Buzz October 2018

WHAT’S ON OCTOBER 2018

EVE MYLES WELSH BAFTA NOMINEE ON FAME + MOTHERHOOD

IRIS PRIZE

LGBT+ FILM FESTIVAL IS BACK

+ AUTUMN ART

ARTES MUNDI + HARRY HOLLAND

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The recipe for courgette and carrot cake sounds nice.

I made a courgette loaf the other week and it turned out alright but was quite… savoury? Like it would have probably been good with Wensleydale or something.

This is my diary now, thanks for reading

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I’ve just noticed that Frankie Locke, an artist whose exhibition is previewed on the Art page, actually has two shows in October, and I’ve bigged up the other in more compact form in the listings section. So, er, I guess Buzz really rates Frankie, go and see her!

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Looks like this is box set month, with some tasty sounding ones (if you like Joe Strummer or Yazoo) reviewed in this issue. Of course, we don’t get sent the actual physical boxes, a snub which I blame on a ‘box set’ now also referring to a load of TV shows streamed in one sitting, rather than our relative unimportance

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The guy who wrote the preview of early November’s WWE arena show starts it by imagining a reader saying, “It’s not a real sport, so why is this in the sports section?” Except we’ve had tons of things on this page that quite clearly aren’t sports and no-one has ever bothered to say anything

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“The event begins on his birthday and ends on the day of his death”

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Here in Wales, we are blessed by great art and film, by which I also mean that great artists and filmmakers from elsewhere wish to share their own talents and vision with our domestically-based ones. As such, this month’s art special features a look at the biannual Artes Mundi Prize, while the LGBT+ film showcase Iris – sometimes bi, always annual – is appraised by editor Fedor

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Worst band names in this issue: I Am Gravity, Sonic Youth Band, Madcap, Killit, Chopsy, Funke & The Two Tone Baby, Julian’s Reluctant Skafterparty, ClownSmashEverything

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Dara Ó Briain’s [clap emoji] name [clap] is [clap] not [clap] written [clap] Dara O’Briain [clap] and [clap] especially [clap] not [clap] Dara O’Brian! Little reminder for all you venue copywriters out there

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You’ve got your Keiron Selfs of this world, who can write a review of comedy horror gadabout Slaughterhouse Rulez that summarises its premise and weighs up its merits, or lack thereof. Then you’ve got me, who can’t get over the hilarity of Crispian out of Kula Shaker directing a movie where posh public schoolchildren are attacked by hideous monsters from below

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What’s on our radar this month

DAVID BYRNE

One of music’s best dressed and funkiest gentlemen is lighting up Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena this month in support of his latest album American Utopia. Expect to hear a foot-stomping collection of both new tracks and Talking Heads classics, as one of the doyens of 20th-century art-pop makes a rare visit to the Welsh capital.

Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Sat 27 Oct. Tickets: from £39.50. Info: 029 2022 4488 / www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

ELVANA

Guess who joined forces in the afterlife?

That’s right, this Elvis-fronted Nirvana tribute band is coming to Cardiff. Who wouldn’t want to belt out Smells Like Teen Spirit whilst doing the King’s pelvic thrust? If you’d heard about this already but thought it was at The Globe, take note that the venue has changed!

Tramshed, Cardiff, Sat 20 Oct. Tickets: £13.50. Info: 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com

PERFORMANCES FOR THE CURIOUS RETURNS

The latest season of Performances For The Curious returns to the WMC, showcasing the most unique and interesting theatre, music and performing arts around. It kicks off with Tuck, written

by Cardiff-based Alun Saunders, telling the story of a Cardiff drag legend who has to face her demons.

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Wed 24 Oct-Mon 31 Dec. Tickets: prices vary.

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

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DYLAN THOMAS FESTIVAL

The Dylan Thomas Festival aims to celebrate his legacy of writing and performing through interaction and participation. Beginning on his birthday, ends on the day of his death and includes creative writing workshops, literary history talks, poetry readings, plays and guided tours of “Dylan’s Swansea”.

Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, Sat 27 Oct-Fri 9 Nov. Tickets: free. Info: 02792 463980 / www. dylanthomas.com

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LACED

Something a little offbeat at The Depot this month – Laced features food, art, music and, primarily, high end trainer collectors. Cop some appallingly limited sneakers or merely coo and gasp at pairs owned by others. Other items of streetwear are available (in general, but also at this event specifically).

Depot, Cardiff. Tickets: £6. Info: www.depotcardiff.com

20TH AND 21ST CENTURY MASTERS Whilst they’re looking for a permanent location for a gallery, Monmouth’s IAP Fine Art are putting on a pop-up exhibition in the town. It will show recent paintings, drawings and prints

by Chris Gollon and Maggi Hambling alongside signed prints by David Hockney, Peter Blake and Terry Frost.

AFTER HOURS: INTO THE FUTURE

Adults get a chance to step into a whole different world one evening this month at the normally kid-oriented Techniquest. There will be over 130 exhibitions for you to explore, from the VR Plank experience to a Nissan technology exhibition for any car fanatics out there. As well as being an entertaining night for all tech lovers, there will also be street food stalls to explore and a fully licensed bar.

Shire Hall, Monmouth, Sat 13 + Sun 14 Oct. Admission: free.

Info: www.iapfineart.com

EIVØR

Techniquest, Cardiff Bay, Thurs 18 Oct (6.30-10pm). Admission: from £10. Info: 029 2047 5475 / www. techniquest.org

Denmark-based Eivør is a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who has been performing since the age of 15. Her songs are about love, loss, memory, freedom and nature. Singing in Faroese and Icelandic, she also performs a number of songs in English, particularly her more recent songs.

She is regularly praised for her intimate vocal capacity and her connection with Faroese culture and tradition.

The Globe, Cardiff, Wed 24 Oct. Tickets: £16. Info: globecardiffmusic.com

ROB BRYDON: I AM STANDING UP

Rob Brydon is doing his first stand up show since 2009-10, and it’s not to be missed. He has nearly completely sold out on most of his UK tour dates, with tickets still available in Swansea and Cardiff for those fans in South Wales.

Considering Brydon is from Port Talbot, there should be a plethora of material for Welsh audiences.

Grand Theatre, Swansea, Wed 3 + Thurs 4 Oct; Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Sat 13 + Sun 14 Oct. Tickets: £21.50-£32.

Info: www.robbrydon.com

THE MESSIAH

Somehow, we’re here – writing about a Christmas show in October. After Patrick Barlow’s Olivier Award-winning West End The 39 Steps, he’s back, with The Messiah with Hugh Dennis, John Marquez and Lesley Garrett. In fairness, this is a preview ahead of the show’s West End Christmas run.

New Theatre, Cardiff, Mon 29 Oct-Sat 3 Nov. Tickets: £16-£33. Info: www. newtheatrecardiff.co.uk

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HARRY HOLLAND One of Britain’s best-known painters, Harry Holland has had a long and storied career, marrying his distinctive style to his love of detail. Ahead of a new exhibition at Martin Tinney Gallery, Fedor Tot gets behind the canvas.

Are you fascinated by the human body?

Well, isn’t everybody? We were evolved, really, to be very sensitive to the form itself and to distinguish it from other animals, but also particularly facial features and aspects of the body which identify individuals. The Western tradition in painting is to idealise everything so that everybody is related to the idea of perfect human form. But of course, people aren’t actually like that. And I like difference in people.

Do you see yourself as part of the Western tradition?

Oh yes, very much. And I believe in it like I believe in science – and they are connected. There’s always been a strong mathematical and physical aspect to the arts in Western culture – look at music for example. The Western tradition is much more to do with the observation of things and the depiction of things. It comes from the Greek tradition, which is very mimetic – it was actually copying.

In terms of the exhibition that you’ve got, how long a period does it cover?

Well, I’ve been doing this since about 1978. The earliest one in this show, I think, is 1980. What usually happens is I have three or four models at any one time, who come in and I draw as a matter of practice or I use them in paintings that I’m doing. You always want to try something new in terms of the way you use paint, the kind of paint you use or the kind of atmosphere you want to create. Making paintings of models was a good way of doing that. This was study only. It was never intended to be seen, but I was interested in them and I kept them and that’s what this show is about.

So were they initially intended more as tests or works in progress?

Yes, that’s the idea. They were just ways or studies of ways of painting. A lot of them are in progress because the model buggered off halfway through and I never saw him or her again. All the ones in the show are among the more finished ones.

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Do you consider yourself to be a realist as a painter?

Yes. There are a number of different nomenclatures in the artworld about the sort of thing that I do and realism is one that I would happily accept.

To actually paint something you have to actually decide to put that detail in. With photography or with film, a bird could fly into shot last minute or whatever and in a sense that is more ‘real’. Does that mean that there is a limitation to realism in painting? In the sense that it’s always specifically through the artist’s eyes.

I’m sorry to have to bust illusions here but almost anything in any form which is put out can be faked. So, with painting, as with every other artform, you can’t apply to it the same rules you’d apply to science. In fact, this is a very serious thing at the moment – this thing about fake news which is going round. A very serious subject for our democracy and our way of life. We have to find ways in which we can actually check what people say.

Fortunately, art has an out in the sense that nobody is expected to believe it. I mean, when you go look at a major fantastical film or a Star Wars or something like that, you enter into the world created by the artist. But, the reality in that world – or the seeming reality of the artistic world – can be equally strong and very persuasive. The church, politicians, various dictators have used art over the centuries for precisely this reason. It can create very powerful realities which isn’t actually the reality that people are living in.

So art is powerful but nobody should actually kid themselves that the depictions in art are anything other than, you know, art. And that includes most of photography.

Having said that, there are ways in which art can actually get a truth which we don’t normally get at.

Harry Holland: Models, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff Wed 17 Oct-Thurs 15 Nov. Admission: free Info: 029 2064 1411 / www.artwales.com

Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra Composers of the First World War 19.10.18

Jamie Smith’s MABON Roots Unearthed 27.10.18

Jess Gillam & Friends nightmusic 09.10.18

Echo & The Bunnymen The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon 15.10.18

London Philharmonic Orchestra 16.10.18

Ross Noble El Hablador 03.10.18

Neil Oliver Story of the British Isles in 100 Places 18.10.18

Bowie Experience Golden Years 06.10.18

The Magic of Motown 11.10.18

BOOK NOW THE STYLISTICS: 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR St David’s Hall, Cardiff Tue 6 Nov Tickets: £34.50 Info: 029 2087 8444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

SECRET SPACES: JOHN REA

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Something unique is afoot at St Fagans this October. Fedor Tot chats to John Rea about his multimedia project Atgyfodi.

For the uninitiated, can you tell us what Atgyfodi is?

Atgyfodi is a multimedia work which is based and inspired by St Fagans Museum and the National Museum Of Wales. We’ve created a two-part work that involves sound installation in the buildings in the museum for the first act. The second act is a musical performance that features the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, with traditional Welsh instruments played

by Patrick Rimes and cinematography

by Huw Talfryn Walters. The idea we have is to immerse the audience in their history through a multimedia piece of work – not merely a musical piece.

How did you go about exploring these archives? What’s the earliest thing you’ve used?

The archive is enormous and there are tens of thousands of hours of recordings. In the 1960s, archivists set out to record people around Wales and this was the main focus of my research. The recordings weren’t only of voices, there were also sounds: old clog-dancing, old Welsh instruments.

The earliest recording I found is of a woman, who was born in 1850, singing a few traditional songs. It made me realise that the actual history goes back far beyond the recording, as these were songs that would’ve been taught to her when she was younger. I started to think of it as the recordings being snapshots of traditions and elements of history, which stretch back further than we’ll know. There were so many recordings, it was difficult to know where to begin and what to narrow down to. My plan BUZZ 8

was to think of the buildings, what they represent and then go from there; and slowly but surely, stories began to emerge of real people and what their lives were like in these buildings.

Have you got any more ideas to bring this archive to life?

It was impossible to include the majority of the recordings in the Atgyfodi project, therefore there are a few ideas that are coming together to shed light on a bigger portion of the archives. I’m really pleased to say that Radio Cymru are newly on board with the project and I am creating podcasts of the installation work; I liked the idea of the archives and the voices being heard by a wider audience. I’m very glad this radio project allows only the voices to speak and reach back out to the communities where they were from. I also recorded and captured the interior acoustics of the buildings, digitizing them, so that it creates an authentic feel for listeners and they can imagine being there, in the rooms, with the voices.

If you could recommend one place in Wales to a first-time visitor that’s not on the tourist maps, where would it be and why?

Kelly’s Records in Cardiff Market. I have a love of funk and soul music as I DJ a little, so that would definitely be somewhere I would recommend to someone with the same music taste.

Atgyfodi, National Museum Of History, St Fagans, Fri 19-Sun 21 Oct. Tickets: £19.50/£18.50. Info: 0300 1112333 / www.museum.wales

St David’s Hall, Cardiff Sun 4 Nov Tickets: from £27.50 Info: 029 2087 8444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

SLAVES

Tramshed, Cardiff Thur 22 Nov Tickets: from £23.52 Info: 029 2023 5555 www.tramshedcardiff.com

BILLY OCEAN

St David’s Hall, Cardiff Fri 23 Nov Tickets: from £24.50 Info: 029 2087 8444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

THE AUSTRALIAN PINK FLOYD

Motorpoint Arena Cardiff Sat 24 Nov Tickets: from £35 Info: 029 2022 4488 www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

BRING ME THE HORIZON

Tue 27 Nov Motorpoint Arena Cardiff Tickets: from £46.35 Info: 029 2022 4488 www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

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Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet

Lies. Greed. Corruption. It’s business as usual.

After its sell out run in the West End wowing critics and audiences alike, this darkly funny production of Glengarry Glen Ross is coming to Cardiff next Spring.

Well loved and acclaimed TV and stage stars Nigel Harman and Mark Benton are the deal chasing cut throat salesmen in this ‘razor-sharp’ revival of Mamet’s Olivier and Pulitzer prize winning masterpiece.

Celwyddau. Trachwant. Twyll. Busnes fel arfer.

Ar ôl gwerthu pob tocyn yn y West End, gan wefreiddio’r beirniaid a’r gynulleidfa fel ei gilydd, mae Glengarry Glen Ross yn dod i Gaerdydd.

Yr actorion teledu a llwyfan o fri Nigel Harman a Mark Benton sy’n serennu yn yr adfywiad difyr, deifiol a thywyll hwn o gampwaith David Mamet sydd wedi ennill sawl gwobr.

Tue 30 April – Sat 4 May ’19

Tickets • Tocynnau £16.50-£36.50 Boxes from • Bocsys o £104

7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm

Over 60s • Dros 60 oed £18 Wed • Mer 2.30pm React £10

Maw 30 Ebrill – Sad 4 Mai ’19

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7.30pm; Mer a Sad 2.30pm

Reductions • Gostyngiadau £3.50 off Groups • Grwpiau 8+ £3.50 off

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EVE MYLES With the breakthrough success of Keeping Faith, Eve Myles has suddenly found herself amidst mainstream success and a BAFTA Cymru nomination.

Carl Marsh finds her in a talkative mood What is the biggest misconception the public has about you?

I am very anti-social, haha! I think people think I am a bit of a wildcat but if I am awake after 10pm at night, well, God help anybody the next day! I like pyjamas, a couch and a good film. I’m not a party girl, I’m a home bird. I guess it’s because people see that I play some quite fiery characters, and I like to think of myself as a strong female as I am bringing up two females of my own, so I have got to be a lioness for my girls. Nothing worries me more than walking into room full of strangers, let’s put it like that!

So you don’t enjoy the attention that fame brings you?

Not in the slightest. It’s part of the job that I find very difficult to process. If I can get away with not walking down any red carpet, if I can get in through the back door, then that is how I will get in. I have only been to two NTAs [National Television Awards] – the first one I managed to get dropped off at the back door, and it was the one where I was nominated for Best Actress. I was so nervous. The second time I was ‘made’ to go down the red carpet but I rushed through like you probably wouldn’t have even seen me. I went through like the wind. The big kind of events night makes me a bit of an introvert.

Is it true that you nearly gave up acting before Keeping Faith?

Yes, like anyone who has done something for decades, as this is all I have done really since my second year in drama school when I first got employed. I’ve done it since I was 20 and I’ve just hit 40, and I’ve been doing this for 18-20 years, so had a bit of a wobble. Maybe I was getting frustrated with work. I wasn’t landing the parts I wanted to do, and it all became a little frustrating. I love to work, I am a workaholic, but when I am not working I am a little bit fractious, and a bit lost.

We all have huge responsibilities. I have children to bring up, I have a mortgage to pay, we all have to work yet my work was going in a way where I was being slipped

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into all these acting roles or auditioning for all these kind of parts, which were lovely, but I didn’t feel like they would keep me awake at night. The reason I felt like that was because I loved my job so much, but when it’s not working out, it becomes a distraction, and that you think that maybe you need to proceed forward with something different. But it keeps dragging me back in. [laughs] Was it a bit daring that, due to the budgeting/funding that Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher had, it had to be shot in both Welsh and English?

It was when I was initially approached about the job. It was a very exciting prospect but obviously a daunting prospect because it was in two languages, one of which I speak, and one of which I don’t! To be able to do the part I needed to be able to do both. It was commissioned by S4C and co-produced with BBC Wales. We shot two programmes which was eight hours of drama in Welsh and eight hours in English, so 16 hours of drama in a very short amount of time.

Now that is commitment for a role, knowing that you learnt Welsh. You’ve been nominated for the leading actress BAFTA Wales this year for the award – how do you feel?

It’s just very nice to have that recognition. Do you know, it’s a funny thing – I never expect to be put up for an award. It is certainly not what I expect as my job is the most important thing but to have recognition like this, especially from BAFTA Cymru, that’s our Welsh BAFTAs. Whatever the outcome is, by just having this recognition, it’s just a very nice feeling to have.

Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher Currently available on BBC iPlayer and DVD. Price: £19.99 (DVD) Info: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

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Megan Thomas looks ahead to the upcoming BAFTAs to see what audiences can expect The much-anticipated British Academy Of Film & Television Arts Awards in Wales, or BAFTA Cymru, will be taking place on Sun 14 Oct at St David’s Hall in Cardiff.

The event, now in its 27th year, is sticking to what it knows with presenters, with Huw Stephens due to present the ceremony for the fourth year.

On Thurs 4 Oct, the recipients for the Siân Phillips Award and the BAFTA Special Award will be announced at the nominees’ party at Cornerstone, Cardiff, and will be presented as usual at the Sun 14 ceremony. The Siân Phillips Award, dedicated to multi-award-winning Welsh actress Phillips, is given to a Welsh man or woman who has made a meaningful contribution to international feature filmmaking or network television.

Seeing familiar names like previous winner Rhod Gilbert [1] and previous nominee Beti Jones is of course exciting, but often something we come to expect. Thus, one of the best parts about the nomination process and the awards ceremony are the first-time nominations, showing that excellence in broadcasting and production in Wales is continually expanding. Most notably on this point, Charlotte Church [3] and Gareth Thomas [4] receive first-time nominations in the Presenter category.

Welsh thriller series Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher leads alongside Born To Kill [2], with six nominations each. Impressively, the latter – a Cardiff-filmed mini-series – stands out for the fact that lead actor Jack Rowan has already been nominated by BAFTA for the same role in 2018. Earlier this year, during the UKwide TV BAFTAs, he lost only to Sean Bean in Broken. Not bad for a 21-year-old.

Bang and Craith [5] are just behind with five nominations each.

BAFTA Cymru strives to identify and reward excellence, inspiring creators and practitioners. But more importantly, it provides a stage for Wales to showcase its cultural density and relevance. BAFTA Cymru teaches us of art’s capacity to invoke community, bringing together nominees from all corners of Wales, and hopefully the upcoming award ceremony will illustrate this with flair.

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As the international art exhibition Artes Mundi returns to Cardiff, Sophie Shepherd takes a look at the shortlisted artists for this year’s prize.

Anna Boghiguian is an installation artist from Egypt. Her work includes text, images, photographs, drawings, and other documentary material that is closely woven to portray her distant, outsider perspective of the world. The politically charged aspect of her work has attracted attention and acclaim, but also stirred political debate and controversy in her native Egypt. Her dense compositions and use of intense colours alongside spontaneous drawings visualises and records her experience of constantly moving around the globe. Her recent work includes Castello di Rivoli (2017), The Restless Earth (2017) and Triennale di Milano (2017)

Cardiff’s National Museum will play host to the work of five of celebrated artists as the biennial Artes Mundi Prize returns. Although the organisation is rooted in Wales, it focuses on presenting an international programme that enriches Welsh education and culture. Artes Mundi is Latin for “arts of the world”, reflecting the international focus of the charity that was founded in 2002.

Every two years, director Karen MacKinnon and her team present an exhibition celebrating five to seven internationally successful artists and after four months a judging panel decides who will be awarded the impressive grand prize of £40,000. This significant prize is designed to give the artists the freedom to develop new work, or time to reflect on their practice and move it forward.

The process of the award begins with an open call for nominations from across the world. To be considered for the prize, artists must have already achieved recognition for the quality of their work in their own country or sphere. This year, over 450 nominations were received, spanning 86 countries. Tasked with narrowing down the nominations to a shortlist of five, the selectors for Artes Mundi 8 included Nick Aikens, curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Alia Swastika, a Jakarta-based curator and writer; and Daniela Pérez, an independent curator based in Mexico City.

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other artists), this year’s shortlist lives up to the variety and talent from previous years. The work in the exhibition spans four continents and uses a range of practices – from filmmakers to sculptors, and video installation artists. The shortlisted artists for this year are Anna Boghiguian, Bouchra Khalili, Otobong Nkanga, Trevor Paglen, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The winner of the £40,000 prize will be announced on Thurs 24 Jan, after a group of independent judges have considered not only the artist’s work in the exhibition, but their work over the past five to eight years. Judging this year’s shortlist is curator Laura Raicovich, Mori Art Museum curator Katoaka Mami and Anthony Shapland, creative director of Cardiff’s g39 gallery. The judges will look for the artist who has consistently made thought-provoking and exceptional work to a high standard throughout their career.

All five shortlisted artists have made significant contributions and have been highly awarded in their spheres, making the judges’ decision a tough one.

The anticipated exhibition will be available to view at Cardiff National Museum giving everyone the chance to view the impressive work of these highly-acclaimed international artists. The exhibition takes place at the National Museum Cardiff alongside a programme of activities and learning projects.

Artes Mundi 8, National Museum Cardiff, Fri 26 Oct-Sun 24 Feb. Admission: free.

Info: www.artesmundi.org

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2 - Otobong Nkanga Nigerian-Belgian Otobong Nkanga creates drawings, installations and sculptures that examine ideas associated with land and value and their connection to natural resources. Her work dwells on memory, environment, and postcolonial histories. Whilst she uses a variety of mediums, they are all thematically connected through architecture and landscape. Uniquely, her own body and voice are used in live performances and videos in order to become the protagonist in her own work. Recent shows and performances include: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again at MCA Chicago (2018) and The Tanks at Tate Modern in London (2017).

KATRIEN DE BLAUWER: REPRISE HYDREF 26 OCTOBER - RHAGFYR 8 DECEMBER Rhagolwg / Preview: Hydref 25 October, 6pm

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YINKA SHONIBARE: END OF EMPIRE British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is welcomed by Glynn Vivian for an exhibition connected to Now The Hero, a mini-festival centred around Brangwyn’s British Empire Panels. For those familiar with Shonibare’s art and intention, they’ll know his work will merge seamlessly with this series. He explores the hybridity of his background and physical disability in his exhibition, End Of Empire. The sense of intertextuality between each piece reveals why he is currently one of the leading artists at work in the UK. Describing himself as a “post-colonial hybrid”, End Of Empire explores how professed alliances made in WWI altered British civilization, continuing to impact us today. His exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism can be attributed to his vivid batik-patterned textiles, his “visual emblem”, which

Shonibare has been using since 1994 as a pivot of African identity.

These textiles are only a fraction of the colours and diverse shapes he uses, which all contribute to this fascinating collection of artworks. Acceptance is central to Shonibare’s philosophy, and his installation hopes to reflect the contemporary zeitgeist. The motifs in his artwork are signifiers of his personal views, such as his frequent use of headless, near-identical mannequins – which, though often dressed in ostentatious ways, highlight Shonibare’s notion of equality. ELINOR DAVIES Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea until Sun 24 Feb. Admission: free Info: 01792 516900 / www.swansea.gov.uk

Multi-talented American Trevor Paglen’s set of skills cover image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, and engineering. His work is often concerned with how to view the historical moment we live in and how to develop the means to imagine alternative futures. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his work as a “groundbreaking investigative artist.” He launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT and is the author of five books.

Paglen’s current project investigates global state surveillance and the ethics of drone warfare.

4 - Bouchra Khalili Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili works with film, video, installation, photography, and prints that explore language, subjectivity, and geographical explorations.

Her work tends to elaborate on narratives of individuals who are often members of political minorities. Alongside her work as an artist, she is also a Professor of Contemporary Art at The Oslo National Art Academy. In the past couple of years she has had her own solo exhibitions: documenta 14 (2017) and The Mapping Journey Project at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York (2016).

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KATRIEN DE BLAUWER: REPRISE Rooted at the centre of Welsh artistic photography since the 1970s, Ffotogallery’s latest exhibition in a string of impressive listings sees the arrival of Belgian-born artist Katrien de Blauwer, who brings her solo retrospective Reprise, spanning an entire artistic career, to Penarth this October.

Katrien De Blauwer’s work with photography is far from conventional. Indeed, she calls herself a “photographer without a camera”, much of her work comprising collage-based images collected from old magazines and papers. Spontaneity is key in de Blauwer’s work, tying together various visual materials to create her own unique language of surrealism.

Here is an artist who has such an insatiable desire for creation that barely a day has gone by in the last 20 years when she has not been creating in some form.

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from the small provincial town of Ronse at a young age, as she moved to the university city of Ghent, and studied painting. She then went on to study fashion at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, but abandoned this in favour of pursuing collage creation. Saving these images from destruction and creating something beautiful from them naturally has artistic implications far beyond the nature of the images themselves. In an interview, she stated that “creating these works is not a source of joy, but more of neurotic act, without which I would feel unhappy.” Reprise exhibits a life of piecing things together, salvaging abandonment and observing reconstruction as necessity.

CHARLIE COTTRELL Ffotogallery, Penarth, Fri 26 Oct-Sat 8 Dec. Admission: free. Info: ffotogallery.org

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, from Thailand, completes the shortlist. His work deals with memory, personal politics, and social issues.

He is actively involved in promoting experimental and independent filmmaking through his company, Kick The Machine. With numerous festival prizes under his belt, including three prizes from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, Weerasethakul’s work often reflects themes such as dreams, nature, and sexuality, alongside Western perceptions of Asia. His award-winning films throughout the years include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), which won the Palme d’Or, Cemetery of Splendour (2015), and Tropical Malady (2004).

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NELSON MANDELA: THE CENTENARY EXHIBITION 2018 In the year of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s would-be 100th birthday, the Wales Millennium Centre presents to the public Nelson Mandela: The Centenary Exhibition. A tribute to a man whose commitment to humanity and equality saw no limits, the exhibition weaves through Mandela’s turbulent life. From young freedom fighter in the African National Congress, to man-on-the-run, to 27-year prisoner, to negotiator and peacemaker in the transition from apartheid-South Africa to a democratic republic, the exhibition promises to give a well-rounded representation of Mandela’s influence in not only South Africa but the world over.

The exhibition comes at a time where it is important to be reminded of the value of diversity and accepting difference. Mandela is quoted saying, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” Famously, Mandela learnt to speak Afrikaans, the language of his oppressor, whilst a prisoner on Robben Island, Cape Town, so that he could understand the guards better. This exhibition hopes show this humble approach to equality and illustrate how it accompanied all his decisions, both political and personal. Throughout his struggle and success, Mandela remembered the value of difference within unity, which is evident now in details such as the four languages in the South African national anthem, and the country having 11 official languages.

The exhibition’s counterpart at the Southbank Centre in London was reviewed as a faithful communication of a remarkable story. What can be difficult with a story as well-known as Mandela’s is giving a fresh take, lifting the history out of the history book and transforming it into an exhibition. Thankfully, rather than simply providing a visual timeline, the exhibition seems to have satisfied people’s desire to learn about Mandela’s personality as well has his history. Moreover, the extent to which Mandela’s personality shone through his political career, rather than being a separate entity. We’ll have to head to Cardiff Bay and learn for ourselves.

MEGAN THOMAS Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Fri 5 Oct-Sun 18 Nov. Admission: free. www.wmc.org.uk

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KYFFIN WILLIAMS Having lived to 88 years old, Kyffin Williams spent 60 of those developing, cultivating and crafting a style and tradition for which his artwork will long be recognised. Moreover, he dedicated his life to giving Wales the best possible chance at succeeding artistically, establishing him as one of Wales’ leading benefactors. No surprise then, that the year of the centenary of his birth will be commemorated.

The Anglesey-bred artist’s work predominantly depicts cottages and hill farms, sheepdogs and small villages, distilling the essence and, as he described, “feeling” of rural Wales. We might argue, based on the consistent and rising success of institutions such as the Arts Council Of Wales, that Williams was, at least in part, responsible for Wales’ current credibility on an international arts scale.

The National Museum stands as a beacon of cultural significance in Wales, so it should be no surprise to Williams admirers that it is hosting a tribute exhibition for the artist. Forming supportive relationships with Welsh art galleries was an integral part of Williams’ life, his knighthood in 1999 honouring his valuable contribution to Welsh arts. Now, this influences the theme for The National Museum’s exhibition, which is dedicated to the relationship between the artist and the museum itself.

Moreover, Kyffin Williams: The Artist And Amgueddfa Cymru is not the only Cardiffbased tribute to the most esteemed Welsh landscape painter of the 20th century. The Senedd, in partnership with the Sir Kyffin Williams Trust, hosts an exhibition which promises rarely seen Williams paintings and prints from private collections, as well as archive footage of the artist. Considering the consistency of Williams’ style, it will be interesting and invaluable for audiences who are familiar with his art to take a walk around, absorbing the new yet ever-familiar.

MEGAN THOMAS The Senedd, Cardiff Bay, Thurs 4-Tue 30 Oct / National Museum Cardiff, until Wed 1 May. Admission: free.

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IRIS PRIZE With the annual LGBT+ film festival returning this month, Fedor Tot looks at what’s on show amongst the Iris Prize shorts.

Last month, our coverage of Iris looked ahead to some of the overall highlights of the festival, in particular the features. And though the quality of those features may be second to none – with works like Sauvage, M/M and the searingly affecting 1985, which honestly broke this writer upon viewing – it is the shorts upon which the festival has made its name.

This may seem counterintuitive: features are where the money, the awards and the attention are, but it shouldn’t go amiss that the winner of the first Iris Prize in 2007, Dee Rees, scored an Oscar nomination this year for her film Mudbound. Her prize then, for the short film Pariah, funded her next short, Colonial Gods. Small steps lead into giant leaps.

This year’s programme of shorts at Iris is as exciting and varied as ever. What an individual short might lack in scope compared to a feature, the programme as a whole makes up for in its breadth of experiences and perspectives.

This, in fact, is the deep, underlying thread behind much of the argument about diversity you’ll hear about so often these days – it is simply more interesting to hear from a number of different people from different places and different backgrounds.

One major change in the Iris programme this year is that all the shorts are grouped under various themes, where previous years grouped a number of varying shorts all together. So, for instance, if you have a particular interest in LBGT+ history, then Looking BUZZ 18

Back (Thurs 11 Oct) and the British selection of Queer Then (Fri 12) is for you. If you’re interested in stories about protagonists discovering their identities, seek out Finding Pride (Thurs 11), with one at least one superb highlight in that selection, Mrs. McCutcheon (Dir: John Sheedy, Australia). Its titular character is a trans girl trying to make new friends in a new school. She immediately becomes close to an Aboriginal kid, Trevor, whilst facing harassment from the school bullies as well as pressure from the school principal to dress as a boy.

In just 15 minutes, the film manages to critique both the racism and transphobia prevalent in Western society whilst offering a vital, positive message that it wears lightly. The films of Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki come to mind in the film’s sense of deadpan humour and raised eyebrows towards authority figures. It’s touching, funny and with a winning charm – keep an eye out for it.

Elsewhere, there are more ethereal programmes. Intimacy (Thurs 11 Oct) looks into cinematic explorations of the very physicality of LBGT+ relationships. The subject of human skin on the silver screen goes right back to the start of cinema, with infinite variations. Here, we’ve got Pre-Drink (Marc-Antoine Lemire, Canada), about two lifelong friends, one of whom is in transition, who decide to, well, get intimate.

Right on the other end of the spectrum is Our Skin (João Queiroga, Portugal/USA), based on a phone conversation between a former Marine and a transgender woman.

The former film is easygoing but also surprisingly sensual; the latter is intense, dark, unafraid to take the audience to some dark places.

That sense of variety, even within ostensibly similar themes runs through a number of the shorts programmes. One of the best is It’s A New Day (Fri 12 Oct), celebrating new beginnings and the experiences that come with them. Here, we have realist documentaries in Rick (JP Horstmann, Germany) and animation in Bacchus (the wonderfully-named Rikke Alma Krogshave Planeta, Denmark). Rick is a portrait of

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a deaf gay porn actor, which expertly cross-cuts between the more drab day-to-day aspects of Rick’s life and the way he transforms in front of a studio camera into an “idealised body” of fantasy. Bacchus also touches on fantasy, the fantasy of sudden and complete same-sex physical pleasure and liberation – it may be only five minutes long, but it is a hell of an acid trip.

It’s A New Day also explores topics that are evidently deeply personal to the filmmakers and their subjects, such as Zero One (Nick Neon, USA) and The Things You Think I’m Thinking (Sherren Lee, Canada). Both approach LGBT+ stories from added intersections; the former through the prism of race in the USA (in this case, Korean-Americans) and the latter through disability, through an incredible performance by Prince Amponsah, an actor and burn survivor who is trying to find a source of intimacy, despite the trauma and demons welling up inside him since the accident that disfigured him. Both are well-worked dramas about interpersonal relationships, about how even through the worst pain that human beings experience, we can still manage to find a way through the darkness. They’re not easy watches, but they both end on hopeful notes.

Sometimes, it has to be said, “deeply personal” also includes The Shit! An Opera (Kevin Rios, USA), which features a talking animated shit called Gary. It’s not exactly highbrow humour, but it is very funny.

All in all, this is set to be another fantastic year for Iris. The UK’s leading LBGT+ film festival has shown itself, time and time again, to be at the forefront of the kind of stories the bright filmmakers of the world are capable of telling, of the vitality and energy that still remains in this artform. Without audience support, these voices won’t get heard – so it’s up to you to find out what you’re interested in. As the festival tagline says, “what will you see?”

The Audience Award

This year, there’s a Buzz-shaped twist to the Iris Prize.

We are extremely excited to be in collaboration with the Festival to bring to you the Audience Award. Buzz and Iris Prize are working together to provide this year’s audience with the opportunity to have their say, voicing the opinion of the people that make the festival so special to bring you the people’s choice winner of the Best British Shorts 2018.

Putting the prize in your hands, we’ll be present for the three Best British Shorts screenings, distributing voting leaflets for audience members, who will choose their favourite of the five films shown at that individual screening. With the votes from all three screenings collected, the winner of the Best British Shorts 2018 will be announced on the final day of the festival, Sun 14 Oct. In all three screenings, expect to find a Buzz representative dishing out the voting slips. Once you’ve taken your time to vote, we’ll be waiting in the foyer with a voting box (and ample copies of Buzz magazine), eagerly awaiting your voting slip.

