts here every Saturday. uAlice Mee Bishop Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077. Also here on Mon 4.

Alun Lister Navigation Hotel, Treharris. 9pm, free.

Info 01443 410329. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Aubrey Parsons Birchgrove, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Cardiff Sinfonietta Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.45pm, £13.50-£18.50. Info 029 2039 1391. Featuring soprano Elin Manahan Thomas.

Daniel Newberry Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 029 2038 7026.

Depot In The Castle Cardiff Castle. 12-10pm, £34.50 adv/£15 under-18s/free under5s. Info info@depotcardiff. com. Live music from The Fratellis, Sister Sledge and Hackney Colliery Band; DJ sets from Fleetmac Wood and Horse Meat Disco; kids’ activities, Bingo Lingo and street food traders including Brother Thai, Ffwrnes, Mr Croquewich, That Fish Guy and The Pork Society.

Gary Mullen & The Works Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare.

7.30pm, £19. Info 0300 0040444. Queen tribute band.

Isolation + Smalltown Misfits + Ravenbreed + KinStrife + The Pictures The Dragonffli, Pontypool.

7pm, free. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com. Fourth birthday gig for this venue.

Jon Dee Graham + William Harries Graham The Printhaus, Canton, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8 adv. Info 029 2022 0349. Brotherly Texan singer-songwriters.

Last Night Of The Proms Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7pm, £20. Info 0845 2263510. John Hywel Williams conducts the British Sinfonietta Orchestra and various choirs.

Louise Halliday The Pheasant, Bridgend. 9pm, free.

Info 01656 653614. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Matahari The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622. Free live music in the bar every Saturday afternoon this month.

Metal 2 The Masses Semi Final 2 Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm, £5. Info 07970 063107.

Featuring Cranial Separation, Enmerkar, Democratus and And The Sky Darkened. The final is here on Sat 16.

Moonage Daydream: A Night For Young Dudes Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd. 8pm, £3 adv. Info 01443 491424.

David Bowie tribute night.

Mr Hate Jac’s, Aberdare.

8pm. Info 01685 879491. Rock and pop covers.

Newport Blues Festival The Neon, Newport. 2-11pm, £25 adv. Info 01633 533666.

Featuring King King, Climax Blues Band, The Brew, Groundhogs, Stacie Collins, Ben Poole and the Luke Doherty Band.

Open Mic Night Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 7pm, free.

Info 01685 384111. First Wednesday of every month.

Penny Arcade White Horse, Coychurch, nr Bridgend.

9pm, free. Info 01656 652583.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Ragsy The Mariners, Laugharne. 8.30pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Rob Lear The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 029 2021 2509.

Rosie Walters Band McCann’s Rock & Ale Bar, Newport. 9pm, free. Info 01633 253648.

Royal Scam Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff.

8.30pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015. Steely Dan tribute.

Saxonised The Patriot, Crumlin. 8pm. Info 01495 247178. Saxon tribute band. *Sex Injuries + They Live We Sleep + Kong Lives + Pathogenesis Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff.

7-10.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 3144. Hardcore, doom and noise in fun-sized servings. The guy putting this on pledged to make this show free entry on the afternoon Cardiff got promoted.

Simon Trigg The Red

u – repeated

Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Subset + Penny Rich + Charlie Says NosDa, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866.

The Big Fat Blues Band The Duke, Neath. 8pm, free.

Info 01639 643892. Blues-rock.

The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk + Mike Dennis The Moon, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

The Blues Band The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £24. Info 01633 656757. Bluesrock, not notably big or fat.

The Blues Sisters Fontygary Leisure Park, Rhoose. 8pm, free. Info 01446 710386. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Maddi Band Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077.

The Nightingales + Bosch + Give Me Memphis Le Public Space, Newport. 8pm, £10 adv. Info sam@lepub.co.uk. Postpunks who formed in the 80s and have been pretty active in recent years.

The Sex Pistols Experience + Ed TudorPole The Globe, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £11 adv. Info 07590 471888. Tribute band headline.

The Trends Porter’s, Cardiff.

8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Tom Jones Tribute Old Arcade, Cardiff. 7.30-10pm, free. Info 029 2021 7999.

Courtesy of Andrew Harley.

Tubular Brass Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £16. Info 01686 614555.

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield, performed on brass instruments.

Welsh Chamber Orchestra ‘18 Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £15/£14. Info 01646 695267.

Zoe Schwartz Blue Commotion Cwmbran RFC, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran.

7.30pm, £10. Info 01633 483238. Borough Blues Club gig.

SUNDAY 3 JUNE Breathe Fire The Patriot, Crumlin. 6pm, free. Info 01495 247178. uFrankie Weeson Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny.

8pm, free. Info 01873 853613.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Also on Sun 10, Thurs 14, Sun 24 and Thurs 28 this month.

Glas + The Low Down Dirty Dog Blues BandThe Parrot, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £7. Info 01267 231012. Blues night.

Gospelbeach + The Hanging Stars Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Fuelled By Jealous Lovers with a gig headlined by a band who feature someone from Beachwood Sparks.

John Adams & Friends Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077.

Lee McCrory & Lee Oliver Browns, Laugharne. 3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Paul Lewis Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 11am, £16-£20. Info 029 2039 1391. Pianist with a recital featuring Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms.

Red River Blues The Queens Head, Monmouth.

8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767.

Seán McGowan + Anna’s Anchor Tiny Rebel, Cardiff.

7pm, £7 adv. Info 029 2039 9557.

Steps + Blue + Bjorn Again Parc Y Scarlets, Llanelli. 4pm, from £44. Info 01554 292939. uSteve Tarner Jazz Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny.

2pm, free. Info 01873 853613.

Presented by Nailed It Events Every Sunday this month.

The Great Unknown The Windsor, Penarth. 9pm, free.

Info 029 2070 8675. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

The Marc Davies Band Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 6-8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Tom Clarke + Joe Dolman The Globe, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £15 adv. Info 07590 471888. Clarke was the singer in not very good Coventry indie band The Enemy.

Twin Atlantic Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18 adv.

Info 029 2023 5555. Scottish rockers.

MONDAY 4 JUNE uLive Jazz Noah’s Yard, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 447360. Here every Monday. *S.H.I.T. + Game + Asid + Peril The Moon, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £7/£6 adv. Info info@ themooncardiff.com. Really great bill of hardcore bands with very short names. S.H.I.T. are from Toronto and Game are one of the best live bands I saw last year.

Sinfonia Cymru & Gábor Takács-Nagy Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5-£16. Info 029 2039 1391. Performing work by Mozart, Bartok and Huw Watkins.

The Bonnevilles Le Public Space, Newport. 7pm, £8 adv.

Info sam@lepub.co.uk. Ulster blues-punk band. uUkulele Session The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff.

8.30pm, free. Info 029 2021 2509. Every Monday, with The Plucking Fourstrings.

TUESDAY 5 JUNE Acoustic Tuesday South Riverside Community Development Centre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2030 4400. Regular event led by pioneering local musicians and singers. uCommunity Samba Band – Practise Dates Llanfrynach Village Hall, Brecon. 7-9pm, £4/£2 under16s. Info sambabrecon@ yahoo.co.uk. Every Tuesday.

Emily’s Good Time Gang Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

Hackensack Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9pm. Info www.thefluteandtankard.

DEMUS & PLIERS (Tramshed, Wed 1) SAUL WILLIAMS (Clwb Ifor Bach, Fri 3) GWENNO (Clwb Ifor Bach, Fri 10) SEAN PAUL (Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Mon 20) CAMP COPE (Clwb Ifor Bach, Wed 29) GOMEZ (Tramshed, Wed 29) JUST ANNOUNCED FOR SEPTEMBER: BEN MILLER BAND BUZZ 68

com. Jazz.

Marco Mendoza + Nitroville + Blind River The Patriot, Crumlin. 8pm.

Info 01495 247178. Headliner is a noted jobbing hard rock bassist, currently in The Dead Daisies and here in his solo guise. uNothing Too Heavy & Friends Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077. Also here on Fri 8. uOpen Mic The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, free.

Info 01497 821762. Every Tuesday. uOpen Mic Night Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. Every Tuesday. uOpen Jam Session NosDa, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. Every Tuesday this month. uPrimary Partners Grand Theatre, Swansea. 6.30pm, £5.50. Info 01792 475715.

Kev Johns hosts a musical celebration featuring local schools. (Until Fri 8) The Albion Quartet Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15/£12. Info 029 2039 1391.

String quartet performing work by Dvorák, Mendelssohn and Debussy.

The Bay Rum Hounds Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077.

WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE uBandaoke Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. “Sing with a fully rehearsed band and become the Popstar you always dreamed of being.”

Also on Fri 15. uBay Rum Hounds Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2038 7026. Also on Wed 13 and Wed 27.

Brooks Williams Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club.

7.30pm, £8/£5 members. Info 01443 226892. A Llantrisant Folk Club night.

Charlotte Fahey Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077.

Donnie Joe’s American Swing Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Penarth. 7.30pm, £5/£4.40 adv. Info feelgoodmusicorg@ gmail.com. Also featuring swing DJ The Medicine Man. Dygl + The Pitchforks + Jack Perrett The Moon, Cardiff. 7-10pm, £6/£5 adv.

Info info@themooncardiff. com.

Fairport Convention Pontardawe Arts Centre.

7.30pm, £24.20 adv. Info 01792 863722.

Forever Jackson Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £21/£20. Info 0845 2263510.

Michael Jackson tribute show.

Jay Z & Beyoncé Principality Stadium, Cardiff.

5pm, from £51. Info 08442 777888. The first in a month of large concerts at this stadium, featuring “the most powerful couple in music”.

Even so, this would probably be selling better if it was Beyoncé on her own.

Kyle Carey Burnett’s Hill Chapel, Martletwy, Pembrokeshire. 7.30pm, £10

adv. Info 01646 651725. Selfstyles Celtic Americana artist. uOpen Jam Session The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info 029 2021 2509.

Every Wednesday. Expect to hear jazz, blues, rock or ska here. uOpen Mic Market Street Club, Barry. 8pm. Info 01446 733863. Every Wednesday.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. With a different guest host every week this month; tonight’s is Tariq Bedgood.

Patsy Hunt Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077.

Phil King Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.45pm, £10/£8. Info 01970 623232. UK singersongwriter. In Narberth tomorrow; Hay on Fri 8.

Rockin’ John Lewis The Roath Park, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2047 1961. uRoyal Welsh College Of Music & Drama Showcase Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9pm.

Info www.thefluteandtankard. com. Jazz. Also on Tue 19 this month.

Sinfonia Cymru The Riverfront, Newport. 1pm, £5.

Info 01633 656757.

Steve Price Big Band Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport. 8pm, £8. Info malc@dancebands. plus.com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

Trio HLK The Queens Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767.

Ultrafaux & Friends Jazzland, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 07802 912789. Gypsy swing.

THURSDAY 7 JUNE uAmserJazzTime Festival Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

10am, free. Info 029 2039 1391. As well as the three showcase concerts at this festival (see Music), there are free performances in the Richard Burton Theatre all day. Today: 10am Joe Bentley/John Close/Michael Cooper/Ting Lam, 11.30am Roberta Musillami; 1.30pm Tom Dalby, 2.15pm Matt Pearse/Luke Adams; 3.45pm Isabelle Roberts; 4.30pm Ed Jones-West; 6pm Ben Hunt.

Plus AmserJazzTime sessions in the foyer at 3pm, 6.30pm and 9.30pm. Fri 8, Richard Burton Theatre: 10am Jack McDougal; 11am Florian Gheorghe; 12pm Mark Fortnum; 2pm Max Wright; 3.30pm Rachel Head; 4.30pm Alina Miroshnichenko; 6.10pm Looi Choun. Plus AmserJazzTime sessions in the foyer at 1pm, 6.15pm and 9.30pm, with James Sherwood at 5.30pm. Sun 9, Richard Burton Theatre: 10am Connor Reid; 1.30pm Kumar Chopra/Alex Burch; 4pm Dave Bush; 5.20pm Gail Tasker; 6.20pm Diogo Gomes. Plus AmserJazzTime sessions in the foyer at 12.50pm and 9pm, with Junior Conservatoire at 3.15pm and Nerija at 7pm.

Sun 10, Richard Burton

Theatre: 10am Kumar Chopra/Alex Burch/Michael Blanchfield; 11am Norman Willmore Quintet with Tom Newitt; 12pm Mouth Of Words; 1.45pm Matheus Prado 7tet; 2.50pm Michael Dzyngel. Plus AmserJazzTime sessions in the foyer at 12.15pm, 1pm and 3.30pm. (Until Sun 10) BBC NOW: Shostakovich 5 St David’s Hall, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5-£40. Info 029 2087 8444. Thomas Søndergård conducts a programme of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.

Billy Bragg + Nadine Shah Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £16-£26.50. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice concert headlined by Essex’s favourite skateboard-snapping Lib Dem flirter, who we’ve also interviewed Upfront. *Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh + Tinc Y Tannau Swansea Studios, University Of Wales Trinity St David, Swansea.

7pm, £8/£5. Info www.rwan. cymru. NAWR presents the fourth of seven concerts showcasing Irish avant-garde musicians.

Danielle Nicholls The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

DnA Mission Gallery, Swansea. 7pm, £5. Info 01792 652016. Album launch gig for Welsh folk duo, also featuring discussion about the album.

Jane’s Calamity Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. Monthly singalong around the piano.

