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WHAT’S ON JUNE 2017

FOODIE SPECIAL Where to eat in Wales

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Keiron Self’s not-altogether-perfect 10 movies includes another reboot of The Mummy. About once a month (on average, not on the dot) I think about that time in 2001 when Margaret Thatcher made a strained selfreferential joke about the film The Mummy Returns, and her bizarre senile voice when she said its title

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Our latest recipe rustler Ffiona has done one for kale pesto this month. Ah, kale pesto eh? Remember when Jack Monroe did a recipe for that? And Richard Littlejohn said something unpleasant about it? And people defended her? But some also took the piss?

Come on! It was the biggest news story of 2013

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We managed to collar some high grade names for interviews this issue, including Erasure, Arthur Smith, Public Service Broadcasting and your favourite members of The Jacksons (Marlon and Jackie) – but in mind of Princess Diana’s quote, “if you eat you live, if you don’t you die,” the front cover is reserved for our bumper food and drink guide

Included on the art page is a writeup of some paintings of infamous Cardiff pubs, including the Cow & Snuffers in Llandaff North. It doesn’t specify if they depict an absolutely hammered landlord making cocktails with about eight measures in for £2.50 a throw, or a mass brawl involving attendees of a nearby funeral, but if I’d been the artist they would have

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I watched my annual film for review purposes this month, specifically Prevenge which as it happens is belting. It was filmed in Cardiff you know!! I didn’t mention that in my review though as I find gratuitous playing-up of local angles twee and smalltime

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A selection of ‘foodie getaways’ located around Europe, selected by the same method as all these features – throwing sharpened porcupine quills at a child’s map

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Gareth Bale, sidelined from his hometown Champions League final through injury, slinks away from the stadium; on a crazy whim, he decides to try his signature beer for the first time. Gagging and choking on one sip, minions instantly rush to his side and wash his mouth out with a mixture of TCP and Powerade

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Worst band names in this issue: Zkeletonz, That Lying Bitch, Mr Fishy, Chonkinfeckle, The Fflip Fflops, Gemma And The Owls, The DMT Experiment

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The Big Fish Little Fish Family Rave is on my birthday, fact fans. I can’t go to it because I don’t have any children, preferring instead to hasten the demise of the human race, but please send me congratulations at one of the addresses listed left, marked “CONTENTS WEIRDO”

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BRIEFLY

RIDE AND ROAR! Human Race and ASO are bringing the magic of Le Tour de France to South Wales, selecting the Dragon Ride in the Brecon Beacons for L’Etape Wales.

The ride will include replicating experiences from the world-famous bike ride for UK cyclists to enjoy, like ride numbers, finish podiums and a selection of different routes. The event is not restricted to experienced riders, and everyone is encouraged to take part and help raise money for various charities, including Team Macmillan.

The event will commence on Sun 11 June at Margam Park in Port Talbot.

Info: www.letapeuk.co.uk/wales

National Museum Cardiff’s exciting new family-friendly exhibit Dinosaur Babies provides a rare and exciting chance to explore the lives of dinosaurs by compiling a collection of some new and incredible findings that include dinosaur embryos and eggs. This interactive exhibition allows you to get up close and personal with full-size dinosaur skeletons and replicas, touchable models of dinosaur embryos and eggs and even a whopping 2.5-metre model dinosaur nest.

Not only does this exhibit offer the chance to learn about dinosaur family life and how they cared for their young, but it also provides the opportunity to find out more about the dinosaur discoveries. Get involved with the breathtaking findings by being a palaeontologist for the day in the Big Dig Pit events – you’ll be sure to leave with new dino trivia under your belt.

National Museum Cardiff, until Tue 6 June. Admission: £3-£7.

Info: 0300 1112333 / www.museum.wales/cardiff

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MAN V HORSE RACE There’s nothing better than a sunny weekend in June. Apart from a sunny weekend in June where man and beast go head to head in a surreal marathon. The Man v Horse race began in the small Powys town of Llanwrtyd Wells to settle the age-old question: who runs faster, man or horse? For its 34th year, Green Events’ longest running event attracts runners from all over who are eager to win the ever-growing jackpot, now standing at £2,000.

The marathon was established in 1980 and after 25 years, Huw Lobb finally outran the fastest horse by two minutes in a total time of two hours and five minutes. Florien Holtinger repeated this three years later, but the horse has remained unbeaten ever since. This June sees a new challenge of sweat, steep hills and rough terrain as runners take part in a unique and ridiculous race.

Llanwrtyd Wells, Sat 10 + Sun 11 June. Admission: free.

Info: 01591 610666 / www.green-events.co.uk BUZZ 4

TRI HARDER! Taking place in Cardiff Bay on Sun 25 June is the Cardiff Triathlon, one of the most exciting sports events of the year. The Triathlon will consist of a swim in the bay, a cycle route along closed roads and a run along the Cardiff Bay barrage.

With a variety of distances available, Cardiff Triathlon provides something for everyone to take part in. The event village will be located at the front of the Wales Millennium Centre.

Info: www.britishtriathlon.org

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GEMAU CYMRU The signature multi-sport event Gemau Cymru will be held for young athletes on the last weekend of June. The Welsh sporting event enhances the performances of Olympic, Commonwealth and Paralympic athletes and provides an inspiring opportunity for young people to compete in a high profile sporting event, all while experiencing the environment of an athlete village.

Among this year’s competitions are athletics, gymnastics, judo, netball, table tennis, triathlon, weightlifting, hockey and canoeing. All of these sports will be managed with close partnership with governing bodies who will aim to guide young competitors throughout the course of the event. This summer, aspiring Welsh athletes from all over are invited to come together and compete in Gemau Cymru to showcase their skills and experience a higher level of competition.

Various locations, Cardiff, Fri 30 June-Sun 2 July.

Admission: free. Info: 029 2063 5699 / www.gemaucymru.urdd.cymru

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GENERAL ELECTIONS A decision that took everyone by surprise, and maybe even the Prime Minister, Theresa May has called for a snap general election to take place on Thurs 8 June – three years earlier than initially planned.

Mrs May’s reasoning behind holding this election is to strengthen her hand in the ongoing Brexit negotiations. She’s claimed that she has delivered stability (insert strong and stable meme here) since the Brexit referendum and the subsequent political strike that’s taken place since last June. At the time of writing the current UK polls indicate that the Conservatives are in the lead, followed by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour, Farron’s Lib Dems, and Nuttall’s imploding UKIP. In Wales, Plaid Cymru are also contesting seats to try and increase their amount of MPs in Westminster. While many think that a Tory landslide is inevitable, anything can happen on voting day. Regardless of your politics, get out and have your voice heard. Note that health, education, culture, agriculture, environment, housing, transport and many more functions are all devolved to the Welsh Government, although Westminster policies will affect you.

Thurs 8 June. Info: www.gov.uk

STREET FOOD CIRCUS 2017 This summer, one of Cardiff’s most popular events, the Street Food Circus, is making a comeback. Taking place on the second weekend of June, it promises to provide an immersive dining destination with an array of festival food, music, street art and a vintage kilo sale. Held last year in Sophia Gardens, this year the event will taking place just off Roath’s City Road and will be transforming the blocks into a colourful street food party. This new location has been created by Something Creatives who have spent the year producing a street food playground, a night market food village accompanied by a big top circus tent diner, a cocktail bus and shipping container craft ale bars – all of which are going to help deliver the best late-night street market vibe in Cardiff.

Roath Yard, St Peters Road, Cardiff, Sat 10 + Sun 11 June.

Admission: free before 12pm, £3 entry after 2pm.

Info: www.streetfoodcardiff.com

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E W E N M A C I N T O S H Best known for his role as deadpan accountant Big Keith in The Office, Ewen MacIntosh speaks with Luke Owain Boult about getting involved in the cult show and hosting a touring Office quiz.

How did you get involved in The Office?

I got cast by the Casting Director to play one of the general staff members who may get the odd line now and then and the character just sort of developed during the first series.

Where did the idea for the quiz come from?

I hosted one for a venue in London called the MOTH Club last year and it went so well that other venues started asking me to do it, so I came up with my own version and took it from there.

Have you ever met Brian Baumgartner, who plays Kevin, the American Office equivalent of your character?

No, but we said hello to each other on Twitter. He seems like a great guy.

What do you think it is about The Office that’s made it so popular?

I think it is still relatable to anyone who is forced to go into a job every day and deal with people they wouldn't normally choose to be with. Everyone seems to know a Brent or a Gareth.

How hard are the questions in the quiz and who comes up with them?

They range all the way from extremely easy to almost impossible. There’s something for everyone. I come up with all of them.

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What are you working on at the moment?

I'm working on a comedy horror film called Game Over and a football rom-com called The Bromley Boys, about the worst football team in Britain.

I read you studied linguistics at university.

Do you speak any other languages?

I used to speak German but it's very rusty these days!

The Office Quiz, Barry Island Sports and Social Club, Fri 23 June. Tickets: £7.

Info: www.mackeventspresents.com

Fan of The Office? Well, you’re in luck. We’re giving away two tickets to The Office quiz hosted

by Ewen Macintosh, courtesy of Mack Events in Barry. If you want to go, keep an eye on our social media platforms for the competition post and like and share to win.

BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 11.06.17 - 18.06.17

Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra The Glory of Strauss & Elgar 15.07.17

The Spooky Men’s Chorale 12.07.17

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Music of Eric Whitacre 02.06.17

Kevin & Karen Dance 2017 21.06.17

Rachel Newton Band Roots Unearthed 27.06.17

The Bowie Experience 14.07.17

Family Prom: The Dance-Off Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra feat. Connie Fisher 23.07.17

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Cocorico Patisserie’s Chef Patissier Laurian Veaudour speaks with Luke Owain Boult about gastronomic inspiration and his experience on Bake Off: Creme de la Creme.

How did Cocorico Patisserie get started?

I always wanted to have my own patisserie, and after working in restaurants in Cardiff I decided that it was time to give it a go. I trained in France in a catering college in Tain-l'Hermitage and then moved on to an apprenticeship in a patisserie, for which I was selected as the best apprentice in France.

After that, I went and did another year as an apprentice baker.

Is there a common mistake amateurs make when making their own desserts?

I’m not too sure as most of the time people don't want to bake for me because they feel it's not going to be good enough, even though I love home-baked cakes like a lemon drizzle or a carrot cake. Getting to the Cocorico level of patisserie requires a lot of practice and also a passion and drive to always get better at it.

Have you enjoyed your experience on Bake Off: Creme de la Crème?

The Bake Off experience was really good, even though we had to spend a lot of hours practicing, it pushed us to think more about flavour combinations as well as finishing touches. It was also great fun meeting other pastry chefs who share the same passion. It's a great show to display all the different skills of our profession and people get to see the pressure of

building a chocolate or sugar showpiece.

Where do you get your innovative gastronomic ideas from?

The inspiration of any new cakes come from all the different experiences you get, whether it's from a childhood memory or a fun time with a friend on holiday, we try to recreate those magical moments in few mouthfuls. It's so fulfilling to provide a little holiday in a cake.

What plans does Cocorico Patisserie have in future?

We are working on getting patisserie classes starting from September as I love to share the knowledge I’ve acquired over the past 20 years and recreate those good times with people.

If you could only suggest one place to visit in Wales to someone who'd never visited, where would you pick and why?

I love the drive to Hay-On-Wye as you go through the Beacons, the views are breath-taking with all the hills and the streams running down. All of that finishes in such a lovely village where you can wonder around the little cobbled streets.

Cocorico Patisserie, 35 Whitchurch Road, Cardiff.

Info: 029 2032 8177 / www.cocoricopatisserie.co.uk

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Motorpoint Arena Cardiff Mon 3 July Tickets: from £39.50 Info: 029 2022 4488 www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

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St David's Hall, Cardiff Sat 8 July Tickets: from £13 Info: 029 2087 8444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

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COLDPLAY: A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS TOUR

Principality Stadium, Cardiff Tue 11 July Tickets: from £45 Info: 0870 0138600 www.principalitystadium.wales

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St David's Hall, Cardiff Fri 14 July Tickets: from £24.50 Info: 029 2087 8444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

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FOODIE GUIDE Food glorious food. Cakes, beers and pop-ups. We round up some of the best foodie delights Wales has to offer.

BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES AND VINEYARDS Compiled by ELOUISE HOBBS

DÀ MHÌLE DISTILLERY pic: Megan Eaves

Glynhynod Farm, Llandysul Dà Mhìle Distillery produces artisan, small batch liquors, gins which have been oak-aged or infused with seaweed, and whiskies using organic ingredients and traditional methods. Dà Mhìle is Gaelic for the year 2000, although the company was formed in 1992; interestingly, they are one of the only distilleries to malt their own barley. Of the original 15 hogsheads (barrels) and 11 tonnes of barley that was first delivered to the distillery, five barrels remain; they are now 25 years old and are now highly sought after by collectors. The tours offer not only views of the distillery but also the adjoining farm and the dairy of Caws Teifi Cheese; there is even a chance you’ll be shown round be the owners.

MANTLE BREWERY

Cardigan, Ceredigion Mantle Brewery is a family-run microbrewery that produces Welsh real ales right in the heart of Cardigan. Mantle started brewing in the summer of 2013 and with their first ever cask, a barrel full of Cwrw Teifi, they took the drink straight to their local, the Eagle Inn in Cardigan, and enjoyed the drink with the people who had supported them in their journey. Tours of the brewery are available by prior arrangement and the beer is stocked in most Cardigan pubs as well as select locations across south Wales.

Their most popular ales are their Cwrw Teifi bitter and Rock Steady, a golden session ale.

Info: 01239 623898 / www.mantlebrewery.com

Info: 01239 851998 / www.damhile.co.uk Pontpren, Penderyn The preeminent whisky distillery in Wales, Penderyn takes its name from the ‘gold stream’ that runs through the foothills in the Brecon Beacons where the single malt whiskies and spirits are distilled.

Launching on St David’s Day in 2004, they produce their award-winning spirits in a unique copper single pot still, designed by 19th-century scientist Michael Faraday, and use American oak bourbon casks to age the spirits. The distillery offers daily tours, with an opportunity to taste a variety of their whiskies; don’t worry if you are driving, as they offer sample bottles that you can take home and enjoy later.

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BRAINS BREWERY Da Mhile

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Crawshay Street, Cardiff It wouldn’t be a list of local breweries if it missed out the biggest and most well-known. Brains Brewery is located in the heart of Cardiff and it is the place that gives Cardiff its famous smell of molten barley when you arrive off the train. The brewery is over 100 years old, and it owns many of the local pubs in the centre of town. If you look around Cardiff you will also see that many of the bridges are also branded with Brains slogans. They are best known for SA and Brains Bitter but they are rapidly expanding their craft beer sections, with Boilermaker and IPA Black Mountain quickly becoming firm favourites.

Info: 029 2040 2060 / www.sabrain.com

BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES AND VINEYARDS SNOWDONIA PARK

LLANERCH VINEYARD

Info: 01286 650409 / www.snowdonia-park.co.uk

Info: 01443 222716 / www.llanerch-vineyard.co.uk

Waunfawr, Gwynedd Snowdonia Park in Waunfawr is probably the only microbrewery and campsite in the country, if not the continent. The unique concept has attracted visitors from around the world to this quiet part of Snowdonia.

At first, this may seem like a small operation, but they are very ambitious and currently brew 11 real ales, which can be enjoyed in your tent or at the pub attached to the campsite. They actually currently only brew beer for the Snowdonia Park pub and campsite but as they grow in popularity and capacity, they are likely to expand.

Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan Llanerch Vineyard is just 20 minutes outside of Cardiff and after planting their first grapes in 1986, the vineyard has won numerous awards for their wines. The wines, named Cariad after the Welsh for love or sweetheart, is now well known across Wales. The vineyard harvests between 8-12 tonnes of grapes each year and produces approximately 10,000 bottles of Cariad wine. The vineyard is also a hotel, so you can stay there, dine in the adjoining bistro and enjoy Cariad wine metres away from where it was harvested. They also offer self-guided vineyard tours and cookery classes.

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TEAS AND COFFEES Compiled by ELOUISE HOBBS Little Man Coffee

KAPPUCCINO’S

Cathays Terrace, Cardiff Opened in 2001, Kappuccino’s is a gem in the heart of student central Cathays; in between the humanities building and Lidl, it may not look much from the outside but it’s a favourite with students and local workers alike due to their strong coffee and the homely environment that accompanies the drink. All the tea, coffee, and food is freshly prepared. Their cakes are beautifully handmade; although they may not be perfect on the outside, the taste comes pretty close.

Info: 029 2039 6700 / www.kappuccionos.co.uk

LITTLE MAN COFFEE

Bridge Street, Cardiff The Little Man Coffee Company is a local cafe with big ideas; it specially selects its coffee from around the world and they always have loads of varieties to suit every taste, from strong Ecuadoran beans to medium beans with a hint of chocolate from Chile. Apart from the coffee, the next best thing about this place is the atmosphere. You can sit and relax with your laptop, whilst enjoying local artists’ work hung on the walls, which is available to buy. They have comfy seating and you always feel like they have space for you, even when they are busy. They also have delicious homemade cakes made daily, which changes seasonally.

Info: 07933 844234 / www.littlemancoffee.co.uk

WATERLOO TEA

Penarth, Penylan + Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff Waterloo Tea has become synonymous with serving the largest number of different teas in Wales: from white to black, fruity to traditional, they have something for everyone even if you aren't usually a tea lover. When they serve their tea in brightly coloured pots, you are given a timer and a recommended brewing time for the tea you have selected. All the teas they serve come in loose leaf variety and they also offer alternative drinks to traditional teas, such as London Gog which combines Earl Grey and lavender with steamed milk to make a perfect lunchtime drink.

Info: 029 2037 6249 / www.waterlootea.com

TY TE

Crymant, Cenarth People come to Cenarth for the falls, a tour round the old flour mill and nature walks. They stay for the tea, and afternoon tea at Ty Te. Decorated like a fairy-book tea shop, the cosy hideaway is just a stone’s throw away from the falls and although they are usually busy, they will try their best to find you a table. They have teas from camomile to green and fruit that go beautifully with their brightly coloured homemade cake – their raspberry cheesecake goes really well with the smoky flavours of their oolong tea.

Info: 01239 712881 / twitter.com/enfyswyse

PENDRE ART GALLERY AND CAFE

Waterloo Tea

THE BLUE PELICAN CAFE

Royal Arcade, Cardiff Inspired by Viennese coffee house culture, Wally’s Kaffeehaus is located inside one of Cardiff’s historic arcades and captures old traditions with their freshly made coffees and relaxed atmosphere. They serve a wide variety of coffee above the delicatessen downstairs and alongside their famous German sausage lunch, their coffee is the perfect accompaniment. This Kaffeehaus comes into its own when the sun is shining and you can enjoy their rich and smooth espresso served with their famous Italian gelato.

Pendre, Cardigan This coffeeshop in Cardigan takes the idea that coffee is an art to an extreme level. Pendre Art Gallery & Cafe is the largest gallery in Cardigan town, and serves the best coffee, that comes with a free biscuit. At any one time, the large coffeeshop may exhibit up to 100 local artists.

They showcase everything from paintings and photography, to woodwork and pottery, and even local jewellery makers. Everything on display is for sale and guests are invited to take a seat next to their favourite piece of artwork.

Info: 029 2022 9264 / www.wallysdeli.co.uk

Info: 01239 615151 / facebook.com/pendreartgc

Info: 029 2070 5391 / www.hamptonspenarth.co.uk

WALLY’S KAFFEEHAUS

Ludlow Lane, Penarth If you walk through the cute Hampton’s gift shop in Penarth and head upstairs you will be transported to the Blue Pelican Cafe, a bright cafe that serves tasty coffee and enviable cream teas. Hawaiian girls dance on the menu and the staff are dressed brightly in tropical clothing; they greet you with a smile and at your table, you will have a hard time choosing between traditional lunch options and freshly prepared sandwiches. The coffee is always tasty and they have a wide range of teas that cater for every taste.

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BAKERIES

SWEET TOOTH

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CARDIFF BAKESTONES

Cardiff Central Market Nestled among various fresh fruit and meat stands in Cardiff Central Market, Cardiff Bakestones is a sweet-smelling gem. The casual side-shop serves up warm Welsh cakes fresh off the bakestone and offers a variety of flavours. Pick from the original toasted, soft raisin-studded Welsh cakes or experiment with unique flavours that include chocolate chip, lemon-curd and jam-filled varieties. Each Welsh cake is lightly dusted with sugar and homemade every day. All at a reasonable price, nothing beats a freshly baked Welsh cake.

Info: 029 2034 4159 / facebook.com/bakestones.co.uk Welsh Bakery

PETTIGREW BAKERIES

595 Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff Settled near the greenery of Victoria Park, Pettigrew Bakeries dish out a variety of delectable desserts and a combination of sweet and savoury baked goods. Find all your favourite baked classics made thoughtfully with a delicate twist. Tastefully decorated, the bakery features an open kitchen with loaves freshly baked right before you. Always filled with the aromatic scents of freshly baked bread, it’s hard not to drop in to sample their deliciously baked treats.

Info: 029 2132 1270 / www.pettigrew-bakeries.co.uk

BRØD – DANISH BAKERY AND COFFEE SHOP

COCORICO PATISSERIE

35 Whitchurch Road, Cardiff Inspired by the delicate pastries that dot the Parisian streets, Cocorico Patisserie brings the French delights to the streets of Cardiff with the help of French pastry owner-chef Laurian Veaudour. Specialising in extravagant cakes and pastries, the cafe offers up tantalising yet stylish and spectacular sweet treats that are freshly made every day and will surely give your sweet cravings a tingle.

Having recently branched out to serving savoury snacks, spoil yourself to a glamorous afternoon at Cocorico for their flagship sandwiches and refreshing teas.

Info: 029 2132 8177 / www.cocoricopatisserie.co.uk Science Cream

126 Wyndham Crescent, Cardiff No need to keep on dreaming about wolfing down soft, buttery Danish pastries in Copenhagen because the irresistible delicacies have made their way to Cardiff.

Thanks to owner and Copenhagener Betina Skovbro, Brød serves up some of Denmark’s finest breads, pastries and cakes. A product of Betina’s longing for traditional Danish pastries, Brød remains wholly loyal to Danish baking culture with every alluring pastry taking on a Danish name and made accordingly to Danish recipes. Whether it’s Soandauer, Kanelstang or Æble Kamme, Brød will guarantee an authentic experience of Denmark’s finest foods.

Info: 029 2025 1822 / www.thedanishbakery.co.uk

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SCIENCE CREAM

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28 Castle Arcade, Cardiff Far from your typical ice cream, Science Cream uniquely mix in a special ingredient, liquid nitrogen.

Dubious? Don’t be: liquid nitrogen is, in fact, the secret to getting super-smooth ice cream. Not only a delight to eat, Science Cream also offer a visual treat, each ice cream frozen to order and made before your eyes. Not only experimenting with the ice cream, Science Cream also invent one-of-a-kind flavours with high quality local ingredients. So be ready to expect an odd brownie or two.

Launched in 1980, the Welsh Bakery began their baking journey as a humble family business.

Today, they have gained a reputation as one of Pembrokeshire’s finest bakeries and mastered the complex techniques used in all baked goods on the bakery spectrum. Offering a range of traditional and contemporary breads and cakes, the bakery pride themselves on their bread, baked fresh every morning, and bespoke cakes made with an immaculate attention to detail. The atmosphere sets the Welsh Bakery out as a neighbourhood favourite.

Info: 01646 695183 / www.welshbakery.net

TAN LAN BAKERY

2 Lower High Street, Conwy Featured in {Britain’s Best Bakery}, Tan Lan Bakery fully deserves the recognition. As well as baking up an extensive list of cakes, breads and confectionaries, Tan Lan Bakery has also gained a reputation for having one of the most popular coffee shops in Conwy, serving sandwiches, pies, breads and cakes that are prepared daily. Indulge in various traditional and artisanal baked goods that are made to soft, fluffy perfection. Specialising in bread, there’s one for every occasion, making Tan Lan Bakery a favourite stop for bread-lovers.

Info: 01492 203522 / www.tanlanbakery.co.uk BUZZ 12

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LITTLE VALLEY BAKERY Old Hay Barn, Gower Heritage Centre, Swansea Despite its name, Little Valley Bakery packs a large and impressive menu. The menu rotates and promises the lucky Gower locals a weekly special and a different and exclusive choice of baked goods every week.

Each artisan bread is made by hand with high quality ingredients that are locally sourced and uniquely flavoured. Also drumming up a sweet share of cakes, pies and rolls, Little Valley Bakery is ideal for those who have both a sweet tooth and love of fresh loaves.

Info: 01792 371346 / www.littlevalleybakery.com

HEAVENLY CHOCOLATE

London House, 60 Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo As its names suggests, Heavenly Chocolate offer an assortment of glorious desserts with an extensive range of bespoke cakes, freshly made ice cream and luxury chocolates and an even wider selection of flavours. A sugary heaven for adults, Heavenly Chocolate also serve jars of vintage sweets, sweet biscuits and decadent desserts almost too attractive to eat. They make sure each item is hand-made with locally sourced ingredients and crafted to perfection with an impressive attention to detail. If you love cake and chocolate, Heavenly Chocolate is every sweet-tooth’s dream.

Info: 01558 822800 / www.heavenlychoc.biz

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Chapel 1877

CHAPEL 1877

Churchill Way, Cardiff This inventive and elegant restaurant is based in a renovated chapel. The French gothic style building featuring bold interior and statement chandeliers has a great atmosphere and offers a distinctive dining experience. Its creative cuisine has global influence, and offers locally sourced meat and a pleasurable collection of seafood. Chapel offers a vast menu, from a light or hearty lunch, to an à la carte evening menu, or the option of a seven-course tasting menu. The spacious venue caters to all occasions.

Info: 029 2022 2020 / www.chapel1877.com

THE LANSDOWNE

71 Beda Road, Cardiff With an ever-changing menu serving up classic Welsh pub grub, with steaks, roasts, pies, fish and chips and more, this Canton pub from the minds behind The Potted Pig is a great place for warming traditional food. The pub also use this rotating traditional philosophy with their drinks, with an ever-changing range of cask ales, and lagers and ciders from around the world. This June, they’re following on from the success of their previous beer festivals with another weekend (date TBC) filled with beers and ciders from around the UK, live music, good food and more.

Info: 029 2022 1312 www.thelansdownecardiff.co.uk

MILKWOOD

Pontcanna, Cardiff The team behind some of Cardiff’s best regarded restaurants Porro and The Potted Pig – not to mention The Lansdowne and The Grange pubs - are due to open Milkwood, a small restaurant in Pontcanna, and will no longer be managing their other restaurants.

It’s planned to be a small, friendly neighbourhood restaurant with a constantly changing menu that uses the very best of Welsh produce – as do their other restaurants. With a reputation for excellence, they promise simple but sound cooking where you can see and taste their genuine passion for food. Their wine list will also feature exciting selections to sample from.

Info: 029 2023 2226 / www.twitter.com/MilkwoodCDF BUZZ 14

THE STUFFED DORMOUSE

Ponthir Road, Newport The Stuffed Dormouse pride themselves on offering something completely different at a price that suits everyone. Distinct from the majority of restaurants in the area, the menu varies from exotic meat to fresh lobster, or a traditional Sunday roast. The exotic menu offers meats including crocodile, kangaroo, zebra or ostrich fillet. If you’re feeling adventurous, the restaurant offers a roulette skewer: four meats are chosen for you, their identity revealed to you following your meal. A menu that changes almost every day means that your food is guaranteed to be fresh, and the food is often bought from local suppliers.

Info: 01633 430142 / www.thestuffeddormouse.com

MOKSH

Bute Crescent, Cardiff Situated in the heart of Cardiff Bay, Moksh’s menu offers dishes that are distinct from any other Indian restaurant in the region. Head chef Stephen Gomes is known for products of lateral culinary thinking, including lamb cheesecake and dishwasher chicken (which is exactly what it sounds like). Don’t be surprised if your dinner comes with liquid nitrogen, or if they bring you a fire blanket in case your flaming dish sets alight, that’s all part of the Moksh experience. Named Wales’ best curry house in 2016, Moksh pride themselves on using local ingredients and work with the finest quality Welsh produce.

Info: 029 2049 8120 / www.moksh.co.uk

BAR 44

Westgate St, Cardiff / Windsor Rd, Penarth / High Street, Cowbridge Bar 44 brings contemporary Spain to south Wales with their tapas selections. It’s a great place to try some new dishes, as customers are offered an extensive menu from which they can pick a couple of small dishes as opposed to a main. The menu is perfect for a quick or even on the run lunch, well-presented food served in a vibrant yet intimate setting. The menu includes varieties of meat, fish and seafood, offering ranges of pork and speciality cheese dishes.

Info: 0333 3444049 / www.bar44.co.uk

SLICE

Eversley Rd, Swansea With a great attention to detail and food cooked to a great standard, Slice live up to big expectations in a small restaurant. The 16-seat setting offers a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The quirky little dining area offers a distinct and exciting collection of food. Wagyu beef and wild boar loin are among the dishes offered, along with tasting menus to be enjoyed by the whole table. Since opening in 2014, Slice have already gained entry to the Michelin Food Guide, and are predicted great things in the future.

Info: 01792 290929 / www.sliceswansea.co.uk Slice

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FFOREST PIZZA TIPI

Teifi Wharf, Cardigan Nestled in the west Wales countryside, Fforest Pizza Tipi is a haven in which to relax, rest and enjoy good food and beer. This summer, Fforest are adding more options to their menu and have a powerful new oven, following on from last year when they started Fforest Feasts at the farm, brewed their own beer with a local brewery and cooked thousands of pizzas every week. They say their updates will give them more time to work on their specials menu, including mozzarella made from local cow’s milk and lobster on a pizza. Their annual Gather Festival (Mon 14-Sun 27 Aug) is also a highlight for the area, cooking up a nightly feast for 300 guests.

HANG FIRE SMOKEHOUSE

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Info: www.hangfiresmokehouse.com

Info: 01446 781287 / www.fandhllancarfan.co.uk

The Pumphouse, Barry If there’s one thing these guys know about, it’s barbeque – and when you visit, they’ll make sure you know it. The food, music and atmosphere at Hang Fire are US-inspired, bringing Kentucky biker bar vibes to Barry. After falling in love with the barbeque experience in New Orleans, Samantha Evans and Shauna Guinn – the brains behind this venture – decided to bring it home to south Wales.

Dedicated to slow cooking meat and a distinctive smokey taste, the menu is filled with meaty greatness.

Info: www.coldatnight.co.uk

Llancarfan, Vale Of Glamorgan An attractive little gem based in the heart of Llancarfan, the Fox & Hounds provides three dining areas. One is an endearing snug bar with a heated covered terrace, which welcomes dogs. Inside is a well-lit restaurant, with a menu changing seasonally; examples of the food offered are pan-fried stone bass with new potatoes, chorizo, broad bean and cauliflower and leek veloute; battered fish with chunky chips, crushed peas and tartare sauce; or crispy duck terrine with blood orange and radish. The contrasted menu offers an assortment of wines alongside it.

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NANT RESTAURANT

Coleg y Cymoedd, Nantgarw Voted one of the top restaurants in Cardiff by TripAdvisor (though actually located in the Rhondda), Nant Restaurant offers quality food prepared by students under the guidance of professional chefs.

The price is incredibly reasonable, with the menu ranging from French to Welsh and European. The contemporary restaurant offers a variety of snacks, a three-course lunch or dinner, as well as an option to take away. The menu changes weekly, offering a wide range of dishes for everyone.

Info: 01443 663050 / facebook.com/nantrestaurant

CURADO

HARE & HOUNDS

Info: 029 2034 4336 / twitter.com/curadobar

Info: 01446 774892 / www.hareandhoundsaberthin.com

Guildhall Place, Cardiff Spicing up the city centre is this newly established tapas bar and deli, bringing flavours from around Spain to Cardiff. Curado offers a range of craft beer and other Spanish beverages that compliment the diversity of flavours. With a menu dedicated to jamón and pintxos (Spanish ham and small snacks), the dishes are largely made up an array of meat, fish, and small vegetable options. Concentrating on traditional elements of Spanish dining, bookings for less than eight people are not available – the bar’s selling point is the freedom to pop in and enjoy a snack with some good beer.

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Aberthin, Cowbridge The head chef here, Tom Watts-Jones, was proclaimed a “great Welsh chef of the future” on BBC radio show Wales On The Menu. Offering a menu that changes daily, everything is made with the best produce that the Vale Of Glamorgan has to offer. Half of the pub has been dedicated to serving traditional bar food with a familiar tavern style setting; the other half has been transformed into a restaurant serving an à la carte menu. Expect menu choices as varied as rock oyster, sourdough focaccia, scallops and venison scotch eggs.

SMALL BAR

Church Street, Cardiff Having expanded from its Bristol home last year to open a second branch in Cardiff, Small Bar is dedicated to innovative independent craft breweries, primarily from the UK. Far from a haven for binge drinkers, the bar doesn't serve beers in pint glasses – halves, thirds and two-thirds-sized vessels are the options here, variety prioritised over volume. And with around 31 beers on tap at any one time, you get the opportunity to taste around.

The food that goes with it is also something to talk about, the menu offering freshly made pizzas, burgers, hotdogs, a range of fries and sides; based on the ‘beer and bread’ symmetry, there’s a big focus on starchy dishes, resulting in menus that go perfectly hand in hand.

Info: www.smallbar.co.uk

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LILO’S PASTA

2-4 The Square, Pencoed, Bridgend Located in Pencoed near Bridgend, Lilo’s Pasta is a pop-up that serves up tasty, healthy and irresistible fast food. They follow a step-by-step process of transforming reasonably priced meals into creating the perfect one for you. The process first involves choosing your favourite kind of pasta, then deciding from a range of meats to choose from, followed by adding a tasty sauce and salad of your choice, and then rounding it off with salt, black pepper, or paprika to complete your order.

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RESTAURANTS Compiled by ANWEN WILLIAMS Quay Street, Cardiff Regarded as one of the best Italian restaurants in Wales, Casanova was opened in 2005 by three Italian friends. In an attempt to bring an authentic taste of Italy to your plate, local produce is used along imports such as extra virgin olive oil, salami, truffles and pasta. Unlike most Italian restaurants in the area, you won't be able to predict what’s on the menu, as Casanova offer dishes that eschew Italian cliché. Traditional dishes are sourced from across the country, including local Tuscan and Venetian dishes.

Info: 029 2034 4044 / www.casanovacardiff.co.uk

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ASADOR 44

Quay St, Cardiff The heart of northern Spain is shown off in Bar 44’s latest venture, via artistically presented food cooked over charcoal. The menu revolves around cooking over different kinds of wood on a custom grill, which provides a depth of flavour and ensures food is cooked slowly and carefully. Along with a special grill, the restaurant provides a wine stall and cheese cave, that offer a large selection of goods that are on offer. The restaurant maintains a cosy yet vibrant Spanish vibe, with a number of zones available to dine in. Charcoalcooked mains include hake fillet, octopus, squash and a selection of Welsh beef.

Info: 029 2002 0039 / www.asador44.co.uk

Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff Since opening in 2014, Calabrisella has been helping customers to experience a bit of Calabria right on their doorstep. Focusing more on traditional Italian dishes, the pizzeria and bar make food that mimics real home cooked Italian food. With a simplistic, rustic style, the restaurant adds authenticity by dotting artefacts in the surrounding dining area. The menu is traditional yet diverse, offering traditional Italian food, as well as filled croissants, an English-style Italian breakfast or a takeaway panini alongside your espresso.

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Info: 029 2022 5839 / www.calabrisellacardiff.com

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Calabrisella

Info: 01656 865308 / www.lilospasta.com

Salisbury Road, Cardiff The Bagel And Burger Kitchen offer a range of, you guessed it, bagels and burgers. One of the specialities that is usually seen being raved about is the Krispy Kreme burger (a burger served between a glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut). Along with this strange but wonderful concoction are a range of other classic burgers, which are generous for the price, and dished out quickly. The bagels make for a perfect breakfast and are prepared to order. The homemade relishes and fresh milkshakes are something to shout about.

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Llantwit Major, Vale Of Glamorgan Dixie’s Vintage Ices is an ice cream pop-up that dedicates its time to travelling around south Wales to serve delicious ice cream made and manufactured in Wales at affordable prices. Dixie’s offer customers over 20 flavours to choose from, including Turkish Delight, lemon and lime cheesecake, peach and raspberry, cherry popping candy, vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, and mint chocolate chip.

Info: 07802 884018 / www.dixiesvintageices.co.uk

FFWRNES PIZZA Ffwrnes Pizza have one goal: to bring delicious pizza to the good people of Cardiff and beyond. By combining traditional Italian knowhow and the best produce Wales has to offer, they travel around the country using traditional Neapolitan dough, topped with San Marzano tomatoes, to cook the perfect pizza in as little as 90 seconds. The menu has a vast range to choose from, with pizzas including the bianca pesto to the sobrasada to the marinara.

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This September, Annie Mac will be headlining Inside Out Festival in Cardiff.

Taking place in Bute Park, a full bill is announced in June. Anwen Williams gives the lowdown on what’s been confirmed so far.

Following the great success of last year’s inaugural Inside Out, the festival is set to make a return for 2017. The one-day festival will take place in Bute Park on the last Saturday of the month. Last year, the likes of Tinie Tempah, Chase & Status, Wiley and Redlight turned the greenery in to an exciting and vibrant festival setting. Kicking off at midday and finishing at 10.30pm (word to the wise: look out for afterparties wherever late licences are to be found) Inside Out 2017 is likely to attract a large, and youthful (further word to the wise: it’s an over 18s event), audience.

Inside Out is one of the larger upcoming festivals contributing to Cardiff’s presence on the map as a burgeoning city and magnet for big-league pop music events. This year, festival attendees can expect an impressive lineup of some of the most favoured DJs and MCs currently on the circuit (style-wise, expect a heady combo of grime, bassy house, techno and drum’n’bass), a fairground, street food stalls, multiple bars and a VIP area. Word is that it’s set to be better still this year, too, with the addition of shisha gardens, extra stages and a bigger funfair.

To date, two headliners have been announced as tickets go on sale, with more to be unveiled later in June. First out of the blocks was Irish radio personality and BUZZ 20

clubbing icon Annie Mac [above, top], who has been building up her successful career over the last 10 years, and has become a staple name in the dance world.

Inside Out is one of the few chances locals will get to catch her in the flesh this year.

The second name to be revealed is Craig David [above], breakout star of the original UK garage explosion now enjoying a second flush of success. Craig will be performing his TS5 set at Inside Out, in which he combines DJing, MCing and singing – the essence of the scene from whence he sprang, in short, and a major part of his commercial rebirth since he launched TS5 in 2013.

Orchard Entertainment, in conjunction with Climax Productions and SWG Productions, are the names behind a festival that’ll be ending the summer with a bang. Further acts are set to be announced soon, and we can only anticipate that it will be as good as last year.

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THE JACKSONS Luke Owain Boult speaks with Marlon and Jackie Jackson about growing up as the Jackson 5, coping in the music industry, and their 50th anniversary in the music business.

“We just love performing. We’re really enjoying the music, so we just love doing it,” Jackie Jackson beams when asked about The Jacksons’ decision to get back on the road and tour. His voice is gentle and easy-going, and speaking little louder than a whisper he reflects on whether there have been any changes in the act: “Well, we’re getting a little bit older, but when we’re on the stage, people just want to hear the old songs, all the hits we’ve prepared, and that’s what we try to do: stuff that they like. It’s hard to put a set together, playing what we think they want to hear.”

I ask why he thinks their hit songs remain popular to this day: “They grab you right away. When I heard our music for the first time on the radio, I had to pull over on the side of the road to hear it; I heard it so, so many times in the studio, getting the song ready, mixing it, and mastering it, so once you hear it on the radio, it’s a different sound.

It’s better than you ever heard in the studio. When I first heard it on the radio I pulled over to the side of the road and just listened to the whole song. It was very surreal, I’d just put it together with my brothers, and it sounded great.”

When did he realise that this would go on to being something really important? “When we started doing so many interviews. We knew something was supposed to happen then, like we were on our way, and people were calling from news and live television and…”

Marlon Jackson then joins the conference call and the brothers exchange pleasantries.

I introduce myself and ask how he’s doing. “I woke up and everything works, I’m doing great,” he responds. You can’t really ask for anything more than that. Jackie carries on with what he was saying: “When we released we were onto something special with that first record, and all the calls for interviews from the magazines.” They both laugh. “I knew right then we were on to something.”

The conversation then turns to the Jackson 5 era. Marlon takes over: “We were a group, five young boys, targeting a demographic area where there was a void. There was nobody

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making music towards our demographic. That’s what was so magical about it. The music we were producing at the time and disseminating to our audience didn’t only appeal to the young demographic we were targeting, but also an older demographic too.

I mean our first four records going number one was magical and it gave us international fame around the globe. These types of things you never forget.”

“I remember the first practice for television,” says Jackie. “But I don’t think I remember the first practice.” Marlon elaborates: “We used to go to school and go to practice right from school. I remember one time we waited in the rehearsal hall and we couldn’t get inside, because someone was running over. At that time, we used to book the rehearsal hall for three o’clock. It was four o’clock and we were still hearing noise in there, and when the door opened, guess who walked out? I’ll give you a guess, one of the greatest guitar players ever.” I incorrectly guess Chuck Berry. “Nope!” Marlon laughs. “Jimi Hendrix walked out. He’d taken an hour of our time, and we only rehearsed for three hours because we had to get back to our halls to go to sleep.” “He was happy to see us,” Jackie adds. “Two weeks after that, that’s when he died,” Marlon replies.

With all this talk about the past, I ask if there’s any more material that they’re currently working on. Jackie responds: “We’re doing it now. We have this new…” Marlon jokingly interrupts: “We have a new track, it’s called Hey Luke What’s Up?.” Then, in one of the most surreal moments of my life, two of The Jacksons start singing “Hey Luke, what’s up?” It’s not a song. I checked. “Seriously though, yes,” says Marlon. “We’re putting stuff together right now for our 50th anniversary. I don’t want to give anything away, but that’s what we’re doing right now.”

To end, do they have a message for their fans in Wales? Marlon excitedly says: “Come party with us. It’s gonna be a great, great concert. We’re going to play all the hits. Tell them to bring their dancing shoes, because it’s going to be a great evening.”

The Jacksons, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Sun 25 June. Tickets: £55. Info: 029 2023 4500 / www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

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PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING

Chris Williams speaks with Public Service Broadcasting multi-instrumentalist J. Willlgoose, Esq. about their new record Every Valley.

Public Service Broadcasting combine alternative instrumental music with samples from archival audio in their compositions. Their last album, the hugely successful The Race For Space, documented the space race between the USA and USSR; while their new album sees them coming back to Earth – deep down in fact. Every Valley is the story of the coal mining industry in south Wales.

Over the phone from his home in London, on his sofa with his dog, the band’s J. Willgoose, Esq. explains further. “A fairly broad sweep, taking in the history of mining in south Wales; including the good times – the times when being a miner was a prideful occupation and it was really sort of the engine room of the Valleys and the wider country. “Then moving through and starting to branch out into mechanisation and automation, starting to face some employment troubles as a result of that and then, before you know it, into the sort of all-out conflict of the mid-80s, and the eventual decline and death of the industry now.”

Willgoose says that this story of industrial decline is repeated all over, and Every Valley is about all the “communities and places once closely identified with one particular industry and what happens to the people and places that get left behind.”

Although he has no family history of coal mining, something drew the PSB frontman to the story of the Welsh coal mining industry. “I got told off by my mum for saying that, because she's adamant that we do, back a couple of generations... maybe further flung relatives who were in the east Midlands coal fields. I just thought it was an interesting story; something about the strength of the community and the geography of the area – as well as how it came to define those communities and the whole region – just seemed to make sense to home in on. I don't know if you can compare what we do to making documentaries but sometimes, something about a topic just grabs you and makes you want to investigate more. Before you know it, you're spending two years of your life working on it.”

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Even though the decline of the mining industry was relatively recent, Willgoose found that that didn’t necessarily mean it was easy to research. “I presumed when I went into it that it would be easy to conduct retrospective interviews and slot that in, but I didn't realise the problem we had in terms of tenses. If you've got people talking about things in the past tense, it removes all the drama from the situations, so you really need contemporary accounts from the time so that people are talking about it in the present, urgent tense.”

As well as being drawn to the subject of coal mining, the band have also been drawn to the area: the album was recorded at Ebbw Vale Institute and the band are also playing two gigs of album previews there. “It just seemed important to give [the album] a solid founding in the community it was written in. You’ve got to go into these things with the spirit of engagement and not kind of bringing too many of your own pre-conceived notions, because I know practically nothing about it. We were going there with the express intention of finding out more and doing it in an authentic, tangible way rather than just sitting at home in London and not getting out and about.