Voting in the Audience Award offers an unprecedented level of participation at Iris Prize 2018. In addition, those who wish to provide their details – which will be shared only with our Buzz representatives present at the festival – will be entered into a competition to win two tickets to the Iris Carnival on the Sunday – or if you can’t make it, a selection of DVDs from TLA. Voting isn’t mandatory, and those who don’t wish to take part in the contest can simply fill in their slip without inputting any details. This is a highly anticipated collaboration, offering something back to the festival community. We hope you’re as excited as we are.

Best British Shorts 1 Thurs 11 Oct, 7pm, Cineworld (Screen 15) Best British Shorts 2 Fri 12 Oct, 10am, Cineworld (Screen 15) Best British Shorts 3 Fri 12 Oct, 4.30pm, Cineworld (Screen 15) Audience Award/Best British Shorts 2018 announcement – Sun 14 Oct, Tramshed

Iris Prize, Cineworld Cardiff and various venues, Tue 9-Sun 14 Oct. Tickets: £125 (full festival pass)/£30 (one day pass)/£8-£7 (individual screenings) Info: www.irisprize.org

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FIRST AID KIT Sweden has a rich history of pop hitmakers – what more could Stockholm’s First Aid Kit add? Plenty, as Charlie Cottrell finds out, chatting to Klara Söderberg of the duo.

Glancing at the UK charts in 2018, you’re often hard pushed to find any guitardriven bands residing in the top 20. As First Aid Kit have evolved from YouTube starlets to international arena headliners, their latest album hitting number three in the UK album charts could therefore be considered something of an anomaly.

Yet as they embark on their most impressive tour yet, including a headline slot at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena during their UK run, there’s no doubt that the First Aid Kit fanbase stretches far beyond the reaches of diehard folk fans. The Swedish duo, sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, have racked up highly-praised appearances on Letterman and Jools Holland, and pulled in an enormous crowd to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage last summer.

It was from humble beginnings from which the band rose, covering folk songs new and old to a niche audience. Yet after uploading their version of Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song in 2008, they garnered attention from Fleet Foxes themselves, lead singer Robin Pecknold waxing lyrical about them on the band’s website. Then, as the Soderbergs found themselves watching a Fleet Foxes set at a Dutch music festival several months later, Pecknold invited the pair to join him in singing the same song that had gained them so much traction on their journey to stardom.

One in a series of incredible moments in the 10-year career of the Swedish sisters. But given the chance, who else would First Aid Kit perform with? “Ah, Leonard Cohen,” hypothesised Klara. “He’d be the absolute dream. And literally any Leonard Cohen song would do, too. We were really upset after he passed. We decided we wanted to honour him, so we had this big show at the Royal Theatre. It was this beautiful thing.”

Famed for their touching songwriting as much as their folk-driven, melodic guitar accompaniments, often the band have cited heavy influence from Cohen and Fleet Foxes. But when it comes to explaining where they find their magic, Klara Sodeberg is at a loss. “I’m honestly glad I’m not a music journalist having to write about how music is made! Because with music, I just feel it. And that’s it. For me, BUZZ 20

that’s what songwriting is about. You have to be in a certain mindset, and you have to be open when you write. You can’t critique yourself in those moments, you just have to be open. And it’s a really special feeling.”

Their contemporary take on the country music model means that Klara and Johanna are unafraid of addressing uncomfortable topics in the song-writing process, typified by 2017 single You Are The Problem Here, an angry lambasting of sexual assailants. Klara makes it clear, though, that however stoic First Aid Kit are in the face of adversity, the band wasn’t formed in an attempt to change the world.

“It wasn’t something we were planning to do. It wasn’t a conscious decision. But we’re writing more songs like that now because, like everyone else, we’re really scared of the way the world is. If people are going to listen to our music and hear our voice, then that’s great. But it’s not because we feel we have a responsibility, it’s because we can’t do anything else. We have to speak up, because being quiet isn’t an option at this point.”

No strangers to the big stage, the Söderbergs have recently announced a string of enormous arena shows in Scandinavia, including the 16,000-capacity Ericsson Globe in their native Stockholm. Yet Klara insists that success at this scale was inconceivable in the band’s early days. “In our heads, stages like that – the ones in the UK and the one we’ve just announced in Stockholm, for example – were never something that would happen. When I went there to experience a concert, to imagine yourself playing there was just too much. We’d go to really small venues and think, ‘could I just play here once?’ That was the dream.” A dream realised, and then some, for Klara and Johanna Söderberg – Sweden’s angelic colossi.

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RICK ASTLEY As Rick Astley prepares to hit the road with his new album Beautiful Life, the 80s music icon tells Morgan Richards the secret to his new-found popularity after 30 years in the business.

The last two years have seen Rick Astley return to the top of the charts with his first new releases in over a decade, and the UK singer says that taking risks has helped him put a new connection back into his music.

“I obviously hadn’t made a record for all those years, and had a load of pent-up music build up in me,” he says, “and I feel I had a lot to say. But I really didn’t expect that 50 album [his 2016 comeback] to really take off the way it did. I wasn’t expecting anything from it, I did it just to mark myself turning 50.

“All the lyrics and all the emotions in those songs is from me,” Astley continues. “I made that record on my own, I played every instrument, I wrote every song and produced it. It’s definitely me saying the things I wanted to do in some of those songs – so it really came from my heart and when you do that you’ve got a stronger chance of connecting.”

With his initial Stock, Aitken, Waterman-powered stardom in the late 80s in mind, Astley goes on: “I’m not saying that if someone else writes your song for you, you can’t be as connected to it, because you can. I just think that sometimes in your life, you can make a certain record or a certain kind of music and it’s got something built into it that means that bit more. 50 definitely had that and I think I’ve found it on Beautiful Life.

“The current song that’s been released at the moment, Try, it’s all about just trying, it’s all about just having a go. If you don’t try in life, you don’t know what you’re going to lose out on; most of the time, the things that we’re really scared of failing at are the things that make us better people anyway. It might sound like something that belongs on the back of a self-help book but for me it’s blatantly true. That’s what those records are about for me, these last few years wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t gotten back into my garage and said ‘Yes! I am making a record again!’ You’ve just got to have a go sometimes.”

Despite finding a new lease of life in his music career, helped partly by the effervescent appeal of a certain YouTube meme a decade or so back, Astley still appreciates his roots and says it’s all about trying to find a balance of embracing his early hits with who he is today.

“I try to never forget that the only reason I’ve been able to make these records, get them heard and have a record company promoting it is because, all those years ago, I had those hits.

I think that now gives me an opportunity to make new music and lets a 50-odd-yearold guy in the building. Most of the time, nobody lets a 50-year-old person do anything because time moves on – in music, especially, it’s a young person’s game. You only get given that second go-round once in a blue moon and I’ve been given it. I think it’s a balance: one suits the other and I’m always extremely proud of both.”

While reminiscing on his career, Astley reveals how Wales holds a special place in his heart and can’t wait get back to Cardiff. “Wales is known for singing and when you go there for a gig you expect everyone to join in. I’ve had some great gigs in Cardiff over the years and in terms of north Wales I used to spent a lot of time there as a kid for holidays and camping trips, so I have a lot of fond memories.”

Rick Astley, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Fri 2 Nov. Tickets: £27.50 Info: 029 2022 4488 / www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

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SOUL II SOUL We might think that the first of November will see the return of Soul II Soul, but in truth they’ve never been away. Off the road for periods, sure, but a band who have remained a firm favourite on playlists for the last 30. This anniversary tour celebrates Soul II Soul’s first album Club Classics Vol 1. Released in early 1989, Soul II Soul lynchpin Jazzie B explains, “The album was always intended to withstand the test of time, and 30 years later, it’s come full circle.”

Jazzie regards Soul II Soul as a collective: a group of people from all colours, classes and backgrounds coming together to share their love of music. And, just as this was needed back in the late 1980s, it’s still needed today. “Soul II Soul highlights the unique diversity that the UK already has, and everyone has something to bring to the table. Once that’s shared – great things happen.”

Without a doubt, that era saw the British music scene explode with incredible talent and Soul II Soul were a crucial part of it. Jazzie recalls it as a time that we can’t get back to: “We were on the brink of the new digital era back then, but we were still drawing on our books at school. The Berlin wall was coming down, there was an element of freedom that seems lost. To bring that feeling back to our followers, is our way of giving back.”

What better way could there be of transporting us back to this iconic time?

With their biggest hits like Back To Life and Keep On Movin’ featuring soulful and smooth vocals from Caron Wheeler, it’s the perfect way of enabling us to feel a memory that can’t be described. Jazzie mentions how he’s looking forward to seeing a variety of generations coming together on the tour: “We have fans from back in the day, but we have gained so many more over the years. You are all part of the collective – it’s a true compliment.” SARAH-JANE REEVES Soul II Soul, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Thurs 1 Nov Tickets: £28.50-£34.50. Info: 029 2087 8444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

JEN BRISTER It’s all work and a little bit of play for south London comedian, Jen Brister, who is setting out for her new tour Meaningless. When asked what inspired the show, Jen explains, “My mum moved in with me for seven months and it was quite a tense time. It’s difficult when you have kids and you’re parenting them, but you also have your mum around. My relationship with my mum is rather tense and she was a trigger to things.”

Jen, who lives in Brighton with her partner and two children, is often overwhelmed by how far she has come, saying “I still sometimes feel like I’m an imposter and someone will find me out.” After explaining she felt “absolutely elated” and in “such a mad rush” following her first ever show in 1996, Jen offers her best advice for newbies in comedy.

“It’s a long road and there will be setbacks. There are no shortcuts: you may think in your head that there are, but they will only take you back to the beginning. It’s a lot of hard work, but if you want it to be a job then treat it like a job; likewise, if you want it to be a hobby, treat it like a hobby.

“At first, I think you’re unaware of how the industry works and you can be quite naive to things, but after a while I just adopted this ‘let me show you what I can do’ mentality and I wanted to prove I could succeed.”

Of course, we all know that comedy is something we either have a flair for, or we don’t, and Jen Brister was definitely born with it. “I knew when I was a teenager that I could make people laugh. I even used to go to parties and had in my mind that this is an opportunity to show people how funny I was.”

Jen’s role model in the comedy world is Tina Fey; she just how limitless the possibilities are. “She’s a showrunner of a sitcom, a writer, and its star. She has reached so much success in Hollywood.” Perhaps soon enough, Jen may well be reaching for the stars herself.

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LOOT Two thieves. One occupied coffin. Heaps of stolen cash. No moral compass.

Black RAT Productions are back, touring the country this autumn with another knockabout farce: Joe Orton’s morbidly funny masterpiece Loot, a play that outraged audiences and was heavily censored by the Lord Chamberlain when it first appeared in 1964. Even today it still has the power to shock. Last year marked 50 years since the playwright’s tragic death at the hands of his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, and a smash-hit London revival proved Orton’s pitch-black humour was still fresh in the 21st century. This year, Black RAT Productions put their own spin on this dark comedy.

The play follows two young felons, Hal (Rick Yale) and Dennis (Gareth Tempest), who rob a bank next to the funeral parlour where Dennis works, before hiding the money back at Hal’s house. Hal’s mother, Mrs. McLeavy (Julie Barclay), has just died and, in a moment of desperation, the pair decide to hide the money in her coffin, meaning her body has to be hidden elsewhere. It’d be dead simple if they weren’t in the company of a gold-digging nurse (Sarah Jayne Hopkins), a grieving widower (John Cording) and a borderline psychotic policeman, Inspector Truscott (Sam Davies).

Underpinning all this mayhem is Orton’s blistering satirical tongue, mocking the police force, the Catholic church and middle-class attitudes towards death.

Black RAT Productions have built up a solid reputation over the last 10 years for producing consistently sophisticated productions of the comic classics of modern theatre. From John Godber’s Bouncers to Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce, this company are renowned for their vibrant re-interpretations of fast-paced farces – most recently, last year’s production of Richard Bean’s slapstick caper One Man, Two Guvnors received widespread critical acclaim.

Directed by Richard Tunley, who has directed all of the company’s productions to date, this production stops off at 17 venues across Wales on its tour, which runs throughout October and into early November. SAM PRYCE Various venues across Wales, Tue 2 Oct-Sat 10 Nov. Tickets: £12-£15.50 (varies by venue).

Info: www.blackratproductions.co.uk

LORD OF THE FLIES “It’s so refreshing to play a character who has agency and authority. I’ve never played the bad guy and I’ve never really got to use my strength or movement skills in a role before,” says Cardiff-born actress Kate Lamb (Call The Midwife), who has the honour of playing Lord Of The Flies’ power-hungry antagonist Jack. Her attitude and interest in the role is evidence that this new all-female production of William Golding’s 1954 classic will not disappoint viewers.

Co-produced by the Sherman Theatre and Theatr Clwyd in Mold, the production has caught the attention of many, including Lamb, who felt that the chance to play a dark and powerful character wasn’t something she could turn down. Even more so, given that this is the first time she’ll be playing a Welsh stage since youth theatre. Set in the not-too-distant future, the play follows the story of a group of evacuated schoolchildren on a remote island following a crash landing in their aeroplane. With no adults or authority, rules or reason, the boys abandon normality and gradually form a dark new society, which soon spins into a nightmarish hell as the audience witness their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. Civility is abandoned as the children become increasingly primitive the further they get from normality.

This adaptation’s direction will be by Emma Jordan, whilst the play’s themes of uncertainty in the world can easily seem all too familiar in the current political climate. “The idea of a world at war, the possibility that maybe we’re the only ones left – it holds up pretty well in 2018,” Lamb suggests.

This updated version of the all-male classic has proved its timelessness and relevance today. So, what does Kate Lamb hope the audience takes home from such a sobering production? “I want people to listen to each other, be kind, and not give in to fear. We always have a choice.” CHLOE EDWARDS Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Wed 17 Oct-Sat 3 Nov. Tickets: £10-£26 Info: 029 2064 6900 / www.shermantheatre.co.uk

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WOLFGANG FLÜR For many years Wolfgang Flür was one quarter of Kraftwerk, one of the most influential bands of the 20th century. Not just melodic innovators, they were also technical pioneers, engineering new bits and bobs with which to make pleasing sounds, but for a young boy whose first musical ambitions were to copy The Beatles, how did Flür end up pioneering electronic music? “Modernity, adventure, joy for experimentation. Curiosity at most!”

During the 70s, making such totemic tracks as The Model and Autobahn, was he aware of the influence these things would have on the course of music history?

“I myself was not aware that these tracks would become so important to us when touring the world in 1975-77. We were just musicians in the studio and onstage and had fun with this. Later, much later, I became aware that these tracks developed into famous melodies, sonic icons, played also in entrance halls of hotels, in lifts, shopping malls, like Singing In The Rain for instance. I can only be thankful for being a member of this creative time and being involved in the recording.”

One of the keys behind great electronic music is that somewhere deep down it still sounds organic or human – for Kraftwerk and Flür, what was the secret behind obtaining that key? “It’s the artist behind the machine; their soul, their voice, their melodies. We in Kraftwerk had this special mixture of technique and romance. It’s the melodies that that made me love Kraftwerk’s music. As their drummer during the pioneering era I had no influence on them. Today I see that there is enough of it in me as well – this romance. We’re living in the Rhine area where I grew up and lived as a boy, always near to that big river with wine hills and imposing castles.

Believe me, that took influence upon my soul and heart.”

Touring now as a solo artist now, what can audiences expect from Flür as he stops off in Cardiff? “I present my Musik Soldat dance music and video show to the audience. The tracks are mixed with dance versions from Kraftwerk, from my Yamo project, from current tracks and also tracks from friends. Music that touches me is what I present.” ELISHIA DAVIES Wolfgang Flür, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Fri 12 Oct. Tickets: £12.50. Info: 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net

THE ORB The Orb have been part of the British dance furniture for 30 years, helmed from the start by Alex Paterson. Their latest tour celebrates both a three-decade milestone and a new album, No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds. With Alex as the hub, The Orb are arch collaborators. Most of his co-musicians have been well regarded, if not necessarily superstars – unlike Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd, with whom he made 2010’s Metallic Spheres. But how did this match-up come to be?

“One of my old schoolmates, Guy Pratt, ended up playing for Pink Floyd and I used to be his prefect! Sometimes it’s about who you know,” he says jokily, before confessing that the album process was a strange one. “He came and did his guitar parts, then someone at the studio called to say, ‘Dave’s just left’. I didn’t realise he had been and gone. I never even saw him.”

Would he like to have been part of a worldwide phenomenon like the Floyd? “Well, this is what scared me at the start, when we were referred to as ‘the Pink Floyd of the 90s’. Of course, that was only until we released an album that pissed everyone

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off. That got the monkey off our back. It also showed us who are true fans were.”

Alex has always understood the appeal of The Orb’s music well; when recording their first two albums, they’d bring in smoke machines and strobes to recreate the club environment and get the sound just right. Not that he’s a hippy: “I grew up in a punk environment. I certainly wasn’t a hippy listening to Pink Floyd when I was growing up. Ironic, given I ended up working with Dave.” The suggestion that maybe he’s ‘a punk in a hippy world’ draws a wry chuckle of recognition from Alex.

And how is he curating a show that draws on 30 years of musical output? “We have a lot to pick from, so we can change it around and see how we feel each time out. There’s a new album, so there’ll be plenty of new stuff, plus I like to throw in totally new tunes that I’m still working on too.” MAX HARVEY The Orb, Tramshed, Cardiff, Thurs 11 Oct. Tickets: £29 Info: 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com

Pic: Grant Beed

NEIL OLIVER The modern day can look a little bit glum, but sometimes the grand sweep of history reminds us that we’ve been through a lot more and come out the other side, as historian Neil Oliver reminds Carl Marsh.

You have a new book, The Story Of The British Isles In 100 Places, and a corresponding tour.

Will it be location specific for each place you perform in? You probably can’t talk about all 100 places each night…

Depending on where I am, if the venue happens to be within reasonable reach of one or more of the places in the book. The book is not a guide book.

The point of the book is to give people a sense of how much has happened here. My feeling at the moment, and I get it myself from the news, is that there is a lot of anxiety in Britain and around the world. People are worried about all sorts of things, such as politics, Brexit, President Trump, global warming, plastic in the oceans, Putin. There is an awful lot of stressful news around, but if you didn’t have history, it would be easy to think that things are worse now than they have ever been and that we are living in a potentially dangerous point in history.

There is a great deal of reassurance to be taken from looking back at a million years of history and in knowing that much more has happened here and somehow we have come through it all.

We’ve had our wars of religion, we’ve had our civil wars, we’ve been invaded, we came under threat of dictators bent on world domination – so, you know, there has always been stuff going on.

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overcome everything that’s been thrown at it. It’s very instructive to be given places that you can go to and just take in the atmosphere of the place, be it a grand building, a clifftop, a lighthouse, a castle or a battlefield. Some of these places seem to be imbued with an atmosphere borne of the events that unfolded there.

It can bring people back to normality in a way.

When you look at the news, it’s all propaganda and fear, isn’t it?

Yeah! It’s very easy to feel that as we have so much access to unfiltered information at the moment.

It’s not distilled and edited in the way that it was even when I was a reporter for a newspaper.

People are being swamped with a tsunami of data about everything and I think everyone’s heads are ringing with it. There is some therapeutic value to be had from history as it allows you to draw back from what is happening now in 2018 and see those events in the context of a much bigger picture.

So you’re hoping to bring people’s anxieties down, then?

You can get too focused on the present. You get too tied up with what is happening at this minute. There is a valid comment about being in the moment and paying attention to what’s happening right now but, conversely, it can also be too much. I think

you can draw breath and pull back and think about what happened in such and such a place 50 or 100 years ago, and you then get a sense of the longer arc of history, of which we are a part. Everyone that is alive today in Britain or anywhere else in the world, we are all remarkable survivors, we are all connected back through parents and grandparents and back through a line of people over 100,000 years! It is an extraordinary story, really.

My interest in history stemmed from childhood when I realised that both of my grandfathers had survived the First World War, albeit both of them had been injured. When I learned about it in school, rather than it being about something that had happened to millions of people 70 years ago, I knew that it related to my family. I used to think that if they were slightly more hurt, I wouldn’t be here at all – and you and I wouldn’t be having this conversation now!

Neil Oliver: The Story Of The British Isles In 100 Places, Grand Theatre, Swansea, Wed 17 Oct; St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Thurs 18; Theatr Brychieniog, Brecon, Wed 31 Tickets: £15-£26.95.

Info: www.neiloliver.com www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk

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WHAT’S ON/AR FYND September/Medi – November/Tachwedd 2018

CAPITAL CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA 11.09.18 – 8pm with / gyda Simon Spillett

BLOWZABELLA 25.09.18 – 8pm

NIGHTMUSIC / HWYRGERDD – JESS GILLAM & FRIENDS 09.10.18 – 8pm

JAMIE SMITH’S MABON 27.10.18 – 8pm

GWYNETH GLYN & FRIENDS 20.11.18 – 8pm

by Keiron Self

A STAR IS BORN ****

Dir: Bradley Cooper (15, 135 mins) A fourth remake for a perennial Hollywood story: the first iteration was way back in 1932, followed by a Judy Garland/James Mason pairing in in 1954 and a lackluster reimagining with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson in 1976.

This latest incarnation manages to transcend its ancestors however, making its hoary old chestnut of a love story ring true for a modern audience. Bradley Cooper directs and stars as Jackson Maine, a hard-drinking/rocking singer. Having lost his way in the world of fame and music, he discovers new blood and love in the form of Lady Gaga’s magnetic Ally. The chemistry between them is palpable and their onscreen relationship forms the backbone to the success of this retelling.

Ostensibly a melodrama, as Cooper’s rock star fades, Gaga is ascendant. He helps to create her and she then goes solo with the help of Rafi Gavron’s hard-headed manager. It’s a tangled relationship made believable and raw by the two actors, managing to avoid cliché despite some well-worn tropes. Passionate and involving, A Star Is Born allows Lady Gaga to be a star on the big screen. Director Cooper marshals what could have been a vanity project well, fashioning a grand old-style Hollywood romance with relevance. Opens Oct 5

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE ****

Dir: Drew Goddard (15, 117 mins) A neon-drenched film noir with seven morally dubious characters, full of dialogue and plot twists – a rarity at the cineplex these days. Writer/director Drew Goddard plays with convention whilst also saying something about the Trump era. The El Royale hotel straddles California and Nevada and the guests staying there are multi-layered. There’s Jeff Bridges’ Father Flynn, a hard-drinking maybe-priest, Dakota Johnson’s criminal Emily Summerspring and her sister played

by Cailee Spaeny, chanteuse Darlene Sweet (British Broadway star Cynthia Erivo), Chris Hemsworth’s cult leader Jonny Lee and Jon Hamm’s vacuum cleaner salesman Laramie Seymour Sullivan. All are not what they initially seem, and by the end of their stay things go rather pear-shaped. With this eclectic cast, a renowned genre-bender at the helm and a plot clouded in secrecy, this could be the surprise of the autumn.

Opens Oct 12

FIRST MAN ****

Dir: Damien Chazelle (12A, 135 mins) That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. La La Land director Damien Chazelle truly steps up to the challenge of chronicling the first steps on the moon in this blisteringly good retelling of Neil Armstrong’s space mission. Reuniting with his La La Land leading man Ryan Gosling, Chazelle paints an involving portrait of a flawed, driven man aiming for the stars. Armstrong’s daughter had died from a brain tumour at the age of three, and his verve and passion to succeed seems to stem from this incident in Chazelle’s film, adapted from James R Hansen’s biography by Josh Singer. The build-up to the launch is viscerally propulsive, covering NASA missteps and tragedies amongst Armstrong’s apparent coldness.

Gosling is, as ever, very good at providing brooding intensity; completely focused, his relationship with his family is a troubled one. Clare Foy plays Armstrong’s wife, Jan, frustrated at her husband’s apparent lack of emotion and the sheer lunacy of travelling to the moon when injustices are ever-present on Earth. Adding depth and conflict where they can, Foy and Gosling retain sympathy whilst also showing flaws.

Chazelle’s film brilliantly captures the thrill of exploration; this is muscular, intense and an Oscar shoo-in. The Eagle has landed. Opens Oct 12

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ***

Dir: Bryan Singer (15, 106 mins) This Freddie Mercury biopic has had a troubled production history. Director Bryan Singer and his Freddie, Rami Malek, have had a turbulent relationship, with Singer fired from the production and British actor/director Dexter Fletcher taking over. The film follows Mercury’s ascent with Queen, the tensions arising from his solo career, the band’s erformance at Live Aid and, finally, Mercury’s diagnosis with AIDS. Malek, from TV’s Mr Robot is all buck teeth, strut and ‘tache as Mercury – kitted out in his glam rock leotards and larger-than-life stage persona, supported by Ben Hardy as drummer Roger Taylor, Gwilym Lee as guitarist Brian May and Joseph Mazzello as bassist John Deacon. Elsewhere, Lucy Boynton plays his lifelong companion Mary Austin while Tom Hollander is manager Jim Beach. The music is front and centre but what insight it might offer into Mercury is open to question. Opens Oct 24

HALLOWEEN ***

Dir: David Gordon Green (15, 109 mins) Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her first screen and scream role as Laurie Strode in another retread of John Carpenter’s classic slasher movie Halloween.

However, the portents for this iteration of Michael Myers are promising, in that this film ignores all of the subsequent, not very good sequels and reboots and returns to her character at 60, defined by her experience as a teenager. She has lived her life damaged by Michael Myers’ William Shatnermasked killer, and when a bus accident releases her imprisoned nemesis, she is ready to bring the battle to him with daughter Karen (Judy Greer) along for the ride. Written by a normally comedic pairing by David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, this Halloween offers a trauma victim’s perspective on top of the ol’people getting killed in scary ways. Original director John Carpenter has provided music, which should make this a horror fan’s treat. Opens Oct 19

ALSO RELEASED OCTOBER 2018 COLUMBUS (12A) Family drama as John Cho, whose father is in a coma, connects with a girl who wants to give up on her dreams and stay with her addict mother. Much better than it sounds. SMALLFOOT (PG) Height-challenged CGI yeti with Channing Tatum’s voice has mildly diverting adventures and learns life lessons.GOOSEBUMPS 2 HAUNTED HALLOWEEN (12A) A Jack Black-free sequel continuing the film adaptations of RL Stine’s massively popular kid horror books. HUNTER KILLER (12A) Gerard Butler! In a sub!

Stuff! Bound to be… sub-par, amirite? POSSUM (15) Unsettling horror with Sean Harris starring as a puppeteer facing up to his stepfather and his own troubled past. BLUE IGUANA (15) BUZZ 32

MANDY ****

Dir: Panos Cosmatos (15, 121 mins) Nicolas Cage seems to have two speeds: somnambulistic with occasional eccentricity, as witnessed in many straight-to-VOD releases; and batshit crazy, as seen in his finest work from Face/Off to Wild At Heart, the Werner Herzog remake of Bad Lieutenant and now gloriously and gorily in Mandy. Set in 1983, Cage plays Red, a lumberjack in a blissfully happy relationship with Andrea Riseborough’s titular Mandy, an illustrator for pulp fiction. Their happiness is soon ruined after religious cult leader Jeremiah (a dastardly Linus Roache) kidnaps Mandy with the aid of some demonic bikers, for the benefit of the Children Of The New Dawn. When Mandy refuses to join in with the devil worship she is killed in front of Cage and a bonkers, psychedelic revenge film goes into full swing. Using a variety of weapons ranging from chainsaws to axes, Cage hunts down the murderers, both human and inhuman, in a dreamlike hymn to excess, all tightly controlled by director Cosmatos.

Riseborough’s Mandy is a quirky love interest, the cult members are perverse and unsettling, and Cage is magnificently unhinged. The film’s blend of psychedelia, upsetting violence and moments of beauty is not for the faint of heart but this amped-up 80s video nasty has cult classic written all over it. Opens Oct 12

JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN **

Dir: David Kerr (PG, 95 mins) After Johnny English and its sequel Johnny English Reborn, yet another limp Bond parody from Rowan Atkinson. Called out of secret service retirement and escaping a dead-end teaching job at a public school, Atkinson has to find the criminal mastermind responsible for a cyber attack that has revealed all of Britain’s undercover agents. This leads to a variety of set pieces: some vaguely xenophobic (attacking French cyclists), some overlong (a prolonged sketch about losing yourself in a VR headset is particularly painful), some occasionally funny (people falling over). A strong supporting cast – Emma Thompson as Atkinson’s boss, Ben Miller as his hapless sidekick, and former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko as a femme fatale – do what they can with the thin material but to little avail. Atkinson is a superb physical comic, but the setups are overblown and the jokes are tired, making this installment for kids only. Opens Oct 5

VENOM ****

Dir: Reuben Fleischer (15, 123 mins) The symbiote is back! After a lackluster outing as third banana baddie in Sam Raimi’s final overstuffed Spiderman film, Venom – a villainous antihero first glimpsed in a 1988 Spiderman comic – gets his own big-screen blockbuster. Will this violent face-eating alien get the Deadpool treatment and stay true to the character’s roots? Venom is no longer tied to Spiderman as part of his origin story: set in San Francisco, Tom Hardy plays Eddie Brock, a journalist who discovers dodgy goingson at the Life Foundation run by Riz Ahmed’s shady Carlton Drake, who believes that mankind will only survive if it mutates with an alien parasite. Naturally Hardy ends up as an unwilling host for said parasite, transforming him into the sinewy, shapeshifting, teethy, long-tongued Venom. Strong support comes from Michelle Williams as Anne Weying, a district attorney with whom Brock is in a relationship.

Ultimately, though, this is the Tom Hardy show, as he does a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde as Brock and Venom, for whom he has made another Bane-like voice choice.

Director Reuben Fleischer is left to coordinate both the action sequences and the body horror, whilst steering another potential franchise in the making for an everexpanding Marvel Universe. Opens Oct 3

SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ **

Dir: Crispian Mills (15, 99 mins) The first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Pictures is a comedy horror, and not a patch on Shaun Of The Dead. Students at posh boarding school Slaughterhouse not only have to deal with its horrific hierarchy but also with an unspeakable evil.

Following headmaster Michael Sheen’s decision to allow fracking on school land, a gateway to hell has been uncovered, spewing forth various monsters let loose upon the privileged. Asa Butterfield, Hermione Corfield and Finn Cole are the plucky kids battling the forces of darkness with supporting roles falling to Simon Pegg as an ineffectual new teacher, and Nick Frost as a local drug dealer. Writer/director Crispian Mills has collaborated with Pegg before in the underwhelming A Fantastic Fear Of Everything, and there’s a distinct lack of satirical bite, laughs or scares in a film that doesn’t pull off its intended St Trinians-meets-Hammer Horror mashup. Opens Oct 31

THE HATE U GIVE ***

Dir: George Tilman Jr. (12A, 100 mins) Based on the hit YA novel by Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give is a timely and powerful take on racism and poverty from a teenage perspective. Amandla Stenberg plays Starr, a girl who has to deal with two different worlds. She goes to a mostly white private school on one side of the tracks but hails from a mostly black neighbourhood. Rich and poor rubbing shoulder to shoulder, privilege and prejudice.

Negotiating these different racial spaces becomes her way of life, but after her best friend Khalil (Algee Smith) is shot and killed by police following a routine traffic stop, she has to make a choice about what she truly believes in, with pressures coming from all around. Violence brews as Starr becomes the centre of a Black Lives Matter protest and wants to get her voice heard. Impassioned and intelligent, The Hate U Give is an absorbing, well observed and angry drama with an urgent purpose. Opens Oct 26

Sam Rockwell stars in a so-so London-set crime comedy. LONDON UNPLUGGED (12A) Portmanteau of short stories of people across London, not an acoustic set. STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME (15) British comedy as tenants of a high-rise fight back against a loan shark. THE GUILTY (15) Tightly wound Danish kidnap thriller. DOGMAN (15) A gentle dog groomer has to face down a violent neighbour with funny/sad results. TEHRAN TABOO (15) Partly animated story of young people trying to break free of repression in Iran. BLINDSPOTTING (15) Whilst on probation, a man is forced to reassess his relationship with his volatile best friend in this comedy drama.

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TINY REBEL NEWPORT FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL

Boasting some of the best local chefs south Wales has to offer, Newport Food & Drink Festival is returning for its eighth consecutive year. This year’s event sees cooking masterclasses taking place in Friars Walk, with the popular Teenchef competition also back as well as the opportunity to sample and buy a selection of treats from sweet to spicy.

Main sponsors, Tiny Rebel Brewery, will be at hand with plenty of drinks on offer, whilst street entertainment will ensure a well-earned break for parents.

Friars Walk, Newport, Sat 6 Oct. Admission: free.

Info: 01633 656656 / www.newport.gov.uk Pic: Reading Tom

TOMMY HEANEY As star chef Tommy Heaney gears up to take over Cardiff favourite Arbennig, he talks to Megan Thomas about his plans for the venue.

The only thing that could soften the blow of Arbennig shutting down in Pontcanna is the fact that it’s being replaced by Tommy Heaney’s new restaurant. Though sad to be leaving The Great House in Bridgend, Heaney believes that, if you’re going to do something, “you should be as involved as possible” – hence focusing his time and energy into this new venture in the Welsh capital. Thankfully, he regards cooking as not only his job, but his hobby. “It’s not just a job for me. I enjoy creating.”

The restaurant will be serving simple, good food without the frills or pretences of fine dining. “We wanted to create an atmosphere where you could come any day of the week, not just special occasions.

We wanted an environment where you just come in, wear what you want, sit down and have some nice food and a drink with a nice ambiance around you.” He’s not only interested in guaranteeing the satisfaction of his customers, but also his staff; he describes the 15/16-hour days he would work, six days a week, when he was starting out as a chef.

“We don’t want a restaurant where our staff work 80 hours a week – that’s not what we’re about. We want our staff to have a work family balance.”

Heaney thinks this more relaxed type of dining is successful for a variety of reasons. He describes how he can go to a restaurant with his partner, Nikki, and look at the menu to find that he doesn’t want to take on a whole meal. It was whilst out with Nikki that the two ended up ordering five starters to share and BUZZ 34

deciding that this was the kind of thing they wanted at the restaurant. “We’ve stayed away from the threecourse a la carte menu. We went for more sharing plates, small plates and things like that.”

The menu is seasonal, changing based on the availability of fresh produce and allowing the chef more room to experiment. “This is why we don’t actually write set menus – so that we can play about with different dishes every day.”

Heaney created a Kickstarter campaign online to raise funds and was blown away by its success, which resulted in an October opening for the new restaurant. Without support the restaurant probably wouldn’t be happening, he says. “I think it was great for local people who wanted to get involved. The fact we had support from big-name chefs helped a lot.

It was a great opportunity for Cardiff to host these chefs coming down to cook.”

Before the opening, though, Heaney is due to compete on BBC2’s Great British Menu for Northern Ireland. Having done the show last year, he thought he’d have been more prepared, but he has “a completely different feeling than last year. I don’t know if expectations are maybe higher or what. But I’m excited.”

Heaney’s, 6-10 Romilly Crescent, Cardiff, opens Wed 10 Oct. Info: twitter.com/cardiffheaneys

OKTOBERFEST AT THE DEPOT

This is Cardiff Depot’s fourth year of bringing an authentic Oktoberfest vibe from Munich to Cardiff. Expect a bustling day of dancing, drinking and celebrating (or commiserating) the end of summer and the coming of winter.

Whether you’re there for the afternoon or evening sessions, you’re guaranteed a day of beer, German street food, oompah bands and a rare opportunity to whip out your prized lederhosen without too much judgement.

Depot, Cardiff, Sat 6 Oct. Tickets: £12.50/£10 Info: depotcardiff.com

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OF THE BEST PLACES FOR VEGANS IN SOUTH WALES Plant-based diets are becoming increasingly popular in the UK. Elouise Hobbs checks out the best spots in the region for diners that way inclined.