Jordan Allen + Local Enemy The Moon, Cardiff.

7-10pm, £7/£6 adv. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

Presented by This Feeling.

Music & Sound End Of Year Live! Tramshed, Cardiff. 4pm, free. Info 029 2023 5555. Showcase of Music & Sound curated by students of the University Of South Wales Creative Industries Faculty at the Atrium ,featuring: Eleri Angharad, Carolines, Lost Come Sunday, Jack Hughes, The Kelly Line, Naomi Rae, Mellt, Where’s Ed?, The Rotanas, Glass Jackets, Ravenbreed, Lead Coloured River, Knowhere and Alumni. Book in advance please.

Nik Turner’s Space Ritual + Flipsy McCaw + Felix Subway Creature Sound, Swansea. 7pm. Info 01792 301178. Hawkwind founder member.

Phil King Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth. 8pm, £8-£10. Info 01834 869323. Span Arts night.

Session Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077.

Soul Legends Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £24/£21.

Info 0300 0040444.

Swyn + Flowers For Freaks & Fioled NosDa, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. A Live By The River night presented by U&I Radio.

The Beach Boyz Tribute

Band Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £18.

Info 01873 850805.

Trio HLK with Evelyn Glennie Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £18/£16. Info 029 2039 1391. Opening event of the three concerts which make up the Amser Jazz Festival. Esteemed percussionist Glennie combines with jazzers Trio HLK. See Music.

Wuthering Heights Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £25.50. Info 01656 815995.

Kate Bush tribute.

FRIDAY 8 JUNE 360 Degrees The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

3D Brass EDM Party Gwdihw, Cardiff. 9pm, £4/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933. In which a brass band cover modern EDM (as in David Guetta, Skrillex etc) hits. I actually like this idea, while also thinking I would hate it if I was actually in the room.

Aberystwyth Lions Club Charity Concert Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

7.30pm, £16/£14. Info 01970 623232. In aid of Blood Bikes Wales and local charities, this will feature Shân Cothi, Aberystwyth Silver Band, Aberystwyth Male Voice Choir, Meibion y Mynydd and the Aberystwyth Tenovus Choir.

Acoustic Sinners Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny. 9pm, free. Info 01873 853613.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

A Filetta The Tabernacle, Cardiff. 7pm, £20. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice event featuring a vocal ensemble from Corsica.

Aubrey Parsons City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Cantorion Cyfarthfa 18th Annual Concert Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 7pm, £5. Info 01685 384111.

Fortunate Sons Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026. uGower Folk Festival Weobley Castle Farm, Llanrhidian, Swansea. £30£65 weekend/£8-£16 Fri 8 only/£14-£28 Sat 9 only/£11£22 Sun 10 only. Info 01792 850803. Performers include Kantref, DnA, The Trials Of Kato, Vrï, Pat Smith & Ned Clamp, Karen Pierce & Ken Humphreys, Granny’s Attic, Teyr, The Demon Barbers, The Wilson Family, Pilgrim’s Way, Chris Newman & Maire Ni Chathasaigh, Bowjolie, Becky Price & Friends, Paul Downes & Mick Ryan, Flossie Malavialle, Andy TamlynJones, Si Barron, Hannah Rarity & Luc McNally, Jon Swayne & Becky Price and Annette Davies. (Until Sun 10) Holoson + Awakening Savannah + Kasia + Vultures The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 6pm, £5. Info gigs@thedragonffli.com.

Benefit gig for sufferers of superficial siderosis.

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(Clwb Ifor Bach, Wed 5) THE LONE BELLOW (Clwb Ifor Bach, Fri 7) ICEAGE (Clwb Ifor Bach, Sat 8) SCREAMING FEMALES (Clwb Ifor Bach, Sun 9) SKATING POLLY Le Public Space, Newport, Tue 11) PETER BRODERICK (The Gate, Cardiff, Thurs 13) SIKTH (The Globe, Sun 16) ALEXANDER BUZZ 69

* – recommended Voodoogroove + The Pieces Of Mind The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 07590 471888. Charity event for a Nepal trek, organised by Velindre. Compered by Rhod Gilbert.

Lee Calaway Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Liam Ward Band Bootlegger, Cardiff. 10pm, free.

Info 07495 657407.

LUMP Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £17.50-£29.50. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice present a new project featuring Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay, ex of Tunng. Their album is reviewed in Buzz this month.

Nell Bryden Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £16.50.

Info 029 2089 0862. Singersongwriter, has played Cardiff a few times before.

Phil King The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £5. Info 01497 821762.

Pollen Count District Club, Pontypridd. 7pm. Info 01443 402550.

Rory McLeod Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £11. Info 01792 863722. UK folkie.

Songs From The Shows The Drill Hall, Chepstow. 7.309.30pm. Info 01291 627122.

With Chepstow Musical Show Choir and guests.

Tank & The Bangas Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £14. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice performance.

The Fitzgeralds Miners Institute, Blackwood. 7.40pm, £16.50/£14.50 adv. Info 01495 227206. Trio of folky fiddling siblings.

The Foley Explosion Le Public Space, Newport. 7pm, £8 adv. Info sam@lepub. co.uk. uThe Forget-Me-Not Chorus Penarth Pier Pavilion.

3-7pm, free. Info 0333 6663366. Festival Of Voice event running throughout the The Future Is Now Queens Hall, Narberth. £5 adv. Info 01834 869323. Showcase of young Pembrokeshire bands on two stages and in roughly this order: DJ BDuckX, Fire In The Youth, Exiles, Finch’s Midnight Neighbours, Defuser, Pink Velvet, Glue, Leah Roze, Tied & Wasted and DJ Joe Lockwood.

The Modulators Black Lion, Llandaff, Cardiff. 9pm, free.

Info 029 2056 7312. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

The Skiptones Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Totally Tina Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £16. Info 01600 772467. Tina Turner tribute act. In Cwmbran tomorrow.

Yazz Ahmed’s Hafla Band Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14/£12. Info 029 2039 1391.

Amser Jazz Festival event; see Music for more.

Y Cledrau + Gwilym + Mabli Tudur Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £5. Info 029 2023 2199.

SATURDAY 9 JUNE Acoustic Sinners Fontygary Leisure Park, Rhoose. 8pm, free. Info 01446 710386.

Presented by Nailed It Events. *A Forest Of Stars + Damim + Praecantator + Levitas + Yylva Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £10 adv. Info 07970 063107. Eradication host a bill of black metal bands with a nice spread of variety (within the genre).

An Evening Of Choral Classics St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14. Info 029 2087 8444. Welsh premiere of John Rutter’s The Gift Of Life featuring Cambrensis Choir, Noteworthy Choir from Maesteg and Con Voce from Merthyr Tydfil.

Angélique Kidjo’s Remain In Light Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £17.50-£24.50. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice concert featuring an esteemed Benin musician tackling a whole Talking Heads album.

Anthony Moulton The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Arcadian The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Breakin’ The Bay: Kin Folk Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £8. Info 029 2063 6464. Live hip-hop and related styles, featuring Children of Zeus, Reykjavíkurdætur, Chester P, NonameDisciple, Ty with live band and AAA Badboy.

Breathe Fire Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £4 adv.

Info 01443 682388. Hard rock covers.

Danny Bryant Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £16. Info 01834 869323. Blues-rock.

There is a higher than usual proportion of corny white blues-rock guys in this issue’s listings.

Every Song I’ve Ever Written Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14. Info 029 2030 4400. Festival Of Voice performance where five Cardiff band perform the songs of Canadian artist Jacob Wren, and are also interviewed by him about the songwriting process etc.

The followup to a preliminary performance which took place yesterday (see Stage listings). *Laura Veirs + Amaroun St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff. 8pm, £17.50. Info 029 2056 2022. Festival Of Voice performance.

Live Music Now Cymru Take Over Day Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2048 0077. Including performances from John Nicholas,, Quartet 19 and Vri..

Livestock Davies & The Lowdown Snakes The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £7. Info 01497 821762.

Rockabilly.

Mike Sanchez Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2089 0862. Rock’n’roll and R&B. *Nerija Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

7-9pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391. British septet taking a hip-hop/afrobeat-influenced approach to jazz play live in the foyer here. An Amser Jazz Festival event – see Music.

Oasish Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly. 8pm, £11 adv. Info 07512 237983. Oasis tribute band.

Punchline Hen Dderwen, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 203631. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Sacrilege + Satan’s Empire The Patriot, Crumlin.

8pm, £3. Info 01495 247178.

“The original Sacrilege from the NWOBHM era from 19821987 before any other band took the same name,” presumably referring to the late-80s crust metal band. uSarah Meek Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 029 2038 7026. Also on Sat 16.

Science Bastard + Blood Slugs + About To Jump The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info info@themooncardiff. com. Science Bastard! Why, I ain’t heard that name in (about three) years.

Stars In Their Eyes Le Public Space, Newport. 7pm.

Info sam@lepub.co.uk. The return of this venue’s popular twice-yearly evening of one-off cover bands.

Stereophonics + Jake Bugg + Pins + Fireroad Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff.

5pm, £43-£139. Info 0845 3451400. Recent Buzz cover stars with their latest big homecoming gig. Well Cardiff isn’t strictly their home, but close enough.

Tales In The Shade + The Violent Hearts + Only The Reign + Kymo NosDa, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866.

The Hotsteppers Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

The Lusias The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

The Skids Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £22 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. Scottish punk veterans.

The Soap Girls + Reese The Dragonffli, Pontypool.

7pm, £5. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com.

The Somethings Jac’s, Aberdare. 7pm, free. Info 01685 879491. Rock covers.

Totally Tina Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £18.50. Info 01633 868239.

Ultimate Floyd Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 8pm, £15.

Info 01656 815995. Pink Floyd tribute.

Waldo’s Gift + Shrimpling Gwdihw, Cardiff.

9pm, £5/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933. Bristol electronica/ jazzer group headline.

SUNDAY 10 JUNE Belleville Swing The Queens Head, Monmouth.

8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767. uFolk Music & Song Session Arvon Ale House, Llandrindod Wells. 4pm. Info 07477 627267. Every second and fourth Sunday of the

month (also on Sun 24 in May), with an extra acoustic session on the third Sunday (Sun 17) too. *Gruff Rhys & BBC NOW Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £17.50£28.50. Info 029 2063 6464. A performance of Gruff‘s new album Babelsberg, which was written with BBC NOW. Henry Marten’s Ghost Browns, Laugharne. 3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Marcus T Fontygary Leisure Park, Rhoose. 8pm, free. Info 01446 710386. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Orphy Robinson + Zara Macfarlane Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 5.30pm, £8. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice concert in which Robinson will give Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks a Britjazz spin.

Panic Station Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 6-8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Them Things + Or Else + Brave Sierra + Tom Auton + Molly Cheek The Moon, Cardiff. 7pm, £4 adv/£3 early bird. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Toriah Fontaine The Patriot, Crumlin. 6pm. Info 01495 247178.

Who Knows Didley? + Jacdo Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7pm, £8/£6 adv.

Info 01495 243252.

Würth Philharmonic Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 3.30pm, £5-£49.50.

Info 029 2087 8444.

u – repeated

Bay tomorrow.

RWCMD Period Brass Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7/£5. Info 029 2039 1391.

Historic Brass students present an evening of music dating back to the earliest days of brass music.

TUESDAY 12 JUNE *An Evening With Patti Smith Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £25-£40. Info 029 2063 6464.

Festival Of Voice concert with literary punk fave. uCamille O’Sullivan Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £20. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice concert in which this noted Irish singer explores Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ catalogue. On tomorrow also.

Gretchen Peters + Kim Richey St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £10-£250. Info 029 2087 8444. Nashville country fave. *Ibibio Sound Machine Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15. Info 029 2063 6464. Presented by Festival Of Voice.

Juan Galiardo Trio Muse Arts Centre, Brecon.

8pm, £12/£10 members. Info 07791654799. A Brecon Jazz Club concert.

Junior Proms Concert 2 Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

7pm, £8.50/£6.50. Info 0845 2263510. Featuring Carmarthen & Gwendraeth Cerddorfa Arall, Carmarthen

Timed deliberately to coincide with Ed Sheeran’s insanely subscribed run of dates in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, the NosDa venue mere yards away hosts a four-day festival showcasing musicians who use loop pedals (you know, like Ed does) from Thurs 21-Sun 24 June.

MONDAY 11 JUNE Belly Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £20. Info 0871 4720400. Alt-rock faves from the 90s reformed. See Music.

Big Ups + Perfect Body + Eva Bartok Le Public Space, Newport. 7pm, £9 adv.

Info sam@lepub.co.uk. Poppy punk band from NY state.

Junior Proms Concert 1 Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7pm, £8.50/£6.50. Info 0845 2263510. Featuring Llanelli & Dinefwr Cerddorfa Arall, Llanelli & Dinefwr Junior Strings and Llanelli Junior Choir. Concerts run until Thurs 14. *Patti Smith St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff.

9.30pm, £20. Info 029 2056 2022. Festival Of Voice performance, one of two by Patti during it; this one is billed as Words And Music. In Cardif

& Gwendraeth Junior Strings and Carmarthen Junior Choir.

Raised By Hounds Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 07970 063107.

REPCO: Neo Baroque Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7/£5. Info 029 2039 1391.

The Changing Seasons: A Concert Of Lieder Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £6/£4.

Info 029 2039 1391. Performed

by REPCO. The Chris Pearce Classic Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

The Rubber Wellies The Druidstone Hotel, Haverfordwest. 8pm, £8 adv.