“We'll be bringing a bit of economic activity there and hopefully a small amount of excitement and attention – there's some strange stuff happening around these gigs, the biggest Italian national paper is sending a journalist over to cover and interviewing ex-miners. I don’t think you'd get that if you didn't have us kind of doing our best to lead the way. I'm hoping it's seen as a kind of thank you to the community for putting up with us and allowing us to do what we've done; I hope they're happy with the album.”

Public Service Broadcasting, Ebbw Vale Institute, Thurs 8 + Fri 9 June. Tickets: sold out. Info: 01495 708022 / www.ebbwvaleinstitute.org. Every Valley is releaased on Fri 7 July. Info: www. publicservicebroadcasting.net

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ARTHUR SMITH

Fedor Tot speaks with alternative comedian and writer Arthur Smith about his tribute to Leonard Cohen.

Could you tell us a little bit about the show you’re touring at the moment?

Well it’s the last version of Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen, which I originally did about 15 years ago kind of as a joke. I’ve always loved Leonard Cohen and the show is about other stuff too, it’s about my mother’s decline into dementia and about Leonard Cohen himself and about the idea of redemption, life, death, with a lot of songs and some marvellous backing singers. It’s a personal show, it’s about facing up to loss in a way; my mother kind of lost the person she was, and Leonard Cohen lost his life. But having said that, there’s lots of laughs in it, and a naked man dancing. Not me, you’ll be pleased to hear! You can have the job if you like!

What inspired you to do a show built around Leonard Cohen’s songs?

Partly it was because I’d done a show back in the early 90s called Arthur Smith Sings Andy Williams. I picked that just as a stupid title, and it ended up being a lecture about this Dadaist obscure footnote of a writer I was fascinated with punctuated by songs. We only charged 50p and offered people their money back. So, I got into the idea of Arthur Smith Sings… as a kind of little motif, and I went for Leonard Cohen because I love Leonard Cohen.

I was in a band a long time ago, though I wasn’t really a singer, but then nor was Leonard Cohen. As he himself said, if I wanna hear a great singer, I’ll go to the Metropolitan Opera House, but if you can tell your story through song it doesn’t matter whether you can sing or not. He had such a great sense of timing too, he died the day before Trump became president. He was a wonderful soul, he was preparing for it obviously, his last two albums were all about death in a way, what it meant, what it means. That said, Leonard Cohen was an extremely witty man! A lot of his songs are very funny, what’s that one about Janis Joplin? “You told me again you preferred handsome men, but for me you would make an exception”.

You’ve usually been labelled as part of the so-called ‘alternative comedy’ scene and you’ve never been one for the mainstream conventions of standup. When you write, what’s your process, where do you get your ideas from?

You have to be alert to what’s happening, people will often say things and you go “oh I could use that!” In a sense, you always have to be there with your notebook. You can’t ignore what’s happening around you. It’s no good making jokes about some TV show from 10 years ago. You have to be alert to the temperature of the world and what people are thinking. The ideal is if you come up with an encapsulation of something and the audience realises “oh yeah, I’ve been thinking that too”. That’s the best laugh you can get.

Then again, there’s lots of room for just being silly. I’m always happy to take my shirt off and balance a balloon on my head. I try not to take myself too seriously.

I understand you have an interest in tramping or rambling.

Yes! I’m a big rambling man. And no doubt when I’m in Cardiff I shall set off and have a wander round, I might even go to Snowdonia next week! I find it’s great for thinking and relaxing when you’re walking in a beautiful landscape. I have quite an affection for Wales, I’ve played lots of places there and I’m always pleased to go back, especially as you never have to go far and there’s a nice mountain to walk up. I think you’ll find a lot of the great philosophers of the world were great walkers. Nietzsche and Voltaire used to go off rambling!

Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen: The Final Tribute, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Sat 17 + Sun 18 June. Tickets: £16. Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk

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BBC CARDIFF SINGER OF THE WORLD

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It’s a busy month for Cardiff, and joining Justin Bieber and the Champions League Final this month is the BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Competition 2017. With recitals taking place at the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama between Sun 11 and Sun 18 June, the final is being held at St David's Hall on Sun 18.

Known throughout the classical musical world as one of the best showcases for opera and concert singers, the competition, running since 1983, has launched the careers of some major stars in the musical world such as Karita Mattila, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Bryn Terfel, Anja Harteros, and Jamie Barton. Held every two years, the event will see two orchestras providing musical accompaniment, with the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, and the Welsh National Opera’s orchestra, led by Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård, and the introduction of a new Musical Director, Tomas Hanus.

Singers aged 18-32 who are starting off their professional careers are able to apply after a three-stage selection process involving DVD and live auditions. The competition is judged by a panel of distinguished singers, musicians, and music professionals; the main prize winner will be awarded the Cardiff trophy and £15,000. Notably, there’s also an audience prize which is voted for by the audience, as you could probably have gathered, and presented during the grand finale, with the winners receiving the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize, £2,500, and a crystal trophy provided by the Cardiff University School Of Music.

After hundreds of applications from all over the globe, the final 20 competitors will be practicing like there's no tomorrow as they battle it out in front of a live audience to be crowned BBC Singer Of The World 2017. DANIEL THOMAS BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World, St David's Hall, Cardiff, Sun 18 June. Tickets: £28-£65. Info: 029 2087 8500 / www. stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

SWEET BABOO Having been a fixture on the Welsh music scene since 2003, Sweet Baboo aka Stephen Black is returning, older and wiser, with his seventh studio album.

The new record, Wild Imagination, is released on Fri 2 June and continues to walk that line between comedy, heartbreak and whimsy that has become his trademark over the past 14 years.

Made with the help of close friends Rob and Paul Jones in in a week in north Wales, Black admitted he took a very different approach this time around. “With this new record, I got a lot more help. The last record, I wanted to be in charge of everything, and it took quite a long time to make. This time, what I realised I enjoyed about music was making it with other people. We ran with it, with all of us throwing ideas around, and we made it in my parents’ house. This album was done a lot quicker, and there was less agonizing over every detail. It’s also just good to change your approach sometimes; if you did it the same every time it would be boring.”

Although he is embarking on a seven-date tour across the UK this June, Black’s festival schedule is unusually light, but the Trefriw native is relaxed about his summer plans. “We’re going to try and put on a show for the new tour. Bizarrely, we have nothing lined up for festivals this year. I’d like to go to Green Man because the line-up looks really good, but I don’t like camping much. We did a few festivals the last two years so having a year off isn’t the worst idea.”

Typically for an artist so full of ideas, Black is already moving on to an array of new projects. “We’ve just finished a clarinet and piano record so we’ll see if anyone wants to put that out. I’ve also been learning to play the flute, so that’s my next objective. Hopefully there’ll be a flute-based record, but it might be a long time coming – it could be magnificent or terrible.”

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LA VOIX La Voix, the drag queen who went from the Vauxhall Tavern to Britain’s Got Talent, is now taking on the world, as she brings her new show Red Hot Globe Trot to Wales Millennium Centre's cabaret bar, Ffresh.

In her shows, La Voix is known for her uncanny singing-sound-alikes of big names and voices. Asked how she chooses which ladies will feature, La Voix says it comes from personal love of these women’s style and performance. “The big bold camp women that we all love – when you get to do those women and replicate those costumes and music it gives you so much energy in your show, I think. So it came from an absolute passion for the women I like to listen to music-wise.”

With her impressive ear for vocal impressions, Red Hot Globe Trot sees La Voix bringing along divas like Cher, Judy Garland, Liza – and of course, she can’t play a Cardiff gig without a certain Dame making an appearance.

“She will definitely, definitely be there. I think I’d be beaten up by rowdy people if I didn't do it. I love Cardiff and I love Shirley Bassey and put the two together, she can't not appear. When I was there last time it got a great response. It's always quite nervewracking doing Bassey in Wales; of course, I always think every Welsh person can sing and everyone knows their Bassey, so when you’re doing it in their territory it's in a different league! But it should be great fun.”

The show isn’t all ‘old-time’ divas. To keep things current, La Voix also performs contemporary songs in the style of less modern artists. “I do Liza doing Adele, and I do Garland singing Whitney.” She does this to teach her younger audience members about the different divas: “Judy Garland might seem dated to a 20-yearold, they might not even know who she is, but to do Liza [Minnelli] singing Adele is just bonkers – it makes me laugh doing it, it’s just so much fun.”

CHRIS WILLIAMS La Voix, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Fri 30 June + Sat 1 July. Tickets: £15. Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk

APOCALYPSO The Tin Shed Theatre Company are bringing an engaging and comedic horror to Newport this June, envisioning their own desolate vision of the future. Based in a ruined dystopian city, an unusual duo run the last bar on earth, and are all set to meet the man who is held accountable for the nearing of the end. Setting out to explore the binding of chaos in the world, the performance attempts to question decisions made today, predicting consequences of modern politics intertwined with cult-iconography and a proven imagination thought. By employing their known morbid sense of humour, Tin Shed present something claimed to be something evocative of the likes of Mad Max entangled with Waiting For Godot.

Tin Shed, who are Justin, Georgina and Peter, have been self-producing, directing and performing their own work for the past six years. Known as being inspired by the weird and wonderful and producing highly energetic physical performances, a broader vision of theatre development is clearly demonstrated. Blending iconography with vivid and bold visuals transports audiences to places that make you question the real world, enlightening perceptions and raising cynicism all through elements of storytelling.

The group focus on creating varied experiences ranging from re-imaginings of existing work to the creation of new texts. This part theatre performance, part gig sets out an immersive atmosphere which allows for a distinct and rather uniquely interesting experience. Based on previous theatrical productions

by Tin Shed that explore contemporary themes intertwined with a unique vision, the audience can expect one of the most immersive and impressive theatrical performances in Wales today. You are cordially invited for a drink in Apocalypso, the last bar on earth, taking a hypothetical standpoint and consequently creating a one-off performance piece. Join them for the party that must never end. ANWEN WILLIAMS Apocalypso, The Riverfront, Newport, Mon 19-Fri 23 June. Tickets: £12. Info: 01633 656757 / www.newportlive.co.uk

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ERASURE

What would you put your longevity down to?

Well, Andy’s a very laidback person and some of that laidbackness has rubbed off. We’re a match made in heaven really. Like an old married couple.

Iconic British synthpop duo Erasure recently celebrated their 30th anniversary as a band and have a new album, World Be Gone, fresh on the racks (or download sites of your choice). They’re also set to tour Europe this summer, as unlikely foil to Robbie Williams – including a roof-raising appearance at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Buzz caught up with one half of the duo, Vince Clarke, for a quick chat.

You’ve got a new album coming out, which is rather politically charged, but with a positive outlook. Is that how you view the current political climate?

You know, there’s so much weird stuff going on in the world right now, that we felt we wanted to reflect some of that in this new record. But at the same time, I’m a naturally optimistic person.

Hi Vince! You recently celebrated your 30th year as a band. When you first formed Erasure did you ever think it would last this long and that you’d still be playing music in 2017?

No, ha ha! I mean, who could possibly imagine?

When we started Andy was a stranger to me, and vice versa, and it took a while for us to get to know each other. Looking back I can’t believe that it’s been this amount of time.

ROCK THE WEEKEND Pembroke Castle is hosting a three-day event which will include performances from internationally renowned bands like The Fratellis. Known for their contagious top 10 UK hit Chelsea Dagger, The Fratellis have performed all around the world, and at festivals from T in the Park to Glastonbury. Their appearance at the Castle follows their sell-out tour of the UK, and they’ll be making a lively appearance on the evening of Fri 14. Toploader, known for their hit Dancing In The Moonlight, will be joining The Fratellis after releasing their fourth album Seeing Stars last month. Also making appearances on the night are post-Britpop acts WE-ARE-Z and Vicetrack.

Following this opening night, Saturday brings the world’s leading Beatles tribute show, The Bootleg Beatles, to Pembroke. The show will combine impressive costumes, authentic instruments, an orchestral ensemble and remarkable vocal impersonations. After playing at prestigious events from Glastonbury to the Queen’s Jubilee, The Bootleg Beatles are ready to hit Pembroke Castle.

Their successful show will be supported by The Bootleg Beach Boys, bringing West Coast America to the coast of West Wales, with all the hits like Good Vibrations and Surfin’ USA. A variety of food and

You are playing some massive shows on the Robbie Williams tour – do you still get nervous in front of big crowds?

Well, I don’t think we’ve played in front of crowds this size ever, so I’m more excited to be honest. And

drink will be available throughout the event.

Closing the weekend on Sunday is Horrible Histories: The Best Of Barmy Britain live on stage. Bringing to onstage life the books that are known for making boring history a thing of the past, the globetrotting stage performance will be treating its audience to 2,000 years of British history in one afternoon. It’ll be

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what’s cool is that we are playing some places we haven’t played for a very long time. We were really flattered to be asked to do this.

You are playing the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

How do the Welsh crowds treat you usually?

Fantastic! We have a great time in Cardiff. We always play there on our own tours and it’s always brilliant for us there.

CHRIS ANDREWS Erasure, Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wed 21 June. Tickets: £65-£99.

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HUGO SPOWERS Luke Owain Boult speaks to Hugo Spowers, the founder of Riversimple, about the Rasa and the future of cars.

What was the motivation behind creating the Rasa?

We want to offer customers the first affordable, hassle free, fun-to-drive, eco car. Our road-legal prototype, the Rasa, is believed to be the most efficient car in the world designed for ordinary road use and has no tailpipe emissions – only water.

Why was Llandrindod Wells chosen as the location?

Wales is the only country to have sustainability written into its statute, so it was an obvious choice for us. The Welsh Government is both supportive and receptive to emerging technology and new business and kindly awarded us a £2 million grant in 2015. Llandrindod Wells has a great history of automotive entrepreneurship – the first Austins and Fords were sold here and the first bus company in Wales was run from the town in the early 1900s.

What do you feel are the most pressing environmental issues today?

Carbon dioxide pollution is still the dominant issue as its effect is global and irreversible.

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massive impact on health, with particulates and other pollutants linked to causing 40,000 early deaths a year. The Rasa has been designed to minimise all such emissions.

What is Riversimple working on at the moment?

After raising over £1m in our first crowdfunding round, which finished in April, we are now planning the build of cars to take part in our beta-test in Monmouthshire later this year.

We are also working on further refinements to the two-seater Rasa. In partnership with two different consortia, we are refining hydrogen components and testing carbon-fibre partly made from flax.

What is Riversimple’s mission?

Our purpose is ‘to pursue, systematically, the elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport’. Everything we do – the design of the car, the structure of the business, the people we work with – is in pursuit of this goal.

What influenced the design of the Rasa?

We began with a hydrogen fuel cell, a manifesto for sustainable design and a blank sheet of paper. Every aspect of the Rasa has been created

and interrogated for simplicity, efficiency, lightness, strength, affordability, safety and sustainability. And the name Rasa is a nod to that blank sheet of paper – Tabula Rasa means ‘clean slate’ in Latin.

The car weighs just 580kg and is incredibly aerodynamic. Refuelling takes just three minutes, and gives the car a 300 mile range. The Rasa is the result of 15 years of technological development and was styled by Chris Reitz, who also designed the Fiat 500.

What do you think the automotive industry will look like in 20 years’ time?

The UK Government predicts that there will be more than 1.3 million fuel cell vehicles on the roads by 2030, and Riversimple wants to play a big part of this, ensuring that its clean vehicles are affordable and attractive to consumers interested in sustainable transport. Hydrogen refuelling stations are already beginning to appear across the country.

As we are big advocates of open source technology, in 20 years we hope to have more collaborators and partners, who will help to bring hydrogen fuel and electric fuel-cell vehicles into more mainstream use.

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BABY DRIVER ****

Dir: Edgar Wright (15, 112 mins) Edgar Wright infuses this formulaic tale of a driver doing one last job for his crooked boss with enough verve, fun and high-octane action for it to sail past its inherent cliches and prove a burn-rubber treat. Ansel Elgort plays Baby, a taciturn getaway driver who has a songlist for every job, taken under the wing of Kevin Spacey’s Doc, after the death of his parents. Baby always drives for the many robberies Doc masterminds, but now he has one job left before his debt to Doc is paid. During this time he meets a charming waitress, played by Lily James, and the pair fall in love; inevitably, Doc needs him back for another job. He is the wheel man for John Hamm’s excellently villainous Buddy and Jamie Foxx’s unhinged Bats.

Naturally, matters get out of hand, the job turns bad and Elgort and James are soon on the run for their lives. Infectiously kinetic, writer/director Wright, without regular film mates Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, delivers in a pop culture-referencing car-chase love story with a pounding soundtrack. In a blockbuster summer full of sequels and known entities, it’s great to see a franchise-free idea executed with Wright’s trademark panache. Pedal to the metal! Opens June 28

BERLIN SYNDROME ****

Dir: Cate Shortland (15, 116 mins) A captivity thriller delivered with intelligence by Australian director Shortland, who also made the excellent Somersault. This has Teresa Palmer playing an Australian photojournalist in Berlin. She falls under the spell of friendly local teacher Max Riemalt, their relationship blossoms and a night of passion ensues. Then matters take a major turn for the worse.

The night after the consummation of their love affair, Palmer wakes up to find that she has been locked in his apartment, and her phone is now missing its SIM card.

All his gallantry is now replaced with toxic abuse. The machinations between the central duo are not obvious, however: an initial sensuality gives way to more brutality, but this is an arthouse thriller with depth rather than torture porn. The tension comes from the characters, with director Shortland adding depth, nuance and an element of dark fairytale to what could have been no more than a B-movie. Opens June 19

CHURCHILL ***

MY COUSIN RACHEL ****

Dir: Roger Michell (12A, 99 mins) Based on Daphne DuMaurier’s novel, this is a dark, sensual tale of revenge with Rachel Weisz excelling as an object of desire/hate. DuMaurier’s novels are flights of Gothic fancy, with The Birds, Don’t Look Now and Rebecca fellow classic texts that have been turned into celluloid. Director Michell has also adapted this tale, keeping its enigmatic unease. Sam Claflin plays Philip, who receives a letter from his guardian which seems to point the finger of blame for his death firmly at the door of his cousin Rachel (Weisz). He plans to confront her and take her to task, only to find himself cast under her spell. Their relationship turns from one of hate to lust and frustration, but is Rachel a master manipulator or an independent feminist who was abused by her husband? Also, what’s in the tea she keeps wanting people to drink? Director Michell keeps the mystery going fairly well throughout, greatly aided by Weisz’s enigmatic performance, and there is strong support from a concerned Iain Glen and Holliday Grainger. Suffocating in tone at times, Michell conjures up DuMaurier’s gothic imagination with aplomb, and Weisz and Claflin spark well together. Opens June 9

Dir: Johnathan Terplitzky (PG, 98 mins) Brian Cox stars as Winston Churchill in the most critical moments of his leadership, following him in the 24 hours leading up to D-Day. Fearful of sending more men to senseless slaughter, as he had done in Gallipoli in the First World War, Churchill is riddled with doubt about what to do in June 1944.

John Slattery’s Eisenhower is pressing for his go ahead, while soldiers are poised to do battle with the encroaching Nazi threat and turn the tide of the war.

This film aims to show the man behind the icon, with Cox gruff and tender as the man many have played and parodied since, most recently a fantastic John Lithgow in The Crown. Miranda Richardson is excellent as his wife Clementine, who provided support, intelligence and love in the background whilst Churchill led with apparent invincibility.An interesting, classy examination of the wartime leader, with Cox on good form. Cigars and V for Victories out. Opens June 16

GIFTED ***

Dir: Marc Webb (12A, 101 mins) Chris Evans puts down his shield as an Avenger and steps into the more human role of a man trying to raise his young niece as his sister, who tragically killed herself, would have wanted. The child is a prodigy, however, and Evans has to decide what is best for her: to embrace her number-crunching gifts or to be a ‘normal’ child. McKenna Grace is excellent as his brainy niece, who after her gift is spotted by kindly kindergarten teacher Jenny Slate, is offered a place at a school for gifted children. Evans doesn’t want her to go, much against the wishes of his estranged mother (Lindsay Duncan), who recognises the child’s potential. Soon they are fighting over custody of the child, with predictable heartstring-pulling results.

Formulaic, with saccharine moments, Gifted still succeeds thanks to the performances and a lashing of humour. Out June 16

ALSO RELEASED JUNE 2017: DOUGH (15) A Jewish baker struggles to make money until a Muslim apprentice drops cannabis in his dough. Munchies indeed. MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE (12A) Charming animated drama following a young boy learning to find friendship and love in a foster home. Much better than it sounds. MY NAME IS LENNY (15) A biopic of hardman Lenny McLean, aka bare-knuckle boxer The Guvnor. Lots of cockney-type stuff and fists and John Hurt in one of his last roles. NAILS (18) Creepy ghost story with Ross Noble, yes the funnyman doing another scary turn after nasty clown yarn Stitches. ROUGH NIGHT (15) Scarlett Johannsson and Kate McKinnon head up a posse of foul-mouthed ladies in this hen do gone wrong mix of Weekend At Bernie's and Bridesmaids. SLACK BAY (15) Juliette Binoche does comedy of the French kind in this period romp. STOCKHOLM MY LOVE (PG) A love letter with music from Irish cinephile Mark Cousins and starring Neneh Cherry, hopefully in a Buffalo Stance. WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME (15) Nick Broomfield’s BUZZ 36

THE MUMMY ****

Dir: Alex Kurtzman (12A, 120 mins) Tom Cruise is back with another potential franchise. Universal is aiming to reboot all their classic monster movies and give them a contemporary edge; for the first time since the cinematic birth of the monster in 1932, the Mummy is played by a woman. Move over Boris Karloff for Sofia Boutella: after the trio of so-so Mummy films directed by Stephen Sommers and set in the 1920s, this brings the monster mayhem up to the present day. Cruise plays an ex-military man turned antiquities thief, and paired with the ever-amusing Jake Johnson, they stumble upon an ancient burial chamber and unwittingly unleash the bloodthirsty maiden. Swept along for the ride is Annabelle Wallis, who wants to preserve the antiquities and has a love/hate relationship with Cruise, and Russell Crowe on cameo duties as Dr Henry Jekyll, with perhaps a touch of Mr Hyde. This is big-budget spectacle with several jaw-dropping set pieces, a plane crash and sandstorm in London among them. Cruise is dependable as a lead in popcorn action, and if The Mummy has more than a whiff of familiarity about it, there are enough quirks along the way to satisfy. Monster fun. Opens June 9

THE SHACK **

Dir: Stuart Hazeldine (12A, 132 mins) A religious drama based on William P. Young’s 2007 novel, this bloated faith exploration has Octavia Spencer stepping into Morgan Freeman’s godly shoes, giving self-help insights to Sam Worthington’s grieving father. Worthington is a Christian man whose life is upturned when his daughter is abducted and murdered. The murder scene is a shack in the woods, to which he finds himself invited after receiving a mysterious letter from ‘Papa’, his daughter’s nickname for God. Returning to the shack, he finds it transformed into a summery paradise and meets the Holy Trinity – Jesus (Avraham Aviv Alush), the Holy Spirit (Japanese actress Sumire) and God herself (smiley Octavia Spencer). What follows is a bland selfhelp exercise as Worthington confronts demons in his past, mixed with slush and religious dogma. A film that will appeal to those with faith, but will fail to convert others with its bland hokeyness. Opens June 9

WONDER WOMAN ****

Dir: Patty Jenkins (12A, 141 mins) The only good thing to come out of Batman Vs Superman was Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. The first female superhero to have her own film after her initial comic book appearance 75 years ago, Lynda Carter’s iconic take on Diana Prince was a hallmark of the 1970s and 80s, and what a theme tune. Hans Zimmer has provided some very good drumming and Gadot certainly looks the part. The plot involves World War I pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) mysteriously arriving on the shores of Themyscira – a world populated by warrior women, including Gadot’s Diana.

He informs the women, who’ve never seen a man before, of the conflicts existing outside of their world, and Diana dons armour, bullet-repelling bracelets, lasso, and frankly little else to go into battle with him. Doing battle against dastardly Germans (Danny Huston) and a villainess called Dr Poison (Elena Anaya), treading through no man’s land in war-torn Europe, unsure why women have subservient roles in our world, seems an apt beginning for Wonder Woman. Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright add to the female power as mother and trainer of Wonder Woman respectively, as does Lucy Davis as a wisecracking secretary. This should be a welcome, and maybe fun, addition to the DC universe. Opens June 2

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT **

Dir: Michael Bay (12A, interminable mins) Another entry in this seemingly unstoppable franchise of noise, rapid-fire editing and slo-mo of American flags is born. And it’s more of the same. Bombastic director Michael Bay puts these toys that transform into vehicles into a more mythic dimension: they are part of Camelot and Arthurian legends this time out, greatly aided by Anthony Hopkins doing the exposition.

For anyone who cares, Optimus Prime seemed down and out at the end of the last one, if anyone can really remember the plot of it; now he returns to Earth, his circuitry seemingly changed. Can Mark Wahlberg, brainy Brit Laura Haddock and attitude-heavy kid Isabella Moner stop a coming invasion/apocalypse?

Incomprehensible action soon follows, with the likes of Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, John Goodman and Ken Watanabe cameoing for cash. If you liked the others, you’ll like this; if not, avoid. Opens June 23

WILSON **

Dir: Craig Johnson (15, 94 mins) Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel gets turned into celluloid, but this, despite the starry cast, is not as successful a media change as Ghost World. Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a supposedly likeable curmudgeonly bag of quirks who, unfortunately, is often just plain annoying. He’s a loner, irritating people on buses, but that changes when he finds out that his substanceabusing ex-wife (Laura Dern), whom he hasn’t seen for 17 years, had a child with him but put her up for adoption. The pair track their daughter down, an overweight emo teen played by Isabella Amara, and try to reconnect with her. Dern’s sister (Cheryl Hines) throws a spanner into the works, however, and the happiness they may have found seems short-lived.

Much of the film clings heavily to its source material, which works better on the page than in life; the cast do their best, but it’s hard to care for them and their idiosyncratic plight. Opens June 9

documentary about the life and death of the troubled singer. FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON (15) Marion Cotillard stars as a passionate woman in a loveless marriage rediscovering love in the Alps – that’s the place, not a metaphor. HAMPSTEAD (12A) Love story with Diane Keaton finding romance with Brendan Gleeson on the heath. THE BOOK OF HENRY (12A) Naomi Watts stars in this thriller about a kid who wants to help out his neighbour next door who has a dark secret. Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow directs. DESPICABLE ME 3 (PG) More minions. Hopefully some more laughs too. ALONE IN BERLIN (12A) Based on Hans Fallada’s excellent novel, this has Emma Thompson and Daniel Bruhl resisting Nazi rule in Berlin in 1940 with so-so results. THE LAST WORD (15) Shirley Maclaine and Amanda Seyfried are a businesswoman and a journalist working together on an obituary for Maclaine, who is more than meets the eye. Life lessons and bonding ensue. AMERICAN HERO (15) Stephen Dorff stars in a slacker superhero misfire that neither thrills nor provides laughs.

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pic: Finn Beales at Fforest

FELINE GOOD CAT CAFE

LEARN TO FISH AND FORAGE Wild and beautiful, Wales is the perfect place for the foodie frenzy of foraging for your dinner.

Anwen Williams takes a look at some of the best places that give you the chance to find (or catch) your dinner outdoors.

WILD FOOD UK, CARDIFF This foraging course features a simple foraging walk where a selection of spring and summer berries, flowers and edible mushrooms are identified. The course takes place in Bute Park and includes a wild food based alfresco lunch. The duration of the course is around 2-3 hours, followed by a Q&A at the end.

Price: £35 standard, £17.50 concession.

Info: 01584 711646 / www.wildfooduk. com

GLIFFAES HOTEL, BRECON BEACONS Gliffaes have been running fly-fishing courses at the hotel for over 10 years, with the nearby river home to a stick of wild brown trout. The course takes place for over three days; no experience is required and all equipment is provided. Refreshments are included as well as the option to stay at the Gliffaes Country House Hotel.

Tickets: £300. Info: 01874 730371 / www. gliffaeshotel.com

CELTIC MANOR, NEWPORT Fishing breaks that offer packages for fishers of all abilities. Fishing breaks include refreshments on arrival, services from qualified fly fishing instructors, a day fishing permit, loan of all necessary equipment and a complimentary transfer from the resort.

Customers get the chance to catch salmon, sea trout and brown trout on the local River Usk. Price: starting from £275. Info: 01633 410587 / www.celtic-manor.com

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The first ever cat cafe in Wales is set to open in Cardiff which gives lovers of cake and cats the opportunity to have both at the same time. Feline Good works with Mittens Cat Rescue, a local independent cat charity that helps homeless, abandoned, or cats that are at risk across South Wales. Not to mention being able to offer tea and cake in the process!

With specific details regarding the location of the cafe and the opening times yet to be confirmed, this is certainly a place that's worth noting down as it will definitely offer something new to the city of Cardiff when it is ready to be launched.

Info: www.felinegoodcafe.com

GARETH LEWIS FLY FISHING, BRECON BEACONS With over 20 years of experience, guided excursions are a great way to pick up new skills, and can be tailored to your exact needs. The course can teach new techniques, how to read water, how to use required tackle and follows it up by putting the skills to practice. The courses are offered in a range of venues which include the rivers Taff, Usk, Wye, Irfon, Monnow, Honddu and Ewenny.

Price: starting from £180. Info: 07540 813399 / www.garethlewisflyfishing.com

FISHING AND FORAGING WALES, PEMBROKESHIRE Fishing And Foraging Wales was founded by angler Matt Powell with the aim of sharing places where you can relax and leave behind the stress of the modern world. As a fully qualified and insured bass angling guide, bass lure angling courses are also available.

Foraging days take place along the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and includes multicourse dinners that include freshly foraged food. Multiple day outings are available, which are perfect if you feel like a break.

Prices: £95-£260. Info: 07515 380169 / www.fishingandforagingwales.co.uk

200 DEGREES COFFEE A lover of all things coffee? Then head down to 200 Degrees Coffee, a brand new coffee shop that’s recently opened on Cardiff’s Queen Street. The establishment has now opened its sixth different destination in the UK, offering great tasting coffee, a relaxing environment, and some tasty food to go alongside that.

With fresh coffee beans that are roasted slowly at 200 degrees for a smoother and more impeccable taste, hence the name, there's plenty of coffees to choose from that are ethically sourced, as well as an espresso blend that’s 100% from Rainforest Alliance-certified farms. The perfect spot for coffee lovers, even offering experimental coffees that Cardiff’s been lacking for so long.

115 Queen Street, Cardiff.

Info: 029 2132 0708 / www.200degs.com

Giovanni's Cookery School

KALE PESTO Words FFIONA MILLS

PLACES TO LEARN HOW TO COOK

Kale: a superfood packed with vitamins K, C and A and popular with clean-eaters, wholefood Instagrammists and fashionable vegetarians and vegans alike. It’s easy, though, to make the mistake of thinking that something so healthy need be boring. This kale pesto is heavenly,

Fancy yourself as a cordon bleu chef but don’t have a clue how to cook? Whether you want to be the next Mary Berry or Gino D’Acampo or just want to experiment, there are several places throughout South Wales where you can learn how to bake, boil and braise.

Lynda Nash lends a hand.

bursting with fresh flavours (and vitamins), and really

CORNERHOUSE COOKERY SCHOOL

Serves 2.

From one pot wonders to perfect pastry and modern vegetarian feasts, there’s a class that covers them all and more. Courses are reasonably priced and suitable for all abilities. Sit and share the food you prepare and take home new recipes and techniques.

21 Heol Don, Cardiff Info: 07919 360922 / www.cornerhousecookery.co.uk

GIOVANNI'S COOKERY SCHOOL

A culinary palace of passion. Situated in the heart of Cardiff, this ‘state of the art facility’ is a must for keen amateur chefs who want to broaden their abilities and embrace new challenges. Learn to cook delicious Italian food, take part in advanced cocktail training or enjoy a day with the kids making pizza.

10-11 Mill Lane, Cardiff Info: 07715 207128 / www.giovanniscardiff.co.uk

CAROLINE’S REAL BREAD COMPANY

This small bakery in Merthyr Cynog runs introductory and advanced courses for budding bakers. You’ll learn how to master bread and cake making under the supervision of owner Caroline Frampton. Courses can be one or two-day and are suitable for individuals and couples.

The Old Vicarage Bakery, Brecon Info: Tel: 01874 690378 / www.carolinesrealbreadcompany.co.uk

ANGELA GRAY’S COOKERY SCHOOL

Bespoke cookery classes, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, in the beautiful surroundings of Llanerch Vineyard. Diversity is the name of the game: try Thai Classics, American Barbeque or Seafood Essentials. There’s something here for every tastebud.

Llanerch Vineyard, Vale Of Glamorgan Info: Tel: 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk/

THE CULINARY COTTAGE

Another diverse cookery school that offers everything from taster sessions to five-day courses and a Culinary Cadets club for children. Learn to cater for parties, discover what an AGA really does and produce the type of delights seen on Masterchef.

Pandy, Abergavenny Info: 01873 890125 / www.theculinarycottage.co.uk

easy to whizz up in minutes. Also, as with any sauce, the flavours can be adjusted according to your tastes. For a vegan version, omit the parmesan and add a little more salt if desired.

The recipe will make plenty of pesto which you could use to dip crudités in, spread it on wraps and toast, or drizzle it over chicken or poached eggs. Here, I’ve simply used it as a spaghetti sauce.

INGREDIENTS PESTO

ALSO

• 2 generous handfuls of kale (about 100g) • 75g walnuts • 1 clove of garlic, chopped • 3 tbsps extra virgin olive oil, plus extra • 25g parmesan, grated, plus extra to serve • Handful of fresh basil • Juice of ½ lemon • Salt and pepper

• 200g spaghetti

METHOD 1. Start by thoroughly washing the kale.

2. Place the pesto ingredients in a blender and whizz up until they form a thick sauce-like consistency. Season generously.

3. Boil the pasta according to the packet instructions in salted water.

4. Once the pasta is cooked, reserve a ladleful of the cooking water and then drain the rest.

5. Place the pasta back in the pan on a low heat, adding to it about 2-3tbsps of pesto per person and the cooking water. Season again.

6. Combine until the pasta is covered in the sauce.

7. Serve, topping with an extra drizzle of olive oil and grating of parmesan.

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CAFFI SÏO LAUNCH

JUNE FOODIE FOCUS

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Words JANE COOK www.hungrycityhippy.co.uk

ward- winning Ca rdiff blo gge r Jan e C ook ( o f h u n g r y c i t y h i p p y. c o . u k ) r o u n d s u p f i v e of this m o nth’s mo st inte re st in g, m u s t -t r y food and drink events that the city has to offer.

Let The Beet Drop at Milk & Sugar – Thurs 1 + Fri 2 June Milk & Sugar’s head chef has pulled together an exciting looking menu for a long weekend of evening feasts offering two courses for £23.95 or £27.95 for three courses. If you like the sound of pesto herb-breaded halloumi, confit chicken legs with fondant potatoes, and crème brûlée cheesecake with blackberry shortbread, you can book via beetdropcdf@gmail.com or by calling 07826 196061.

LG Kitchen Takeover at The Boiler House – Sat 10 June Head to the Boiler House in Canton for a five-course feast pairing the finest Welsh ingredients with a welcome cocktail. The event is being catered by chef Laura Graham, who learned her craft at Leith’s School Of Food & Wine, and has since travelled the world cooking for exclusive clients aboard luxury yachts. Now, she brings her skills to the Boiler House where there will also be a live DJ, and a cash bar into the night. To book, visit: www. billetto.co.uk/en/e/kitchen-takeover-the-boilerhouse-tickets-192056 Roath Yard Pop Up Sat 10 + Sun 11 June This block party-style event will take place

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in a disused dairy on Roath’s eclectic City Road, bringing together a variety of the city’s best street food traders along with street art installations and a vintage kilo sale. It’s being organised by the same team behind Street Food Circus, so it’s bound to be very busy! For more information see: www.streetfoodcardiff.com Yuko Japanese Pop Up at Washington Tea, Penarth – Sat 24 June This ‘seasonal Japan’ supper club promises guests a chance to enjoy four small side dishes, cooked fresh using seasonal vegetables, a meat or fish main dish with cooked vegetables, a small plate of vegetable sushi rolls or rice and a bowl of traditional miso soup. Tickets cost £18pp and are available at: www.waterlootea.com Blue Honey Night Café at Sully’s Café – Every night from 5pm Not really a pop-up or an event, but definitely worth a mention. In-the-know foodies of Cardiff are going wild over this ‘night café’ which takes over when Sully’s finishes up for the day. Serving Korean fried chicken, biryani bowls and huge Reuben sarnies alongside an eclectic playlist. On Wednesday’s, there’s karaoke, and it’s not just the sandwiches that get messy. Find out more at facebook.com/bluehoneynightcafe

Chapter Arts Centre, an essential figure in Cardiff’s cultural scene since it opened in 1971, has entertained Cardiffians and visitors alike with their programmes of cutting edge theatre, cinema, art, community activities and support for local culture.

To extend its reach across the city, Chapter have announced the launch of Caffi Sïo (sïo translates to ‘buzzing like a bee’ in Welsh) – a Chapter Culture Café in Cardiff Bay. Just as famed for its relaxed café – being a great place to pop in and unwind, meet up with friends or even get some work done – Chapter look to bring this experience to a wider audience in a new café bar next to the Craft In The Bay art gallery, making it a veritable arty hub in the city.

With a new menu featuring brunch (including Mexican, Spanish, American and Welsh options), lunch (including Mediterranean fusion cuisine and seasonal salads), teas, fine coffees, soft drinks and milkshakes, there’s something for everyone. With a focus on independent Welsh excellence, Caffi Sïo looks to inject Chapter’s trademark artistic programme into the Bay, stocking publications in the arts including photography, contemporary art and more, as well as small scale live performances.

Caffi Sïo is the first of Chapter’s ventures away from Canton, but they look to expand elsewhere too. All the profits will be reinvested into providing the diverse arts programme that they’re famed for.

Caffi Sïo is open to the public from Wed 31 May. Caffi Sïo, The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff.

Info: 029 2132 1090 / www.chapter.org

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CAFFI SÏO

JUBORAJ LAKESIDE

JAMAICAN JILLS

Lakeside Road West, Cardiff. 029 2045 5123 / www.juborajgroup.com Food *** Atmosphere **** The Juboraj Restaurant Group count among their curry houses some of the oldest Indian and Bangladeshi restaurants in Wales, with their beautiful Lakeside building arguably being the most attractive of the lot. Nestled between the Roath Park Lake and the Roath Pleasure Gardens, its Georgian, almost gentleman’s club-like décor and warm interior is the first thing to strike you when you walk through its doors. It has an atmosphere that few newer restaurants have and feels distinctly unchanging and traditional.

I sit down, and with it being a hot day, I choose an ice-cool gin and tonic as I admire the building. I’m quickly seen to by a waiter, and after struggling to choose from the colossal menu, I indecisively opt to sample a range of dishes: saag paneer, lamb pasanda, mango chicken, and mushroom bhaji, with sides of pilau rice and peshwari naan. Far too much, as is tradition I suppose.

The food comes out relatively quickly and is all well-spiced and to a good quality. It is really standard fare stuff, which is not a complaint at all and there’s something oddly soothing about the unpretentious classics. The paneer is delicious, as expected, the pasanda creamy, as expected, and the mango chicken is rich, as expected (but surprisingly green).

To finish, I choose an almost volcanic sticky toffee pudding, which after letting cool for a bit, went down well, as expected. If you fancy an unpretentious classic curry in a lovely setting after a nice walk around Roath, then Juboraj is a great choice, just don’t expect any innovative new takes on British Indian cuisine.

LUKE OWAIN BOULT

Chapter Culture Café, Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay. 029 2132 1090 / www.chapter.org Food **** Atmosphere **** Buzz was invited to sample the new menu for the exciting launch of Caffi Sïo in Cardiff Bay. This is Chapter’s new venture and the driving force of this is Laurentiu Florea, their director of food and beverages. The menu is very Mediterranean in origin: take the huevos divorciados (Spanish for ‘divorced eggs’), fried eggs served with spinach salsa rojo and a fresh herb salsa verde on corn flatbread). A Welsh croque madame, meanwhile, is a three cheese and leek toastie topped with Welsh rarebit and a fried egg.

I tried the chorizo hash – fried potato and chorizo with poached eggs, all appearing on the brunch menu. Lunch options include aubergine souvlaki, chicken taco (spiced chicken, pico de gallo, avocado and charred salsa) and buffalo halloumi taco, (deep fried halloumi in hot sauce). Four to five dishes feature on each menu, with a quick lunch option available and a pick-and-go sandwich area. Dishes start at £5.95, with homemade salads and rolls a bit less; given the quality and the variety, it’s incredibly good value. Breads are sourced from Alex Gooch, artisan rolls from Hay-On-Wye, and coffee from the Welsh Coffee Co, with teas from the renowned Novus range.

Expect that little bit extra at Caffi Sïo: the effort that has gone into launching this venture is obvious from the name, the design, the emphasis on quality produce and the dishes that result. A perfect addition to the bay, it will be open for brunch and lunch with selected evening openings for pre-theatre dinners. Sïo will also stock publications in the arts, present small scale live performances, and its profits will support delivering Chapter Arts Centre’s outstanding contemporary arts and education programme. ANTONIA LEVAY

City Gates, Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 476222 / www.jamaicanjills.com Food **** Atmosphere *** We get a warm Caribbean welcome stepping off Wind Street into Jamaican Jills.

There’s yellow, green and orange everywhere, Bob Marley quotes on the walls, reggae through the speakers and I Am Bolt on constant loop on the many TVs. Steel pans sit in the window for when the party gets started later. At lunchtime Jills is busy and the lady herself is on hand to look after her guests. This is her place and she is giving us every bit of Jamaica that she can.

The meze platter is huge, even for two: a bed of fresh salad topped with an assortment of traditional delicacies with rice and peas in coconut shells. The inevitable jerk chicken is probably the least interesting part, tasty but a little tough. Spicy prawns are a similar combination: brilliant sauce but not best quality. The real treats are the salt fish fritters; full of flavour and well textured they look and feel like the real thing. But the centrepiece, Jills famous curried goat, is the real highlight. A rich sauce, packing a more nuanced punch than the jerk or chilli, generously covers tender pieces of goat. This makes a great dipping sauce for the extra dumplings, savoury yet sweet.

More extras include some beautifully cooked jerk ribs. There’s plenty of meat on the bones which, unlike most restaurant ribs, can be eaten with a knife and fork.

For the truest taste of Jamaica you must go for the ackee and salt fish. Jamaica’s national dish is the ackee fruit, sautéed with salt cod and spices served in a lidded ramekin. I can’t get enough of this and it has a welcome freshness after all the spice. Two pieces of banana cake are a perfect ending: sweet, warm comfort food with a serving of custard on the side.

On leaving I felt like turning the lights down and the TVs off. I guess that will happen when the band starts and the cocktails come out. I’m looking forward to returning to Jills – but next time, I’ll wait until after dark. JOHN-PAUL DAVIES BUZZ BUZZ41 41

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CHRISTOPHER LANGLEY: CARDIFF PUBS PAST AND PRESENT

Insole Court, Cardiff Throughout June Cardiff-based Welsh artist Christopher Langley’s new exhibition focuses on an important part of Welsh and Cardiffian culture: past and present Cardiff pubs, like the Cow & Snuffers, the Vulcan, the Golden Cross, and the White Swan Hotel. It will consist of 12 framed prints, three original paintings, and 20 unframed prints for viewing, giving audiences the opportunity to reflect on the odd beauty of the buildings in Langley’s vibrant and somewhat surreal works.

Langley is a self-taught artist who’s been painting professionally for a number of years since his first solo exhibition in 2012, with his work previously being featured in private and corporate collections worldwide, and has his fingers crossed that people will contact him about their memories of these pubs: “My aim is to tell the story of the pubs of the city in a historical and cultural context. So, it would be wonderful to find out more about their interesting histories or stories attached to them. I'd love people to come along to look at the prints and paintings. I hope it’ll inspire them to remember their great stories about the pubs.”

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ASSOCIATION OF ILLUSTRATORS WORLD ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2016

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Until Sun 9 July This truly international exhibition is celebrating four decades of innovative exhibitions that present the best pieces of illustration from across the world. It is the result of the World Illustration Awards and the 50 pieces in the exhibition have been selected from thousands of submissions.

This year, the award received entries from 66 countries, including entries from South Korea, Australia, Israel and across Europe. The competition was split up into eight categories with children’s books, advertising, and editorial proving particularly popular. The pieces that were shortlisted and won categories spanned various mediums including everything from traditional book illustrations and posters to sculptures and textile forms, even GIFs. On reflecting on this year's entries and competition, Curator Sabine Reimer said: “Submissions can give an indication of the current themes preoccupying illustrators. This year is notable for darker, more challenging work, exploring areas such as the refugee crisis.”

The exhibition was made possible due to a collaboration between the Directory of Illustration in California, and Somerset House in London and this coming together of groups is reflected in the diverse set of illustrations that are on show.