ANNA LOKA

No list featuring the best vegan places to eat would be complete without mentioning Anna Loka. Named after the Sanskrit translation for ‘food, health, world’, the restaurant, which opened in 2015, aims to not only make memorable dishes but also hopes to change the way people think about vegan food. They use locallysourced ingredients to create dishes that look and taste beautiful – and because the whole menu is vegan, it means you can dine out and pick anything you fancy.

114 Albany Rd, Cardiff. Info: 029 2049 7703 / www.anna-loka.com

GOVINDAS VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN CAFE

Govindas’ award-winning vegan menu features dishes inspired by dinner tables across the world. Linked to the Radha Krishna Temple, their speciality dishes are the Indian thalis, salads and sweets. One of their stated passions is making sure that everyone leaves feeling full and happy, which isn’t hard with dishes like the Savoury Pick‘n’Mix, the ‘all you can eat’ and sharers, alongside the impossible to resist dessert menu.

8 Cradock Street, Swansea. Info: 01792 468469 / www.govindas.org.uk

CAFFI IECHYD DA

Hidden down a back street, Caffi Iechyd Da may well be Carmarthen’s best-kept secret for vegan dishes. Set up as an organic vegetarian café, they now cater for glutenfree and vegan diets, with creative dishes that rotate on a regular basis. Their daily specials are always delightful and, in the past, have included everything from raw courgette linguine with coriander pesto to sweet potato and red pepper tofu quiche.

2B Jacksons Lane, Carmarthen. Info: www.caffiiechydda.co.uk

VEGETARIAN FOOD STUDIO

Possibly the longest established vegetarian restaurant in Cardiff, this family-run restaurant has become a staple for curry lovers across the city. Specialising in panAsian cooking, over the years they have perfected a range of authentic dishes. Don’t miss the Gujarati Thali Special which includes a curry of the day, two starters, basmati rice, daal, roti breads, a poppadum, salad and dessert all for under £10.

115-117 Penarth Road, Cardiff. Info: 029 2023 8222 / www.vegetarianfoodstudio.co.uk

BLANCHE BAKERY

If you can’t quite ignore that sweet tooth of yours, then a visit to Blanche Bakery in Cathays should definitely be on your to-do list. From the French toast doughnut, to the raspberry ripple, gone are the days you cannot indulge in the fluffiest, creamiest and most exquisite desserts on the menu. Blanche are committed to being a 100% vegan bakery, as well as offering a range of hot beverages, the perfect accompaniment to your chosen doughnut. Even if you’re already too sweet for all of these desserts, they also offer 100% vegan brunch, from toasties to mac and cheese.

16 Mackintosh Place, Cardiff. Info: www.blanchebakery.co.uk

CARROT & COURGETTE CAKE Words Alison Powell It’s that time of year, Great British Bake Off is on the telly and what a comforting way to see in autumn than snuggled up with tea and cake. This one uses carrots and courgettes, still in season at the moment and they work together to keep this deliciously moist.

INGREDIENTS (12-16 slices) • 200g butter • 180g caster sugar (ideally brown, but white would work if that is all you have) • 3 eggs • 300g self-raising flour • 2 tsp baking powder • 2 bananas, mashed • 3-4 carrots, peeled and grated • 1 large (or 2 smaller) courgettes, grated • 100g nuts, crumbled or chopped roughly (I like walnuts, but it’s personal taste) • 100ml milk • 280g cream cheese • 100g icing sugar • A drop of vanilla essence

HOW TO 1. Grease and line a 23cm springform tin and preheat the oven to 180˚/ gas mark 4 2. Cream together the butter and caster sugar, using either a fork or food processor.

3. Beat the eggs and mix these and the milk into the butter and sugar.

4. Mix in the mashed bananas.

5. Sift the flour into the mixture and add the baking powder. Fold it in.

6. Gently stir in the grated carrot, grated courgette and crumbled nuts.

7. Pour in to the lined cake tin, pop in the oven and bake for an hour.

8. After an hour, carefully check it. If you insert a knife in to the centre, it should come out clean if cooked.

If not, pop it back in for another 5-10 minutes, then check it again.

9. Once baked, leave it to cool for a while then remove from the tin and leave to go cold on a cooling rack, whilst you whip up the topping.

10. Mix together the cream cheese with a drop of vanilla essence and sieved icing sugar. Smear it on the cake and decorate as you like, swirl with a fork, douse it in more nuts or scatter it with sprinkles. @ASPwriter

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OCTOBER FOODIE FOCUS Something borrowed, some cheese that’s blue, something tasty, something brewed.

Elouise Hobbs has the best food-related events for you this month.

Cookery School with Anand George, Purple Poppadom, Cardiff, Sat 6, 13 and 27 Oct Ever fancied a cooking lesson from a multiaward-winning chef? Well, now’s your chance.

Anand George, the mastermind behind the menu at Purple Poppadom, will be leading lessons on how to create authentic Indian cuisine with some brand-new recipes. During the lesson, you’ll learn how to prepare a cardamom-infused murgh tikka, a Malabar-style prawn curry, mustard seed spiced potatoes and coconut rice. Once all the dishes have been cooked, you can enjoy a meal prepared by George. You’ll also be able to take home all the food you have made, all the recipes and The 5000 Mile Journey cookbook.

Tickets: £169. Info: www.purplepoppadom.com

A Taste Of India, Healthaspire, The Old Smoke House, Milford Haven, Fri 26 Oct This workshop takes a new perspective on how to incorporate Indian flavours into traditional dishes. Here you’ll have the opportunity to make everything from spiced satay chicken skewers and chai spiced muffins to the classic cheese and spinach side dish sag paneer and the more unique spiced beef cottage pie – a twist on the usual recipe, incorporating a filling topped with Bombay potatoes. Alongside hands-on experience and demonstrations, you will also get the opportunity to enjoy tasters and lunch, as well as taking home anything you make.

Tickets: £39. Info: www.healthaspire.co.uk

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Blue Cheese & Beer Pairing Evening, The Bottle Shop, Cardiff, Sun 14 Oct Cheese and wine evenings usually involve great wine, greater cheese and lots of discussions about aromas. Now, the idea has been updated in the best way: Roath’s Bottle Shop has teamed up with the nearby Cheese Pantry to bring five of the best beers and blue cheeses together. The evening will include presentations into both the beer and the cheese that have been chosen for the night and lots of tasting and drinking with great company.

Tickets: £20. Info: www.thebottleshops.co.uk Social Cyder Festival 2018 by Old Tree Brewery, Three Pools, Abergavenny, Fri 26 Oct Food waste is a massive issue that needs a creative solution. One group that has come up with an innovative idea is the Old Tree Brewery. Founded in 2014, they aim to save as many apples as possible from going to waste by making homemade cider. From humble beginnings, this social cider festival now collects unharvested apples from across West England. This year, they hope to take 4,000 litres of apple juice to ferment into cider for 2019. If you want to get involved, the weekend will include plenty of apple juice and cider (alongside brewing demonstrations), vegan feasts for every meal, music and games set amongst a backdrop of stone barns and meadows.

Tickets: £75. Info: www.oldtree.house

Fan of both pub crawls and doggos, puppers and borkers? Well, after a successful trial run in the summer, Pup Crawls, set up by doggie fans Dog Furiendly are back. A group of dogs and their owners get to roam around Cardiff enjoying both the city’s many fantastic pubs and its pups. No doubt, there will plenty of other people there using teethgrindingly annoying words like doggos and puppers, but that’s the tradeoff isn’t it? This day’s trip will start at the Pen & Wig before nosying down to places such as Beelzebub, Tiny Rebel and Cambrian Tap. Pup Crawls, Pen & Wig, Cardif (starting point), Sat 13 Oct. Tickets: £18. Info: www. dogfuriendly.com

FFWRNES CARDIFF MARKET OPENING

From a street pop-up to its own humble abode, pizza specialists Ffwrnes have come a long way in a few years. Cardiff Market have now welcomed a new addition to their balcony and Ffwrnes’ owners are pleased to be in the Victorian building. The two owners, who quit their jobs to travel around Europe to make pizzas, have demonstrated their commitment to the business as they would travel in and around Wales to make pizzas at events. Their pizzas start from £5 and have something for everyone, as they also provide a vegan option on the menu.

Cardiff Market, St Mary Street, Cardiff Tue-Sat 11am-4pm. Info: www.ffwrnes.co.uk

PALETTA PIZZERIA

82 High Street, Barry. 01446 311964 / facebook.com/palettapizzeria Food **** Atmosphere *** Paletta Pizzeria recently swung its doors open after months of renovation, founder Rhys Cafaro having toiled away alongside his father with the building work. Rhys’ partner Sarah is running the business with him, with the aim of bringing a good quality family-run restaurant back to Barry High Street after the demise of pizza spot Carlos. The end result of all this hard work is a success.

The décor is rustic: slatted benches made from scaffolding planks, pizza paddles across one wall and olive tins with succulents popping out, all assisting to create a cheerful Mediterranean atmosphere. There’s real emphasis on Paletta being a family-run establishment, too: mum, dad and son were all in attendance on the night we went.

With a concise, easy to navigate menu, plenty for vegetarians and vegans to be happy about and all food prepared on site and cooked in their own oven, pizzas are hand-stretched, wood-fired and stone-baked to order. As stated on the menu, food arrives when it’s done. A couple of Moretti beers and servings of Nocellara olives to start are followed by margherita pizzas topped with mushrooms, olives, peppers, and La Vegana – a vegan pizza with aubergines, courgettes, garlic and cherry tomatoes. Fries, verdura – kale cooked in garlic, white wine and chilli – and yet more Moretti followed.

There’s a selection of salads and pasta dishes and an interesting range of pizzas and toppings. Wine is straight to the point: house red, white or rosé. Desserts are specials on the day – on this occasion, a cheesecake with popcorn, which was duly ordered out of intrigue. The cheesecake was nice and crumbly, albeit too sweet for my taste, and the popcorn added little to the dish; if anything it was probably best without it.

Overall, the meal, the venue, the clearly over the moon family and the staff have created a great little restaurant. One which, judging by the busy evenings that have followed since Paletta Pizzeria’s opening and social media feedback, is doing something right. ANTONIA LEVAY

SPIT & SAWDUST

Unit B, Rhymney River Bridge Road, Cardiff. 029 2049 4741 / facebook.com/spitandsawdust Food **** Atmosphere *** It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely foodie honeypot than the café at Spit & Sawdust, an indoor skate park within an old warehouse unit a stone’s throw from the big-box hell that is Newport Road. Yet, thanks to a combination of excellent fare and good old-fashioned word of mouth, it’s been slowly but surely gaining the sort of reputation that induces people to visit from all over the city.

At the low end of the menu, a local and organic bacon butty and a brew is available for a positively bargainous £3. Tempting though it is, we don’t indulge – we’re saving ourselves for lunch, and the café’s speciality: burgers. It’s worth the wait.

The beefy Smoke comes with smoked cheese and BBQ sauce in a superb brioche bun, and, like its menu-mates, sits nestled in a basket with a generous portion of wonderful deep brown skin-on fries and accompanying pickles and crunchy slaw.

The patty itself might be relatively small but packs serious flavour, and – at under £6 – the whole meal represents ridiculously good value.

Of the veggie options, the King Delicious lives up to its name, a slab of tofu wreathed in pickled carrot and ginger for an unusual twist. It can be made instantly vegan by substituting a bread roll for the brioche.

The café is an unpretentious space with plywood walls and shelves stacked with back issues of skater mags, while hot drinks are served in a random assortment of mismatched mugs. No stylish décor or slick hipster branding here. Instead, the focus is firmly where it should be: on the grub. BEN WOOLHEAD

GREAZY VEGAN

47-49 Castle Arcade, Cardiff. 07432 726091 / www.greazyvegan.com Food **** Atmosphere **** Starting out as a small pop-up night dotted around a few Cardiff pubs, Greazy Vegan has gained the reputation of serving up some marvellously dirty vegan fast food. Off the back of this popularity, they have been able to open up a permanent place, right in Cardiff city centre opposite the castle. As a vegetarian I was in a state of anticipation, as I haven’t had decent fast food since I stopped eating meat – and I wasn’t disappointed.

The menu comprises a selection of junk food like burgers, wings, kebabs and dirty fries. We decided to go for the Big Moc and the Vacon Double Cheeseburger, with the Big Moc being a mind-blowing experience. I never knew how much I missed a great fast food burger. For sides we went for the Southern Fried Chickun Strips, which were deliciously crispy as we dunked them into the homemade gravy, while the dirty fries almost put us into a wonderful food coma. Overall, the food was better then I expected – Greazy Vegan definitely lives up to the hype, plus everything is really reasonably priced with most burgers going for either £5 or £8.

The food comes out as fast as you would expect, with about a 10 minute wait time – perfect if you want a quick bite to eat.

You really don’t have to be vegan to enjoy a dirty junk food night at the Greazy Vegan, but for anyone that way inclined this might be the fast food nirvana you’ve been craving. JAYDON MARTIN

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DAVID GARNER AND TOM PITT

BayArt, Cardiff Bay Sat 13 Oct-Fri 9 Nov One might expect two artists in a joint exhibition to have similar ideas of intention and practice in art. For artists David Garner and Tom Pitt, whose work will stand side by side at BayArt from mid-October, their practices couldn’t be more different.

They do, however, compare in inspiration from subject matter. Both focus on deserted places, on supposedly discarded or useless things, on a sense of physical abandonment. The two go about externalising their attitudes in different but remarkably similarly-intended ways. For instance, while an old scrap yard might inspire Garner to use pieces of it to make an artwork, Pitt might depict the yard abstractly through layers of paint.

Garner is an installation artist and assembler. Through this aforementioned lens of unwanted, functionless objects of the exhibition, he takes these objects and joins them into one object, infusing them with new purpose and meaning. He chooses his objects with the intention of making political, allegorical or symbolic statements. Garner has been known to suggest that people see his exhibition prior to reading the exhibition’s catalogue essay, so that a particular narrative and interpretation does not colour the viewing experience; he believes that one’s first impression of his art ensures multifaceted interpretation.

In contrast, Pitt explores the relationship between paint and its canvas, drawing inspiration from the sense of decay with which him and Garner are interested.

He creates images through the process of scraping paint, erasure, sanding and erosion, symbolising in themselves the processes occurring to the places that inspire his work. Both artists will be in conversation with Philip Nicol on Fri 12 Oct at BayArt, for those interested in learning more about the artists before wandering through their exhibition. This exhibition promises to illustrate, through a unique and intriguing collaboration, the way that inspiration manifests and how art is created with an inseparable tie to the artist themselves. MEGAN THOMAS Admission: free. Info: 029 2065 0016 / www.bayart.org.uk

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HABITATS #2

Grand Theatre, Swansea Until Sat 27 Oct Inspired by Frank Brangwyn’s British Empire Panels in Swansea, six artists have created a series of large artworks in response to the narratives of war, peacetime unity and harmony. Elysium Gallery presents work from Philip Cheater, Kathryn Anne-Trussler, Amy Goldring, Sophie Kumar-Taylor, Tom Morris, and Ann Jordan; their new works will be accompanied by a series of etchings, lithographs and prints by Brangwyn, combining past and present interpretations of post-war Empire.

Habitats #2 follows on from Habitats #1, which features smaller works by the same artists and is on display at the National Botanic Gardens in Carmarthenshire until Tue 13 Nov. One of the artists, Goldring, is a contemporary painter based in Swansea. Her paintings use bright colour to show abstract shapes influenced by natural forms. Likewise, Kumar-Taylor explores geometry, optical illusion, and distortion, experimenting with abstraction and colour relationships. Brangwyn’s panels, the inspiration for these pieces, are full of colour and decorative detail and depicting the riches of Great Britain and the Empire.

Admission: free. Info: 07980 925449 / www.elysiumgallery.com (SS) BUZZ 38

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MADE BY HAND

City Hall, Cardiff Fri 2-Sun 4 Nov You’ll have heard it a million times – we’re a nation of consumers. And we consume things in large volume, be it fast food, online content or massproduced throwaway tat. How often do we consider where our purchases come from? It’s good to sometimes step back from the same old same old and take time to appreciate something with a bit of heart in it.

You might be mistaken for thinking that getting a little great art in your life is an expensive endeavour, but the Made By Hand team beg to differ. They curate the very best of British art and craftsmanship, gathering together the finest clothiers and jewellery makers you’ll find, putting them under one roof for a weekend so you can browse their wares, safe in the knowledge that you’re buying the work of an artist, not something off the high street conveyor belt that you’ve seen in a million places.

This event gives visitors an opportunity to get face to face with creators of clothes, jewellery and homewares, and interact through talks, demonstrations and workshops. Meeting your maker (in an artistic sense) can give you an insight into their craft and make any eventual choices that bit more special.

Admission: £7/£6 conc. (day) / £13/£11 (weekend). U18s free. Info: www. madebyhand-wales.co.uk (MH)

FRANKIE LOCKE: QUARRY / CHWAREL

Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay Until Sun 4 Nov Inspired by journeys to the quarries of north Wales to see the slatescapes that loom sharp and silent around the flooded lakes, Frankie Locke brings Quarry. Known for her ceramic work, Locke has reduced her traditional circles of earthen-tone colour in favour of bright and vibrant block shades of glass. See, hidden in the dulcet browns and yellows of the rock in those quarries are bright hues of blue, purple and orange. Brightness and beauty hidden in plain sight in something many wouldn’t fixate on long enough to truly see. It is just a piece of rock after all.

Nature appears to be of very strong influence to Locke, as it is to many Welsh artists currently. The ripples and colours in the ceramic are deliberate, reflecting how they would naturally form in rock with changings of tide and mineral depositions. It is the way of the world that these things happen, and so it’s very easy to look past the wonder and beauty of it as just another fact of life. Quarry will likely be a fantastic lesson in perspective: taking just that bit longer to look at something and not just see it at face value may well unearth a hidden wonder and beauty that was actually there all along.

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

SUFFRAGE

Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran Sat 6 Oct-Sat 17 Nov It has been 100 years since women were given the right to vote – thanks largely to the suffragette movement which spanned across the UK more than a century ago, although it should be noted that initially, only women over 30 were given the vote when men could vote at 21, with full equality of suffrage taking until 1928. In keeping with the celebrations, such as mass processions in cities across the UK this past June, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre celebrates this prominent anniversary by holding Suffrage, a free showcase where you can discover an array of textile artwork and artefacts produced by the suffragettes.

In the early 20th century, women used skills learned at home to give voice to their political struggle. Influenced by banners, aprons and ribbons used during the suffragette movement, the historical exhibition celebrates a century of suffrage with displays of textile art and political expression from artists such as Eleanor Edwardes and Ruth Singer. While its anniversary serves as a reminder of how far we’ve come, these artists are continuing to challenge the role of women today and emphasise how much work lies ahead.

Admission: free. Info: 01633 483321 / www.lgac.org.uk (ED)

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ALL MY SONS

Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff Thurs 18-Sat 27 Oct The critically acclaimed 1947 Broadway sensation, based on a true story by Arthur Miller, is full of doubt, darkness and deceit. It remains classic due to Miller’s ability to capture the raw and conflicting emotions of those involved, such as the main protagonist Joe Keller, who allows defective parts to be shipped to the Air Force during WWII, causing the deaths of 21 pilots, before shifting the blame to his business partner.

The original version of All My Sons was what established Miller’s status as a playwright, as his productions until then had been commercial failures. It has since been in almost-continuous production, including a successful West End run in 2010. The distinctly warm nature of the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama will no doubt compliment the underlying foundations of strong family ties in All My Sons as Joe Weller struggles between his desire for money he has always dreamt of and his relationship with his family – encapsulated with the famous line, “If there’s something bigger than that then I’ll put a bullet to my head”. Miller’s talent in bringing social awareness and revolt into the narrative is what still makes the play resonate today.

Tickets: £6-£13. Info: 029 2039 1391 / www.rwcmd.ac.uk (ED) BUZZ 40

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AUSTENTATIOUS

The Riverfront, Newport Fri 5 Oct Whether it’s from studying from her novels in school or bearing witness to Colin Firth’s Darcy emerging seductively from a lake, most of us are aware of the works of Jane Austen. Even if you haven’t actually read any of her work, or even seen the screen adaptations, it’s likely that you’ll have any idea in mind of the tropes that exist in her world, such is the ubiquity of the era in many a lavish period drama.

Flash forward to the 21st century and we have the fertile improv comedy scene. Performers are given themes and a basic structure of a story, and using their quickness of thought and natural wit they create hilarious tales on the spot.

And that’s how we come to Austentatious. This troop of improv allstars, including Rachel Parris (The Mash Report), Cariad Lloyd (Crims) and Joseph Morpurgo (Drunk History), take the familiar setting of the Jane Austen novel and use audience title suggestions each night as the basis for a full-length show created from scratch.

Having wowed Edinburgh and spawned successful stars from within the cast, it is sure to be a riot of an evening, be you fully fledged fan or wholly uninitiated.

Tickets: £17.50/£16. Info: 01633 656757 / www.tickets.newportlive. co.uk (MH)

WICKED

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Wed 31 Oct-Sat 24 Nov Ever wondered how the rivalry between the Witches Of Oz began? Or whether they were once unlikely friends? Stephen Schwartz’s West End and Broadway musical spectacular, Wicked, tells the untold story of Glinda and Elphaba, the good and wicked witch of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. The multi-recordbreaking UK and Ireland touring production, which has for a while been a global phenomenon featuring astounding technical wizardry and stunning costumes, returns to the Wales Millennium Centre for a four-week run this autumn.

On its first visit to Cardiff in 2014, Wicked notched up audience numbers of over 90,000 over its run. The musical’s popularity is no surprise, considering the talent behind it. With music and lyrics by Grammy and Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz, musical staging by Tony winner Wayne Cilento and directed by two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello, Wicked is one of the most successful productions in the history of the Wales Millennium Centre.

Based on Gregory Maguire’s novel, Wicked: The Life and Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West, Schwartz’s musical tells a story of friendship between two young women who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University. Following a series of adventures and encounters in Oz, however, they will eventually fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch Of The West. With memorable music, including Wicked’s signature song, Defying Gravity, and a story that will make audiences question whether the Wicked Witch of the West was really as evil as she seemed, Wicked raises some important questions about friendship, growing up and how we treat those around us.

This year’s production will star Amy Ross as Elphaba, Helen Woolf as Glinda and Eastenders regular Aaron Sidwell as Fiyero, Elphaba’s love interest. Sure to be a great knees-up for anyone invested in a good ol’fashioned West End musical.

MEGAN POTTERTON Tickets: from £20. Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk

ISLAND

Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli Wed 24 Oct Athol Furgard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona first performed Island at the height of apartheid in Cape Town in 1973. Addressing the south African regime of the time, Kani and Ntshona won Tony Awards for their performances as characters of the same names.

Set in Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, it follows two political prisoners, John and Winston, incarcerated for speaking out against the regime in South Africa.

The cellmates endure manual labour by day, and by night they rehearse Sophocles’ Antigone in preparation of a performance for the other inmates.

The performance is their opportunity to protest the injustice of their imprisonment, but when John is offered early release their friendship is tested, and he begins to question whether it is ever right to protest and speak out against those in power.

This latest performance is from Fio, whose remit is to bring sociopolitical stories to local audiences; anyone, regardless of background is welcome to join them in delivering these pieces. In Mandela’s centenary year and a changing political climate, this period piece about repercussions for speaking up for what you believe in is still relevant.

Tickets: from £10. Info: 0845 2263510 / www.theatrausirgar.co.uk (AL)

MOBY DICK

Transporter Bridge, Newport Wed 3-Tue 16 Oct Herman Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick has been re-imagined for a 21st century audience by Newport’s Tin Shed Theatre Company. The classic tale follows the story of Ishmael, who retells the story of his voyage on the Pequod, where Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding the whale, Moby Dick, with whom he’d previously had a violent encounter and is bent on revenge.

Tin Shed consists of Justin Cliffe, Georgina Harris and Peter Farago – two theatre makers and a visual and audio artist. Their aim is to create theatre in unusual places for non-traditional audiences; they’re no strangers to adapting classics, either, having previously devised Dr Frankenstein’s Travelling Freak Show which merged clippings of Shelley’s novel with a 19th century ‘freak show’ aesthetic.

Moby Dick takes place on the Newport Transporter Bridge, atop the gondola that transports visitors across the river Usk. They’ll be working with residents, local professionals, and non-professional actors, in Tin Shed’s biggest production to date. It’ll be interesting to see how they pull off a production in such a spot – whales arising out of the river, perhaps?

Tickets: free. Info: tinshedtheatre@gmx.com / www. tinshedtheatrecompany.com (SS)

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DJ BORING

Good Life @ The Vaults, Cardiff Bay Wed 31 Oct Lo-fi house favourite Tristan Hallis, aka DJ Boring, returns to Cardiff as The Vaults continues to build on its impressive list of bookings. Promoters Good Life promise to give The Vaults the makeover treatment, bringing their notoriously twisted décor to the party.

DJ Boring is a stand-out name in the announcements made for a new term of electronic bookings throughout the city. Once the mysterious figure behind Winona, a pivotal track in the birth of the lo-fi house movement, Hallis’ cult following has developed into a genrewide reverence. And credit where it’s due, you’d be hard pushed to find an artist more deserving. The Aussie is famed for his catering to the crowd and setting, spinning a superb mix of disco and sunlit house tracks at day parties before delving into a collection of fistpump techno as the sun goes down and the strobes emerge.

For Tahn, Boring’s latest EP on UK label Shall Not Fade, highlights his aptitude as a producer as well as a selector. The deeper into his back catalogue you go, the more justification for his popularity you’ll find. Expect the finest tricks and treats from a DJ at the top of his game.

Tickets: £12/£10. Info: www. vaultspresents.com (CC) BUZZ 42

RONI SIZE

The Vaults, Cardiff Bay Fri 26 Oct As Cardiff’s club scene gears up for another packed autumn, the capital is being graced with one of the best in underground history. Roni Size has been a gamechanger since his beginnings in the 90s, where his Jamaican heritage paired with the influence of Bristol’s infamous nightlife has propelled him into legendary status.

Following a rash of singles which helped to cement an identifiable Bristol drum’n’bass sound, Size founded Reprazent, who just one year after formation, won a Mercury Music Prize with debut album New Forms. Thereafter, he established a new project, Breakbeat Era, while continuing to release solo material that ensured his place as a festival staple. Looking to his latest creations, his collab with Rockwell, Easy, is an exemplary track that combines traditional dubs with a fierce contemporary flair. With Size’s influence being one of the most respected in UK drum’n’bass, his sets have evolved into being revered for his balancing old school classics of both d’n’b laced with current tracks that make for eclectic sets.

Vaults itself is one of Cardiff’s most unique spaces, where delving underground makes its events a truly submersive experience. Formerly a bank vault, the space is a grungy haven for those who completely want to lose their inhibitions.

Accompanying Roni comes a stacked line up, with support from Ransom, Mascot, Beenson and Lubi J, while room 2 will be taken over by Cardiff native bassline organisers Got Bass.

Size’s ability to produce sets that encompass generational love for the genre is extraordinary. If you haven’t seen him before, his passion for the music is a spectacular performance that shouldn’t be missed. With being such a predominant figure in the scene, the night will not only be a celebration of his everlasting career, but it’s a 9-5 worth booking in the calendar. FFION RIORDAN-JONES Tickets: £14. Info: www.vaultspresents.com

DUDLEY STRANGEWAYS

Breathe @ Undertone, Cardiff Fri 12 Oct If you’ve ever descended the treacherous steps of Undertone you’ll be familiar with the greeting you receive upon arrival on most weekends: kaleidoscopic lighting, shadowy corners, bottles of water and whichever brand of electronica that evening is dedicated to.

Come mid-October, the aforementioned vibrations will be the clean-cut grooves of tech-houser Dudley Strangeways.

Often found at the side of fellow tech-house pioneer Michael Mclardy, either in a dark Boiler Room or at the side of a pool in Ibiza, the duo’s minimalist EP Calling Joshua shows off the pair’s ability to entrance with eerie beat disruptions and pulling back it’s listeners with a familiar melody.

Strangeways will be accompanied

by Mikki James, from the Swansea underground house and techno promotional collective Dogruff who were, thery say, “born out of boredom”.

Mikki James’ uptempo and melodic tech-house should provide a pleasing contrast to the nature of Strangeways, and altogether it appears a small slice of the Berlin clubbing vibe will be brought to Cardiff this autumn.

Tickets: £5. Info: 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com (CP)

FANTASTIC MAN

Haws @ Jacobs Market, Cardiff Fri 12 Oct For their 2nd birthday, Haws are bringing Melbournian artist Fantastic Man to the Jacobs Antiques basement for an extended four-hour set.

Previously seen here headlining a Teak night, his return to Cardiff is sure to ensnare a rapturous crowd.

Undoubtedly, there will be an incredible selection to boot.

Real name Mic Newman, his Fantastic Man alias has existed as a musical entity since 2011. Newman’s overall blissfully consistent since 2007, with debut LP Altitude Attitudes arriving in 2016 under the pseudonym Mind Lotion. This release, on Zaltan’s Antinote label, showcased his enigmatic ability to create softer, more emotional melodies. Newman is also joint boss of Superconscious Records, along with fellow Melbourne compatriot Francis Inferno Orchestra, supporting and broadcasting predominantly Australian artists.

Support comes in the form of a two-hour ambient excursion from local beatmaker and allround quality selector Viewpoints, starting as early as 8pm. Warming up the basement’s dancefloor for Fantastic Man are Haws’ stellar residents.

Tickets: £12. Info: management@ hawsmusic.com (HW)

NEW JACK CITY

Hedone @ The Duke, Neath Sat 27 Oct Halloween parties; the time to get down to the Monster Mash and dress in devilish outfits for the season. It sometimes feels like a frenzy to discover events that won’t necessarily plug out spooky tracks, so here’s a gem for those might not feel like coordinating the night to Thriller.

Hailing from Amsterdam, brothers New Jack City are headlining The Duke in Neath this Halloween weekend. With an early awakened love of music, Rogier and Guido Verbaal are becoming adored for creating old-school mixes. Having toured across Europe extensively, they are rapidly becoming known to take the best of booming partystarters and deliver with a real authenticity. The duo largely mix house with a heavy influence of 90s classics throughout, where they have mastered how to intertwine subgenres with palpable force.

Also on the bill are Hedone’s residents, accompanied by Michael Rutherford.

By day, the venue is a pub, meaning the intimate setting is ideal for those who may want to escape the crowds of Halloween but revel in a night of European club anthems. With an early(ish) close of 2am, see the morning in with a flavour of the Netherlands right here in Wales.

Tickets: £10. Info: 01639 643892 (FRJ)

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KARINE POLWART TRIO

Pontardawe Arts Centre Fri 19 Oct Six-time BBC Folk Award winner, and current holder of 2018 Folk Singer Of The Year, Karine Polwart, visits Pontardawe on the day of her new album’s release. Laws Of Motion is the latest in a string of albums both critically acclaimed and a pleasure to Polwart’s ever-growing fanbase.

The album, brilliantly held together by the title’s central theme, covers ground from Polwart’s Midlothian roots to Japanese gardens, Jewish immigrants and the birthplace of Donald Trump’s mother, the Isle of Lewis. The latter song, I Burn But I Am Not Consumed is told in the voice of the ancient rock below the island itself.

Although most of Laws Of Motion is conventionally sung modern folk, this curious rebuke of Trump attempts to realign POTUS’s policies through spoken word and song – picking up where previous release, A Pocket Of Wind Resistance left off, full of influences from Polwart’s theatrical sound design work. Like all great modern folk musicians who have found fame with their more accessible, song-centred repertoire, Polwart’s live concerts move easily between the more traditional and contemporary.

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SWN FESTIVAL

Various venues, Cardiff Wed 17-Sat 20 Oct Cardiff’s citywide independent music festival Swn has been an annual autumn institution since its conception in 2007 by founders John Rostron and Huw Stephens. Originally envisioned as Wales’ answer to Austin’s South By South West, it has varied in size with each offering but has always remained focused on championing and curating emerging and established talent from Wales and beyond, solidifying its status year upon year.

Its latest incarnation sees a change in management, with Womanby Street venue and promotion team Clwb Ifor Bach at the helm. They are set to deliver the same high standard over four days, cultivating the hive of activity you have come to expect across the city at the twilight of festival season. Cardiff’s array of great independent venues makes it an easy task for them, ranging from the intimate (and let’s be honest, downright sweaty) stages of Gwdihw, Undertone and The Moon to the much larger (and sweatier yet) Tramshed and Cardiff University Students Union’s Great Hall.

Proceedings kick off with two standalone shows leading into the weekend. Head to the Tramshed on Wed 17 for a Heavenly Records-curated lineup with Gwenno, Adwaith and Halo Maud, followed by Drenge [pictured] and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever at the Great Hall on Thurs 18. Next, we have the main bulk of the festival: Fri 19 headliners The Go! Team, Boy Azooga and Gaz Coombes take over the Tramshed whilst other names such as Bo Ningen, Farm Hand, Goat Girl, Heavy Rapids, Mellt and many more can be found strewn across the city (make sure you wear some good trainers).

Sat 20 ups the ante again, with almost 60 names listed so far. Some of this author’s personal picks would be Accü, Alfa Mist, Argrph, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Cowtown, Dream Wife, Fling, I See Rivers, Low Island, Marged, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Night Flight, Sock and if I had room on the page quite a few others. Time to start writing your list. CHARLIE PIERCEY Tickets: £60 full pass/£35 Fri + Sat only/£15-£25 per day. Info: swnfest.com

MELVINS / JON SPENCER

Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union Thurs 25 Oct There’ll be six musicians on the stage during this evening, all of whom were in the game by the mid-1980s – some well bedded in by then, in fact. That’s more than two centuries of collective endeavour, even before you throw their catalogue highlights on the table.

Melvins formed as a trio in early-80s Washington state, coming to influence grunge as well as all types of slow-tempo metal. Their lineups have changed frequently in the decades hence, the two constants being singer/guitarist Buzz Osbourne and drummer Dale Crover.

Currently, they’re joined by two bassists: Steve McDonald, who formed punk band Redd Kross as a tween in the late 70s, and Jeff Pinkus, best known as a peakera member of Texan wildmen Butthole Surfers.

Tour support Jon Spencer first showed his mettle as a member of Pussy Galore, an NYC band who hitched a garage punk sound to noise/industrial shock tactics, before becoming a 90s indie celeb in the Blues Explosion. He’s got a new solo album – Spencer Sings The Hits!, a sassy racket that fair rolls back the years – and will be joined on tour by Bob Bert, notable for thumping tubs on the first few Sonic Youth LPs. Tickets: £28. Info: 029 2078 1458 / www.cardiffstudents.com (NG)

SONS OF KEMET

Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Sat 27 Oct London’s Sons Of Kemet offer textured compositions rife with buoyant jazz and African-derived percussion. Earlier this year, the quartet announced they had been signed to legendary jazz label Impulse!, subsequently releasing their third album Your Queen Is A Reptile in March.

A musically ambitious album, Your Queen... is no less politically challenging: de facto SoK bandleader Shabaka Hutchings puts forward his own concept of monarchy, dedicating each track to inspirational black women. Some are historically famous (My Queen Is Harriet Tubman), while some are personal to him: Hutchings’ greatgrandmother is referenced in My Queen Is Ada Eastman.

The group’s relatively unorthodox lineup of saxophone, tuba, and two drummers comes together naturally. Saxophonist Hutchings, a central figure in the London jazz scene, and tuba player Theon Cross are joined by twin drummers, Tom Skinner and Eddie Hick, providing stylistic shifts as they converse with each other through music. If jazz can sometimes be accused of lionising the past, Sons Of Kemet’s music feels contemporary; nodding to Brit-jazz’s legacy while looking to the future.