Info 01437 781221. Folk bands whose members are based in Bilbao, Dublin and Southampton.

The Zombies Tramshed,

Cardiff. 7pm, £28.50 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE Banshee Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9pm. Info www.thefluteandtankard.com. Improv jazz.

Buddy Holly: A Legend Reborn + Connie Francis & The Everley Brothers Revue Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £25. Info 01792 475715. Tribute shows.

Clare Hingott with Graham Watkins Trio Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport. 8pm, £8. Info malc@dancebands. plus.com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

Dave Cottle Trio Jazzland, Swansea. 8.30pm, free. Info 07802 912789. Jazz jam session.

Junior Proms Concert 3 Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

7pm, £8.50/£6.50. Info 0845 2263510. Featuring Carmarthenshire Junior Woodwind and Dinefwr Junior Choir.

Kevin Figes Quartet The Queens Head, Monmouth.

8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. Tonight’s host is Bella Collins.

Psychedelic Furs Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £27.50 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. New wave types from the 80s. We were going to have an interview with them in this issue, but their PR guy, who emailed us asking to feature them in the mag, couldn’t actually arrange it.

REPCO: Lest We Forget Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 6pm, free.

Info 029 2039 1391. Concert in the foyer marking 100 years since the end of WWI. REPCO: Symphonic Wind Orchestra Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7/£5. Info 029 2039 1391.

Susanne Sundfør + Novo Amor New Theatre, Cardiff.

8pm, £8. Info 029 2087 8889.

Festival Of Voice event with two singer-songwriters, one Norwegian, one Welsh and one infinitely more interesting than the other.

The Violent Hearts The Roath Park, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2047 1961.

THURSDAY 14 JUNE 65daysofstatic Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18.

Info 029 2023 2199. UK postrockers in Cardiff for the first time in a while, presented by Fuelled By Jealous Lovers.

Al Moses + Rotanas + Hana2K Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £4. Info 029 2023 2199. Presented by the Forte Project.

Atlantic Arc Orchestra Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

8.30pm, £20 adv. Info 029 2064 6900. Vocal group directed

by Dónal Lunny and featuring Lisa Jên, Sam Lee, Julie Fowlis for this performance. A Festival Of Voice event.

Juan Galiardo Trio Café

BURKE (St David’s Hall, Mon 17) BIFFY CLYRO (St David’s Hall, Tue 18) THE THREE DEGREES (Pontardawe Arts Centre, Tue 18) DIONNE WARWICK (St David’s Hall, Wed 19) NINES (Tramshed, Wed 19) TOM CLARKE (The Globe, Wed 19) EUROPE (St David’s Hall, Fri 21) BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT BUZZ 70

Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5. Info 029 2038 7026.

James Kennedy The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Junior Proms Concert 4 Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

7pm, £8.50/£6.50. Info 0845 2263510. Featuring Carmarthenshire Junior Brass, Junior Guitar Ensemble and Junior Percussion Ensemble.

Morning Has Broken Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £18.50. Info 0845 2263510.

Cat Stevens tribute show, by Ron Vincent.

Passenger Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £17.50-£29.50. Info 029 2063 6464. Presented by Festival Of Voice.

Red & The Hogweeds + Dominic Nation & The Dirty Dead + Hobgoblin The Parrot, Carmarthen. 8pm, £3. Info 01267 231012.

REPCO Chamber Choir: A Journey Through Time Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

6pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391.

Performance in the foyer.

Smooth Operator The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194.

Presented by Nailed It Events. uSwansea International Jazz Festival Various venues, Swansea. Free except where noted. Info 07802 912789. Annual multi-venue four-day event, hosted by Jazz Wales. See Music for a preview. Today features the Laurence Cottle Big Band (Dylan Thomas Theatre, 8pm, £25) and a Late Jam Session (No.6 Bar, 10.30pm).

Fri 15: The Rumble Strutters (Queens Hotel, 4pm), Juan Gallardo Trio (The Swigg, 4pm), Bruce Adams with Dave Cottle Trio (The Pumphouse, 4.30pm), Chums (The RiverHouse, 5.30pm), Amy Walton Trio (Morgans Hotel, 6.30pm), Tom Duggan with Tom Langshaw Trio (Dylan Thomas Centre, 6.30pm), the Pete Long Big Band (Dylan Thomas Theatre, 6.40pm, £25), Derek Nash & Noel McCalla (Dylan Thomas Centre, 9pm, £20) and a Late Jam Session (No.6 Bar, 10.30pm). Sat 16: 10:00 workshop with Pete Long (National Waterfront Museum, 10am), Geoff Eales with Aslhey John Long (St Marys Church, 11am), Liberty Street Jazz Band (Village Hotel, 12pm), Megan Thomas (Gigi Gao’s, 12.30pm), Bridgend Big Band (Dylan Thomas Centre Square, 1pm), Tina May, Lee Gibson & Bruce Adams (Dylan Thomas Theatre, 1pm, £10) Albino Frogs (The Pumphouse, 1.30pm), Ray “Taff” Williams & Stringefellows (The Riverhouse, 1.30pm), South Wales Schools Big Band Concert (National Waterfront Museum, 1.30pm), Lisa Kwei Band (Diablos, 2pm), Kathy Davies Quartet (Swansea Museum, 2.30pm), Afternoon In Paris (The Swigg, 2.30pm), Daniel Marques Trio (Dylan Thomas Centre, 3pm, £10),

RWMCD Big Band (National Waterfront Museum, 3pm), John Dignam Trio (Queens Hotel, 3.30pm), Groucho Club (Swansea Yacht Club, 3.30pm), Tom Duggan with Tom Langshaw Trio (The Copper Jack, 4pm, free but book in advance please), The Cottle Brothers (The Pumphouse, 4.30pm), Lewis And Dav (The Riverhouse, 4.30pm), Plastic Sam’s Stargazer (Dylan Thomas Centre Square, 4.30pm), The Jazz Outlaws (Dylan Thomas Centre Square, 6.45pm), Jim Rotondi Quartet (Dylan Thomas Theatre, 6.45pm, £18) Moongazer (The RiverHouse, 7pm), Swansea Lindy Hop Scene Presentation (Dylan Thomas Centre, 7.30pm) and Louis Prima Jr & The Witnesses (Dylan Thomas Centre, £25). Sun 17: Guitar & Bass Workshop (National Waterfront Museum, 11am), Steve Williams Trio (Gigi Gao’s, 12.30pm), Constellation Big Band (Dylan Thomas Centre Square, 1pm), The Toots Project (Dylan Thomas Theatre, 1pm, £10), Ray “Taff” Williams & Stringefellows (The Pumphouse, 1.30pm), Jim Politis & Hot Club Gallois (The Riverhouse, 1.30pm), Joe Northwood’s Tuk Tuk (Swansea Museum, 2.30pm), John Paul Gard Organ Trio (Diablos, 3pm), Judith Hiland Quartet (Dylan Thomas Centre, 3pm, £10), Lews & Dav (Queens Hotel, 3pm), Liberty Street Jazz Band (The Copper Jack, 4pm, free but book in advance please), The Groove Project (The Pumphouse, 4.30pm), Gareth Williams Trio (Swansea Yacht Club, 4.30pm), Jazz Africana (The Riverhouse, 4.30pm), Li Harding (Dylan Thomas Centre Square, 4.30pm), James Taylor Quartet (Dylan Thomas Theatre, 6.40pm, £18), Amigos Gypsy Orchestra (Dylan Thomas Centre Square, 6.45pm) and the Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly (Dylan Thomas Centre, 9pm, £20). (Until Sun 18) The Gentle Good & The Mavron Quartet Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £10. Info 029 2063 6464. Presented by Festival Of Voice.

The Upbeat Beatles Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £21/£19. Info 01792 475715.

Tribute show.

Upstairs At The Unicorn Folk Night The Unicorn, Pontypool. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01495 751304. With a headliner TBC. Violet Walk + Fioled+ Sewage Farm + Twin Siblings Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2039 7933. Bands presented by Blowout. I liked the album Twin Siblings sent me and may review it next month.

FRIDAY 15 JUNE Angela Denoke with WNO Orchestra Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £15-£41. Info 029 2063 6464.

Tomáš Hanus conductos soprano Denoke and the Orchestra in a programme of Dvorák, Berlioz, Strauss and

Janácek.

BBC NOW: Berstein Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.

7.30pm, £15-£20. Info 01792 475715. Eric Stern conducts a programme of Berstein, Sondheim and Copland.

Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Story Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £21.50/£19.50. Info 01792 475715. Tribute show.

Boy Azooga The Parrot, Carmarthen. 7pm, £8 adv.

Info 01267 231012. Cardiff indie-psych band. In Newport tomorrow. See Upfront.

Breakin’ The Rules Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £5.

Info 029 2023 2199. Festival Of Voice hip-hop night featuring Free Wize Men, Eädyth, Asha Jane, Wonky Tree and DJ Jaffa.

Bye Bye Baby Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £20/£18. Info 0300 0040444.

Frankie Valli tribute band. I think this is one I’ve not featured before. Honestly thinking about pitching an article to some place on how many of these there are.

Celtic Pride District Club, Pontypridd. 7pm. Info 01443 402550.

Country Superstars The Met, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £16.50. Info 01495 355945.

Tributes to Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

Crannog Myddfai Hall, Llandovery. 7.30pm, £8/£6.

Info llanwrda.org.uk. A Llandovery Folk Dancing event; Crannog are a twmpath band.

Dom Pipkin Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £12/£10.

Info 01970 623232. Blues boogie pianist.

Donnie Joe’s American Swing Bootlegger, Cardiff.

10pm, free. Info 07495 657407. *Gwenno – Edrica Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £12. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice performance in which synthpop champ Gwenno celebrates artist/poet Edrica Huws through music, voice and visuals.

Finery + Charlie Francis + Cotton Wolf Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 9pm, 38. Info 029 2030 4400. Festival Of Voice event co-presented by Bubblewrap Records.

Horse Rock + Mellt + Moinsterometer The Moon, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Johnny Cash Roadshow Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £21.

Info 0845 2263510. Tribute show by Clive John. uKarine Polwart: Wind Resistance Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £20/£15 under-26s. Info 029 2039 1391. Festival Of Voice event featuring multimedia work by Scottish folk artist Polwart. On at 1.30pm and 6.30pm tomorrow; 1.30pm on Sun 17. (Until Sun 17) Larger Than Life! City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Lisa Kwei Band + Lucy Jones Queens Hall,

WIN, WIN, WIN FESTIVAL TICKETS

For keen festival-goers out there, we’ve got a raft of free festival tickets to give away over the coming months. Check online at buzzmag.co.uk as well as our social media (facebook. com/buzzmagwales and twitter.com/Buzz_Magazine) for further details as and when they go online. Below are the festivals we have lined up for you!

BILLY BRAGG AT FESTIVAL OF VOICE – THURS 7 JUNE As the internationally-renowned Festival Of Voice returns to Cardiff, the capital will be treated to another series of exquisite performances and talks, celebrating the power of the voice in all its forms. We have three pairs of tickets available for Billy Bragg’s headlining show, with Nadine Shah in support.

OPEN AIR THEATRE FESTIVAL – VARIOUS SHOWINGS Running over a month and a bit, the Open Air Theatre Festival aims to bring colour and fun to Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. We have a number of tickets to select events, which are as follows: two tickets each to The Merchant Of Venice (Thurs 21 June), { Dad’s Army (Thurs 5 July) and Fiddler On The Roof (Thurs 19 July), and a family ticket to Seussical (Sat 21 July).

STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL (VIP WEEKEND PASS) – SAT 28 + SUN 29 JULY Wales’ premier hard rock and metal festival is guaranteed to get heads banging. Situated high in the valleys near Ebbw Vale, Steelhouse is the highest festival in the UK, altitude-wise. With the bill including Black Star Riders, The Wildhearts and Glenn Hughes’ Deep Purple classics set, we have a special VIP Weekend Pass available to two lucky winners.

GLASTONBARRY (WEEKEND PASS) – SAT 28 + SUN 29 JULY A two-day festival dedicated exclusively to the UK’s best tribute acts? You better believe it. A fantastic chance to see some of your favourite bands perform, particularly the ones too dead to play, the pair of winners for our weekend pass are sure to have a great time partying to Queen, Amy Winehouse and The Doors.

GREEN MAN (WEEKEND PASS) – THURS 16 TO SUN 19 AUG It’s the biggest music festival in Wales, and one of the biggest in the UK, period. Tickets usually sell out in advance for Green Man, and with this year’s lineup looking as cutting-edge as ever, with The War On Drugs, Fleet Foxes and John Grant all appearing, our pair of weekend tickets are sure to have any selfrespecting music fan salivating.

TWO TICKETS TO BEYOND THE BORDER FESTIVAL On Sat 9 and Sun 10 June, the Glamorganshire town of St Donats becomes a hub of storytellers from all over the world, thanks to Beyond The Border Festival. The theme of this year’s festival is Stories Of The Sea, and we’ve got two tickets to give away for you and a mate to attend the special 25th anniversary event next month.

LIGHT (The Globe, Mon 24) KYLIE (Motorpoint Arena, Mon 24) JASON DERULO (Motorpoint Arena, Tue 25) CROWBAR (The Globe, Sat 29) BUZZ 71

* – recommended

ROCKIN JOHN LEWIS 6TH JUNE

VIOLENT HEARTS 13TH JUNE

DEWDROPPER 20TH JUNE

JOY TOWN GYPSIES 27TH JUNE

Indie Music For Indie Kids' Kids

SAT 23 JUNE • TRAMSHED

The Biggest Family Indie Disco Expect Propaganda DJs , bouncy castle, soft play, crafts, cartoon cinema, face painting, photo booth, ball pit, baby play area, street food and lots of family fun!