Pieces that should not be missed are the Balbusso Twins’ Portrait of Richard II, commissioned by Penguin Press for its series of books on Britain’s kings and queens. The dynamic piece captures the king’s essence and feels both regal and intriguing. Ella Cohen’s Playground Israel, commissioned by Berlin-based Theater An Der Parkaue and the Israeli Embassy, shows how illustration can surpass the boundaries that limit other forms. If you are interested in illustration as a medium for communication and expression, or are looking to understand the form beyond storybooks, this is worth visiting.

Admission: free. Info: 01970 623232 / www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk ELOUISE HOBBS

HANNAH M MORRIS & OWAIN GRIFFITHS: TRAILS/OLION

Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan Sat 25 Jun-Sun 6 Aug Landscapes are enjoyed by people across the country every day in different ways. This link between how we act and respond with different landscapes is explored in Morris and Griffiths’ new exhibition.

To research their new set of pieces, the pair travelled Youth Hostels across England and Wales investigating the different ideas between travel and leisure. Their research led them to explore places recommended by locals and fellow travellers alike and they ended up discovering a range of places both on and off the beaten track, which drew them to create pieces that reflected their immediate experiences and thoughts. This range of reactive pieces explores printing and sound in various ways. Once the pair saw the gallery space, they were so inspired that they created a piece in response to it.

The exhibition is set to open with a special free event that will create an addition and explanation to some of the pieces on display. It plans to will incorporate music and sound performances to show how the pieces have been influenced by nature and will highlight what makes environments both local and social.

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

MARTIN TINNEY 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION PART II

Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff Until Sat 17 June The Martin Tinney Gallery was established in 1992 and is now celebrating its 25th anniversary as Wales' premier private commercial art gallery. To celebrate this milestone, they’ve arranged two major exhibitions, with the second currently on display.

Specialising in Welsh and Wales-based fine artists, it’s the only Welsh gallery to exhibit regularly at major art fairs, including the London Art Fair and the 20/21 British Art Fair.

The 25th anniversary exhibition itself has come in two parts: Part I featured work from major 20th century Welsh artists that have been previously sold by the gallery; and Part II features selected work by Wales' leading contemporary artists, with exceptional new works

by Harry Holland, Shani Rhys James, Mary Lloyd Jones, Claudia Williams, Kevin Sinnott, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Sally Moore, John Macfarlane, Sigrid Muller, Vivienne Williams, Dick Chappell, Meirion Ginsberg, among others. The exhibition will be updated when works are sold, immediately replaced with new pieces.

A fantastic opportunity to reflect on the past quarter of a century of contemporary Welsh art: here’s to the next 25.

Admission: free. Info: 029 2064 1411 / www.artwales.com (DT)

PAM LONGOBARDI & DIANA HEISE: OCEANS: SURFACE/ BELOW

Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen Until Sat 8 July Oceans: Surface/Below presents work from the United States-based artists Pam Longobardi and Diana Heise.

The exhibition will display work from both artists who use environmental mapping to display the effects of plastic contamination on industrial fishing and habitat degradation within the world's oceans. Both artists will focus on this serious issue as part of the Ephemeral Coast project, which looks into what it means to live and coexist with water, organic life and waste.

Longobardi transforms commonplace objects into eyecatching installations.

By using beach community clean-ups and international expeditions, she displays the relationship between plastic toxicity and ocean life. Heise's work uses film and photography to display the effect of human activity on coastal habitats and their impact on traditional fishing communities. She has also created a series of studies examining the relationship between Creole fishing communities and a shoreline increasingly distressed by industrial fishing, pollution, coral acidification, and the disappearance of mangroves, a vital ecology for coastal life.

Admission: free. Info: 01267 222775 / www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk (DT)

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THE TEMPEST

Caerphilly Castle Wed 28 June Taking Flight Theatre bring their unique brand of accessible Shakespeare to this grand outdoor venue. The Tempest has undergone many a reinterpretation, from the grounded 1948 western Yellow Sky to the out-of-this-world musical Return To The Forbidden Planet. Taking Flight have chosen to set their The Tempest on a luxury ocean liner, The Remembrance, making its maiden voyage to the Island That Time Forgot.

Classed as a comedy, The Tempest is a play full of betrayal, power struggles, colonialism and magic. Perfect, then, for the cruise to be run by The Magic Staff Liner Corporation, with all its overtones of mystical capitalism. If you add the backdrop of a castle actually fortified by an extensive moat, it looks like this production is forecast to be a perfect storm.

Taking Flight Theatre add yet another dimension to their current Cadw tour with performances incorporating BSL/ SSE and audio descriptions. Their performances are known for being relaxed and family-friendly with touch tours and BSL introductions to the play also available by arrangement. The tour is also coming to Roath Park, Cyfarthfa Castle, Strata Florida Abbey and a whole host of other beautiful locations around Wales.

Tickets: £14.50. Info: 029 2023 0020 / www.takingflighttheatre.co.uk (JPD) BUZZ 44

JANE EYRE

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Tue 27 June-Sat 1 July Following an acclaimed season at the National Theatre, Sally Cookson’s take on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre arrives at the Wales Millennium Centre this June.

Devised as part of a collaboration between the National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic, the production depicts the well-known bildungsroman in an innovative and imaginative way.

Wooden sets allow for ease of movement for the actors, and fluidity between scenes, transporting the audience between various locations effortlessly.

The story centres around Jane Eyre, an intelligent young woman whose life thus far has seen her witness trauma. Living as an orphan in her cruel aunt’s house, she is sent to Lowood School, an educational establishment presided over by the formidable Mr Brocklehurst, in which discipline and ardent religion shape the curriculum. Leaving the school as a young woman having survived the puritanical nature of the establishment, Jane gains employment as a governess, and through her occupation, becomes embroiled in the life of her employer Mr Rochester. Finding herself intrigued by the man who treats her as an intellectual equal, Jane struggles with status and society. Self-professed as ‘poor, plain and little’ she believes herself to be no equal to her much-admired employer.

The narrative focuses on the burgeoning relationship between Jane and Mr Rochester, as well as her desire to discover the root cause of the mysterious noises and incidents that take place in Rochester’s home. Starring Melanie Marshall as Jane and Felix Hayes as Mr Rochester, the production has received much praise for its unusual and inventive set and sound design, featuring an onstage band ensuring that the music is at the forefront of the production. A first-person narrative is often difficult to represent onstage, but under Sally Cookson’s direction, it’s made engaging and empathetic.

Jane Eyre’s tour has been much anticipated and should not be missed. Cookson’s direction affords a rare opportunity to see a well-known classic that is both faithful to its source in tone and intention, while ensuring it is infused with new life.

Tickets: £11-£37. Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk SIOBHAN DENTON

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

New Theatre, Cardiff Tue 6-Sat 10 June If you like a good dose of the supernatural alongside your usual serving of suspense then The Woman In Black is the stage show to see.

For over a quarter of a century this masterclass in macabre has thrilled audiences in London’s West End and around the country on its regular tours.

If you’re not one of the seven million theatregoers who have seen Susan Hill’s horror novella brought to life on the stage then you need to be.

The story is a classic gothic tale of infanticide set in a desolate house above a marshy, misty English town that’s full of hidden secrets. If you’ve read the book, or seen the far inferior film, don’t worry, nothing will have been spoiled for you. What makes Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation so enjoyable – if that’s the right word – is the brilliant multi-roling, lighting, sound and prop work. It is theatre at its best. You will believe that there’s a dog on stage. You will think you can see him, and the carriage hurtling toward you. You will be kept on the edge of your seat, or hiding behind the seat in front. And all this with just two actors. Or so you think.

Tickets: £10.50-£28. Info: 029 2087 8889 / www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk

SPAMALOT

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Thurs 22 June-Sat 1 July You know summer is on its way in Cardiff when theatre talk turns to Everyman’s Open Air Theatre festival. And could there be a more perfect musical for Everyman than Eric Idle’s Spamalot?

For anyone who isn’t aware, Spamalot is the musical version of Monty Python And The Holy Grail, and it takes the uproariously ridiculousness of the classic film to new levels of both hilarity and ridiculousness. In this witty spoof of King Arthur and his knights’ quest for the Holy Grail boasts a high-kicking chorus line, killer rabbits, and a knight who continues duelling even after losing his arms and legs. All the hilarities of MPATHG are even funnier set to the rollicking music of the Round Table Knights and the mysterious, definitively diva Lady Of The Lake. Added to all of this is a healthy dose of musical theatre humour, from the disgruntled Diva to inappropriately timed dance routines.

Fans of Python will love it but so will musical theatre fans.

Performed outside in Sophia Gardens, rain or shine (with the audience safety undercover), Everyman always delivers high quality theatre fun in the summer, and with Richard Tunely returning once again, this looks to be no exception.

Tickets: £13-£15. Info: 0333 6663366 / www.cardiffopenairtheatrefestival.co.uk (EG)

FLOWERS

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Thurs 8-Sat 10 June Big Loop are a new Cardiff/Bristol theatre company endeavouring to create new, exciting and accessible theatre. They specialise in creating performance in intimate spaces using methods of play, poetry and physicality. Previous works include Moirai, which was at the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival and warmly received, while they also host creative events, like the A Little Nonsense exhibition at Little Man Coffee.

For their latest piece, they are headed to Chapter with Flowers, written and performed by Duncan Hallis and Cory Tucker, directed by Rosie Jones, and produced by George Soave. Flowers promises to be a hilarious and anarchic display of distorted memory and lost loving families. This new company’s latest outing comes with a warning to keep the faint-hearted at bay (explicitly stating that it features, and I quote “naughty language and sexy themes”). The story revolves around Billy and Danny who are left to run the family flower shop when their parents mysteriously disappear. For Billy and Danny, it’s time to finally wake up, smell the coffee, and stop eating the flowers.

Asking questions about memory and family, this is a chance to see original work from a new local company, featuring live music, improvised anarchy and puppetry.

Tickets: £10/£8. Info: 029 2030 4400 / www.chapter.org (EG)

OPTIMO / SASSY J / DJ OCTOBER

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TEAK presents Miami Vice, Jacob’s Market / Blue Honey Night Café, Cardiff Sat 10 June Once in a city’s club generation a promotion comes along which ends up defines a particular era in its history. Older inhabitants of the capital might talk in hushed reverence of names like Time Flies, Cool House, Sumo, Studio 89 or Backroom. Teak is likely one which the old-timers of the future are likely to look back on as the one which switched the game up in this particular era.

While Teak’s monthly parties, which have welcomes the likes of Prins Thomas and DJ Sprinkles to the basement, are all well and good, it’s the annual Miami Vice party which really gets folk salivating. A two-legged affair, it comprises of a daytime party and a nightime event downstairs. This year, TEAK have buddied up with fellow discerning party-starters Blue Honey for another option, too.

Bringing the heat to Jacob’s car park this year is Glaswegian duo Optimo [pictured], whose Sunday residency at their eponymously named night at the Sub Club ran from the mid-90s until 2010. Nowadays the lads – JD Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes – stick to what you might conceive as a more conventional schedule and also find time to run the superlative Optimo Trax label. Their eclectic sets take in techno, electro, rock and other leftfield treats, and with a five-hour slot, they’ve got the time and space to take us on a journey of cosmic proportions.

After that’s done and dusted, events split in two: you can descend into the basement of Jacobs for a set from Swiss selector Sassy J, ably backed by TEAK residents Seka and Rikki Humphreys. Or you could visit Blue Honey’s new Night Café for an Italo set from Bristol-based DJ October, playing under his Malestripper alias. Fantastico!

Tickets for the night events have all been snapped up, but sensibly priced resales are offered on the promotion’s Facebook page, plus daytime only tickets have been released. The car park stage kicks off at 3pm, and with events at Jacobs usually running until the wee small hours, best pace yourself, eh?

Tickets: £24/£22 for day + night events; £12.50 for daytime only. Info: teakcardiff@gmail.com KRISTIAN DANDO pic: Eva Vlonk

OGUN STATE

The Big Top, Cardiff Tue 6 June Ogun State is a region of Nigeria whose most noteworthy musical son is the late great Fela Kuti, kickstarter of the Afrobeat style and top political rabble-rouser. Ogun State is, as of this event, also a Cardiff-based promotional entity with a music policy of Afrobeat, funk and the ever-indefinable ‘world music’ – all things in which Fela’s legacy looms large, nearly 20 years after his death. Why are they throwing this party now, precisely? Well, apart from the obvious retort – why not? – it’s a fundraising night for Voluntary Service Overseas, an organisation that enlists volunteers to work on various projects in developing countries. No time like the present with this sort of thing, right?

Topping the bill tonight is Cardiff-based DJ Viewpoints [pictured], real name Gethin Herbert. Viewpoints has had a busy 2017 already, his schedule seeing him share decks with Horse Meat Disco, Greg Wilson and The Reflex among others. In keeping with those names, he makes a point of displaying a rangy eclecticism and musical knowledge; his sets more normally tend towards slinky, slo-mo disco and house, but there are plenty of dots to join between that and the sound that Fela pioneered.

Warming up for Viewpoints will be the Milkshake Boys, whose identity is frankly a mystery to me, but regardless, this should be a really good way to make the club go up on a Tuesday.

Admission: £5/£4 adv. Info: 029 2022 8883 (NG) BUZZ 46

AMELIE LENS

Strictly Techno @ The Garage, Swansea Sat 1 July “Going out tonight Steve?” “Yeah, thinking about it.” “Oh right, where to?”

“Night called Strictly Techno, at the Garage.” “Sounds good pal, what do they play?” “Errrrr.”

Well, at least they cleared up any ambiguity as to what’s on offer – techno, and plenty of it. The Swansea crew welcome Amelie Lens, Belgian purveyor of dark, sinewy 4/4 beats and feline enthusiast (check her Instagram to follow the escapades of her two cats) to this knees-up at the Garage, which usually plays host to live gigs but occasionally branches out into big raves, such as this.

Lens has released many productions on Second State, the label of Berlin-based techno power duo Pan-Pot, putting her in the illustrious company of the likes of Stephan Bodzin and Marcel Fengler.

While her productions tend to veer towards the darker end of the techno spectrum, Lens’ DJ sets are more wideranging affairs. It’s a rare chance to see her indoors and in a relatively small venue: the coming months see her take on a punishing Euro festival schedule.

Support comes from Strictly Techno residents, who will be bringing jazz-funk, world grooves, liquid drum’n’bass and speed garage sounds to the party. Not really. They’ll be playing techno.

Tickets: £10. Info: 01792 475147 (KD)

FIESTA BOMBARDA’S HOT CAKES BBQ

The Flora, Cardiff Saturday 10 June Touring carnival scallywags Fiesta Bombarda are pitching up in the unassuming environs of the Flora pub in Cathays – still looking and feeling fresh after a much-needed renovation last year – for an all-dayer of hefty proportions, conveniently located within stumbling distance of bed if you live in and around Studentsville.

Heading up proceedings are Deekline [pictured] and Ed Solo, serving up platters of drum’n’bass, jungle and ragga on the outdoors stage until 10pm – we are slap-bang in residential territory after all, folks. Support comes from London’s Jurassik and local Shanti-Squire. As soon as events outside are wrapped up, the interior of the pub plays host to a set from Fish (Bristol-based purveyor of bass house rather than the former Marillion singer) who goes back-to-back with fellow sub-botherer Sherry S. With all that meaty low end, it’s a good job the organisers have two Void Soundsystems to keep the fillings in your teeth rattling for the duration. And as we all know, pulling outrageous bass faces is hungry work, so the crew have got you covered with burgers, hot dogs and ribs on the barbeque all day. All of which sounds like the recipe for a grand old time. Or, indeed, indigestion.

Tickets: £10-£15. Info: 029 2115 1016 (KD)

BALTER FESTIVAL

Chepstow Raceourse Fri 2-Sun 4 June For a rather noisy event – jungle, gabber and hardcore all get a look-in – Balter Festival has quietly gone about becoming one of the weirder events in the Welsh festival calendar since launching at Baskerville Hall in 2014.

Partygoers are in for a bevy of skanktastic treats over the weekend.

From the drum’n’bass of Sam Binga [pictured], Rico Tubbs’ newfound bass house sound, the face-melting gabber and hardcore of Deathchant Records’ DJ Producer – not to mention the rabble-rousing political ska-punk of the reformed King Prawn. As if that’s not enough, there’s promise of a Balkan jazz stage as well as – and you’ll like this – ‘Buckyham Palace’, for fans of the fortified tonic wine to groove late into the early hours of the morning.

At just £105, with an agreeably compact festival site and 10 stages of hair-raising fun to be had, it’s one worth making a weekend of. Stories of the festival’s friendly community vibes are legion, and we’ve read tales of people stepping into the car park and being on pally terms with their neighbours within 10 minutes of arriving.

Oh yes, and in case you were wondering who or what a ‘balter’ is, the organisers define it thus: “to dance artlessly, without particular skill or grace, but always with great enjoyment.”

Tickets: £105. Info: www.balterfestival. com (KD)

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LISA KNAPP

Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells / Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan Thurs 15 / Fri 16 June Lisa Knapp is one of the folk scene’s most inventive and creative musicians. Her first two albums were highly commended and saw Lisa established as one of the most distinctive modern folk artists. Her greatly anticipated, third album ‘Til April Is Dead – A Garland Of May, focuses on darkness as well as light, and reminisces the past as well as looking towards the future.

Inspired by the month of May, the latest album features 11 original versions of traditional songs. By experimenting unrestrainedly with the sounds and textures of traditional tunes, Knapp uses a fascinating spin to create daring and innovative new tracks. The use of modern recording techniques are intertwined with the ancient fabrics of the melodies, essentially resurrecting classical texts and creating something that can thrive in modernity.

Frequently appearing at UK festivals alongside a range of artists, Lisa Knapp has appeared on BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4, and presented a documentary for the latter, where one of her tracks were claimed to be one of the most “original and astonishing songs of the sea you could wish for”. She will be performing the very best of her pieces at Wyeside Arts Centre and Theatr Mwldan this June.

Tickets: £13.50/£12.50. Info: 01982 552555 (Wyeside) / 01239 621200 (Mwldan) (AW) BUZZ 48

Tramshed, Cardiff Mon 3 July For many, Gogol Bordello are one of the best live prospects around currently. Drawing on punk’s energy and folk musical styles from all over the world, the New York ensemble’s gigs are never anything less than an all-out party, led by the gloriouslymoustachioed frontman and instigator Eugene Hütz.

Cutting through the phone with his trademark Ukrainian twang, he’s more erudite than his party-mad stage persona might suggest. Then again, this is a man who loves engaging with local folk music wherever he travels: “What I find in this music is kind of a key to a perception of life... a lot of this music is autonomous and very high quality. Folkloric music in the so-called third world, which is basically most of the world, has such an insane amount of very high quality musicianship.”

Folk music is often rooted as some kind of authentic connection with people’s collective histories. Is there such a thing as non-authentic folk music? Hütz, perhaps controversially, picks out flamenco immediately. “When you go to Spain you see flamenco presented as the national style of Spain, and at the airport you can probably get a flamenco CD. But flamenco is very clearly an Arabic-influenced music, it was brought in by Moors and Gypsies. It was so exciting it became a sensation, and because a lot of Gypsies stayed in Spain, it became a national treasure. It’s a perfect example of how the whole notion of anything authentic can easily crumble.”

Gogol Bordello often seem as if they’re teetering on the edge of chaos, but behind the curtain there is a well-oiled machine that seamlessly integrates its parts and influence. Hütz writes the songs, but when he brings it to the band, all sorts of magic can happen. “It’s very much like that Jim Jarmusch film Down By Law. There’s practically no script – a ballad can turn into an outrageous speedy number and viceversa. For example, When Universes Collide, perhaps the slowest and most drawn-out song, was initially a very raucous fast track.” That raucous brand of madness will certainly liven up the Tramshed in July. Party!

Tickets: £22.50. Info: 029 2023 5555 FEDOR TOT

UNEARTHED IN A FIELD FESTIVAL

Yurt Field, nr Solva, Haverfordwest Fri 16-Sun 18 June For its fifth year, Unearthed In A Field is returning to Pembrokeshire. The festival puts scope on creating a space where a diverse range of people can come together and share a unique experience. Set in the heart of the Welsh countryside, Unearthed gives the opportunity to indulge in a space that shares knowledge, communication, song and dance. Providing a range of activities for children, it’s an ideal event for family fun.

Concerned less about the social media buzz and more about the vibe, Unearthed carefully picks a selection of artists. The music programme focuses on providing sounds from all over the world, with acts including Natty & The Rebelship, Welsh folk legend Meic Stevens, Soom T and Mount Nakara among dozens of others.

A collection of talks are available throughout the weekend, ranging from sustainable living, food production, dreaming, meditation, the afterlife and many more. All food suppliers at Unearthed are vegan or vegetarian.

Workshops provided on the weekend ensure that kids and adults can fully relax and enjoy each second. Whether it’s yoga, mindfulness, poetry, astrology or arts and crafts, Unearthed has it all.

Tickets: £85/ £40 per day. Info: www. unearthedinafield.co.uk (AW)

THE SPACE LADY

Transport Club, Cardiff Sun 19 June Colorado native Susan Dietrich Schneider is the living embodiment of an Outsider Artist. She’s been making music since the early 70s, when her and her then husband moved to a cave in Mt. Shasta in order to evade being drafted. They dropped off grid totally, destroying their ID and became self sufficient. She started performing on the streets of San Francisco to support her husband and children.

Playing a junk shop accordion and a Casiotone keyboard, Schneider played skewed covers of well known tracks like The Sweet’s Ballroom Blitz alongside her own material. Her street set up got more elaborate with phase shifters, an echo unit and a light installation, and she eventually recorded some of these treasures.

I first encountered her psych-synth-spacepop via Moo Sick, an awesome zine and CD compilation of outsider art created by musician, filmmaker and raconteur Casey Raymond. The track was a cover of Major Tom, which with her treatment was transformed into a solemn address.

If you saw her play at Clwb Ifor Bach in 2014, you know you’re in for a real treat.

Performing in a sliver plastic helmet with white wings, expect a mix of original material and covers, her synthesised astral aesthetic fed through a no-fi musical filter. Oh, and she really has been to space... but that’s her tale to share.

Admission: £8/£7 adv. Info: 029 2023 3658 (GT)

THE GOAT ROPER RODEO BAND / MICHELE STODART

St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan Fri 9 June Offering an expansive take on country music are young trio Tom, Jim and Sam, aka The Goat Roper Rodeo Band from Rhuddlan in Flintshire. An amalgam of folk, rockabilly, blues and country as unusual as their name, TGRRB demonstrate their smooth harmonies in their latest album Cosmic Country Blues. This month, the group are bringing their refreshing and energetic hybrid to St Donats Arts Centre.

After embarking on this journey only five years ago, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band are impressing all with a bucketful of compassionate harmony.

Cosmic Country Blues, the band’s second album, was produced by Romeo Stoddart, best known as chief songwriter in 60s-soaked indie combo The Magic Numbers. Featuring an uplifting collection of soulful tracks, the album has resulted in the performance of live shows across the countries that are guaranteed to wow audiences.

Performing alongside TGRRB as tour support is Michele Stodart, also a Magic Numbers alumnus. After co-founding the band with Romeo, her brother, in 2001, Michele stepped away from the band to go it alone. Embracing a stronger country influence, she released her second solo album Pieces in 2016.

Tickets: £10. Tel: 01446 799100 (AW)

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reviews albums ALISON MOYET **** Other (Cooking Vinyl) Since Yazoo broke up in the early 1980s, Alison Moyet has gone on to sell millions of albums. Moyet has a voice that has a timeless appeal, with vulnerability that also packs a mighty bluesy punch – much like Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald at their best. Other is a slightly more experimental continuation from The Minutes album, that saw Moyet return to a synth-based sound. Good to have Alison Moyet back with yet another rather splendid album. DN

ALT-J ** Relaxer (Infectious) With initial singles 3WW and In Cold Blood showing some promise, it's sad to say that the rest of Relaxer doesn't live up to the intrigue of those tracks.

Surprisingly bland and forgettable, the experimental flourishes of the past are mostly absent. Ending a song with a cringeworthy call of rebellion and referencing Welsh mining drama How Green Was My Valley come off as uninspired. Give An Awesome Wave another spin and remember when Alt-J were actually exciting. ML

THE AMAZONS **** The Amazons (Fiction) The highly anticipated debut album from one of the most talked about up-and-coming bands in the UK – already included on the longlist for Radio 1’s Sound Of 2017 – doesn’t disappoint. Junk Food Forever is a fixture on radio stations at the moment and fair dos, it’s a beauty of a track. The grungy feel of Little Something is simply lovely, while frontman Matt Thomson is more than capable of an emotional touch on the reflective Raindrops. OS

ARVE HENRIKSEN ****

DANIELE BALDELLI ****

LONDON GRAMMAR ****

Towards Language (Rune Grammofon)

Cosmic Temple – Chapters 1-6 (Mondo Groove)

Truth Is A Beautiful Thing (Metal & Dust)

Henriksen, a Norwegian jazz trumpeter with a spoonably delicate tone and a truly rare skill for low-lit ambient compositions, links this album sonically to Places Of Worship – a 2013 album of his, and my personal introduction to him. While the comparison holds, the mood here is less eldritch dark than that release, more folk-informed. Henriksen’s two sidemen, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, providing melodic foil via guitar and electronics as miniature epics unfold and flesh out like timelapse footage of nature. NG

Italy’s Daniele Baldelli has been throwing afro-funk, motorik, Brazilian grooves, and squelching synths together to create his unique cosmic disco for over 40 years now, and this extensive collection (18 tracks over six 12”s) is a good overview of the genre.

Spaced-out disco and house rhythms overlaid with psychedelic vocals and African jazz create a heady brew. There’s little evolution from his earlier work here, but when the music is this good why bother changing it? DG

London Grammar's melancholic sound returns with this, their third studio album. Pre-released track Rooting For You is minimalistic, with a haunting vocal performance from Hannah Reid, while the likes of Wild Eyed and Hell To The Liars have deep emotional roots that benefit from subtle tempo changes. The natural progression is uplifting throughout as you find creeping elements of electronica, beginning with Bones of Ribbon.

Altogether a surreal experience which requires you to be laying down with noise-cancelling headphones. CP

BEACH FOSSILS **** Somersault (Bayonet) Along with contemporaries Real Estate, the Brookylnbased trio are one of the few standard-bearers remaining from an all-too-brief surf rock resurgence at the beginning of the decade. Somersault sees the outfit stand firm in this territory whilst embracing a breezy late-60s/early-70s Laurel Canyon vibe, with Saint Ivy and Social Jetlag proving particular standouts. Wistful use of a slide guitar on That’s All For Now further augments an expansive scope of style, which affirms the band’s capacity to transgress. CHP

THE CHARLATANS ****

The Optimist (Kscope) Following on from 2014’s triumphant Distant Satellites, Merseyside’s former doom rock champions turned indie rockers Anathema return with The Optimist, a new album which takes them further away from their original sound than ever .Taking inspiration from one of their own albums’ artwork, The Optimist is a semi-autobiographical collection of ambient rock, with an ever-present dark underbelly.

The opening track gives you the co-ordinates of the beach in San Diego where the aforementioned photography was taken. Deep. CA

We Used to Bloom (Because)

RICHARD DAWSON *****

Denai Moore has created an uncompromising album of impassioned music that credits its audience with a lot of intelligence.

The backings are full of deconstructed r’n’b, hinting at grooves that rarely get going. This isn’t a bad thing. The subtle clicks and whistles over gentle sub-basslines highlight Moore’s strong vocals and melodic lines. Rich strings and gospel choirs are reminiscent of Björk and Mary J Blige, but make no mistake, this is pure Denai Moore, distilled. JPD

Peasant (Weird World)

Different Days (BMG)

HEY COLOSSUS *****

The first Charlatans album not to feature the band’s late founding member and drummer Jon Brookes, Different Days sees the doors opened to some obvious collaborations (Johnny Marr, Paul Weller) and not so obvious (Sharon Horgan, Kurt Wagner). Percussion is provided for the most part by Stephen Morris and The Verve’s Pete Salisbury, and even with these inspired interlopers this is still very much a Charlatans record. As demonstrated here, they very rarely put a foot wrong. BG

The Guillotine (Rocket)

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE & GRUMBLING FUR TIME MACHINE ORCHESTRA *** Omminggg And Schlomminggg (Important)

ANATHEMA ***

DENAI MOORE ****

Weighty collab action here, recorded in Denmark in 2015, between don of 20th century drone music, septuagenarian New Yorker Palestine, and young(er) British upstarts Grumbling Fur. In donning their Time Machine Orchestra hat, the latter duo cast aside their mannered 80s synthpop leanings for 50-plus minutes of powerful, earthmoving tonal tramsmissions.

While Palestine’s piano and vocals are clear in the mix, GF’s instrumental approach – viola, harp, mandolin are all mentioned, melts all sounds into one, and does it with meditative grace. NG

Releasing two of the best albums of 2015 wasn’t enough for Hey Colossus: they’ve come along and released another absolute belter. Their third album on Rocket is loud, brooding and heavy with a hell of a lot of guitars. There’s also an awful lot of grace to this album as well. With lyrics that capture the crazy times we are living in and music so detailed you can but focus on it, this album shows that Hey Colossus are a cut above. GT

HOUSE AND LAND ***** House And Land (Thrill Jockey) Lordy, this album is wonderful, more so for coming out of, apparently, nowhere. That isn’t literally true, obviously – House And Land, a duo with the wholesome names of Sarah Louise and Sally Anne, hail from North Carolina, and one of them was in the Jack Rose-affiliated Black Twig Pickers. As a debut release, though, it transfixes via Appalachian fiddle’n’banjo stylings, the heavenly country-fried vocal harmonies of the pair and an underlay of meditative Eternal Music drone. Probably the most distinctive Americana release of 2017; possibly the best, too. NG

GAMES REVIEWS KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM *****

Squad, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Wii U This space flight sim has famously received support from NASA and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, and gets the player to build rockets and fly into space for a range of missions: landing on moons and planets, conducting research, building space stations, redirecting asteroids and more. Every part of the game is extremely addictive and complex, with a very steep learning curve, but once you get over it, it’s incredibly fun and educational. LOB

ALTO’S ADVENTURE ****

Snowman, iOS, Android A beautiful endless runner snowboarding game, Alto’s Adventure is addictive as well as charming. With a range of characters to unlock and challenges to complete, there’s always something to keep you busy, while its soothing music and cartoony graphics are very Zen. The game mixes difficult moments with simple challenges, and feels rewarding without being punishing. If you’re looking for something to play but don’t want to make much of an investment, look no further than this. LOB

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First album with a full band, or simply Richard Dawson’s logical ascension to pied piping, shamanistic cult leader? Peasant retains RD’s trademark mangled folk wanderings, wrought here as a series of medieval character sketches, but extra noises muscle in, as if from a creche or mental institution. Rattled drums, two-finger keyboard, whole choirs blasting through like mad sunshine: Peasant’s fusion of ancient and experimental is magical and moving throughout. Listen to Dawson's gleeful hollering at the end of Ogre: he is free. WS

SAINT ETIENNE *** Home Counties (Heavenly) As a Home Counties native, I’ll admit I’d never considered Surrey et al as obvious concept album inspo, but Saint Etienne have given it a go and it somehow kind of works. For long-term fans, Home Counties won’t disappoint; there is plenty of their trademark whimsy here, cut through with enough moody, sharper-edged moments (like lead single Heather) to stop it straying into twee. If you’re new to SE, think civilised, restrained indiepop for grown-ups. A bit like Surrey. MC

SIKTH ***** The Future In Whose Eyes? (Millennium Night) As a newcomer to Sikth I was surprised and bewildered by this Morse code of metal. It takes some deciphering – there is much to unpick. But it’s an interesting journey and what at first might seem confusing and random is actually well planned and deliberate. Mikee Goodman’s demonic vocals are a little unnerving, but there are some great musical moments, and great theatre too in spoken tracks such as The Moon’s Been Gone For Hours. Quite strange but very exciting. LN

SWEET BABOO **** Wild Imagination (Moshi Moshi) As mechanisms for coping with contemporary life go, listening to Sweet Baboo’s new LP is one of the healthiest. Its gentle, childlike psych-pop – Gruff Rhys gone Brian Wilson – is full of escapist fantasy, envisioning a flight into the wild imagination of the title track or the wide-open airy expanse conjured up by ambient centrepiece Clear Blue Skies. And yet, as much as Stephen Black harbours dreams of getting away, he also hymns the simple pleasure of returning home to his three-year-old son’s smile (Hold On). BW

THE UNTHANKS ***** Diversions Vol. 4: The Songs And Poems Of Molly Drake (Rabblerouser) Molly Drake (Nick’s mum) was also an artist and now you can hear her exceptional and exquisite work reinterpreted on one of the year’s best albums by The Unthanks. Breathtaking harmonies on What Can A Song Do To You? and I Remember, among others, with themes of remembering, loss, regret and sorrow but also of joy and hope. With thoughtful new arrangements and also poems read by actress/daughter Gabrielle, be prepared to have your heart broken and smile through tears from this amazing tribute. RLR

VARIOUS ARTISTS *** Pop Makossa – The Invasive Dance Beat Of Cameroon 1976–1984 (Analog Africa) After plundering the musical archives of Nigeria and Ghana, African comps are venturing ever further for gold. As Analog Africa’s liner notes say here, “Long before football, makossa managed to unify the whole of Cameroon,” conjuring up the image of Roger Milla finessing his dance moves with an early 80s hairdo. Pop Makossa Invasion and Mussoloki hold up the funk end well, while Chic-y fluid basslines underpin cheeky synths on Ne Lambo, Ye Medjuie and M'ongele M'am. CS

WILD HONEY **** Torres Blancas (Lovemonk) Torres Blancas, the latest release from Madrileño Guillermo Farré, otherwise known by his pseudonym Wild Honey, is a soft and soothing record. A great artist to unwind to, the best way I can think of to describe Wild Honey’s sound is like a sleepy Belle & Sebastian, with Beatles-esque strings mixing with STRFKR synths giving it a somewhat surreal edge.

With no potential hit single really standing out above the rest, the compositions work well together and complement each other perfectly. LOB

ZERVAS & PEPPER **** Wilderland (self-released) This Cardiff duo once again give a cosy contemporary nod to the free and easy folk troubadours of 60s and 70s America.Adopting a more acoustic approach, the overall tone is noticeably lighter than much of their previous work. Input from acclaimed LA musician/ producer James Raymond also adds a significant measure of ingenuity to their already burgeoning songwriting craft. One could only wish that there were a few more upbeat numbers, though the breezy celestial atmosphere still makes for a stellar record. CPI

singles CLÈMENTINE MARCH *** Les Étoiles À Ma Porte EP (Water Baby/Freaksville) Some pleasant hopscotching here, across musical styles and goegraphical boundaries.

French Londoner March’s time spent in Brazil has lent her songs a louche warmth, a playful cool that tickles even as the title track moves from glassy Pink Floydisms to chugging Stereolab rock. Repeated listens definitely help. WS

JACK PERRETT **** No Time For Me (self-released) Perrett’s latest single is straight-out-of-the-blocks Britrock. Plenty of Oasis swagger alongside a garage rock guitar riff that could level Perrett’s native Newport. It’s catchy and compact with a strong vocal hook that’s hidden, like a secret weapon, under layers of Detroit distortion. JPD

HOT 8 BRASS BAND *** Bottom Of The Bucket (Tru Thoughts) Caution: do not listen to this single while walking down a busy city street on a dreary Monday morning unless you’re totally comfortable with treating your fellow commuters to a display of unconscious, full-fat butt-wiggle (and maybe a tuneless whistle).

Boisterously upbeat, jauntily shambolic stuff. You have been warned. MC

NATHAN HALL & THE SINISTER LOCALS **** The Volga Sturgeon Face EP (The Hip Replacement) First solo outing for Soft Hearted Scientists frontman Hall and co, and another wild voyage into his chocka-block, ever-intriguing mind – war and murder past and present, Tempus Fugit all over the prettiest music! Psych-pop, folk and prog with layered vocals and Beach Boys-ish harmonies, keyboards, harpsichord and what sounds like a calliope, strings, electronic gizmos and more. RLR

NOVO AMOR **** Bathing Beach (Believe) Looking at the sleeve for this EP, the sounds I imagined before I pressed play were almost a dead ringer for the image I was presented with: a crisp blue sky and the tousled tips of fir trees. This Aberystwyth chap reaches higher with a gliding falsetto and graceful euphoric folky arrangements. Check him out. CPI

SINGLE BY SUNDAY **** Watch Out World (self-released) The Glaswegian fourpiece are more pop than punk and completely radio-friendly. The EP has four boppy, catchy songs with some surprisingly cool riffs – particularly on I Can’t Go On Like This. The band is musically tight but vocalist Josh Ladds sounds like he’s out of breath trying to keep up. LN

demos HONEST ROB twitter.com/honestrob4jd Rob is a rapper from Cardiff, which shows when he says “we used to kick it like Bellamy,” Craig Bellamy being his go-to reference for some football wordplay. This is a line from Leeches, his debut song, and the past tense is because of the leeches of the title, presumably less honest than he.

Delivered in a languid, singsongy rap style that belies the lyrical exasperation, I’m most drawn to the production here: smeary, trippy keyboard melodies with interjecting ‘splashing water’ effects. NG

NAMES facebook.com/musicnames Here are the young men – two of them to be precise – looking fed up in their black and white press shots. Pembrokeshire’s Names have a little bit of form prior to Backs Turned, their inaugural song, but this stirring piano-driven pop melancholia bears little resemblance to Ffug or Cpt. Smith, their other bands. Part Elliott Smith at his most lowkey, part gothic cabaret, Ioan Hazell switches from English to Welsh for the final verse, an unusual but perfectly valid move. NG

THE TATES facebook.com/thetatesofficial Staying in west Wales, and with yet another standalone debut track, it’s Carmarthen quintet The Tates. Electric Girl is very smoothly produced electro-indie with awful lyrics and considerable vocal processing; despite their two stated influences being The Libertines and New Order, it’s as unavoidably 2010s as a tray of dropped Jagerbombs. Comes with artwork featuring two young women about to share a kiss, reflective no doubt of Liam, Tom, Matthew, Jac and Shaun’s collective commitment to unbridled sexual tolerance. NG

WE'VE BEEN WATCHING...

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Lucasfilm Ltd. (available on Google Play) The first of the planned standalone Star Wars films, Rogue One tells the story of how the rebels stole the schematics for the Death Star to allow them to destroy it... and to provide an answer as to why it was built with such a major design flaw. While the action, acting, and story is captivating, what really steals the show is the stunning cinematography, with bizarre alien worlds brought to life, ranging from desert ruins and volcanic planets to epic space-scapes and lush tropical greenery, not to mention bringing Peter Cushing back to life. *****LOB I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE XYZ Films (available on Netflix) Melanie Lynskey stars as Ruth in this depressed crime thriller with comic moments. Fed up with the selfishness she sees everywhere, she’s walked over constantly and despairs for mankind. To add salt into her melancholic wound, her home is burgled. While on a quest to get her laptop back, she enlists the help from a bizarre martial arts fanatic (Elijawh Wood) to get revenge. A surreal tale of vengeance and rage, it analyses human decency with great chemistry between Lynskey’s angry Ruth and Wood’s incompetent Tony. ****LOB PREVENGE Kaleidoscope (available on DVD) This slasher flick with a wide comedic streak was a recent Buzz front cover on its UK cinema release, and Alice Lowe – writer, director and star of Prevenge – is outstanding on three fronts here. Filmed during her real-life pregnancy, she plays Ruth, whose baby sends her in-womb instructions to kill anyone who vexes her. A layer of intrigue is thus added to scenes of oozing gore and antenatal delusion, but the bladesharp lines, pleasingly realist characters and disassociative camera style is what makes this great. ****NG SANDY WEXLERS Happy Madison (available on Netflix) Like a car crash you can’t look away from, Adam Sandler’s latest formulaic rehash (same ‘funny’ voice + same inexplicable irritability to women + same cast + incompetent down on his luck character with easily identifiable feature = money) is a hypnotic mess. While it has a couple of funny bits that rely on the comic equivalent of jump scares, Sandler’s story set in 1994 (back when he was someone) of a talent manager is an unimaginative copy paste of previous outings.

That being said, it’s actually one of his better Netflix originals.

Yep. **LOB HANDSOME Netflix (available on Netflix) Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm) directs, stars and cowrites this dark comedy whodunnit. Playing Gene Handsome, an LA homicide detective, he bumbles through life confused and alone (apart from the company of his dog). A new neighbour moves in and pretty soon their babysitter turns up dead, so naturally he investigates. While the murder mystery side is pretty unoriginal and poorly thought out, Garlin’s charm wins the day, with far more focus seeming to be placed on his character and the pursuit of happiness than on the jumpy and hastily put together murder side-plot. Funny moments are the sugar to the ipecac of its plot. ***LOB 13 REASONS WHY July Moon Pictures (available on Netflix) Adapted from a young adult novel, the Netflix series focuses on the controversial and prescient topic of teenage suicide.

The story details the reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide, told through a series of tapes she left for a specific audience, and the affect her death has on those that knew her. Attracting criticism and acclaim in equal measure, the series is not an easy watch, but deals with the topic in a sensitive and thought provoking manner. ****SD

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The School. Pic: Simon Ayre

music news EXTRA

Campaigning efforts of groups aiming to protect music venues in Cardiff enjoyed their first tangible victory in May, when the Welsh Government pledged to alter its planning policy to encompass such protections. This includes the introduction of the Agent Of Change principle: where new developments are built near to established businesses, the responsibility rests with developers to pre-empt issues such as noise complaints. The principle has already been introduced in England, but not Wales – something which campaigners, notably the Save Womanby Street collective, had sought to alter. Another planned update, also on SWS’ wishlist, is to allow areas to be designated ones of “cultural significance for music,” although the criteria for this, and who would decide on it, is a moot point Meanwhile, since reopening in late April Cardiff’s Moon venue appears steady on its feet. The annual Hub Festival, organised by the venue but taking place in multiple Womanby Street locations on August bank holiday weekend, is perhaps its busiest few days of the year, and looks to be as strong as ever in 2017. Taking place across 10 venues, highlights from the initial lineup announcement (which

already runs to some 80 acts) include indie-psych faves Telegram, local funkhoppers Afro Cluster, kosmische courier R. Seiliog and Welsh pop classicists The School [pictured]. Hub is from Fri 25-Sun 27 Aug and tickets are £25 for the weekend, a tenner for teens and free for under-12s Swansea venue The Scene closed its doors in early May, making it the city’s latest venue to bite the dust after the likes of Monkey and Escape. Having opened in 2014, taking over a space previously known as Milkwood Jam, it offered both rock/metal lineups and club nights of multiple genres – a headline appearance by trance DJ Ben Nicky sold out the venue two nights running in what proved to be its final event. A number of bookings have been cancelled as a result, but The Scene has worked where possible to relocate others to alternate venues; many have landed in The Pit, located on The Strand and formerly 8 Bit Bar. Indeed, The Scene’s website now redirects to The Pit’s The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales has announced its 2017-18 programme.

This will see it reach an impressive 90th anniversary in April 2018, with other

milestones in its schedule including two for Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka: his 70th birthday is in December 2017, at which point he’ll also have spent 30 years with BBC NOW. Additionally, the Russia 17 brand (marking a century since the Russian Revolution) feature in a number of concerts in October, including a performance of Erik Satie’s P.A.R.A.D.E alongside National Dance Company Wales.

The season begins on Fri 29 Sept with an afternoon concert in the Wales Millennium Centre, featuring trombonist Peter Moore Welsh singer-songwriter Christopher Rees releases his first album in four years on Fri 30 June. The Nashville Sessions marks the first time he’s enlisted co-writers for his songs, which shouldn’t be attributed to lack of inspiration on his part – Rees has been visiting country music’s capital city on and off since 2009, with a long player’s worth of lyrics and arrangements forming over time. Six Nashville songwriters are credited over 14 tracks, with the sound (laid down back home, Rees self-producing) taking a more classic country tack, as one might expect. Rich and expansive, but cleaved to an essential pop song format, banjo and piano feature extensively, and there’s a token rockabilly number featuring Cardiff’s own John Lewis

ONES TO WATCH...

HOLDING ABSENCE

The days of music industry profligacy and mammoth advance fees are largely behind us now, to the extent that it’s hard to imagine an American record label flying to the UK just to check out a band whose music they liked. Apparently, though, that’s exactly what LA-based SharpTone Records did when Cardiff quintet Holding Absence played London earlier this year. A deal was ‘inked’ as a result, and it’s just one of the ways in which things seem to be going most peachily for this still-legitimately-new band.

Holding Absence formed in 2015, with a different vocalist, Zac Vernon having been replaced by Lucas Woodland, from another south Wales post-hardcore band Falling With Style. Woodland’s voice is perhaps a marker of the band’s keenness to stretch beyond genre exercises – willing to try out a high register as well as bombastic rock pipes, there seems to be a strong modern pop influence to his delivery. The band, meanwhile, favour grandiose arrangements and atmospheric sweeps – parts of both Permanent and Dream Of Me, their first two songs released with the current lineup, suggests an Explosions In The Sky/Sigur Ros fandom – with crunchy, post-Deftones riff eruptions inevitably round the corner.