Tickets: £15. Info: 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net (SS)

JOAN ARMATRADING

St David’s Hall, Cardiff Wed 17 Oct British singer-songwriter stalwart Joan Armatrading will be performing alone for only the second time on tour this autumn, but is no stranger to working on her own. Indeed, her new album Not Too Far Away is a completely solo project. Her songs reach far and wide, an underlaying strength and positivity can often be heard in her ebullient melodies that have continued to capture a growing audience, an ability she puts down to the way she writes her music.

“You notice, when I write, I tend to not say he or she – I want a man or a woman to be able to say ‘this song has touched me’. I try most of the time not to say he or she so it can be universal; everyone can identify with it because we’re all going through the same thing.”

But how does Joan continue to find the inspiration to write songs that are able to resonate with so many people? “As long as you’re alive and you can see and hear and feel and touch and think and be curious that’s really all you need,” she says. “If you’re open to all those things that are around you, the inspiration will come, so all you got to be is present.”

Tickets: £34.50. Info: 029 2087 8444 / www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk (ED)

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reviews albums ALT-J **** Reduxer (Infectious) Finally, a remix album that’s not just for fans.

Acclaimed indie three-piece Alt-J veer way off the beaten track with an imaginative hip hop reworking of third album Relaxer. A truly global collaborative effort, each track has been painstakingly reworked by the band and a host of rapper and producer mates. The German language version of In Cold Blood with Berlin’s Kontra K and a vaporwave-driven rehash of Pleader stand out in particular, but every track showcases an aspect of Alt-J’s enduring versatility. BH

CALVIN JOHNSON *** A Wonderful Beast (K) If Calvin Johnson, onetime frontman of 80s indie pioneers Beat Happening, didn’t invent twee pop, he bears responsibility for its evolution. A Wonderful Beast still isn’t exactly Manowar, but is relatively rocking and accessible – in its production (courtesy of The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney), lyrical tack (uncomplicated romance and cod-youthful escapism) and arrangements (fingersnapping, chirpy garage-pop). Michelle Branch, of all people, does backing vox on a few songs and Calvin does a good Johnny Cash impression on another. NG

CARW **** Skin Shed (Blinc) Choral, monk-like vocals and spacey guitar riffs add a far more melancholy edge to this album than even on the works of Carw’s clear influence, Depeche Mode. The kick-led synth grooves are still there, and still very much danceable, but when a part of the rainy-day atmosphere together with the aforementioned choral vocals, in both Cymraeg and English, they provide a roving backdrop in the mind’s eye similar to that of the land it was made. It might make you homesick. JM

CAT POWER **** Wanderer (Domino) The 10th LP from Chan Marshall aka Cat Power doesn’t reach the heights of 2006’s career standout The Greatest, but as ever, her soft Atlantan drawl is sufficiently potent to instantly hold your ears captive. Most attention will inevitably fall on Woman because it sees Lana Del Rey join her already lengthy list of collaborators, but in truth it’s the following track, Horizon, that is the album’s real stunner – so good that even the use of autotune can be forgiven. BW

CURSIVE ****

JOE STRUMMER ****

NAKED CITIZENS *****

Vitriola (Big Scary Monsters)

001 (Ignition)

Naked Citizens (Country Mile)

After a six year hiatus Omaha post-hardcore veterans Cursive unleash another bout of bleakness - and this time they’re talking nihilism. Vitriola opener Free To Be Or Not To Be You And Me is a direct hit of spiky Saddle Creek emo, but the band prove they can turn down the bitterness on piano-led, Death Cab For Cutie-esque ballad Remorse. It’s a jarring, at times uncomfortable listen, but Cursive’s tightly wound musicianship and Tim Kasher’s impassioned vocals are worth hearing out. BH

A ‘best of’ Strummer’s solo work is well overdue and takes us from his days with the 101ers up to The Mescaleros, via film scores, and on to ‘unreleased rarities’ including the demo of This Is England.

Strummer’s strength is his lyrics about war, unfairness and the working class hero – who else could mix God, the financial district and be-bop guns in one song? There’s reggae, country, hillbilly and a nod to Buddy Holly in It’s A Rockin’ World, which shows the singer’s playful side, and a gem of a collaboration with Johnny Cash on Bob Marley’s Redemption Song. The box set is available in a number of formats including a vinyl limited edition and is a reminder that Joe Strummer existed before and after The Clash. LN

When a project with such lofty ambitions sets sail you fear the worst, but Naked Citizens have joyfully succeeded in delivering an album of diverse realms that makes you smile throughout.

Helmed by Dan Nichols (Railroad Bill) and Rob Smith (Wonderbrass), with Nichols’ bandmates Chris Walker and Andy Baillie helping along, more guests than you can shake a stick at keep it free-flowing and varied: Junior Bill, Monique Bux, Maddie Jones, Suzi Chunk, Johnny Cage, Fred Snow and tons more. JE

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN ***** The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon (BMG) As trailblazers on the darker side of the 80s, the Liverpool outfit’s sombre yet sonorous scope subverted the decade’s pervasive pastel and neon excess. Reinterpreting career-defining tracks through a series of string-centric renditions, this 13th studio offering embodies the eternal core of the band’s songwriting. Ian McCulloch’s inimitable vocals eviscerate and lull in equal measure, carrying Ocean Rain and Seven Seas with characteristic grandeur, resistant to decay, testament to the timeless lyrical and sonic essence underpinning their work. CHP

HENGE **** Attention Earth! (Platinum Rare) Henge have been drawing a cult (and making a scene) for a couple of years with their live shows: frogheaded dancing girls and alien masks are part of their pop sci-fi Venus-via-Manchester chic, as well as crowd-churning ravey synth grooves, proggy funk guitar riffs, love lyrics about the moon and a tongue placed firmly in alien cheek.

Short of capturing the energy of their gigs, Attention Earth! is surely the first of many brilliant, eccentric outings. Watch the skies. JM

HMS MORRIS **** Inspirational Talks (Bubblewrap) A bold, exciting album that pulls us into unexpected and pleasant places with an interesting mixture of retro instrumental sounds, beautiful vocal harmonies and experimental soundscapes. It also boasts some of the best Welsh language music that the scene has to offer, leading to songs like album highlight Cyrff. In short, HMS Morris are one of the most interesting bilingual bands in Wales right now. LB

JOHN CARPENTER **** Halloween OST (Sacred Bones) OG synthlord John Carpenter returns with more variations on dat Halloween riff that haunted your childhood. There’s a lot of familiar territory treaded with this soundtrack to the upcoming film, which is the first to have Carpenter involved since Halloween III. Pounding electronic drums, mournful piano and stabbing synths abound throughout, and it’s obvious to see the influence Carpenter had on Disasterpeace for the It Follows OST. Judging by the soundtrack, the new film stands a chance of not being a complete disgrace. GM

LARRY AND HIS FLASK **** This Remedy (Xtra Mile) A lot of good, beersodden memories are tied up with Larry And His Flask inside this writer’s brain, so a first album in five years was welcome news. Their last album was rather dull, so it appears that the break has at least offered time for the band to recharge songwriting batteries. There’s more of the heart-on-sleeve sincerity that made their debut so charming (Never All The Times) and more full-on bluegrass punk (opener Atonement). FT

MEWITHOUTYOU *** [Untitled] (Big Scary Monsters) Album seven brings more shuddering melancholia from US post-rockers Mewithoutyou.

Taking a reflective look at today’s political landscape, the band explore their own responses to the wave of scandal washing over their home country. Discordant riffs and unexpected tempo shifts keep things feeling fresh, while haunting highlights Tortoises All The Way Down and [dormouse sighs] live up to the expectations set by their titles. [Untitled] isn’t much of a progression from their previous output, but a formula that works. BH

NENEH CHERRY **** Broken Politics (Smalltown Supersound) Neneh Cherry’s 2014 album Blank Project has a sparse post-punk sound to it, its songs angry and claustrophobic. For those that yearn for another Raw Like Sushi or Homebrew, though, Broken Politics should be right up their street – warmer sounding with live instrumentation, hip-hop beats and electronic dub thrown into the equation. The glue that holds Broken Politics together is Cherry’s voice: still as powerful, defiant and emotional as ever in songs that tackle difficult sociopolitical subjects. DN

NOVO AMOR ***** Birthplace (Allpoints) The music is melodic, the tone is gentle and dreamy, and once you get accustomed to Ali Lacey’s vocal pitch this debut album is a delight to listen to. The Aberystwyth-born singer covers hard-hitting themes such as drug addiction, cruelty to horses, and personal change but in a more palatable way than most angsty artists. The single Birthplace is accompanied by a video highlighting plastic waste in our oceans – both are stunning. Could become addictive. LN

PERFECT BODY & ZAC WHITE ** Split EP (Bubblewrap) In their press release Perfect Body are described as having a distinctive sonic identity, which is nowhere to be found on this record. Each song is overly long and ultimately formless which makes for difficult listening. Zac White’s half of the EP makes for easy listening with a handful of gems and some forgettable but ultimately good songs, very reminiscent of Mystery Jets circa 2008. LB

GAMES REVIEWS LAMPLIGHT CITY ****

PC (Steam) An immersive graphic adventure game set in an alternate steampunk ‘New Bretagne’ featuring beautiful, hand-drawn backgrounds, fully fleshed out characters and a story arc that allows you to solve cases incorrectly in your role as troubled private investigator Miles Fordham. Whilst the visual aesthetic may be retro, don’t be fooled as the underlying conversation-driven game play and lack of any inventory-based puzzles feel very forward-thinking in this modern gem from Grundislav Games, designers of Shardlight and the Ben Jordan series. BR

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CHIKI CHIKI BOXY RACERS **

(Nintendo Switch) Top-down racers have always been a great party genre since the days of Micro Machines on the Sega Mega Drive and hitting a real highpoint with Mashed on the PS2 (and underrated sequel Wrecked on PS3). Sadly, although CCBR offers a wealth of game play modes and support for up to eight players, the surprisingly sluggish framerate, uninspired tracks, generic music and shallow depth mean that this is isn’t an essential purchase even at its budget price point. BR

TERROR *****

MONGRELS ***

Total Retaliation (Nuclear Blast)

Over Eggin’ It (Invisible Spies)

Scott Vogel and the boys are back with an absolutely storming new album. There’s nothing new to report: Terror, being one of the most consistent bands in hardcore with a catalogue of faultless albums, have delivered once again. Furious riffing, vicious beatdowns, crew shouts, Vogelisms – all present and correct, with a groove to bring even the oldest swinger out of mosh retirement. What more do you want? CA

Kid Acne, the vocal half of MC/DJ UK hip-hop duo Mongrels, makes passing reference to being in his 40s on this, and it does feel like he’s been on the scene forever. Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods gets big billing for the lo-tech psych-rap of Over Eggin’ It, considering he just recites the title, but it and flip Shoot The Breeze are nifty. NG

UNCLE ACID AND THE DEADBEATS **** Wasteland (Rise Above)

NO VIOLET **

The fifth album from the occult rock masters once again finds them in fine form. The band have benefited from a crisper production, compared with past releases and sound better than ever – while, vitally, maintaining their signature retro feel. Still very much the product of Kevin Starr’s vast imagination, the tracks have more grounding on this record and reflect the difficult times we live in. But fear not, Uncle Acid are still from another planet. CA

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YAZOO ***** Four Pieces (Mute) Thirty-six years on from their debut, a beautiful summation of Yazoo’s small but perfectly formed catalogue, including both albums released during Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke’s short-lived spell as a duo, alongside a disc of remixes and their revelatory (and previously unreleased) BBC sessions. Both studio releases sound as crisp and memorable as they did on their first outing, with synthpop hits sharing the spotlight with diaristic ballads and stranger sonic experiments, but for the initiated the real pearls are saved for the later discs: a gorgeous orchestral take on Only You preempts Bjork’s work by a decade, whilst Winter Kills from their sole Peel session offers a fascinating suggestion of what might have been had they stuck around a while longer. AJ

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Bristol’s No Violet have been called “tasty, fuzzy goodness” but their new EP was not music to my ears. Its instrumentation is overshadowed

by Ellie Godwin’s indecipherable vocals, which go from nought to cat-in-pain in less than three chords. This may be grunge at its worst – or at its best. LN

PAUL BLANDFORD *** Scuffle (Death Proof) Newport technoist, promoter of the city’s irregular Perc nights and Death Proof label head with a production of his own. Scuffle is robust, breaks-y midpaced fare tarted up by three remixers: south Wales duo Blap bring a Billy Nasty/Luke Slater type vibe, Scotsman Duellist is on a kickdrum-heavy panelbeater tip and England’s One Six supplies serviceable tech-house. NG

demos FLOWERS FOR FREAKS facebook.com/flowers4freaks This is a six-song EP which wavy gravy psychpop tinkers Flowers For Freaks recorded live at student-friendly Cardiff pub the Flora, with the recording credited to The Italian Sound Collective. Hoping this is a prankish name for their mate with a phone app, because it’s, er, captured that timeless bootleg fidelity. In fairness, it does actually sound like good craic, the quartet zigzagging between garage chug, bluesy noodle and hard rawk fret-bothering with a bit of spooky vocal FX on Godiva Surviva. NG

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Tha God Fahim releases two contrasting cuts on this double A-side. Black Birds is a downbeat affair with strings and a looped piano riff paired with Fahim’s relaxed delivery. Don’t Go Summer is an upbeat track with a sitar riff, but is let down by lyrics that are weak like clock radio speakers. GM

Trio from Newport who only debuted live in May, but were crafting this five-song introductory EP for several months before that, and recorded it with the help of Skindred’s Jeff Rose. It alternately rocks and jangles, the latter mode convincing more – opening with a song that’s equal parts Sweet Home Alabama and Heart-Shaped Box is a little on the nose, but later forays into melodic college rock and Dookie-era Green Day pop-punk bring reward of sorts. NG

JAMES ALEXANDER BRIGHT ***

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THA GOD FAHIM *** Don’t Go Summer / Black Birds (UFO Cha Cha)

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Guest musicians contribute nice bass and sax lines to Bright’s clever guitar, percussion and noise on this relaxed electro/funk/jazz outing complimenting his blue-eyed soul. Lyrically sparse, mind, with two tracks instrumentals, one repetitive and the rest could be fleshed out more – but creative composition and musicianship shine through. RLR

This fella used to be in a band called Some Kind Of Leader, who were reviewed in this very section once, although as I sadly can’t recall what I said I shall assess anew. Price’s debut solo album Cob Record, presumably named in tribute to the Bangor music shop (he’s from nearby Bethesda), is an accessible bloke-and-guitar collection which mostly sits in that intersection of Britpop and psychedelia – Shack spring to mind – and has a few nice pedal-steel country touches. NG

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UNFORGOTTEN S3 (ITV Hub)

Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar return to solve another crime long since swept under the carpet. When human remains are discovered by workers buried under a motorway, an intricate tale of murder and mystery unravels as the dogged detectives attempt to piece together the clues and provide justice for the victim’s family. With an excellent supporting cast, including James Fleet as tortured artist Chris Lowe and Neil Morrissey as conniving banker Pete Carr, the series is a riveting mystery that keeps you hooked from the start and doesn’t let go until the satisfying and shocking conclusion. *****GE

BODYGUARD

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Jed Mercurio, creator of the wildly popular Line Of Duty series, returns with another pulsating thriller starring Keeley Hawes – Mercurio’s perennial favourite – as controversial Home Secretary Julia Montague and Richard Madden as David Budd, her new bodyguard. Beginning with a suspenseful train journey in which Budd is able to talk down a potential terrorist, he is then reassigned to guard the irascible Montague. Hawes is compelling in this role, seeking to increase the governments’ surveillance powers following the attempted train attack, while Madden engages as Budd. With excellent performances and a gripping story, Bodyguard is a must watch for any fans of thrillers or Mercurio’s previous work. ****GE

BOJACK HORSEMAN S5 (Netflix)

Everybody’s favourite existentially depressed pony is back.

For all the show’s regular brilliance, signs of fatigue are beginning to set in, and there is occasionally the sense that, simply because the show treats adult topics seriously, it is therefore better. There are some brilliant laughs in series five, and some excellent moments of levity, but also plentiful patience-testing. The necessities of TV dictate that all aspects of a character’s backstory and life must be looked at, and there’s the sense that the more we find out about these characters, the less interesting they are. Soon would be a good time to end this show, before the demands of Netflix bloat kill it completely. ***FT

THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (BFI BR/DVD)

This 1990 film has been given the deluxe treatment by the BFI, with a gorgeous transfer and generous extras. The talent behind the film is immense: directed by American auteur Paul Schrader (First Reformed, Blue Collar, writer of Taxi Driver), a screenplay by Harold Pinter working from an Ian McEwan novella, with a cast that includes Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren. There’s not much in the way of plot here – a couple on holiday in Venice bump into the mysterious figures played by Walken and Mirren – but it more than makes up for it by the graceful, elegant camerawork, the stunning set design, and the film’s atmosphere of a perpetual late-summer waking nightmare amidst a city you can’t get out. And Walken, well, walks the movie. ****FT

DISENCHANTMENT (Netflix)

A new series by none other than Matt Groening, the progenitor of a small animated series about an average American family that was around for a bit in the 90s and another set in New York in the year 3000, entitled The Simpsons and Futurama respectively. This isn’t quite as smart, funny, or brilliant as either of those shows were at their peak, but pivoting to serialised storytelling has freed him up to tell some slightly different narrative modes. Pretty solid, with some great vocal performances, including a recurring Matt Berry. ***FT

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Welsh National Opera have appointed a new General Director, Aidan Lang, who will assume the position in July next year. At present he occupies the same role at Seattle Opera, having previously served in high-up roles at various global opera companies – including WNO itself, back in the 1980s. Lang, an Englishman, describes that notch on his CV as the beginning of his career in opera, and of his understanding of the medium’s social potential. During his half-decade in Seattle, he’s been credited with forging various fresh artistic partnerships for the company and of multiplying its appeal to younger audiences, underlining that opera is not just for the likes of Frasier and Niles Remember when Newport had a notoriously good music scene? Certainly, people have been invested in helping you remember – a documentary, The Rock Of Newport, has been mooted for a few years now but its current status is unclear. However, an exhibition drawing on similar material – Joe Strummer, TJ’s, Kurt Cobain, Cheap Sweaty Fun and so forth – will be shown in Newport Museum in the near future. South Wales media company Winding Snake have been granted Lottery funding to collect stories, footage and memorabilia relating to the city’s musical history, and will also promote a scheme in which young women from the area can learn about/get involved with music production Tireless Celtic folk ensemble Allan Yn Y Fan visit a crop of Welsh venues this month and next, having toured Germany (plus a token Luxembourg date!) in late September. Now active as a touring band for 21 uninterrupted years, the

Gwent band also have a new single, their first ever: of its two tracks, Gorthrwm y Gweithiwr is notable for being a mid-19th-century socialist protest folk song by Ebbw Vale ironworkers. Catch AYYF in Llanelli on Fri 5 Oct, Llanidloes on Sat 13, Ystradgynlais on Fri 16 Nov, Abertillery on Sat 17 and Redwick near Newport on Fri 23 More venue-based musical chairs in Swansea, as the small but adored Uplands bar Mozarts closes its doors (officially as of late September, with a one-off reopening on Sat 6 Oct to honour Dogruff’s clubnight booking). A presence in the city since the mid-00s, and latterly about the only place Swansea DIY punk gigs happened, its closure is due to owner Wendy Lolla retiring. New on the scene, however, is the Bunkhouse on Kingsway, in a space which was previously Static Rock Bar. They’ve got a fair few gigs booked for this, their first month, including a presence at the Swansea Fringe, and also state that all their draught beer comes from local breweries, which is impressive Sbrigyn Ymborth, a label which has released a variety of new Welsh-language music for over a decade, has started a new sublabel, Erwydd, for more traditional folk sounds.

Its first two releases are Detholiad O Hen Faledi I, a collection of Welsh ballads recorded by Gwilym Bowen Rhys after research work in the National Library Of Wales archives, and the debut album by chamber-folk trio Vrï [pictured]. Their Ty Ein Tadau is a stirring work which aims to combine the heady atmosphere of an alehouse folk session with a string ensemble’s more measured sound, and succeeds in fine style

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In light of my chosen column topic last issue – the overwhelming maleness of the Welsh music scene, both historically and, for the most part, at present – it’s nice to be able to write about Adwaith, an all-female band whose debut album Melyn is out this month. Lest any of the band (nominatively determinate vocalist and guitarist Hollie Singer, bassist Gwenllian Anthony or drummer Heledd Owen) think that One To Watch is prioritising their gender ahead of their actual music, let it be also said that it’s nice to feature a band from Carmarthen, who sing in Welsh and who play cool, spidery indie/postpunk with a dark folk undertone.

Forming in 2015 and initially taking a folk-rock slant, Adwaith’s pivot towards a rockier sound attracted attention from Gruff Owen of west Wales label Libertino, which has backed the trio pretty much ever since (though 2016’s debut single Pwysau arrived on an imprint called Decidedly) and which will release Melyn. The 15-song, 37-minute album is experimental if rarely abrasive – scattered lo-fi interludes and dubby, reverb-y production touches lend a woozy air to songs (Lipstic Coch, Gartref) which could probably be played on acoustic guitar, maybe even started out that way.

Adwaith have some useful Welsh music muscle on their side too. Gartref has been remixed by, admittedly not notorious for his remixes, James Dean Bradfield; the trio also support Gwenno on a UK tour which starts on Melyn release day, Fri 12 Oct, and visits Cardiff as part of Swn Festival on Wed 17. facebook.com/adwaithband

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one louder

TAKING a strong interest in anything is a matter of sorting the wheat from the chaff. If you profess to be a film buff, for example, you will surely acknowledge there are many more bad films made than great ones. Much more bad football played than sparkling high quality fare; more useless junk than valuable antiques, and so on. The art of satire is a case in point here.

People are perhaps not ‘fans’ of satire in as definitive a way (“turning up on a Saturday and waving at it from the touchline,” to quote celebrated satirist Chris Morris), but satire is deemed important, forensically analysed, defended on matters of principle. This is in spite of the vast majority of it being terrible, leaden, obvious or reactionary. Private Eye is one of the most highly regarded satirical organs in the world and its continued print-based success is a thing to celebrate, but its satire – the same jokes recycled for decades, engineered to induce weak grins of familiarity – has very little to do with its enduring value.

Naturally, and despite PE’s analogue stance against the march of progress, most satire is now either internet-based or shaped by the internet. The Onion has been leader in the online field for over 20 years, probably will be for the foreseeable future, and has spawned countless sites using its template to create – again, mostly bad – topical humour written something like a news article. There are region-specific ones, including some dismal Welsh efforts; ones about certain subcultures and ones which are British and angry, which is to say twee and given to using compound swearwords like ‘wankpuffin’.

NewsThump is an example of the latter, and while it largely suffers from the same problem as most of these sites – headlines which would work better as a tweet, stretched into a whole article – it plays to a crowd. Recently, they uploaded a story in which Ruslan Borishov and Alexander Petrov, the Russians accused of involvement in the Skripal poisoning, claimed to have only visited Salisbury because they wanted to see its cathedral. A decent satirical premise, elevated the next day when the accused appeared on Russian television and said almost exactly the same thing.

Among widespread mockery of Borishov and Petrov, a fillip for NewsThump, who reacted with an article beginning: “The world has entered a new era where it has become impossible to distinguish between satire and reality, historians have confirmed.” Not all that new, mind: proclamations of satire’s death, or merger with actual events, go way back. Tom Lehrer declared the plug pulled on the form in 1973, when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; more recently, President Trump is a throwaway Simpsons joke which became real.

The army of content farmers seeding false stories online before Trump’s victory may not consider their work satire, but share commonalities – a desire to disrupt and denigrate by appealing to an audience’s prejudices.

It flatters us to think that the malevolent people of the world couldn’t share our sense of humour, but why wouldn’t Borishov and Petrov, or their media trainers, be familiar with the same satirical tropes as NewsThump, especially when it’s so politically expedient to go on telly and rip the piss out of the UK? A generation grew up on SNL, The Day Today and The Onion, got media-savvy and now it’s coming home to roost.

PIZZATRAMP and DIE! CHIHUAHUA DIE! (Chatterton Arms, Pencoed, Wed 3 Oct)? LOVELY WIFE and SNAKES DON’T BELONG IN ALASKA (The Moon, Cardiff, Fri 5)? SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE (Moon, Fri 19)? DISCHARGE and DISORDER playing a night titled Crush Hate Crime (Warehouse 54, Newport, Sat 20)? THE GUESTS, JEMMA ROPER and PRIVATE WORLD (Moon, Tue 23)? Is this my idea of a joke? No. NOEL GARDNER

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN THE UK: SUNNY DHILLON The quintessential qualities that an actor is naturally expected to possess is an on-screen presence. And Sunny Dhillon has it all.

But these are not his only talents. His attempts at building a career in the movies led him to develop a symbiotic relationship with the discipline of body-building, martial arts, and boxing.

Born and brought up in the Wales, Sunny first acted on his love for movies by training at the “Actors Workshop” in Cardiff, Wales. Over the years, his love for acting transcended into his passion for story-telling. And gradually he cultivated the art of directing as well. His directorial debut Dreamers highlights his personal life struggle of the days when he struggled to keep faith on his abilities. The movie released during the Mental Health Awareness Week made an emotional dent with his audience. But, Only God Knows, is perhaps the best illustration of his directorial craft that won him critical acclaim and international recognition both for his directing as well as acting. Dhillon achieved first of his milestones in 2018 when he bagged the best actor award at the Los Angeles Film Festival for his latest release. Italy, Canada or India, Dhillon’s charismatic performance and distinctive or unique look has helped him garner a fan following among different cultural backgrounds.

For the multi-talented Sunny Dhillon, the stage has been set and the show has just begun and many more movies to be done before the final curtain call. Due to Dhillon’s global success he is being recognised and noticed by directors and producers out in LA where has been cast in a few projects, and that is what he is going to be up to in the future. www.sunny-dhillon.com Instagram: @sunny_dhill

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books

BOOK OF THE MONTH

A SIMPLE SCALE David Llewellyn (Seren)

An intriguing premise: music plagiarism forms the basis for this gripping and fast-paced novel. Spanning three decades and two countries, Welsh writer David Llewellyn’s dramatic story begins in New York during the aftermath of 9/11. Famous composer Sol Conrad’s PA Natalie is contacted by a Pavel Grekov, claiming that a popular TV theme tune attributed to Sol Conrad was in fact composed by his grandfather Sergey Grekov. What transpires, via Los Angeles and Leningrad, is the background story and Natalie’s attempts to investigate the allegations against her employer, who is suffering with dementia.

The relationships formed between the characters prove pivotal from the offset, managing to convey the varying strands of the storyline with conviction. What could have been a complex plot has been smartly managed by Llewellyn in the service of conveying a suspenseful narrative. The atmosphere of the novel is enhanced by the various locations, bringing each period to life. The foray into Russia between the 1930s and 50s provides an atmospheric setting to parallel the dark times experienced in post-9/11 America.

The deft descriptive work manages to set the scene, providing a sense of place. The tension is notched up similarly onto the scores on which the story is based until we discover the outcome.

A Simple Scale is a compelling and suspenseful novel that this reader could not resist from the beginning, enhanced by its plot twists. With such vivid descriptions of each location, it’s difficult not to envisage and be swept away into that period in time.

RHIANON HOLLEY Price: £9.99. Info: www.serenbooks.com

A BROWN MAN IN RUSSIA Vijay Menon (Glagoslav) A fairly short book, yet one where even the title of it intrigued this reader.

Vijay Menon’s memoir provides an unrestricted look into modern-day Russia and the people that reside within the vastness of this often-guarded country. A Brown Man In Russia is both a memoir and a self-help book; often the two should not mix within a travel book (or any book, really), but for some strange reason here they go hand-in-hand. Often funny, very adventurous, sometimes bleak and with nervous interactions, this book will open up your mind to what travelling across Russia is/was like for a person of colour, considering the media perceptions we have of the country here. I guess, as the author suggests in the book, if a person like he can do it then why can’t you? (CM) Price: £19.50. Info: www.glagoslav.com REAL CARDIFF Peter Finch (Seren) Peter Finch has been writing about Cardiff since the turn of the millennium. Considering this is the fourth volume of his Real Cardiff series, he’s still got something to say. Finch is an affable guide to Cardiff; a psychogeographer and a flâneur, a sort of less abstruse Iain Sinclair or a more likeable Will Self (not hard, some might suggest). You can imagine yourself meandering down these streets with him, listening to his Beat-style reminisces about the Cardiff that was here before, and that for Finch somehow co-exists with what there is now. The book is stuffed with asides about pubs that were demolished before you or I were born, or local characters who played with whatever band in 1967.

If you have any interest in how Cardiff came to be the city that it is today, this is a thoroughly interesting guide. (DG) Price £9.99. Info: www.serenbooks.com

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CROCODILE Daniel Shand (Sandstone Press) We meet Chloe, who is sent to live with her grandparents while her mother tries to get her life together. Through flashbacks, we learn of this parent/child dynamic, clouded in a mist of too many cigarettes and empty bottles. Effectively, it’s their separation that illustrates their dysfunctional life together. As Chloe begins to make friends and get comfortable with the world of mischief that she’s never known before, her new life and her yearning to return to her old life start to jumble. I didn’t think I liked the narrator’s purposefully childlike voice when I started, but the more I read the more I respected – and more importantly, enjoyed – how the writing style mirrored the sometimes illogical, unreliable nature of thought, exploring the coping mechanisms used by children grappling with the loss of childhood. (MT) Price: £8.99. Info: www.sandstonepress.com THAT SUMMER FEELING Mark Hodkinson (Pomona) That Summer Feeling can quite accurately be labelled as a book of struggle. From girl trouble to family misfortune to a slightly absurd university lecturer, the protagonist deals with a lot in these pages. This is no doom and gloom book, however: Mark Hodkinson walks a fine line, addressing dismal life experiences while comedic interjections never erode the tone of the book’s serious events. Capturing the essence of growing up and overcoming difficult situations, much of what is felt and expressed in this book is something that will be easy to relate to and will definitely resonate with you for a long time after you turned its last page. (ED) Price: £10 Info: www.pomonauk.com

DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions) From the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize comes an acutely subversive crime novel, which caused uproar in Poland upon its publication.

Janina Dusezjko, an eccentric loner in her 60s, turns to astrology and the natural world for answers after the mysterious disappearance of her two dogs. When the mutilated bodies of local hunters turn up around her remote village, Janina is convinced she knows the culprit and their motives, but her theories are much darker and stranger than anyone could have imagined.

Suffused with the enigmatic mysticism of William Blake (who inspired the title), Drive Your Plow… is an eerie, atmospheric and compelling existential thriller from a remarkable writer, blending noir and magic realism with a sharp sting of political satire. (SP) Price: £12.99. Info: www.fitzcarraldoeditions.com TIRZAH AND THE PRINCE OF CROWS Deborah Kay Davies (One World) The words ‘coming of age tale’ are usually enough to make me reach for literally anything else, but Tirzah And The Prince Of Crows immediately drew me in with the promise of Welsh myth.

Tirzah is a young girl on the brink of womanhood, in an obstinately religious family whose only escape is the woods and mountains. With feelings developing towards a local boy, Osian, Tirzah tries to find her own place in the world. When Osian is publicly humiliated, she finds a new strength which may help her find the freedom she craves. With the book effortlessly flitting between the dreamscape scenarios of the woodlands and the harsh realities of her life, it can sometimes be quite jarring, but the real beauty is in the Welsh Valleys, which are given an almost ethereal quality

by Davies, who has developed a genre-defying work of beauty. (CA) Price: £14.99. Info: www.oneworld-publications.com

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SUSTAINABLE FEAR Don’t let your Halloween be a horror for the wrong reasons. The evening is approaching and has a reputation for cheap, throwaway plastic tat that will be heading straight to your local dump the following week. Don’t worry, Buzz is here to help you be a little more responsible without spoiling the fun.

Home alone

Get cultured

Ultimate Hammer DVD box set – £69.99 store.hmv.com

The witch is one of history’s most feared characters and living amongst us still.

Immerse yourself in the symbols, art and culture that surround this ancient occult belief in a touring artist exhibition, Waking The Witch – Old Ways, New Rites. Currently in Newtown until Wed 7 Nov .

Oriel Davies, Newtown www.orieldavies.org

There’s nothing scarier than when you were a kid watching from behind the sofa a Hammer movie thinking no one knew you were there.

Find your favourite in The Ultimate Hammer House Of Horror Collection 21-disc box set and spend the evening reenacting your childhood.

Pumpkins

Candles

Pumpkins are not just for decoration: believe it or not, they were originally grown to eat. Keep the inners and make some delicious dishes to share with your mates.

Pumpkin Recipes: The Ultimate Pumpkin Cookbook – £9.00 www.amazon.co.uk

Creating an eerie ambience with candles is always a must ,and you can go really clean with beeswax candles which burn much hotter than traditional paraffin candles, creating little soot and giving much less carbon. This ‘hand of glory’-inspired candle will spook all, especially when you tell them the origin. Google it.

‘Hand of Glory candle’ – £22.11 www.etsy.com (GlimmerBat)

Black Mirror

Practical jokes

Obsidian mirrors or black mirrors originated in Aztec mythology and have been used for hundreds of years for divination in Europe.

They are made from natural highly shiny volcanic glass and look very much like your smartphone This mirror comes with an instruction leaflet just in case you struggle to connect to the other world.

Obsidian Morror – £25 museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk

DIY costumes Let your imagination run wild, don’t get some naff outfit from the supermarket.

Make a mask or decorate your house.

Re-Create is a fantastic Cardiff resource where you can pick up all sorts of weird things for pennies and will trigger your creative monster (all the fantastic stuff there is recycled).

Ely Bridge Industrial Estate, Cardiff www.re-create.co.uk

Mask by Liam Barret

Part of the fun of Halloween is playing scary jokes on people, so think of the possible shenanigans you could get up to with a portable projector plugged into your phone.

You can even use it for your PowerPoint presentations once the fun is over.

Amerteer DLP Mini Projector – £199.99 www.amazon.co.uk

Ghost tour

Pic: Anthony Cromin

Perhaps a more eerie setting is your thing? How about an educational ghost walk full of bonechilling stories. Cardiff history have many to choose from in spooky locations from Cardiff Castle to Llandaff.

Prices start from £12.50 www.cardiffhistory.co.uk

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MICA WANTS MOORE Newport-born Mica Moore moves fast. Joe Towns caught his breath long enough to catch up with the Commonwealth Games sprinter-turned-Winter Olympics bobsleigher, finishing higher than any other Team GB bobsleigher before.

How does it feel to be an Olympian?

It feels incredible. As an athlete you want all the hard work you put in to amount to the greatest achievement, which for me was competing at the Olympic Games... although I still can’t believe I actually went.

How fast does a bobsleigh sled go?

Up to 90mph – I don’t know what this looks like though as my eyes are firmly closed!

When you are hurtling down the track, what are you thinking? And is it true you don’t like rollercoasters?

I’m usually just thinking about where we are on the track. In the back all I can feel is every bump and tap the sled takes so I can sense which part of the track we are on. It is true, I hate rollercoasters! I take a lot of persuading to get on one and scream from start to finish.

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the craziest, how crazy do you have to be to be a bobsleigh competitor?

I think you’re going to have to be off the scale! Honestly, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever done, you really have to be fearless to throw yourself down the ice everyday.

So you’ve represented Wales in a Commonwealth Games as a sprinter, you’ve represented Great Britain in a Winter Olympics in the bobsleigh – what’s your next sporting ambition?

I would love to compete for Wales again at another Commonwealth Games as I absolutely love putting on the red vest and representing my nation! Competing for Great Britain again is the ultimate dream but will take a lot of hard work.

You’ve enrolled on the Sport Broadcast MSc at Cardiff Met University – a on- year Master’s degree designed to prepare students for a career in Sports Journalism and Broadcasting – what attracted you to the course?