Tickets from £6 available from tramshedcardiff.com

Tramshed, Clare Road, Cardiff , CF11 6QP • 2pm-5pm

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Narberth. 7.30pm, £11. Info 01834 869323. Headliner does Fleetwood Mac covers plus originals.

Live/Wire St Donats Art Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

7.30pm, £15. Info 01446 799100. AC/DC tribute. In Narberth tomorrow.

Manitoba Hal The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01497 821762.

Canadian bluesman who looks like a nice kindly avuncular bear.

Owen Money’s Jukebox Heroes II Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £15. Info 01600 772467. In Newbridge on Sat 23.

Penny Arcade The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

REPCO: A Night On Broadway Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7/£4. Info 029 2039 1391. Musical theatrte classics.

REPCO: Until Death Do Us Part Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

1.15pm, £6/£4. Info 029 2039 1391. An opportunity to hear modern compositions by living composers.

Rumney Folk Club St Augustine’s Church, Rumney, Cardiff. 7pm, £3.50/£1.50 for performers. Info derek@rumneyfolkclub.co.uk. Monthly night.

Streetlight Circus The Patriot, Crumlin. 8pm. Info 01495 247178.

TangleJack + Nylon & Steel + Matthew John Creature Sound, Swansea.

7.30pm, £6. Info 01792 301178.

The Bootleg Beatles + The Bowie Collective Caerphilly Castle. 5pm, £34.50 adv. Info 01495 227206.

Presented by Orchard.

The Counterfeit Stones Chepstow Racecourse. 5pm, £20-£47. Info 01291 622260.

Rolling Stones tribute play as part of a race night featuring seven horse races. A take: going to see a tribute band at the same time the real albeit more expensive band are playing nearby is deviant behaviour.

The Four Owls + Free Wize Men + Levi & Eadyth + Wonky Tree + Asha Jane Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 6.30-10pm, £5. Info 029 2023 2199. Festival Of Voice hip-hop night also featuring DJ Jaffa.

The Italics Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Majestic 4 The Arch, Neath. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 07791 923214. Spandex-wearing 80s rock cover band playing as part of a night hailing the same music/era.

The Phoenix Choir Of Wales Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £12/£10.

Info 01792 602060.

The Rolling Stones + Elbow Principality Stadium, Cardiff. 5pm, £59.95-£249.95.

Info 08442 777888. I listened to a bit of a Stones live album (dunno which one) in a shop the other day. It was pretty good apart from when Mick Jagger talked in between

u – repeated

songs. He sounds like the generic strangled Cockney accent Americans think all of the UK speaks like. Anyway that’s my preview of this concert, have fun if you go. uThe Tiger Lillies Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

7pm, £20 adv. Info 029 2064 6900. Festival Of Voice event featuring this cabaret/ rock group performing a soundtrack to a slideshow display of Nan Goldin’s exhibition The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency. On tomorrow also.

The World Famous Elvis Show + The Bluejays + Suburban Soul Pembroke Castle. 4pm, £19. Info 01646 681510. First of two Rock The Castle events here, with UB40 playing tomorrow.

Vivian Leave & Riley Calcagno + Aled Rheon + Cara Cullen Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £8 adv. Info sam@lepub. co.uk. Old timey Americana and Welsh folk, presented by Fuelled By Jealous Lovers.

Wine Morals + Mulder The Vault, Swansea. 7pm-3am, £2.50 adv. Info 01792 465300.

Playing as part of a live band/ DJ night, Beats Not Bombs, raising money for Swansea’s homeless.

Zornheym + Ante-Inferno + Agrona Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm, £10. Info 07970 063107.

Black metal. Headliners are ex-Dark Funeral, don’t know much about them beyond that but I saw Ante-Inferno here in April and they were excellent.

SATURDAY 16 JUNE Absolute Bowie Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

7.30pm, £22. Info 01646 695267. Tribute show.

Aubrey Parsons The Twelve Knights, Port Talbot. 9pm, free.

Info 01639 882381. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Boy Azooga Le Public Space, Newport. 2 + 7pm, £8 adv. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Evening gig is sold out but an afternoon one has been added, tickets may or may not be available by the time this is printed.

Explosive Light Orchestra Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7.30pm, £17.50/£16.50. Info 01495 227206. ELO tribute.

Georgia Paterson The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Gogs NosDa, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866.

Wrexham band who have been described as Mumford & Sons meets Ed Sheeran. Something to mull for sure.

Guns 2 Roses The Dolls House, Abertillery. 7pm, £6 adv. Info 01495 213300.

Tribute band. uHands Of Time Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 3.30pm, free. Info 029 2063 6464. Music and storytelling combine featuring performers from Hindustani, Sufi and Welsh backgrounds.

On tomorrow also; one of three free Indian musical performances here on those days.

Jack Mac’s Funk Pack Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Jamie Smith’s Mabon Llanbedr Village Hall, nr

Crickhowell. Info 01873 810293. In Llanwrtyd Wells tomorrow.

Jess Stevens Navigation Hotel, Treharris. 9pm, free.

Info 01443 410329. Presented

by Nailed It Events. uKadar Khan Langa Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 11am + 5.30pm, free. Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice free performances featuring an esteemed Rajasthan musician.

On tomorrow also.

Levellers + Dreadzone Caerphilly Castle. 4pm, £41.50 adv. Info 01495 227206.

Presented by Orchard Live/Wire Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £16. Info 01834 869323.

Louise Halliday Fontygary Leisure Park, Rhoose. 8pm, free. Info 01446 710386.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Malum Sky Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 6.30pm. Info 07970 063107.

Metal 2 The Masses Final Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 8pm, £5. Info 07970 063107. With bands TBC. Mr Strange + Clusterfuck The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info info@themooncardiff. com.

Rhondda Remembers Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7pm, £13/£11. Info 0300 0040444. A musical tribute to the centenary of WWI’s end.

Rocky Road The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free.

Info 01792 516194. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Sarah Meek & Guy Shotton The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

Sons Of Liberty McCann’s Rock & Ale Bar, Newport. 9pm, free. Info 01633 253648.

Stonefaced Souls Cockett Inn, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 01792 588748. Presented by Nailed It Events. uSun Dial Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 1.30 + 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice free performances featuring a Wales-Rajasthan musical teamup. On tomorrow also.

The Acoustix Birchgrove, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Beat with Dave Wakeling + Bombskare Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £18. Info 029 2023 2199.

2-tone icons, or some incarnation of them, headline.

The Carpenters Experience De Valence Pavilion, Tenby. 7pm, £15. Info 01834 218228. Tribute band.

The Cheatin’ Hearts Mackintosh Sports Club, Roath, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 07738 190595. Welsh country band.

The Lonesome Stampede The Globe At Hay, Hay-OnWye. 7pm. Info 01497 821762.

Greenpeace benefit gig.

The Rhythm Method Blinkin Owl, Cwmbran. 9pm, free. Info 01633 484749.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

The UK Pink Floyd Experience Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £25.50. Info 01792 475715. Tribute show.

UB40 + Connor Adams

Pembroke Castle. 4pm, £35.

Info 01646 681510. Sold out.

Utopia Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 6.30pm, £20. Info 029 2063 6464.

Curated by Charlotte Church, who we’ve interviewed Upfront, this will feature Ionnalee (aka Jonna Lee aka Iamamiwhoami), Fatoumata Diawara, Le Gateau Chocolat and Talia Randall.

SUNDAY 17 JUNE Acoustic Session Arvon Ale House, Llandrindod Wells.

4pm. Info 07477 627267.

Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 3.30pm, £6.50-£23.50. Info 029 2087 8444. Performing Mahler’s Symphony No.3 Chapter Four Jazz Quartet Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. Jazz in the bar.

Clitgore + CxBxFxIxHxFxLxFxRxE + Anal Floss Is Boss + Somnumoponea Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £6. Info 07970 063107. Grindcore and goregrind, natch.

Dan James The Queens Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767.

Elvis Costello & The Imposters Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £37.50-£66.50. Info 029 2063 6464. The final Festival Of Voice performance of 2018.

Good Companions Browns, Laugharne. 3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Jamie Smith’s Mabon Victoria Hall, Llanwrtyd Wells.

Info 01591 610487.

StavzBand Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff.

6-8.30pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

MONDAY 18 JUNE Easy Street Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2038 7026.

TUESDAY 19 JUNE Elizabeth Tiley & Katy Treharne The Met, Abertillery. 2pm, £8. Info 01495 355945. Local singers.

Price includes tea and cake.

Hairband + Zac White + Rosehip Teahouse The Moon, Cardiff. 7pm, £5. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

Presrnted by Slush Puppy.

Moonshine Boulevard Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

Simon Spillett The Open Hearth, Pontypool. 8.30pm.

Info martin.fisher1944@ hotmail.co.uk. A Jazz At The Open Hearth night with Spillett joined by Ashlet John Long, Tom Berge and Martin Fisher.

The Hornettes Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £10. Info 01970 623232. Girl group/60s soul covers.

The Wave Pictures Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12. Info 029 2023 2199. Indie faves.

WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE Andy Collins Open Mic Cockett Inn, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 01792 588748.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Bella & Gareth Blues Duo Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2038 7026.

Bruno Heinen Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9pm. Info www.thefluteandtankard. com. Jazz.

Capital City Jazz Orchestra Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport. 8pm, £8.

Info malc@dancebands.plus. com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

Dewdropper The Roath Park, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2047 1961.

Ian Stoutzker Prize: Final Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2039 1391.

Featuring competitors Laura Deignan (clarinet), Grant Jameson (euphonium), Nuno Lucas (piano) and Charlotte MacClure (violin).

Mishka Shubaly Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10.

Info 029 2023 2199. Singersongwriter who also writes books and teaches a writing workshop at Yale, and is in the UK on a very long tour.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. Tonight’s host is Joe Kelly.

That’ll Be The Day Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £25/£22. Info 01792 475715.

Rock’n’roll nostalgia show.

The Steve Williams Trio Jazzland, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 07802 912789.

Tommy Sands Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club.

7.30pm, £8/£5 members. Info 01443 226892. A Llantrisant Folk Club night.

THURSDAY 21 JUNE Alaw Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £11. Info 01792 863722.

Analog On + Andrew Leslie Hooker Swansea Studios, University Of Wales Trinity St David, Swansea.

7pm, £8/£5. Info www.rwan. cymru. NAWR presents the fifth of seven concerts showcasing Irish avant-garde musicians. These are a synth duo compared by NAWR to Tod Dockstader and Suzanne Ciani, which is promising.

Cantemus Chamber Choir St Donats Art Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan. 8pm, £7-£14. Info 01446 799100.

Chupa Cabra Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5/£3 adv.

Info 029 2039 7933. uEd Sheeran + AnneMarie + Jamie Lawson Principality Stadium, Cardiff.

5pm, £45-£75. Info 08442 777888. So Ed is playing for four nights here, they went on sale a year ago and are all sold out, which depending on what they do with the capacity equals between 200,000 and 300,000 Ed Sheeran fans in Cardiff over the long June weekend. Dawdling in a queue for an ice-cream. Misdirecting an Aerobie in the park and knocking your can over. (Until Sun 24) Les Musicals The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £23.50. Info 01633 656757.

Jonathan Ansell from G4 and Rhydian Roberts sing songs from the musicals. uLooped 2018 NosDa, Cardiff. 6pm-12am, free. Info 029 2037 8866. The aim of this festival is to highlight musicians who perform using loop pedals – not wholly coinci-

dentally, on the four evenings when Ed Sheeran is doing the same very close by. Today features Jack Humphries, Tobias Robertson, Jorden Lindsay, Eleri Angharad, Mr Phormula and Kid Reddy; Fri 22 features Thoby Davis, Hash-Hann, Selena In The Chapel, Sam Griffiths, Ben Dain-Smith and Ped & Joe; Sat 23 features Mike Dennis, Luke Bennett, Bryony Sier, Christian Punter, Guilio Garbellotto, Stew Hume and Mark JW Cole; Sun 24 features Jack Ellis, Claire Northey, Wheniwas5, Joe Kelly, Huw James and Brad Dickenson. (Until Sun 24) Lost Tuesday Society + Tansy Rees + Paul Edwards Creature Sound, Swansea. 7pm. Info 01792 301178.

Nick Heyward The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £22.50 adv.

Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £5. Info 01497 821762.

Asomvel + Stiletto Farm Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 07970 063107. UK trad metallers headline.

CVC The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Gaz Brookfield Rudry Parish Hall, nr Caerphilly.

7pm, £5.50 adv. Info 07740 192879. Acoustic folk-rocker.

Holy Diver UK District Club, Pontypridd. 7pm. Info 01443 402550. Dio tribute.

Jack Ellis + Giuliomaria Garbellotto + Kid Reddy & The Features + Joe Kelly The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, pay by donation. Info gigs@thedragonffli. com.

Lee Calaway The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446

Creature Sound in Swansea hosts a three-day charity bands’n’DJs bash from Fri 29 June until Sun 1 July. It’s in aid of the Cystic Fybrosis Trust and acts performing include Radical Dance Faction, Little Eris, Doghouse and Monsterometer.

Info 07590 471888. Haircut 100 guy in solo guise.