You can buy both the aforementioned songs on a frankly overpriced picture disc 7” which was released on Record Store Day; indeed they’ll probably be selling it on tour this month. In addition to a Newport date on Sun 2 June, followed by Swansea on Fri 7, Holding Absence play the UK’s biggest metal festival Download on Sun 9.

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one louder A COLUMN about death, in this day and age? Don’t you think there are more pressing issues to ponder than one of the two great certainties? Perhaps, but you may not have realised that all the columns I write are about death.

Last month it was about the death of the Labour Party as a representative of left-wing ideology (and also James Goldsmith). Next month I’ll be writing about the imminent slaughter of poors, foreigns, olds and weirds in the new dawn of a Tory brutocracy. OR WILL I? This one, meanwhile, is primarily about the deaths of three famous people that arrived within two days of each other around the middle of May, and were received in three distinctly differing ways. First to go was Ian Brady, probably Britain’s most notorious and reviled serial killer.

The view that his riddance was good could be shared without censure – yet the response struck me as oddly muted. This might have something to do with his having spent the last two-thirds of his life in prison with no hope of release, in poor health for much of that and only trickling back into public consciousness occasionally through his own narcissism and/or tabloid prurience. The percentage of the British population that recall Brady as a contemporary folk devil are now a clear minority.

Conversely, Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell – whose death was ruled suicide a couple of days after it broke – was a formative part of my music taste, and that of many people my age. Sometimes, those formative parts are justly confined to the past, but the good Soundgarden records definitely still hold up, and it’s no revisionism to say that Cornell had one of the finest heavy rock voices since the genre’s inception. Moreover, his public image was of a decent, guy – and not one thought to have great personal demons, I don’t think, despite that tendency in his lyrics. Which doesn’t make his suicide any more (or less) terribly sad, but perhaps intensified people’s shock.

Shortly after, we bade farewell to Roger Ailes: polisher of Richard Nixon’s pre-Watergate public image, founding father of Fox News and serial sexual harasser of female underlings. The reaction to this was notable for its vicious, undiluted glee: for anyone not self-identifying as right-wing, this man made the world a more hateful place, and that world was instantly improved for his having left it. The headlines might not have been Thatcher-sized, but the fever pitch of people’s schadenfreude ran it close.

By this point, you might have identified that the reactions I saw were shaped hugely by the demographic and politics of the things I read and people I associate with. In short, dirty lefties and dirtier liberals who maybe rocked out to a Soundgarden song back when, and who surely felt zero sympathy for Ian Brady but who perhaps subconsciously wished to avoid echoing the language of Sun editorials – the good old algorithmic echo chamber. Really, everyone’s attitude to death is inconsistent, hypocritical even; based on emotion, because anything else would be sociopathy.

Between the time I began this column and reached this sentence, 22 people were pronounced dead after an explosion at a pop concert in Manchester. This is, of course, an atrocity that goes further than almost anything else in cutting across political lines, leaving only a numb revulsion. Do these occasions prompt one to assess one’s flippancy about death? Absolutely. Are they likely to have any demonstrable long-term influence on the discourse around it? That seems unlikely. Take your coping mechanisms where you can find them and treat others as you would wish to be treated.

Highlights of June’s live music include THE DEATH OF MONEY and THINK PRETTY (The Moon, Cardiff, Fri 9), FLOWERS MUST DIE and DEEP HUM (Moon, Fri 16), NECROPHAGIA (The Pit, Swansea, Fri 16), FORCED ORDER and RANCOUR (Cathays Community Centre, Sat 17), CARTER SAMPSON (Clwb Ifor Bach, Wed 21) and the annual rock/metal weekender Slugfest (Dolls House, Abertillery, Fri 30-Sun 2 July). NOEL GARDNER

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books THE HOPKINS CONUNDRUM Simon Edge (Lightning Books)

BOOK OF THE MONTH

One of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ most famous poems is The Wreck Of The Deutschland and it’s from this that Simon Edge has taken his inspiration. Edge cleverly weaves three narratives together to form the novel. One part of the plot involves the tale of the 19th century nuns involved in the shipwreck; another is told from Hopkins’ perspective and the final strand is in the present day and depicts a struggling English landlord in a Welsh pub.

Tim, the pub landlord, has the notion that he could get a thriller writer to come and drum up trade in the area through Grail seekers looking for clues in Hopkins’s poem. Aside from the light-hearted satire, the story allows a deep appreciation for Hopkins and the conflicts he faced in his religious and personal life. With enough nods to the complexity and foresight involved in his poetry, the book maintains a sense of literary credibility but without being bogged down with criticism and technicality to isolate those unfamiliar with the poet.

Edge’s own writing has a lyrical quality to it, which fits well with the tone of the narrative.

His witty observations, including calling the Jesuit house Hopkins lived in “St Vowelless”, are apt, considering the ignorance some have regarding Welsh pronunciation.

However, despite this mocking, the overarching tone is a fondness for Wales and the Welsh, revealed in the beauty of the landscape and the local curmudgeon, Alun, the only regular customer. The novel is fast paced and the alternating narratives which incorporate both fact and fiction, allow for an interesting, as well as imaginative, study into how the past can still reach into the present. LUCY MENON Price: £8.99. Info: www.eye-books.com

331/3: COLOSSAL YOUTH

Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero (Bloomsbury)

Included in the latest round of additions to the 331/3 book series – compact volumes dedicated to albums, be they classic, underappreciated or maligned – is Colossal Youth, the sole studio LP by early-80s postpunk/ proto-indie trio Young Marble Giants. It’s relevant to Buzz by virtue of their Cardiff origins (they moved to London in the latter stages of their brief career), which Blair and Bucciero, both Americans, make a game attempt at socially contextualising.

Their peers of the time amidst the Rough Trade Records scene are also discussed, and their minimal, ghostly sound viewed through a gender prism. The writers’ tendency towards dry prose, footnotes and wordcount-stretching tangents makes matters feel a bit dissertation-y at times, but fans of this album – and it is a great one – should find something to chew on here. NG Price: £8.99. Info: www.333sound.com

LETTERS FROM KLARA

Tove Jansson (Sort Of Books)

To note that Tove Jansson is best known as creator of the Moomins is an understatement. It all but swallows the rest of her work, which included a parallel painting career and several books written for the adult market – such as this short story collection, freshly translated into English from the original Swedish. As it happens, keen Moomin acolytes might find a familiar note struck by the characterisation and dialogue in these 13 stories: understated, but conjuring vivid scenarios with relatively minimal detail. A depressed canoeist washes up on a secluded island during a storm; five schoolfriends, now elderly women, reunite for a waspish, irritable drinks party.

First published in 1991, Letters From Klara seems to transcend eras – each story could be set anywhere from the 1950s to the present day, had their author not died 16 years ago. NG Price: £8.99. Info: www.sortof.co.uk

BEING SIMON HAINES

Tom Vaughan MacAulay (Red Door Publishing) The fast-paced and cut-throat working environment of the city is at the heart of Being Simon Haines, which as the title suggests follows the life of the main character. With the verdict of a campaign he has been working on for London law company Fiennes & Plunkett looming, the once aspirational young professional Simon decides to spend his rare free time out exploring in Cuba. As the book flashes back to significant periods from the past, his relationship with his girlfriend Sophie, and Dan who he met in university, the subsequent tumultuous episodes that have transpired are explored.

Rather than an empty narrative void of empathy and emotion, the story scratches the surface to tackle the difficult subjects and the consequences of certain actions. Featuring themes of morality, love and nostalgia this is a well-informed debut novel from Tom Vaughan MacAulay who manages to set the scene with strong characters and vivid descriptions. RH Price: £8.99. Info: www.reddoorpublishing.com BUZZ 54

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Wed 7 June brings us two lovely literary events.

Firstly, in Llansteffan, Hilly Janes and Professor John Goodby will give an illustrated talk about the sense of place in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, illustrated with pictures taken of the area in the 1950s by Ethel Ross. Ugly, Lovely takes place in Llanybri Village Hall, and tickets are just £5 on the door, but please first check via 01792 606605 or rich_parthian@yahoo.co.uk The second event, supported by Literature Wales, takes place at Redhouse, Merthyr and is evocatively entitled Running With Whiskey: Words And Music From Appalachia. Doug Van Gundy and Marc Harshman will deliver ‘storytelling, music and poetry grounded in the geo-mythos of the mountain state of West Virginia’. There will also be an open mic, whiskey itself (I presume!) and the event is free to attend.

Please contact 01685 726251 for info or email gillian.hampson@merthyr.gov.uk From Fri 9-Sat 11 June, the R.S. Thomas Literary Festival takes place at various locations in Aberdaron. Featuring M. Wynn Thomas, Rowan Williams, Mark Oakley and Helen Wilcox, this is a must for anyone with an interest in the great Welsh bard! For more information visit: www. rsthomaspoetry.co.uk Voices on the Bridge holds its summer edition on Fri 30, featuring a plethora of local poets, writers, and musicians, all ably hosted by literary helmsman Rob Cullen. A free event, it uses the beautiful Pontypridd Museum (near the bridge, naturally) as its venue. Get there for a 7pm start. For more info ring 07746 116619 or email robcullen@celfypridd.co.uk, or visit their website at www.robcullenauthor.wordpress.com Finally, The Cellar Bards in Cardigan presents an evening of spoken word with Natalie Ann Holborow as guest, with an open mic for local writers of poetry, prose and short fiction, too.

Supported by Literature Wales and organised by poet Jackie Biggs, this event begins at 7.30pm, again on Fri 30, and takes place at the Cellar Bar. Entry is just £3. Please contact 01239 814607 or jackienews@hotmail.co.uk for details.

And that’s about it for the moment. Enjoy the summer, the words, and Wales itself, and see you again in the next issue. !

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Elouise Hobbs provides a handy guide for the adventurously peckish travellers in Wales.

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FARO Faro in Portugal is a perfect place to escape for a long weekend break with friends or for a romantic break.

You can catch a quick flight direct from Cardiff to this historical town in under two and half hours. When you settle in, you’re sure to want to try a seafood cataplana, a traditional dish originating from the Algarve which is named after the copper dish in which the food is cooked.

The dish combines seafood, which is usually locally caught, and local vegetables. This creates a filling dish that varies in every place due to the sauce in which it is cooked - every place has a different, usually guarded, recipe. To finish, make sure to try a Dom Rodrigo, a sweet almond pastry desert made from the region's legendary almond trees and usually decorated with a regional motif.

Info: www.algarve-tourist.com

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PARIS The ultimate, and most obvious foodie getaway has to be Paris - from their fresh baguettes to cheese, Camembert is a personal favourite, to macarons which can be brought on every corner and their wine which is internationally acclaimed. However, the most interesting French delicacy is more simple and enjoyed by French men and women across the country every morning to get the day off to the best possible start. Fresh, warm croissants are served with bowls of hot chocolate and are eaten by dipping the pastry into the warm drink. Paris is extremely easy to get to either by a flight from Cardiff or by the Eurostar and even though it can be a bit pricey, there are definitely bargains to be had. It’s also worth noting that there are incredible discounts across the city for under 25s and all you need is a proof of age ID. Info: www.en.parisinfo.com

BATH

VERONA

CONWY

The setting of some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Verona has a rich history, both in culture and food. It’s less touristy than its fellow Italian cities, Rome and Milan, but by no means does that mean there is less to do or eat. Unlike Rome, Verona’s foodie fame doesn't come from ice cream and pizza but an equally carb filled dish, gnocchi. The pasta dish of the region is potato filled pasta dumplings. Usually made and cooked on site, these dumplings are usually added to a meat stew, a speciality from the region. This is usually served with a side dish of polenta which is prepared by making a soft and creamy mixture which can be eaten fresh from the oven or can be left to cool for half a day and then cut into bite-sized chunks and grilled. Direct flights leave from Cardiff to this historic city daily and because it’s a bit more off the beaten track, you’re likely to discover some interesting local places.

Info: www.tourism.verona.it

Conwy in north Wales is known across the world for their seafood, most importantly, their mussels.

The Medieval walled fishing village was recently named as the only town in the whole of the UK to be recommended by the Japanese tourist board as one of the most beautiful places to visit in Wales.

Located on the estuary where the River Conwy converges with the Irish sea, salty seawater meets freshwater to give the local mussels their taste, unique to the region. However, as mussels are only in season for a few months of the year, if you want to try maybe the best mussels in the world, you will have to plan your trip carefully. The locals have a good tip for when is best to catch the seafood treat; only eat shellfish in the months with the letter ‘r’ in the name.

Info: www.visitllandudno.org.uk

You may have heard of the Bath bun but you may not have come across a bun that is actually more famous and sought after: Sally Lunn’s Buns. The legend behind these buns says that Sally Lunn moved to Bath as a Huguenot refugee and in 1680 began working with a baker in the city. Before long, she introduced the baker to her special recipe, which is still a secret to this day, which made a brioche style bun that was light and airy. News of this delicacy spread and people across the city started demanding the buns for breakfast and tea. Bath to Cardiff takes just over an hour by train, and there’s so much to see, including the Roman Baths, Cathedral and central square.

Sally Lunn’s Historic Eating House & Museum, Bath. Info: 01225 461634 / www.sallylunns.co.uk / www.visitbath.co.uk

AMSTERDAM Affectionally called the Little Big City, there’s so much more to discover in Amsterdam than the famous museums and canals. You can fly direct from Cardiff in under two hours and be on a bicycle exploring the city before lunch. Accommodation is cheap if you look around and there are some really lovely places just outside the centre. Alternatively, there are also some great hostels that capture the Dutch atmosphere and these are great places to stay and get to know the area. Once in the city, you need to try the beer. Amsterdam is the only city in the world where beer is pumped in an underground system to the local bars and taverns. Once you have had a beer (or two) you will probably need something to eat. Instead of crisps or pork scratchings, they have bitterballen: basically deep-fried crispy meatballs, usually served with mustard for dipping.

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Croeso i Flwyddyn y Chwedlau 2017

Welcome to the Year of Legends 2017

Yn 2017 rydym yn dathlu ein gorffennol, presennol a’n dyfodol epic yn fwy nag erioed o’r blaen.

Hon yw Blwyddyn y Chwedlau.

Ydy, mae Cymru’n wlad hynafol, gyda miloedd o flynyddoedd o hanes a chwedloniaeth. Gwlad o fynyddoedd mawreddog, awyr nerthol ac ymylon enwog ei harfordir hardd. Ond mae hefyd yn wlad y myfyrdod epic ac uchel antur a syniadau newydd disglair mewn mannau hynafol.

In 2017 we’re celebrating our epic past, present and future like never before. This is our Year of Legends. Yes, Wales is an ancient landscape, with thousands of years of history and myth. It’s a land of majestic mountains and mighty skies, fringed with a famously beautiful coastline. But it’s also a land of epic thinking and high adventure, with bright new ideas in ancient places.

Yn fwy na dim, mae Cymru’n lle gwych i fwynhau’r presennol. Lle bynnag yr ewch, fe gewch groeso chwedlonol. Eleni rydym yn creu chwedlau newydd. Beth am ddod a chanfod eich chwedl chi?

Croeso i’n Gwlad Epic.

#GwladGwlad #FindYourEpic

Above all, Wales is a great place to enjoy here and now. Wherever you go, you’ll find a legendary welcome. This year we’re creating new legends. Want to come and find yours?

Welcome to our Epic Land.

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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL

At long last, the biggest match in European club football meets the Principality Stadium. On Sat 3 June, Spanish giants Real Madrid face Serie A champions Juventus in the Champions League Final – an exhibition of world-class attack and defence.

Indeed, the Old Lady’s defensive record has been impeccable both in Europe and domestically, having gone six games without conceding a Champions League goal and boasting the tightest defence in Italy with only 26 goals conceded in the league. This, of course, is down to their stoic backline. The experience of Bonucci, Chiellini, Alves and Barzagli is unrivalled, but it is the legend in net that is integral to the Italian brick wall. Buffon enters the game looking to win his first Champions League medal after enduring disappointment in two finals, most recently in 2015.

The World Cup winner will not only be relying on his defence, with the potent attack of Higuain and Dybala enough to seriously concern the Galacticos, especially after strolling past arch rivals Barcelona in the quarter-finals.

Regardless of the opposition, however, Real Madrid have the potential to arrive and be unplayable. With the likes of Ronaldo, Benzema and Isco – who is in scintillating

form this season – they have torn defences apart in La Liga, and have proven their attacking prowess in the Champions League, boasting the highest goal count (32) and shot count (19.6) at the tournament. It would be a romantic return to Wales for Gareth Bale, should he be fit to play the final – a notion coach Zidane has flirted with. Even without the Welsh magician though, a number of players have stepped up at the Bernabeu this season, proving their worth for the white shirt and causing selection dilemmas for coaches.

Winning the tournament twice in the past three years, Los Blancos will feel they have the experience, grit and skill to deliver a blow to the Italian heavyweights.

However, having last seen European glory at Old Trafford, Juventus may, with their impressive defence and dynamic attack, feel the Principality Stadium could be an omen of success. CONOR KNIGHT Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Sat 3 June. Tickets: sold out. Available to watch for free on BT Sport. Info: www.uefa.com

June is a busy one for the SSE SWALEC stadium this year. With the ICC Champions Trophy being played all over England and Wales, Glamorgan’s ground will host an array of international fixtures over the course of a month.

For those of you who don’t know the format will be 50 overs – that’s a whole day’s worth of cricket. Weather permitting, it’s going to be good fun.

First up, England will take on New Zealand on Tue 6 June. Both are building reputations for being two of the most exciting sides in the one day format, with the visitors boasting one of the best batsmen in the world, Kane Williamson.

Watch out for him.

On Fri 9 June, the Kiwis take on Bangladesh before Pakistan vs Sri Lanka on Mon 12 June, a match up that’s sure to bring in heaps of passionate cricket fans. That one is a mouthwatering tie.

Then, on Wed 14 June, the SWALEC is scheduled to host the first semi-final draw. That fixture is yet to be decided, but will probably be the highest profile of the ties over the month. That could be England vs India or Australia vs South Africa… there are a few permutations for that one. One thing is guaranteed and that is high quality cricket.

If by then you’ve got a taste for the Champions Trophy, then why not consider South Africa rounding off their one-day tour of England and Wales and the two play each other in an International Twenty20 on Sun 25 June? There’s a lot of history and want for a vengeance there.

The visitors will bring the likes of Quinton de Kock and AB De Villiers; two of the most technical batsmen in modern day international cricket.

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CRICKET FIXTURES

Tue 6 June 10.30am: England vs New Zealand (ICC Champions Trophy) Fri 9 June 10.30am: New Zealand vs Bangladesh (ICC Champions Trophy) Mon 12 June 10.30am: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka (ICC Champions Trophy) Wed 14 June 10.30am: TBC (ICC Champions Trophy, 1st Semi Final) Sun 25 June 4.30pm: England vs South Africa (3rd Natwest T20 International)

SSE SWALEC, Cardiff. Tickets: £10-£45. Info: 029 2040 9380 / www.glamorgancricket.com

listings STADIUM CONCERTS ROUNDUP UB40 / Level 42

Parc Y Scarlets, Llanelli, Sat 10 June.

Tickets: £35-£55. Info: 0871 8718088 Take That / All Saints

Liberty Stadium, Swansea, Wed 14 June.

Tickets: £55-£95. Info: 0870 400004 Robbie Williams

Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wed 21 June.

Tickets: £65-£99. Info: 08442 777888 Justin Bieber

Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Fri 30 June.

Tickets: £50-£85. Info: 08442 777888

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Pomp, pyrotechnics and senses of occasion with a direct lineage to the gladiatorial battles in the coliseums of ancient Rome. The end of the football and rugby seasons, marking a rare bit of relative respite for loathers of top-level sport. Exactly 187ml of warm white wine. “Umbrellas will not be permitted in the venue.” That’s right, June is a month for pop concert mania in Welsh sporting stadia, so pray it doesn’t rain on ya.

We start with UB40, also at Parc Y Scarlets, on Sat 10. This is the sector of the 80s-vintage pop-reggae hitmakers that retained Ali Campbell and Astro when the group split in two, rather than the one that Campbell himself describes as a “country and western band”. The supporting cast includes chin-height-bassguitar pop-funk smoothies Level 42.

Next up, two of the 90s’ biggest British pop acts entice a pink cowboy-hatted crowd to Swansea’s Liberty Stadium. Take That [pictured] – five-strong in their heyday, currently a Robbie and Jason-less trio – have grown into middle age, all salt-and-pepper beards and tax avoidance, and have a new album, Wonderland, to peddle. They’re supported by All Saints, who have managed to retain their classic lineup – impressively, given the infamous levels of acrimony circa their early-00s breakup.

It’s easy to envisage Gary Barlow doing a Rumplestiltskin-like dance of rage when he learned that ex-Thatter Robbie Williams was in south Wales a week after him, in the considerably larger Principality Stadium. It seems, though, that nothing can quell the perky Potteries pop icon’s popularity, so expect the singalong to Angels et al to be audible from space. Finally, Wales’ national ground welcomes Canada’s sweetest non-maple-based export, Justin ‘Biebz’ Bieber, on payday.

Expect thousands of hard-earned cheques to be decimated at the merch stalls.

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art Aberystwyth Arts Centre

University Of Wales, Aberystwyth. Free. Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. 01970 621903 / www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre Julian Ruddock ‘Earth Core: The Hominim Project’ An exploration of the relationship between art, science and climate change, a collaboration with HSPDP, The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. (Until Sat 10 June) World Illustration Awards 2016 Featuring work from the UK to USA, South Korea to France, and covering practice including books, design and editorial, to reflect the diversity within the industry. (Until Sun 9 July) Ben Boswell ‘David And Margaret Frith’ Boswell has been photographing the Friths, who are both potters, since the 1980s. This is the first exhibition in the Ceramics In Context series.

(Until Sun 23 July) *Radical Craft Artworks by historically

renowned artists associated with ‘outsider art’, plus contemporary self-taught artists who see themselves as facing barriers to the art world for reasons including health, disability, social circumstance or isolation. (From Sat 24 June until Sat 2 Sept)

Albany Gallery

74b Albany Road, Cardiff.

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Free. 029 2048 7158 / www.albanygallery. com Group Exhibition Featuring work by Peter Brown, Andrew Douglas-Forbes, Mike Jones, Euan McGregor, William Selwyn, Peter Wileman and Kyffin Williams RA. (Until Sat 3 June) Chris Prout Solo exhibition of bold Welsh landscapes and seascapes, also featuring ceramics by Paul Wearing. (From Fri 9 June until Sat 1 July)

Andrew Lamont Gallery (Theatr Brycheiniog)

Canal Wharf, Brecon. Open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm. Free.

01874 611622 / enquiries@ brycheiniog.co.uk / www. brycheiniog.co.uk

Hilary Powell ‘Farewell Rock’ New work documenting the last coal miners of south Wales, and the landscape and culture they both worked in and created. (From Fri 2 June until Mon 3 July)

are drawn in a wide range of mediums. (Until Sat 3 June) Cardiff & The Vale College End Of Year Show Creative art and design work from students. (From Sat 10 until Sat 24 June)

Arcadecardiff

Attic Gallery

Queens Arcade, off Queen Street, Cardiff. Usually open Wed-Sat 12.30-5.30pm. www.arcadecardiff.co.uk Simon Fenoulhet Light installation show with video footage, continuing Fenoulhet’s exploration of light as a medium through which we see the material world as well as a more recent interest in natural light in all its variations. (From Wed 21 June until Sat 8 July)

Art Central

Barry Town Hall, King Square, Barry. Tue-Sat 11am-4pm. Free. 01446 709805.

Antonia Spowers & Martina JirankovaLimbrick ‘Six Hands’ Welsh sculptor and Czech illustrator draw and study hands for this exhibition. Working at different scales, the studies

37 Pocketts Wharf, Maritime Quarter, Swansea. Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 10am4.30pm. Free. 01792 653387 / www.atticgallery.co.uk David Carpanini Solo exhibition by significant Welsh painter, featuring recent paintings, drawings and etchings of the South Wales Afan Valley, and Italy. (Until Sat 3 June)

Barnabas Arts House

Craft In The Bay

New Ruperra Street, Newport. Tue-Fri 9.30am4.30pm, Sat 9.30am1.30pm. Free. 01633 673739 / www.barnabasartshouse. co.uk Gerard Whyman ‘Newport – Old & New’ Newport-based artist Wyman looks at the wide variety of architecture in Newport, in a wide range of media including acrylics and oils. (Until Sat 1 July)

Pontypool Museum, Park Buildings, Pontypool. MonSat 11am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm.

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

See You In The Park In August Images of the awardwinning Pontypool Park from the museum and private collection. Plus local artists work for sale. (Until Sun 15 Oct)

Cardiff Story

The Hayes, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am4pm. Free. 029 2034 6214 / museum@cardiff.gov.uk From Wembley To Wales: Celebrating Cardiff City’s 1927 FA Cup Victory Discover the stories behind the objects at this rare opportunity to see original artefacts from Cardiff City’s 1927 FA Cup match. (Until Mon 4 Sept) Celebrating LGBT Cardiff Discover some of the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from Cardiff, and add your own history. (From Mon 5 June until Thurs 31 Aug)

Chapter Gallery

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Chepstow Museum

Gwy House, Bridge Street, Chepstow. Mon-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 2-5pm. Free.

01291 625981 / www. monmouthshire.gov.uk/ Hidden In The Lining – Krishna In The Garden Of Assam, The Tales Of Two Textiles Specially created partnership exhibition with the British Museum exploring the origins, stories and meanings of silk woven temple textiles from 17th century north-east India. (Until Sun 3 Sept)

Barker Gallery / Torfaen Gallery

HILARY POWELL: FAREWELL ROCK Andrew Lamont Gallery, Theatr Brychieniog, Brecon, Fri 2 June-Mon 3 July Admission: free. Info: 01874 611622 / www.brycheiniog.co.uk The legacy of the coal mining industry casts shadows both literal and figurative over Wales, long after it ceased to be the country’s primary export. Swansea Valley is very much included in this, and it’s that area that multidisciplinary British artist Hilary Powell focuses on in Farewell Rock, a selection of portraits of Welsh coal miners. Working with offset lithography, Powell uses layering methods to superimpose maps of mines onto the faces of men who worked in them, with coal dust used in the printing process – this doubles as a reference to ‘being mapped’, the scarring that occurs when miners suffered injuries while working and got coal dust in their wounds.

to provide an alternative interpretation of journalistic accounts. (Until Sun 30 July)

Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff. Tue, Wed, Sat + Sun 12-6pm; Thurs + Fri 12-8pm. Free.

029 2030 4400 / www. chapter.org These Rotten Words Via photography, painting, sculpture, sound and moving image works, the artists featured here – Rebecca Ackroyd, David Austen, Johann Arens, Anna Barham, Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Foundation Press, Anneke Kampman, Joanna Piotrowska and Devlin Shea – focus on the physicality of textual, gestural and vocal forms of communication.

(Until Sun 11 June) Peter Finnemore ‘Between The Lines’ Art In The Bar exhibtion, in conjunction with the Diffusion Festival; Finnemore presents photographic work, using newsprint as a source

The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff. Mon-Sun 10.30am-5.30pm. Free. 029 2048 4611 / www. makersguildinwales.org.uk Voices From The Edge: Murmurations Works by five visual artists – Emma Prentice, Michal Iwanowski, Prue Thimbleby, Ticky Lowe and Claire Cawte – who spent two years working with residents of care homes across Wales. (Until Sun 9 July)

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Fountain Fine Art

Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm. Free. www. fountainfineart.com Summer Group Show a mixed exhibition of new work from the Fountain Fine Art gallery artists. (From Tue 6 June until Sat 29 July)

Futures Gallery / Oriel Gallery

Pierhead Building / Senedd, Cardiff Bay. Daily 10.30am4pm. Free. 0845 0105500 / www.pierhead.org Cardiff Street Photography Discover the social history of Cardiff through photographs of the city and its people. Presented

by Cardiff Story. (From Thurs 8 June until Thurs 6 July) Bible Translations That Are Regularly Used In Christian Worship In Wales Said translations are in not only in Welsh and English but also others such as Urdu, Arabic, Korean, Amharic and Tamil. (From Mon 19 until Fri 30 June)

Y Galeri, Caerffili

Nr Cwmdare, Aberdare.

Daily 9am-5pm. 01685 874672 / www. darevalleycountrypark. co.uk Will Tennant Local painter’s new work, displayed in the park’s visitor centre.

(Throughout June)

Lower Ground Floor, The Visit Caerphilly Centre, The Twyn, Caerphilly. Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 029 2132 2570 / www.ygalericaerffili. co.uk Luke Barker Barker, the runner-up in this year’s Open Art Competition here, exhibit as part of his prize. The work questions landscape painting as a process of transferring three dimensions into two and seeking equivalent responses.

(Until Sat 17 June) Bert Evans ‘A Flourish of Colours’ New work by Port Talbot artist Evans including paintings inspired by Armed Forces Day. Also on display is a summer exhibition of work inspired by coastal vistas plus a profile of Gill Bramley.

(From Tue 20 June until Sat 22 July)

Dylan Thomas Centre

The Gate / Y Gat

Cwtsh Community and Arts Centre

226 Stow Hill, Newport.

01633 664498 / www.cwtsh. org Brian Haggerty ‘Impressions Of Venice’ Thirty photographs creatively manipulated resulting in impressionistic images. (Until Sun 25 June)

Dare Valley Country Park

Somerset Place, Swansea.

Daily 10am-4pm. Free.

01792 463980 / dylanthomas.lit@swansea. gov.uk / www.dylanthomas. com I Might Want To smile Dylan Thomas’ work is full of humour, from his early Swansea Grammar School poems to later prose writing, such as A Story. This exhibition of such work brings together loan material from the National Library Of Wales alongside items from our own collection. (Until Fri 22 Dec)

Elysium Gallery

16 College Street, Swansea.

Wed-Sat 12-5pm. Free. www. elysiumgallery.com Kathryn Anne Trussler ‘Astro Turf Grazed Bovine’ Swansea-based artist with a work described as “a postapocalyptic Zen garden-type show made from all things unwanted and consumerist”. (Until Fri 17 June) Tom Banks ‘Cul-De-Sac’ Paintings depicting a nocturnal walk through an unknown suburban housing estate, consisting of scaled down replicas of real homes. (From Fri 30 June until Sat 29 July)

Pentre Road, St Clears, Carmarthenshire. Mon-Fri 9am-4pm, Sat 9am-3pm.

Free. 01994 232726 / thegate@carmarthenshire. gov.uk Botanics Members of Carmarthen Artists’ Network present a mixed media show based on the early stages of their joint project with the National Botanic Garden Of Wales. The works interpret the themes emerging from Garden’s Regency Restoration scheme. (Until Sun 4 June)

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

Alexandra Rd, Swansea.

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, Free.

01792 516900 / www. swansea.gov.uk/glynnvivian Elizabeth Price ‘In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy’ Price, a former Turner Prize winner, curates an impressive Hayward Touring exhibition which features work from over 50 artists including Becky Beasley, Guy Bourdin, Henry Moore, Bridget Riley and Francesca Woodman. (Until Mon 28 Aug) Josef Herman ‘Conflict And Sanctuary’ A selection of works by Herman from the

art Gallery collection, and two new gifts of the artist’s work.

(Until Mon 28 Aug)

Grand Pavilion

The Esplanade, Porthcawl.

Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 01656 815995 / www. grandpavilion.co.uk Vernon Jones Work inspired by the Welsh coastline, from its wide beaches and cliffs to its crashing waves and dramatic seascapes. (Until Sun 25 June)

IAP Fine Art

15 Church Street, Monmouth. Wed-Sat 11am5pm. Free. 0844 5611833 / www.iapfineart.com Graham Sutherland ‘Welsh Inspiration’ Lithographs and etchings by Graham Sutherland, many inspired by the rock arches and pillars on the Pembrokeshire coast.

(From Thurs 8 June until Sat 1 July)

Insole Court

Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff. Free. 029 2116 7920 / www.insolecourt.org Christopher Langley A series of paintings and prints depicting Cardiff pubs past and present. See Art. (Until Sat 24 June)

King Street Gallery

33 King Street, Carmarthen.

Free. 01267 220121 / gallery@kingstreetgallery. co.uk Summer Show New and diverse work by the Gallery’s members. (Until Fri 7 July)

Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre

St. David’s Rd, Cwmbran, Torfaen. Mon-Sat 10am5pm. Free. 01633 483321 / www.lgac.org.uk Rare Visions Multi-artist exhibition by The Welsh Group, showing the disparate and wide-ranging work, processes and practices. (From Sat 10 June until Sat 29 July) Embellished Forms An exhibition of ceramic work by participants in Criw Celf Mawr, a series of workshops for children. (From Sat 10 June until Sat 29 July) Melissa Yarlett Bespoke pieces of jewellery using recycled silver combined with enamel and hidden stones.

(From Sat 10 June until Sat 29 July) David Haswell Highly textured paintings of the Welsh landscape presented with contrast and bordering on the semi-abstract.

(From Sat 10 June until Sat 29 July)

M.A.D.E. Gallery

41 Lochaber St, Cardiff.

Wed-Sat 10am-6pm. Free.

029 2047 3373.

BLOOM Annual nature-based affordable art showcase of locally-based artists working across all 2D media. (Until Sat 17 June) Pick Of the Degree Shows The gallery’s selection of the cream of this year’s crop across institutions and visual arts courses in South Wales. (From Thurs 22 June until Sat 8 July)

Martin Tinney Gallery

18 St Andrew’s Crescent, Cardiff. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 029 2064 1411 / mtg@artwales. com 25th Anniversary Exhibition Part II Work by Harry Holland, Shani Rhys James, Mary Lloyd Jones, Claudia Williams, Kevin Sinnott, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, William Wilkins, Sally Moore, John Macfarlane, Sigrid Muller, Vivienne Williams, Meirion Ginsberg and others.

(Until Sat 17 June) Sally Moore Barry-born painter who won the Welsh Artist Of The Year award in 2005, and whose notably detailed painting style means that exhibitions of new work are rare.

This one features 12 unseen canvasses with a surrealist feel. (From Mon 20 June until Sat 8 July)

Mission Gallery

Gloucester Place, Swansea.

Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. Free.

01792 652016 / www. missiongallery.co.uk Annie Thibault & Gemma Copp ‘Situation/Material/ Ocean’ Copp, a Welsh artist whose work is animated by the coast of Swansea, and Thibault, a Canadian who engages with the biology of aquatic life, present studies that explore the perception and sensibility of coastal materiality. (Until Sun 4 June) Lee Williams Work in the [...] space from an artist based in Port Talbot and working in a broad interdisciplinary practice including painting, printmaking, sculpture, the moving image and ever-emerging technologies.

(Until Sun 25 June) Stuart Cairns Maker In Focus show from an Irish artist whose practice is concerned with investigating the environment and his relationship with it through walking, photography and the collection of found objects. (Uuntil Sun 25 June) Raising The Bar Work by Neath Port Talbot, Swansea and Carmarthen further education students, followin masterclasses held at Mission Gallery and Swansea College Of Art, UWTSD. (From Sat 17 June until Sun 16 July)

National Museum Cardiff

Cathays Park, Cardiff. TueSun 10am-5pm. Free except where noted. 029 2057 3500 / www.museumwales.ac.uk/ cardiff Gillian Ayres Celebratory exhibition for one of Britain’s best known abstract artists.

Previewed in Art last month.

(Until Sun 3 Sept) Dinosaur Babies Family-friendly exhibition bringing together some of the world’s most amazing finds of dinosaur eggs and embryos. (Until Sun 5 Nov) Bacon To Doig: Modern Masterpieces From A Private Collection The collection in question belonging to Ian and Mercedes Stoutzker. and featuring two Francis Bacon paintings as well as works

by Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Grayson Perry among others. It’s on loan here for nearly a year,

as well. (Until Wed 31 Jan) Agatha Christie: A Life In Photographs Lots of photos of Agatha Christie, or taken by Agatha Christie. And why not?

It’s curated by the Christie Archive Trust and Agatha Christie Ltd with support from the Colwinston Trust. (From Sat 17 June until Sun 3 Sept)

National Waterfront Museum

Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea.

Daily 10am-5pm. Free.

01792 638950.

Frank Brangwyn: The Graphic Art Of The First World War A selection from the 80+ poster designs Brangwyn created during WWI, reproduced at their original size. (Until Sun 25 June)

National Wool Museum

Dre-fach Felindre, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire. Daily 10am-5pm. Free. 0300 1112333.

For Freedom And Empire A look at how the slate quarrying communities of Wales responded to the call to fight in WWI. (Until September)

Newport Museum & Art Gallery

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

Free. 01633 656656 / museum@newport.gov.uk The Newport College of Art Paintings and sculptures from the collections of this allery which were created by artists associated with the Art College. (Until Sat 23 Dec)

Norwegian Church Arts Centre

Harbour Drive, Cardiff Bay. Daily 11am-4pm. Free. 029 2087 7959 / www. norwegianchurchcardiff.com Linda Agostini ‘Wild Things’ Abstract animal art.

(Until Sun 4 June)

Off The Wall

The Old Probate Registry, Cardiff Road, Llandaff, Cardiff. Tue-Fri 9.30am5.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm.

Free. 029 2055 4469 / art@ galleryoffthewall.com Andrew McCutcheon & Aiden Myers Joint show for two abstract artists. (From Sat 17 June until TBC)

Oriel Cric

Beaufort Street, Crickhowell. 01873 813669.

Helly Powell ‘Beasts Of The Mabinogion’ See Art for more on this artist’s ‘fauxidermy’ cloth sculptures, this specific collection being inspired by the famous ancient Welsh tale. (Until Fri 23 June)

Oriel Davies

The Park, Newtown, Powys.

Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm.

Free. 01686 625041 / enquiries@orieldavies.org Katie Surridge ‘Who Lives In A Hole Like This?’

Exhibiting as part of Litmus, a new programme for early career artists in Wales and the Welsh Borders. Surridge’s metal sculptural work riffs on the history of coal mining

in Wales by considering the analogy with animal burrows, and performing live actions such as strapping two spades to her arms and digging in the ground. Sounds like a larf. (Until Wed 19 July) Navigations: Art As Research The result of a three-year artist’s residency programme that focused on the waterways and canals across Wales, Germany and Venice. Seven international artists – Mo Abd-Ulla, Nicky Coutts, Andrew Dodds, Alan Goulbourne, Mair Hughes, Cheon Pyo Lee and Dan Rees – reflect on the nature of progress, decline, globalization and time. (Until Wed 19 July)

Oriel Joanna Field

Torch Theatre, St. Peter’s Road, Milford Haven. Free.

01646 695267 / www. torchtheatre.co.uk Sarah Jane ‘Creating Space’ Solo exhibition of landscape paintings aiming to reflect the way in which the sea and coastal environment aid self awareness, expansive thought and emotional space..

(From Fri 2 until Thurs 29 June)

Oriel Mwldan

Bath House Rd, Cardigan.

Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. Free.

01239 621200 / helena@ mwldan.co.uk Lea Sautin ‘Through The Paper Window’ Sautin’s work focuses on the storytelling traditions of Wales, using processes from print to sculpture to photography to reflect the evolution and alteration of the stories themselves. (Until Sun 18 June) Hannah M Morris & Owain Griffiths ‘Trails/Olion’ An exploration of ideas of travel and leisure, looking in particular at the way in which we respond to and interact with landscapes.

See Art. (From Sat 24 June until Sun 6 Aug)

Oriel Myrddin

Church Lane, Carmarthen.

01267 222775 / www. orielmyrddingallery.co.uk Pam Longobardi & Diana Heise ‘Oceans: Surface/ Below’ Two American artists who use environmental mapping to consider the effects of plastic contamination, industrial fishing and habitat degradation within the world’s oceans. Part of the Ephemeral Coast series of exhibitions and events. (Until Sat 8 July)

Oriel Q

The Queens Hall, High Street, Narberth. Wed-Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 01834 869454 / www. orielqueenshallgallery. org.uk Osi Rhys Osmond A selection of paintings, sketchbooks, films and interviews from this artist, teacher and writer.

Oriel Fach: Keith Williams, The White Book Of Llareggub (paintings based on memories of living in Laugharne).

Stairs: TBC. Main gallery 3D area: assorted ceramics and jewellery by students and well-known artists. (Until Sat 24 June)

Summer Season At Lido Ponty Lido Ponty, the National Lido of Wales, is now open for the 2017 summer season offering great family fun at Wales’ premier outdoor water attraction.

Situated at Ynysangharad War Memorial Park in Pontypridd, it will remain open seven days a week, from 7.30am until 7.15pm, until Sun 10 Sept.

Online bookings can be made up to seven days in advance at www. lidoponty.co.uk. Limited spaces will also be available daily at the Reception Desk. Please note: bookings cannot be made over the telephone.

Children under the age of 16 are again able to swim FREE at Lido Ponty, with a minimal charge of £1 for adults and £2.50 for activities.

As well as the opportunity for lane swimming and more relaxed swims, and a Splash Pool for the little ones, all the popular attractions will be back for the summer – including the fun inflatables, Aqua Scooterz, Aqua Peddlerz and Water Walkerz.

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the original opening of the lido at Ynysangharad War Memorial Park on 30 July, 1927. The £6.3m Grade II listed outdoor family water attraction officially re-opened to the public on Sat 29 Aug, 2015.

Like the Lido Ponty page on Facebook and follow @LidoPonty on Twitter for all your latest news and updates, or visit their website.

Info: www.lidoponty.co.uk

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clubs Pontypridd Museum

Bridge Street, Pontypridd.

Mon-Sat 10am-4.30pm.

Free. 01443 490748 / www. pontypriddmuseum.cymru Pontypridd Camera Club 2017 Annual exhibition of photography by members of said club. (From Sat 3 until Fri 30 June)

Redhouse

Old Town Hall, High Street, Merthyr Tydfil. Free. 01685 384111 / info@ redhousecymru.com Stephen Hopkin-Jones Wales-based, Canadian-born photographer who studied Photographic Art at the University Of Wales College Newport and honed his skills working as a freelance photographer. (Until Sat 24 June)

The Riverfront

Bristol Packet Wharf, Newport. Mon-Sat 10am8pm, Sun 10am-6pm. Free.

01633 656757.

Art & Design End Of Year Show Illustration, 3D work, oils and acrylics by students on the Art & Design course at Coleg Gwent in Newport.

(Until Wed 7 June) Plant Photography Work created in workshops here throughout April, led by João Bento.

(From Fri 16 June until Fri 7 July)

Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama

Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Free. 029 2039 1391 / www.rwcmd. ac.uk Balance 2017 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 30 JuneSun 2 July. (From Thurs 15 until Wed 21 June)

Taliesin Arts Centre

Singleton Park, Swansea.

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12pm-6pm and performance evenings 6pm8.15pm. Free. 01792 295526 / www.taliesinartscentre. co.uk A Picture Of Swansea Exhibition curated by Swansea University Art Society, featuring artists working in Swansea and the surrounding area.

(Until Sat 1 July)

Tenby Museum & Art Gallery

Castle Hill, Tenby. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, £4/£3/£2 kids.

01834 842809 / www. tenbymuseum.org.uk Paul Butler ‘On The Edges Of The Ocean’ Paintings resulting from an artistic residency here in 2015 and 2016, depicting the town and its landscape. (Until Sun 25 June)

Theatr Hafren

Llanidloes Road, Newtown, Powys. Mon-Sat 10am5.30pm. Free. 01686 625007 / www.thehafren.co.uk Rosie Robinson Posthumous work by a local artist born in Welshpool and based in or near Newtown. Robinson worked with staff and community artist Ingrid Maugham to produce these pictures, and BUZZ 62

died last year aged 58. (From Sat 3 June until Fri 28 July)

Tower Gallery

49 High Street, Crickhowell.

Wed-Sat 10am-5pm. Free.

01873 812495 / www. towergallery.co.uk Welsh Legends Paintings and sculpture by Hannah Firmin, Graeme Galvin, Michael Howard, Kay Leverton, Harriet Lloyd, Lesely Lillywhite, Robert Macdonald, Tim Rossiter and Phillipine Sowerby, exploring the myths and stories of Wales to celebrate 2017 as The Year Of Legends. (Until Sat 1 July) Michael Howard Recent landscape paintings focus on the hills and mountains that surround the artist’s home near Brecon. Also showing, work by the Usk Valley Artists Co-operative. (Until Sat 2 Sept)

Tower Gallery

Oriel Y Parc Landscape Gallery & Visitor Centre, The Grove, St Davids, Pembrokeshire. Free. 01437 720392 / info@orielyparc. co.uk Christopher Baker Landscape paintings, this time located in the Artist In Residence tower. (Until Sat 3 June) Enchanted Landscapes: Pembrokeshire In Myth & Legend More or less self-explanatory collection of artwork from Amgueddfa Cymru collections. (Until Sun 17 Sept)

Velindre Hospital

Whitchurch, Cardiff. Open 24/7. Free. 029 2075 2251.