And what do you hope to learn from it?

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love to do this as a career. I hope the course can give me confidence to pursue my career dream.

You were a finalist on Total Wipeout – are there any other TV shows you’d compete on? Strictly? I’m a Celeb?

I think Strictly would be way out my comfort zone as dancing is not my best skill!

But having a go in the jungle would be high on my list – some of the bush tucker challenges look so fun. Although I’m super scared of frogs and snakes so as soon as they bring out one of those I think I’d be shouting.

If I could bring a show back to go on it would definitely be Gladiators. As a child I dreamed of going on it and running up the travelator.

Your partner is a decathlete – would you ever fancy Decathlon?

No way, pole vault is too scary for me and 1500m is a long old way for a sprinter.

But I wouldn’t say no to giving heptathlon a go, it’s like competing to become the ultimate athlete.

How often do you train?

I train six days a week, some days twice a day, but I enjoy all of it… most of the time. I like working to make myself a better athlete; my favourite session is sprints starts, as that’s probably my best part of my race after competing in bobsleigh.

With women’s sport starting to get the coverage it deserves, how important are female sports role models to the next generation of women?

I feel like that’s something I lacked when I was growing up – I would love to be someone that girls can look up to and know that doing sport and being strong is OK. What’s your message to young women dreaming of becoming Olympians?

Keep on striving for your goal, times will be tough. You may have to miss out on parties, but all the hard work you put in will be rewarded when you represent your country!

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sport

ROUNDUP October’s got a lot on sports-wise – Megan Thomas and Lewis Smith have the lowdown on the best things to do and see this month.

WALES RALLY GB Start: Clocaenog Forest; finish: Llandudno Each year, the Wales Rally outdoes itself, but this year will be particularly exciting after last year’s win by Elfyn Evans, the first ever Welsh winner. The 11th round of the 2018 World Rally Championship is likely to be a spectacular tussle for victory.

For much of the past season, Belgian Thierry Neuville has kept his nose just in front of five-time winner Sebastien Ogier. But with three successive first-place finishes, in Finland, Germany and Turkey, in his back pocket, Estonian Ott Tänak has surged up out of nowhere into second-place. With only three rounds to go by the time they hit the renowned Welsh race forests of Sweet Lamb, Dyfi and the likes, there is guaranteed drama, energy and competition ahead. And who knows, maybe local boy Elfyn will rain on everyone’s parade again?

Thurs 4 Oct. Admission: prices vary, packages available Info: www.walesrallygb.com WWE LIVE Motorpoint Arena Cardiff “It’s not a real sport, so why is this in the sports sections?” we hear you whining.

But whatever the quibbles, the return of the WWE once again to Cardiff in early November will surely be a highwire night of excitement. The card for fans in Wales looks very exciting, with the usual mix of burly men in spandex amidst a strong coterie of female wrestlers. The highlight of the night will surely be the triple-team headliner of AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan and Jeff Hardy v Shinsuke Nakamura, The Miz and Samoa Joe. A unique blend of sport and entertainment, combined with the atmosphere of a rock concert, there’s no better time to treat yourself to an evening bursting with energy and drama.

Sat 3 Nov. Tickets: from £25 Info: 029 2022 4488 / www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk

WALES VS SPAIN FRIENDLY Principality Stadium, Cardiff The Wales national football team clash with Spain in a high-profile friendly, the first match between the two sides since 1985. This will also mark Wales’ return to the Principality Stadium, after many years of (admittedly superior) performances in the more tightly-wound Cardiff City Stadium. The last time Ramos, Isco, Carvalhal and Gareth Bale played on Principality turf was for Real Madrid in the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final; now, Bale will face club teammates in this international friendly showdown. The game will be played a few days prior to Wales’ second UEFA Nations League B game against the Republic Of Ireland after their 4-1 victory over them in early September – which will certainly be a crunch game in the Nations League after Wales’ debilitating loss against Denmark in Aarhus. Spain are unbeaten in their last six matches, with Wales having lost two in the same period, so it promises to be an exciting and star-studded showdown, with Spain’s passing elegance against Wales’ gung-ho counter-attacking bound to be an exciting prospect.

Thurs 11 Oct. Tickets: £5-£20. Info: www.faw.cymru CARDIFF HALF MARATHON: FESTIVAL OF RUNNING City Hall, Cardiff This time of year is for the runners, with the Nation Radio Cardiff 10k last month, and October’s annual half marathon. Not everyone will be up to running the Cardiff Half Marathon on Sunday morning, but there’s thankfully other options for those wanting to join in on the running fever. The family-friendly day on Sat 6 Oct is dedicated to fun activities like face painting, food stalls, live music and of course, the actual moving of the legs in a speedy fashion. There’s a family fun run, a 200m toddler dash, 3km races and a mascot race. Entries are welcomed on the day of the event and all proceeds go to worthy charities.

Sat 6 Oct. Entry: £9 for fun run Info: www.cardiffhalfmarathon.co.uk

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THREE PICKS FOR HALLOWEEN FEAR FEST-EVIL

HALLOWEEN CINEMA

National Diving & Activity Centre, Chepstow, Fri 12-Wed 31 Oct. Tickets: £25. Info: www.fearfest-evil.co.uk A live, immersive horror experience is coming to Chepstow in time for Halloween. The event involves a terrifying journey through heartpounding scare zones and is running for its third year. Set around an abandoned railway line, quarry and woodland adjacent to the National Diving Centre, the tickets allow access to all zones and live entertainment. This promises to offer a night of gruesome characters and spinechilling performances. Overnight glamping accommodation is also available.

Cardiff Castle, Sun 28 Oct-Fri 2 Nov. Tickets: £5.

Info: 029 2087 8100 / www.cardiffcastle.com Cardiff Castle’s underground cinema is the perfect place to get your scare-fix this Halloween, with a variety of sinister films showing for a week. There will be screenings of Dario Argento’s Italo-horror classic Suspiria and A Nightmare On Elm Street for old-school horror fans, whilst The Nightmare Before Christmas and Hocus Pocus are on show for younger audiences, amidst a few more suitably spooky choices.

CONTENTS

X-SCREAM Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Thurs 18-Sun 21 and Thurs 25Wed 31 Oct. Tickets: £22.50. Info: www.x-scream.com We’re all familiar with the classic fairytales we heard as bedtime stories, but what we aren’t familiar with is the possibility of the darker, ghastly tales that will arrive in Rhondda Heritage Park this Halloween. Enter into a terrifying make-believe world that most definitely does not have happy endings.

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art ABERGAVENNY MUSEUM / CHEPSTOW MUSEUM Castle Street, Abergavenny / Gwy House, Bridge Street, Chepstow. Daily 11am-4pm (Abergavenny closed on Wednesday). Free. www. abergavennymuseum.co.uk / www.monmouthshire.gov. uk/chepstow-museum The Great War: Britain’s Efforts And Ideals First World War propaganda prints by celebrated artists of the day, across both these sites in partnership with National Museum Wales. (Until Sun 6 Jan) ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE University Of Wales, Aberystwyth. Free. MonSat 10am-8pm. 01970 621903 / www.aber.ac.uk/ artscentre Mike Perry ‘Land/Sea’ Solo show by Wales-based artist which aims to engage with significant and pressing environmental issues.

(Until Wed 17 Oct) Tim Rudman ‘An Uneasy Calm’ Handmade duo-toned silver gelatine black and white prints, printed in a darkroom from negatives taken in Iceland over a period of eight years. (Until Sun 11 Nov) Chwarae Teg | Fair Play An exhibition celebrating the past 100 years of women making and designing ceramics in Britain, featuring work from Aberystwyth University’s Ceramic Collection. (From Sat 20 Oct until Sun 13 Jan)

ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth. Free. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm. 01970 622467 / www.aber.ac.uk David Ferry ‘The Ruin Of Picturesque Britain’ Prints and artist books.

(From Mon 8 Oct until Fri 9 Nov) Travelling Through: Landscapes/Landmarks/ Legacies Mixed works from the School Of Art collection.

(From Fri 19 Oct until Fri 8 Feb) ALBANY GALLERY 74b Albany Road, Cardiff.

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Free. 029 2048 7158 / www.albanygallery. com Gerald Green, Lou Moore & Gareth Thomas New work by three prestigious artists. (Until Sat 13 Oct) Rob Piercy Watercolourist and mountaineer whose paintings depict the landscape of north Wales from a viewpoint of one who knows them intimately. (From Thurs 18 Oct until Sat 10 Nov) ANDREW LAMONT GALLERY (THEATR BRYCHEINIOG) Canal Wharf, Brecon. Open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm. Free.

01874 611622 / enquiries@brycheiniog.co.uk / www.brycheiniog.co.uk Penny Hallas ‘Canalworks’ Drawings, paintings, video and sculptural work centred mainly on a section of the Brecon and Monmouthshire canal in and around Llangattock. (From Fri 5 Oct until Sun 11 Nov)

ARCADECARDIFF / CAMPFA GALLERY Queens Arcade, off Queen Street, Cardiff. Usually open Wed-Sat 12.30-5.30pm. arcadecardiffcic@gmail. com / www.arcadecardiff. co.uk Anne-Mie Melis Melis combines natural specimens, drawing and sculptural work to reflect on by the rapid changes in our society, driven by technology and global connectivity. (From Wed 3 until Sun 28 Oct) Ronnie Houseland Cook ‘Onion Town’ A depiction of a metropolis that is based on shapes that are found in day-to-day city life depicting a bustling fictional city.

(From Wed 3 until Sun 28 Oct) Anne Smith Textile artist Smith shows quilts made during her time as Artist in Residence in ArcadeCardiff’s basement studio. (From Wed 31 Oct until Sat 24 Nov) ART CENTRAL Barry Town Hall, King Square, Barry. Tue-Sat 11am-4pm. Free. 01446 709805.

Frankie Locke ‘Slate Glass Clay’ Locke explores land, sea and slate scapes, engaging with the environment and capturing the atmosphere of place though the changing elements of weather, light and seasons, using a variety of media.

(Until Sat 20 Oct) ATTIC GALLERY 37 Pocketts Wharf, Maritime Quarter, Swansea. Tue-Fri 10am5.30pm, Sat 10am-4.30pm.

Free. 01792 653387 / www. atticgallery.co.uk

ZENA BLACKWELL: SEEN NOT HEARD M.A.D.E., Cardiff, Sat 27 Oct-Fri 23 Nov Admission: free. Info: 029 2047 3373 / twitter.com/cardiffmade Zena Blackwell can claim a varied background in, adjacent to and outside of the art scene, including spending eight years running a London club night with a swear in its name which I suspect was described as ‘hipster’ at some point. However, since moving to Cardiff three years ago she has been increasingly touted as a painter to watch – her work featured in the Senedd’s Y Lle Celf showcase exhibition, and having won last year’s Summer Art Prize at this gallery, M.A.D.E now host her first solo show. Seen Not Heard is primarily inspired by motherhood: her own experiences, but also its representation in broader society, where it’s both lionised and stigmatised yet generally seen as a obstacle to creativity. Blackwell’s work suggests it’s more of a catalyst.

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Gareth Hugh Davies, Sarah Lees & Sara Philpott Joint exhibition by these three local artists.

(From Sat 6 until Sat 27 Oct) BARKER GALLERY / TORFAEN GALLERY Pontypool Museum, Park Buildings, Pontypool.

Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm. Free Wed/Sun 2-5pm. 01495 752036.

Generation Games Play your way through the history of home computer games consoles, following developments in the technology, the programming industry and entertainment in the home.

(Until Sun 28 Oct) BAYART 54 B/C Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. Free. 029 2065 0016 / www.bayart.org.uk David Garner & Tom Pitt Two artists who share an interest in abandoned places or things, in the quality of a used place or object being discarded or deemed useless, or in a place of industrial ‘ghosts’. See Art. (From Sat 13 Oct until Fri 9 Nov) CARDIFF STORY The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff. Daily 10am-4pm. Free. 029 2034 6214 / cardiffstory@ cardiff.gov.uk Protest! Objects For Change Discover the stories behind the protest objects in our new display, from badges and banners to T-shirts and embroidery. (Until Sun 30 Dec) AWEN City Showcase exhibition for this Whitchurch Library support group, who volunteer to run arts and cultural events at the library. (Until Sun 2 Dec) CAER Heritage PopUp Exhibition Discover the 6,000 year old story of Careau and Ely through artefacts curated by local people. (From Thurs 25 Oct until Sun 4 Nov) CHAPTER GALLERY Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff. Tue, Wed, Sat + Sun 12-6pm; Thurs + Fri 12-8pm. Free. 029 2030 4400 / www.chapter.org Cornelia Baltes Art In The Bar exhibition (also featured on the Lightbox above Chapter’s front doors) for a German-born, Londonbased artist whose brightly coloured paintings combine simplicity with humour and playfulness. (Until Sun 7 Oct) Rachel Maclean ‘Spite Your Face’ Welsh debut for an artist whose 37-minute video work here was comissioned for the 2017 Venice Biennale, and which references Pinnochio in its efforts at social critique. (From Fri 19 Oct until Mon 20 Jan) CRAFT IN THE BAY The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff. Mon-Sun 10.30am-5.30pm. Free. 029 2048 4611 / www.

makersguildinwales.org.uk Frankie Locke ‘Quarry’ Ceramics and glasswork inspired by journeys to the quarries of North Wales and the slatescapes found there.

(Until Sun 4 Nov) Rooted In Practice Curated by textile designer, tutor and Makers Guild member Laura Thomas, a glimpse into the professional art practice of 25 contemporary artist designers working in textiles, ceramics, film, sculpture, print and jewellery. (Until Sun 4 Nov) DYLAN THOMAS CENTRE Somerset Place, Swansea.

Free. 01792 463980 / dylanthomas.lit@swansea. gov.uk / www. dylanthomas.com Starlight Order: From Y Gododdin To In Parenthesis Exhibition taking medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin as its starting point and, through written and illustrated manuscripts, noting how it influenced David Jones’ own epic, In Parenthesis. (Until Sun 31 Mar) ELYSIUM GALLERY 16 College Street, Swansea.

Wed-Sat 12-5pm. Free. www.elysiumgallery.com Marega Palser ‘Framing The Transient Now’ Newport-based performance artist, active in the field since the 1980s, presents a multimedia piece working with the concepts of psychogeography and ‘deep mapping’. (From Fri 5 until Sat 20 Oct) THE FORUM / Y FFORWM SA1 Library, University Of Wales Trinity Saint David, Heol Ynys Kings Road, Swansea. Free. www.uwtsd.ac.uk/events/ swansea-college-of-art Pictures And Words Exhibition celebrating illustration and design for books, comprised of current and graduating student work.

(Until Fri 12 Oct) FFOTOGALLERY Turner House, Plymouth Road, Penarth. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm. Free. 029 2070 8870 / turnerhouse@ ffotogallery.org Katrien De Blauwer ‘Reprise’ See Upfront for more on this retrospective solo show from a reclusive photomontage artist, with images recycled from magazines. (From Fri 26 Oct until Sat 8 Dec) FOUNTAIN FINE ART Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm. Free. www. fountainfineart.com Alastair Elkes-Jones & Martin Llewellyn Painters born in north Wales in the 1940s and south Wales in the 60s, respectively, and have both become revered and collectable for their styles despite a lack of formal art

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training. (Until Sat 6 Oct) Mike Jones ‘Works On Paper’ Born in 1941, Jones is a prolific artist who takes inspiration from the Welsh culture in which he grew up and is heavily influenced by the lives of the people and places of the valley. (From Sat 20 Oct until Sat 10 Nov) FUTURES GALLERY / ORIEL GALLERY Pierhead Building / Senedd, Cardiff Bay. Daily 10.30am-4pm. Free. 0845 0105500 / www.pierhead. org Every Drawing Tells A Story The results of the Coast Lines Community Drawing Project, in which over 800 local residents and visitors to Fishguard and Goodwick drew their surroundings within communal sketchbooks. (From Tue 2 until Tue 23 Oct) Kyffin Williams Rarely seen paintings and prints from private collections, plus archive footage of this canonical Welsh artist. See Upfront.

(From Thurs 4 until Wed 31 Oct) Y GALERI, CAERFFILI Lower Ground Floor, The Visit Caerphilly Centre, The Twyn, Caerphilly. TueSat 10am-5pm. Free. 029 2132 2570 / www.ygalericaerffili.co.uk Louise Collins ‘Peaks & Coasts’ Annual solo show comprising brand new work inspired by seascapes, harbours, beaches, coves and Welsh scenery. (Until Sun 7 Oct) Bert Evans & Howard Jones Evans depicts people going about their everyday lives in his paintings; Jones’ gentle watercolours are inspired

by Welsh landscapes and beauty spots. (From Mon 9 Oct until Sat 10 Nov) Gill Bramley Ceramics showcase. (Throughout September) GALERIE SIMPSON 222 High Street, Swansea.

Wed-Sat 12-5pm. Free.

07714 327523 / galeriesimpsonswansea. com Simon Periton ‘Your War, My Love’ Exhibition relating to the Now The Hero series of events, featuring several reverse glass portraits of Periton’s grandfather in his WWI uniform. (Until Sat 3 Nov) THE GATE Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 10am9pm. Free. 029 2048 3344 / info@thegate.org.uk Made In Roath Residency The Made In Roath festival takes place in the district from Sun 14-Sun 21 Oct; this residency runs all month and aims to show the best local talent alongside national and international artists.

(Throughout October)

GLYNN VIVIAN ART GALLERY Alexandra Rd, Swansea.

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Free.

01792 516900 / www. swansea.gov.uk/ glynnvivian A Spacewoman Dreams Multimedia exhibition by Swansea-based artists Anna Barratt, Gemma Copp and Joan Jones which imagines a desolate, post-human landscape with only three survivors, all women astronauts.

(Until Sun 18 Nov) Wakelin Award 2018: Richard Billingham Swansea-based artist, nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 and chosen for this award by sculptor Laura Ford. (Until Sun 18 Nov) On Paper Work by celebrated 20th century and contemporary artists whouse paper as a medium, including Karla Black, Tim Davies, Eduardo Paolozzi, Cornelia Parker, James Richards and Bridget Riley.

(Until Sun 25 Nov) Dylan Thomas: Music Of Colour Work from the collections of this gallery and the Dylan Thomas Centre, aiming to illuminate the relationships and dialogues between poetry and art. (Until Sun 10 Feb) Yinka Shonibare ‘End Of Empire’ Sculptural work explores how alliances forged in World War I changed British society forever, and continue to affect us today. (Until Sun 24 Feb) IAP FINE ART @ SHIRE HALL Agincourt Square, Monmouth. Mon-Sat 10am4pm. 01600 775257 / shirehallmonmouth.org.uk 20th & 21st Century Masters Monmouth gallewry IAP Fine Art, currently looking for a larger premises so as to expand their operation, present a pop-up weekend exhibition featuring recent paintings, drawings and prints by Chris Gollon and Maggi Hambling alongside signed prints by David Hockney, Peter Blake, Terry Frost, Victor Pasmore, Ben Nicholson, Paula Rego, Graham Sutherland and Howard Hodgkin. (From Sat 13 until Sun 14 Oct) INSOLE COURT Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff. Daily 10am-5pm.

Free. 029 2116 7920 / www.insolecourt.org Doreen Barnaville ‘Insole Court Gardens’ Prints and photographs of the titular gardens, exposed by the summer sun to give a blue hue. (Until Thurs 29 Nov) This House Is A Stage A new permanent ‘experience’ tour focusing on the history of Insole Court, tracing the legacy that the Insole family left through coalmines, and the family menbers themselves. (Permanent exhibition) KING STREET GALLERY 33 King Street, Carmarthen. Free. 01267

220121 / gallery@kingstreetgallery. co.uk Phil Alder ‘I Come To My Garden....’ Abstract paintings and watercolours about the pleasure of being amongst informal gardens.

(From Sat 6 until Wed 24 Oct) KOOYWOOD GALLERY 8 Museum Place, Cardiff.

Free. 029 2023 5093 / www.kooywoodgallery.com Emma Connolly New paintings. Also featured: new work by Stephanie Tuckwell, Andy Short and Nigel Lewis’ oil landscapes. (Throughout October) LLANTARNAM GRANGE ARTS CENTRE St. David’s Rd, Cwmbran, Torfaen. Mon-Sat 10am5pm. Free. 01633 483321 / www.lgac.org.uk Eighteen Contemporary artists aged 18-41 have been commissioned to create new work in response to the Lost Generation of WWI: the men of a similar age who were called up for service and perished in their millions.

(From Sat 6 Oct until Sat 17 Nov) M.A.D.E. GALLERY 41 Lochaber St, Cardiff.

Wed-Sat 10am-6pm. Free.

029 2047 3373.

The PAN Collective Nine emerging artists across different disciplines and seeking to demonstrate the creative talents of artists living in Cardiff. (From Fri 5 until Sun 21 Oct) Zena Blackwell ‘Seen Not Heard’ New works painted over the past eight months, in acrylic and oils. First solo exhibition by the 2017 MADE Summer Art Prize winner.

(From Sat 27 Oct until Sun 25 Nov) MARTIN TINNEY GALLERY 18 St Andrew’s Crescent, Cardiff. Mon-Fri 10am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Free.

029 2064 1411 / mtg@ artwales.com Harry Holland ‘Models’ A series of works by this highly esteemed Welsh painter, dating back to the 1970s when life models were mainly drawn as they were too expensive to sit for longer painting sessions. These pieces were not intended for public consumption initially, but, well, here they are, and for sale too. (From Wed 17 Oct until Thurs 15 Nov) MISSION GALLERY Gloucester Place, Swansea.

Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. Free.

01792 652016 / www. missiongallery.co.uk Fiona Banner ‘Buoys Boys’ A collection of inflatable sculptures, floating above the sea and presented here in the form of a 16-minute video soundtracked by people including Viv Albertine and Steve Beresford. (Until Sat 10 Nov)

NATIONAL MUSEUM CARDIFF Cathays Park, Cardiff.

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Free except where noted. 029 2057 3500 / museum. wales/cardiff Women In Focus: Women Behind The Lens Year-long exhibition that explores the role of women in photography, both as producers and subjects of images. This is the first part, preceding an exhibition concerning women as photography’s subject. (Until Sun 11 Nov) Kyffin Williams: The Artist And Amgueddfa Cymru Arguably Wales’ most popular landscape painter of the 20th century, Williams had a long history with Amgueddfa Cymru and was a member of its art committee for many years.

This display explores that relationship through artwork and archival material.

(Until Wed 1 May) Drawn

Newport Library, Museum And Art Gallery – 50 Years In John Frost Square Photographic exhibition, plus film footage, of the opening of said building

by Princess Margaret, who generously broke off her busy schedule of extramarital affairs to visit Newport on 5 Apr 1968. (Until Sat 15 Dec) Women’s Suffrage Banners Rotating exhibition to mark a century since the Representation Of The Peoples Act was passed. Two banners will be on display at a time, one in the Museum and one in the Art Gallery.

(Until Sat 29 Dec) NORWEGIAN CHURCH ARTS CENTRE Harbour Drive, Cardiff Bay. Daily 11am-4pm.

Free. 029 2087 7959 / www. norwegianchurchcardiff. com The Gallery Gift Shop

Slate Glass Clay is an exhibition of new mixed media work – featuring land, sea and slate scapes – by Welsh artist Frankie Locke, on display at Art Central in Barry until Sat 20 Oct. Together Drawings made as part of a year-long community engagement project Coastlines. (From Tue 2 until Wed 31 Oct) Artes Mundi 8 See Upfront for more on this biannual international art prize, and the five artists showcased as part of it this year: Anna Boghiguian, Bouchra Khalili, Otobong Nkanga, Trevor Paglen and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. (From Fri 26 Oct until Sun 24 Feb) NATIONAL WATERFRONT MUSEUM Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea. Daily 10am-5pm.

Free. 01792 638950 / museum.wales/swansea Lost Ports Of Wales As part of the 2018 celebration of Wales’ Year Of The Sea, this exhibition recalls lost and defunct ports in parts of the coastline which may now be hard to imagine. (Until Sun 21 Oct) Karen Ingham ‘Deluge’ Ingham uses Swansea Bay sea water and Cornish copper to explore the inundation which could happen to areas of south Wales at risk from climate change-related flooding. Also aYear Of The Sea-related exhibition. (Until Sun 4 Nov) NEWPORT MUSEUM & ART GALLERY John Frost Square, Newport.Tue-Fri 9.30am5.30pm, Sat 9.30am-4pm.

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

A collaboration of artists, artisans, crafters and photographers from around South Wales offering their products at this exhibitioncum-pop-up. Wed 31 OctSun 4 Nov is an Autumn Craft Festival. (From Mon 8 until Sun 21 Oct + Wed 31 Oct until Sun 4 Nov) Bodil Friele ‘Prisoner of War: Paintings And Poems’ Paintings by visual artist Friele alongside translations of poems written by her father, Odd (Olly) Grønfur Olsen, during his years in a World War II PoW camp. Part of ongoing cultural exchanges between Bergen and the arts community linked to this venue. (From Mon 22 Oct until Tue 13 Nov) 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 Corrie Chiswell ‘Dream Of Flight’ A body of some 50 pieces occupying the whole gallery space, celebrating both figurative work and landscape while explores themes including The Highland Clearances, folklore, classical mythology, war and our impact on the planet. (Until Tue 23 Oct) Sarah Jane Brown ‘Blurring Time And Tide’ New exhibition of paintings exploring the intense yet fleeting nature of memory

and its effect upon the present. (From Sat 27 Oct until Wed 21 Nov) ORIEL CRIC Beaufort Street, Crickhowell. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am1pm. Free. 01873 813669.

Autumn Exhibition Paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, glass and jewellery, with a showcase of a selection of ink drawings by Abergavenny-based Jeremy Thomas. (Until Sat 10 Nov) ORIEL DAVIES The Park, Newtown, Powys.

Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm.

Free. 01686 625041 / enquiries@orieldavies.org Waking The Witch Group exhibition by Verity Birt, Anna Bunting Branch, Nadine Byrne, Fiona Finnegan, Blue Firth, Fourthland, Georgia Horgan, Ben Jeans Houghton (brother of Beth in case you were wondering), Serena Korda, Candice Lin, Katarzyna Majak, Lucy Stein, Ayesha Tan Jones and Cathy Ward.

See the Lifestyle page. (Until Wed 7 Nov) ORIEL JOANNA FIELD Torch Theatre, St. Peter’s Road, Milford Haven. Free.

01646 695267 / www. torchtheatre.co.uk David Street ‘Macro Cosmos’ Pembrokeshirebased photographer living in Pembroke Dock, originally trained as a fine artist. (Until Fri 12 Oct) Milford Haven School Art Exhibition Annual show. (From Mon 15 until Wed 31 Oct) ORIEL MWLDAN Bath House Rd, Cardigan.

Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. Free.

01239 621200 / helena@ mwldan.co.uk Penny D Jones ‘Teimlo Llais’ Interactive installation comprising a fabric quilt, a ceramic quilt and Welsh women’s voices; a culmination of a research and development project, Llais Menywod. (Until Sun 7 Oct) ORIEL MYRDDIN Church Lane, Carmarthen.

01267 222775 / www. orielmyrddingallery.co.uk Haptic/Tacit: In Search Of The Vernacular See Art for more on this artists/writers collective, comprising Jane Cairns, David Gates, Grant Aston, Henry Pim, Kim Norton, Gail Mahon, Kimberley Chandler and Mark Cousins. (Until Sat 13 Oct) ORIEL Q The Queens Hall, High Street, Narberth. Wed-Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 01834 869454 / www. orielqnarberth.com Keith Bayliss, Roger Moss And William Brown ‘Venus’ Moss and Bayliss presrnt new work in a variety of media (painting, prints, drawings and sculpture) to accompany originals by art

world titan William Brown.

The show also includes a bronze figure from each of them. (Until Sat 3 Nov) ORIEL Y PARC The Grove, St Davids, Pembrokeshire.

Free. 01437 720392 / info@orielyparc.co.uk South Wales Potters Group One of the largest groups of potters and ceramicists in the UK, with over 200 members, this exhibition shows a selection of these including Angela Hathaway, Carole Spackman, Melanie Alexander, Widge Thorpe and Mary Watkins. (Throughout October) ORIEL YR ARDD National Botanic Garden Of Wales, Middleton Hall, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. Daily 10am-6pm. £10.50/£8.75 concessions/£4.95 under17s/free under-5s. 01558 667149 / botanicgarden. wales Habitats #1 A series of artworks responding to the Brangwyn Hall Panels in Swansea, courtesy of Swansea based artists Philip Cheater, Kathryn AnneTrussler, Amy Goldring, Tom Morris, Eifion Sven-Myer and Ann Jordan. Sibling exhibition to one in Swansea Grand Theatre. (Until Tue 13 Nov) PONTYPRIDD MUSEUM Bridge Street, Pontypridd.

Mon-Sat 10am-4.30pm.

Free. 01443 490748 / www. pontypriddmuseum.cymru Shocking Electricity Interactive science exhibition. (From Tue 9 until Fri 26 Oct) REDHOUSE Old Town Hall, High Street, Merthyr Tydfil. Free. 01685 384111 / info@redhousecymru.com Mark Youd ‘Fragments’ Southerndown-based artist who works as a designer and technical illustrator as well as a personal sideline in art – “challenging the traditional approach to portraiture and to painting itself,” according to the description.

(Until Mon 22 Oct) Alan Jones New exhibition of abstract paintings. (From Sat 27 Oct until Sat 24 Nov) THE RIVERFRONT Kingsway, Newport. MonFree. 01633 656757 / newportlive.co.uk Follow The Thread - What Does Your Dyslexia Look Like? Multidisciplinary exhibition exploring the relationship that four women have with dyslexia. (Until Mon 29 Oct) ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC & DRAMA Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat + Sun 10am-4pm. Free. 029 2039 1391 / www.rwcmd.ac.uk Giant Paper Sculptures BUZZ 57

* – recommended Annual exhibition made of used paper, located in the Linbury Gallery. (Until Sun 28 Oct) SPIT & SAWDUST Rhymney River Bridge Road, Cardiff. Free. 029 2049 4741 / www. spitandsawdust.co.uk Chris Alton ‘Crudely Plucking The Strings’ S&S’ inaugural Billboard Commission, located in the park’s yard space and depicting/reimagining the flood of the Bristol Channel in 1607. The billboard is accompanied by a film by Alton, screened on occasion until November. (Until Mon 12 Nov) SWANSEA CIVIC CENTRE Oystermouth Road, Swansea. Mon-Fri 10am4.30pm. Free. 01792 636000 / www.swansea. gov.uk Lee Karen Stow ‘Women, War & Peace’ Photographs of women in Wales affected by war and conflict, along with some who have campaigned for peace, from international photojournalist Stow. (Until Wed 10 Oct) SWANSEA COLLEGE OF ART / THE FORUM University Of Wales Trinity Saint David, Heol Ynys Kings Road, Swansea.

Free. www.uwtsd.ac.uk/ events/ swansea-college-of-art/ UWTSD Artists In Residence 2018/19 Exhibition A response to the impact of the First World War in Wales. (Until Fri 5 Oct) Pictures And Words Exhibition celebrating illustration and design for books, comprised of current and graduating student work.

(Until Fri 12 Oct) SWANSEA GRAND THEATRE Singleton St, Swansea.

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Free.

01792 475715 / www. swanseagrand.co.uk Habitats #2 A series of large artworks responding to the Brangwyn Hall Panels in Swansea, courtesy of Elysium gallery artists Philip Cheater, Kathryn AnneTrussler, Amy Goldring, Tom Morris, Eifion Sven-Myer & Ann Jordan. See art. Sibling exhibition to one in Oriel Yr Ardd. (Until Mon 29 Oct) SWANSEA MUSEUM Victoria Road, Swansea.

Tue-Sun 10am-4.30pm.

Free. 01792 653763 / www. swanseamuseum.co.uk Wales For Peace Exhibition from the Welsh Centre For International Affairs, linking to the local collections of Swansea Museum and exploring how the impact of war has led people to pursue peace. (Until Wed 3 Oct) Remembering Our Heroes / Some Things We Forgot To Remember Two exhibiBUZZ 58

tions of eight and seven panels respectively, looking at both WWI soldiers from Swansea and Neath, and women war workers, conscientious objectors, soldiers from other parts of the British Empire etc. (Until December) Some Things We Forgot To Remember: Contemporary Responses Forty artists respond to the Swansea Museum collection and Now The Hero themed activities by creating a multimedia exhibition trail within the building. (Until December) TENBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Castle Hill, Tenby. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, £4/£3/£2 kids.

01834 842809 / www. tenbymuseum.org.uk Nicky Wire ‘Paintings And Polaroids’ Debut solo art exhibition by Manic Street Preachers bassist, who has no innate connection to Tenby but comes here quite often so decided to put his show here. (Until Sun 21 Oct) THEATR HAFREN Llanidloes Road, Newtown, Powys. Mon-Sat 10am5.30pm. Free. 01686 625007 / thehafren.co.uk Anna-Lisa Coleman London-born painter who graduated from University Of Wales Newport, and who exhibits regularly throughout mid-Wales with paintings held in private collections all over the world. (Until Thurs 6 Dec) TOWER GALLERY 49 High Street, Crickhowell. Wed-Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 01873 812495 / www. towergallery.co.uk Harriet Lloyd & Michael Howard Joint exhibition between two Powys-based painters. Lloyd’s work focuses on the minutiae of the decorative and the domestic; Howard interprets the landscape around him abstractly.

Also showing work by all members of the Usk Valley Artists’ Co-operative. (Until Sat 10 Nov) VICTORIA FEARN GALLERY 6B Heol y Deri, Rhiwbina, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 9.30am5.30pm, Sun 10am-3pm.

Free. 029 2052 0884.

Beth Robinson New collection of paintings. (Until Sat 20 Oct) VOLCANO THEATRE 27-29 High Street, Swansea. Mon-Fri 10am4pm. Free. 01792 464790 / www.volcanotheatre.co.uk Aida Garton ‘Call It A Day’ Mixed-discipline work created using packaging and labels, and pulping newspaper; working on leftovers from builders, paint, print and pulp on hardboard and beaverboard. (From Tue 2 until Fri 12 Oct)

WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE Bute Place, Cardiff Bay. Free. 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk Nelson Mandela: The Centenary Exhibition 2018 The late South African leader was born 100 years ago and as such is being honoured by an exhibition presented by Apartheid Museum, Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives, and Southbank Centre. (From Fri 5 Oct until Sun 18 Nov) THE WELSH QUILT CENTRE Town Hall, Lampeter. TueSat 11am-4.30pm. Free.

01570 422088 / www. welshquilts.com Nos Da Goodnight! A Panoply Of Historic Welsh Quilts Historic quilts from the early 19th to early 20th centuries. Room one features examples from the Jen Jones collection; room two a glimpse into Welsh Samplers, many of which were made by very young girls in the 19th century.

(Until Sat 10 Nov) WEST WHARF GALLERY Jacobs Market, Cardiff.

Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm.

Free. westwharfgallery@ gmail.com Richard Cox Paintings, drawings, books and prints by a Welsh artists whose notable previous work includes images of mid 20th century American cars and documentation of stepwells in India. (From Fri 6-Sat 7 and Thurs 12-Sat 14 July) THE WORKERS 99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir, nr Porth. 11am-4.30pm Thurs-Sat and by appointment. Free. 01443 682024 / wood4tt@gmail.com Political & Sporting Cartoons (Special Welsh Edition) Featuring Western Mail cartoonist Mumph among others. (From Thurs 4 Oct until Sat 3 Nov) Gayle Rogers ‘Unearth’ Artwork Art created during an Artist Residency & Research Project at the Pen Y Cymoedd wind energy site.