Obey Cobra + The Fnools Le Public Space, Newport.

7pm. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Peter Jagger The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Pi & Hash Showcase The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info info@themooncardiff. com. This is the first day of Glasnost, this venue’s annual bout of free entry gigs on what is usually Glastonbury weekend.

Public Image Ltd Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £27.50. Info 029 2023 5555.

See Upfront.

Saxpax Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth. 7.30pm, £5-£11. Info 01834 869323. Spanjazz night.

Talon Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7.30pm, £16.50.

Info 01633 868239. Eagles tribute band play acoustic set.

In Milford Haven tomorrow; Pontardawe on Sat 23.

The Story Of The Beach Boys Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £20.50£22.50. Info 01792 475715.

Tribute band.

Travelling Wilburys Experience Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £120.50£23. Info 01656 815995.

Tribute band.

Twisted Ankle + Pork Pie + Langkamer + Big Whoop Undertone, Cardiff.

7pm, £5. Info 029 2022 8883.

Presented by Breakfast Records, an indie label from Bristol.

FRIDAY 22 JUNE 360 Degrees City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913. Presented by Nailed It Events.

A Different Thread The

773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Lowri Evans & Lee Mason The Angel, Llandeilo. 7.30pm.

Info info@llandeiloacoustic. com. A Llandeilo Acoustic Club night.

Penny Arcade The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free.

Info 01792 516194. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Peter Jagger Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny. 9pm, free. Info 01873 853613.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Pre Ed Ed... Old Arcade, Cardiff. 4-6pm, free. Info 029 2021 7999. An Ed Sheeran tribute in the afternoon before he plays nearby. Asking for trouble I’d have thought.

Slipped Disco Gwdihw, Cardiff. 9pm, £5/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933. Disco covers by a live band.

Space + Replaced

By Robots + Upbeat Sneakers Jac’s, Aberdare.

8pm, £14/£12.50 adv. Info 01685 879491. Liverpool indie band from the 90s who don’t seem to be reaping the benefits of people’s bottomless thirst for nostalgia quite as much as several of their peers.

Talon Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £20. Info 01646 695267.

The Acoustix Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Bohemians The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £19/£17. Info 01633 656757.

Queen tribute.

The Eclectics + Jack Dawgs Glais Rugby Football Club, nr Clydach, Swansea.

8pm, £7. Info 01792 425231. A Valley Folk Club night.

The Kilkennys Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £20.50. Info 01656 815995.

Irish folkies.

Welsh Camerata Choir Canton Uniting Church, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10/£8.

Info 01446 405298. Summer concert of 16th-18th century secular choral music from both sides of the Atlantic.

SATURDAY 23 JUNE Aubrey Parsons The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band Miners Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £14.50 adv. Info 01495 227206.

Calypso Fontygary Leisure Park, Rhoose. 8pm, free. Info 01446 710386. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Canton Chorus St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff.

7.30pm. Info 029 2056 2022.

A summer concert featuring a performance of Dvorák’s Stabat Mater.

Du Bellows Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 7.30pm, £12/£10 adv. Info 01685 384111. This band are based in London but have singer from Merthyr. Doesn’t say here what kind of music they play.

Eva Bartok + Lunar Bird + Karmen Field + I Am Drug + Nigel The Moon, Cardiff. 3pm, free. Info info@ themooncardiff.com. More bands TBC. Helen Fulthorpe Three Horse Shoes, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2069 4630.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Mellt The Globe At Hay, HayOn-Wye. 8pm, £5. Info 01497 821762.

Nylon & Steel Trio The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

Obsession Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 01443 682388. UFO (as in the band) tribute.

Owen Money’s Jukebox Heroes II Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 6.30pm, £15. Info 01495 243252.

Paul Campbell Birchgrove, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Rob Tognoni The Dolls House, Abertillery. 7pm, £8 adv. Info 01495 213300. Bluesrock fella.

Rocket Joe Joe & The Old Time Bangers Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Symphonica Tywi National Botanic Garden Of Wales, 7.30pm, £14/£12. Info 01558 667149. Annual midsummer concert at this venue, with a 55-piece symphony orchestra.

Talon Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £18 adv. Info 01792 863722.

Tendons Snails Deli, Cardiff.

7pm, £20 adv. Info 029 2062 0415. Price includes a buffet.

The Beatles Go On The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £10. Info gigs@thedragonffli. com. Tribute band.

The Daggers McCann’s Rock & Ale Bar, Newport. 9pm, free. Info 01633 253648.

The Killers Liberty Stadium, Swansea. 5.30pm, £45-£82.50.

Info 0844 815 6665. One of two outdoor UK dates for the band this month, the other being at the ground of fellow Sky Bet Championship team

Bolton Wanderers.

The London Tango Orchestra Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire. 7.30-10.30pm, £15. Info 01239 841387.

The Satellites Jac’s, Aberdare. 7pm. Info 01685 879491. Punk covers.

Welsh Chamber Orchestra Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £17/free under-16s.

Info 01874 611622.

Whitesnake UK – The Tribute + Pure Purple + Diio Ebbw Vale Institute.

7pm, £16.50. Info 01495 708022. A night of tribute bands billed as the Deep Purple Family Tree.

SUNDAY 24 JUNE Adam Glasser Quartet Melville Theatre, Abergavenny.

7.30pm, £10/£8/£3 NUS. Info 01873 853167. Black Mountain Jazz gig.

BBC National Chorus Of Wales Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 3pm, £10.

Info 029 2063 6464. Adrian Partington conducts works by Sir James MacMilllan.

Glas Browns, Laugharne.

3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Grace Hartrey + Smiling Ivy + The Petty Thieves The Moon, Cardiff. 3pm, free.

Info info@themooncardiff. com. More bands TBC. Odysseus Piano Trio Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire. 7.3010pm, £15. Info 01239 841387.

Red Skylines Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £3.50. Info 029 2039 7933.

Richard Boothby: Telemann St Lawrence Church, Lavernock, Vale Of Glamorgan. 6-7.30pm, £15.

Info facebook.com/ sundayatsixconcerts. A a selection of Telemann's solo fantasias for viola da gamba.

Talking Bird Collective Memorial Hall, Newbridge.

7pm, £8/£6. Info 01495 243252.

Whitchurch Jam Session #108 Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 5.30pm, free.

Info 029 2062 6015.

MONDAY 25 JUNE Gwd Mondays Open Mic Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7933.

Gwent Music Summer Showcase Concert St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £7.50-£11.50. Info 029 2087 8444.

Jonathan Byrd & The Pick-Up Cowboys Mackintosh Sports Club, Roath, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 07738 190595.

Country/folk singer-songwriter from North Carolina.

TUESDAY 26 JUNE Fogo Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9pm. Info www. thefluteandtankard.com.

Jazz with lots of sax players apparently.

John Davies Quintet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

Sean Gaffney Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 8pm, £2.50.

Info 01686 614555. Shropshire singer-songwriter.

WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE Aidenkeryn + Laura Power + Toriah Fontaine The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil. 9pm, £3. Info 01685 BUZZ 73

387925. A U&I Radio night.

Ben Crosland Quintet Jazzland, Swansea. 8.30pm, £12.50. Info 07802 912789.

Performing the Ray Davies songbook.

Dick Hamer’s Guardavaco De Cuba Band Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport. 8pm, £8.

Info malc@dancebands.plus. com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

Joytown Gypsies The Roath Park, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2047 1961.

Matt Anderson Quartet Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9pm.

Info www.thefluteandtankard. com. Jazz.

Midnight Skyracer Burnett’s Hill Chapel, Martletwy, Pembrokeshire.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01646 651725. The Pembrokeshire Eclectic Music Society present an all-female five-piece string band. In Newport tomorrow.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. Tonight’s host is The Sam Antonio Freeway.

Phoxjaw + Better Than Mending Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5/£4 adv. Info 029 2039 7933. Presented by Beers Over Tears.

Rebecca Hurn + Christian Punter + Frankie Urbano Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Royal Welsh College Symphony Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14/£6 under-25s. Info 029 2087 8444. Performing works

by Gershwin, Bernstein and Szymanowsk. uSteve Harley Acoustic Trio Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £28. Info 029 2089 0862. Cockney Rebel man does three strippeddown sets, each of which are

sold out! Rescheduled from February too. (Until Fri 29) The Oli Brown Band The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12.50 adv. Info 07590 471888. Bluesrock.

THURSDAY 28 JUNE Barry Steele & Friends: The Roy Orbison Story Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen.

7.30pm, £22. Info 0845 2263510. Tribute show. In Cardiff tomorrow.

Capital City Jazz Orchestra Porter’s, Cardiff.

8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Cardiff People First: Night Out The Moon, Cardiff.

8pm. Info info@ themooncardiff.com. Live bands presented and organised by Cardiff People First, a self-advocacy group run by and for people with a learning disability in Cardiff.

High Climbers + Two Day Coma + Laura Power Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933.

Ian Poole Quartet The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Midnight Skyracer Crindau Constitutional Club, Newport. 8pm, £10/£7. Info 01633 858636. A Lyceum Folk Club night.

The Brothers Of Blues Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £12.50/£11.50. Info 01873 850805. Tribute to the music that The Blues Brothers paid tribute to. *Wolves In The Throne Room The Globe, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £16 adv. Info 07590 471888. See Music for a preview of this very fine US black metal group.

FRIDAY 29 JUNE uA Tribute to Alan

Thompson Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10.

Info 029 2030 4400. Live acts including Martyn Joseph and Henry Priestman from The Christians, in memory of the Radio Wales DJ who died in 2017.

Back To Bacharach Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £16. Info 01600 772467. Three West End singers plus a band belt out Burt Bacharach hits.

Barry Steele & Friends: The Roy Orbison Story St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £23. Info 029 2087 8444.

Calypso The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events. uClaire’s Western Fundraiser Creature Sound, Swansea. 5pm, £20 (three days). Info 01792 301178.

Charity weekender in aid of The Cystic Fibrosis Trust and presented by Rebel Cat. Today features Doghouse, Pre Mischief, Rufus Mufasa, Little Eris and Llinols Belcher; tickets are £6. Tomorrow: Radical Dance Faction, The Blunders, Buff, Clusterfuck, Mothcob, Deborah Crossing, Kickin Bambi and Tenplusone; it starts at 2pm and tickets are £10. Sun 1 July: Mad Dog Collective, Monsterometer, Reality Attack, Mercurious Rising, NFA, The Babes, Terminal Rage and Completed Dysfunction; it starts at 2pm and tickets are £8. (Until Sun 1 July) CW Stoneking The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15 adv. Info 07590 471888.

Dan Messore Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. Jazz.

Donnie Joe’s American Swing Carnegie House, Bridgend. 7pm, £8 adv. Info 01656 815757.

Fractal Universe + Sound Of Salvation The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £2. Info gigs@thedragonffli.com.

Guns 2 Roses The Vault, Swansea. 8pm, £10. Info 01792 465300. Tribute band. uGwyl Fawr Aberteifi: Eisteddfod Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 5pm, £6/£3 under16s. Info 01239 621200. On tomorrow also, at 1pm and 6pm.

Henry’s Funeral Shoe + Digital Criminals + Heavy Flames The Dolls House, Abertillery. 6pm. Info 01495 213300.

Islands In The Stream The Riverfront, Newport.

7.30pm, £23/£20. Info 01633 656757. Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers tribute.

Jemma Roper + Wax Futures + Target:Ohio Tiny Rebel, Cardiff. 8pm, £3.

Info 029 2039 9557. Presented

by Tone Deaf Creatures, a new local promoter whose logo is a drawing of a furry troll type figure holding an ear trumpet.

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £37.50.

Info 0300 0040444. The flagship event of the week-long Rhondda Arts Festival.

Keith James Little Theatre, Neath. 7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 01639 643462. Performing his Leonard Cohen tribute set.

Lowri Evans Ty Tawe, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 456856.

Mangata City Arms, Cardiff.

9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Miles Kane Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20. Info 029 2023 5555. See Upfront.

No One Knows Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

live review

THE UNBINDING

Volcano Theatre, Swansea, Sat 19 May Wrong Shoes Theatre Company, in association with Arts Council England, has done it again and created a moving, thought-provoking and passionate production, The Unbinding. Volcano Theatre in Swansea was, for all intents and purposes, transformed by four incredibly talented women from a utilitarian stage into the basement of a church on Saturday.

Awaiting trial, four women accused of being witches grapple with their pasts, presents and futures within a society that shuns and fears anything that’s different. Through flashback-style plot, we learn about each of their lives and the reasons why they stand accused. Though the play is based on accounts from the Wiltshire witch hunts, it is universal in that nothing else matters except what is happening there and then. The actresses are unwaveringly submerged in their characters and stories. Themes of sexism, mob-mentality, prejudice, hatred, scapegoating and hysteria ring as true today as they did centuries ago.

To its detriment, the show relied heavily on shock-factor to portray the horror of the plot, which was unnecessary considering the play’s strength of character. Flashing lights, loud screams and very long sex scenes (and I’m no prude) seemed to force a particular reaction from the audience. It’s not that I don’t think that shock and horror were appropriate responses, but I think that these reactions would have been achieved regardless.

The dialogue is rich and powerful, but the strongest impact of the play came from movement.

Symbolic and stylised, the women communicate the pain and discomfort of their plights and emotions through their bodies. The word ‘raw’ springs to mind when reflecting on this production. It retained an admirable and ceaseless authenticity, sparing no detail for the sake of societal comfort.