South Wales Art Society – Permanent Rolling Exhibition Members’ works are available to view in the corridors and restaurant of the hospital at any given time.

20% of all sales go to the hospital.

Victoria Fearn Gallery

6B Heol y Deri, Rhiwbina, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 9.30am5.30pm, Sun 10am-3pm.

Free. 029 2052 0884.

Edward Dunn Solo exhibition of landscape paintings.

(Until Sat 1 July)

Wales Millennium Centre

Bute Place, Cardiff Bay. Free. 029 2063 6464 / www. wmc.org.uk Nigel Pugh ‘Creating Sanctuary’ A series of new photographic portraits and texts documenting volunteers working with refugees across Wales. Displayed to coincide with Volunteers’ Week (Thurs 1-Wed 7 June) and Refugee Week (Mon 19-Sun 25 June).

(Until Sun 2 July)

The Welsh Quilt Centre

Town Hall, Lampeter.

Tue-Sat 11am-4.30pm.

Free. 01570422088 / www. welshquilts.com As Good As It Gets A celebration of Welsh quilts made by quilters from the south Wales valleys especially for a luxury market, including aristocracy and distinguished hotels, from 1921 to 1939 during a time of economic hardship. (Until Sat 4 Nov)

West Wharf Gallery

Jacobs Market, Cardiff.

Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm. Free. westwharfgallery@gmail. com Three Artists From Spike Island Work by Martyn Grimmer, Rodney Harris and Carol Jackman. (Until Sat 1 July)

Workers Gallery

99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir, Rhondda Cynon Taff.

Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm or by appointment. Free. 01443 682024 / wood4tt@gmail. com Martin Harman ‘In-Between’ Bristol based ceramic artist shows new work on the Mates Beyond Wall.

(Until Thurs 8 June) Oriel Canfas Up The Workers Exhibition of work by artists of Cardiff gallery Oriel Canfas, including Alun Hemming, Anthony Evans and Chris Griffin. (From Thurs 22 until Sat 24 June)

clubs The Angel Inn

Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 617878.

Fri 2 Subcon 11pm-4am, £3. Drum’n’bass from Skaramanga, D-Phect, Jake Radar and Oli Oli Oli. Fri 23 Days Before 11pm-4am.

A platform for young, hopeful DJs and MCs. Expect drum’n’bass, bassline, funky house and more.

Balter Festival

Chepstow Racecourse. www. balterfestival.com Fri 2-Sun 4 Balter Festival £105 adv. Fourth year for this festival of jungle, breakcore, free party/‘tek’ stuff etc. Now situated on a horse racing site, so that the gags might write themselves. Lineup like so. The Caravan (punk, ska etc): King Prawn, The Baghdaddies, First Degree Burns, K.O.G And The Zongo Brigade, Counting Coins, Captain Hotknives, Luvdump, The Inexplicables, Zuri Aura, Bored Of Justice, The Stiff Joints, Agnosy, Radical Dance Faction, Dogshite, Who Killed The Bear, King Soloman Band, Binbag Wisdom, Mama Jerk And The Ladyfingers, Rev Schnider And The Band Of Angels. Jigsore (breakcore, jungle etc): Limewax, Emperor, Fexomat, Bizzy B, Spacedocker, DJ Producer, The Teknoist, Scamp, Ronin, Osh Kosh, Spongebob Squarewave, Demon Cabbage b2b Dave Skywalker, Mat Weasel Buster vs Billx, Vandal vs Mandidextrous, Tanukichi vs Dr Looney, Ed Cox vs E-Coli, Chris Liberator vs Aaron Liberator and MC Noia. The Hex: A. Skillz, Dutty Moonshine, Dephicit, Bear Twists, AK (Se7en Deadly Breaks), Matt Ma G, Alix Perez, Break, Sam Binga, Trafic MC and the Sunday Soundclash of Born On Road (Aries, Stivs, Kelvin 373, Selecta J-Man and Gardna vs Rumble In The Jungle (Benny Page, Serum, Kamoh and MC SYE). The Drawing Room: Stivs, Ghost,

Tich Dextrix, Katch Pyro, MDS, Mattycore, Junglord, Supa Ape, Tony Jungle, Omen Breaks, Simply Dread, Omnirhythm, Skeptical, Leeroy, Subcriminal, Monroller b2b Noisy Antics, DJ Hybrid, Fat Frumos, Ninjah Fareye, Captain Raveman, Little Monster, T-Menace, Raggamortis, Major Upset, Lemon Girl, Drake Mallard, Figcake, Left Lucas, Matt:Scratch, Slinks, AcdBrnOut, Regent Cid, Sebby T, Lady Lox and Cun7. Balkanical Circus: Zen Hussies, Gypsies Of Bohemia, Big Red Ass, Op Sa!, Cula Bula and Johnny Kowalski & The Sexy Weirdos. 24hr Garage Girls: Rico Tubbs, Vital Techniques, B-Squared, DJ EJ, Phatworld, Dr Cryptic, Squire Of Gothos, Riffs, Shosh, Audiogutter, Inflatable Fuhrer, Wam Jam, Deadbeat, Thorpey, Cellardore, Womble, Gash b2b Hadean, Ali Monsta, Sample Junkie, Iller Instinct and MCs Krome, Stavros and Dert Bagginz. SIKA studios: Klashnekoff. SIKA Records Grime Division showcase: Devilman, Skinzmann, Bru C and Danja. SIKA Records showcase: Devilman, Deadly Hunta, My Bad Sister, Revorg Records Showcase ft: Gatecrasherz, Big Toast, Jack Diggs, Cracker Jon and Ash The Author, Danja & Joe Burn, Tenchoo, Ed Cox, Bonafyde, Flash Harry, King Bracket, I-Lodica, Brookie, Mantis, Omus One, Holly Flo Lightly, Boogie Man, Fiyahman, Snoopy Dubz, Kaotik Kartel, Inspeckta Veg and Wildflowa. Irie Bingo (reggae and dub): Dubmatix & Charlie P, YT, Gardna, Disorda, No Ice Cream Sound, Shire Roots, Gwarn Owl, Hidden Riddim, Benji’s Riddim Bus, King Bolo, Joe Burn, Babylon Rising, Blazenstein, James Tsoi and Frenchy. Buckyham Palace: Gorilla Tactics, Phibes, Selector Spinach, Underkind, Scratch Bandikoot, Jah Prang, Tommy D, Binksy, Bish, AlkM-E, MickyRae, Miki Taiki, Kodiak, Chemistry, C3B b2b Thrackh, Test Tube Rabies, Vicious Matter, Jamin Nimjah, Els In Wonderland, Bman b2b Oxidizer, Dark City Sisters, Bassflexx, Shortson, Coriktal and Fields. Dutty Disco: Abba Gabba, Shut Up FM, Barry Von Weedhouson, Bizarre Rituals, Raggamortis, Jak MCs, Boundary, Lady Grey, The GSC, Dick Disco, Gav Bolt, Gav’s Dad and Greggery Peccary. Jeepers. See Clubs.

The Big Top / 10 Feet Tall

11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / thisis10feettall@yahoo.co.uk Tue 6 Ogun State 10mp3am, £5/£4 adv. Night of Afrobeat and music inspired by it, named after the birthplace of Fela Kuti. Features DJ sets from Viewpoints and The Milkshake Boys.

Thursdays Rock hits from DJ Andy Rhys Lewis. Fridays + Saturdays Resident DJs playing soul and funk. Fri 9 Hey Mary 10.30pm, £5.

Cardiff’s top gay/queer/drag/ etc night. Normally on the first Friday of every month, but not this time it appears.

Fri 16 Johnny Cage & The Voodoo Groove’s Rock N Roll Revue 10pm.

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

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a double, it’s half price. My commiserations to this venue’s bar staff for having to put up with this. Sun 18 Disco & Soul Night 6.30-10.30pm, £2.50. DJs Michael Franklin and Graham Weeks present a night aiming to mentor young people into music and dance.

Cardiff University Students Union

Park Place, Cardiff. All

South Wales used to be a playground of infinite delights for anyone who liked pumping hardstyle and hardcore techno. Not so much these days, though... but on Fri 23, Newport's Meze Lounge has a Hard Alliance night with DJ Sy, Argy, Shocker and others. 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. Sat 13 has a guest headline set from Jay Robinson of the Mad Decent label.

Blue Honey Night Cafe

Quay Street, Cardiff. 07512 247712 / facebook.com/ bluehoneynightcafe *Sat 10 Teak presents Miami Vice 11pm, £22 adv. This is part of a night also held in Jacob’s Market, which is about a 10-minute walk away. Blue Honey host Bristolian DJ October, who’ll be doing an Italo set as Malestripper. Cool! Natural Sugars and Blue Honey residents also feature. *Thurs 29 Biryani Jazz 7-11pm, free.

DJ Don Leisure plays cosmic/ free/Afrocentric jazz – Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Pharaoh Sanders and so on. You can also eat a biryani while listening. This sounds well good!

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 & Grind 10pm-3am, £4/£3 before 11.30. 90s r’n’b/hip-hop night.

Tue 6 Canopy 10pm-3am, £5-£8. New jungle promoters in Cardiff (why are there so many of these recently?) light up your Tuesday with Kenny Ken, Dox, Ollie G, Styx, Clique and Oni. Thurs 8 Carnival Cardiff End Of Term Bash 10pm-3am, £5 adv. Dancehall, reggae and bashment aimed at students. Fri 2 Sun & Bass x Aperture 10pm-4am, £10/£8. Drum’n’bass from Bailey, A-Sides, FD, Boston, Sundance, Bandit and host MC XL. Saturdays The Shake Up 10pm-4am, £3.

Pop, chart, house, r’n’b funk and soul from residents over two floors. Plus, when you order a drink from the bar you roll a dice and, if you roll

listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / studentsunion@cardiff. ac.uk 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. *Fri 2 C-Y-N-T 9pm-4am, £20 adv.

Solid lineup of classy and house and techno spinners: Hunee, Young Marco, Midland and Clare James. Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.

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 10pm-6am, £5/free before 1.

Clwb Ifor Bach

Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net Tue 6 Itchy Feet 10.30pm, £5. Ska, reggae and soul. Wed 7 Get Funky 10.30pm, £5.

Disco and house. Thurs 1 Brooklyn Zoo 10pm-3am, £5/£4. Hip-hop and grime night aimed at students – indeed billed as an ‘end of exams’ party. Thurs 8 Soul Jam 11pm. Funk and soul.

Thurs 15 Propaganda 11pm. UK-wide indie disco institutionFridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night.

With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox. Fri 9 C-Y-N-T 11pm-4am. Local house/bass music promoters, lineup TBC. Fri 30 Journey 10pm-4am.

Local trance promoters, lineup TBC. 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

clubs 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 Sunday Shisha Sessions 8pm, free.

DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.

Depot

22 Dumballs Road, Cardiff.

029 2034 1199 / www. depotcardiff.com Thurs 1 Good Life Cardiff 2-11pm, £10-£15. This is billed as a ‘Caribbean Carnival’ and, while the description makes no mention of anything that gives weight to that name, there is a set promised by disco specialist Late Nite Tuff Guy.

The Flora

Cathays Terrace, Cardiff.

029 2115 1016 / www. theflora.co.uk Sat 10 Fiesta Bombarda’a Hot Cakes BBQ 4pm-2am, £10-£15. Recently revamped

student pub hosts its first ever clubbing type event that I know of. Breakbeat, jungle, reggae and dub on the menu.

Outdoors (3-10pm): Deekline, Ed Solo, Shanti-Squire, Jurassik and Beeson & Cesco Biz. Indoors (10pm-2am): Fish x Sherry S , 1Time, Bandit and Ollie G.

Fuel

5 Womanby Street, Cardiff.

07970 063107 / facebook. com/fuelcardiff 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.

The Garage

47 Uplands Crescent, Swansea. 01792 475147 / http://www.whitez. co.uk/#garage Sat 3 + Sat 1 July Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3.

Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month. Sat 1 July Strictly Techno 9pm-3am, £10 adv.

Featuring Antwerp DJ Amelie Lens plus Strictly Techno residents.

Glam

Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.

029 2022 9311 / info@ glamnightclub.co.uk Mondays New Quid On The Block 10pm-3am, £2/£free before 11. A mashup of chart, r’n’b, cheese and dance across two floors. The name is to commemorate the launch of the new pound coin, which in time you may also be able to use to purchase this nightclub. Saturdays Vanity 9pm-3am, £5-£10.

Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Sat 1 July Groove 4-10.30pm, £8-£15 adv. The second of Glam’s summer rooftop parties with headliner Theo Kottis plus various local residents.

Gwdihw

6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk Thurs 8 Club Tropicana’s Summer Party 6pm2am, £4. Fri 2 Gwdihw’s European Discotheque 9pm, £3. “Italo funk, French space-disco and scintilating synth-pop” is mooted here, which does sound up my street in fact. Fri 9 Gwdihw Brass Takeover 9pm, £4/£3 adv. With live sets from Wonderbrass and

Iron Eye plus DJ Gwallgoff playing funk, soul and disco.

Fri 16 Starving Artists 9pm, £6 adv. Local hip-hop promoters bring UKHH fave Verb T down; he’s joined by Chillman feat. Entra P, Project and Mansfield Green. Fri 23 Comfort Presents... 9pm.

Hip-hop, disco, funk and more. Fri 30 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Electro, synthpop, italo disco, new wave, funk and more. Sat 3 Signor Funk 9pm, £4/£3 adv. Motown, funk, disco and soul. Sat 17 Fat City v Superchango Summer Showdown 9pm, £4. Funk, soul and other groovy music from two Gwdihw promoter faves, both coaxed out of retirement for a one-off night.

Sat 24 Hully Gully: Neon Dreams 9pm. Disco, funk etc, this month focusing on music by and that inspired Dâm-Funk “to keep carving his distinctive path through contemporary synthesizer soul”. This should therefore feature some bangers.

Jacob’s Market

West Canal Wharf, Cardiff.

029 2039 0939. *Sat 10 Teak presents Miami Vice 3pm-5am, £24 (Jacob’s day and night)/£22 (Jacob’s day and Blue Honey night). Jacob’s carpark, daytime: Optimo (five-hour set), Rocky Newman and Dismalman. Jacob’s basement, evening: Sassy J, Seka and David Bull. Blue Honey Night Cafe, evening: DJ October, Natural Sugars, Blue Honey DJs. See Clubs. This is sold out but people will be selling tickets, they always do. Sat 24 The Summer Solstice Terrace Party 2pm-3am, £10-£20. This takes place in the carpark in the day and the basement in the night, and features house and disco but is something of a mystery other than that.

Karma

75 St Mary Street, Cardiff.

Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. karmaclubcardiff@gmail. com Sat 3 Random Concept, Origins & Circle 8 9pm6am, £12 adv. The occasion of this big d’n’b night is Joe Blow’s 40th birthday. Here’s who’s playing it: Fatman D, Basslayerz, Garry K, Presha, Kallista, Joe Blow himself, Bason, Pabz, Low, Mowgli, Tbone, Hoodfella, Development, Slim Teng, Chew, Conrad, Jaydee, Deadly Knightshade and C-Za.

LEVELA Riddim @ Level 2, Kongs, Cardiff, Fri 23 June Tickets: £6-£12. Info: info@kongsbars.com There seem to be a sheaf of new drum’n’bass nights starting in Cardiff recently – the last time it was like this was over a decade back, before Pendulum became a rock band. Hard to say which of the new promoters will endure, but this night from Riddim looks like fun. Headlining is Levela, a Sussex boy formally known as Callum Smart, who’s one of the UK’s highest rated DJs pushing the ever-popular, never-subtle d’n’b style jump-up. That’ll likely be the predominant sound of the night, too, with a supporting cast of south Wales DJs including Concrete Junglists’ Low, Reload playing b2b with Luke Ebbens; Mowgli, also a Concrete Junglists staple, and Mascot complete the bill in this gaming bar’s back room.

Level 2 @ Kongs

114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. info@kongsbars. com / www.kongsbars.com *Fri 2 Doppler 10pm-4am, £15/£12.50. Doppler’s second night is headlined by Detroit electro don and Drexciya live member DJ Stingray. Dai Murder, Mikey H, Mr Ben and Jessie B also feature.

Fri 23 Riddim 10pm-3am, £6-£12. Jungle, jump-up and neurofunk from Levela feat MC XL, DJ Low feat MC Chew, Mowgli, Luke Ebbens b2b DJ Reload and Mascot.

The Mackintosh Sports And Social Club Keppoch Street, Roath,

Cardiff. 029 2049 4697 / www.mackintoshsportsclub. org Sat 24 Mabuk Recordings Summer Release Party 8pm-12am, £4. House, disco and funk with sets from Cardiff’s Jean Jacques Smoothie and Nottingham’s Tim Tonal (both of those have a new single out around now), plus Gareth Jones.

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 Sundays Mary’s Mad Sundays 12pm-1am, free.

Cabaret and cocktails with Mary Mac.

Metros

Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www. metroscardiff.com Wednesdays Cheapskates 9pm-4am, £5. Hywel plays ‘alternative mayhem’ and old skool cheese. Fridays Freespirit 9.30pm-3.30am, £3 with flyer before 10.30pm.

Drinks promos, no dress code. Rock, punk, metal and alternative beats. Saturdays Cherry Bomb 9.30pm3.30am. Indie, electroclash (!) and good time rock’n’roll.

Meze Lounge

6 Market Street, Newport.

01633 259144 / facebook. com/mezeloungenewport Fridays Panic! Alternative anthems, pop-punk, hardcore and guilty pleasures. Fri 23 Hard Alliance 9pm5am, £15. Hardcore and hardstyle from DJ Sy, Argy, Mike Steventon & Side-EFect, Shocker, Wotsee and more. Fri 30 Cylent Beatz 7.30-11pm, £4. Homegrown hip-hop from this south Wales collective. Saturdays Rock You! 10pm, £3-£5. A selection of anthems across the decades plus party/covers bands each week.

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 Fridays Unfunkinbelievable Half price drinks from 5-10pm.

What I find ‘unfunkinbelievable’ is that there’s a club night called ‘Unfunkinbelievable’ in the year 2016. Saturdays ‘Miss’ Behaviour Music, cocktails, party. All these things are found here.

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 Timeless DJ Dan Nicholas plays r’n’b, funk, disco and old skool.

Just old skool. Saturdays Decorum Soulful and upfront house, plus funk, disco etc, from Sinky and Styles.

Sundays VIP Chris Evans (My Playhouse) plays club classics, funky house and r’n’b.

The Moon

Womanby Street, Cardiff.

029 2037 3022 / info@ thefullmooncardiff.com Wed 28 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 Cardiff. Thursdays Twisted Thursdays Until 3am, free.

Gary of Twisted By Design fame gets a regular Thursday night gig again, playing indie and alt-rock tunes after bands finish here. Fridays Gigantic Free. Funk, punk, rock’n’roll, hip-hop, indie, reggae, soul until 3am.

Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Free. DJ Puddlefunk with bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between.

Mozarts

Walter Road, Swansea.

01792 649984 / www. mozartsswansea.co.uk Fri 2 Hip Drop 10pm2.30am, £2/free before 12.

Northern soul, Motown and Stax. Sat 3 Can’t Touch This 10pm-2.30am, £2/free before 12. Nineties revival night, prevously known as Rewind.

Pitcher & Piano

Wind Street, Swansea.

01792 461312 / www. pitcherandpiano.com Sat 17 The Lighthouse Project Summer Sessions 3pm-2am, £7 adv. Outdoor alldayer on a house tip, DJs not confirmed but will be locals I think.

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. Wednesdays Giggle Free before 12.

Student night. Thursdays Poptails. 9pm-3am. Non-stop pop with DJ Lyndon and 2-4-1 cocktails deals. Fridays + Saturdays 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.

Mondays Society Wars The name sounds pretty interesting but sadly it actually refers to university societies. There are however various cheap drinks to ease your disappointment. Wednesdays Toast Student night where drinks are £1 and they give you free toast. Thursdays

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Portland House

Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. 029 2048 7602 / www. portlandhousecardiff.com Fri 23 The Dock Of The Bay Soul Night 7pm-1am, £5 adv. Hosted by Penarth Soul Club, who are in Newport tomorrow (and back in Cardiff in July). Steve Kaged, Matthew Morgan and Liam Curtin play 60s and 70s soul and Motown off vinyl.

Pryzm

Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.

029 2023 3854 / www. pryzm.co.uk/cardiff Mondays House Party 10pm-3am, £4 “Imagine the greatest ever house party, with 2000 mates, the best drink deals, the freshest tunes and craziest entertainment you could ever imagine!” I... I can’t. Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am, £4. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Saturday is in conjunction with Jongleurs comedy club, which also takes place here. Fridays Smack. 9pm3am. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”.

Pulse

3 Churchill Way, Cardiff.

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

Wednesdays Warped 10pm-4am. Join DJ Craig W on a journey through time with the best hits from the last two decades. Fridays Pulsetastic 10pm-5am, £4/£3. With live PAs once a month. Saturdays Pop Til You Drop 10pm-5am, £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 Sun 1 July Logic Presents Hed Kandi 9pm-4am, £10 adv. With Eibhlin Flynn plus more DJs TBC.

Revolution

Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk Tuesdays Mode 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Popular student night returns. Fridays + Saturdays 9pm-3am. DJs, drinks offers, free area hire.

The Riverfront

Bristol Packet Wharf, Newport. Mon-Sat 10am8pm, Sun 10am-6pm. Free.

01633 656757.

Sat 24 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm, £3. Motown, northern soul and other classic 60s and 70s soul from this regular DJ collective – Shelley Barrett, Liam Curtin, Matthew Morgan and Steve Kaged – on an awayday. Held in the venue’s basement space.

Room 112

3-6 St Mary Street, Cardiff.

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Thurs 9pm-3am, Fri + Sat 10pm-4am. 029 2066 7996 / www.room112.net Fridays Gawjus 9pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12. R’n’b, hip-hop and dancehall.

Saturdays Fusion 9pm4am, £10/£5. Afrobeats, r’n’b and dancehall.

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. Fri 30 Funktion Tek 9pm-4am, £10. Drum’n’bass from Mr Traumatik, Chew, DJ Darkfada, Tom Llew, Nordle, Blueeyes, Golobnaise, Parklife and SMG & Kontra.

Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am.

Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South. Sat 10 features Dimension with MC ID. Sat 3 90s Reload 10pm, £2-£6. Nineties dance night.

Soda

St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3363 / www. sodacardiff.com Thursdays Thursday Club 10pm, £4. Live music, live DJ and live games. Saturdays Soiree 9pm-4am. Three rooms including the Attic which is “the social playground for the high flyers and social elite, really the only place to be seen.” Imagine catching your reflection in the mirror just after writing that.

Tiger Tiger

Friary House, Greyfriars Rd, Cardiff. Open Mon-Fri 12pm-2am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-12.30am. 029 2039 1944 / www. tigertiger-cardiff.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, now transferred from Revolution. You don’t need NUS to get in though.

Fridays Tic Toc 10pm-3am, £4. Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.

Tramshed

Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com Fri 2 Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 7pm, £18 adv.

Sold out. Sun 18 Big Fish Little Fish Family Rave 2-4.30pm, £7.50 adv/free prewalkers. Babies and toddlers can dance to tunes, selected this time by Rhys and Eggsy from Goldie Lookin Chain.

Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)

11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com Tue 27 Mixtape 10pm. Fri 9 Castles Nights – Techno Culture 10pm, £5. Residents: Corey, Silver Red and Murder.

Guests: Tom Bateman (Groove Theory) and Harry Wootten.

Fri 16 Selecta 10pm, £5/£3.

Classic garage night. Fri 30 Temple 10pm. Monthly drum’n’bass night, lineup TBC. Sat 3 TDV – The Different Vibe 10pm, £3.

Drum’n’bass. Sat 17 Rotary Club 11pm, £5/£3 adv. With headliner Telfort, a DJ from Edinburgh, plus a slew of residents. Sat 24 Flatline 11pm.

Drum’n’bass.

Warehouse 54

54 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.

Fridays The Good Time Social Club 11pm, £3. Laid back Bar beats and live sessions to kick off the weekend.

Entry fee also grants you entry to Courtyard, Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Labamba.

Saturdays Viva R’n’b and club classics. entry fee, again, gets you into all the clubs listed above. Sundays The Sunday Sessions 8pm.

Allstar residents in session.

Wow Bar

4 Churchill Way, Cardiff.

Gay venue. Free all day Sun-Thurs; before 11pm Fri + Sat. 029 2066 6247 / www.wowbarcardiff.com Wednesdays Wish You Were Here Free. Student night with “inflight entertainment” from Lambrini Rampage and Mary Golds, plus music from DJ Krys. Thursdays The Night With No Name Free.

DJ Craig and Mary Golds offer “mad games and crazy entertainment.” Fridays The Greatest Show In The City Free before 11. With WOW Showgirls Miss Kitty and Marcia, plus special guests every week. Saturdays The VKend Free before 11. With DJs Craig and Krys. You can get cheap deals in VK. £6.50 for a fishbowl. £6 for a jug of WKD. Settle down now, kids.

Sundays The Cuckoo Club Free. DJ Krys plays the tunes until late.

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Children’s Ballet The Gate, Cardiff. 4-7.30pm, £6.50/£5.50/£3 taster. Info 029 2048 3344. Ages 4-6 4pm; 6-8 4.45; grade 1 5.45; grade 3 6.45. Runs until Mon 10 July.

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

Community Choir Sessions Cornwall Street Church Hall, 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.

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: 6.15-7.15pm.

Funkypump Fitness, Carmarthen: Funkypump 6.157.15pm.

Making Music The Gate, Cardiff. 6-10pm. Info 029 2048 3344. Learn how to play improvised rock and pop grooves and basic chord sequences. Beginners 6pm; improvers 8pm. Runs until Mon 10 July.

Musical Theatre The Riverfront, Newport. 6.158.30pm, £6/£5. Info 01633 656757. 7-11 years old: 6.15-7.15pm; 12 and up: 7.158.30pm.

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 4, Static Trapeze Level 3. 7.459.45pm: Aerial Hoop Level 2, Aerial Hoop Level 3, Static Trapeze Level 4.

Official Guided Tours – Every Day Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. £5/£4.

Info 029 2063 6464. Tours of the centre running daily for one hour. Advance booking recommended.

Pilates The Gate, Cardiff.

10.30am-1.30pm, £5.50-£7.50.

Info 029 2048 3344. Gentle fitness for the first hour, general for the second two. Runs until Mon 10 July.

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.

events EVERY MONDAY

Ballet The Gate, Cardiff.

6-9.30pm, £6.50/£5.50/£3 taster. Info 029 2048 3344.

Beginners 6-7pm; intermediate 7-8; advanced 8-9.30. Runs until Mon 10 July.

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

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.

Cardio Climb Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

6.30-7.15pm, £5. Info 029 2048 4880. High intensity workout combining cardio and

HMS Morris

Destination Popworld Lots of cocktails, 2-4-1 offers and, naturally, pop music.

Fridays + Saturdays Ain’t No Party Like A Popworld Party 8pm-3am, £2-£4 (Fri)/£3-£5 (Sat).

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GWYL FACH Y FRO Various locations, Barry Island, Sat 17 June Admission: free. Info: www.menterbromorgannwg.cymru There’s a cafe in Barry Island with a large board outside advertising it serves mussels, except it spells it ‘muscles’. With this in mind, it might be time for the area to abandon the English language altogether – and Menter Bro Morgannwg have the perfect alternative in mind. Welsh! Come to this all-day event they’re doing in an effort to raise the mother tongue’s profile in the Vale Of Glamorgan – not, traditionally, much of a hotbed of Welsh speakers – and do all manner of pleasant and wholesome things like live music-watching (Bryn Fôn a’r Band, Candelas, HMS Morris [pictured] and Eady Crawford); stall-browsing (local Welsh produce and gifts); beerdrinking (courtesy of Tomas a Lilford, who do a nice rosemary flavoured ale) and pizza-eating (Ffwrnes Pizza will sort you out on that front).

events 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.

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.

Acrobalance The Gate, Cardiff. 8-10pm, £7/£5.50. Info 029 2048 3344. Combining elements of partner lifts, poses and transitions that involve two and sometimes more people. Runs until Tue 11 July.

Adult Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

7-8.30pm, £10. 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 Show Girl & Burlesque Dancing Market House Dance Studio. Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff. 6.157.15pm, £6. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com. With Steph.

Belly Dance Market House Dance Studio. Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff. 8.15-9.15pm, £7/£30 for five sessions. Info www.cardiffcabaretclub.com.

With Steph.

Contemporary Dance The Gate, Cardiff. 6-8pm, £5-£6.50.

Info 029 2048 3344. Beginners 6-7pm; intermediate 7-8. Runs until Tue 11 July.

Drum’n’Bass Workout Adamsdown Day Centre, Cardiff. 7.30-8.30pm, £6. Info cardiffdrumnbassworkout@ gmail.com. New weekly event wherein you can do a high intensity workout to high intensity d’n’b (with a bit of jungle).

Extend The Gate, Cardiff.

10am, £3. Info 029 2048 3344.

Exercise to music, aimed at over-60s and people with a disability. Runs until Tue 11 July.

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 1.151.45pm; 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.

India Dance Wales – Bharatanatyam Classes Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 5-6pm. Info 07410 977427. Beginners’ class.

India Dance Wales Classes Rubicon Dance, Adamsdown, Cardiff. 6.30-8pm. Info 029 2075 1158. From beginners to grade 2 and for all ages and abilities.

Irish Dance The Gate, Cardiff. 6.15-8.15pm, £6.50/£5.50. Info 029 2048 3344. Taught by Riverdance and former Lord Of The Dance cast member Nicola Dempsey.

6.15-7.15pm: advanced; 7.158.15pm: intermediate; 8.159.15: beginners. Runs until Tue 11 July.

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.

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.

Music Tots The Riverfront, Newport. 9.45-10.30am, £3 per session. Info 01633 656757.

Energetic music and movement class.

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: 4.156pm: Jedis Ground Skills (11+). 5-6pm: Youth: Ewoks (5-7 years). 6-7pm: Hula Hoop. 6-8pm: Supervised Training, Creative Circus.

7.45-9.45pm: Mixed Aerial.

Off Centre Silver Dragon, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 5pm, free. Info 029 2063 6464. Adult drama group meeting weekly to develop performance skills.

Official Guided Tours – Every Day Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. £5/£4.

Info 029 2063 6464.

Open Mic Night Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Pilates: Beginners The Gate, Cardiff. 6.30-7.30pm, £5.50-£7.50. Info 029 2048 3344. Runs until Tue 11 July.

Pregnancy Yoga Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

6-7.15pm, £35/£30 (five-week

blocks). Info kalavathi@ omstudio.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 & Gallery, Cardiff (pickup point). 9am5.30pm, £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).

Tai Chi / Qigong Shibashi Continuation St Mary’s Church Hall, Canton, Cardiff.

6.30-7.30pm. Info 07772 657692.

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.

£30 (five weeks). Info 01633 656757.

Ceroc Dance Class Dockers Club, Swansea. 7.45pm-12am, £6/£8 freestyles. Info cerocsouthwales@gmail.com.

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.

Drop-in Exploring Drawing Workshop Workers Gallery, Ynyshir, Rhondda. 7-9pm, £10. Info 01443 682034. With tutor Chris Williams.

Funkypump Fitness 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.

On Sat 10, Penderyn Square in Merthyr Tydfil will host the Awesome Merthyr Chilli Fiesta, replete with peppers as red and firey as the man who gave the square its name. Around 15-20 stalls will feature, plus lots of food that may well be chillibased in the main.

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.

7-8pm, £5. 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. New weekly class, ZZQ being 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 Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

7-8.30pm, £10. Info 029 2048 4880.

A Tea Dance Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 2-4pm. Info 01495 243252.

Ceramics For Adults The Riverfront, Newport. 6-8pm,

Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Funkypump 6-7pm. Funkypump Fitness, Carmarthen: Funkypump 6.157.15pm.

Newport Youth Dance The Riverfront, Newport. 4.156.30pm, £3 per session. Info 01633 656757. 5-10 years old: 4.15-5pm; 11-14: 5-5.45pm; 14-18: 5.45-6.30pm.

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: 4.156pm: Youth: Jedi Acrobatics (11+); 6-8pm: Adult Acrobatics.

Official Guided Tours – Every Day Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. £5/£4.

Info 029 2063 6464.

Pilates The Gate, Cardiff.

7-7pm, £5.50-£7.50. Info 029 2048 3344. Beginners session 7pm; advanced 8pm. Runs until Wed 12 July.

Pub Quiz The Pilot, Penarth.

8pm. Info 029 2071 0615. With Hayley.

Salsa Classes Rhiwbina Recreational Club, Whitchurch, Cardiff. 8-10pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 07800 565651.

SeeWales Sightseeing Tour: Romans And Ruins National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff (pickup point). 9am5.30pm, £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.

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.

7-8pm, £5. 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.

7-8.30pm, £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.

American Line Dance The Gate, Cardiff. 1.15-3pm, £3.50.

Info 029 2048 3344. Runs until Thurs 13 July.

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.

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. 6.15-7.15pm, £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.

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 6.157.15pm.

Hand Drumming Group Canton Uniting Church, Cardiff. 6-6.50pm, £15 (five weeks). Info 01446 401209.

Hosted by Laura Bradshaw.

Hard Côr Japan Room, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, free. Info 029 2063 6464. Join the Centre’s urban choir who blend choral singing with hip-hop. Every Thursday and Saturday; contact takepart@wmc.org.uk for further details.

Hatch The Riverfront, Newport. 4.30-6.30pm, £8 per session/£60 per term/£220 per year. Info 01633 656757.

New youth theatre programme organised by the Tin Shed Theatre Co. Age 5-8 4.305.30pm; 13-21 5-6.30; 9-12 5.30-6.30.

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.

Official Guided Tours – Every Day Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. £5/£4.

Info 029 2063 6464.

Pilates Kings Road Studios, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.157.15pm, £7/£6. Info 07774 601544 / sarasclasses4@ gmail.com. Every Thursday.

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.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Golden Gower National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff (pickup point). 9am5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Thursday and Sunday. This one visits the Gower, Swansea Bay, Parc-Le-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.

Tai Chi / Qigong Moorland Rd Community Centre, Splott, Cardiff. 10.15-11.15am. Info 07772 657692.

The Alexander Technique M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11.30am-1pm, £16.

Info info@yogaskies.co.uk.

Small group class hosted by Mike Young.

Yoga Classes Cardiff Steiner BUZZ 65

* – recommended

events There was a time, not so long ago, when being a full time folk musician wasn’t an option that many young musicians would have contemplated, and those that did had to supplement their incomes with ‘proper jobs’. Fortunately things have changed and today’s vibrant scene, with its strongly developed infrastructure, provides endless opportunities for full time employment with many musicians finding endless ways to pay the mortgage.

Take, for example, Scottish harpist and singer Rachel Newton, who specialises in interpreting traditional folk songs in both English and Gaelic as well as writing and arranging her own music.

A founder member of three award-winning and influential contemporary folk bands – the Emily Portman Trio, The Furrow Collective and the all-female The Shee – Rachel also contributes to theatre and storytelling productions, has worked with the Scottish/Norwegian band Boreas and was one of the eight musicians who collaborated on The Elizabethan Session project.

If that wasn’t enough, Rachel (who also plays fiddle and viola) also writes and performs her own solo material, releasing the solo albums The Shadow Side in 2012, Changeling in 2014 and the critically acclaimed Here’s My Heart Come Take It in 2016. The same year she received a Hands Up For Trad Ignition Award for innovation and was awarded Instrumentalist Of The Year 2016 at the Scots Trad Music Awards; this year saw her take the coveted Musician Of The Year gong at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

In performance Rachel can be found either solo, with a trio featuring fiddler Lauren MacColl and percussionist Mattie Foulds, or with a full band where the trio is joined by trombonist Michael Owers and keyboardist Sarah Hayes. It’s the latter lineup that will accompany Rachel when she appears as part of the Roots Unearthed series at Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall on Tue 27 June.

Buzz also recommends: The East Pointers. Celtic tunes from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Pontardawe Arts Centre (Fri 9) The Ukulele Festival Of Wales. A celebration of the uke in all its glory. Gower Heritage Centre/Gower Inn, Parkmill. (Fri 23-Sun 25) Lowri Evans & Lee Mason. Tenth anniversary tour for respected Welsh duo. Burnett’s Hill Chapel, Martletwy. (Thurs 29) Please send your folk and roots listings to listings@buzzmag.co.uk or phone them in to 029 2022 6767

BUZZ 66

School, Llandaff North, Cardiff. 6-7.15 + 7.158.30pm, £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. This is now on every Friday and features street food, a wheel of fortune and “rubbish prizes”.

Cardiff Aikikai The Dojo, Roath, Cardiff. 6.30-10pm.

Info mcaluan@cardiffaikikai. co.uk.

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.

Funkypump Fitness Various venues across south Wales. 6am-7pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk.

Ware-house, Swansea: Bootcamp 6-7 + 10-11am; ABC 5-7pm; Kettlebell 5.156pm; 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.

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+); 6-7.30pm: Aerial Fitness; 6-8pm: Supervised Training.

Official Guided Tours – Every Day Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. £5/£4. Info 029 2063 6464.

Older Adult Dance/ Exercise The Riverfront, Newport. 11am-12pm, £3.

Info 01633 656757. Low impact dance and exercise class aimed at the over 50s.

Reggae Yoga Breakfast Club Anna-Loka, Cardiff.

7.30-8.30am, £10. Info 029 2049 7703. Vegan cafe launches new session, on every Friday, where you do yoga (with one Yogi Bare) and listen to reggae.

Rhiwbina Farmers Market The Butchers Arms, Rhiwbina. 10am-1pm, free.

Info 029 2022 7982.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Mines & Mountains National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff (pickup point). 9am5.30pm, £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.

Zumba: Dance Exercise Classes Sbectrwm Community Centre, Fairwater, Cardiff. 1-2pm.

Info 07891 712344. With Irene Davies.

EVERY SATURDAY

African Drumming Sessions Penarth Pier Pavilion. 10.30-11.30am, £5.

Info 0844 8700887.

Ballroom Dancing Class Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

10am kids / 11am adults, £4 per class. Info 01685 384111.

10am: kids; 11am: adults; 12pm: private tuition.

Children’s Climbing Classes Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

10-11.30am, £15. Info 029 2048 4880. Every Saturday and Sunday.

Family Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

12, 2 + 4pm, £15. Info 029 2048 4880. Every Saturday and Sunday.

Family Saturdays Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2063 6464. Craft workshops for kids and parents.

Funkypump Fitness Various venues across south Wales. 6am-7pm. Info www. funkypumpfitness.co.uk.

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 9.30-10.30am. Funkypump Fitness, Ammanford: Bag Circuit 10.30-11.30am.

Funkypump Fitness, Carmarthen: Boot Camp 8-9pm.

Hard Côr Sony Room, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 11am, free. Info 029 2063 6464.

India Dance Wales Classes Lewis Street Methodist Church, Ystrad Mynach. Info ym.natyam@ gmail.com. New classes from beginner to Grade 3 level, every Saturday morning – email to confirm specific times.

Mini Musical Theatre The Riverfront, Newport.

10-11am, £6. Info 01633 656757. Run by Defying Gravity, professional tutors will teach ballet and drama to kids aged 3-6.

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: 10-11.30am: Youth: Wookies (7-9 years); 11.30am-12.30pm: Youth: Ewoks (5-7 years); 12.302pm: Youth: Padawans (9-11 years); 2-4pm: Youth: Jedi Performance Skills (11+); 4-6pm: Youth: Jedi General Skills (11+).

Performance Academy Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

10am-1pm, £10. Info 01685 384111. Offering professional theatre and performance coaching in dance, acting, musical theatre and singing.

Roath Real Food Market Mackintosh Sports Club Car Park, Roath, Cardiff.

9.30am-1pm, free. Info 029 2022 7982.

SeeWales Sightseeing Tour: Romans And Ruins National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff (pickup point). 9am5.30pm, £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.

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.

Children’s Climbing Classes Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

10-11.30am, £15. Info 029 2048 4880.

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.

Family Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine's Park, Cardiff.

12, 2 + 4pm, £15. Info 029 2048 4880.

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

u – repeated

Trapeze Level 2; 3-5 + 5-7pm: Flying Trapeze Level 1; 7-9pm: Flying Trapeze Level 3. Official Guided Tours – Every Day Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. £5/£4. Info 029 2063 6464. *Riverside Farmers’ Market Fitzhammon Embankment, Cardiff. 10am2pm, free. Info 029 2022 7982. Always worth a trip.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Golden Gower National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff (pickup point). 9am5.30pm, £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.

THURSDAY 1

u3 Cool Things To Make With A Penny National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 12.30-3.30pm, free.

Info 01792 463980. uBecome A Legend!

National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon. 11am4pm, £2. Info 029 2057 3550.

Listen to stories of heroic Roman deeds and act out some of their battles. On tomorrow also.

Booklaunch: The Book Of Cardiff Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 7-10pm, free. Info 07933 844234. This photography book professes to document “a year in the cultural life of our amazing city,” and its launch features live music from Maddie Jones and hooping performances from Sparkles Hoop Troupe.

Creative Creatures Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. 12-4pm, £1. Info 029 2057 3650. Drop in to make cool creatures and beautiful bugs. uDinosaur Babies Family Workshops National Museum Cardiff. 11am, 1pm + 3pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. Find out more about baby dinosaurs and make a dinosaur egg craft to take home. On tomorrow also.

Drop In And Make Craft Afternoon The Drill Hall, Chepstow. 2-4pm, £2. Info 01291 625981. Half-term activity, suitable for kids of all ages. uDylan’s Travels: Family Self-Led Activities Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

10am-4pm, free. Info 01792 463980. themed self-led creative writing activities, puzzles, word searches and crafts all inspired Dylan’s adventures and travels. Also on Sun 4.

First Thursday Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £2.50. Info 029 2030 4400.

Readings by Emily Blewitt, Maggie Harries and Kate Brown.

Football: 2017 Women’s Champions League Final – Lyon v Paris SaintGermain Car Park B, Cardiff City Stadium. 7.45pm, £6/£3 kids. Info www.uwclf2017. co.uk. uGeneration Game Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. Info 029 2047 5475. Find out about the many different sources of energy we rely on

events and why Hero was almost 2,000 years ahead of his time. (Until Sun 4) Half Term Fun Day Penarth Pier Pavilion. 10am4pm, free. Info 0844 8700887. uHalf Term Fun – Nature National History Museum, St Fagans. 12-4pm, free (small charge for some activities).

Info 029 2057 3500. (Until Sun 4) uHay Festival 2016 Various venues, Hay-On-Wye. 8.30am-11pm. Info 01497 822629. The full programme is at www.hayfestival.com, you’ll have to make do with highlights from Buzz I’m afraid. Today this includes Marcus Brigstocke, a masterclass from the BBC on “how to break into the media” for bitter lols, Wilf Merttens, Jonathan Porritt, anniversary tributes to Harry Potter and The Famous Five, Bella Bathurst, Roger Penrose, Ken Dodd, George Monbiot & Ewan McLennan’s folk music project, Emmy The Great and Roy Strong. Fri 2: Alan Johnson, Gillian Cross, Tony Parsons being a twat, Gemma Cairney, Anthony Horowitz, Akala, Will Self, Lemn Sissay, Matthew Engel, Monty Don, Cosey Fanni Tutti being a legend and speaking to John Grant (who is also DJing later), Ava Vidal and Baby Queens. Sat 3: Jess Phillips, AC Grayling, Chris Tarrant, Simon Amstell, Jenny Valentine, Reni EddoLodge (whose talk is titled, perhaps optimistically in this instance, Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race), Floella Benjamin, Ian Rankin, Peter Bazalgette, Bernie Sanders, Michael Sheen, Simon Armitage, Jeanette Winterson, Nina Conti and Inna Modja. Sun 4: Julia Leigh, Hanif Kureishi, Stevan Moffat, Julian Clary, Tony Adams, Julia Hobsbawm, Bill Bailey, John Simpson, Tom Dyckhoff, Ken Loach, Robert Plant and Adam Hart-Davis..

(Until Sun 4) June Holiday Workshops Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am-12.30pm + 1-3pm, free. Make your own playdough and create colourful botanical designs inspired by the Gallery’s ceramics collection. For ages 4-14. uLandscape Detectives Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. 12-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3650.

Explore the Coity Tip – so called because it was a tip, yet now looks nice thanks to NATURE – and hunt for treasures of the natural world. (Until Sun 4) uMakers Market National History Museum, St Fagans.

10am-5pm, free (small charge for some activities to cover cost of materials).

Info 029 2057 3500. Meet the makers and find out more about their crafts as they run workshops and demonstrations throughout the week.

(Until Sun 4) uPawprints In The Summer Sky Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee. Info 029 2047 5475. Discover all the animal shapes hidden in the constellations. Suitable for under-7s. (Until Sun 4, then every Saturday and Sunday

until Sun 25) Poems & Pints Browns, Laugharne. 7.30pm, free. Info 01994 427688. With guest host John Bilsborough.