(From Thurs 4 Oct until Sat 3 Nov)

clubs THE ATTIC 5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/ theatticswansea Mondays Concrete Junglists: The Community Works 10pm-3am, £3. Cardiff drum’n’bass/jungle brand branch into Swansea for a weekly session highlighting fresh local DJs etc. Sat 6 Last Night Events: 90s Rave 10pm-3am, £5-£9.

Classics, acid house, trance, techno, disco, house and garage. All these will get played in the 90s

rave say promoters LNE. Sat 27 100% Old Skool Halloween Ball 9pm-4am, £10 adv. House anthems and UK garage classics.

Main room: Greg P, Nicky G, John Steffanick, Newman & Jordan Stiens and Justin Thomas. Room Two: Kai & Footy, Greg P, Lloyd-e SBA and Nicky G. BAR COCOA Broad Street, Barry. facebook.com/cocoabarry Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3.30am, £3. With DJ James Bourne and sopecial guest appearances/live sets.

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

Fridays + Saturdays Resident DJs playing soul and funk. Fri 19 Killing Moon 10pm-3am. Long(ish)running 80s alternative rock/ new wave type night. Fri 26 Rhetorik & Friends 9pm-3am, £5 adv. “Eclectic dance music” from Techník, Alex TM, and more TBC. Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk and neo-soul. Sat 6 Solar Orbit 10pm-3am, £3 adv. Dancey sounds of some kind. Sat 27 Des Was A Bowie Fan 10pm, £5 adv.

London clubnight with an indiepop/soul/postpunk type playlist.

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 Beekay & Friends 11pm, £3-£5.

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

Fri 2 Nov Fixate First Birthday 2pm-4am, £5.

Featuring Brandon Block, J-Tech, Madame Twisted, Owen Kilby and Dan Waite.

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

BUFFALO 11 Windsor Place, Cardiff.

Open Mon-Thurs 11am3am, Fri + Sat 11am-4am, Sun until 4am. 029 2031 0312 / www.buffalocardiff. com Mondays Bump & Grind 10pm-3am, from £2. R’n’b/ hip-hop night. Tue 16 Stickylemons 9.30pm-3am, £6-£10. Drum’n’bass from Mr Traumatik with Ego Trippin, Benji b2b Caaza, Dubmatt, Lowgli b2b Dankzy, T-Bone and MCs Endo, Donzilla and Slim. Tue 30 Tek: Cardiff Launch Party 10pm-3am, £5 adv. House and techno with an opening night lineup claiming to feature “some of Bristol’s finest party-starters”, their identities seem to

be TBC right now however.

Wed 3 Shabba! 10pm-3am, from £3 adv. Drum’n’bass, Afrobeat, house, dancehall, reggae, hip-hop and r’n’b.

Thursdays Dazed Disco 10pm-3am, £4 adv. Disco, house, funk and soul. Fri 5 Criminal Chapter 2: The Sequel 10pm-3am, £6/£3 adv. House, techno and disco from Sam Jenkins & Charlie Hitchcock, AC Martines, Seb Bliss, Jordan West and Andy O’Hara. Presented in

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but featuring the following: Wilksinon (DJ set ft MC AD-Apt), Pendulum (DJ set), Benji Wild, Benny L, Carasel, Chimpo & Trigga, D Double E, Darkzy, Dubzsta, Evil B vs B Live, Friction presents Connections, Hedex, K Motionz, Macky Gee, Manga, Notion, Sammy Virji, Skue K, TS7, Tsuki, Turno, XX92 and more TBC. MCs: Carasel and Linguistics; room hosts: Bassline, B:Wild and Lengoland. Fri 26

Every day can be a celebration of Fela Kuti, the late Nigerian political firebrand and Afro-funk bandleader, but Gwdihw in Cardiff have chosen Sat 27 Oct. Their ‘Felabration’, if you will, is set to include DJs, live music and food. conjunction with a London clothing brand I’ve never heard of. Fri 19 Dedicated To The Streets 10pm-4am, £4/£3. As in the musicial project of Mike Skinner. I think it’ll feature a bunch of his tunes plus some garage and hip-hop classics. Fri 26 Iconic – LNC Launch Party 10pm-4am, £3-£5. That’s Ladies Night Cardiff, who’ll preside over an evening of iconic female pop stars from down the decades. Saturdays Hideaway 10pm-4am, £3.

Disco, house, and hip-hop from residents over two floors.

BUFFS 6 Station Road, Brynmawr. 01495 315334.

Sat 20 Infinity 7pm-2am, £10. Hard dance from Mark EG, Tekno Tom, J Tek, Alter:Ego, Brad Dunk, PH, Rossy D and Jordan Morgan.

THE BUNKHOUSE 63B The Kingsway, Swansea. info@ bunkhousebar.co.uk Fri 26 Heft x Skanklicious Halloween Free Rave 9pm-4am, free before 11.30. Drum’n’bass (I think – there’s info about winning a prize for the best costume but nothing about the DJs or music) at this new venue that used to be called Static.

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

Good name, really on trend.

Fri 12 Bedlam Mega Rave 2 10pm-5am, £32.95 adv.

Very large bill of drum’n’bass and grime, probably sold out by the time you read this

Treatment 10pm-4am, £tbc adv. First autumn event for big studenty clubbing brand, lineup TBC. Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.

CLUB ICE Broadway, Pontypridd.

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

CLUB OXYGEN 1 Northampton Lane, Swansea. 0844 8849171 / www.globaloxygen.co.uk Fridays Dance Anthems 11pm-6am, free. House and commercial music all night from Big Al, Nicky G, 3 Bird, Jordan Steins, LJ Isaac and Tom Chizzy. Saturdays 11.30pm-5am, £5/free before 1. Upstairs: deep house, commercial house and techhouse. Downstairs: urban, chart, classics, r’n’b, hip-hop and UK garage.

CLWB IFOR BACH Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net Wed 3 Abba Disco Wonderland 11pm, £5.

Disco hits and Abba songs.

This night debuted here in May and sold out. Stuff like this really is a licence to take money off the easily pleased, I don’t know why I’m not doing it myself. This is also in Glam on Tue 2. Thurs 4 Swindle 11pm-3am, £8-£12.

Grime/dubstep intersection fave, not been to Cardiff for a while. Bandit, Ransom b2b Benny Bootleg, Dubzta and Shell Supply also DJ. Fridays (bottom) Yum! 11pm-3am, £3-£5. Indie and pop. New, or at least refocused, night. 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.

COFFEE BARKER Castle Arcade, Cardiff. 029 2022 4575 / facebook.com/ coffeebarker Fri 5 + Fri 2 Nov The Shakedown 8.30pm12.30am, free. Funk, jazz, R&B, boogaloo etc from DJs Lee, Matt and Andy, newly in this venue on the first Friday of every month.

COURTYARD 48 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.

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

Urban and club anthems and drinks deals. Part of the NPCLUBHOP price deal which also includes entry to Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Lambaba. Saturdays Mischief Beat-driven anthems is the ambiguous description for tonight’s music policy. Sundays Good Time Social Club 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights. Sun 14 Eclipse – Adults Special Needs Night 6.30-10.30pm, £3/ carers free. New club night aimed at adults with autism, Downs Syndrome, or a physical or mental inability.

This month’s edition has a Halloween theme.

CREATURE SOUND Ken Bu Kan, 1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 01792 301178 / www. creaturesound.com Sat 27 Tribe Of Swan 10pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12.

Psytrance night with Chris B, Cloud and Mark Black.

Also a Halloween fancy dress

party.

CWMBRAN STADIUM Henllys Way, Cwmbran.

01633 627101.

Fri 5 Clubland Classix 7pm-1am, £21 adv. Third (I think) night in this irregular series of chart dance/ happy hardcore bigness: Dave Pearce, Flip & Fill, Ultrabeat with Rebecca Rudd, N-Trance, Mark Breeze and host Wotsee feature this time.

THE DUKE Old Market Street, Neath.

01639 643892.

Sat 27 Hedone 7pm-2am, £10. House and techno from headliners New Jack City, a 90s-styled house duo from Amsterdam, plus Michael Rutherford and Hedone residents.

EARL HAIG MEMORIAL CLUB 23 Penlline Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff. 029 2062 6015 / earlhaigclub. weebly.com Sat 20 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12am, £3 adv.

Soul, mod, ska and Motown with DJs Wayne Sheppard, Matthew Morgan, Shelley Barrett and Liam Curtin. £2 per ticket will go to Chernobyl Children Cancer Care Cardiff.

EDDIES 4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co Sat 27 Sigala 9pm-5am, £15 adv. “The biggest breakthrough DJ/producer of the past decade!” according to the blurb for this. If this is true, and I really have no gauge for it, it may say more about the past decade than it does about Sigala. Anyway the biggest DJ of the 2010s

is coming from Norwich to Haverfordwest to play, standard.

FICTION & VINYL The City Gates, Little Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 828777 / www.fictionclub. co.uk/swansea Mondays Quids In 10.45pm-2.30am, £3.50/£2 before 11. Chart, cheese, r’n’b, dance and house. Wednesdays Underground 11pm3.30am, £3.50/£2 before 1. House, chart, r’n’b and cheese across two rooms. Wed 3 features a set by FooR; Wed 17 has Patrick Nazemi. Thurs 2 Basshunter 10pm-3am, £5-£10. On something called The Freshers Tour. I listed this as being on Thurs 4 last month, dunno if I was wrong or they changed the date but it’s down as 2 Oct now.

Fridays 11pm-3am, £5/£3 adv. Drinks offers and, uh, music I guess. Saturdays Agenda 10.30pm-3am, £3.50/£2 before 1. Fiction: house, r’n’b, EDM. Vinyl: pop and party. Sat 27 Danny Howard 10.30pm-4am, £5.

Danny seems to be at Glam in Cardiff tonight as well so maybe he’ll play everything at twice the speed.

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 GALLERY SPACE Newport Market. facebook. com/galleryspacenewport Sat 13 Perc 6pm-12am,

SUBMERGE Gwdhiw, Cardiff, Thurs 4 Oct / Level 2 @ Kongs, Cardiff, Fri 5 Oct Tickets: £4 (Thurs 4) / from £5 (Fri 5). Info: www.submergecardiff.co.uk The locals with a big rig who know how to use it are back with their first night for several months. No, wait – two nights!

The first one is in Gwdihw, is subtitled Radikal Roots and is their first residents night, where a grip of locals will pay respect to the bass-powered musics. Best of all, Cardiff reggae vocalist Aleighcia Scott [pictured] will make an appearance – can’t recommend her enough. The following day, Submerge drag their big booming soundsystem into Kongs for an evening co-hosted by Bristol’s Firmly Rooted. Buggsy, also Bristolian and a respected UK hip-hop MC, features alongside the likes of Lionpulse and a showcase for record label Hold Tight.

£10/£6 adv. Good lineup in what is apparently a really nice looking building. Finishes early but there’s an afterparty in Neon Lounge. Features BLAP (live set), Neil Effin Young, Agenda, Shai & DJ Vito, Tom Mahoney & Jack Edinborough, Matthew Miles, Paul Blandford, Owen Kilby, Richard Moulton and Chris Cain.

GLAM Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.

029 2022 9311 / info@ glamnightclub.co.uk Mondays Bed 10pm3am, £2/free before 11. A mashup of chart, r’n’b, cheese and dance across two floors. Formerly known as The Fest. Tue 2 Abba Disco Wonderland 11pm, £7/£5. Disco hits and Abba songs. Also on Clwb Ifor Bach tomorrow. Fridays Antisocial 11pm-4am, £4 adv/£6 VIP. Weekly student night with special guests Deflef (Fri 5, in association with Groove). Saturdays Prvlg 10pm-3am, £5-£10.

Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity. Sat 27 Groove 10pm-3am, £8 adv/£15 VIP. With headliner Danny Howard.

THE GLOBE 125 Albany Rd, Cardiff.

07590 471888 / www. globecardiffmusic.com Fri 12 Black Parade 9pm2am, £4 adv. Millennial emo anthems night. Sat 13 Club Tropicana 9pm-2am, £6 adv. Eighties night. Sold out.

GWDIHW Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk *Thurs 4 Submerge presents Radikal Roots 9pm-2am, £4 adv. Reggae, dub, dubstep and jungle from guest Aleighcia Scott and residents Sarki, Mango b2b OCG, Ollie G, Lurid b2b Shay B and Spektrum.

Fri 5 Signor Funk 9pm, £3/£2 NUS. Motown, funk, disco and soul. Sat 6 The Mixtape Freshers Party 9pm, £3. Dance music of some description, house I think, aimed at students.

Fri 12 Drunk Yoga 1st Birthday Disco 9pm, £3.

Cardiff DJ troupe throw a 12-months-not-out party.

Not sure if any actual yoga is involved. Sat 13 Sure Shot 9pm-2am. Funky stuff, deets TBC. Sun 14 Our Time: Inclusive Club Night 4-10pm, £4. Fri 19 Starving Artists 9pm, £7/£5 adv. Hip-hop from Dr Syntax & Pete Cannon, SA Collective, Mansfield Green (AV set), Mesijo, something called a Rhythmically Applied Rap Battle, Konk, Teej, Slick Tricks, Are Why, T-Motion and host Ro Wan. Wed 24 Cardiff Electronic Producers 7pm. Live electronica and monthly networking. Fri 26 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3

before 11. Eighties dance goodness, last Friday of most months in here. *Sat 27 Felabration 9pm. As in Fela Kuti. Not sure what the occasion is exactly, although he was born in October, but there’ll be DJs playing his music, a live band and some (presumably Nigerian?) food.

HANGAR 18 50 Plymouth Street, Swansea. 07984 664008 / facebook.com/hangar18mv Sat 27 Delusion Halloween Special 9pm3am, £6-£10. Trance from Jase Thirlwall, Maria Healy and Will Rees. All big in the scene right now it says here.

JACOB’S MARKET West Canal Wharf, Cardiff.

029 2039 0939.

Fri 12 Haws 8pm-5am, £12/£11. Featuring a fourhour set by Fantastic Man and a two-hour ambient set

by Viewpoints. See Clubs.

Sat 27 Delete 10pm-5am, £12 adv. House and techno from Pierre Codarin, Marc Parsons, Matt Owen and Lee Graves.

KOOLERS 14 Dynevor Street, Merthyr. 01685 725000.

Fri 26 Cellar Door 8pm3am, £10 adv. House and techno from this south Wales clubbing staple that originated in Cardiff and now spends about as much time in tour round the region. The Undercover DJs and a Void soundsystem will be in place as standard.

LASER STATION Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www. laserstationwales.com Sat 27 Fat Lace 16th Birthday Rinseout 9pm-4am, £7/£6 before 11.

Drum’n’bass and jungle from Kryptix b2b Optimystic b2b Radar, T-Bone, D-Sia b2b Bass Patrol, Oli Oli Oli, Glitch and Doctor P. THE LAST RESORT 207 High Street, Swansea. www.lastresortswansea. com Fri 5 The Swansea Fringe: Wired 6pm-12am, £12-£20 (full weekend pass). The complete listings for the Swansea Fringe, which is on the first weekend of October, are elsewhere in this issue, but this is a sort of clubby thing so I can include it here. Live and DJ sets, variously, from Roughion, Dogruff DJs, CrazeTheJack, Rufus Mufasa, Jamey P and Dead Crow. Sat 6 + Sat 3 Nov Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month (apart from August). Sat 13 Music & Mind Round 2 2pm-2am, £5. Charity night alldayer with DJs from Rise, Polymer, 10243, Hustle, Beats Not Bombs, DJ Society and more.

LEVEL 2 @ KONGS 114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. info@kongsbars. com / www.kongsbars.com Fri 5 Submerge x Firmly Rooted 11pm-3am, £5-£10.

Local soundsystem purveyors Submerge team up with Firmy Rooted from Bristol for a night of dub and dub-influenced heaviness: Buggsy, Halcyonic & G Roots, Lionpulse, a Hold Tight Records showcase featuring Dutchie, Supplya, Walker, Roots Agenda and MC Indra/ Plus Submerge residents Benny Bootleg, Blokeye and Tailored Sound on live sax. Sat 6 The Spin Doctors 10pm-3am, £6-£12.

Liquid drum’n’bass from Spectrasoul, Beeson, Screwy, Benji and MC XL. MARY’S 89 St Mary Street, Cardiff.

Mon-Thurs 4pm-2am, Fri 4pm-3am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-1am. 029 2066 8647 / www.maryscardiff. co.uk Wednesdays Wednesday Club 8pm-2am. Dance and chart toppers with DJ Chris. Thursdays Mixxet 8pm-2am. Fun, games, and cabaret with Amber Dextrous and Alphaa Heart. Fridays Non Stop Party 8pm-2am.

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

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

Saturdays Lose Yourself 10.30pm-4am, free before 11.

Stereo Brain playing indie, beats, treats and pop-punk.

MINSKYS SHOW BAR Cathedral Walk, St David’s Centre, Cardiff. 029 2023 3128 / www.minskysshowbar.com Fridays & Saturdays 8pm-1am. Dancing and cabaret with regular drag acts including Tina Sparkle, Miss Babs and Jolene Dover.

MISSOULA 84-86 St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 1315 / www.missoulabars.co.uk/ missoulacardiff Mondays Mojito Mondays 5pm-12am. Motown classics and mojitos 2-4-1 all night. Thursdays Rock The Night 5pm-12am. Indie classics. Fridays #Friday 5pm-2am. Funky house BUZZ 59

* – recommended and half price drinks from 5-10pm.

MOCKA LOUNGE Mill Lane, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 11am-late. 029 2022 1295 / www.mockalounge.com Thursdays Iqos Social Club / Intuition 7-9pm: Iqos Social Club; 9pm-late: Intuition with DJs Monique B and Dan Willow. Fridays Feeling Soul, funk, disco, rare groove and r’n’b with resident DJs and happy hour from 5-8pm. Saturdays House Of Play House and r’n’b from resident DJs. Sundays Secret Resident DJs play 90s music.

THE MOON Womanby Street, Cardiff.

029 2037 3022 / info@ themooncardiff.com Wed 31 Womanby’s Clubbing 5.30-8pm.

Monthly clubbing events for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health conditions. Run in partnership with Student Volunteering.

Fridays Gigantic Until 4am, free. Funk, punk, rock’n’roll, hip-hop, indie, reggae and soul after bands finish playing. Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Until 4am, free. Bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between, after bands finish playing.

MOZARTS Walter Road, Swansea.

01792 649984 / facebook. com/mozartsbar Sat 6 Dogruff 10pm-3am, £15-£20 adv. Ninth birthday bash for Swansea’s minimal supremos. Ferro (VBX/Fuse) is the headliner, with Luke Tainton, Shaun Edwards and Mikki James also billed.

There’ll be an afterparty somewhere too. Also, you may have seen (in, for example, Music News Extra) that this venue has now closed, but will open for this night specifically, which is nice.

NATIONAL MUSEUM CARDIFF Cathays Park, Cardiff. 029 2057 3500 / www. museumwales.ac.uk/cardiff Fri 5 + Sat 6 Hush Silent Disco 8pm-12am, £14 adv.

The return of an event which sold out in 2017, offering you the chance to don headphones and shuffle among the art, fossils etc in this storied building. The Fri 5 date sold out so they added a second.

THE NEON Clarence Place, Newport.

01633 533666 / www. theneon.co.uk Sat 20 Raver Tots Family Halloween 90s Rave 2-4pm, £6-£11. Baby/toddler/ parent rave in the afternoon with guest DJ Slipmatt alongside the face paint, balloons etc. Halloween isn’t for another 11 days by the way. Wed 31 Urban Circle Halloween Shutdown BUZZ 60

7-11.30pm, £6. Under-18s night with r’n’b and dance anthems plus a big headliner TBC. NEON LOUNGE Market Street, Newport.

01633 533666 / theneon. co.uk/neon-bar-lounge Fri 5 Old School R’n’B Night 9pm-2am, free. With some old skool hip-hop and reggae too, on the first Friday of every month.

Saturdays Urban Dance Night 9pm-3am, free.

Classic urban, house and r’n’b from DJ Steve C. Sat 8 Switch 9pm-3am, £3.

Opening night for this house and techno session with DJs Quadey, Chris Cain (Perc), David Foster and residents James Evans and Ryan Goodman.

NO.3 The Old Warehouse, Bridge Street, Haverfordwest. no.3entertainment@ outlook.com Fri 26 Back To Bassix 10pm-5am. Deekline is the headliner for what I assume is going to be a night of bass-oriented sounds, no further deets though sorry.

OCEAN ARTS CARDIFF Unit 2, East Moors Business Park, East Moors Rd, Cardiff. 029 2132 0030 / www.oceansrtscardiff. co.uk Sat 13 Warehouse Afro Beats 10pm-3am, £10/£5 before 11. DJs playing Afrobeats, Afro-pop , soukous coupe decale, South African house, Zim dancehall and more. Normally on the second Saturday of each month.

THE PARROT 32 King Street, Carmarthen. 01267 231012 / facebook.com/ theparrotmusicbar Sat 20 Wonkcrafts 7-10pm, £4/£3 adv. Underground rap night and a launch for LRB’s Devil Inside album.

He’ll be playing alongside Youthana$ia, Matenj b2b Aksrevenge and DJ Pie-Fi. THE PERCH 66 Wind Street, Swansea.

01792 462002 / www. theperchswansea.co.uk Wednesdays 10243 9pm3am, £3 adv. New techno night on every week from this date. Named after the Berlin area code apparently.

PITCHER & PIANO Wind Street, Swansea.

01792 461312 / www. pitcherandpiano.com/ Thurs 4 Navigate 10pm3am, £12.50/£10. Featuring headliner Ferreck Dawn, a tech-house sort on Defected and Toolroom, plus Hutchy, Lloyd Haines and Taz Meah.

Navigate is apparently a clothing brand rather than club promoters per se, but they are putting this night on for whatever reason. Fri 26 Sonik Friday 9pm-3am.

House and techno here

on the last Friday of each month. Cellan Eynon plays outside until 12am; Tom Westerholm inside from 11pm.

PLATFORM 11 High Street, Pontypridd.

Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk Fri 5 017 7pm-4am, £3 early bird. The latest long ’un in this Ponty nightspot is headlined by Ulster trance/ house fella Paul Skelton. If he has a booking on or near Halloween he should change his name to Paul Skeleton, and give me a commission fee as it was my idea.

POPWORLD 96 St Mary Street, Cardiff.

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

029 2023 5825.

Mon 1. Fridays Smack.

9pm-3am, £4 adv. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”. Fri 5 is this night’s eighth birthday and featurers Cause & Affect. Saturdays Agenda 10pm-3am, £5. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff.

PULSE 3 Churchill Way, Cardiff.

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

Wednesdays Kapow!

10pm-4am. Student night with Jolene Dover and DJ Warren. Fridays Full On 10pm-5am, £4/£3. DJ Craig downstairs, Opal upstairs.

Saturdays The Sound Of Saturday 10pm-5am, £5/£4 b4 11. The very best chart

Fancy some underground Welsh hip-hop for less than the price of a pint (if you buy an advance ticket)? Are you in or near Carmarthen on Sat 20?

Hit up Wonkcrafts at the Parrot where MC LRB is launching his Devil Inside album.

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. Thursdays Top Of The Pops 10pm-3am.

Discounted drinks, free entry and a chance to party the night away, all advertised using the logo from defunct TV show Top Of The Pops which, as a national brand of venues, I assume Popworld are using with the full permission of the BBC. Fridays + Saturdays Popworld Party Until 3am.

Drinks deals from 5-11pm (Fri) and 3-8pm (Sat).

POPWORLD Wind Street, Swansea.

Mon-Fri + Sun 8pm-3am; Sat 3pm-3am. 01792 470676.

Wednesdays Quids In 8pm-3am. Student night where drinks are £1.

Thursdays Pop Rocks 10pm-3am. The very best in pop-punk, pop-rock, alternative music and pop classics.

Fridays Ain’t No Party Like A Popworld Party 8pm-3am, £2-£4. Saturdays Club Classics 8pm-3am, £2-£4.

PRYZM Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.

029 2023 3854 / www. pryzm.co.uk/cardiff Mondays Quids In 10pm3am, £1 adv/£6 VIP. Student night featuring various special guests Jedward on

remixes and classic hits all night long.

THE RAINBOW ROOMS 12 High Street, Gorseinon, Swansea. 07763 000382 / www.the-rainbowrooms. com Fridays 10pm-4am.

Resident DJs every week.

Saturdays 9pm-4am. With residents plus guest DJs each week – in October it’s Brisk and Vinylgroover (Sat 6, open 8pm-6am); John Hughes (Sat 130; Rob Rees (Sat 20) and the Logic Halloween Ball with Dave Pearce, Rob Rees, Jason P, John Hughes, Jay P, Michael Connolly and Chris Miller (Sat 27).

REVOLUTION Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars. co.uk Tuesdays Mode 9pm3am, £4 adv. Popular student night. Fridays + Saturdays 9pm-3am. DJs, drinks offers, free area hire.

SIN CITY Dilwyn Street, Swansea.

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

Motown, r’n’b and hip-hop.

Wed 3 Dazed Swansea Launch 10pm-4am, £10 adv. One of Cardiff’s many student drum’n’bass promotions comes to Swansea and kicks off with a double bill of DJs Hype and Hazard, plus more TBC. Thursdays Sin Savers 10pm-3am, £3.

Student night. Fridays Monsters Of Rock 10pm3.30am, £4/£2 before 12.30.

Indie in room 1, metal in room 2. Fri 5 Bassline 10pm-4am. Headlined by My Nu Leng and sold out.

Fri 12 Raze The Roof x Rize 10pm-4am, £10 adv.

Jungle and drum’n’bass, lineup TBC but featuring three big names apparently.

Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am.

Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South. Sat 20 Bassline 10pm-4am.

Headlined by drum’n’bass sort Macky Gee and sold out.

Sat 27 Bassline 10pm-4am.

Headlined by bassline collective (?) Lengoland and likely to sell out.

SMALL WORLD THEATRE Bath House Road, Cardigan. 01239 615952 / www.smallworld.org.uk Fri 5 Move On Up 8pm, £5.

Mr. A presents another vinylonly mix of Detroit soul, New Orleans funk, West Coast wah-wah, Harlem Shuffle and New York disco.

SODA St Mary Street, Cardiff.

029 2037 3363 / www. sodacardiff.com Wednesdays Replay 9pm4am, £4. Chart, cheese and r’n’b for students. Fridays Fade 10pm-3am, £4/£6 VIP. R’n’b, hip-hop, house and UK garage from Vijay, Jigga, Monique B and Dan Willow.

Saturdays Soiree 9pm4am. Three rooms including the Attic which is “the social playground for the high flyers and social elite, the only place to be seen.” Imagine catching your reflection in the mirror just after writing that. Sundays Soda Sundays 9pm-3am, £4/£8 VIP. Three floors of music for students and industry workers.

TIGER TIGER Friary House, Greyfriars Rd, Cardiff. Open Mon-Fri 12pm-2am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-12.30am. 029 2039 1944 / www.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.

Mondays Dolla Dolla 10pm-3am, £5/£2. Student night with special guests Gemma Collins (Mon 1) and Dick & Dom (Mon 8) this month, Wednesdays Shotgun Rules 10pm-3am, £5/£3.50. Exclusive midweek student party. You don’t need NUS to get in though.

Fridays Tic Toc 10pm3am, £4. “Forget the DJs who play the stuff you’ve never heard of, ours will be playing your favourite tracks all night long.” Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.

TRAMSHED Clare Road, Grangetown,

u – repeated

Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com Fri 5 Triple Cooked: Cardiff – Weird & Wonderful 10pm-3am, £6-£12. “An explosion of live art, unique decor, live music and disco, house, bass, garage, grime and more.” They never name any of the DJs, which I find pretty weird. Sat 13 Playaz Cardiff 9pm-3am, £10-£14.

Drum’n’bass from DJ Hype b2b DJ Hazard, Annix, MC AD, IC3 and Daddy Earl in room 1. Room 2, wherever that is in here, is hosted by Canopy. Sat 27 Shangri-La Presents Drumcode 2pm12am, £17.50 adv. Reliably robust techno label returns to Cardiff with a showcase of its roster: Bart Skils, Harvey McKay, Julian Jeweil and Wehbba.

UNDERTONE (BASEMENT OF 10 FEET TALL) 11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com Tue 2 Wile Out 10pm, £5/£3 adv. Bassline and drum’n’bass. Thurs 4 Pull Up 10pm, £5/£3 adv. “Get ur bionic arms ready nd ur augmented eyeballs locked nd loaded cos this shitshows gonna test the limits of human anatomy.” It’s drum’n’bass of course. Fri 5 Groove Theory 10pm4am, £5/£3 before 11.30.

Residents session with Stiff Jeff, Morgan Evans, Paul Longstaff and Tom Bateman. Sat 6 Flatline x Shelter 10pm-4am, £5/£3.

Drum’n’bass. Thurs 11 Darth Presents: Active 10pm, £5 adv. Drum’n’bass.

Fri 12 Breathe 10pm-4am, £5 adv. See Clubs for more on this night, headlined by Dudley Strangeways and also featuring Mikki James, Jack Darwin and Ryan Ross. Sat 13 Paranoize x Incursion Audio 10pm, £5 adv. Drum’n’bass from Ransom, Caaza, Benji , Plethora, Tremmah, Mango & OCG and host Pablow.

Tue 16 Luna 10pm, £2 adv. House, techno and acid. Thurs 18 Pressure 10pm. Drum’n’bass. Fri 19 Helium Resident Showcase 004 10pm-4am, £5. House, disco and techno.

Sat 20 Junction 11pm, £5/£3. Drum’n’bass. Only two new drum’n’bass nights starting in Undertone this month, less than usual.

Thurs 25 Illusion No info whatsoever on this night so it’s probably more drum’n’bass. Fri 26 Switch Up 10pm. Garage, grime, bassline and drum’n’bass.

Sat 27 Haws & Eminent 10pm, £3-£5. House and techno headlined by London DJ Aleksandir. Tue 30 10243 10pm. Techno from a group of promoters who launched in Swansea about a month ago.

VALE WAREHOUSE Cambria House, Penarth Road, Cardiff. facebook. com/valewarehouse

Wed 3 Mayhem University Inflatable Rave Cardiff 10pm-3am, £5 adv. “Think of a WAREHOUSE rave, but the dance floor is like a giant wipeout course. The ULTIMATE grown-ups playground.” The fun could even be HEIGHTENED if everyone was on KETAMINE. THE VAULT 56 Wind Street, Swansea.

01792 465300 / www. nosignwinebar.com Sat 27 The Techno Asylum Halloween Ball 1-8pm, £5. Boshy techno promoters with their second event, this one featuring Tom Murray, Alter:Ego (I still cannot believe a techno duo would call themselves this), Lee Grey and more TBC. THE VAULTS / PORTLAND HOUSE The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com Fri 26 Vaults Presents 9pm-5am, £14 adv. Main room: drum’n’bass from Roni Size, Ransom, Mascot, Beeson and Lubi J. Room 2: Got Bass presents Koncept, Oni, Styx and B:Wild. Wed 31 Good Life: Halloween In The Vaults 10pm-4am, £12/£10. “This year we’ve found the most amazing venue yet; a disused bank in the heart of Cardiff!” say Good Life of one of the city’s best known club venues.

Anyway they’ve booked DJ Boring to play an all-nightlong set and you can read more in Clubs.

WAREHOUSE 54 54 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.

Wednesdays Krazy Wednesdays Cocktails, drink deals and tunes as part of a cross-city midweek session. Fridays Party Like It’s 1999 7pm-5am, £4/£1.99 before 12. Part of the NPclubhop multi-venue deal. Saturdays The Indie Rock Disco 12am. (Former) Meze Lounge DJs playing indie and rock classics. Also an NPclubhop night.

WOW BAR 4 Churchill Way, Cardiff.

Gay venue. Free all day Sun-Thurs; before 11pm Fri + Sat. 029 2066 6247 / www.wowbarcardiff.com Wednesdays Get Pounded Free. Hosted by Gypsy Divine, soundtracked by DJ Basil and named in reference to the £1 drinks offers. And nothing else.

Thursdays Let’s Have A Kiki Free. DJs Basil and Chris soundtrack non-stop fun and games. Fridays Kitty’s Kabaret Free before 11. With WOW Showgirls Miss Kitty and Marcia, plus special guests every week.

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

events EVERY MONDAY Bharatanatyam Dance Classes For Adult Beginners Bayview House, Cardiff Bay. 8.15-9.15pm.

Info 029 2075 1158.

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

A group for reading and discussing literature.

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

Ceroc The Gate, Cardiff.

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

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

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

Drop-in Meditation And Mindfulness Classes The Bone Yard, 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.

Health Qigong Glyndwr Community Hall, Penarth.

10.30-11.30am. Info 07772 657692.

Musical Theatre The Riverfront, Newport. 5.458pm, £6/£5. Info 01633 656757. 7-11 years old: 5.45-6.45pm; 12 and up: 6.45-8pm.

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

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

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule looks like this.

4.30-6pm: Youth: Wookies (7-9 years); Youth: Padawans (9-11 years). 6-8pm: Aerial Hoop Level 3, Static Trapeze Level 3. 7.45-9.45pm: Aerial Hoop Levels 2 and 4, Static Trapeze Level 4.

Pilates-Based Back Care Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

10.30am. Info 01874 625992.

With Katy Sinnadurai. Also on Wednesday evenings.

Pilates-Based Body Conditioning Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

11.45am. Info 01874 625992.

With Katy Sinnadurai. Also on Wednesday evenings.

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

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

8pm. Info 029 2051 3440.

With Ian Lewis.

Salsa Classes Horse & Groom, Cowbridge. 8-10pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 07800 565651. Beginners for the first hour, then improvers/ intermediate.

St Donats Atlantic Chorale St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

7.30pm. Info 01446 799100.

Choir rehearsals.

Tango Dancing Argentine Barocco, Cardiff. 8-10.45pm, £3/£1. Info 029 2023 7332.

Tang Soo Do Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff.

7-9pm. Info 07734 557767.

Learn traditional Korean karate; beginners welcome.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 3-6pm Open training; 6-8pm Intermediate Aerial Hoop And Circus Fitness; 8-10pm Beginners Aerial Hoop.

Yoga Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 12.30-1.15pm. Info 029 2087 7959. On tomorrow also.

Yoga (Open Level) St Luke’s Church Hall, Canton, Cardiff. 7.15-8.15pm, £7.50/£35 for five classes.

Info sarasclasses4@gmail.com.

Yoga With Valerie Price St Mary’s Church Hall, Canton, Cardiff. 6.309.30pm. Info admin@ yoga-works.co.uk. 6.30-8pm: intermediate; 8.10-9.30pm: beginners.

EVERY TUESDAY A Ballroom Dance Memorial Hall, Newbridge.

7-11pm. Info 01495 243252.

Adult Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine’s Park, Cardiff. 6.30-7.50pm, £15. Info 029 2048 4880.

Every Tuesday to Thursday.

Aikido Village Hall, Heol Syr Lewis, Morganstown.

8-10pm. Info 07790 167560.

Every Tuesday and Friday.

Art Club Carnegie House, Bridgend. 6.30-8.30pm, £5.

Info 01656 815757.

Beginners Ballet Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 6.157.30pm, £6. Info 029 2063 5614. Covering key ballet principles including developing core strength, improving posture, basic steps, flexibility and coordination. Hosted

by National Dance Company Wales.

Beginners Contemporary Dance Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30-8.45pm, £6. Info 029 2063 5614. Exploring the basic principles of contemporary dance through a set of exercises. Hosted by National Dance Company Wales.

Beijing 24 Step Tai Chi St Mary’s Church Hall, Canton, Cardiff. 6.30-8pm. Info 07772 657692.