Honest, touching and timeless in its message, watching The Unbinding was certainly a worthwhile and enriching experience. words MEGAN THOMAS BUZZ 74

Open Night Glais Rugby Football Club, nr Clydach, Swansea. 8pm, £3. Info 01792 425231. A Valley Folk Club night, with a showcase performance from Triantán.

Organ Recital National Museum Cardiff. 1pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7951.

Rachel B The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Sepulchre + Godkilla + Sounds Of Insane Music The Duke, Neath. 8pm, free.

Info 01639 643892.

Smokey Smothers & The Mellow Fellows Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026. R&B. Sweet Baboo + Ya Yonder + Teddy Hunter Castle Emporium, Cardiff. 7pm, £8 adv. Info www. thecastleemporium.co.uk.

Album launch gig for Sweet Baboo, the album being made up of songs previously sold as reward card downloads in a vending machine located in the Castle Emporium.

The Brothel Creepers The Twelve Knights, Port Talbot.

9pm, free. Info 01639 882381.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Simon & Garfunkel Story Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £19£21.50. Info 01656 815995.

Tribute show. uUkulele Festival Of Wales Gower Heritage Centre, Swansea. 7-11pm, £33/£31 (three days). Info 01792 371206. Featuring performances from (schedule TBC) Abbey Road Ukes, Amigos Gypsy Orchestra, Ben Rouse, Dead Mans Uke, Digga Digga Duo, Fflip Flops, Gaudy Orde, Madison Martin, Manitoba Hal Brolund, Porthcawl Ukulele Bandits, Sarah Kelly, The Elderley Brothers, The Hedge

Inspectors and Ukoholix.

Prices per day: £8/£7 (today); £20/£18 (tomorrow); £10/£9 (Sun 1 July, 11am-5.30pm).

(Until Sun 1 July) uUnearthed Festival 2018 Yurt Field, nr Solva, Haverfordwest. 12pm, £85 weekend/£55 ages 12-17.

Info www.unearthedinafield. co.uk. Hippyish/alternative festival with the following confirmed so far: Soothsayers, Me And My Friends, Macka B, Ivan Moult, Ichi, Feelgood Experiment, Cousin Kula, Captain Accident, Bro G, Jodie Marie and I See Rivers. Plus speakers, performers and interesting food and drink.

(Until Sun 1 July) Untapped The Moon, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Electronic music showcase presented by True Dirt.

SATURDAY 30 JUNE Alex Davies NosDa, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. With a different guest host every week this month; tonight’s is Alex Davies.

Bute Chorus Summer Concert Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

7.45pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391.

Casio Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm.

Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Children Of The Gravy Hobo’s, Bridgend. 8pm, free.

Info www.hobosmusicvenue. com. Black Sabbath tribute band.

Chinese Burn + The Lon Chaney 5 + Poetic Justice Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm, £12/£10 adv. Info 07970 063107. Middle-aged punk a-go-go.

Côr Meibion Llanelli Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7pm, £15.

Info 0845 2263510.

Dave Herbert The Mariners, Laugharne. 8.30pm, free. Info

01994 427688.

Do Not Panic Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv.

Info 01443 682388. Hawkwind tribute.

Full Dark, No Stars The Patriot, Crumlin. 8pm. Info 01495 247178. Benefit gig for Scotty’s Little Soldiers.

Jack McDougal Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 029 2038 7026.

John Eyre The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

John Mouse + Holy Cache + Twin Siblings Treorchy RFC. 7pm, £5 adv.

Info 01443 432874. A Rhondda Arts Fest event.

Modfest At The Beach Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl.

7.30pm, £30 adv. Info 01656 815995. Featuring sets by The Chords, Jam tribute band The Jam DRC (who sadly appear to be British rather than Congolese, despite their name), Madness tribute Baggy Trousers, plus DJs and host Jennie Belstar Mathias.

One Wild Night Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd. 8pm, £5.

Info 01443 491424. Bon Jovi tribute band.

Only Men Aloud Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £20.

Info 0300 0040444. Rhondda Arts Festival event.

Ortario + Lead Coloured River + Trep + Ollie P The Dragonffli, Pontypool.

7pm, free. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com.

Owen Money’s Jukebox Heroes II Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £16/£14.

Info 0845 2263510.

Paul Dark The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Pavane Early Music Consort: The Fairy Queen Inkspot, Cardiff.

7.30-10.30pm. Info 029 2049 0254. Co-presented by Opera In Situ.

Raise Da Roof! The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 4pm, £10 adv. Info 01497 821762.

Local musicians, DJ sets and a rafflew, raising money for someone named Callum to have neuro surgery.

Shades Of Seattle The Dolls House, Abertillery. 7pm, £5. Info 01495 213300. Tribute to the Seattle grunge scene.

Show Of Hands Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £22. Info 01874 611622.

British folk favourites.

Simon Trigg Birchgrove, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Son Of Man The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil. 9pm, £10/£8. Info 01685 387925.

Prog rockin’ spinoff of Welsh faves Man. Stonehouse McCann’s Rock & Ale Bar, Newport. 9pm, free.

Info 01633 253648.

Submarine Academy Espresso Bar, Barry. 7pm, free. Info 07557 773723.

That’ll Be The Day Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £24.50/£23.50. Info 01686 614555.

The 1990’s The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 07590 471888. Britpop tribute band.

The Hold Up: Inner City

Cypher Oner Signs, Cardiff.

1-5pm, free. Info 029 2037 1231. Monthly hip-hop session inviting MCs, beatboxers, DJs etc down to jam.

The Shakes Hen Dderwen, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 203631. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Turner Street Crash Fontygary Leisure Park, Rhoose. 8pm, free. Info 01446 710386. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Welsh Singers Showcase Concert 2018 St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7-£22.

Info 029 2087 8444.

stage FRIDAY 1 JUNE uAlice In Wonderland – Relaxed Performance Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7pm, £10. Info 01874 611622.

Panto fave aimed at people on the autistic spectrum or others who might find conventions of theatre etiquette difficult. On tomorrow at 2pm and 7pm; Sun 3 2pm only.

(Until Sun 3) uA Night On Broadway Congress Theatre, Cwmbran.

7pm, £8.50/£7.50. Info 01633 868239. Presented by the Dance Stars Academy. On tomorrow also. uArt Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £18-£35. Info 029 2063 6464.

Reprisal of this mid-90s smash hit play, here starring Nigel Havers. On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.

Bill Bailey Motorpoint Arena Cardiff. 6.30pm, from £27.50. Info 029 2022 4488.

Back again with his Larks In Transit show.

Brendon Burns + Lukas Kirkby + Paul Savage Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 8pm, £12.

Info 0845 2263510. Comedy Club night. uChitty Chitty Bang Bang New Theatre, Cardiff.

2+ 7pm, £14-£26. Info 029 2087 8889. Musical based on the classic family film and presented by Orbit Theatre.

(Until Sun 3) Cinderella Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £14.

Info 01873 850805. Presented

by Ballet Cymru. uCollective Rage: A Play In Five Betties Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6-£13. Info 029 2030 4400.

Jan Silverman’s play about five different women all called Betty, presented here by Collective Rage. uDanny McLoughlin + Paul Myrehaug + Glenn Moore + The Raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink). uDisney’s The Little Mermaid Jr Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 2.30 + 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 0845 2263510.

Presented by Forge Theatre.

On at 2.30pm only tomorrow. uDrones Comedy Club Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

8.30pm, £3.50. Info 029 2030

4400. Also on Fri 15.

Everything Changes AJ’s Coffee House, Cardiff.

6.30-7.30pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 029 2045 1588. A fusion of storytelling from Zimbabwe & Celtic nations, presented by Weeping Tudor and part of the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival which runs until Sat 16 June in various venues.

Jambori Martyn Geraint Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen.

2pm, £8.50/£6.50. Info 0845 2263510. Kids’ show.

Jethro Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 6pm, £20. Info 01495 243252. In Barry on Thurs 14. uLegally Blonde, Jr Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl.

2.30 + 7.30pm, £8-£12. Info 01656 815995. Musical based on the movie, but aimed more at kids I guess. On tomorrow also. uLexicon Race Village, Cardiff Bay Barrage. 7.30pm, £18/£14 unwaged. Info 0845 2930897. NoFit State presents the Welsh premiere of their new circus production, during the time the Volvo Ocean Race is in Cardiff Bay (see Events listings). On at 3pm on Sun 3; 2.30pm on Sat 2 and Sat 9.

(Until Sun 10) Library Of Screams Y Llynfi Library, Bridgend. 7pm, £4.50. Info 01656 815995.

Stage chiller presented by Porthcawl Grand Pavilion. uMadagascar Dolman Theatre, Newport. 7.15pm, £10. Info 01633 263670.

Musical based on the animated movie, presented by Mini Venture Players. On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 6pm.

Moonfall Miners Institute, Blackwood. 1 + 3pm, £5/£3.50. Info 01495 227206.

Kids’ show presented by the Hikapee Theatre Company. uMydidae The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com.

Production from Other Life Theatre, a new company who we profiled last month. On tomorrow also, at 3pm.

Ned And The Whale Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare.

2pm, £5. Info 0300 0040444.

Kids’ theatre production presented by Flossy & Boo. Noel James + Dan Mitchell + Andrew Rutledge + Paul James The Vault, Swansea. 8pm, £10/£8 adv. Info 01792 465300.

Standup night presented by Comedy Vault.

Sarah Millican Grand Theatre, Swansea. 8pm, £28.

Info 01792 475715. Might be sold out by the time you read this.

‘Stute Comedy Nights Miners Institute, Blackwood.

8pm, £12.50/£11.50 adv. Info 01495 227206. uTom Thumb Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 1.30 + 4.30pm, £9 adv. Info 029 2064 6900. Kids’ show starring Patrick Lynch from Cbeebies.

On tomorrow also.

SATURDAY 2 JUNE Broadway And Beyond Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7.30pm, £16.50/£14.50. Info 01495 227206. Songs from the musicals. In Milford Haven on Sat 23.

Ceri Dupree Grand

LAURIE BLACK Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival @ AJ’s, Cardiff, Fri 15 + Sat 16 June Tickets: £8/£6. Info: www.cardifffringetheatrefestival.co.uk “Strobe lighting, smoke machine, loud music,” warns Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival of this, the final show of a programme which runs through the first half of June across several venues in the city. This is especially noteworthy for being held in a Roath coffee shop not known for its pyro and whizzbangs, which in turn seems all the better for the confrontational cabaret of Londonbased Laurie Black. A piano-playing singer whose aesthetic nods to latterday goth and burlesque looks, audience participation will likely be the order of the day, and the day could be our last, as this is billed as an “apocalypse survival guide”.

One featuring Nine Inch Nails covers, to boot.

Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £19.50/£17.50. Info 01792 475715.

House Magicians The Small Space, Barry. 7.30pm, £20. Info info@thesmallspace. co.uk. Notably small (only 20 seats!) magic-centred Vale venue.

Jordan Brookes Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £10-£12. Info 029 2030 4400.

Welsh standup comedian with a show based on the death of his grandmother.

Just A Few Words Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.307.30pm, £7/£6. Info 07933 844234. Comedy theatre production written by written by Nye Russell-Thompson; part of the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival.

Pasha Kovalev St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £28.50/£26.50. Info 029 2087 8444. Strictly favourite dances.

Patrick Monahan Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot.

7.30pm, £15/£13. Info 01639 763214. Comedy.

Scratch Afternoon The Gate, Cardiff. 2-4pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344. Try out new material informally in front of an audience. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

The World Of Song And Dance Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 2 + 6.30pm, £10 adv. Info 029 2064 6900.

The Performance Centre’s Dance and Stage Schools come together for a variety show performed by over 150 students. uTight Lines Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 7.458.15pm, £5/£4. Info 07933 844234. Autbiographical theatre by Niall Farnan; part of the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival. On tomorrow also.

Under Milk Wood Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil. 7.30pm, £8.50-£10. Info 01685 722126.

Adaption by Theatr Silures.

SUNDAY 3 JUNE Adam Rowe + Glenn Moore + Ed Gamble +

Jordan Brookes Buffalo, Cardiff. 7pm, £4-£8. Info 029 2031 0312. Edinburgh preview night presdented by Buffalo Comedy.

Let’s Celebrate Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 6pm, £8.

Info 01633 868239. Dance showcase presented by Expressions School Of Dance with Phoenix Juniors. uLive Cabaret Market Street Club, Barry. 8.30pm.

Info 01446 733863. Every Sunday.

MONDAY 4 JUNE Acosta Danza Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £19.50-£39.50.

Info 029 2063 6464. Cuban dance production devised by the internationally famous Carlos Acosta. uBummer And Lazarus AJ’s Coffee House, Cardiff.

7-7.50pm, £9/£7/free under-2s.

Info 029 2045 1588. Slapstick comedy; a Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event. On tomorrow also. *Doug Stanhope Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £25. Info 0871 4720400. Rude American comedian plays a smaller than normal venue. He was good when he played here a few years ago, and so long as he doesn't spend his time pissing on about people being mean to Ricky Gervais, he probably will be this time as well.

Slam Poetry Night Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

7-9pm, free. Info 029 2064 6900. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

TUESDAY 5 JUNE Godden & Barnes Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30-8.30pm, £8/£7. Info 029 2064 6900.

Cabaret performance taking place in the foyer, by Felix & Sam. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event. uHighway One Enfys Studio, Portmanmoor Road Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

8pm, £15. Info 029 2063 6464.