Soft Play Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon.

12-4pm, £1. Info 029 2057 3650. For kids under five and the adults who accompany them. 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 4) Tiny Lego Adventures Half Term Workshop Mission Gallery, Swansea.

11am-2pm, £6. Info 01792 652016. uUEFA Champions Festival Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff Bay. Free. Info 029 2043 5830. Four-day bill of entertainment to compensate, or not, for the city centre being like a prison during this time. It’ll feature live music and DJs, displays of signed shirts and that plus a floating pitch – which is actually in the water, according to the artist’s impression,

Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am-3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk.

Attack! Pro Wrestling: Press Start 5 Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff.

7pm, £14. Info 029 2037 3144. Sold out sorry.

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.

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.

Friday Talk: New Discoveries In The Archaeology Conservation Lab National Museum Cardiff. 1.05pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. By Tabatha Barton. Book in advance please. uHedgehog Helper Morning Venue TBC, nr Builth Wells. £20. Info 01874 749092. A Good Day Out event. Also on Thurs 8, Sun 11, Tue 20, Sun 25 and

One of several one-day events in south Wales this summer encouraging you to sample boutique spirits in relatively sensible quantities, the Cardiff Gin & Vodka Festival is inside City Hall on Sat 10. There are 80 gins and 40 vodkas to select from, say the organisers. and will host the Ultimate Champions Match on Fri 2 featuring some big name ex-pros. They had Roberto Carlos and Luis Figo last year, but that was in Milan, where they might have actually wanted to go. (Until Sun 4) uUrdd National Eisteddfod Maes Y Eisteddfod, Felindre Rd, Bridgend. 7am, £13 per days/£5 under-16s and competitors. Info helo@urdd. org. Annual youth-oriented festival for/about/promoting the Welsh language and culture visits Bridgend this year. Features various concerts and other performances across six days; visit www. urdd.cymru for a fuller programme. (Until Sat 3) Welsh Wrestling Miners’ Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £12/£9. Info 01495 227206.

In Aberdare tomorrow; Abertillery on Fri 16.

What Was Happening 100 Years Ago In Cardiff?

Cardiff Story, The Hayes, Cardiff. 11am-3.30pm, free.

Info 029 2034 6214. VCS Cymru’s youth volunteers investigate stories from the Cardiff home front.

FRIDAY 2

Angela’s Summer Recipe Collection Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch

Wed 28.

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.

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.

Little Mice Club: Summer National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10.30am-12pm, free. Info 01792 463980.

Bilingual playtime for babies/ toddlers.

Sand Sculptures Family Drop-In Workshop Mission Gallery, Swansea (meeting point). 11am-2pm, free. Info 01792 652016. This takes place on the beach. Doesn’t say which one. I guess the closest one to the gallery that also has sand on. uSkynet Wales LAN Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. £40 weekend. Info 01874 611622. Forty-eight-hour PC gaming tournament. (Until Sun 4) uSt Donats Castle Tour St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan. 2-5pm, £4-£7.

Info 01446 799100. Also on Sun 18.

TJ Higgs Savoy Theatre,

Monmouth. 7.30pm, £18.50.

Info 01600 772467. Psychic medium whose career to date has included “helping the police in some difficult cases”. Does this count as being a snitch, answers on a postcard etc.

Welsh Wrestling Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. 6pm, £12/£9. Info 0800 0147111.

SATURDAY 3

Bar Boot Sale Le Pub, Newport. 12-4.30pm, free.

Info socialclubvintagenewport@ gmail.com. Vintage and craft fair.

Bookbinding Workshop Mission Gallery, Swansea.

10am-4pm, £22. Info 01792 652016. For ages 16+.

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.

Craft Fair St Mary’s Church, Swansea. 10.30am-4pm, free.

Info ariancrafts@hotmail. co.uk.

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.

Fleece To Yarn Location TBC, Crickhowell. £45. Info 01874 749092. Be guided through the process from shearing a sheep to spinning your own yarn on a traditional hill farm in the Brecon Beacons National Park. A Good Day Out event.

Football: UEFA Champions League Final Principality Stadium, Cardiff.

7.45pm. Info 08442 777888.

Just trying to find out how much tickets to this thing cost is a total arseache, so god knows what it’s like trying to buy one. I was going to put the price on here and treat it as if you could just rock up on the day and grab one from the box office. uHands-On Art Club Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen. 11am1pm + 2-4pm, £20 per term.

Info 01267 222775. Aimed at ages 8-11, this term the theme will be making art outdoors and will include land art, printmaking with natural materials and making art on the beach. Also on Sat 17 this month.

June Holiday Workshops Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am-2pm, free.

Drop-in event inviting you to explore what the Glynn Vivian has to offer families and children.

Meet The Beekeepers National History Museum, St Fagans. 11am-1pm + 2-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500.

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.

Saturday Craft Workshop For Adults Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 10.30am1pm, free. Info 01792 463980.

Monthly session. This workshop will explore the idea of Dylan’s ‘world within the world of the sea-town’ by creating miniature needle felt worlds.

Trial A Sheep Dog Morning Location TBC, Brecon Beacons. £45. Info 01874 749092. Work with a Welsh sheep dog on a scenic hill farm and learn the commands to move sheep around the field. A Good Day Out event. 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.

Vintage Market Caldicot Town Centre. Info 07716 557289.

Weber Art Of Charcoal Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10am2pm, £99. Info 01443 222716.

SUNDAY 4

Cardiff Raft Race Llandaff Rowing Club. The Boathouse, Cardiff (starting point). 9am3pm, £50 to enter per team.

Info info@gthc.org.uk. A George Thomas Hospice Care charity event.

Cardiff Storytelling Circle Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

8pm, £4. Info 029 2030 4400.

Cwmbran Craft Fayre Our Lady’s School Hall, Cwmbran. 1-4pm. Info cwmbran_crafts@hotmail. co.uk. Every first Sunday of the month.

Lee Skeet Supper Club Brewdog, Cardiff. £40. Info 029 2023 1684. Cornish seafood specialist with March’s instalment of a series of supper clubs which run until July. Book here: www. leeskeet.com/shop. 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 Sun 18.

Roller Derby: Tiger Bay Brawlers v Middlesbrough Roller Derby House Of Sport, Cardiff. 3-6pm. Info tigerbaybrawlers@gmail. com. One of two WFTDAsanctioned games this month for the Brawlers, the other being on Sat 24 against Dublin Roller Derby. Get proper names already, both of youse.

Stretch Revive And Relax Workshop Pontcanna Dojo, Cardiff. 10am-12pm. Info 07774 601544 / sarasclasses4@gmail.com.

MONDAY 5

uAdvanced Cabaret Course Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff. 8-9.15pm, £7/£60 for full course. Info info@ burlesquecardiff.co.uk. With Stephanie. Every Monday until 26 June.

Art Talk: Vernon Jones Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl.

7pm, £4.50. Info 01656 815995.

Gwd Mondays: Musical Bingo Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 7933. uPicture Makers Creative

Photographic Courses The Environment Centre, Swansea. 7.30-9pm, £80 (six weeks). Info 07960 184923.

Run by Sheree Murphy (as is the equivalent course in Pontardawe tomorrow). Every Tuesday until 10 July. uPilates And Core Stretch Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff. 6.45-7.45pm, £30 for six sessions. Info info@ burlesquecardiff.co.uk. With Stephanie. Every Monday until 12 June. 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 19 (it takes place here every first and third Monday of the month).

TUESDAY 6

uArt Course – Painting And Drawing Penarth Pier Pavilion. 10am-12.30pm, £105 (10 weeks). Info 0844 8700887. Led by Pauline Williams. Every Tuesday until 4 July.

Belly Dance Class Talent Shack, Penarth Road, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £7/£30 for five weeks. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com. With Stephanie.

Cricket: ICC Champions Trophy – England v New Zealand SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff. 10.30am.

Info 029 2040 9380. The first of four matches in this series taking place here this month. uEarly Years Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

10.30-11.30am, free. Explore movement, sound, language, textures, shapes and colours with kids aged 6 months to 3 years. Also on Tue 20. uExplore Books National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10.30am, free. Info 01792 463980. Discuss books and authors in a casual setting (no obligation to have read the books in advance).

Also on Tue 13, Tue 20 and Tue 27 this month.

Nataly Churchill Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly.

7pm, £10/£8 adv. Info 07512 237983. Spirit medium. uPicture Makers Creative Photographic Courses Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30-9pm, £80 (six weeks). Info 07960 184923.

Every Tuesday until 11 July. uQigong Class Bute Park, Cardiff. 6-7pm, pay by donation. Info 07779 151916.

Every Tuesday in May, June and July. More at www. bringingbalance.co.uk.

WEDNESDAY 7

uBeginners Show Girl And Burlesque Dancing Talent Shack, Penarth Road, Cardiff. 3.30-4.45pm, £7/£60 for full course. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com. With Stephanie. Classes continue on Wed 10 and are then on every Wednesday (from 6.307.45pm) until 28 June.

Elliecoptor Hoops Hoop Jam / Skill Share Cardiff & Vale College, Cardiff. 7-8pm, £5. Info 07934 011061. First and third Wednesday of every month. Now in a new venue.

Gardening Course: What To Do Now In The Garden BUZZ 67

* – recommended

events

BAFTA CYMRU JUNE 2017 June will be a great month for those wanting to know more about opportunities to work in the film and TV industry. We have two events that will offer insights into film and television production and both are for our members and the public.

Do you have an idea for a film script and need some help to make it ready for the market? Samantha Horley’s workshop will draw on her 20 years’ experience in sales and distribution where she worked on titles such as Memento, The Big Lebowski, The Blair Witch Project and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.

The one-day workshop will offer top tips and a chance to pitch your project for feedback. You can book a place on our What’s On pages.

We’re also hosting an intimate session at Chapter with new Cardiff-based company Wildflame – a chance to hear about the companies projects and plans to work with Welsh creative media professionals and ask questions. You can also send in questions via Twitter for us to pose to CEO Paul Islwyn Thomas and Development Exec Connie Fisher.

Earlier in June, we will be joining forces with Ffilm Cymru Wales to celebrate a Welsh film, Queerama, opening the prestigious Sheffield Documentary Festival this year and to gather Welsh docheads for a drink – if you are attending the festival come along!

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 Fri 1 Sept and tickets will go on sale on Sat 26 Aug for the Awards – which will once again be hosted at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, on Sun 8 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 Sat 1 June, with new applications flooding in from students, career starters and professionals. If you would like to apply to join the other 600 members please have a look at all the benefits of membership, including free cinema, on our website.

Info: www.bafta.org/wales

BUZZ 68

National History Museum, St Fagans. 10am-1pm, £30. Info 029 2057 3500.

Glynn Vivian Young People Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 3.30-4.30pm, free.

Info 01792 516900. A group for anyone aged 16-24 with a passion for art and the enthusiasm to inspire others. Every Wednesday this month. uOpen Level Chair Dance Talent Shack, Penarth Road, Cardiff. 4.45-6pm, £7/£60 for full course. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com. With Stephanie. Every Wednesday (from 8-9.15pm) until 28 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. uSheep Trekking Venue TBC, Brecon Beacons. £35/£25 under-16s. Info 01874 749092. Spend the afternoon in a 200-acre organic farm.

A Good Day Out Event. Also on Sat 10, Sun 11, Wed 14, Sun 18, Wed 21, Sun 25 and Wed 28.

Swing Time Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Penarth. 8.30pm, £5/£4.40 adv. Info donnie@ donniejoemusic.com. Swing and lindy hop night with live band Donnie Joe’s American Swing plus The Medicine Man DJing. Also on Wed 21, with a different live band.

THURSDAY 8

Deconstructing Modus with The Wild Beer Co. Small Bar, Cardiff. 7-10pm, £12. Info cardiff@ thebigbeerco.com. Wild Beer arec a brewery in Somerset that make hella cool and tasty beers using weird ingredients.

Andy Gibson from the company will take you through the creative process behind one of their beers, Modus Operandi. This is obviously total nerd stuff but probably dead interesting if you’re that way inclined. uHowl Mozarts, Swansea.

8pm, free. Info 01792 649984.

Poetry open mic, every second and third Thursday of the month (also on Thurs 15).

Open Mic Night Imperial Hotel, Merthyr. 7.30pm. Info mjenkins1927@gmail.com.

With special guest Siôn Tomos Owen.

Potters Music & Culture Pub Quiz The Last Resort, Swansea. 6-9pm, £1 to enter.

Info www. thelastresortswansea.com.

Hosted by Gareth Potter and Ben Potter. This venue was closed for all of May so you might want to check that it’s back open again before you venture out to this.

Ship Lovers Group National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

12-2.30pm, free. Info 01792 463980. Come and learn about the modern history of ships through the cameras of our members, on the second Saturday of every month.

SWDFAS Lecture: The Geography Of Art Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2pm, £6.

Info 029 2030 4400.

Young Art Force Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

11am-2pm, free. Info 01792 516900. Open art class for anyone aged 14 to 24 to explore and respond to the

Gallery’s exhibitions and collections.

FRIDAY 9

Craft-Gin The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.308.30pm, £20. Info 07445 200707. Creative workshop hosted by Twin Made, who have further events later today, tomorrow, Sat 17, Sat 24 and Sun 25.

Cricket: ICC Champions Trophy – New Zealand v Bangladesh SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff. 10.30am.

Info 029 2040 9380.

Cyanotype Print Making Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-1pm, £45.

Info 01600 714595.

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.

Exploring The Collection Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2-3 + 3.30-4.30pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Explore the work involved in archiving and storing information and images of the GVAG’s collection.

Friday Talk: A Day In The Life Of A Natural History Curator National Museum Cardiff. 1.05pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. By Jennifer Gallichan. Book in advance please. uMuseum Ghost Walk National History Museum, St Fagans. 9.30pm, £15. Info 029 2057 3500. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings.

Also on Fri 16, Fri 23 and Fri 30.

Supper Club – Italian Night Octavo’s Wine Bar, Cardiff Bay. 7-10pm, £19.99.

Info 029 2049 1220. Meet friends or make new ones while enjoying home-cooked food.

Tea Dance St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

2pm, £5. Info 01446 799100.

With Alan Taylor.

Toddler Days Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £5.50 adults/free under-4s Info 029 2047 5475.

Monthly term-time events for toddlers and their parents, this month’s theme being ‘animaltastic’.

SATURDAY 10

uBoutique Gift Markets Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am5.30pm. Info 029 2087 7959.

On tomorrow also, plus Sat 24 and Sun 25.

Caerwent Craft Fayre Caerwent Village Hall, Monmouthshire. 2.30-4.30pm.

Info cwmbran_crafts@ hotmail.co.uk. Every second Saturday of the month.

Cardiff Gin & Vodka Festival Cardiff City Hall.

12-4.30pm + 6-10.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01239 621200.

Featuring 80 gins and 40 vodkas. Ticket price gets you four samples and some goodie bag tat. uChepstow Farmers’ Market Cormeilles Square, Chepstow. 8.30am-1pm, free.

Info 01291 626370. Every second and fourth Saturday of the month (also on Sat 27 in May). uDestination Space Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee.

Info 029 2047 5475. Celebrate Tim Peake’s mission to the

International Space Station with a fun-filled family show.

(Every Saturday and Sunday until Sun 25) Drop-In Knotwork & Beadwork Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am-4pm, £5.

Info 029 2048 4611. Monthly class, normally on the second Saturday of the month.

Farmers’ Market Twyn Community Centre, Caerphilly. 9.30am, free. Info 01656 658963. Every second Saturday of the month.

Funky Craft Fayre Ostreme Hall, Mumbles, Swansea.

10am-4pm. Info nigel. mason@ntlworld.com. Taking place here on the second Saturday of each month all year. uLights In The Sky Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee. Info 029 2047 5475. Join us as we look up into the night sky to explore the many lights that have fascinated humans for centuries. (Every Saturday and Sunday until Sun 25) 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 £2000. 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. 10am4pm, free. Info 07790 298913.

On the second Saturday of every month. uOpen Day The Sustainable Studio, Curran Road, Cardiff.

12-4pm, free. Info info@ thesustainablestudio.com.

Also on Wed 14, from 4-8pm. uPremium Llandaff Ghost Walk City Cross, Cathedral Green, Llandaff (meeting point). 9.30pm, £11. Info 07538 878609. By Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Sat 17 and Sat 24.

Saturday Adult Art Classes Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am-4pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Simple Skirt With Pockets The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 10am-1pm, £30. Info 07445 200707. Workshop hosted by Twin Made.

Spoken Word Saturday Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 3pm, £3.

Info 0845 2263510. uStreet Food Circus Roath Yard, City Road, Cardiff.

10am-10pm, £3/£2 before 8/ free before 12. Info www. streetfoodcardiff.com. Two days (on tomorrow also) of food trucks/stalls, music, street art and vintage clothes sold by the kilo. uTalk At 4 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 4pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. Exhibition tours hosted by artists Richard Higlett and Thomas Williams.

The Awesome Merthyr Chilli Fiesta Penderyn

u – repeated

Square, Merthyr Tydfil. 10am5pm, free. Info 01685 384111.

Featuring 15-20 chilli traders, plus lots to eat... if you like chilli that is.

The Big Walk 2017 Principality Stadium, Cardiff (starting point). 8am, free.

Info chris.leyshon@ prostatecymru.com. Charity walk to Kenfig Hill Rugby Club and back again, raising funds for Prostate Cymru.

Ugly, Lovely: Dylan Thomas’s Swansea & Carmarthenshire Of The 1950s In Pictures 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea.

7pm, £5 adv. Info 01792 472555. Talk by Hilly Janes about her new book of the same title.

Walk For Parkinson’s Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay (starting point). 9am, £10 to register. Info 029 2087 7900. With optional distances of either 2.8 or 6.2 miles.

Wartime Bridgend Bridgend town centre. 10am-5pm, free (£5 for 1940s dance). Info 01656 815757. WWII nostalgia, for reasons unspecified.

Toy soldier painting, cooking, poppy making, “school life” and period games are all promised, along with a 1940sera dance, live music and a Winston Churchill lookalike for you to greet as you see fit. uWeber American Barbecue Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan.

10am-2pm, £99. Info 01443 222716. Also on Sun 18.

Why Knot Macrame The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

2-5pm, £25. Info 07445 200707.

SUNDAY 11

All About Drones National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

11am-4pm, free. Info 01792 463980. Not the ones that murder people in the Middle East, but the smaller models which, in this case, are used

by South Wales Police to help catch criminals/intimidate non-criminals.

Barry Island Handmade Market Barry Island train station. 11am-3pm, free. Info facebook.com/ barryislandhandmademarket.

Every second Sunday of the month.

Byzantine Feast Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £170. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Chapter Sewcial Super Sunday Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 1-5pm, £20. Info 029 2030 4400. Kids aged 8-14 can make an applique cushion.

Ten spaces available in total.

Cycling: Human Race Dragon Ride Margam Park, nr Port Talbot (starting point). £47.50-£92.50 to enter. Info 01639 881635. This cycling race is presented, if that’s the right word, by Le Tour De France and aims to offer a comparable riding experience in the UK. Distances of 100, 153, 230 and 305km are on the table.

Eternity With Love Wedding Fayre Margam Park, nr Port Talbot. 10am, free. Info 01639 881635.

Kidsmarkets Family Sale Paget Rooms, Penarth. 11am12.30pm, £1/kids free. Info 07760 802088. Featuring 30

events stalls of great quality new and pre-loved baby and children’s items.

Marina Market National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

10am-4pm, free. Info 01792 463980.

Mode-USW Graduate Fashion Show 2017 The Depot, Cardiff. 6pm, £5. Info modegraduateshow@gmail. com. Catwalk show featuring the final collections of USW Fashion Design graduates.

Motorcycle Show Swansea Museum. 11am-5pm. Info 01792 653763.

Penydarren Steam Locomotive National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

12-3.30pm, free. Info 01792 463980.

Souls Awakening Mind Body Spirit Event Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 10am4.30pm, £3/free kids. Info 01656 815995. Over 40 stalls featuring holistic therapies, natural health, clairvoyant abd tarot readers, crystals, jewellery, aura photography, psychic/spiritual art, sound therapy, gifts, drums, clothing and more. 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 25, and every fortnight after that.

Unitarian Service National History Museum, St Fagans.

2-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500. In Penrhiw Chapel.

MONDAY 12

uBeginners Saxophone Class Upstairs at The Park Hotel, Barry. 7-9pm, £15. Info 07806 625717. With Beverley from Sax For Fun. Every other Monday; also on Mon 15 and Mon 26 this month.

Cricket: ICC Champions Trophy – Pakistan v Sri Lanka SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff. 10.30am.

Info 029 2040 9380. 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 on Mon 26 in June).

TUESDAY 13

uGolf: Ladies’ British Amateur Championship Pyle & Kenfig Golf Club, Bridgend. Free to spectate.

Info 01334 460000. Featuring 144 golfers to start, with the final taking place on Sat 17 at 1pm. (Until Sat 17) Poetry Nights Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm. Info 01792 863722. uSea Shanty Sessions Look Out Cafe Bar, Cardiff.

7.15-9.30pm, £30 for whole series (drop-in negotiable).

Info 07952 752823. Led by Pauline Dow, these sessions are also on Tue 27 June, Tue 11 July and Sun 23 July.

Spirituality Cafe The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, pay by donation. Info 029 2048 3344.

Second Tuesday of every month.

Storytelling Suppers: The Devil’s Noodles Kemi’s, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 7pm, £14.

Info 029 2037 2055. With spe-

cial guest Dan Yashinsky, who is in Llanelli tomorrow. Entry fee includes food.

WWDFAS Lecture: Creating A Splash – The St. Ives Society Of Artists 192752 Queens Hall, Narberth.

11am, £10. Info 01834 869323.

Lecture by David Tovey.

WEDNESDAY 14

Bike First Aid Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.30-9pm, £12. Info hannah@ greencityevents.co.uk. Hosted

by Green City Events. uElliecoptor Hoops Hula Hoop Class Cardiff & Vale College, Cardiff. 7-8pm, £5.

Info elliecoptor@hotmail. com. Second and fourth Wednesday of every month.

Now in a new venue.

Open Mic Spoken Word Extravaganza 41 Ye Olde Murenger, Newport. 7.30pm, £5/£3. Info 01633 263977.

Featuring writers Katherine Stansfield and Emily Blewitt.

Fundraiser by CWTSH to help run the former Stow Hill Library. uScriveners Writers’ Group Royal Exchange, Brynmawr. 8pm. Info 01495 753629. Also on Wed 28.

Stranger At The Door Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £6 adv. Info 0845 2263510.

Storytelling with Dan Yashinsky.

Tea Dance Miners Theatre, Ammanford. 2pm, £5 adv. Info 0845 2263510.

Wear And Tears – The Textile Conservator’s Trials And Triumphs The Drill Hall, Chepstow. 7.30pm, £4/£3. Info 01291 625981.

Talk by Constanze Zimmer of Textile Conservation Ltd in Bristol, about how the Indian gown now featuring in Chepstow Museum’s special exhibition was conserved to make its star appearance at the British Museum possible.

THURSDAY 15

uEssential Llandaff Ghost Walk City Cross, Cathedral Green, Llandaff (meeting point). 9.30pm, £8.

Info 07538 878609. By Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Thurs 22.

FRIDAY 16

Charity Craft Fair Community Hall, Neath.

10.30am-3.30pm. Info ariancrafts@hotmail.co.uk.

Friday Talk: From Herbarium To Hayfever Treatment – The Life And Work Of Harold Augustus Hyde (1892-1973) National Museum Cardiff. 1.05pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951.

By Heather Pardoe. Book in advance please. uLansdowne Beer Festival The Lansdowne, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2022 1312. On this evening and all day tomorrow, I don’t have that much info about this but I can tell you the live music stuff. ACAB are playing this evening, from 9-11pm; tomorrow, in chronological order, we have Ffion Wyn Sax, Chris Ridgeway, Bryony Sier, Danielle Lewis, Tomos Lewis, Peyote, Jonny Morgan and Live Encounter.

Lost Lands Rooftop Cinema: Human Traffic Glam, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10. Info 029 2022 9311.

Screening, up on this nightclub’s roof terrace, of ‘cult’ clubbing film in the city it was filmed in, also the only city where it would be screened.

Open Space: Matt Johnson Central Library Hub, Cardiff.

5.45pm, free. Info 029 2038 2116. Thriller author with a new book, Deadly Game.

Book in advance please.

So You Think You’re Smart? Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7pm, free. Info 01495 243252. Quiz night, every third Friday of the month. uSwanseabertawe Multilingual Festival Volcano, Swansea. 7.30pm, free. Info www.volcanotheatre. co.uk. Poetry, music and discussion, with two final sessions this month. today: Maram El-Massri, Menna Elfyn, Humberto Gatica and Sharon Morris. Fri 23: Jean Portante, Zoë Skoulding and

714595.

Get A Wriggle On! National Museum Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2039 7951. Worm-themed activities for families, related to a new exhibition here, Wriggle – The Wonderful World Of Worms.

Great Get Together Garden Party Mackintosh Sports & Social Club, Roath, Cardiff.

12-5pm, free. Info 029 2049 4697. Food, live entertainment and kids’ activities, intended as a tribute to Jo Cox. Gwyl Fach Y Fro Various locations, Barry Island. Free.

Info www. menterbromorgannwg.cymru.

One-day festival on a Welsh language tip presented by Menter Bro Morgannwg.

Featuring live music from Bryn Fôn a’r Band, Candelas, HMS Morris, Eady Crawford, Band Nantgarw and Band Jazz Rhys Taylor, plus a play area, bubble bikes, circus

A day titled Beats, Eats & Treats is on Barry Island promenade on Sat 24. Beats: live music. Eats: food and drink stalls, a bar, cooking demos. Treats: walkabout entertainment, beach games, craft stalls. Entry fee: to you, madam, it's free.

Jose Cifuentes.

Welsh Wrestling The Met, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £12/£9.

Info 01495 355800.

SATURDAY 17

Brecon Craft Fair Market Hall, Brecon. 9am-4.30pm.

Info 01495 753782. Every third Saturday of the month.

Cardiff World Naked Bike Ride Museum Avenue, Cardiff (starting point). 2.30-5.30pm, free. Info 029 2022 8883.

Annual celebration of bikes and bodies. On the Facebook event page someone has asked “can you keep your helmet on?” but his attempt at a dick joke has been rebuffed in the form of a serious answer about an actual bike helmet.

Circle Skirt The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 10am1pm, £30. Info 07445 200707.

Workshop hosted by Twin Made. uFather’s Day Football Freestyling National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

11.30am, 12pm, 2pm + 3pm, free. Info 01792 463980. With Welsh freestyler Ash Randall, one of the top names at those circus-y ball-juggling tricks.

On tomorrow also. uFelt Making Workshops National History Museum, St Fagans. 11am-1pm + 2-4pm, £2. Info 029 2057 3500. On tomorrow also.

Ffiliffest Caerphilly Castle.

11am-3pm, free. Info 01443 336000. Welsh language festival of arts, language and music, in partnership with Menter Iaith Caerffili.

Foraging: A Wild Taste Of The Hedgerow Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth.

10am-4pm, £95. Info 01600

skills and more.

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 30 Sept and Sat 18 Nov this year.

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 £750.

NHS Roadshow National History Museum, St Fagans.

11am-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500. A day both displaying and curating objects relating to the history of the NHS, in an attempt to create a ‘virtual museum’, or ‘virtually confined to a museum’ to give it its full title. By the law of averages some people who will attend this event voted Tory the week before.

Saturday Morning Kitchen Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10.30am12.30pm, £15. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk. Cookery demonstration with tasters.

Swansea Festival of Stitch Workshop Swansea Museum. £15. Info 01792 653763. Ring 07715 711798 or email robi. thomas@btinternet.com for more info on this one.

Tennis Festival House Of Sport, Cardiff. 9.45am-12pm, £10/£5 members/£10 families.

Info 01494 888407. Hosted in psrtnership with Tennis Wales The Great Get Together St John’s Churchyard Garden, The Hayes, Cardiff. 10am3pm, free. Info 029 2034

6214. Drop-in event hosted by Cardiff Story.

T-Shirt / Memory Quilt The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

2-5pm, £40. Info 07445 200707. Workshop hosted by Twin Made.

Viva La Rum: Cardiff Tramshed, Cardiff. 12-4 + 4-9pm, £11 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. Featuring “the widest rum selection in the UK” (citation needed), a reggae band and steel drums.

Weaving Without A Loom Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am-4.30pm, £75. Info 029 2048 4611. With Laura Thomas. uWoolly Weekend National History Museum, St Fagans.

11am-1pm + 2-4pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3500. Meet sheep, see some expert spinning in action and have a go at family-friendly activities.

On tomorrow also.

SUNDAY 18

Bryn Meadows Caerphilly 10K/2K Crescent Road, Caerphilly (starting point).

8am. Info 10k@caerphilly. gov.uk. Annual event attracting over 2,000 runners of all abilities.

Father’s Day FEASTival Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. 11am4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3650.

Featuring local food and drink stalls, demonstrations, entertainment for the whole family and special tours.

Father’s Day Special Wartime Horrible History Stories National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, Llandysul. 11.30am-3.30pm, free. Info 0300 1112333. Hear tales from our time-travelling soldier and handle some genuine World War One objects.

Make A Green Wood Chair Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-5pm, £115.

Info 01600 714595.

PPODD Market Paget Rooms, Penarth. £1/kids free.

Info www.ppodd.com. Pop-up contemporary market full of carefully curated hand-picked stalls.

Pugfest Margam Park, nr Port Talbot. 10am-4pm, £8/£4 kids/under-3s free. Info 01639 881635. A whole day of events based around the noted dog breed. Plus a jousting demonstration. Not sure if pugs will be doing the jousting, or people trying stab each other with pugs.

Rowing: Celtic Longboat Regatta Llangrannog & Cilborth Beaches, Ceredigion.

10am, free to spectate. Info www.welshsearowing.org.uk.

Sing For Water Cardiff Oval Basin, Cardiff Bay. 12pm, free.

Info 07952 752823. Choirs, soloists, drummers and musicians will be performing non-stop all around the Bay. Organised by Pauline Down.

Vintage Motorcycles Caerphilly Castle. 10am4.30pm, £7.95/£5.20. Info 01443 336000. Hosted by the South Wales Vintage Motorcycle Club.

MONDAY 19

uAdult Learners Week National History Museum, St Fagans. 10.30am-4pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3500. Chat to staff and volunteers as they demonstrate their conservation and craft skills. (Until Fri 23)

uAdult Learners Week: Craft Taster Sessions National History Museum, St Fagans. 3-4.30pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500. Related to the above, but more hands-on.

Itinerary: Mon 19 Rag Rugs; Tue 20 Willow Weaving; Wed 21 Decorative Copper Work; Thurs 22 Rag Rugs; Fri 23 Coil Pots. (Until Fri 23) Gwd Mondays Quiz Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7933.

TUESDAY 20

Philosophy Cafe The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, pay by donation. Info 029 2048 3344.

Third Tuesday of every month.

WEDNESDAY 21

Ask The Expert Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2-3pm, free. Info 01792 516900. Come and meet the conservation team and find out how to care for your own artworks.

MediWales Connects Mercure Holland House, Cardiff. Info 029 2047 3456.

The first of four events in this area that are part of the Wales Festival Of Innovation, this is an all-Wales NHS collaboration conference.

Music Networking Event: Introductions The Moon, Cardiff. 7-9pm, free. Info info@thefullmooncardiff.com.

Anyone in the local music industry is invited to introduce themselves and outline what they do, if they’re looking to collaborate with others, need help with anything or are offering services etc.

Sing-A-Long-A Wicker Man The Riverfront, Newport.

7.45pm, £7. Info 01633 656757. This is hosted by David Bramwell and Eliza Skelton and gives you the chance to sing along to the songs from The Wicker Man. Fair play if that sounds like your thing, but it’s not exactly The Jungle Book is it? There aren’t actually many songs.

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, £12. Info hannah@ greencityevents.co.uk. Hosted

by Green City Events.

Swing Time Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Penarth. 8.30pm, £5/£4.40 adv. Info donnie@ donniejoemusic.com. Swing and lindy hop night with live band St Louis Express plus The Medicine Man DJing.

The Art Of Conservation Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am-12pm, free.

Info 01792 516900. Meet the Glynn Vivian conservation team and go behind the scenes of the Gallery.

Who Knewport – Commercialising Innovation Platfform, Newport. Info 01633 439439.

Wales Festival Of Innovation event.

Womenspire Awards 2017 Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 6.30pm, £35. Info 029 2063 6464. An evening to celebrate the achievements of Welsh women from all backgrounds who are doing extraordinary things in their lives.

BUZZ 69

* – recommended

live music THURSDAY 22

Attack! Pro Wrestling: Thursday Night Throws Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff. 7-10pm, £6. Info 029 2037 3144. Presented in conjunction with the Dragon Pro Wrestling Academy.

Audio Description Tour: Sculpture National Museum Cardiff. 2pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. For visually impaired visitors. Book in advance please.

Blaenavon Little Monthly Market Bethlehem Court, Blaenavon. 10am-2pm, free (£10 to set up a table/£5 if you bring your own table).

Info 01495 792878. Selling crafts, bric-a-brac, bits and pieces and breads/pastries, Off Grid Gourmet Supper Club The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 7pm, £30/£25 vegetarian. Info 01497 821762.

Summer Strawberry Afternoon Tea, With Music Swansea Museum. 2pm, £5.

Info 01792 653763. Hosted by the Royal Institution Of South Wales.

Wales Technology Awards 2017 Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. Info 029 2167 9051. Wales Festival Of Innovation event.

FRIDAY 23

Applying Meditation & Mindfulness In Everyday Life Barnabas Arts House, Newport. 7-9pm, free. Info 01633 673739. With Tibetan Buddhist Master and scholar Chamtrul Rinpoche.

Artist Talk: Family Philanthropy – The Dillwyn Llewelyns And Voluntary Service Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

12.30-1.30pm, free. Info 01792 516900. With Dr Lesley Hulonce.

Friday Talk: Behind The Scenes In The Archaeological Conservation Lab National Museum Cardiff. 1.05pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7951. Book in advance please.

Incandescent Hibiscus Lounge, Waterloo Tea, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff.

5.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 6249. Poetry/literature meetup. The theme for this one is ‘American Poetry & Lyrics’; bring your favourites.

Terry Hetherington Award Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 7pm, free. Info 01792 463980. Readings to mark the achievements of this year’s entrants into the £1000 Terry Hetherington Award, which is for writers under 30.

The Office Quiz Barry Island Sports & Social Club. 7.30pm, £7 adv. Info www. mackeventspresents.com. A quiz about BBC sitcom The Office, whose main hook is the appearance of Ewen Macintosh (who played Keith) as host.

SATURDAY 24

uBeats, Eats & Treats Barry Island promenade. Free.

Info www.valeofglamorgan.gov. uk. Two days of live music, walkabout entertainment,

beach games, food and drink, cookery demonstrations, craft stalls and a bar. On tomorrow also.

Beginner Sewing The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

11am-1pm, £20. Info 07445 200707. Workshop hosted by Twin Made.

Cardiff Does Glastonbury, Crafty Devil Style! Crafty Devil Brewing, Ninian Park Road, Cardiff. 12-10pm, free. Info 029 2021 8099.

Featuring live music from The Johnstown Flood and cheese toasties from Mr Croquewich.

Exactly like Glastonbury, then.

Cardiff Mini Film Festival The Big Top, Cardiff. 11am.

Info 029 2022 8883.

Craft Fair Clarence Hall, Crickhowell. 10am-4pm. Info 07419 131282.

Craft Fair & Workshops Taberbnacl Chapel, The Hayes, Cardiff. 10am-4pm.

Info uniquefairs@gmx.co.uk.

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.

Kidsmarkets Family Sale Cowbridge Leisure Centre.

11am-12.30pm, £1/kids free.

Info 07760 802088. Featuring 40 stalls of great quality new and pre-loved baby and children’s items.

Rag Rug The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 2-5pm, £25. Info 07445 200707.

Workshop hosted by Twin Made.

Roller Derby: Tiger Bay Brawlers v Dublin Roller Derby House Of Sport, Cardiff. 3-6pm. Info tigerbaybrawlers@gmail.com.

Saturday Family Workshops Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 10am-1pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Young Makers Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2-4pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Expand your skills and experience in this new class aimed at older children (14-16) who want to work collectively on projects.

SUNDAY 25

Advanced Cabaret Course Talent Shack, Penarth Road, Cardiff. 2-3.15pm, £7/£60 for full course. Info www. cardiffcabaretclub.com. With Stephanie. An add-on to the weekly classes in Pontcanna, which finish tomorrow.

Cardiff Triathlon 2017 Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay (assembly point). 8am, £54.95-£79.95 for individual entrants. Info 01248 723553. Swimming, cycling and running in that order, with Olympic, Sprint and Super Sprint distances offered.

Cricket: Natwest International T20 – England v South Africa SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff. 2.30pm. Info 029 2040 9380.

Family Fun Day Blaenavon Rugby Club. £5 to set up a stall (£10 with a gazebo). Info 01495 790446. Featuring a tug-of-war, bouncy slide, children’s activities, food stalls, dog show and competition and

a face painter.

Flora Fraser: Beloved Emma Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 2pm, £5. Info 01600 772467. Author Fraser talks about one of the most fascinating women of her era, Emma Hamilton. This is apparently part of Monmouth Literary Festival, but I can’t find another other info about that.

Lampshade Making The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

11am-1pm, £25. Info 07445 200707. Workshop hosted by Twin Made.

Simple Skirt The Boneyard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 2-4pm, £25. Info 07445 200707.

Workshop hosted by Twin Made.

Swansea Half Marathon Castle Square, Swansea (starting point). 9am, £30 to enter/£28 UKA affiliated/£15 if raising money for Barnardos.

Info 01792 227310.

MONDAY 26

uCricket: Specsavers County Championship – Glamorgan v Derbyshire SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff. 2pm. Info 029 2040 9380. (Until Thurs 29)

TUESDAY 27

Science Cafe The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 7pm, free. Info 01497 821762. New group, meeting on the fourth Tuesday of every month.

WEDNESDAY 28

Games Wales The Big Top, Cardiff. 7pm, free. Info 029 2022 8883. Regular social event for video games-relared chat.

Gardeners’ Question Time Ty Nant Nursery, Radyr, Cardiff (starting point).

5-8pm, £10 adv. Info info@ gthc.org.uk. A George Thomas Hospice Care charity event.

Gardening Walk And Talk: Summer National History Museum, St Fagans. 11am12pm, £2. Info 029 2057 3500. Join members of the St Fagans gardening team for a tour of the gardens looking at plants of interest and tips about how to grow them.

THURSDAY 29

uBurgerstock Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Free.

Info 029 2030 4400. A weekend of American beers and American-style (really big?) burgers. (Until Sat 1 July) Taith Iaith National Museum Cardiff. 1.05pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7951. Practice your Welsh by learning about Rembrandt’s Portrait Of Catrina Hooghsaet.

FRIDAY 30

uInternational Ceramics Festival 2017 Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7pm, £140/£130 Welsh potters/£95 NUS/free under-14s. Info 01970 623232.

A host of international ceramicists demonstrate their work at this annual event. (Until Sun 2 July) Life Sciences Innovation Showcase Life Sciences Hub Wales, Cardiff Bay. Info emma. bigley@lifescienceshubwales. com. Wales Festival Of Innovation event.

The Cellar Bards Cellar Bar, Cardigan. 8.30pm, £3.

Info 07818 056599. Poetry and short fiction night Voices From The Bridge Pontypridd Museum. 7pm.

Info 07746 116619. Poetry, fiction and music night.

live THURSDAY 1

Bears With Wings + Partikel Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £5-£10. Info 029 2038 7026. Local jazz combos. You can pay £5, £7 or £10 depending on what you think their performance is worth.

Evie Ladin & Keith Terry Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea.

7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01792 602060. American bluegrass/ roots duo.

Hvnter + Zkeletonz + Tropix Gwdihw, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933.

Presented by Xpress Radio and Juxtaposed.

Jane’s Calamity Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. An evening of singing along to songs from the musicals round the piano.

Joel Jordan Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 07495 657407. Cardiff’s new jazz and blues venue with acts playing for £0.00 every day this month.

Last Hounds + From Idols To Ashes + No Braver Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 07970 063107.

Ragsy The Pear Tree, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Robin & Bina Williamson The Parrot, Carmarthen.

8pm, £10. Info 01267 231012.

Two sets with an interval by bizarro-folk veteran and his spouse.

Ross Gurney The Cambrian Tap, Cardiff. 8.,30pm, free.

Info 029 2064 4952.

The Jackobins Undertone, Cardiff. 8pm, £3. Info 029 2022 8883.

The Little Mix Experience Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare.

7pm, £10 adv. Info 0800 0147111.

Tom McConville Crindau Constitutional Club , Newport.

8pm. Info 01633 858636. A Lyceum Folk Club night.

Vintage Trouble Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £22.50 adv.

Info 029 2023 5555. US country rockers.

Vukovi + Press To Meco Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £8 adv. Info 029 2023 2199.

Weirds + Excellent Skeleton + HBCP + Cult Of Hands The Moon, Cardiff.

7-10.30pm, £6/£4.50 adv. Info info@thefullmooncardiff. com. Leeds postpunk band headline.

While She Sleeps + The Family The Globe, Cardiff.

7pm, £11 adv. Info 07590 471888. Sold out.

Whitney – Queen Of The Night Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £23/£22.

Info 01686 614555. Whitney Houston tribute show.

u – repeated

FRIDAY 2

Afternoon In Paris Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £12/£10. Info 0845 2263510.

Aftersun + Rob Smith Onsombl + FFRWD M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 7-11pm, £5/£4 adv.

Info 029 2047 3373. An Electric Soup night, the fourth in the series, of experimental music.

Brecon Jazz Celebration Wellington Hotel, Brecon.

7.30pm, £10. Info info@ breconjazzclub.org. Presented

by Brecon Jazz Club upfront of the festival in August.

Doc & The Headshrinkers + Monsterometer + Reckless Breakfast Bar 46, Aberystwyth. 7pm, £5. Info contact@bar46.co.uk Punk, psychobilly and ska. Also features DJ Jake Radar. DOTH are playing in Carmarthen tomorrow.

ELO Again Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £22.50 kids.

Info 01792 475715. ELO cover band, one of five tribute shows in this venue over June.

ESP Beaufort Arms, Swansea.

8pm, free. Info 01792 234447.

Presented by Nailed It Events. uFire In The Mountain VI Cwmnewidion Isaf, Cnwch Coch, Aberystwyth. 12pm, £100 weekend/£45 teens/£20 2-12-year-olds/£2 under-2s.

Info www.fireinthemountain. co.uk. Small but cutely formed festival which leans towards folk, bluegrass etc, and emphasises jam sessions, workshops etc. Also actually cheapter than last year! Lineup (schedule TBC): A Fistful Of Spookies, Flatville Aces, Me And My Friends, Drymbago, Eli West, Evie Ladin & Keith Terry, Climbing Trees, Dila V & The Oddbeats, Ewan Mclennan, Brighde Chaimbeul, The Nightjar, Teyr, Tantz, Holy Moly And The Crackers, The Gentle Good, Forest Of Fools, The Horsenecks, Abdoulaye Samb, Mamadou, Rheged, Mobius Loop, Fran And Flora, Cynefin, Bare Hunter, The Wanton String Band, The Vanguards, Indian Man, Hot Rock Pilgrims, Faith I Branko, Emma & Martin Reid, Double Bass Dan & Friends, Don Kipper, Joe Strouzer, Cut A Shine, Apple Of My Eye, Andy Twyman, Ali Anwar & Dave Owen, The Ragged Out Stringband, Mouton, Ben Mcmanus & Clara Delfina, Tom Blackwell, Toby Hay, Three Legg’d Mare, Nine Blind Ravens, Hedge Gods, Dylan Owen, Bonnie Pilgrim, Ember, The Old Time Wasters, The Odd Folk, The Carry Nations, Rye ‘N Clover, Ruth Gordon, Rosie Sleightholme, Pandoras Diary, Nine Tree Stumblers, Leon Gormley, Jo Carly & The Old Dry Skulls, Fierce Flowers, Bourgeois Robbery, The Night Caps, Riverboat Ramblers, Mikey Kenny & Charlie Mckeown and Jez Wing. (Until Sun 4) George Ezra Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union.

7pm, £19.50 adv. Info 029 2078 1458. George is also in Swansea tomorrow, but both dates look to be sold out.

Helter Skelter The New

Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

9pm. Info 01685 387925.

Holding Absence + Shadows Into Light + Clarity Le Pub, Newport.

8pm, £6 adv. Info 01633 221477.

Jon Crespo’s Funk Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 9pm. Info 029 2038 7026.

Live Acoustic Night The Pilot, Penarth. Free. Info 029 2071 0615. On the first Friday of each month.

Madina Lake + Lacey + That Lying Bitch The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14 adv. Info 07590 471888. Millennial American rock band reform and headline this three-act tour. That Lying Bitch feature members of Plain White Ts and were presumably formed to win a bet that they couldn’t come up with and use a worse band name than that.