English Conversation Group For Beginners M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11am, free. Info 029

Mark Thompson

SWANSEA SCIENCE FESTIVAL Singleton Park Campus, Swansea University, Sun 3-Thurs 8 Nov. Admission: free. Info: www.swansea.ac.uk/swanseasciencefestival Being the largest free science festival in Wales, Swansea Science Festival showcases many exhibitions so you can be sure to find something you’re interested in. Thanks to the extensive research of Swansea University, you can explore the depths of the sea, land, air and space, with each having their own designated zones in the festival. You’ll be transported through time and space to visit Jurassic times, or the ungodly era of Ancient Egypt.

2047 3373. Led by a qualified English language teacher.

Finding Your Ancestors Carnegie House, Bridgend.

12.30-2.30pm, free. Info 01656 815757. With professional genealogist Cheryl Hart.

Gitananda Yoga St David’s Uniting Church, Pontypridd.

7-8.30pm, free. Info 01443 408065.

Glam Dram St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

7pm. Info 01446 799100.

Amateur theatre company for adults.

Jazz Workshops For Beginners Atradius Offices (4th floor), Cardiff Bay. 6.208pm, £10. Info 07806 625717.

All instruments and ages welcome.

Karate Classes Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.15-8.15pm. Info 029 2087 7959. With Emma Robins.

Knap Art Group All Saints Church Hall, The Knap, Barry. 2-4pm. Info glyn@ glynpooley.com. Hosted by Glyn Pooley. Get in touch if you are interested in developing your creativity through learning to draw or paint.

Laughter Yoga Llandaff North Community Centre, Cardiff. 7.15-8.15pm, £5 (suggested donation). Info www.sparklylaughter.co.uk.

“No experience required, no stretching and no mats needed,” promise the organisers.

Learn To Rock’n’Roll 50s Style Kenfig Hill Rugby Club, Bridgend. 8-10.30pm, £5. Info 07400 080101.

Hosted by Frank. Lessons are from 8.15-9pm; there’s a disco from 9-10.30. First dance lesson free.

Life Drawing Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6-8pm, £7.50. Info 07830 381930.

Hosted by Cardiff Life Model.

Lindy Hop Dance Classes & Social Swing Dancing

The Garage, Swansea.

6-10pm. Info 01792 475147.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219. With Lesley Walker. Also on Thursdays, Fridays aand Saturdays.

Morning Yoga Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8-9am, £6. Info 029 2063 5614. A Vinyasa flow class, aimed to develop functional, athletic abilities and maximise strength. Hosted by National Dance Company Wales.

Music Tots The Riverfront, Newport. 9.45am-1.45pm, £3 per session. Info 01633 656757. Music and movement class for babies aged eight weeks to five years.

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

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 4.30-6pm: Youth: Wookies (7-9 years). 5-6pm: Youth: Ewoks (5-7 years).

6-8pm: Supervised Training.

7.45-9.45pm: Beginners’ Mixed Aerial.

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

Pregnancy Yoga Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff. 6-7.15pm, £35/£30 (five-week blocks). Info kalavathi@omstudio.co.uk.

Qigong Class Bute Park, Cardiff. 6-7pm, pay by donation. Info 07779 151916.

More at www.bringingbalance.co.uk.

Salsa Classes Kapu, Cardiff. 7.30-10.30pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 07800 565651.

Beginners’ class starts 7.30pm; improvers 8.30; bachata 9.30.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Mines & Mountains National Museum Cardiff (pickup point).

9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you

present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com. Every Tuesday and Friday. This one visits Big Pit Mining Museum of Wales and Brecon Beacons National Park (including BBNP visitors centre).

Student Night Cardiff City Table Tennis Club, Dominion Way, Cardiff. 7-9pm, £2. Info 01446 412352. Featuring 16 table tennis tables; players of all ages and abilities are welcome. Check in advance on the sessions as the hall is occasionally booked by someone else.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 10am6pm Open Training; 6-8pm Trapeze For Beginners And Acrobalance; 8-10pm Chinese Pole.

Yoga Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 5.30-6.30 + 6.45-8pm. Info 029 2087 7959.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

7-8.30pm, £9. Info 07727 139379 / www.omstudio. co.uk. With Kalavathi Devi.

Yoga With Tori Boulders, St Catherine’s Park, Cardiff.

6-7pm, £6. Info 029 2048 4880. Every Tuesday and Wednesday.

Yoga With Valerie Price Llandough Institute, Penarth. 8.30-9.30pm. Info admin@yoga-works.co.uk.

Mixed level class.

Zhan Zhuang Qigong Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 12.301.30pm, £12/£10 adv. Info 029 2087 7959. ZZQ is an ancient Chinese health system based on a series of static postures.

Zumba: Dance Exercise Classes Fairwater Social & Athletic Club, Cardiff. 6-7pm.

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ROOTS UNEARTHED OCTOBER 2018 There comes a point in an artist’s career when it’s almost compulsory to release a retrospective or ‘greatest hits’ collection, but when that point arrives varies from artist to artist. Some wait until the end of the careers while others use the whole process as a cynical way of shifting more product by adding a couple of ‘previously unreleased’ tracks thereby driving completists to spend money on a lot of material which they already own. There are also those with more integrity who mark a significant anniversary or milestone in their career by releasing something that allows their fans to join in the celebration, and among those are Wales’ very own interceltic folksters Jamie Smith’s Mabon.

It hardly seems possible but in one form or another Jamie Smith’s Mabon have been around for 20 years. From playing their own arrangements of traditional folk dance tunes in pubs and village halls in south Wales, to the fringes and main stages of the Breton Festival Interceltique in Lorient and then onto international tours and appearances at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals, accordionist Smith has been leading the band on their steady climb to critical and popular acclaim.

To celebrate their 20th anniversary it’s fitting, given their awesome reputation as a live band, that their latest album – the aptly titled Twenty – is a live recording that features the band’s latest material and a selection of reworked tracks from the previous releases. Providing a perfect snapshot of the band’s evolution, it’s a ‘greatest hits’ collection that will appeal to their ever growing fanbase and will doubtless win them plenty of new fans.

To celebrate their anniversary and to promote the album, Jamie Smith’s Mabon will be touring extensively for the remainder of 2018 and into next year. To officially launch the album, the band will be onstage at Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall on Sat 27 Oct, where you’ll be welcome to join in the celebrations.

BUZZ ALSO RECOMMENDS: DnA and Vrï The cream of acoustic Welsh folk.

Llandeilo Acoustic, The Angel, Llandeilo (Thurs 11) Cara Dillon The beautiful, award-winning voice from County Derry.

Acapela Studios, Pentyrch, Cardiff (Fri 12) Karine Polwart Thought-provoking songwriting from Scotland. Pontardawe Arts Centre (Fri 19)

Please send your folk and roots listings to listings@buzzmag.co.uk or phone them in to 029 2022 6767

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Info 07891 712344. Led by Irene Davies, as is...

Zumba: Dance Exercise Classes St Faith Church Hall, Llanishen, Cardiff.

8-9pm. Info 07891 712344.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Adult Drama Carnegie House, Bridgend. 7.30-9pm, £6. Info 01656 815757.

Develop performance skills using impro, drama games and scripts.

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

6.30-7.50pm, £15. Info 029 2048 4880.

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

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

Info 01633 656757.

Ceroc Dance Class Dockers Club, Swansea.

7.45pm-12am, £6/£8 freestyles. Info cerocsouthwales@gmail. com.

Cheer Tots The Riverfront, Newport. 9.30-10.15am, £3. Info 01633 656757.

Movement session for babies.

Circus Club Carnegie House, Bridgend. 5.30-7pm, £1. Info 01656 815757. Come and learn a range of simple circus skills with Organised Kaos.

City Of Cardiff Rotaract Meeting Refectory Cafe, Windsor Place, Cardiff.

6.30pm. Info 07768 108394.

An 18-30s community group that integrates young professionals, students and refugees through community projects and social events.

Creative Wednesdays Evergreen Hall, Bridgend.

2-4pm, £3/£1 members. Info 01656 815757. Workshops in drawing, painting, ceramics, textiles etc.

Djembe Drumming Workshops Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff. 6.309.30pm, £5/£3. Info oceanartscardiff@gmx. co.uk. 6.30-8pm: beginners (£3); 8.15-9.30pm: intermediate/ advanced (£5). Drop-in classes.

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

Inclusive Stay & Play Group Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff. 12.45-2.45pm.

Info oceanartscardiff@gmx. co.uk. Hosted by KeyCreate – specialists in play, education, disabilities and creative arts – and aimed at children with additional needs, disabilities and life limiting conditions.

Jazz Workshops For Beginners Zion Chapel, Ponthir, Newport. 6.308.30pm, £10. Info 07806 625717. All instruments and ages welcome.

Newport Youth Dance The Riverfront, Newport. 4.156.15pm, £3 per session. Info 01633 656757. 7-10 years old: 4.15-5.15pm; 14-18: 5.156.15pm.

NoFit State Circus

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

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 4.15-6pm: Youth: Jedi Acrobatics (11-18 years); 6-8pm: Adult Acrobatics; 8-9.30pm: Handstands.

Pilates Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff. 6.30-7.30pm, £7.50/£35 for five classes.

Info sarasclasses4@gmail.com.

Pilates The Gate, Cardiff.

10.30am-1.30pm. Info info@ harnisch-lacey.com. 6pm: general; 7pm: advanced; 8pm: beginners.

Pilates-Based Back Care Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

5.45pm. Info 01874 625992.

With Katy Sinnadurai.

Pilates-Based Body Conditioning Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7pm.

Info 01874 625992. With Katy Sinnadurai.

Pub Quiz The Pilot, Penarth. 8pm. Info 029 2071 0615. With Hayley.

Qigong Class The Hub Community Centre, Llandaff North, Cardiff. 2-3pm. Info 07772 657692.

Salsa Classes Rhiwbina Recreation Club, Cardiff.

8-10pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 07800 565651.

SeeWales Sightseeing Tour: Romans And Ruins National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Day tours from Cardiff, every Wednesday and Saturday.

This one visits Caerleon, Caerwent, Tintern Abbey, the Wye Valley, Abbey Mill Craft Centre and Raglan Castle.

Toddler Time Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 10-11am. Info 01685 384111. Pre-school stories, rhymes and crafts for toddlers.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 10am6pm Open Training; 6-8pm Introduction To Aerial (beginners mixed); 8-10pm Aerial Silks Intermediate.

Welsh Conversation For Learners M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 10am, free.

Info 029 2047 3373. Led by a qualified Welsh language teacher.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff. 9.3011am, 11.30-am-12.45pm, 1-2.15pm + 7-9pm, £9/£8.

Info 07727 139379 / www. omstudio.co.uk. The evening class needs to be booked in advance. 11.30am-12.45pm is pregnancy yoga (previously on Thursdays).

Yoga Trwy Gyfrwng Y Gymraeg Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 7-8.30pm.

Info admin@yoga-works. co.uk.

Yoga With Tori Boulders, St Catherine’s Park, Cardiff.

6-7pm, £6. Info 029 2048 4880.

Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments The Freaks Geeks and Autographs Store, Swansea.

5.30pm, £3.50. Info 07914 683534.

EVERY THURSDAY Adult Give It A Go Climbing Session Boulders, St Catherine’s Park, Cardiff.

6.30-7.50pm, £10. Info 029 2048 4880.

Alexander Technique & Yoga M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11.30am-1pm, £16/£80 for six sessions. Info 029 2047 3373.

Art Club Penarth Pier Pavilion. 4.15-5.15pm, £5.

Info 0844 8700887. Creative fun for 5-11-year-olds with tutor Becky.

Ballet Academy Wales Classes – Children 6-11 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

4-5pm, £4.95. Info 07837 937351.

Beijing 24 Step Tai Chi Albert Rd Church & Community Centre, Penarth.

7.45-9pm. Info 07772 657692.

Bingo Market Street Club, Barry. 8.30pm. Info 01446 733863.

Breakdance The Riverfront, Newport. 6.307.30pm, £3.50 per session.

Info 01633 656757. Learn break dancing styles, uprock, freezes and power moves. For ages 8-18.

Ceroc Dance Class Lysaght Institute, Newport.

7.30-10.45pm, £8/£6 NUS. Info cerocsouthwales@ gmail.com.

Children’s Latin/ Ballroom Classes Memorial Hall, Newbridge.

4.30-8pm. Info 01495 243252.

Create Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 7-8pm.

Info 029 2116 7920. Adult drama group, aimed at all abilities.

Fitsteps FAB The Riverfront, Newport.

10-11am, £4. Info 01633 656757. Low intensity dance fitness workout.

Hand Drumming Group Canton Uniting Church, Cardiff. 6-7pm, £25 (five weeks). Info 07980 742328.

Hosted by Ronald Macauley.

Hatch Youth Theatre The Riverfront, Newport. 4.306.30pm. Info 01633 656757.

Hosted by Tin Shed Theatre.

Learn To Roller Skate Cardiff Central Youth Club, Cardiff. 6-7.30pm, £4/£40 for eight weeks at two sessions per week. Info www. brawlers.co.uk. With Cardiff roller derby team Tiger Bay Brawlers; fully coached and with veteran skater lead.

Also on every Sunday.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219.

Newport Badminton Club Pill Millennium Centre, Newport. 8-10pm. Info 07789 965285. Coached by Rhys Pritchard who represented Wales at the Junior Commonwealth Games.

Newport Junior Badminton Club Pill Millennium Centre, Newport.

7-8.30pm. Info 07789 965285. Coached by Rhys Pritchard.

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

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 6-8pm: Ropes & Silks Level 2, Static Trapeze Level 2. 7.45-9.45pm: Static Trapeze Level 2, Ropes & Silks Level 3, Ropes & Silks Level 4.

Pilates Stretch Tramshed Studio, Cardiff. 12.301.30pm, £10/£8. Info www. tramshedstudio.com.

Qigong Albert Rd Church & Community Centre, Penarth.

6.30-7.30pm. Info 07772 657692.

Salsa & Bachata Classes Kapu, Cardiff. 7pm-2am, £4-£7. Info 07800 565651.

Beginners 7.30pm; improvers/intermediates 8.30.

Free bachata dancing from 9.45pm.

Salsa Dancing Classes Revolucion De Cuba, Cardiff.

8-10pm, £6/£5 NUS. Info 029 2023 6689. Salsa, bachata, zouk and kizomba.

Samba Band Carnegie House, Bridgend. 6.30-8pm, £1. Info 01656 815757.

Re-create the sound of Brazilian Carnaval with Sallie MacLennan. No experience necessary, instruments provided.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Golden Gower National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Thursday and Sunday.

This one visits the Gower, Swansea Bay, Parc-Le-Breos, the Dylan Thomas Centre and more.

The Alexander Technique M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11am-12pm, £16.

Info info@yogaskies.co.uk.

Small group class hosted by Mike Young.

University Of The 3rd Age Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

Info richard-walker@live. co.uk. Hosted by Richard Walker – contact him on the above email.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 6-8pm Introduction To Aerial; 8-10pm Beginners Aerial Silks.

Yarny Army Evergreen Hall, Bridgend. 10am-12pm, £2/£1 members. Info 01656 815757.

Knitting and crocheting; beginners welcome.

Yoga And Alexander Technique M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff. 11am. Info 029 2047 3373. Hosted by Mike Young.

Yoga Classes Cardiff Steiner School, Llandaff North, Cardiff. 6-7 + 7-8pm, £8/£6.50. Info info@yogaskies.co.uk. Hosted by Mike Young.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

7-8am + 1-2.30, 6-7.15 +

7.30-8.45pm, £9/£8. Info 07727 139379 / www.omstudio.co.uk. 7.30pm: Pregnancy yoga.

EVERY FRIDAY Aikido Village Hall, Heol Syr Lewis, Morganstown.

8-10pm. Info 07790 167560.

Bingo Lingo The Depot, Cardiff. 6pm, £5. Info www. depotcardiff.co.uk. Features street food, a wheel of fortune and “rubbish prizes”.

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

Info mcaluan@cardiffaikikai.co.uk.

Cardiff Table Tennis Community Club Upper Hall, Sport Wales, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. 7-9pm. Info 01446 412352. Featuring 16 table tennis tables; players of all ages and abilities are welcome. Check in advance on the sessions as the hall is occasionally booked by someone else.

Children’s Tap/Ballet Classes Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 10.30-11.30am.

Info 01495 243252.

Community Choir Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 9.4511.45am, £72/£48 (12 weeks). Info 01446 401209.

Dance Tots The Riverfront, Newport. 9.30-10.05am + 10.15-10.50am, £3 per session. Info 01633 656757.

Parent/toddler dance and exercise session.

English Conversation Group For Advanced Adult Learners M.A.D.E. Gallery & Shop, Cardiff.

11am, free. Info 029 2047 3373. Led by a qualified English language teacher.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219.

Movement And Music For A Fuller Life Bishop Of Llandaff High School, Cardiff. 7.45-9.30pm, £5.

Info 07726 360584. Biodanza session, on most weeks (ring ahead to check) aiming to help you “discover the joy of living, feel better and happier, benefit from more energy, and be more flexible”.

Newport Photographic Club Skip Jennings Hall, Maindee, Newport. 7.30pm.

Info 01633 400685.

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

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 4.15-6pm: Youth: Jedi Aerial Skills (11-18 years); 6.30-7.30pm: Hula Disco!

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

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

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

Info 029 2022 7982.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Mines & Mountains National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine.

Info 029 2022 7227 / www. seewales.com.

Tango Argentine Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff.

7.30-8.45pm, £7/£4. Info 029 2023 7332. No experience or partner required.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 6-8pm Circus Fit; 6-8pm Supervised training.

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

Info 07891 712344. With Irene Davies.

EVERY SATURDAY African Drumming Sessions Glyndwr Community Centre, Penarth.

10-11.30am, £7. Info 07974 635502 / dan@phelpsmusic. com.

Ballroom Dancing Class Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

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

10am: kids; 11am: adults;

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 Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Sewing Workshops Barnabas Arts House, Newport. 10am-1pm. Info 01633 673739. Hosted by Ellery Design – see www. ellerydesign.com for details of how to book and/or contact them.

St Mary Street Cardiff Market St Mary Street, Cardiff. 11am-5pm, free.

Info 029 2019 0036. Selling artisan foods, vintage clothing, antique furniture and bric-a-brac.

Up Side Down Circus Classes Cave Venture Workshops, Tremorfa Industrial Estate, Cardiff.

Anna Barratt, Gemma Copp and Joan Jones, the artists behind the A Spacewoman Dreams exhibition at Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, are also there on Sat 6 to talk about it.

12pm: private tuition.

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

Knit And Natter Group M.A.D.E. Cafe, Cardiff3pm, free. Info 029 2047 3373.

Sharing, talking and informal tutoring of knitting skills – all levels welcome.

Mid Wales Dance Academy Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. Info 01874 623219.

Movement For Children Volcano, Swansea. 10am12pm, £4. Info www. volcanotheatre.co.uk.

Energetic classes with a focus on creativity, supporting physical development and building confidence.

Ages 4-7: 10am; 8-12: 11am.

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

Info 029 2022 1330 / www. nofitstate.org. Today’s schedule: 10-11.30am: Youth: Wookies (7-9 years); 11.30am-12.30pm: Youth: Ewoks (5-7 years); Youth: Padawans (9-11 years); 2-4pm: Youth: Jedi Performance Skills (11+); 4-6pm: Youth: Jedi General Skills (11-18 years).

Performance Academy Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

10am-1pm, £10. Info 01685

Info 029 2048 8854 / info@ upsidedowncircus.co.uk.

Today’s schedule: 10am-12 pm Introduction to Aerial (beginners mixed); 10am - 12pm Introduction To Chinese Pole; 12-2pm + 2-4pm Drop-in Training.

Yoga Classes Om Studio, Partridge Lane, Cardiff.

8-9.30am, £8. Info 07727 139379 / www.omstudio. co.uk. With Kalavathi Devi.

EVERY SUNDAY Ballet Academy Wales Classes – Adults Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 12-1pm, £6.50. Info 07837 937351.

Bridgend Undercover Car Boot Sale Multistorey Car Park, Bridgend Town Centre.

7am-12pm, free (selling cars £6; selling cars with trailers £10). Info 01656 661338.

Cooper’s Quiz Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm, £1 to play. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Hosted by Ben Cooper.

Draw Somebody’s Sunday Body Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 1.30-3.30pm, £7.50.

Info 07830 381930. Hosted

by Cardiff Life Model.

Hold Up Sunday Social Cardiff Speaker Hire, Cardiff.

2pm, free. Info 029 2009 5590. Pool, table tennis and access to The Hold Up’s jam/ rehearsal space.

Learn To Roller Skate Cardiff Central Youth Club, Cardiff. 12-1pm, £3/£40

for eight weeks at two sessions per week. Info www. brawlers.co.uk. Uncoached session hosted by Tiger Bay Brawlers.

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 + 3-5pm: Flying Trapeze Beginners & Improvers; 5-6.30pm: Acrobalance; 5-7pm: Flying Trapeze Intermediate & Advanced.

Open Breaking/ Breakdance Training Session Cardiff Speaker Hire, Cardiff. 5-8pm, £3.

Info 029 2009 5590. Hosted

by Cardiff City Breakers, The Hold Up and Elemental Force. *Riverside Farmers’ Market Fitzhammon Embankment, Cardiff. 10am2pm, free. Info 029 2022 7982. Always worth a trip.

SeeWales Sightseeing Day Tour: Golden Gower National Museum Cardiff (pickup point). 9am-5.30pm, £5 off if you present this magazine. Info 029 2022 7227 / www.seewales.com.

Sunday Board Games Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 3pm, free.

Info 029 2030 4400. Weekly session featuring a mixture of competitive and co-operative games.

MONDAY 1 OCTOBER uAdvanced Choreography/Burlesque Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff.

8-9.15pm, £8/£50 for eightweek course.Info info@ burlesquecardiff.co.uk.

With Stephanie; suitable for dancers who have performed in at least previous Cardiff Cabaret Club shows. Every Monday until 22 Oct. uArt Class Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 10.30am-12.30pm + 1-3pm, £6.50/£25.50 for five weeks. Info 01656 815995. Earlier session is for beginners; later session is for everyone. Also on Thurs 11 and 18 this month, then Thurs 8, 15 and 22 Nov. uBeginners Burlesque Course: Zombie A&E Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff. 6.307.45pm, £8/£50 for eightweek course.Info info@ burlesquecardiff.co.uk. With Stephanie. Every Monday until 30 Oct. uChair Dance Conway Road Methodist Church Hall, Cardiff. 6.30-7.45pm, £8/£50 for eight-week course. Info www.cardiffcabaretclub. com. With Stephanie. Every Monday until 22 Oct. uChildren’s Ballet The Gate, Cardiff. 4pm. Info mail@miriamriseboroughschoolofballet.co.uk. 4pm: ages 4-6; 4.45pm: ages 6-8; 5.45pm: Grade 1. With Miriam Riseborough. Every Monday until December TBC (half-term break on Mon

29 Oct). uContemporary Dance The Gate, Cardiff. 7pm.

Info s.elliebrown@googlemail.com. With Eleanor Brown. Every Monday until December TBC (half-term break on Mon 29 Oct). uDrums For All Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 12.301.30pm, £5/£4. Info 07875 090946. Dementia-friendly music making sessions.

Every other Monday (also on Mon 15 and Mon 29 this month) until 18 Dec. Fern Smith: Saying Grace Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 7-9.30pm, £3 (suggested donation). Info 01239 615952. Smith is an experimental artist who spent last year partaking in “magical thinking, being and doing” in residence here and at a few other Welsh theatre venues, with the help of an arts grant of course, and this evening she will be talking about it. In Ammanford on Wed 10.

Geraint Thomas Motorpoint Arena Cardiff.

7pm, £35. Info 029 2022 4488. This year’s Tour De France winner is also the first Welshman to do so, and he’ll be onstage in his city’s big venue talking about it with Ned Boulting.

Gwd Mondays: Musical Bingo Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 7933.

Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Arts & Culture National Symposium III Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea.

9.30am-2pm, free. Info 01792 602060. Book your place by contacting The Romani Cultural & Arts Company on 029 2078 6439 or isaacblake@romaniarts. co.uk. uHave Fun / Meet New People Grangetown Community Choir Cornwall Street Baptist Church Hall. Grangetown, Cardiff. 7.30-9.30pm, £10 per session/£80 for 10 sessions. Info paulinedown7@gmail.com.

With Pauline Down, every Monday until 10 Dec (apart from Mon 29 Oct). uPilates: Gentle / General The Gate, Cardiff.

10.30am-1.30pm. Info info@ harnisch-lacey.com. Gentle fitness for the first hour, general for the second two. Every Monday until December TBC (half-term break on Mon 29 Oct). 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 7, Tue 16, Sun 21, Mon 29, Tue 30 and Wed 31 this month.

Pip Stewart: Reflections From The Amazon Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £9.50-£11.50. Info 01874 611622. A talk by someone who has been to

South America and is concerned about the environmental impact our modern habits are wreaking upon it. I had this listed in the September issue so it’s presumably beren rescheduled. 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 15; it takes place here every first and third Monday of the month.

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER uAmerican Line Dancing The Gate, Cardiff. 2pm, £4.50. Info 029 2048 3344.

With John Moore. Every Tuesday until TBC. Contemporary Conversations Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 1-3pm, £3 (suggested donation).

Info 01792 516900. Session aiming to provide a supportive environment for people with an interest in creating art work and discussing contemporary issues. uDark Castle Ghost Tour Cardiff Castle. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10 kids. Info 07538 878609. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Sun 7, Tue 9 and Sun 14. uExplore Books National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10.30am, free.

Info 029 2057 3600. Book club, on every Tuesday this month apart from Tue 30, with no obligation to have read the book(s) beforehand.

This month books with a food-related theme will be discussed. uExtend The Gate, Cardiff.

10am, £4. Info 029 2048 3344. With Mabel GomezCehic. Every Tuesday until December TBC (half-term break on Tue 30 Oct).

Football: EFL League Two – Newport Country v Macclesfield Town Rodney Parade, Newport.

7.45pm. Info 01633 481896.

Goscombe John: A Great Welsh Sculptor Cardiff Castle. 6pm. Info 029 2087 8100. Lecture by Gwerfyl Gardner. uIrish Dancing The Gate, Cardiff. 7.45-9.15pm. Info reelfitnesscardiff@gmail. com. Beginners 7.45-830pm; intermediate 8.30-9.15pm.

With Yvonne McNelis. Every Tuesday until December TBC (half-term break on Tue 30 Oct). uLife Writing Peak, The Old School, Crickhowell.

10am-1pm, £35 (four weeks). Info 01873 811579.

With Renée Stanton. Every Tuesday until Oct 23.

Ocean Film Festival World Tour St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10£13. Info 029 2087 8444.

Compendium of short films of the sea, above and below the waves. uPainting For Pleasure Carmarthen Community Education Centre. 10am12pm + 1-3pm, £65 (10 weeks). Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail.

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* – recommended co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Tuesday until 20 Nov. uPilates: Beginners The Gate, Cardiff. 6.30pm.

Info info@harnisch-lacey. com. Every Tuesday until December TBC (half-term break on Tue 30 Oct). uPrintmaking Peak, The Old School, Crickhowell.

10am-1pm, £50 (four weeks).

Info 01873 811579. With Rachel Cadman. Every Tuesday until Oct 23. uRemember When...?

Newport Museum & Art Gallery. 2pm, free. Info 01633 656656. Join museum volunteer Peter Brown and share memories of growing up in Newport. Every Tuesday until 18 Dec. uRoath Writers The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £3. Info 029 2048 3344. A space for writers of all levels to write, develop and share their work in an informal workshop environment. Every first two Tuesdays of the month (also on Tue 9 in October).

Rules Of Play The Gate, Cardiff. 6.30-11pm, £3.50.

Info 029 2048 3344. Board game evening on the first Tuesday of every month. uUplift Singing Sessions Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

12.30-1.30pm, £5/£4. Info 01874 611622. With Tanya Walker. Every Tuesday (apart from 30 Oct) until 18 Dec. uWorldSong Choir Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff.

10-11.30am, £64 (eight weeks). Info paulinedown7@gmail.com.

Unaccompanied harmony singiong class with Pauline Down. Every Tuesday until 23 Oct. WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER uAdult Workshops Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

1-3pm, free. Info 01792 516900. A class for people of all abilities to create art in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Every Wednesday this month.

Christmas Craft Club: Modern Christmas Wreath The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.30-8.30pm, £20.

Info twinmadethings@gmail. com. Twin Made craft workshop, one of four on this month (also Wed 10, Wed 17 and Wed 24).

Drink & Draw The Gate, Cardiff. 8pm, £3.50. Info 029 2048 3344. With artist Rachel Rasmussen on the first Wednesday of every month.

Hoop N Move Cardiff & Vale College, Cardiff. 7-7.45pm, £7. Info elliecoptor@hotmail.com. Hoop dance/aerobics class, with Elliecoptor Pilott. uKaren Dawn Curtis Six Week Clay Workshop The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30-9.30pm, £115 (six weeks). Info 029 2048 3344. Every Wednesday until 17 Oct. Made In Wales Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

7.45pm, £12-£16. Info 01970 623232. Described as “a reverent, nostalgic, bawdy and BUZZ 64

biting celebration of Wales and Welshness in poetry and music from the sixth century to the present day”. uPilates: Beginners / General / Advanced The Gate, Cardiff. 6pm.

Info info@harnisch-lacey. com. 6pm: general; 7pm: advanced; 8pm: beginners.

Every Wednesday until December TBC (half-term break on Wed 31 Oct).

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. uScriveners Writers’ Group The Badminton Club, Beaufort, Ebbw Vale. 8pm. Info 01495 753629. Also on Wed 17 and Wed 31 this month.

Wasteless Home Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.309pm, £11. Info hannah@ greencityevents.co.uk. A guide to sustainability, hosted by Green City Events but sold out already.

THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER Benedict Allen The Riverfront, Newport.

7.30pm, £18.50/£17.50. Info 01633 656757. Explorer bloke with a new show about the time he got lost or something recently.

Bridgend Writers’ Circle Carnegie House, Bridgend.

7pm, free. Info 01656 815757. Meeting here on the first Thursday of every month. uDrawing Carmarthen Community Education Centre. 2.30-4.30pm, £65 (10 weeks). Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail. co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Thursday until 22 Nov. First Thursday Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £2.50. Info 029 2030 4400. New poetry and fiction, this month with Marianne Burton and David Llewellyn.

Garden Tours Dyffryn Gardens, Vale Of Glamorgan. 12-1pm, free after admission. Info 029 2059 3328.

Kemi’s Storytelling Suppers Kemi’s, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 7pm, £14. Info 029 2037 2055.

Monthly gathering starting up again after summer, this edition featuring guest storyteller Sharon Jacksties.

Price includes food.

Mick Herron Waterloo Tea, Penarth. 7.30-9pm, £10 adv.

Info 029 2070 6455. Author discusses his latest work What Happened; presented

by Griffin Books.

Ocean Mic Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff.

7-10pm, £2 corkage fee.

Info oceanartscardiff@ gmx.co.uk. BYOB open mic night, hosted by Jonathan Powell and on every first Thursday of the month. uPainting For Pleasure Carmarthen Community Education Centre. 9.3011.30am, £65 (10 weeks).

Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail. co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Thursday until 22 Nov. Through The Pint Glass The Dragonffli, Pontypool.

7pm, free. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com. An evening of poetry and spoken word hosted By Ann Drysdale.

WAM Night Workers Gallery, Ynyshir, nr Porth.

7-9pm. Info 01443 682024.

Words, art and music with Francesca Kay and cartoonist Mumph among others. uWatercolours Carmarthen Community Education Centre. 12-2pm, £65 (10 weeks). Info 01550 777933 / sheridanjulieann@gmail.co.uk. With Julie Ann Sheridan. Every Thursday until 22 Nov. FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER An Evening with Robert Minhinnick The Muse, Brecon. 7pm, free. Info 01874 611529. Poetry.

Arts & Craft Table Top Sales Ebenezer Chapel, Tonypandy. 10am-1pm, £5 to set up a table. Info ebenezercraftsfair@gmx. co.uk. First Friday of every month.

Autumn Italian Kitchen Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan.

9.30am-3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www. angelagray.co.uk.

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. uEye Festival 2018 Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

7.30pm, £45-£65. Info 01970 623232. International photography festival featuring talks, discussions, interviews, portfolio reviews and exhibitions over three days. Guests include Danilo Balducci, Kasia Woskniak, Kate Holt, Sophie Batterbury, Neil Bennett, Niall McDiarmid, Eamonn McCabe and Karen Marshall.

More info at www. theeyefestival.co.uk. (Until Sun 7) 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: Colours National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10.30am12pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Bilingual playtime for babies/toddlers.

Macramé Plant Hangers Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 10.30am-12.30pm, £25. Info 029 2116 7920.

Craft workshop. uMidnight Ghost Tour Cardiff Castle. 10.30pm, £15.50. Info 07538 878609.

Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Fri 19, Sat 27, Sun 28, Tue 30 and Wed 31.

uNeath Food & Drink Festival Neath town centre.

10am-6.30pm, free. Info 01639 686835. Annual weekender of stalls, demos etc.

(Until Sun 7) Only Fools And Boycie Miners Theatre, Ammanford.

7pm, £17.50. Info 0845 2263510. John Challis talks about his acting career. In Hay on Fri 12. uRally In The Woods Merthyr Mawr Sand Dunes.

12pm, £18 adv (three days).

Info rallyinthewoods.com.

Biker rally/mini-festival up in, well, the woods, where the bands play in a big shed.

Going on the photos it’s a bit like this thing I go to in the Lake District, but with (I imagine) very different music. Bet it’s total carnage as well though. (Until Sun 7) Superstars Of Welsh Wrestling The Welfare, Ystradgynlais. 7pm, £11/£9 kids. Info 01639 843163.

Toddler Days Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £5.50/free under-4s. Info 029 2047 5475. Monthly term-time events for toddlers and their parents, this month’s theme being ‘get spooky’. uWorkshop Bike Sale Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 1-5pm. Info www.cycletrainingwales. org.uk. Adult bikes on sale from £60; kids’ bikes from £10. On tomorrow also, from 10.30am-12.30pm, and every other Friday this month.

SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER An Evening with Kate Humble Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7.30pm, £16.50/£14.50. Info 0845 2263510. Promoting a new book, Thinking On My Feet. In Newport on Wed 10; Monmouth on Tue 16. uArt Trolley Saturday Drop-In Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 10.30am1pm, free. Info 01792 516900. Every Saturday this month.

Autumn Adventure Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 11am-2.30pm, free. Info 029 2063 6464.

Free bilingual family activities.

Autumn Supper For Friends Special Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £185. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk. uChinese Brush Painting Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 2.30-4.30pm, £120 (six weeks) Info 029 2116 7920. Course suitable for beginners aged 12 and over, and running every Saturday (apart from Sat 20 Oct) until 3 Nov. Craft Fair Coffee Cove Cafe Bar, Barry Island. 10am3.30pm, free/£10 to set up a stall. Info 07948 399111.

Every first Saturday of the month.

Dewch i Ganu National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 11am, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Join musician Delyth Jenkins and

learn Welsh through song.

Dragondaze 2018 The Riverfront, Newport. 10am, £7.50/£5 10-18-year-olds.

Info 01633 656757. Comic con and games convention.

Eclectic Crafters Centenary Hall, Maryport Street, Usk. Info eclectic. crafters@gmail.com.

Craft fair held on the first Saturday of each month.

Elysium Artists Makers Market National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10am4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Creative showcase/ shop for people from Swansea’s Elysium Gallery.

Enfys Craft Fair St. Francis Millennium Centre, Barry. 10am-4pm. Info 01446 792149. Every first Saturday of the month.

Football: EFL Championship – Swansea City v Ipswich Town Liberty Stadium, Swansea.