Co-produced by August 012 and Wales Millennium Centre for Festival Of Voice, this

features live music from Katell Keineg and is directed by Mathilde López. On at 5.30pm on Sun 10. (Until Sun 10) uLovecraft (Not The Sex Shop In Cardiff) Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £5. Info 029 2063 6464. One-woman Festival Of Voice production starring Carys Eleri. Tickets are £5 tonight and tomorrow, then £10. On at 10pm tomorrow, Sat 9 and Thurs 14; 5pm Sat 16. No performances from Sun 10-Wed 13. (Until Sat 16) uOliver! Gwyn Hall, Neath.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 0300 3656677. Musical presented by the Stage 8 Theatre School.

On at 11am and 5pm on Sat 9.

(Until Sat 9) The Delightful Sausage The Cambrian Tap, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info 029 2064 4952.

A night of standup comedy hosted by Crafty Laughs. uThe Snail And The Whale Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 4.30pm, £16 adv/£8 under-16s. Info 029 2064 6900. Kids’ theatre based on the book by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler. On tomorrow also, at 10.30am and 4.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE uAnd Then There Were None Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £12/£10.

Info 01792 473238. Agatha Christie, as presented by Swansea Little Theatre. (Until Sat 9) Belonging Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 2 + 7.30pm, £10. Info 01873 850805.

Acclaimed Welsh play on the topic of dementia.

Cabaret At The College Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 6-7pm, free.

Info 029 2039 1391. uCamp Be Yourself The Big Top, Cardiff. 7-7.55pm, £9/£8. Info 029 2022 8883.

Two-woman comedy by Box. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event. uDouble Vision Rehearsal Room 3, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, BUZZ 75

£15. Info 029 2063 6464.

Festival Of Voice and Gagglebabble with a production billed as murder mystery meets gig. On at 6pm tomorrow, Fri 8 and Thurs 14; 3pm on Sat 9, Sat 16 and Sun 17; 10pm on Fri 15; (Until Sun 17) Exposure Enclosure Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5 adv. Info 07933 844234. A music/perfornmance art show by a duo, Thomas and Lucy Muse.

Thomas plays trumpet and Lucy dances in the nude; furthermore, this is a “clothing-optional environment”, meaning you can achieve your lifelong ambition and drop your pants in a coffee shop.

Forbidden Nights Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7.30pm, £20. Info 01633 868239. Blokes getting their kit off, with a circus theme of some kind.

The publicity copy for this show is very heteronormative so it would be funny if the gay men of Cwmbran bought all the tickets for it. Or Narberth, where this visits tomorrow. uJoseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10 kids. Info 0845 2263510.

Presented by New Directions Theatrical Society. (Until Fri 8) The Hall Tramshed, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £14 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. New comedy about three mothers, written by Claire Erasmus.

THURSDAY 7 JUNE uAlternative Routes Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £12. Info 029 2063 6464. Four new dance works from National Dance Company Wales & Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama.

(Until Sat 9) uAmmanford Angels Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £8/£7. Info 0845 2263510.

Comedy, premiering here tonight in fact, about a woman who dies and then comes back to annoy her family in the afterlife. (Until Sat 9) Drag Night Mary’s, Cardiff.

9.30-11.30pm, free. Info 029 2066 8467. Hosted by Polly Amorous. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

Forbidden Nights Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £21.

Info 01834 869323.

Rhondda Rips It Up The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £18/£15. Info 01633 656757.

Premiere of this musical comedy, in association with Festival Of Voice and concerning Welsh suffragette the Viscountess Rhondda. In Carmarthen on Tue 12; Cardiff on Thurs 14; Brecon on Sat 16; Treorchy on Wed 27; Newtown on Fri 29.

The Dress Rehearsal Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

8.30-9.30pm. Info 029 2064 6900. Surreal prop comedy duo. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

The Invisible Man Congress Theatre, Cwmbran.

7.30pm, £12/£10 NUS. Info 01633 868239. Ignition Theatre present stage version of HG Wells book. In Porthcawl tomorrow, Swansea on Thurs 14, Ystradgynlais on Fri 15, Barry on Wed 20, Pontypridd BUZZ 76

on Thurs 21, Fishguard on Fri 22, Monmouth on Thurs 28, Merthyr on Fri 29 and Abergavenny on Tue 3 July. uUndod The Gate, Cardiff.

1 + 7.30pm, £3-£5. Info 029 2048 3344. Welsh language play by Branwen Davies, set in a misbehaving sixth-form class. On tomorrow also. uYoung Artists Festival The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com.

Performances of five new 10-minute plays, worked on in workshops by the Young Artists of the title from Mon 4-Wed 6. Writers include Ruth Jones, Hefin Robinson, Alan Harris and Kit Lambert. (Until Sat 9) FRIDAY 8 JUNE Cinderella Adventures Miners Institute, Blackwood.

6-7.30pm, £10/£5 kids. Info 01495 227206. Presented by Ballet Cymru. uEvery Song I’ve Ever Written Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 4pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. Festival Of Voice performance in whicvh Canadian artist Jacob Wren performs a long list of songs and attempts to comment on history, pop culture, the internet etc. On tomorrow also (at 7.30pm, £14 adv), for which he will be accompanied by five Cardiff bands TBC. uFive Green Bottles Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 7pm, £7/£6 NUS. Info 07933 844234.

A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival show. On tomorrow also.

Na Nel! Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 1.30pm, £6. Info 01873 850805. Welsh-language show for kids, presented by Arad Goch. In Cardigan on Fri 15. uRoger Monkhouse + Mark Maier + Robin Morgan + Phil Lucas Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also, with Feraz Ozel replacing Phil Lucas (£17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink).

Some Guys Have All The Luck St David’s Hall, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £23.50 adv. Info 029 2087 8444. A musical about Rod Stewart.

Studio Comedy Club Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £11/£9 adv. Info 029 2064 6900. With local acts TBC. The Armistice Suite Little Theatre, Neath. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01639 643462.

Produced by Griff Harries and Ian Parsons, this is a look at real-life stories and events of WWI from a Welsh perspective.

The Duck Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.45pm, £8/£6. Info 01970 623232. One-woman play based around a woman, Laura, and her recent autism diagnosis.

The Invisible Man Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £9.50. Info 01656 815995. uThrough Our Eyes Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil.

7pm, £10/£8. Info 01685 722126. Heritage Theatr Cymru present a series of stories about women, some famous and others long for-

gotten. On tomorrow also. uUnder Milk Wood Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

7.15pm, £11. Info 01792 475715. Presented by Luna Theatre. On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 7.15pm.

SATURDAY 9 JUNE Ceri Dupree Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £19.50.

Info 01646 695267.

David Baddiel Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £26. Info 01792 475715.

Eddie Summers AJ’s Coffee House, Cardiff. 8.30-9.20pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2045 1588.

Comedy show titled Rocket Fuel. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

Gutsfull Comedy The Gate, Cardiff. 7-9pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344. Carri Munn hosts an evening of female standup comedians. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

Perfect Miners Institute, Blackwood. 11am + 2pm, £5/£4. Info 01495 227206.

Theatrical retelling of the kids’ book by Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher.

SUNDAY 10 JUNE Tim Bromage Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £12. Info 029 2030 4400. Festival Of Voice one-man performance, titled Damp Sweats The House, on the subject of living spaces and their occupants.

MONDAY 11 JUNE Caterpillar Comedy Gwdihw, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7933. Open mic standup night hosted by James Dunn.

Courtney Act Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £25 adv/£50 VIP. Info 029 2023 5555. US drag fave. Sold out. uJust Say It AJ’s Coffee House, Cardiff. 6.30-7.15pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2045 1588.

Comedy theatre by Susan Monkton. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event. On tomorrow also. uMisfire AJ’s Coffee House, Cardiff. 7.45-8.45pm, £5/£4.

Info 029 2045 1588. James Neale’s exploration of toxic masculinity and bad comedy, two common bedfellows all told. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event. On tomorrow also.

Na, Nel! Wwww! Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 1.30pm, £10/£8. Info 01874 611622.

A new Welsh-language stage play by Meleri Wyn James, aimed at ages 6-11.

Offside The Riverfront, Newport. 7.45pm, £13/£11.

Info 01633 656757. Stage/ poetry/spoken word event based on four women from three different centuries who all play and love football. uREPCO: Flat Pack Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 6pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391. Three opera miniatures (15 minutes long each) telling different stories of pirates, anteaters and philosophy. On tomorrow also.

TUESDAY 12 JUNE uBecoming Human: Pinocchio Retold The Big Top, Cardiff. 7.30-8.30pm, £9/£8. Info 029 2022 8883.

Physical theatre produced by Fucktons of Fairies. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

On tomorrow also. uOn The Razzle Dolman Theatre, Newport. 7.15pm, £12.50/£8.50. Info 01633 263670. Tom Stoppard’s play about an impromptu holiday in Vienna. Also on at 2.30pm on Sat 16, for which the ticket price is £11. (Until Sat 16) Rhondda Rips It Up Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £18/£15. Info 0845 2263510.

WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE uArchetypical The Gate, Cardiff. 7-7.45pm, £5. Info 029 2048 3344. Promenade-style physical theatre performance

by Thania Acarón. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

On tomorrow also. uHead-Count The Gate, Cardiff. 8-9pm, £9/£7. Info 029 2048 3344. Dark comedy by Functionally Dysfunctional. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event. On tomorrow also.

Hodge Twins Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £27.50/£50 VIP. Info 0871 4720400. YouTube stars. Not sure what they do.

Romeo And Julie + A Midsummer Night’s Dream Parc Cwm Darren Amphitheatre. 6-7pm, £5/ free kids. Info 01495 227206.

Presernted by Blackwood Miners Institute and featuring kids from Aberbargoed School. uRough As Comedy Mozarts, Swansea. 7pm, free.

Info 01792 649984. Monthly standup open mic, hosted by Sarah Bridgeman on every second and third Wednesday of the month (also on Wed 20 in June).

THURSDAY 14 JUNE Dylan Thomas: Clown In The Moon Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7pm, £12/£10. Info 0300 0040444. uEnglish Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.

Info 029 2063 6464. Festival Of Voice/National Theatre Wales co-production; see Upfront for more. On at 2pm on Sun 17l 2pm and 7pm on Sat 23.

No production on Mon 18 and Tue 19. (Until Sun 24) uFamily Planning Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £8.50/£7.50. Info 01873 850805. Frank Vickery comedy by the Abergavenny Theatre Group. (Until Sat 16) Jethro Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry. 7.30pm, £21.25. Info 01446 738622.

Mouthpiece Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £14.

Info 029 2030 4400. Festival Of Voice performance which depicts a day in the life of one woman following the death of her mother.

Nolton Comedy Nolton Corner, Bridgend. 7.30pm, free. Info 01656 655015. With standups TBC, every second Thursday of the month.

Rhondda Rips It Up New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £25.

Info 029 2087 8889.

The Invisible Man Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

7.15pm, £11.50. Info 01792 475715.

FRIDAY 15 JUNE *Epilog New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20. Info 029 2087 8889. Rock theatre show based on songs from an

upcoming compilation album of songs from 1970s Welsh rock operas. uGood Time Girl AJ’s Coffee House, Cardiff.

7-7.30pm, £7/£6. Info 029 2045 1588. Dark monologue by Georgia Coles-Riley. A Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event.

On tomorrow also. uLaurie Black AJ’s Coffee House, Cardiff. 9-10pm, £8/£6.

Info 029 2045 1588. Musical cabaret; a Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival event. . On tomorrow also. uNa Nel! Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 1pm, £6/free teachers. Info 01239 621200. New On tomorrow also, at 10am and 1pm.

Pregnancy And Dance Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

1pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400.

Performance featuring pregnant dancers, presented by Gravida Project Wales. uPaul Thorne + Andre Vincent + Nick Doody + Francis Foster Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also, with Alistair Williams replacing Francis Foster (£17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink).

Rob Deering + Karen Bayley Regency Hotel, Saundersfoot. 8pm, £12/£10.

Info 01834 869323. Comedy Club night hosted by Span Arts.

Seren Stars: Pick‘n’Mix – All Our Favourites Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 1.15pm, £5/£3.50. Info 01874 611622.

Variety show by students from NPTC Group, Brecon Beacons College and Ysgol Penmaes.

The Invisible Man The Welfare, Ystradgynlais.

7.30pm, £11/£9. Info 01639 843163.

Tom Allen Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 8pm, £14. Info 0845 2263510. Comedian. In Abergavenny on Mon 18.

SATURDAY 16 JUNE Bluestocking Lounge Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 8pm, £16. Info 01792 475715. Burlesque night headlined by Coco Deville Ceri Dupree Cardiff Bus Transport Club. 7.30pm, £10. Info 029 2023 3658.

Gleek The Musical Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £12/£10. Info 0845 2263510.

Musical comedy about some misfit kids at summer camp.

I assume its name alludes to Glee. In Swansea from Thurs 21-Sat 23.

Hello Cabaret Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £15.50. Info 01656 815995.

Songs from the musicals.

Rhondda Rips It Up Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £18/£15. Info 01874 611622.

Thank You For The Memories Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £12. Info 0845 2263510. Songs from the musicals with Academy Amateur Company.

Twinkle Twinkle Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 11am, 12.30pm, + 2pm, £3. Info 0845 2263510. Theatre for young children.

SUNDAY 17 JUNE Howl! Comedy Tramshed

Cinema, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2023 5555.