Metal 2 The Masses Cardiff Semi Final 2 Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 07970 063107.

Monkeysee Monkeydo The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge. 9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Off The Record Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events. uOpen Night The Ivy Bush, Pontardawe. 8pm. Info huwpudner@ntlworld.com. A Valley Folk Club night, also on Fri 30 this month.

Prévert, Piano & Poetry St Edward’s Music & Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info piano.prevert@gmail.com.

Concert show that combines major works for classical piano with poetry, by French pianist Alexandre Prévert.

Book in advance please.

Rainbow Maniac + Buzzard + My Name Is Ian The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@ thefullmooncardiff.com.

Cardiff indie band headline to launch their debut EP. Based on the two times I’ve inadvertently seen them in this venue they are very popular with the youth.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5-£39.50.

Info 029 2087 8444. Tanned hunk Eric Whitacre conducts a programme mainly of his own music, with a token Bach composition thrown in. Nice of Eric to give a shoutout to the little guys. uTalking Bird Collective Bootlegger, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 07495 657407. On tomorrow also, which given the restrictions of movement around the area for the football may involve them staying in the venue until it’s time to play again.

The Cory Band Maesteg Town Hall. 7.45pm, £8.50. Info 01656 733269.

The Decoy + The Johnstown Flood + Glassholes + Dead At 27 + Conibear The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 6pm. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com.

The Fevers Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Fugitives Black Lion,

J U S T A N N O U N C E D F O R J U L Y: D A N B A I D & H O M E M A D E S I N ( T h e G l o b e , C a r d i f f , S u n 2 3 ) J U L I A F O R D H A M ( A c a p e l a , Pe n t y r c h , S u n 2 3 ) JAKE MITCHELL (Tramshed, Cardiff, Wed 26) JUST ANNOUNCED FOR AUGUST: DOGS D’AMOUR (Fuel, Cardiff, Fri 4) ASH (Sin City, Swansea, Sat 19) BUZZ 70

live music Llandaff, Cardiff. 9pm, free.

Info 029 2056 7312. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

The Manfreds The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £22. Info 01633 656757.

The Summer Of Love Revisited Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 8pm, £12/£10.50. Info 01792 475715. Beatles-plus-other60s-faves covers band.

Tuk Tuk Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £12. Info 029 2063 6464.

Venn St Fagans Village Hall.

7.30pm, £4-£8/free under12s. Info 029 2023 2970.

Pentreffest Noz monthly folk session.

SATURDAY 3

Acoustic Sinners Cockett Inn, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 588748. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Annunciation + Craniation + Vomit Coffin + Violated Flesh The Duke, Neath. 7pm. Info 01639 643892. Death metal all the way down.

Chron Gen + Poetic Justice + Trackstar/ Pornstar District Club, Pontypridd. 7.30pm, £12/£9 adv. Info 01443 402550. Early 80s UK punkers headline.

Explosive Light Orchestra Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

7.30pm, £17.50. Info 01646 695267. ELO tribute, not to be confused with the one that was in Swansea yesterday.

Forever Jackson The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

9pm. £7 adv. Info 01685 387925. Michael Jackson tribute.

George Ezra Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. 7pm, £19.50. Info 01792 475715.

Hi-On Maiden The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £10 adv. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com. Iron Maiden tribute.

Ian Shimmon Band Mariners, Laugharne. 8.30pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Into The Ark The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7 adv. Info 07590 471888. Sold out.

Jess Glynne Parc Y Scarlets, Llanelli. 2pm, from £35.

Info 0871 8718088. UK pop star who got her start in the mersh house crossover world.

Previewed on last month’s Music page.

Johnny Cage & The Voodoogroove + Doc & The Headshrinkers + Bad Shampoo The Laser Station, Carmarthen. 8pm-2am, £8/£6 adv. Info 01267 235648. This night is called Welcome To The Freak Show and also has some burlesque element.

Kamikazee Millionaires The Patriot, Crumlin. 7pm.

Info 01495 247178.

Luke Doherty Band Cwmbran RFC, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran. 7.30pm, £7/£5. Info 01633 483238. Borough Blues Club gig.

Multi Story Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 01443 682388. Hard rockers of an 80s vintage.

Quiet Marauder + Winter Coat + Buzzard M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff.

7-11pm, £7/£5 adv. Info 029 2047 3373. Three indie bands

play under the Summertime Sessions banner.

Rachel B The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 9pm, free. Info 01656 654753. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Thank Abba For The Music Miners’ Institute, Blackwood.

7.30pm, £22.50/£20.50. Info 01495 227206. I choose to read the name of this tribute band in the voice of a stern mother trying to get her kids to write post-Christmas letters to their grandparents.

That’ll Be The Day Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £24.50/£21. Info 01792 475715. Rock’n’roll variety show.

The Krays Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events.

SUNDAY 4

Anastacia St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £50/£37.50. Info 029 2087 8444. Millennial pop hollerer touring a greatest hits album. uEve May Rowlands Bootlegger, Cardiff. 6pm, free.

Info 07495 657407. Also on Sun 25 this month. *Dream Nails + Charmpit + Hodad Cardiff Bus Transport Club. 7.30pm, £5.

Info 029 2023 3658. Indie and punk fare presented by Odd Box and Slush Puppy. *Melt-Banana The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £13.50 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Killer band of fiddly punk madheads from Japan, now going for a quarter of a century. Last time they played Cardiff, 12 years ago, I put them on and the idea of booking bands who might attract audiences of 200 or more didn’t fill me with horror.

Natalie Clein & Louisa Clein Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire. 7.30-10.30pm, £15 adv. Info 01239 841387.

Cellist/actress duo.

Nigel Davies Browns, Laugharne. 8.30pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

North Star The Queens Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767.

Revolution Solution Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, pay by donation. Info 029 2039 7933. Monthly music and poetry night. uSteve Tamer Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny. 9pm, free. Info 01873 853613.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Every Sunday this month.

The Fugitives Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff.

6-8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015. uThe Great Unknown The Windsor, Penarth. 9pm, free.

Info 029 2070 8675. Every Sunday this month.

Tobias Robertson The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

6.30-9pm, free. Info 01685 387925.

MONDAY 5

Dave Cottle Trio Noah’s Yard, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 447360. Live jazz, with acts here every Monday. uDraper & Rowe Bootlegger, Cardiff. 7pm, free.

Info 07495 657407. Also on Tue 20 this month.

Saint Etienne + Kero

Kero Bonito Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £24 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. Kitchen sink synthpoppers whose new album I am, by a million to one chance, listening to as I type. It’s not bad! Although pretty long. This was going to be on Sat 3 but they’ve moved it because of the Champions League final.

Tomos Power + Dippy + Jabez The Big Top, Cardiff.

8pm, £5/£4 adv. Info 029 2022 8883. uUkulele Session The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff.

8.30pm, free. Info 029 2021 2509. Every Monday, with The Plucking Fourstrings.

TUESDAY 6

Acoustic Tuesday South Riverside Community Development Centre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2030 4400. Regular event led by pioneering local musicians and singers.

Battle For The Crown Quarter Final 1 The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

7pm. Info 01685 387925.

The next quarter-final is on tomorrow. uCommunity Samba Band – Practise Dates Llanfrynach Village Hall, Brecon. 7-9pm, £4/£2 under16s. Info sambabrecon@ yahoo.co.uk. Every Tuesday.

Daniel & Emma Reid Burnett’s Hill Chapel, Martletwy, Pembrokeshire.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01646 651725. Swedish/English folk.

Gareth Evans Bootlegger, Cardiff. 7pm, free. Info 07495 657407. Also on Tue 20 this month. 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.

Silent Forum + Mt Doubt + The Calm Collective Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933.

The John Davies Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

See Upfront, possibly.

Dom Pipkin Jazzland, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 07802 912789. Boogie piano sort. In Narberth tomorrow.

Doug Van Gundy & Marc Harshman Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 7pm, free.

Info 01685 384111. Monthly acoustic night features special guests in the form of fiddler, raconteur, teacher and poet Van Gundy and West Virginia Poet Laureate Harshman.

Holding Absence Sin City, Swansea. 7pm, £6 adv. Info 01792 468892.

Ilana Held + Siblings Of Us + Grand Tradition NosDa, Cardiff. 8.30pm, free.

Info 029 2037 8866. Presented

by U&I Radio.

Kane’d + Grace Solero + Matty James Cassidy + Andrea Kenny The Moon, Cardiff. 7pm, £12 adv. Info info@thefullmooncardiff.com.

Acoustic acts play a gig that was booked here as part of the pledge campaign to Reboot The Moon. 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.

Primary Partners Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

6.30pm, £5. Info 01792

475715. Celebration of musicmaking features schools from throughout the City and County of Swansea. (Until Fri 9) Simon Parratt Duo Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free.

Info 07495 657407.

The Bonfire Radicals + A Diferent Thread + Will Whisson Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £4 adv. Info 029 2039 7933. A Folk In The Owl’s Nest night.

THURSDAY 8

Aubrey Parsons The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

BBC NOW: Rite Of Spring St David’s Hall, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5-£37. Info 029 2087 8444. Thomas Søndergård conducts a programme of Stravinsky (obv), Prokofiev and Ravel.

Beyond The Bars The Unicorn, Pontypool. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01495 751304.

Monthly folk session.

Dom Pipkin Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth. 8pm, £5-£10.

Info 01834 869323. Spanjazz night. *Gnod + Mai Mai Mai The Moon, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8.50 adv. Info info@ thefullmooncardiff.com.

Banging gig in the offing here, with Manchester noisy psych shapeshifters Gnod playing Cardiff for the way-overdue

first time. Come to this and after we’ll go somewhere we can drink and scream abuse at Tories.

Himalayas Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2023 2199. Presented by This Feeling.

Jon Crespo Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5. Info 029 2038 7026. Playing a Jazz Messengers set.

Mass Collective Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Minus The Bear + Joan Of Arc The Globe, Cardiff. 7pm, £16 adv. Info 07590 471888.

Neat double bill of zany songtitle math-rock (MTB) and eccentric proggy emo (JOA). uOpen Mic Night Lyceum Tavern, Newport. 8.30pm. Info 01633 858636. Every Thursday except when there’s a guest on – also on Thurs 22 and 29 this month.

Otis Gibbs + Nicotine Pretty Le Pub, Newport. 8pm, £7 adv. Info 01633 221477.

Peter Burrows Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 07495 657407.

Pop Up Jazzland Jazz Jam Session Pumphouse, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 07802 912789. Presented by Jazzland. uPublic Service Broadcasting Ebbw Vale Institute. 7pm, £10 adv. Info 01495 708022. See Upfront.

On tomorrow also, but both

WEDNESDAY 7

Ani Glass + Hollow Mask + Little Rêd + Saccharyn Buffalo, Cardiff. 7pm, £5 adv.

Info 029 2031 0312. Otter Wales presents another of their female musician-centric GIRL events. 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 16.

Battle For The Crown Quarter Final 2 The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

7pm. Info 01685 387925. uBay Rum Hounds Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2038 7026. Blues. Also on Wed 21.

Bute Clarinet Quartet The Riverfront, Newport. 2pm, £6.

Info 01633 656757. A Concerts & Cakes afternoon.

Chaka Khan Motorpoint Arena Cardiff. 6.30pm, £40/£35. Info 029 2022 4488.

BLACK PEACHES Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Fri 16 June Tickets: £12. Info: 029 2030 4400 / www.chapter.org Cardiff promoters Newsoundwales extend a tentacle out of Wales to sucker in this new-not-new sound: London’s Black Peaches released their debut single in 2015, with LP Get Down You Dirty Rascals arriving the following year. It’s a disarmingly laidback affair, bongos and pedal steel featuring prominently across nine songs, and sounds like the platonic ideal of a type of soulful, jazz-licky, country-tinged early 70s AOR prized by record collectors and devotees of the ‘Balearic’ sound. You might be familiar with its founder member, Rob Smoughton – he was an original member of Hot Chip when they were a grubby lo-fi band, left before they got big, and rejoined the lineup a few years ago. Welsh folkie Jack Ellis supports tonight.

THE BIG WEEKEND (City Hall L awn, Cardiff, Sat 26 + Sun 27) TRICOT (Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Tue 29) HORACE ANDY (Tramshed, Thurs 31) LUCKY P E T E R S E N ( A c a p e l a , T h u r s 3 1 ) J U S T A N N O U N C E D F O R S E P T E M B E R : C O C K S PA R R E R ( T h e G l o b e , F r i 1 ) JA N E T D E V L I N ( A c a p e l a , F r i 1 ) BUZZ 71

* – recommended

live music dates are sold out.

FRIDAY 9

uAmserJazzTime 2017 Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 2.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391.

Showcase for the College’s jazz performers, taking place over five days in the Richard Burton Theatre and foyer.

Most of the performers are TBC but today Ollie Howell is in the foyer at 6.15pm. while the Glen Manby Quintet is on at the same time tomorrow; on Tue 13 Rebecca Nash & Matt Fisher are on at 6.45pm.

(Until Tue 13) Aubrey Parsons The Aubrey Arms, Bonvilston. 8pm, free.

Info 01446 781210. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Catfish & The Bottlemen Motorpoint Arena Cardiff.

6.30pm, £20.75. Info 029 2022 4488. Sold out very shortly after going on sale. Blurb for this calls them “the UK’s biggest guitar band to emerge this decade”. This is probably actually true, yet if they broke up tomorrow no-one outside of their fanbase would notice.

Celebrating Dame Shirley Bassey & Miss Tina Turner Hamptons, Penarth.

7.30pm, £39. Info 029 2070 5391. Both are played by Julia Martin.

Cut Capers Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £10/£8 adv.

Info 01834 869323. Bristolian hip-hop big band. I’ve seen some dorky press photos in my time but this lot take the biscuit.

Eden Roots Reggae Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £3.

Info 029 2038 7026.

Gwyl Gregynog Festival Opening Event National Library Of Wales, Aberystwyth.

2.30pm, £20 per performance/£10 under-16s. Info 01686 207100. Featuring performances by by harpist Paul Dooley (4.30pm) and lutenist Thomas Dunford (7.30pm).

Hiding From Girls Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free.

Info 07495 657407.

Jo Harman Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £15.

Info 029 2089 0862. British bluesy soul singer.

Martyn Joseph Rudry Parish Hall, nr Caerphilly. 7pm, £16 adv. Info 07740 192879. Folkrock fellow plays a gig billed as a warmup for the Between The Trees festival, at this venue early next month.

Monkeysee Monkeydo Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Paluch The Globe, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £20 adv. Info 07590 471888. Polish rapper.

Pat Reedy Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. A ChapterLive gig in the bar area.

Paul Ashton The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Penny Arcade Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Resist + Goblins + Bar Fight + Instruments Of Tortue Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm.

Info 07970 063107. Presented

by Nuclear Family Records.

Richard & Adam Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot.

7.30pm, £22.50 adv. Info 01639 763214.

Simon Trigg Fairwater Hotel, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2033 3049. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Stereophonish Maesteg Town Hall. 7.30pm, £3.50£5.50. Info 01656 733269.

Tribute band.

Talon Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £22/£21. Info 01874 611622. Eagles tribute. *The Death Of Money + Think Pretty + KVSD + Godbomber The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@ thefullmooncardiff.com.

Album launch gig of sorts for TDOM. Equally an excuse to drink and scream abuse about Tories (see yesterday’s listing for this venue).

The East Pointers Pontardawe Arts Centre.

7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 01792 863722. Canadian folkies.

The Goat Roper Rodeo Band + Michele Stodart St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan. 7.30pm, £10. Info 01446 799100. UK countryish twosome. Stodart used to be in The Magic Numbers. See Music.

The Oasis Experience Congress Theatre, Cwmbran.

7.30pm, £15. Info 01633 868239. Tribute band.

The Tribunes + Ardeth Bey + EmCo Slipping Jimmy’s, Newport. 6pm, £3.50 adv. Info 07745 059936.

Cornish and Welsh bands play a charity night in aid of The Wallich. Ardeth Bey are in Chepstow tomorrow.

Tina May Celebrates Ella Fitzgerald Centenary Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12.

Info 029 2039 1391.

Water Aid Concert St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff. Info 029 2022 9683. Featuring community choirs.

West Coast Eagles The Met, Abertillery. 8pm, £12. Info 01495 355800. Tribute band.

live review

AL STEWART

Grand Theatre, Swansea, Sun 14 May

The Back To The Bedsit tour was ready to conclude but this artist had no intention of taking it easy for his last show. Finishing off in Swansea’s Grand Theatre, it proved to be an ideally intimate venue for the acoustic musician’s record of historical examination, the revival of 1960s folk music and review 16 studio albums’ worth of material, dating back to his debut of Bed-Sitter Images.

Wonderbrass + Iron Eye Gwdihw, Cardiff. 9pm, £4/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933. A Gwdihw Brass Takeover night.

Wright Hear Wright Now Beaufort Arms, Swansea.

8pm, free. Info 01792 234447.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

SATURDAY 10

Ardeth Bey The Three Tuns, Chepstow. 9pm, free. Info 01291 645797.

Clouds Harp Quartet Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan.

7.30pm, £3-£12. Info 01239 621200. In Brecon on Thurs 15.

Deke Leonard Memorial Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot. 8pm, £20/£18 adv. Info 01639 763214. Deke Leonard was in Welsh prog band Man and died earlier this year.

This tribute show will feature former members of Man and Son Of Man, Buck & Evans, Bigfeat, The Pollen Count and Glas.

Eight Rounds Rapid + The Charlemagnes + Give Me Memphis Le Pub, Newport. 8pm, £5 adv. Info 01633 221477.

Garin Fitter + Laura Power + The Sam Antonio Freeway + Rhys Davis Park Lodge, Morfa Lane, Carmarthen. 2-4pm, free.

Info 07468 528933. Hosted by Rewired Music.

Hullabaloo Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 01443 682388. Muse tribute.

Jacqui Dankworth & Charlie Wood Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12. Info 029 2039 1391.

James Kennedy Three Horse Shoes, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2069 4630.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

u – repeated

uJon Crespo Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 9pm, £2 after 11.

Info 029 2038 7026. Also on Sat 17 and Sat 24 this month.

Legend The Neon, Newport.

7pm, £15 adv. Info 01633 533666. Bob Marley tribute band. Hoping Neon venue owner, UKIP’s Andrew Byers, will be able to organise a reenactment of Bob’s famous ‘Peace Concert’ of 1978, with Paul Nuttall and Douglas Carswell burying the hatchet live on stage.

Metallica Reloaded + Revival The Patriot, Crumlin.

7pm. £5. Info 01495 247178.

Tribute band.

Off The Record The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 9pm, free.

Info 01656 654753. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

One Night Only Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £15. Info 029 2063 6464. Songs from musicals/Disney.

Pat Reedy Bootlegger, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 07495 657407.

Paul McClure & The Flyin’ A’s + Blind River Scare Barnabas Arts House, Newport. 7.30pm, £6. Info 01633 673739. A Down By The River night.

Richard Navarro The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £6.

Info 01497 821762. Folk-rock.

Roxy Magic Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £15.

Info 029 2089 0862. Roxy Music tribute band.

Shân Cothi & Friends Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire.

8-10.30pm, £15 adv. Info 01239 841387. Performing George Gershwin numbers.

Showaddywaddy Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £18.50-£21.50. Info 01656 815995.

Tattsyrup The Moon, Cardiff.

9pm, free. Info info@ thefullmooncardiff.com.

The Beatles Go On The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12.50 adv. Info 07590 471888.

Tribute band.

The Big What?! Band Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

The Rhys Davis Band The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £2. Info gigs@thedragonffli. com.

The Riff + Rivet City + The Hangmen The Pit, Swansea. 7pm. Info facebook. com/thepitswansea. Playing in a venue that was until recently called 8 Bit Bar and now seems to be accommodating rock gigs.

The Shakes Hen Dderwen, Sketty, Swansea. 9pm, free.

Info 01792 203631. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

UB40 + Level 42 + Raging Fyah + The Original Wailers Parc Y Scarlets, Llanelli. 4pm, from £35. Info 0871 8718088.

Upbeat Beatles Chepstow Racecourse. 4pm, £22-£29 adv. Info 01291 622260. Seven horse races, food and drink and a Beatles cover band.

Voulez Vous Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £20/£18.

Info 01792 475715. Abba tribute.

SUNDAY 11

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Song Prize Recital 1 Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 2pm, £65 (season ticket). Info 029 2087 8444. First of four recitals features Konstantin Lee, Miriam Albano, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, Sioned Gwen Davies and Iurii Samoilov.

The recitals are also on later

Al Stewart walking out from stage right, beginning with House Of Clocks, a number from his Down In The Cellar album. Stewart has walked an interesting life and has always enjoyed engaging the audience with these tales. For the Swansea crowd, he indulged them with a story of spending a night sharing a hotel room with Simon & Garfunkel after a rather hairy situation that nearly left him without a bed in London.

The duo were subsequently joined by a past member of The Sutherland Brothers, Tim Renwick, for a delve into The Palace Of Versailles – the musicians taking the theatre on a trip through the French revolution and Napoleon’s inevitable rise to power. On The Border was masterfully transcribed through the three guitarists’ skills and the quintessential Spanish motif that Peter White had added all those years ago, its lyrics painting a vivid image of the Basque separatist movement and Rhodesian crisis.

After a short interlude, the songwriter took a moment to eloquently explain the content of Old Admirals – Admiral Lord Fisher, his devotion to the British Royal Navy and his frustrated resignation – before commencing with the gentle melody. Originally influenced by the passing of British comedian Tony Hancock (but later rewritten so not to take advantage of his death), Stewart’s famous Year Of The Cat gave reference to the relationship between Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre’s characters in Casablanca. Ending on a high, the threepiece received a standing ovation before departing after a warm and hospitable conclusion to a successful throwback tour. words and photos NATHAN ROACH

TEXAS (St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Mon 11) THE CHRISTIANS (Acapela, Sat 16) JOHN LEGEND (Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Tue 19) NEIL SEDAKA (St David’s Hall, Wed 20) NEW FOUND GLORY (Tramshed, Wed 20) DANNY & THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD (The Globe, Thurs 21) THE SKINTS (Sin City, Fri 22) BUZZ 72

live music today, tomorrow, Mon 12 and Tue 13, but are all sold out.

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Song Prize Recital 2 Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £65 (season ticket).

Info 029 2087 8444. Featuring Silvester Lukhanyo Moyake, Anush Hovhannisyan, John Chest, Ezgi Karakaya and Ivan Thirion.

David Rovics Buffalo, Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 029 2031 0312. American protest folk sorta singer. uFolk Music & Song Session Arvon Ale House, Llandrindod Wells. 4pm. Info 07477 627267. Every second and fourth Sunday of the month (also on Sun 25 in May), with an extra acoustic session now on the third Sunday (Sun 18) too.

Glas Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 6-8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Hot Club Swing Café Jazz, Cardiff. 6-9pm, £4. Info 029 2038 7026. Local musicians are invited to join in for an acoustic ‘gypsy jazz’ jam from 6.30-7.30pm.

Ian Luther The Queens Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767. uMatthew Pauley Bootlegger, Cardiff. 6pm, free.

Info 07495 657407. Also on Mon 19 this month.

Ross Leadbeater & Sophie Evans Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 7pm, £14. Info 029 2089 0862.

MONDAY 12

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Concert 1 St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18-£37.

Info 029 2087 8444. Thomas Søndergård conducts the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales and these performers: Roberto Lorenzi, Nadezhda Karyazina, Anthony Clark Evans, Lilly Jørstad and Batjargal Bayarsaikhan.

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Song Prize Recital 3 Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 2.30pm, £65 (season ticket). Info 029 2087 8444. Featuring Barnokhon Ismatullaeva, Dominic Barberi, Catriona Morison and Louise Alder. uGreg Williams Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 07495 657407. Also on Wed 28 this month.

Jango Haze Noah’s Yard, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 447360.

Natives + Marsicans Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8.50 adv. Info 029 2023 2199.

Tomorrow Calling Today Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 8pm, £4 adv.

Info 0845 2263510. Monthly acoustic nights.

TUESDAY 13

Alison Rayner Quintet Muse Arts Centre, Brecon.

8pm, £10/£8 members. Info 07791 654799. Presented by Brecon Jazz Club.

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Concert 2 St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18-£37. Info 029 2087 8444.

Tomáš Hanus conducts the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales and these performers: Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar,

Miriam Albano, Ivan Thirion, Sioned Gwen Davies and Konstantin Lee. BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Song Prize Recital 4 Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 2.30pm, £65 (season ticket). Info 029 2087 8444. Featuring Nadezhda Karyazina, Batjargal Bayarsaikhan, Lilly Jørstad, Anthony Clark Evans and Roberto Lorenzi. uSarah Meek Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 07495 657407. Also on Mon 26 this month.

Sticks & Stones + Parkview UK + Discount Columbo + Blank Atlas Gwdihw, Cardiff. 8pm, £5 adv.

Info 029 2039 7933.

The Camelia Jazz Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

WEDNESDAY 14

Andy May Trio Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club.

7.30pm, £8/£5. Info 01443 226892. A Llantrisant Folk Club night.

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Concert 3 St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18-£37.

Info 029 2087 8444. Thomas Søndergård conducts the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales and these performers: John Chest, Louise Alder, Iurii Samoilov, Ezgi Karakaya and Silvester Lukhanyo Moyake. uBella & Gareth Blues Duo Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm.

Info 029 2038 7026. Also on Wed 28. uBella Collins Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 07495 657407. That’s the same Bella as above so I don’t know how this is going to work out but I’m just the messenger. Not the person who verifies the accuracy of the messages, as you may have naively thought.

Also on Tue 27 this month.

Britten’s Canticles Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2039 1391.

Featuring tenors Tom Smith and Rhodri Jones.

Dick Pearce with Dave Cottle Trio Jazzland, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 07802 912789.

Folk Night Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd. 7pm. Info 01443 491424. Second Wednesday of every month.

Take That + All Saints Liberty Stadium, Swansea.

5pm, £55-£95. Info 0870 400004. Nineties pop behemoths rock Swansea City’s park with the mechanical efficiency of an Alfie Mawson clearance upfield.

The Strypes The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12.50 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Bluesrock retroids. In their promo pic one of them has started dressing as a schoolboy, despite having been an actual schoolboy not that long ago.

Bit weird.

Wales International Academy Of Voice Recital Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 3pm, £10. Info 029 2063 6464. With Dennis O’Neill.

THURSDAY 15

All We Are Clwb Ifor Bach,

Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 029 2023 2199. This band are signed to Domino Records but I don’t know anything else about them.

Atlas Trio Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £6/£5. Info 029 2038 7026.

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Concert 4 St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18-£37.

Info 029 2087 8444. Tomáš Hanus conducts the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales and these performers: Anush Hovhannisyan, Dominic Barberi, Catriona Morison, Kang Wang and Barnokhon Ismatullaeva.

Clouds Harp Quartet

Info 07495 657407. Also on Thurs 29 this month.

FRIDAY 16

Abba Revival Chepstow Racecourse. 3.25pm, £22-£29 adv. Info 01291 622260. Seven horse races, food and drink and an Abba cover band.

A Celebration Of John Denver Miners’ Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £18.50/£16.50. Info 01495 227206. Tribute show.

Alexi Tuomarila Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £12. Info 029 2063 6464. Jazz pianist.

Alison Rayner Quintet Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea.

Gnod are a band from Salford, active for a decade and operating as a collective of sorts. Their music is psychedelic, electronic, heavy, all or none of these things. It's high time they visited south Wales, and on Thurs 8 they will, specifically the Moon in Cardiff.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01874 611622.

Dan Walsh Crindau Constitutional Club , Newport.

8pm. Info 01633 858636. A Lyceum Folk Club night.

Jazz Jam Night Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

John Owen Jones Parc & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £18. Info 0800 0147111.

Former Phantom in the Phantom sings some songs.

In Aberystwyth tomorrow; Blackwood Tue 20.

Lisa Knapp Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells. 7.30pm, £13.50/£12.50. Info 01982 552555. In Cardigan tomorrow.

Llyr Williams Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £10/£8. Info 029 2039 1391. Solo piano recital.

Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 8pm, £15.

Info 07900 314245. Opening event of this year’s Swansea International Jazz Festival. All ticketed shows are here or the Dylan Thomas Centre and it runs until Sun 18.

NC Sessions Nolton Corner, Bridgend. 7.30pm, free. Info 01656 655015. Live acoustic acts, every third Thursday of the month.

Peter Jagger The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Pi & Hash The Moon, Cardiff.

8.30pm, free. Info info@ thefullmooncardiff.com. Local music showcase, acts TBC. Thee Manatees Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 029 2039 7933. Local twangy country/ garage band launch a new EP. uToriah Fontaine Duo Bootlegger, Cardiff. 9pm, free.

7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01792 602060. Jazz.

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Song Prize Final St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20/£15 season ticket holders.

Info 029 2087 8444. Featuring five singers deemed to have won the previous rounds.

Black Peaches + Jack Ellis Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £12. Info 029 2030 4400. Cardiff debut for the headliners, who feature Rob Smoughton from Hot Chip.

Bon Giovi Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 8pm, £15. Info 01600 772467. Bon Jovi tribute band.

Brahms’ Liebeslieder Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2039 1391.

With the Royal Welsh College Singers.

Catrin Finch’s Classical Cafe Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £10 adv/£7.50 early bird. Info 029 2089 0862.

Dansette Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026.

Dicky Heart & The Murmurs Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events. *Flowers Must Die + Deep Hum The Moon, Cardiff.

8.30pm, free. Info info@thefullmooncardiff.com. Second chance for a gig booked here for late April, in fact one day before the venue reopened again. FMD are a trippsy psych band from Sweden on the Rocket label and Deep Hum are from Blackwood.

Jeff Hooper Dolman Theatre, Newport. 2-4pm, £10.

Info 01633 263670. Big band/ swing vocalist.

Jesus Jones The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Early-90s indie band, briefly popular, had “a dance element to their music”.

Joe Stilgoe: Songs On Film Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 9.15pm, £20. Info 07900 314245. Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

John Owen Jones Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £18. Info 01970 623232.

Lisa Knapp Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 8pm, £3-£13.50.

Info 01239 621200.

Live Wire St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

7.30pm, £17.50. Info 01446 799100. AC/DC tribute.

Necrophagia + Sodomized Cadaver The Pit, Swansea.

7pm. Info facebook.com/ thepitswansea. Highlyrespected American death metal veterans headline. Good booking.

Oceans Ate Alaska + Napoleon + Carcer City + Dead Sea Hobo’s, Bridgend.

7pm, £10/£8 adv. Info www. hobosmusicvenue.com.

Off The Record The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Pat Smith & Ned Clamp The Ivy Bush, Pontardawe.

8pm. Info huwpudner@ ntlworld.com. A Valley Folk Club night.

Paul Ashton Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Peter Jagger Beaufort Arms, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 01792 234447. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Rumney Folk Club St Augustine’s Church, Rumney, Cardiff. 7pm, £3.50/£1.50 for performers. Info derek@ rumneyfolkclub.co.uk.

Monthly night.

Sunjay West End Club, Barry.

7pm, £10/£8 adv. Info 01446 735739. Folk/blues solo artist.

A Roots N All gig.

Stan Tracey Legacy Octet Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 7-8.50pm, £15.

Info 07900 314245. Swansea International Jazz Festival performance. uSwansea International Jazz Festival – Free Fringe Events Various venues, Swansea. 12.30pm-12am, free. Info 07802 912789.

Today features Dave Cottle & Amy Watson (Cafe TwoCann, 12.30pm); Brian Breeze Band (Queens Hotel, 3.30pm); Afternoon In Paris (The Swigg, 4pm); Guardaalvaca De Cuba (Pumphouse, 4.30pm); Groucho Club (Riverhouse, 5.30pm); John Paul Gard (Dylan Thomas Centre, 7.45pm) and a Jazz Jam Session (No.6, 10.30pm). Sat 17: Bridgend Big Band (Dylan Thomas Centre, 11.30am); Steve Williams Trio (Village Hotel, 12.30pm); Carmarthen/ Swansea & Cardiff Schools Big Band (National Waterfront Museum, 12.30pm); Claire Hingott with Graham Watkins Trio (Cafe TwoCann, 1pm); Chris Maddocki/Amy Walton Collective (No.6, 1.30pm); Albino Frogs (Pumphouse, 1.30pm); Taff Williams with Stringfellows (Riverhouse,

1.30pm); Kevin Bolton Quintet (The Swigg, 2.30pm); RWCMD Big Band (National Waterfront Museum, 3pm); The Jazz Divas (Swansea Museum, 3pm); Afternoon In Paris (Yacht Club, 3pm); Fiesta Resistance (Garbo’s, 3pm); John Dignan Trio (Queens Hotel, 3.30pm); Statoil Big Band (Dylan Thomas Centre, 3.30pm); Steve Williams Trio (Copper Jack, 4pm); The Cottle Brothers (Pumphouse, 4.30pm); Li Harding & Gary Phillips Trio (Riverhouse, 4.30pm); The Heidelberg Clones (Tinos, 6pm); The Jazz Outlaws (Dylan Thomas Centre, 7.45pm) and a Jazz Jam Session (No.6, 10.30pm).

Sun 18: Statoil Big Band (Dylan Thomas Theatre, 11am); Tin Pan (Dylan Thomas Centre, 11am); Rob Baron Trio (Gigi Goa’s, 12.30am); Will Barnes Trio (Cafe TwoCann, 1pm); Taff Williams with Stringfellows (Pumphouse, 1.30pm); Jazz Africana (Riverhouse, 2.30pm); Duski (Swansea Museum, 2.30pm); Steve Williams Trio (Yacht Club, 3pm); Constellation Big Band (Dylan Thomas Centre, 3pm); Liberty Street Band (Copper Jack, 4pm); Hot Club Gallois (Garbos, 4.30pm); Bruce Adams/Alan Barnes Quintet (Queens Hotel, 4.30pm); Chums (Pumphouse, 5.30pm); The Groove Project (Riverhouse, 5.30pm) and Amigos Gypsy Jazz Club with Bethan Frieze (Dylan Thomas Centre, 7pm). (Until Sun 18) Sweet Baboo + Castles Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 029 2023 2199. Babs has his new album reviewed in this issue.

The Bella Collins Trio Bootlegger, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 07495 657407.

The Jokers Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm, £5 adv. Info 07970 063107. uUnearthed In A Field Yurt Field, nr Solva, Haverfordwest. 12pm, £85 weekend/£55 ages 12-17 or 75+£40 per day. Info www. unearthedinafield.co.uk.

See Music for more on this festival. Here’s the music in question: Meic Stevens, Natty & The Rebel Ship, Soom T, Boy Azooga, Classic Wonder Veterans feat Solo Banton, Mount Nakara, Climbing Trees, Sky Barkers, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band, Maya Mitten, I See Rivers, Shire Roots, Ponyland, Toby Hay, Jodie Marie, Daisy B, Dylemma Collective, Timballi, Shanna Mandira, Cynefin, Troupe Gnawa, Uncle FunkEarthdance Shamanic Dance, Gary Aston and Jim Ghedi. Plus speakers, performers and interesting food and drink. (Until Sun 18)

SATURDAY 17

uArthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £16. Info 029 2063 6464. Longstanding ‘alternative comedian’ does his cabaret-ish renditions of Len classics with his backing band The Smithereens, who I assume are not the American

NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA (Acapela, Sat 23) YOUNG GUNS (The Globe, Tue 26) DR HOOK (St David’s Hall, Wed 27) KAWEHI (The Globe, Thurs 28) INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL (Bute Park, Cardiff, Fri 29 + Sat 30) GARY NUMAN (Tramshed, Sat 30) GO WEST (St David’s Hall, Sat 30) SQUEEZE (Pontardawe Arts Centre, Sat 30) BUZZ 73

* – recommended

live music powerpop group of the same name. On tomorrow also.

Bach To Baby The Riverfront, Newport. 11am, £6/£4.50/free under-2s. Info 01633 656757. Concert series designed for babbies and presented as part of the Lower Machen Festival.

Base Wave The Neon, Newport. 7-11pm, £10 adv/£25 VIP. Info 01633 533666. New school of UK rap here, with sets from 67, Baseman, Lotto Boyz, Lz Dinero, JB Scofield and LR. Bon Jovi Forever Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly. 7pm, £12.50/£10 adv. Info 07512 237983. Tribute band.

Brix Smith The Tabernacle, Talgarth. 7.30pm, £3 adv. Info info@thetabernacle.co.uk. Ex of The Fall, and the marriage vows of Mark E Smith, there are still tickets available for this teeny venue at the time of writing, but that’s early May. Dominic Kirwan & Lisa Stanley The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £23. Info 01633 656757. Irish singing duo.

Elasea + Ghosts As Alibis The Pit, Swansea. 7pm, £4 adv. Info facebook.com/ thepitswansea. *Forced Order + Rancour + Chamber + Target Lock Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff. 7pm, £10. Info 029 2037 3144. CCNB presnts some burly hardcore bands, the headliners hailing from California and being signed to Revelation Records.

Fraser & The Alibis Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea.

3.20-4.40pm, £10/£6 under16s. Info 07900 314245.

Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

Hells Bells The Globe, Cardiff. 7pm, £12 adv. Info 07590 471888. AC/DC tribute.

Jack The Biscuit Bootlegger, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 07495 657407.

Junior Bill The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £5.

Info 01497 821762.

Maddie & The Pandas Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Michala Petri & Mahan Esfahani Gregynog, Tregynon, Powys. 7.30pm, £20/£10. Info 01686 207100.

Recorder and harpsichord recital. Gregynog Festival event.

Midmad 2017 Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 11am-10pm, free.

Info 01970 623232. Annual festival with a family-friendly vibe and live music from The Mighty FUOD, Achannak (bhangra), Ric Lloyd And The Boogilators and more TBC. Mr Fishy Cockett Inn, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 588748. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Panic Room Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £16.

Info 029 2089 0862. PartWelsh band whose biog is a few hundred words of ridiculously gushing praise which avoids saying what kind of music they play. I think it’s a sort of MOR/prog affair.

Peter Jagger The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 9pm, free.

Info 01656 654753. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Plu Snails Deli, Rhiwbina, Cardiff. 7pm, £20 inc buffet.

Info 029 2062 0415. Welsh folkies.

Quay Street Cellar Bar, BUZZ 74

Cardigan. 8.30pm, £5-£8. Info 07818 056599.

Ruby Turner Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 9.15pm, £25.

Info 07900 314245. Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

Snatch It Back Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 9pm.

Info 029 2062 6015. Blues.

Sons Of Liberty The Patriot, Crumlin. 7pm. Info 01495 247178.

Stipe Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £15/£13. Info 01874 611622. REM tribute who are new to me, in the sense that I’ve not typed their name into these listings 50000000 times like most other tribute bands.

The Bryan Adams Experience The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil. 9pm, £6/£5 adv. Info 01685 387925.

The Cory Band Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £16-£24.50. Info 01792 475715.

The Dolly Parton Experience Maesteg Town Hall. 7.30pm, £12.50. Info 01656 733269.

The Hindenburgs Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 01443 682388. Led Zeppelin tribute.

The Oikos Trio Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea.

12-1.20pm, £10/£6 under-16s.

Info 07900 314245. Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

The Simon & Garfunkel Story Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £17.50-£19.50.

Info 01646 695267. Tribute show, also in Swansea on Mon 26, Newport on Wed 28 and doubtless in various regional theatres until the earth burns to a crisp.

The Skeleton/Skinner Best Of Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 7-8.50pm, £15.

Info 07900 314245. Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

The Tony O’Malley Band Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 1.40-3pm, £10/£6 under-16s. Info 07900 314245.

Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

Winners’ Grand Concert – Abergavenny Eisteddfod Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £10.

Info 01873 850805.

SUNDAY 18

Acoustic Session Arvon Ale House, Llandrindod Wells.

4pm. Info 07477 627267.

All Fired Up Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 8.45pm, £25. Info 07900 314245.

Musicians from the Strictly Come Dancing band play the music of Earth Wind & Fire.

Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Final St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £28-£65. Info 029 2087 8444. Competing singers will be accompanied

by BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Thomas Søndergård and Tomáš Hanus.

Chapter Four Jazz Quartet Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

9pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400.

Jazz in the bar.

Chris Ingham Quartet Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 6.30-8.20pm, £10.

Info 07900 314245. Performing ‘the jazz of Dudley Moore’.

Might come along and request He’s Got The Horn repeatedly.

Dan Hooper Duo Bootlegger, Cardiff. 6pm, free. Info 07495 657407.

Gruig The Queens Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767.

Junior Hacksaw Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff.

6-8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Liane Carroll Trio Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea.

3.20-4.40pm, £10/£6 under16s. Info 07900 314245.

Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

Power Of Gower Festival Big Band Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 12-1.20pm, £10/£6 under-16s. Info 07900 314245. Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

Remi Harris Trio Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

1.40-3pm, £10/£6 under-16s.

Info 07900 314245. Swansea International Jazz Festival performance.

Rivercar Consort Gregynog, Tregynon, Powys. 7.30pm, £20/£10. Info 01686 207100.

Belgian quintet perform works

by Bach, Purcell, Lawes, Rameau and Marais. Gregynog Festival event.

Rory Indiana + Donnie Willow + Half Blind The Pit, Swansea. 7pm, £5 adv.

Info facebook.com/ thepitswansea.

Tom Clarke + Sean McGowan + Ravellas The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15 adv. Info 07590 471888.

Clarke is the singer in The Enemy, landfill indie band from Coventry, and this show appears to be sold out.

MONDAY 19

Dom Norcross Quartet Noah’s Yard, Swansea. 8pm.

Info 01792 447360.

Glass Caves + Himalayas + Fossette Undertone, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6. Info 029 2022 8883. *The Space Lady + Snacks + The Twelve Hour Foundation Cardiff Bus Transport Club. 8pm. Info 029 2023 3658. See Music for more on this outsider music ledge.

TUESDAY 20

Ben McManus & Clara Delfina Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7.30pm. Info 029 2039 7933.

Welsh-American bluegrass duo with a new album. Ben wrote a blog for Buzz’s website recently about his time in the USA. Dan Phelps Classical Trio St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan. 3-4pm, £6.50. Info 01446 799100. Cafe concert.

Price includes a cuppa and a bit of cake.

John Owen Jones Miners’ Institute, Blackwood. 7pm, £18.50. Info 01495 227206.

Neil Younger + Kingson The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, pay by donation. Info info@thefullmooncardiff.com. Headlner is a Neil Young tribute act.

Phil Wall’s Jazz Cardinals Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

WEDNESDAY 21

Andy Collins Open Mic Night Cockett Inn, Swansea.

9pm, free. Info 01792 588748.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

A Musical Journey The

Met, Abertillery. 2pm, £7. Info 01495 355800. Featuring Craig James and Jason Price.

Brian Poole & The Tremeloes Miners’ Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £22.50/£21.50. Info 01495 227206.

Carter Sampson + Little Folk + Bryony Sier Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8 adv. Info 029 2023 2199.

Country rock kinda fare courtesy of Fuelled By Jealous Lovers.

Ian Stoutzker Prize: The Final Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

6.30pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2039 1391. Featuring competitors George Fradley, Grant Jameson, Rhodri Jones, Blaise Malaba Kaumbu and Charlotte MacClure.

Jane Williams Bootlegger, Cardiff. 7pm, free. Info 07495 657407.

Robbie Williams + Erasure Principality Stadium, Cardiff. 5pm, £65-

u – repeated

£21. Info 01633 868239.

Tobias The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

FRIDAY 23

BBC NOW: Tales Of Travel 3 Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 2pm, £10-£12.

Info 029 2063 6464. Tommy Andersson conducts a programme of Bartók, Prokofiev and Korngold.

Ben Huws Beaufort Arms, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 01792 234447. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band Miners’ Institute, Blackwood. 8.30pm, £16/£14 adv. Info 01495 227206.

Delta Autumn Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £15. Info 029 2063 6464. UK band on a kind of live electronica tip.

Genevieve And The Lovemakers Porter’s, Cardiff.

8pm. Info info@

The calm idyll of an organic farm in the Vale Of Glamorgan is to be punctured by this year's Surplus Festival, from Fri 30 June until Sun 2 July.

Expect punk, rock, folk, psych, techno, trance and merriment. £99. Info 08442 777888. This tour is titled The Heavy Entertainment Show, which may cause you to remember when Robbie Williams put on lots of weight. We have an Erasure interview Upfront in this issue.

The Celtic Journey – Creeds Cross Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7.30pm, £19.50. Info 01633 868239.

The Searchers Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £21 adv. Info 0845 2263510.

Tom Harris / Dick Hamer Quartet Jazzland, Swansea.

8.30pm, £10. Info 07802 912789.

THURSDAY 22

Beverley Knight St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £19.50-£99.

Info 029 2087 8444. Top ticket price gets you VIP treatment, which has all the same kind of stuff as the other VIP packages they do here.

Declan McKenna Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 029 2023 2199.

Elinor Bennett Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £12.

Info 029 2089 0862. Harp recital.

Mary Wilson Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £28.50.

Info 01656 815995. Mary was in The Supremes so deserves your love and adoration. Is this gig the best vessel for that love? Maybe.

Pighead + Visions Of Disfigurement Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 07970 063107. German br00tal death metal band headline.

The Mañana Collective Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5.

Info 029 2038 7026.

The Searchers Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7.30pm,

porterscardiff.com.

Home Wrecked + Reckless Intentions Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm. Info 07970 063107.

Larger Than Life! Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Mike Dennis The Moon, Cardiff. Free. Info info@thefullmooncardiff.com. Playing the first night of this year’s Glasnost, which is free all weekend.

Phosphenes + Boris A Bono + Johana Hartwig Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff.

7.30pm. Info 029 2023 2199.

Headliners are playing their debut gig and do a sort of dub/ synthpop/folk thing.

Poetic Justice Cardiff Bus Transport Club. 8pm. Info 029 2023 3658.

Rachel B The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Ron King’s Rhythm Aces Bootlegger, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 07495 657407.

Shirley Bassey: This Is Me Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £15/£13. Info 01874 611622. Tribute show with Rachel Roberts as Bassey.

Simon Spillett, Clive Morton, Jim Barber & Martin Fisher The Open Hearth, Pontypool. 8.30pm.

Info martin.fisher1944@ hotmail.co.uk. A Jazz At The Open Hearth night.

Skinny White Boy Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free.

Info 01792 516194. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Steve Williams Trio Welcome To Town, Llanrhidian, Swansea.

8.30pm, free. Info 01792

390015.

The Bella Collins Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£2.

Info 029 2038 7026. Blues.

The Jive Aces Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £15/£13. Info 0845 2263510.

The Manana Collective Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff.

8pm, £12.50. Info 029 2089 0862.

The Tates + Adwaith + Los Blancos The Parrot, Carmarthen. 8pm, £3. Info 01267 231012. Also featuring a DJ set from Hotel Del Salto. uUkulele Festival Of Wales Gower Inn / Gower Heritage Centre, Swansea. £27/£25 (weekend)/£6.80/£5.80 (Saturday day)/£15/£14 (Saturday evening)/£10/£9 (Sunday).

Info 01792 371206. Featuring, as well, as various workshops, sessions, stalls etc, performances from these people: SuperUkes, Plucking Fourstrings, Sarah Kelly, Ukulele Uff & Lonesome Dave Trio, Chonkinfeckle, Gary Phillips Amigos, Swansea Ukulele Club, The Fflip Fflops, Swansea String Band, Matt Hicks, Peter Moss and AD Cooke. Today is at the Gower Inn, tomorrow and Sun 25 at the Heritage Centre.

(Until Sun 25) Valleys Folk Ceilidh Blaenavon Rugby Club. 7.3010.30pm, £3. Info 01495 790446.

SATURDAY 24

Bohemians Queens Hall, Narberth. 7pm, £15. Info 01834 869323. Queen tribute band. Roger Taylor says they’re “uncanny”. Mind you, in 1994 he also said “we gotta stop those stinking Nazis,” and that didn’t turn out great.

Brenig Park Lodge, Morfa Lane, Carmarthen. 2-4pm, free. Info 07468 528933.

Hosted by Rewired Music, with more bands TBC. Children Of The Gravy Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 01443 682388.

Black Sabbath tribute.

Classic Intensions The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 9pm, free.

Info 01656 654753. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Crime & Punishment 2011 + Gilmour + Week In Week Out + Penny Rich + Pink Violence Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £6 adv. Info 07970 063107.

Dictaphone Devil The Albany, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1075. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Firewoodisland The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8/£7. Info 029 2048 3344. *Il Conciorto Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £12/£10.

Info 029 2030 4400. This is an Italian duo who play songs about vegetables, and growing vegetables, with vegetables used as musical instruments.

They attach contact mics so they make a sound when you press them. This is basically the same idea as an Austrian group who did it first but it’s probably fun to watch.

Indigo Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm.

Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Last Night Of The Proms Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7pm, £20 adv. Info 0845 2263510. With lots of local choirs.

Mansel Davies Three Horse Shoes, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2069 4630. Presented by

stage Nailed It Events.

Mod Fest At The Beach Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl.

7.30pm, £30. Info 01656 815995. Featuring sets by Secret Affair, The Lambrettas, Special Brew and Deep Six; DJ sets from Darren Bennett and Siobhan Nolan-Farmer.

Hosted by Jenny Bellestar Matthias.

Rachel B Birchgrove, Cardiff.

9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Revolver The Patriot, Crumlin. 7pm. Info 01495 247178. uSummer Vibes Festival 2017 The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil. 5-10.30pm, £7/£10 both days. Info 01685 387925. Today: Tracy Island, The Dole Age, Fearless And The Brave, New Revival, The Homegrown, Blank Atlas and The Pitchforks. Tomorrow: Chapel Row, Bandicoot, The Marks Cartel, Mellt, Hangmen, Glassholes and Kaysha Louvain.

The Cinematic Orchestra Tramshed, Cardiff. 7pm, £26 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

Orchestral electronica types.

Don’t know what kind of setup this show will feature, guessing a reasonably lavish one for your £26 ticket.

The Darling Buds + Bedford Falls Le Pub, Newport. 7.30pm, £10 adv.

Info 01633 221477. Newport indie veterans, reformed a few years ago, headline.

The D Teez + Conners & The Con Men The Moon, Cardiff. Free. Info info@ thefullmooncardiff.com.

Cardiff Foodbank fundraiser gig.

The Goodwater The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £8 adv. Info 01497 821762. Oldschool R&B 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 Roy Orbison Story St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20. Info 029 2087 8444.

Tribute show.

The Sounds Of Simon Congress Theatre, Cwmbran.

7.30pm, £19/£18. Info 01633 868239. Simon & Garfunkel tribute.

The Southmartins Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £14. Info 029 2089 0862.

Housemartins/Beautiful South tribute.

The Story Of Guitar Heroes Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £18.50.

Info 0800 0147111. This seems to be a combo of theatre and live guitar renditions of dadrock classics. In recent years I’ve gone from being really belligerent about tribute bands, to not really caring, and am working my way back to belligerent again as a result of blocks of gig listings like the last four on this page.

Toriah Fontaine Band Bootlegger, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 07495 657407.

SUNDAY 25

Heavy Quartet The Queens Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767.

Sibling + Larkhill + Tom Aylott Le Pub, Newport. 8pm.

Info 01633 221477.

The Chalk Outlines + Tendons + The Brwmys

+ Ofelia + Little Folk + Cwcw + Gemma And The Owls + Eleri Angharad The Moon, Cardiff. 2pm, £4.

Info info@thefullmooncardiff. com. Folky indie alldayer.

The Jacksons Motorpoint Arena Cardiff. 6.30pm, £45£75. Info 029 2022 4488. See Upfront for an interview with two of the hitmaking brood.

MONDAY 26

Afternoon In Paris Noah’s Yard, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 447360.

Donnie Joe’s American Swing Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £3/£2.50 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

Gwd Mondays Open Mic Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7933.

Gwent Music Summer Showcase St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £7.50-£11.50.

Info 029 2087 8444. Featuring pupils from Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen. *Madball + Grove Street Families + Guilt Trip Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £16 adv. Info 029 2023 2199.

New York hardcore monsters, last seen in Cardiff providing unlikely arena support to Limp Bizkit and Korn, make matters a bit more freakin’ intimate, ya get me?

The Simon & Garfunkel Story Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £20.50. Info 01792 475715.

TUESDAY 27

Bella Collins Bootlegger, Cardiff. 6pm, free. Info 07495 657407.

Brian Copsey Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £2.50. Info 01686 614555. Acoustic set from a mid-Wales resident whose self-penned biography on the venue website hs something of the Les McQueens about it.

Rachel Newton Band St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £15/£15. Info 029 2087 8444.

UK folk singer plays Roots Unearthed gig.

Safari Gold + Emirae Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £4/£3 adv. Info 029 2039 7933.

The Dave Smith Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

WEDNESDAY 28

Cage The Elephant + Spring King Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £21 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

Creeds Cross: The Celtic Journey Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £19.50. Info 01646 695267.

Irish music-with-a-bit-ofdance show.

Jack Ellis + Chroma + The Moon Birds The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

8.30-10.30pm, £3. Info 01685 387925. A U&I Radio night.

Kaz Hawkins Band Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £12/£10. Info 0845 2263510.

Blues.

Llewellyn Ifan Jones Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 1pm, £5.50. Info 01656 815995.

Lunchtime harp recital.

Royal Welsh College Symphony Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14/£6 under-25s. Info 029 2087 8444. David Jones conducts a programme of three

Strauss works.

Sandy Brechin & Ewan Wilkinson Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club.

7.30pm, £8/£5. Info 01443 226892. A Llantrisant Folk Club night.

The Simon & Garfunkel Story The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £21/£19.

Info 01633 656757.

UltraFaux Jazzland, Swansea. 8.30pm, £12. Info 07802 912789.

THURSDAY 29

Albert Lee + Glas Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £25/£20 adv. Info 029 2062 6015. Top rated bluesman plays intimate club.

An Afternoon With Strike A Chord Cymru Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 2pm, £6.

Info 01633 868239. Afternoon choral performance.

Bruce Barthol Cellar Bar, Cardigan. 8.30pm. Info 07818 056599. This guy was in Country Joe & The Fish at some point.

Coco Xu Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £6/£5. Info 029 2038 7026.

Danielle Lewis + Nia Ann + Eädyth + Lily Beau Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 029 2039 7933. Presented by Beers Over Tears.

Graham Watkins Quartet feat. Clare Hingott Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 8pm, £9.50. Info 01656 815995.

Jazz.

Ian Poole Quartet The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Kamikaze Girls + Nervus + Disjoy + Spoon Race Buffalo, Cardiff. 7pm, £5 adv.

Info 029 2031 0312. Punky indie-y bands presented by DIY Cardiff.

Lowri Evans & Lee Mason Burnett’s Hill Chapel, Martletwy, Pembrokeshire.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01646 651725.

Mercury Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £21. Info 01792 475715. Queen tribute band.

Mothership + Poseidon Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £7 adv.

Info 07970 063107. Stoner rock.

Swallows + Hayworth + Amère + A Night Like This + Truenorth The Duke, Neath. 7pm. Info 01639 643892.

Tobias Robertson’s Jam Night Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm.

Info info@porterscardiff.com.

FRIDAY 30

Belleville Rouge Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Bronwen Welcome To Town, Llanrhidian, Swansea.

8.30pm, free. Info 01792 390015.

Crawlback Bootlegger, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 07495 657407.

Elvis Legacy Hamptons, Penarth. 7.30pm, £39. Info 029 2070 5391. With Mark Summers.

Justin Bieber + Halsey Principality Stadium, Cardiff.

6pm, £50-£85. Info 08442 777888. There have been posters for this show up around Cardiff since last year and every time I see one from a bus window or whatever, I think for about half a second it’s a Pentagram poster

because the guy who designed Biebs’ logo paid tribute to it.

Or copied it, some might say.

Like A Lion The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Organ Recital National Museum Cardiff. 1pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7951.

Peter Jagger White Horse, Bridgend. 9pm, free. Info 01656 652583. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Punchline Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Rattlesnake Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events. uSlugfest The Dolls House, Abertillery. Free. Info 01495 213300. Not, as you may have thought, a conference for centrist Labour Party members, this annual weekender serves up punk, rock, metal and garage and raises money for charity. Today features The Bus Station Loonies, Hacksaw, 2 Sick Monkeys, Brocker, Pizzatramp and Gung Ho. Sat 1 July: Bay City Roiders, Scarsun, ATOT, Beneath The Divine, 8.4%, A Noise, Deathtraps, We Come From Ashes, The Broken Bones Gentlemen’s Club, Flash House, The Blunders, Brassick, The Black Bullets, Stay Voiceless, Scumbag Millionaire, JD And The FDCs and Christmas. Sun 2 July: acoustic acts TBC. (Until Sun 2 July) Soul In Motion Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £15. Info 01600 772467. Soul covers party band. uSurplus Festival Oaklands Organic Farm, Bonvilston, Vale Of Glamorgan. 4pm, £65 weekend/free under-16s.

Info surplusfest@hotmail. co.uk. Another three-day bash for those who like their hippy, trancey, crusty punky etc sounds. Running order TBC but stage by stage it’s like so. Crow Stage: RDF, Dub The Earth, Tribazik, The Sporadics, Captain Accident & The Disasters, Black Star Dub Collective, Omega Tribe (cool!), Autonomads, Kilnaboy, Gung Ho, Skraelings, Prolefeed, P.A.I.N., Defekters, Dohnut, The Bungle Cult, Mental Block, Reality Attack, The Lagan, Cartoon Violence and Dirty Twisters. Levitation Stage: Hawklords, AOS3, Kangaroo Moon, Flutatious, Lacertilia, Sacred Geometry Band, Elephant Tree, Black Light Secret, Cybernetic Witch Cult, Shom, Cavalli, Trevor’s Head, Sendelica, Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters, Buff, Spacedogs, The Chalk Outlines, Dharma Violets, The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk and Spiral Navigators. The Incubator: A.Paul, Chris Liberator, Dare&Haste, Tassid, Taffari Takeover, Rezaloot, Decipha, Mappmaker, Mazar, P-tay, Tekart, Dirty Chronic, Mr. Chuffed, Blap, Doug Graves, Max Volume, Lee Graves, Jules Wyl & Luke Winds, Cromlab, Blake Parker b2b Jason Wilkinson, Corey Lewis, Smarty, 4G b2b 2speed, Louise Plusone, Benji 303, Suss Twins, Leroy, Fattman b2b Salted Slug,

Rage ‘N’ Tekhead, Donut, Welsh Stan and Angel Actual.

Something Different Stage: Slamfish, Crystalogic, Iolo, Nocturnal Project, Toxic Tegan, Mr Chuffed, Fattman b2b Salted Slug, Kryptic Void, DJ Rev Dread, Michaela, The DMT Experiment, Omni, Kabbalien, Sanial, Seritone, Kazmik, Runo B, Tiddles, Torrie Crow Dub, G.E.O.R.G.E. and DJ Sensible.

Tavarn Llwyth: Gavin Woo, Shagg Waan, Kane ‘N’ Abels, Yogo Crow Vinyl, DJ Rascal, DJ Tenov, Flapsandwich, DJ Tommytank, Trans Irie Nation, Doghouse, Rev Dread, Clusterfuck, Lou Noble, Ru-dilator, Squid Boy, Joe Yorke, Pryme Cut Collective, Sean Llewelyn, Kath Allen, Doozer Mcdooze, Myrtle & Clive, Tracey Curtis, Paul Divers and Cosmo. (Until Sun 3) Swallows + Hayworth Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £3 adv. Info 07970 063107.

The Hangmen + Melt The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £2. Info gigs@thedragonffli. com.

The Phoenix Choir Of

at 7.15pm only. uMadagascar New Theatre, Cardiff. 1 + 6pm, £10.50-£21.50. Info 029 2087 8889. Orbit present the stage show of the animated movie.

No 6pm show on Sun 4. (Until Sun 4) Off The Page: Marie Toseland Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 6.30pm. Info 029 2030 4400. Experimental theatre/performance art from a London-based artist.

Some Guys Have All The Luck Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £21. Info 01792 475715. Rod Stewart’s gruesome life story told in musical form. uThree Days In The Country Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £13/£11. Info 029 2030 4400. Play presented by the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama’s Richard Burton Company. On tomorrow also.

FRIDAY 2

A Clockwork Orange The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10£12. Info 029 2048 3344.

Presented by The Actor’s

Scottish sketch comic, social media maven and madheid Limmy is relatively new to live performance, but on Mon 12 his storytelling-based show That's Your Lot visits Cardiff's Glee Club.

Wales Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £15/£12.

Info 01792 602060.

The Villagers The Twelve Knights, Margam. 9pm, free.

Info 01639 882381. Presented

by Nailed It Events.

Tobias Beaufort Arms, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 01792 234447. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Voices On The Bridge Pontypridd Museum. 7-10pm, free. Info 01443 490748.

Music and poetry evening.

stage THURSDAY 1

uAround The World Dolman Theatre, Newport.

7.15pm, £10. Info 01633 263670. This is the Newport Scout & Guide Gang Show 2017. (Until Sat 3) Bennett Arron Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.15pm, free.

Info 029 2030 4400. Recording of Welsh comic’s radio show, Bennett Arron Worries About.... uImage Of An Unknown Young Woman Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.15pm, £6-£13. Info 029 2039 1391. On tomorrow also. uLast Days Of Judas Iscariot Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 2 + 7.15pm, £6-£13. Info 029 2039 1391. On tomorrow also,

Wheel.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £7.50£14. Info 01873 850805.

Presented by Ballet Cymru. uAnnie Jr Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 2.30 + 7.30pm, £6-£12. Info 01656 815995.

Presented by Bridgend Youth Theatre. On tomorrow also.

Anthony King Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 0845 2263510. Comedy Club night, more acts TBC. A Regular Little Houdini Millennium Hall, Llanfallteg.

7.30pm, £3.50-£8.50. Info 01834 869323. Presented by Span Arts. uDrones Comedy Club Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

8.30pm, £3.50. Info 029 2030 4400. Also on Fri 16. uRATS (Rose Against The System) Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £10. Info 029 2063 6464.

Black comedy incorporating masks, dance, hip-hop, rock and rhyme in a masquerade.

On tomorrow also, at 1.30pm and 8pm.

Sarah And Duck’s Big Top Party Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 4.30pm, £10. Info 01792 602060. Kids’ show based on a Cbeebies programme. uStuart Mitchell + Sofie Hagen + Mick Ferry + Jim Smallman Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£8 NUS).

‘Stute Comedy Nights Miners’ Institute, Blackwood.

8pm, £12/£11. Info 01495 227206. With standups TBC. BUZZ 75

* – recommended

stage Slim and Kojo, plus more TBC. May the best small island or billion-person continent win.

MONDAY 5

Killer Cells Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5-£10. Info 029 2064 6900.

Sara Lewis writes and directs a play inspired by first-hand experiences of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. In Swansea on Fri 16.

Stewart Francis + Justin Moorhouse + Jarred Christmas + Mike Gunn Grand Theatre, Swansea.

7.30pm, £20.50. Info 01792 475715. This is the All-Star Stand-Up Tour 2017. If you consider none of these comedians to be stars, please contact me and I will act as ombudsman by forwarding your complaint to the venue.

TUESDAY 6

BLUESTOCKING LOUNGE Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea, Sat 10 June Tickets: £15.50. Info: 01792 475715 / www.swansea.gov.uk/ swanseagrandtheatre Bluestocking Lounge have been bringing burlesque jollity to Swansea (and occasionally satellites like Llanelli) for seven years now. What with the scene being primarily made up of female performers, they take pride in promoting women’s creativity; nevertheless, in the interests of equality they sometimes allow the odd token boy to get in on the action, and this month there’s a headline set from Mister Meredith. Most often found hosting nights in notable London gay establishments like the George Tavern and Coach & Horses, Meredith and his fetching pencil moustache are prone to a raucous cockney piano singalong. Also on the bill is Audacity Chutzpah, which sounds like the name of a spam account trying to sell you Cialis but is in fact a “burlesque clown”, and Sheffield’s Starla Bright [pictured].

uWales Final Festival Of One-Act Plays 2017 Theatr Hafren, Newtown.

7.30pm, £7.50/£10 both nights. Info 01686 614555.

Six plays (three per night) chosen from regional rounds in Conwy, Glamorgan, Gwent, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire and South Breconshire. On tomorrow also.

SATURDAY 3

Courtney Act The Big Top, Cardiff. 7pm-2am, £15-£40.

Info 029 2022 8883. Drag Race season six star hits Cardiff courtesy of Rest Is Drag.

Dance Collaboration Maesteg Town Hall. 5.30pm, £5.50. Info 01656 733269.

Hello Cabaret Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £15. Info 029 2063 BUZZ 76

6464. uDer Rosenkavalier Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 3pm, £7-£43. Info 029 2063 6464. Welsh National Opera present Strauss’ opera.

The last time they did it, someone who wasn’t me would have typed the listing into Buzz’s listings – a sobering thought indeed. Also on Sat 10 (6pm) and Sat 17 (6pm).

Higgledy Piggledy Pie Carnegie House, Bridgend.

11am, £6. Info 01656 815757.

Theatre for ages 3+.

Marty Macdonald’s Toy Machine Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 2pm, £10.50/£9.50 kids. Info 01495 243252.

Children’s theatre.

Swarm Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £5. Info 01633 868239. Immersive theatre putting the audience in the shoes of a refugee.

Theatre In Focus: Tennessee Williams Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

12.30pm, £6/£4.50. Info 01792 475715. Script-in-hand performance preceded by an hour-long talk about TW.

SUNDAY 4

Gein’s Family Giftshop + Kiri Pritchard-McClean Buffalo, Cardiff. 7pm, £6-£10.

Info 029 2031 0312. Presented

by Buffalo Comedy.

Joe & Megan Dolman Theatre, Newport. 4pm, £8.

Info 01633 263670. An afternoon of musical theatre. uLive Cabaret Market Street Club, Barry. 8.30pm.

Info 01446 733863. Every Sunday.

Wahala Comedy Clash: Jamaica vs Africa Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.30pm, £20. Info 0871 4720400.

Featuring standup comics

Jimmy Carr St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £27.50. Info 029 2087 8444.

Jonathan Williams + Sam Lloyd + Tony Davidson + Roger Hanson + Adrian Wetherick + Darren Masterton + Calum Stewart The Cambrian Tap, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2064 4952. This month’s lineup of Crafty Laughs, free standup comedy every first Tuesday of the month. uThe Woman In Black New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10.50-£28. Info 029 2087 8889. Never-ending West End play goes on your again. Also at 2.30pm tomorrow, Thurs 8 and Sat 10. £9.50-£28 tomorrow and Thurs 8; £10-£28 on Sat 10. (Until Sat 10) uTom Green Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £16.

Info 0871 4720400. The mind responsible for Freddy Got Fingered with an unlikely detour into comedy. This date is sold out but an extra one has been added for Thurs 8.

WEDNESDAY 7

uCarousel Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. 7pm, £12/£10. Info 0800 0147111.

Amateur production of muical, presented by Colstars.

(Until Sat 10) Constellations Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

7.30pm, £10-£15. Info 01646 695267. On In 5 Productions and Little London Theatre Company productions present Nick Payne’s play, a recent Broadway hit showing in Wales for the first time. In Pontardawe on Fri 16. In Cardiff tomorrow and Fri 10; Blackwood on Tue 13; Pontardawe on Fri 16 and sat 17. uThe Scarecrow’s Wedding Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 5pm, £9. Info 029 2064 6900. Show for ages 3+, based on the book by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler.

On tomorrow also, at 11am and 1.30pm.

THURSDAY 8

uBlue Remembered Hills Savoy Theatre, Monmouth.

7.30pm, £10. Info 01600 772467. Dennis Potter’s deceptively dark play, presented by Off Centre Theatre.

(Until Sat 10) uConstellations Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm,

£10-£16. Info 029 2064 6900.

(Until Sat 10) uFlowers Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £10/£8. Info 029 2030 4400.

Live music, puppetry and improvisation combine in this production by Big Loop. (Until Sat 10) Jarlath Regan The Riverfront, Newport. 7.45pm, £13/£9. Info 01633 656757.

UK comedian with a new show titled Arseways. uLast Tango In Ammanford Miners Theatre, Ammanford. 7.30pm, £8/£7.

Info 0845 2263510. New comedy that sounds like it’s in the Frank Vickery Real Wales vein going on the description.

Presented by Ammanford Community Theatre. (Until Sat 10) National Opera Studio Showcase Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 3pm, £15.

Info 029 2063 6464. The Young Artists Of The National Opera Studio are joined by the WNO Orchestra to present staged scenes from great operas.

Nolton Comedy Nolton Corner, Bridgend. 7.30pm, free. Info 01656 655015. With standups TBC, every second Thursday of the month. uThe Crucible Borough Theatre, Abergavenny.

7pm, £8.50/£7.50. Info 01873 850805. Presented by Abergavenny Theatre Group.

(Until Sat 10)

FRIDAY 9

Drew Taylor + Sandi Smith + Steffan Evans + Jonnie Price + Paul James Ystrad RFC. 7pm, £5.

Info 01443 435267. A Feel Good Friday comedy night.

Ed Aczel Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £15. Info 029 2063 6464.

Kate Lucas + Andrew Rutledge + Steffan Alun Welcome To Town, Llanrhidian, Swansea. 8pm, £10 adv. Info 01792 390015.

Freshly Squeezed Comedy with a night of standup.

Headliner has been described as “wickedly naughty and deliciously dark” by someone who should be banned by the state from writing, typing or dictating. uLaura Lexx + Tom Wrigglesworth + Craig Murray + George Rigden Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also, with Craig Murray replaced by another comic TBC (£17.95/£8 NUS). uMan Of La Mancha The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8/£7.

Info 029 2048 3344. Popular musical, presented here by Quixotic. On tomorrow also.

Russell Kane Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 8pm, £17. Info 0845 2263510. In Cardiff on Wed 21 and Thurs 22. uThe Beautiful Game Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 0845 2263510.

Play following the fortunes of a group of football-playing teenagers and their friends.

On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. uThoroughly Modern Millie Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £10/£8. Info 01970 623232. Presented by Arts Centre Stage School. On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.

u – repeated

SATURDAY 10

A Strange New Space Miners’ Institute, Blackwood.

11am + 2pm, £5/£4. Info 01495 227206. Kids’ theatre about a young girl who goes into space somehow.

Bluestocking Lounge Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

8pm, £15.50. Info 01792 475715. Cabaret and burlesque with Mister Meredith, DeeDee La Rouge and more.

Nico + Javier Jarquin + John Robertson Jongleurs, Cardiff. 7pm, from £16.

Info 08700 111960. Can’t believe that deceased Velvet Underground vocalist Nico is making her mark in the world of weekend pisshead standup comedy! Is what I would hilariously yell at the stage if I attended this, throwing whoever this Nico is off their stride no doubt.

Tiny Toes Ballet Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 1 + 6.30pm, £8 adv.

Info 0845 2263510. Pupils aged 3-8 perform their ballet, tap, music and mime. It’s not specified if the pupils’ toes are especially tiny even for their age, or just compared to adult ballet dancers.

We’ll Have To Do It Again Then Won’t We? Woo! Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 0845 2263510. I’m going to convert to Buddhism so I can have the title of this show, a family panto of some sort, written on my gravestone.

SUNDAY 11

Mark Olver + Lloyd Griffith + Spencer Jones Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.30pm, £8/£5 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. Olver’s comedy night, The Gathering, also on Sun 18 and Sun 25.

MONDAY 12

Caterpillar Comedy Gwdihw, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7933. Open mic standup night hosted by James Dunn. *Limmy Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £16/£13 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. I love Limmy. This is his storytelling show, That’s Your Lot.

TUESDAY 13

uBen & Holly’s Little Kingdom Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 1 + 4.30pm, £8-£15.50. Info 01792 475715.

Live kids’ show based on TV programme On tomorrow also, at 10am and 1pm.

Constellations Miners’ Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 01495 227206. uHairspray Gwyn Hall, Neath. 7pm, £12. Info 0300 3656677. Amateur music presented by Stage 8. Also on at 2pm on Sat 17. (Until Sat 17) Heroes, Heroines & H’everybody Else Parc Cwm Darren, Blackwood. 9.30am + 8pm, £10/£7 under-16s. Info 01495 227206. A sort of theatrical megamix of Shakespeare. uMark Thomas Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10/£8. Info 029 2030 4400.

A new work-in-progress show titled Predictable, about gambling on the future. With a political angle as you might expect, or indeed predict. On tomorrow also. uNot Dead Enough New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm,

stage £13-£30. Info 029 2087 8889.

Thriller by Peter James, starring people who have been on Corrie, Hollyoaks and Strictly. Also at 2.30pm tomorrow, Thurs 15 and Sat 17. £11-£30 tomorrow and Thurs 8; £15-£33 on Fri 16; £13-£33 on Sat 17. (Until Sat 17) uThe Government Inspector Dolman Theatre, Newport. 7.15pm, £12.50/£8.50. Info 01633 263670. Presented by Newport Playgoers’ Society. Also on at 2.30pm on Sat 17 (tickets £11 for that performance). (Until Sat 17)

WEDNESDAY 14

Forbidden Nights Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £23.50/£20. Info 01633 868239. Male strip show. In Llanelli on Fri 16; Narberth on Thurs 22.

Jane Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 1 + 7.15pm, £10.50. Info 01792 475715.

Fluellen present Francis Hardy’s play about Jane Austen.

Mrs Brown’s Boys Motorpoint Arena Cardiff.

6.30pm, £22.50-£39.50. Info 029 2022 4488. On at 1.30pm and 6.30pm on Sat 17; 1.30pm only on Sun 18. (Until Sun 18) Up Pompeii Maesteg Town Hall. 7.30pm, £7/£5.50. Info 01656 733269. Comedy by Miles Tredinnick, presented

by Llynfi Valley Amateur Dramatic Society.

THURSDAY 15

A Charity Evening Of Comedic Cabaret Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £7.

Info 01633 868239. Presented

by Theatre AdHoc in association with Rotary Clubs of Henllys and Pontypool. uA-Lad-In A Talent Contest YMCA Theatre, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £6/£4. Info 07547 797125. The NewLink Wales Summer Pantomime is a modern-day update of Aladdin. Also on at 1.30pm on Sat 17. (Until Sat 17) Mr Dickens Entertains: The Story Of Charles Dickens Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 7.15pm, £10.50. Info 01792 475715.

Presented by Fluellen.

Susan Calman Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7 + 9pm, £16. Info 029 2030 4400.

New set from TV-panel-showproduction-companies-onspeed-dial comedian. Sold out.

The Death Hilarious The Big Top, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2022 8883. Comedy collective.

The Dreamboys Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

7.30pm, £17.50-£27.50. Info 01792 475715.

Y Twr Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £8-£14.

Info 01792 602060. Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s new opera, written by Guto Puw.

FRIDAY 16

Abergavenny Chronicled Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £10.

Info 01873 850805. A cast of local performers explore more than 900 years of Abergavenny’s history through popular music and songs. uConstellations Pontardawe Arts Centre.

7.30pm, £14 adv. Info 01792 863722. On tomorrow also.

Forbidden Nights Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.45pm, £20/£25. Info 0845 2263510.

Killer Cells Volcano, Swansea. 2.30pm. Info www. volcanotheatre.co.uk. This performance is part of the Storytelling For Health International Conference, which takes place in several venues across Swansea including this one. I’m finding the given information quite confusing to be honest but check out www.artsinhealth. wales if you’re interested. uNathan Caton + Paul Thorne + Allyson Smith + Alistair Barrie Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£8 NUS).

Rat Pack Live Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £22.50-£24.50. Info 01656 815995.

Seren Stars: True Colours Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

1.15pm, £5/£3.50. Info 01874 611622. Variaty show.

Seriously Dead Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

7.30pm, £22.50/£20. Info 01792 475715. New comedy play based around a smalltime crook who attends a funeral.

Simon Emanuel + Drew Taylor + Josh Elton + Andrew Rutledge + Phil King The Globe At Hay, HayOn-Wye. 8pm, £8. Info 01497 821762. Standup comedy and, in the case of King who plays last, folk-rock.

Stolen National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 7.30pm, free. Info 01792 463980. New production by The Devil’s Violin.

SATURDAY 17

Joseff Badman: Close-Up Magic Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. A demo of magic tricks in the bar area.

Karen Bailey + Jarlath Regan + Ben Briggs Jongleurs, Cardiff. 7pm, from £16. Info 08700 111960.

RSD Dance Extravaganza Parc & Dare, Treorchy.

1.30pm, £7/£6.50. Info 0800 0147111.

The Grumbleweeds Congress Theatre, Cwmbran.

7.30pm, £19/£18. Info 01633 868239. Veteran comedy revue.

The Light Princess Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £17-£22.50. Info 0845 2263510. Ballet Cymru present a brand new ballet featuring a score by Catrin Finch.

In Milford Haven on Wed 21.

SUNDAY 18

uBugsy Malone Dolman Theatre, Newport. 7.15pm, £10. Info 01633 263670.

Presented by Sharon Higgins Musical Theatre Youth Group.

On tomorrow also.

Mark Olver + Sarah Pascoe Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.30pm, £8/£5 NUS. Info 0871 4720400.

Paul Sinha + Nick Page + Paul James The Marquee, Castle Green, Llantrisant.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info info@ thecomedycow.co.uk. Standup night. Part of something called Beating The Bounds.

MONDAY 19

uApocalypso The Riverfront, Newport. 7.45pm, £12/£10. Info 01633 656757.

Immpersive theatre experience, presented by Tin Shed and held in the venue’s basement. Tue 20 and Wed 21 are sign language/audio description shows. (Until Thurs 23) uFootloose Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 7.30pm, £12-£31. Info 01792 475715.

Gareth Gates stars in latest take on 80s musical. Also on

Cardiff. 8pm, £15/£13. Info 0333 6663366. Pythonic comedy romp, the first production in this year’s Everyman Theatre Festival which runs until Sat 29 July. Also at 3pm on Sat 24 and Sat 1 July.

(Until Sat 1 July) Forbidden Nights Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £20/£25 first five rows. Info 01834 869323. The fifth row back is the furthest away the human eye can see each performer’s scrotal contours.

Black Is The Colour Of My Voice is a one-woman show that pays tribute to the life and music of the great Nina Simone. It's already played in Cardiff this year, and is now at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Wed 21. at 2.30pm on Sat 24. (Until Sat 24)

TUESDAY 20

A Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Parc Cwm Darran, Blackwood. 6pm, £10/£7 kids. Info 01495 227206.

Jarlath Regan Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 8pm, £10. Info 0845 2263510.

Comedy Club night, more acts TBC. uThe Graduate New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12.50-£29. Info 029 2087 8889. With Catherine McCormack as Mrs Robinson.

Also at 2.30pm on Thurs 22 and Sat 24. £12-£29 on Thurs 8; £14-£33 on Fri 23; £12-£33 on Sat 24. (Until Sat 24)

WEDNESDAY 21

Black Is The Colour Of My Voice Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £10/£8. Info 01970 623232. One-woman show based on the life, and songs, of Nina Simone. I’m told (by someone who went) this is really good.

Forms Of Enquiry Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 1pm, £6.50. Info 01656 815995.

Lunchtime theatre set in an obscure governmental department.

Kevin & Karen St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £31.50£45. Info 029 2087 8444. Last month I was asked if I knew who these people were and, despite never having heard of them before, correctly guessed based on their name that they were a dancing duo off Strictly. uRussell Kane Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £17. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also.

The Light Princess Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

7.30pm, £8.50-£15.50. Info 01646 695267.

THURSDAY 22

uJesus Christ Superstar Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7pm, £10. Info 01873 850805. Amateur produciton of famous musical. On tomorrow also at 6.30pm. uSpamalot Sophia Gardens,

FRIDAY 23

Comedy Night Carnegie House, Bridgend. 8pm, £9/£7.50. Info 01656 815757.

Monthly night with acts TBC. uFall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.45pm, £10. Info 01970 623232. Carl Ryan leads the Wardens Theatre Company on a journey that explores the dynamics between people, through a series of monologues, duologues, solos and duets. On tomorrow also. uGeorge Zach + Steve Shanyaski + Carly Smallman + Mark Nelson Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£8 NUS).

Ignacio Lopez The Met, Abertillery. 8pm, £7 adv. Info 01495 355800.

Sophie Willan + Kate Lucas Pontardawe Arts Centre. 8pm, £10/£7 adv. Info 01792 863722. Standup. uWest Side Story Dolman Theatre, Newport. 7.15pm, £12. Info 01633 263670. (Until Sun 25)

SATURDAY 24

A Night At The Opera Gwyn Hall, Neath. 7pm, £10. Info 0300 3656677.

Eisteddfod Rhydaman Miners Theatre, Ammanford.

1pm, £4 adv. Info 0845 2263510. Traditional and contemporary Welsh entertainment, with competitions suitable for individuals of all ages.

Mr Maker & The Shapes Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen.

10am, 1.30pm + 4pm, £14.50/£11 kids. Info 0845 2263510. The name sounds like a really bad indie band from about 2006 but is actually someone off Cbeebies.

Shake That Thing! Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £18/£16. Info 01792 602060. A celebration of 1920s-40s swing dance with a live band.

Sully O’Sullivan + Thomas Green + John Lynn Jongleurs, Cardiff. 7pm, from £16. Info 08700 111960.

The Eighth Story Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

12.30pm, £6/£4.50 kids. Info 01792 475715. Lunchtime theatre presented by Fluellen.

The Importance Of Being Earnest Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £12.

Info 01873 850805. Presented

by Concept Players.

SUNDAY 25

Dance For The World 2017 St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 3pm, £10/£7. Info 029 2087 8444.

Production featuring pupils from Cardiff-based dance schools.

Mark Olver + Elliot Steel Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.30pm, £8/£5 NUS. Info 0871 4720400.

Pride & Prejudice Cardigan Castle. 7.30pm, £9-£13. Info 01239 621200. Presented by Illyria, their first outdoor theatre performance of 2017.

MONDAY 26

uDo I Have To Wake Up? Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

11am + 1.30pm, £10/£7. Info 01874 611622. Interactive theatre for kids aged 2-8. On tomorrow also.

TUESDAY 27

uJane Eyre Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.15pm, £11-£41. Info 029 2063 6464. Re-imagining of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, a collaboration between the National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic directed by Sally Cookson. Also on at 2.15pm on Thurs 29 and Sat 1 July. £16-£47 on Fri 30 and Sat 1 July. (Until Sat 1 July) uMobile Miners Theatre, Ammanford. 5, 6, 7 + 8pm, £7.50/£6. Info 0845 2263510.

A 40-minute theatre performance set in a caravan for audiences of eight people at a time. On tomorrow also; in Llanelli on Thurs 29 uShirley Valentine New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £11-£28. Info 029 2087 8889.

With Jodie Prenger as Shirley.

Also at 2.30pm on Thurs 29 and Sat 1 July. £10.50-£28 on Thurs 29; £12-£31 on Fri 30; £11-£31 on Sat 1 July. (Until Sat 1 July)

WEDNESDAY 28

Comedy Club Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 8pm, £11. Info 01792 475715. With acts TBC. Joel Dommett Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 8pm.

Info 01600 772467. Standup comedian. Sold out. uOes Rhaid I Mi Ddeffro?

Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan.

10.30am + 1.30pm, £6/free teachers. Info 01239 621200.

Welsh language production (Do I Have To Wake Up? in English) for kids aged 2-8. On tomorrow also.

Rhythm Of The Dance Grand Theatre, Swansea.

7.30pm, £20.50-£26. Info 01792 475715. Irish step dance show with live music. uSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £6-£15. Info 029 2039 1391. Sondheim musical. Also on at 2.30pm on Wed 5 July.

No performance on Tue 2 July. (Until Sun 6 July) The Tempest Caerphilly Castle. 7-9pm, £5-£14.50. Info 01443 336000. Presented by Taking Flight Theatre.

THURSDAY 29

Andrew Rutledge + Karen Sherrard + Matt Stellingwerf + Drew Taylor High Street Social, Treorchy. 6.30pm, £12.50. Info 01443 778352. This night is called Comedy & Curry and experts are predicting that a curry will therefore be included in the ticket price.

Forms Of Enquiry Carnegie House, Bridgend. 1pm, £6.50.

Info 01656 815757. New drama by Martin Pursey, presented by Fluellen Theatre. uMobile Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

5, 6, 7 + 8pm, £7.50/£6. Info 0845 2263510. On at 11am, 11.45am, 12.45pm, 1.30pm, 2.45pm, 3.30pm, 5.15pm, 6pm, 7pm and 7.45pm on Sat 1 July. (Until Sat 1 July) Phil Cooper + Dan Thomas Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

8pm, £8/£7. Info 0845 2263510. Standup comedy.

Spencer Jones + Mark Simmons + Brennan Reece Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £10. Info 01970 623232. Comedy Club night.

This bill is in Brecon tomorrow. uThe Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940 Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

7.30pm, £8.50-£11.50. Info 01646 695267. This is a murder mystery set in New York state circa 1940, and is presented by the flagrantly named Xenon Liberal Arts.

(Until Sat 1 July) Under Milk Wood Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £14.50/£12.50/£5 under-25s.

Info 01874 611622. Dylan Thomas’ meisterwerk, as presented by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

FRIDAY 30

uDan Thomas + Ben Norris + Maff Brown + Paul Myrehaug Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£8 NUS). uLa Voix Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £15. Info 029 2063 6464. Top British drag artist. On tomorrow also. See Upfront.

Sied Tad-Cu Ted Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 6.15pm, £5/£3.50.

Info 0845 2263510. Welsh language kids’ musical.

Spencer Jones + Mark Simmons + Brennan Reece Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 8pm, £10. Info 01874 611622. Presented by Little Wander. uThe Desert Daydreamer Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas, Vale Of Glamorgan. 1 + 7pm, £5-£10. Info 029 2039 1391.

Family-friendly puppet theatre, presented by the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama. On at 11am and 2pm on Sat 1 July. No performance on Sun 2 July. (Until Sat 5 July) The Faaaabulous Ceri Dupress Show The Neon, Newport. 7pm, £15 adv. Info 01633 533666. uThe First Hippo On The Moon Grand Theatre, Swansea. 1.30 + 4pm, £13.50/£10.50. Info 01792 475715. David Walliams’ story adapted for the stage. On tomorrow also, at 10.30am and 1pm.

BUZZ 77

Marvel’s first movie, Howard The Duck, bombed at the box office. It cost an estimated $37 million, and grossed under $38 million internationally.

The movie Troll features a character named Harry Potter who explores a world full of witches, wizards, and magic.

In Mandarin Chinese, the word for ‘kangaroo’ translates literally to ‘bag rat’.

Catherine Zeta-Jones gets her middle name from her grandmother, who was named after a boat seen in Swansea Harbour.

In 2014, Taylor Swift accidentally released eight seconds of white noise on iTunes for $1.29.

It became #1 in Canada almost immediately, before being removed.

Five days after Hitler committed suicide, German and American troops fought side by side to defend Itter Castle against Himmler’s SS. In 774, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded a “red crucifix” in the sky. Tree rings dated from that year all over the world show a spike in Carbon-14 levels. It is believed that the event was caused by a very strong solar flare, perhaps the strongest ever known.

In Thai, the number five is pronounced “ha” -- so instead of saying “hahahahaha,” Thai speakers will sometimes write “55555”.

Fascist dictator Francisco Franco brought back the Spanish monarchy, but the King Of Spain chose to introduce a constitutional monarchy when he came into power.

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BUZZ 78

COMPETITIONS FAMILY TICKET TO BIG FISH LITTLE FISH FAMILY RAVE AT TRAMSHED For grown-ups with kids who don’t want to leave their raving days behind them, there’s a family rave organised by Big Fish Little Fish on Sun 18 June with Goldie Lookin Chain’s Rhys and Eggsy DJing. A great way of having fun with the little ones, there’s dancing, creative play, glitter, bubbles, fancy dress (the theme is heroes and villains), chill areas, street food, a parachute dance, and a licensed bar. Held from 2-4.30pm, all ages are welcome.

FAMILY TICKET TO MILKSHAKE! LIVE AT THE WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE Milkshake! Live, The Magic Storybook stars Channel 5’s Milkshake! favourites Bob The Builder, Little Princess, Noddy, Toyland Detective, Fireman Sam, Shimmer and Shine, Pip Ahoy!, Winnie and Wilbur, Wissper as well as Milkshake!’s very own Milkshake! Monkey and two Milkshake! presenters at every show. The show will take audiences on a journey through their favourite fairy tales featuring much-loved stories, music, singing and dancing. A great day out for the kids, we’ve got tickets to give away for their Cardiff show on Sun 9 July.

TWO TICKETS TO PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING AT EBBW VALE INSTITUTE To celebrate the launch of their new album Every Valley, which in part explores the history of coal mining in south Wales, the critically acclaimed instrumental electronic outfit Public Service Broadcasting are performing at the Ebbw Vale Institute on Fri 9 June. Inspired by neglected communities around the West, the timely concert is a great opportunity to celebrate and reflect upon the history of the town and listen to some great music while you’re at it.

TWO TICKETS TO THE WOMAN IN BLACK AT NEW THEATRE A lawyer finds himself in the unfortunate position of being in a cursed house all alone in this terrifying play based on Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story. To join the seven million theatregoers around the world who’ve been left scared witless by the infamous play, enter our competition to be in with a chance to see it in Cardiff on Tue 6 June at 7.30pm.

TWO TICKETS TO FLOWERS AT CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE Big Loop Theatre Company presents Flowers, written by Duncan Hallis and Cory Tucker and directed by Rosie Jones. When their parents go missing, Billy and Danny are left in charge of the family flower shop. Famed for their trademark anarchic style, this play isn’t for the faint of heart, with live music, puppetry, chaos, and improvisation. Be in with a chance to see them on Thurs 8, Fri 9 or Sat 10 June in Cardiff by entering our competition online.

TWO TICKETS TO THE JACKSONS AND MEET AND GREET AT MOTORPOINT ARENA CARDIFF Celebrating 50 years in the music business, The Jacksons, originally formed as the Jackson 5, are coming to Motorpoint Arena Cardiff on Sun 25 June to light up the city with their iconic hits like ABC and I Want You Back. Having toured all around the world and scoring 17 top 40 singles on the Hot 100, this is guaranteed to be a hell of a party. Enter our competition to meet them in person!

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