Five standup acts on the third Sunday of each month, names currently TBC. MONDAY 18 JUNE Tom Allen Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 8pm, £14. Info 01873 850805.

TUESDAY 19 JUNE uBasil And The Ice Witch New Theatre, Cardiff. 10.30am + 1pm, £15. Info 029 2087 8889. Kids’ theatre presrnted

by Tickledom. On at 10.30am only on Fri 22; 4pm only on Sat 23 (£16 for both those dates). In Swansea from Tue 26-Sat 30. (Until Sat 23) WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE uLegally Blonde Dolman Theatre, Newport. 7.15pm, £12. Info 01633 263670.

Musical based on the movie, presented by Young Venture Players. (Until Sat 23) The Invisible Man Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry.

7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01446 738622. uThe Wolf Tattoo Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2030 4400.

Welsh premiere of Lucy Gough’s new play. See Stage.

Also on at 2.30pm on Sat 23 and Sat 30. No performance on Sun 24.

THURSDAY 21 JUNE uBlackadder Goes Forth Savoy Theatre, Monmouth.

7.30pm, £10. Info 01600 772467. Stage version of sitcom, presented here by Off Centre Theatre. (Until Sat 23) uBlood Brothers Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £12. Info 01873 850805.

Amateur production of musical, by Concept Players.

Dolly Chicken Comedy: Fun At The Flute Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 7.3010.30pm, £6.50/£5 adv. Info dollychickencomedy@gmail. com. Featuring Matt Rees, Matt Bragg, Morgan Rees, Alex Mahoney, Lorna Corner, Anita Shaw plus house band Molly Katz. uGleek The Musical Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 7pm, £12/£10. Info 01792 473238. On at 2pm and 7pm on Sat 23. (Until Sat 23) Mark Steel Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 8pm, £15. Info 01239 621200. Comedian with a show titled Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright. uPrimary Dance Project Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea.

7pm, £2. Info 01792 602060.

Performances by pupils from local primary schools. On tomorrow also.

The Invisible Man Gartholwg Centre, Pontypridd.

7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01443 570057. uThe Merchant Of Venice Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. 8pm, £16/£14 under-18s. Info 0333 6663366. This Shakespeare production is the opening play of Everyman Theatre’s annual Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival, which runs until Sat 29 July. Also on at 3pm on Sat 30. No performance on Sun 24. (Until Sat 30) FRIDAY 22 JUNE An Evening For Ken Blakemore Grand Theatre

Arts Wing, Swansea. 7.15pm, £10. Info 01792 475715.

Presented by Fluellen.

Cardiff Cabaret Club: Yin And Yang Heath Hospital Sports & Social Club, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £15 adv. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com.

Starring MC Paulus and Boylesque Rock Hart, with FooFooLaBelle and Cardiff Cabaret Club soloists/troupe. uCarrie – The Musical Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £12.

Info 0845 2263510. Musical based on the Stephen King novel. On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.

Cinderella ‘18 Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

7.30pm, £8-£15.50. Info 01646 695267. Presented by Ballet Cymru.

Grumpy Old Women To The Rescue St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £27. Info 029 2087 8444. Starring Jenny Eclair, Dillie Keane & Lizzie Roper. In Swansea tomorrow.

Lou Sanders + Ed Gamble Cardigan Castle.

8pm, £15. Info 01239 621200.

Comedians. uRay Badran + Phil Ellis + Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolf III + Chris Kent Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Info 0871 4720400.

On tomorrow also (£17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink).

The Invisible Man Theatr Gwaun, Fishguard. 7.30pm, £10/£9. Info 01348 873421.

SATURDAY 23 JUNE Broadway And Beyond Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

7.30pm, £18/£16. Info 01646 695267.

Exhalación Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 9pm, £10. Info 01239 615952. Solo dance performance by Kirstie Simson.

Grumpy Old Women To The Rescue Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £25.50. Info 01792 475715. uJekyll & Hyde The Musical Atrium Theatre, Cardiff. 2 + 7.30pm, £14/£12.

Info 07748 840625. Presented

by Kinetic Theatre Arts. On tomorrow also Keep On Dancin’ The Riverfront, Newport. 7pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 01633 656757. Presrnted by the Tap And Jazz Cats.

Matt Forde + Glenn Moore Cardigan Castle.

8pm, £15. Info 01239 621200.

Comedians.

Richards School Of Dance Extravaganza Park & Dare, Treorchy. 1 + 5pm, £8/£7.50.

Info 0300 0040444. Showcase performances. uTim Key Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £16.

Info 029 2030 4400. Comedy poet. See Upfront. On tomorrow also; in Brecon on Mon 25, Aberystwyth on Tue 26.

Wayne Goodman The Small Space, Barry. 7.30pm, £20.

Info info@thesmallspace. co.uk. UK magician.

SUNDAY 24 JUNE Paul Smith St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £20. Info 029 2087 8444. Described here as an affable Scouse comic.

Stand Up In The Park Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

8pm, £16. Info 0333 6663366.

Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival event compered by Clint Edwards, in support of Amnesty International’s Cardiff group and dedicated to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, British-Iranian national currently imprisoned for specious reasons.

MONDAY 25 JUNE uAn Officer And A Gentleman Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £18-£46. Info 029 2063 6464. Premiere of a new musical based on the movie.

On at 2.30pm and 7.30pm opn Thurs 28 and Sat 30. £22-£49 on Fri 29 and Sat 30. (Until Sat 30) uSherlock Holmes: The4 Final Curtain New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £19-£33. Info 029 2087 8889. A new play

by Simon Reade in which the detective is retired, until a mystery comes up which he decides he has to solve. A wellworn premise I must say. Also on at 2.30pm on Wed 27 (£16£27) and Sat 30. £22-£36 on Fri 29 and Sat 30 (evening).

(Until Sat 30) Tim Key Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 8pm, £16. Info 01874 611622. See Upfront.

TUESDAY 26 JUNE uBasil And The Ice Witch Grand Theatre, Swansea.

10am + 1pm, £8-£14. Info 01792 475715. On at 4pm only on Sat 30. (Until Sat 30) uDance Back To Broadway Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7pm, £7-£9. Info 0300 0040444. Hits from the musicals, presented by Treorchy Comprehensive School. Also on Thurs 28. uHwyl A Haul Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £6. Info 01239 621200. Welsh language musical comedy presented as part of Gwyl Fawr Aberteifi. (Until Thurs 28) Rubicon St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 10.30am-2pm, free.

Info 029 2087 8444. Dance showcase/demonstration aimed especially at young people looking at careers in performings arts.

Tim Key Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £16. Info 01970 623232.

WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE uBetty Blue Eyes Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6-£15. Info 029 2039 1391.

Musical based on a book

by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, set in the UK circa 1947. Also on at 2.30pm on Sat 30 and Tue 3 July. No performance on Sun 1 July. (Until Wed 4 July) Cilla & The Shades Of The 60s Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot. 7.30pm, £21.50/£19.50. Info 01639 763214. Musical.

Comedy Club Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 8pm, £11.

Info 01792 475715.

Dragonfly Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 1pm, £6.50. Info 01656 815995. Lunchtime theatre by Matthew G Ree. Rhondda Rips It Up Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £18/£15. Info 0300 0040444.

Sarah Breese + Tony Chiotti Le Public Space,

Newport. 8.30pm, pay by donation. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

June’s edition of the You Might Laugh comedy night, on here on the last Wednesday of every month. Both comics tonight are doing Edinburgh preview sets.

THURSDAY 28 JUNE Cappuccino Girls Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £12.50. Info 0845 2263510.

Another showing for Mal Pope’s comedy about three women and a hunky barista, which was a hit on its launch in 2011 despite no-one in nonmetropolitan Wales knowing what cappuccino is (according to Owen Smith MP).

The Dreamboys Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry. 7.30pm, £19.50-£24.50. Info 01446 738622. Male strippers.

The Invisible Man Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £14/£12. Info 01600 772467. uThe Wizard Of Oz Dolman Theatre, Newport.

7.15pm, £10. Info 01633 263670. Musical presented

by Phoenix Productions and performed by youngsters aged 5-15. On at 5.30pm on Sat 30.

(Until Sat 30) FRIDAY 29 JUNE uAnnie Jr. Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £10/£8.

Info 01970 623232. Amateurt production of famous musical.

On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. uKeith Farnan + Chris Betts + Eleanor Tiernan + Scott Bennett Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink). uMe & My Bee Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 4.30pm, £9 adv. Info 029 2064 6900.

Family show presented by ThisEgg. On tomorrow also, at 11.30am and 1.30pm. See Stage.

Rhondda Rips It Up Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £18/£15. Info 01686 614555.

Rose Johnson + Will Duggan + James Acaster Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

8pm, £10. Info 01874 611622.

Comedy Club night.

The Invisible Man Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

7.30pm, £9. Info 01685 384111.

SATURDAY 30 JUNE Dance Blast Showcase 18 Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7pm, £8/£5. Info 01873 850805. uFeast The Depot, Cardiff.

11am, £5-£10. Info 029 2039 1391. Family puppet show created and presented by the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama. On at 11am, 2.30pm and 5pm tomorrow; 10am and 7pm from Mon 2-Wed 4 July.

(Until Wed 4 July) uMusicality Mashup 2018 The Riverfront, Newport. 7pm, £15. Info 01633 656757. Medleys from musicals and films, presented by the Studio One Dance Company. On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm..

Stuart Goldsmith Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £9-£11. Info 029 2030 4400.

UK standup with a show titled Like I Mean It.

British MPs are banned from wearing a full suit of armour in Parliament.

Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is comprised of penguin urine.

Portland, Oregon is home to the Quiet Music Festival, where loud rock music is banned from being played or performed.

It would take the average person 345 days without stopping, to walk around the world.

There are roughly 2000 different types of musical instruments in the world – including, the Branching Corrugahorn and the Hydraulophone.

If you place a ball at the start of the Great Wall of China, it will roll all the way to the end.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing have been translated into Klingon.

Felinfoel Brewery from Wales was the first brewery outside of America to produce beer in cans.

A group of salamanders is called a maelstrom. So if you hear the term, don’t worry, it’s not an amphibianfilled whirlpool.

The first music festival in history was the Pythian Games, which took part in Ancient Greece in 582 BCE. Some of the bacteria found in beards is also found in faeces.

D. H. Lawrence, the famous author and playwright, owned 18 alpacas and 12 anteaters on his farm in the South of France.

A grizzly bear’s bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball.

Welsh film star, Rhys Ifans, was once a singer in the band Super Furry Animals, before they broke into the charts.

Scientists have found that swearing can actually help relieve pain. So next time you stub your toe, let loose.

(Disclaimer: some of these may not in fact be true)

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BOY AZOOGA’S DEBUT ALBUM ON CD Boy Azooga are a self-professed amalgamation of different sounds, with influences varying from Black Sabbath to OutKast. Set for release on Fri 8 June, the quartet’s debut album 1, 2 Kung Fu! outlines this mantra, with a blend of filmic instrumentals and rave-tinged rock. Be the amongst the first to jive to this, and win one of three copies of 1, 2 Kung Fu!.

TWO TICKETS TO RHONDDA RIPS IT UP AT THEATR BRYCHEINIOG The brainchild of Emma Jenkins and Elena Langer, in collaboration with Welsh National Opera, Rhondda Rips It Up is a tongue-in-cheek, comedic production that portrays the story of suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas. The extraordinary role Thomas played in the efforts of the Welsh suffragettes is aptly presented by an all-female cast. Win two tickets for the Brecon showing on Sat 16 June.

TWO TICKETS TO SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL CURTAIN AT NEW THEATRE, CARDIFF This latest adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective depicts an elderly, retired Holmes with a proclivity for beekeeping. Unsurprisingly, Holmes (played by Robert Powell) is coaxed out of retirement by his former partner’s wife, for one last mystery. Opening on Mon 25 June, we have two tickets to give away for the first night.

TWO TICKETS TO GRETCHEN PETERS AT ST. DAVID’S HALL, CARDIFF On Tue 12 June, St David’s Hall will house Nashville royalty in the form of Gretchen Peters. Peters’ musical career has spanned over 30 years, where she has written songs for the likes of Shania Twain and Neil Diamond, as well as releasing 12 solo albums. Enter the competition for your chance to win two tickets for the performance.

TWO TICKETS TO THE PERFORMANCE OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 3 AT ST. DAVID’S HALL Gustav Mahler’s iconic symphony is brought to St David’s Hall by the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra in a 90-minute performance that is sure to amaze and astound. The six-part performance is one of the most spectacular and absorbing scores ever written, and we’ve got two tickets to give away for Sun 17 June.

TWO TICKETS TO THE WOLF TATTOO AT CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE This strange and apocalyptic new play, written by Lucy Gough and presented by the acclaimed theatre troupe Company O f Sirens, tells the story of two teenage lovers in a world where language has broken down and the needs of survival have taken over. We’ve got two tickets for a performance of your choosing from Wed 20-Sat 30 June.

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Emmeline Pankhurst, activist and leader of the British suff ragette movement.

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Emmeline Pankhurst, ymg yrchydd ac arweinydd mudiad y swff ragét ym Mhrydain.

Llun drwy garedigrwydd Llyfrgell y Menywod yr LSE. Dylunio gan Grey.

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Ymunwch â ni ddydd Sul 10 Mehefi n yng nghanol Caerdydd i fod yn rhan o waith celf gan lu o bobl ledled y DU i ddathlu canrif ers rhoi’r bleidlais i fenywod.

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