3pm. Info 0870 400004. uGower Cider Festival Gower Heritage Centre, Swansea. 10am, free. Info 01792 371206. On tomorrow also. uHave A Go Archery Caldicot Castle & Country Park. £1.50 for four arrows.

Info 01291 420241. On tomorrow also. uHedgehog Helper Morning Howey Hedgehog Rescue, Llandrindod Wells. £20. Info 01874 749092. Be a volunteer at a hedgehog rescue for a morning, helping their work to nurse sick and injured hogs and hoglets. On tomorrow also.

Ice Hockey: League – Cardiff Devils v Manchester Storm Ice Arena, Cardiff Bay. 7pm. Info 029 2038 2001.

Leather/ette Travel Journals The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 10am12pm, £25. Info twinmadethings@gmail. com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Machen Rural Market Machen Church Hall. 10am2pm. Info 07737 630657. On the first Saturday of every month.

Oktoberfest The Depot, Cardiff. 12-5 + 6-11pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info www. depotcardiff.co.uk. See Food News for a bit more on this Teutonic pissup.

Open Haus The Printhaus / The Bone Yard, 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. uPerseus And Pegasus Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee.

Info 029 2047 5475. A look at the night sky, based on the Greek mythological tale.

Suitable for under-7s. (Every Saturday and Sunday until Sun 21) uPremium Ghost Tour Cardiff Castle. 7.30pm, £15.50. Info 07538 878609.

Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. Also on Sat 13, Sat 20, Mon 22 and Sat 27. uPremium Llandaff

u – repeated

Ghost Walk City Cross, Cathedral Green, Llandaff (meeting point). 8.30pm, £11.50. Info 07538 878609.

Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. Two-hour tour walking through woodlands, ruins and graveyards. Also on Fri 26 and Wed 31 (midnight walk, 10.30pm start) Sausage Making Humble

By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £115.

Info 01600 714595.

Slab Building And Surface Pattern In Clay Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am-4.30pm, £85.

Info 029 2048 4611. With Paul Taylor. uSt Fagans Dark Castle Tour National History Museum, St Fagans. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10 kids. Info 029 2057 3500. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings.

Also on Thurs 25 (7pm) and Fri 26 (7.15pm). uSwitched On Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. Info 029 2047 5475. Explore how visible light and light we cannot see plays a part in all our lives. (Every Saturday and Sunday until Sun 21) Talk: A Spacewoman Dreams Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2.303.30pm, £3 (suggested donation). Info 01792 516900.

In conversation with Anna Barratt, Gemma Copp and Joan Jones, the artists behind the ...Spacewoman... exhibition currently showing here (see Art listings). uThe Search For Life Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee.

Info 029 2047 5475. How life is thought to have started on this planet, and the search for life on other planets and moons in the solar system.

(Every Saturday and Sunday until Sun 21) Tiny Rebel Newport Food & Drink Festival Newport city centre. 9am-5pm, free.

Info 01633 656656. Featuring some 80 food stalls plus chef demos and a teenage chef competition.

Transporter Bridge Abseil Transporter Bridge, Newport.

9am-5pm, £28 to take part.

Info 01633 851051. In aid of St David’s Hospice Care.

Vintage Kilo Sale Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff.

10am-6pm, free. Info 029 2037 3144. Designer labels at £15 a kilo they’re saying.

West Wales Wool Show Queens Hall, Narberth.

10am-4.30pm, free. Info 01834 869323. Yarns, fibres, equipment, demonstrations, workshops, tombola and more, it is claimed.

SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER Anton Du Beke Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 1pm, £20 with book/£25 for two with book. Info 01600 772467. This appears to be the Strictly fella on a tour promoting his debut novel, One Enchanted Evening.

It’s set in a hotel ballroom and its protagonist, head of a dance troupe, is called Raymond De Guise. Can only say fair play to the big

man for such a lack of selfeffacement.

Belle’s Vintage Fair Belle Vue Park, Newport.

11am-4pm, free. Info 0303 7622680. On the first Sunday of every month this year.

Bring And Share Supper Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff. 6.30-9pm, free. Info oceanartscardiff@gmx. co.uk. Community social, every first Sunday of the month.

Cardiff Half Marathon Cardiff Castle (starting point). 9.50am, from £10 to enter/free to spectate. Info www.cardiffhalfmarathon. co.uk. Annual 13.1-mile slog, usually held on the first Sunday of October. Most entry places are filled but at the time of writing you can still run for the NSPCC, if you raise £300 or more of sponsorship.

Cardiff Storytelling Circle Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7pm, £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. uDinky Donkey Walking Venue TBC, Brecon Beacons. £35/£25 under-16s. Info 01874 749092. Spend a couple of hours with a pair of Miniature Mediterranean Donkeys. Also on Sun 14, Sat 20, Sun 28 and Wed 31 this month.

Friars Walk Market Friars Walk, Newport. 11am-4pm, £24 to set up a table. Info 07954 654220. On the first Sunday of every month, on John Frost Square (in good weather) or inside the Mall (in normal weather).

Llantrisant Folk Club Annual General Meeting Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club. 1pm. Info 01443 226892.

Momo Dumpling Cooking Experience Venue TBC, Sennybridge, nr Brecon.

6.30pm, £35. Info 01874 749092. Learn how to make Momo dumplings, soup and a dipping chutney with a demonstration from a Nepalese Gurkha chef.

Stretch Revive and Relax Workshop Tramshed Studio, Cardiff. 10.30am12.30pm, £20. Info sarasclasses4@gmail.com.

Swing Dance Sunday Bootlegger, Cardiff. 7pm, £4.

Info 07495 657407. Taster classes, every first Sunday of the month, with Anna Rogers from Lindy Hop Cardiff.

The Great Make National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 12-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Family creative afternoon.

The Office Quiz Tramshed, Cardiff. 6pm, £10 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. Hosted

by Ewen MacIntosh, who played Keith in The Office and who doesn’t have his actual name mentioned in any of the publicity blurb for this event. Poor Keith, er Ewen.

Weaving Without A Loom Craft In The Bay, Cardiff

Bay. 10.30am-4.30pm, £85.

Info 029 2048 4611. With Laura Thomas. Weaving Without A Loom sounds like the title of a private press 1970s folk album.

MONDAY 8 OCTOBER uJoy Of Living Mindfulness Group Meeting Gaia Yoga Studio, Roath, Cardiff. 7.30-9pm, free (donations welcome).

Info 07412 346054. On the second and fourth Monday of every month (also Mon 22 in October).

Unlimited Connects: Wales Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 2-6pm, free. Info 029 2063 6464.

Panel discussion and networking event about disability in the arts.

TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER uArt Babas Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 10.3011.30am, free. Info 01792 516900. Relaxed sensory craft session for parents/ carers and children from six months to three years. Also on Tue 23 this month. Book in advance please.

Dark Matter For Beginners The Globe, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £12 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Funzing talk by Dr. Amelie Saintonge.

French Style Memo Boards Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 1.303.30pm, £25. Info 029 2116 7920. These things appear to be padded boards with crisscrossed fabric that you tuck memos etc behind. uIris Prize 2018 Various venues (Cineworld except where noted), Cardiff. £125 full pass/£85 Fri 12-Sun 14/£30 per day/individual events various prices. Info www.irisprize.org. See Upfront for more on Cardiff’s annual LGBT+ film festival, and see the Iris website for full listings. Today has an opening party in Cineworld at 7pm, then the nearby Park Inn at 9pm. Wed 10-Sat 13 is a mix of screenings, shorts, talks, producers’ forums and parties later on (in the Golden Cross, Mary’s, Chapel 1877 and a secret venue). Sun 14 features the Iris Carnival and Awards, starting at 12pm. (Until Sun 14) Malachy Doyle Griffin Books, Penarth. 10.30am, free. Info 029 2070 6455.

Kids’ author with a drop-in reading session.

RNIB Art Group Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

1-3pm, £3 (suggested donation). Info 01792 516900.

Tutor-led class for people with visual impairments.

The Treasures Of Far Cathay Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 2.30pm. Info 01874 611622. Arts Society Brecknock lecture by Peter Le Rossignol.

WWDFAS Lecture: Up To A Point Pyramids In Britain & Ireland Queens Hall, Narberth. 10am. Info 01834 869323. Lecture by David Winpenny.

WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER An Evening with Kate Humble The Riverfront, Newport. 7pm, £18/£16. Info 01633 656757.

Christmas Craft Club: Paint A Christmas Platter The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.30-8.30pm, £20.

Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Conservation Surgery Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am-12pm, £3 (suggested donation). Info 01792 516900. Meet the gallery’s conservator and ask questions about how to care for your own art. Book in advance please.

Fern Smith: Saying Grace Miners Theatre, Ammanford.

7pm. Info 0845 2263510.

Hula Hoop Class For All Levels Cardiff & Vale College, Cardiff. 7-8pm, £7.

Info www.faw.cymru.

Imagination Forum: Gathering #4 The Sustainable Studio, Cardiff.

6-9pm. Info radha@ gentleradical.org. Gentle/ Radical present a PechaKucha evening of presentations, talks etc from Welsh and/or BAME perspectives. 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 Thurs 25 this month.

tion. Info 029 2023 1723.

Every second and fourth Friday of the month (also on Fri 26 in October).

Succulent Terrarium & Macramé Plant Hanger Workshop The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.308.30pm, £50. Info twinmadethings@gmail. com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Superstars Of Welsh Wrestling Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot. 7pm, £12/£9 kids. Info 01639 763214.

Tea Dance St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

2pm, £5. Info 01446 799100.

With Alan Taylor.

FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER Dandiya Dancing National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 7-10pm, £3/£1 kids. Info 029 2057 3600.

Dussehra Hindu festivities,

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER Autumn Fair St Pauls Centre, Port Talbot. 10am, free. Info 07971 242730.

Handmade craft and produce.

Autumn In Provence Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan.

9.30am-3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk.

Benedict Allen Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £17. Info 01874 611622. Explorer bloke talks about that. uBook Swap National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 11am-4pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3600. Come along with a bunch of tomes and do the thing the title implies (CDs and vinyl too if you like). On tomorrow also.

Boxing: FKO Fundraiser Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7pm, £35 ringside/£30 standing. Info 01495 227206.

Burns Series Adventure Race Margam Park, nr Port Talbot. Info 01639 881635.

With a choice of two distances: Burn (10km race, 1km kayak, 40km mountain bike orienteering) and Mini Burn (3km run, 1km kayak, 10km mountain bike).

Caerwent Craft Fayre Caerwent Village Hall, Monmouthshire. 2.304.30pm. Info cwmbran_ crafts@hotmail.co.uk. Every second Saturday of the month. uCanal Walk With Dinky Donkeys Venue TBC, Pencelli, Brecon. £55. Info 01874 749092. Take two miniature Mediterranean donkeys for a wander along the Brecon & Monmouthshire Canal. Price includes food and drink. Also on Sun 21 this month.

Chepstow Farmers’ Market Cormeilles Square, Chepstow. 8.30am-1pm, free.

Info 01291 626370. Every second and fourth Saturday of the month (also on Sat 24).

Dogtoberfest Pup Crawl Pen & Wig, Cardiff (starting point). 12pm, £18 adv. Info www.dogfuriendly.com. The premise of this is that you can go to a bunch of Cardiff pubs (also Beelzebubs, Tiny Rebel, the Cambrian Tap and Kongs) with your dog, who get a few treats and stuff thrown in for the price. You

Kemi’s, a cafe in Cardiff’s leafy Pontcanna, hosts Storytelling Suppers once a month until next spring. September’s is on Thurs 6, and for £14 you get a bunch of their nice looking food and storytelling from guest Amy Douglas.

Info elliecoptor@hotmail. com. With Elliecoptor Pilott.

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 to the Gallery’s conservation department. Book in advance please.

Urban Hens Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.30-9pm, £11. Info hannah@ greencityevents.co.uk.

Hosted by Green City Events.

THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER Alun Havard: A Conversation With Heaven Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £10. Info 01633 868239. Spirit medium.

Arts Society Cardiff Lecture: Inspired By Stonehenge Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2pm, £7. Info 029 2030 4400. Lecture by Julian Richards.

Crafty Beer Evening NosDa, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £15. Info 029 2037 8866.

Do crafts and drink some drinks, with your hosts Twin Made. Price includes one drink and crafting materials/ equipment.

Fighters: Past & Present Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £8.

Info 01873 850805. As in boxers, notable local ones of whom will be taking about their experience of and views on the sport.

Football: Friendly – Wales v Spain Principality Stadium, Cardiff. 7.45pm, £20/£10 OAP/£5 under-16s.

hosted by Indian Kathak Dance professional Sarita Sood.

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. uFearFest-Evil National Diving & Activity Centre, Chepstow. 6.30-10.30pm, from £25. Info www.fearfestevil.co.uk. This is actually in the woodland next to the diving centre, in case you were thinking that doesn’t sound like a very scary location. It’s in sessions of an hour at a time, you can read a bit more about it in Roundup; here are the other dates: Sat 13, Fri 19, Sat 20, Fri 26, Sat 27 and Wed 31.

Little Man Quiz Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 7-9pm, £1 to play. Info 07933 844234.

Every second Friday of the month. uOktoberfest Newport The Neon, Newport. 6pm1am, £12.50 per day. Info 01633 533666. In which a venue run by fervent UKIP supporter and recent failed councillor Andrew Byers serves up two days (on tomorrow also) of “Authentic Bavarian Atmosphere straight from the heart of Munich”. Why, it’s almost as if they have no principles whatsoever!

Only Fools And Boycie The Globe At Hay, Hay-OnWye. 7pm, £17. Info 01497 821762. uPhilosophy In A Cafe Steen’s Cafe, Windsor Place, Cardiff. 2-4pm, pay by dona-

also get 10% or more off at all the bars.

Farmers’ Market Twyn Community Centre, Caerphilly. 9.30am, free. Info 01656 658963. Every second Saturday of the month.

Football: EFL League Two – Newport Country v Stevenage Rodney Parade, Newport. 3pm. Info 01633 481896.

French Style Memo Boards Workshop The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 10am-12pm, £25.

Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Funky Craft Fayre Ostreme Centre, Mumbles, Swansea. 10am-4pm. Info nigel.mason@ntlworld.com.

Second Saturday of every month.

Ice Hockey: League – Cardiff Devils v Dundee Stars Ice Arena, Cardiff Bay. 7pm. Info 029 2038 2001.

Jump Season Opener – Oktoberfest Saturday Chepstow Racecourse.

11.55am, from £24 adv. Info 01291 622260. Featuring seven races across the day.

Kidsmarkets Autumn Mega Market Howells School Sports Hall, Llandaff.

11am-12.30pm, £1.50/kids free. Info 07760 802088.

Featuring great quality new and pre-loved kids’ toys.

Level 1 Bike Maintenance Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 9.30am4pm, £75. Info www. cycletrainingwales.org.uk.

Michael Brandon Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 8pm, £15. Info 01600 772467.

Him out of Dempsey And Makepeace talks about showbiz etc.

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 until the end of the year. uPremium Ghost Walk National History Museum, St Fagans. 7.30pm, £15.50. Info 029 2057 3500. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings.

Also on Mon 22-Thurs 25 (7.45pm start) and Sat 27 (7.15pm and 8.45pm sessions).

SA4 Market Canolfan Centre, Gorseinon, Swansea.

Free. Info andwoo29@gmail. com. Craft and local produce market, every second Saturday of the month.

Saturday Art Club Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran. 10am12pm + 1-3pm, £6 per session. Info 01633 483321.

Monthly sessions aimed at ages 7-11, on every second Saturday of the month until June and offering the opporBUZZ 65

BAFTA CYMRU OCTOBER 2018 October is AWARDS MONTH here at BAFTA Cymru! We’re gearing up for our 27th ceremony celebrating the excellence of Welsh film, games and TV with dramas Bang, Craith Keeping Faith and Born To Kill leading the nominations.

You can find out will pick up the awards in 20 categories and the two Special Awards in person and be part of it all – either by purchasing tickets for the whole evening (including the party), watching red carpet arrivals or watching our live streams on Facebook or Youtube.

October will be a busy month for our ongoing events programme – many of which are open to the public. We continue with the theme of celebrating Welsh talent and content made in Wales and highlighting the breadth of production taking place.

We’ll be supporting our partners, Watch Africa Film Festival and Iris Prize Film Festival, as well as screening a new S4C feature, Morfydd, about the famous Welsh singer, pianist and composer from Treforest, Morfydd Owen. And watch out for our announcement of a very special event, with a very special A-list actor, in Cardiff later in November!

If you are working in film, television or games in Wales, or a student interested in joining the industry, you can take a look at the benefits of joining BAFTA Cymru via our website below. Our various membership fees cost less than £15 a month and offer free cinema amongst a range of other benefits.

If you are new to Cardiff and starting college or university – croeso! – and look out for our team at your freshers fair, which will be a chance to ask us questions about what we do and how you can get involved!

Info: www.bafta.org/wales

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tunity to explore disciplines such as collage, construction, printmaking, ceramics, painting and drawing.

Saturday Family Workshops Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 10am-1pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Book in advance please. uSeascape Art Attack National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 12-3pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. contribute to a giant window mural with artist Susan Evans to celebrate the Museum’s new HM Coastguards exhibition. On tomorrow also.

Spoken Word Saturday Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 3pm, £3.

Info 0845 2263510.

Street Food & Live Music Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 4-10pm. Info www. pontcannamarket.co.uk.

Featuring food from The Med Shed, The Lazy Leek, Alex Gooch, Pipes Beer and Lufkin Coffee. Most of those are based in this yard anyway so, er, maybe there are more traders to be announced.

Super Science Saturday National Museum Cardiff.

11am-4pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. Family activities Talk: Yinka Shonibare MBE Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2.303.30pm, £8/£4. Info 01792 516900. Book in advance please.

The Greatest V The Neon, Newport. 6.30pm, £10 adv.

Info 01633 533666. A night celebrating, in the venue’s (and Paul Nuttall’s) words, “the best and brightest” of Newport’s independent business and culture, this evening will feature guests from Capitol Radio and live music from Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band.

Tribe Peak, The Old School, Crickhowell. 2-4.30pm, £3.

Info 01873 811579. Monthly workshop for young artists (age 7-11) and their families.

Also on Sat 10 Nov and Sat 8 Dec. T-Shirt Printing The Printhaus, Canton, Cardiff.

12-3pm, £45. Info 029 2022 0349. Monthly course aimed at beginners.

Vegan Beer Festival Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff. 12-11pm, £7/£4 adv.

Info 029 2037 3144. The first event of its kind in Wales, it says here, with Pipes, BangOn, Mad Dog and Bragdy Twt Lol among the Welsh breweries offering up beers made with no fish guts or dead dogs or whatever. Plus a bunch of vegan food stalls.

Young Makers Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2-4pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Turn your drawings into professional quality animation puppets and three-dimensional theatre sets. Book in advance please.

SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER BAFTA Cymru Awards 2018 St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 6pm, £55-£100. Info 029 2087 8444. Think this is featured somewhere in this

issue, anmd presumably in the monthly column that appears in these listings.

Barry Island Handmade Market Barry Island train station. 11am-3pm, free. Info facebook.com/ barryislandhandmademarket. Every second Sunday of the month.

Cider Making Humble

By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £115.

Info 01600 714595.

Gourmet Barbecue Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Jump Season Opener – Food & Countryside Saturday Chepstow Racecourse. 11.55am, from £15 adv. Info 01291 622260.

Featuring seven races across the day. uMade In Roath 2018 Various venues, Roath, Cardiff. 10am-4pm, most events free. Info www. madeinroath.com. Annual week-long celebration of a district through arch arty happenings. Way too much to list properly – check the website – so I’ll list names of artists only. Today (many of these are exhibitions runing until Sun 21): James Rogers, Rory Buckland, James Cocks and The Postcard Project, Rachel Carney, Lea Sautin, Hywel Edwards, Lucy Mebarki, Emma Hutchinson, Frank James Rogers, Alix Edwards, Claudia Carrillo & Emma Downes, John Liepins, Glyn Owen, Simon Gore, Dave Daggers and Deb Lloyd, Rachel Helena Walsh, Annette Marie Townsend, Ellen Heeney, Nathan Wyburn, Clive Ward, Sarah Boulton, Andre Stitt and Christopher Hopkins.

Mon 15: Jane Nicholls open studio, Shaun Jamesa and Cardiff Writers’ Circle hosted by Alix Edwards.

Tue 16: Bernstein Bash with Weeping Tudor, Sharon Magill, Rachel Carney, Faye Scott Warrington and Denisa Nicola Molna. Wed 17: Olga Guse, Unit(e) and CCVG Symphonic Brass.

Thurs 18: Rob Piercy, Susan Atkins, Janet Blackman, Lynne Cartlidge, Mary Dewey, the Wales African Film Club and Poetry Bingo with Alan Whitfield. Fri 19: Beth Blandford, Gareth Brown, Abbey Preece, Maeve Curtis and Kathryn Murphy, Tunupa Incari, Betina Skovbro, Ben EwartDean, Katherine Holmes, Spellbound Slumber: Opera In Situ, The Funky Love Posse and Dom Farelli. Sat 20: Annie, Alice & Rose, Garmon Roberts, Andrew Bolton, Dorcas Pennyfather, Anna Polya, the Trinity Sewing Group, Rachel Rasmussen, Ceri Morris & Helen Rowlands, Jack Nicol, Helen Hughes, Glenn Carney & Den Foley, Christina Thatcher, Johana Hartwig, Cam Elizabeth & Mike Erskine, Natalie

Ramus, Esyllt George, Jo Perry, BaseArt Collective, Oriane Pierrepoint, Jenna Murphy & Matthew Murphy, Bel Blue & Allan Herbert, Rory Duckhouse & Amy Edwards, Mehdi Razi, Sarah Featherstone & Poddington More, Alison Graham, Ellwyn Male, Hilary Roberts & Maggie Davies, Mike Carter, Beth Nicholls, Sandra Gustafsson, Kethryn Campbell Dodd, Daphne Ioanna Giannoulatou, Andrew Pershin & Zosia Krasnowolska, Eman Al-Awami, Brynteg Art Department, Sahar Saki, Jim Dahl’s Psychic Caravan, Alix Edwards, Dino Rovaretti, Joseff Badman, Karen O’Shea, Rat Trap Collective, Andrew Barlow & Mike Kerin, Claire Syder, Doreen Barnaville, Weeping Tudor present National Stupid Day and Lasagne Cat, YouthQuake theatre showcase and Fflamingo present Gaesop’s Fables.

Sun 21: Natasha Marchant, Jac Saorsa, Krafty Family Collective, Patti McJones, Dylan Adams, Roath Brook Orchestra and a Vinyl Cruise DJ night in the Andrew Buchan to finish off. (Until Sun 21) Marina Market National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10am-3pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3600. Monthly event.

One Walk Cardiff 2018 SSE SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff. 10am-1pm, £10 to register/free under-18s. Info wales@jdrf.org.uk. Charity walk in aid of JDRF Wales.

Red Kite Bird Photography Experience Venue TBC, nr Llangadog, Llandovery. 11am, £85. Info 01874 749092. Small group photography tuition day at the red kite feeding station with Gareth Scanlon.

(four days). Info www. cycletrainingwales.org.uk.

(Until Fri 18) TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER An Evening with Kate Humble Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7pm, £15. Info 01600 772467. All proceeds from her book sales here go to this venue, which I guess still needs repairs of some kind.

Book Club The Gate, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344. Third Tuesday of every month.

Contemporary Conversations Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 1-3pm, free. Info 01792 516900.

Session to provide a supportive environment for people with an interest in creating art work and discussing contemporary issues. Book in advance please.

Ice Hockey: Champions League – Cardiff Devils v Vaxjo Lakers Ice Arena, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm. Info 029 2038 2001.

Lecture: Cardiff Yesterday II Cardiff Castle.

6pm. Info 029 2087 8100.

With Matthew Williams.

Tea Dance Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 2.30pm, £6. Info 0845 2263510.

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER Christmas Craft Club: Felt Christmas Bunting The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.30-8.30pm, £20.

Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Household Repairs & DIY Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 6.30-9pm, £11. Info hannah@ greencityevents.co.uk.

Hosted by Green City Events.

Neil Oliver Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £24.50.

Info 01792 475715. Coast presenter with a show titled

If you have a personal/ethical/ dietary interest in our list of vegan (-friendly) places to eat in this issue’s food section, you may also like the local brewer offerings at the Vegan Beer Festival in Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff on Sat 13.

Wild Food Foraging Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £95. Info 01600 714595.

MONDAY 15 OCTOBER Gwd Mondays Music Quiz Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 7933.

Music Bingo The Moon, Cardiff. 7-9pm, £2. Info info@themooncardiff. com. New monthly night raising money for Tiger Bay Brawlers. uVelotech Gold Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 9.30am-4pm, £495

The Story Of The British Isles In 100 Places. See Upfront for an interview: “My feeling at the moment is that there is a lot of anxiety in Britain and around the world.” Cheers Neil. In Cardiff tomorrow; Brecon on Wed 31.

THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER Adam Rutherford Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea.

7.30pm, £8/£5. Info 01792 602060. Talk by the author of The Book Of Humans: The Story Of How We Became Us; part of the Swansea University Centenary

Lecture Series and introduced by Owen Sheers.

After Hours: Into The Future Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. 6.30-10pm, £12/£10.70 adv. Info 029 2047 5475.

Adult events with a bar as well as talks and a chance to have a go on all the exhibits.

See Roundup.

Dwarfanators Coyote Ugly, Swansea. 7pm, £15-£38. Info 0208 4784888. An evening of dwarf wrestling. They seem to be American and tour the world etc. Vanessa Feltz was on the radio asking whether they should be banned the other day, a question the wrestlers could ask of Feltz with equal validity. Top price is a VIP package.

Jeremy Gilbert: Acid Corbynism The Moon, Cardiff. 6-8pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff. com. Gilbert came up with this term a year or so ago, to describe (in a slightly ironic way) notions of how counterculture activities can shift the political status quo.

It’s all slightly ill-defined but interesting, I reckon. Don’t think it’s a prerequisite to be especially pro-Corbyn either.

Neil Oliver St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £24.50/£17.

Info 029 2087 8444. uOktoberfest Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Free.

Info 029 2030 4400. Annual offering of German beer and probably some hot dogs etc too. You don’t get the Teutonic Hooters experience offered by some of the tackier Oktoberfests that set up in Cardiff, but they do serve proper beer rather than bang average lager that happens to be German. (Until Sat 20) Open Space: Ailbhe Darcy & Susan Richardson Central Library Hub, Cardiff.

5.45pm, free. Info 029 2038 2116. Two poets reading from their new books, which are respectively titled Insistence and Words The Turtle Taught Me. Book in advance please.

Shamanic Journey Circle St Fagans Village Hall. 7.309pm, £10. Info connect@ shamaniclife.co.uk. Monthly event hosted by Shamanic Life and offering an opportunity to join with others in individual exploration, community and land healing.

The Classical Music Road Maps St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 3pm, free. Info 029 2087 8444. Lecture by Jonathan James, with audio and live music. Book in advance please. uX Scream Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod.

6.30pm, £22.50 adv. Info www.x-scream.com. Live action Halloween ‘visitors’ experience’ with all scary things what go boo. Halfhour slots, some of which might be sold out (such as the 6.30pm and 7pm ones today). No shows from Mon 22-Wed 24. (Until Wed 31) FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER An Afternoon with Kev Johns Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 2pm, £9.50.

Info 01792 475715. Play by Bethan Morgan inspired by real women’s experiences.

On tomorrow also, at 2pm. uAtgyfodi National History Museum, St Fagans. 6.30pm, £19.50/£18.50. Info 029 2057 3500. See the Secret Spaces section for some background on this multimedia archivebased performance, via an interview with creator John Rea. Opens at 5.15pm on Sun 21. (Until Sun 21) Dirty Sanchez The Muni, Pontypridd. 7pm, £20 adv.

Info 01443 490390. Pritchard and Dainton reminisce about their days hitting each other in the nuts with various large and powerful objects.

Kumihimo Braided Jewellery Workshop The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.30-8.30pm, £25.

Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Llandovery Folk Dancing Rhys Pritchard Hall, Llandovery. 7.30pm, £5. Info llanwrda.org.uk. With caller Alexa Farley.

Lunch Club Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10.30am-2.30pm, £42. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk.

So You Think You’re Smart? Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7pm, free. Info 01495 243252. Quiz night, every third Friday of the month.

Specialisation: Hydraulics & Suspension Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff. 9.30am4pm, £105. Info www. cycletrainingwales.org.uk.

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER An Animate Evening with Gary Thomas & Sean Vicary Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 6pm, £7 adv. Info 01239 615952. Showcase of new work by Vicary and experimental animation from Thomas’ Animate Projects agency.

Annual Autumn And Christmas Craft And Vintage Fayre All Hallows RC Church, Miskin, Pontyclun. 12-4pm. Info 01443 204830. Home decor, plants, cards, bottle stall, jewellery, dolls house miniatures, cakes, wood carved items, moddle poddle pottery, Indian crafts, knitted items, ceramics etc.

Botanical Art Course Dyffryn Gardens, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10.30am-4pm, £37.50. Info 029 2059 3328.

Monthly workshop hosted by Debbie Devauden.

Boxing: Champs For Charity Cardiff Season 3 Vale Sports Arena, Cardiff.

5pm. Info 029 2240 4901.

Whit collar boxing special in aid of The Stroke Association.

Brecon Baroque Festival: Tea Dance Subud Hall, Brecon. 3pm, £12. Info 01874 611622. With Dancing Master Peter Brock and the BBF Tea Dance Ensemble.

There’s also a workshop here, where you can learn

the dances, from 10am today.

Brecon Craft Fair Market Hall, Brecon. 9am-4.30pm.

Info 01495 753782. Every third Saturday of the month.

Coptic Binding Craft In The Bay, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am-4.30pm, £85. Info 029 2048 4611. With Carole King.

Curator Walking Tour Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2.30-3.30pm, £3 (suggested donation). Info 01792 516900. With Ann Jones.

Dark Skies Photography Humble By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 5-7.30pm, £50.

Info 01600 714595. uEfficiency In Scenework Weekend Class The Arches Rehearsal Studios, Cardiff. 11am5pm, £95 (two days). Info cardiff@nathanimprov.com.

With Nathan Impro, and aiming to highlight the actor’s need for scenic understanding and the capacity to delve deep into characters.

Football: Premier League – Cardiff City v Fulham Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff.

3pm. Info 0845 3451400.

Ice Hockey: League – Cardiff Devils v Sheffield Steelers Ice Arena, Cardiff Bay. 7pm. Info 029 2038 2001.

Joanna Lumley: It’s All About Me Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, from £19.50. Info 029 2063 6464. Q&A type stage show.

Might be sold out. uKotatsu Festival Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Info 01970 623232. Twoday Japanese animation festival, a similar version of which was in Cardiff last month. Screenings of six movies like so. Today: When Marnie Was There, Lu Over The Wall and Psychic School Wars; Sun 21: Mirai, Fireworks and Attack On Titan: Roar Of Awakening. uPapercraft Masterclass Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 11am-4pm, £80 (two days). Info 01792 516900. With artist Gill Germain. On tomorrow also.

Pig Street Craft Fair The Queens Hall, Narberth.

10am-4pm, free. Info enquiries@pigstreetcrafts.co.uk.

Selling original arts and crafts, semi-regularly until Christmas.

Saturday Morning Kitchen Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10.30am12.30pm, £18. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Skydive For City Hospice Swansea Airport. 9am-2pm, £50 deposit to take part/ free to spectate. Info 029 2052 4150. A City Hospice fundraising event hosted by Skydive Swansea.

Smallholding For Beginners Humble

By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £130.

Info 01600 714595.

Speed Crafting National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre. 11am-3pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3600. Textile craft taster sessions.

Talk: Women In Photography National Museum Cardiff. 1pm, £4.

Info 029 2039 7951. With Helen Sear.

The Cardiff Postcard Fair Penylan Community Centre, Cardiff. 10am-3.30pm, £1. Info 029 2069 3040.

Presented by the South Wales Postcard Club.

The Gallipoli Campaign 1915 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 11am, free. Info 029 2057 3600.

Historical Association lecture by John White.

Upper Killay Market Upper Killay Recreational Hall, Swansea. Free. Info andwoo29@gmail.com.

Every third Saturday of the month.

Vintage Kilo Sale YMCA, Swansea. 10am-4pm, £3/£1.50 after 12. Info 01792 652032. Selling vintage gear at £15 per kilo.

Welsh Wrestling Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen.

5.30pm, £12.50/£9.50. Info 0845 2263510.

SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER Biltong Making Humble

By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £165. Info 01600 714595.

Price includes lunch and the biltong and beef jerky that you’ll make. They’ll post it to you because it takes ages to dry.

Dragon Pro Wrestling: Dead Already! The Neon, Newport. 5.30pm, £8 adv/£20 VIP. Info 01633 533666.

Featuring wrestlers Flash Morgan Webster, Wild Boar Mike Hitchman, Matt Horgan and more TBC. Hedge Laying Humble

By Nature, Penalt, nr Monmouth. 10am-4pm, £115.

Info 01600 714595.

Ice Hockey: League – Cardiff Devils v Fife Flyers Ice Arena, Cardiff Bay. 4pm. Info 029 2038 2001.

Laced Trainer Festival The Depot, Cardiff. 11am5pm, £6 adv. Info www. depotcardiff.co.uk. Ah sneakerheads, with your interest that I think is silly despite being in many ways similar to some of mine. This event will feature hundreds of rare trainers, streetwear stalls, hip-hop DJs, food etc.

Matt Abbott Cellar Bar, Cardigan. 7pm, £10 adv.

Info 07818 056599. Poet/ spoken word from someone who used to be in an awful mid-00s band called Skint & Demoralised and has since become an apparently credible artist, albeit one who was in a building society ad.

Ron Skilton Memorial Half Marathon The Square, Llanwrtyd Wells (starting point). 11am, £10 to enter.

Info 01591 610270. Annual event in memory of Green Events’ former treasurer, featuring an offroad and sometimes mountainous course.

Tea Dance Ocean Arts Cardiff, Splott, Cardiff.

4-7pm, £5. Info oceanartscardiff@gmx.co.uk.

Every third Sunday of the month.

The People’s Poetry Workshop Cellar Bar, Cardigan. 3-5pm, free. Info 07818 056599. With poet Matt Abbott, who also performs here later today. Book in advance please.

MONDAY 22 OCTOBER Brecon Baroque Festival: Guided Walks Usk Valley, Brecon. 10am, £5. Info 01874 611622. Exploring the poetry and landscape of 17th-century poetry Henry Vaughan, with a visit to Llansantffraed Church and Vaughans grave James Martin St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £39.50.

Info 029 2087 8444. TV chef, perhaps the most Tory of all the TV chefs amidst stiff competition.

TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER Ekphrastic Writing Group The Gate, Cardiff. 7-459.30pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344. Readings and discussions. On the fourth Tuesday of every month.

Football: EFL Championship – Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers Liberty Stadium, Swansea.

7.45pm. Info 0870 400004.

Iolo Williams Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £16/£15. Info 01239 621200.

TV nature fella with a show about his experiences working as a Species Officer for the RSPB. WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER Christmas Craft Club: Christmas Candle Burner The Bone Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 6.30-8.30pm, £20.

Info twinmadethings@ gmail.com. Twin Made craft workshop.

Paint Party: Haunting Halloween Buffalo, Cardiff.

7-9.30pm, £25 adv. Info 029 2031 0312. Painting class which places emphasis on drinking wine and having fun. As you can see it has a season-appropriate theme this month.

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.

THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER Dr Phil Hammond Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £16.50/£12.50. Info 0845 2263510. A show in the year of the NHS’ 70th birthday, the implication being that he will be slagging off Tories in this show. It’s funny because Phil Hammond is also the name of [dies of rickets before finishing the sentence] Henry Naunton Davies: A Rhondda Colliery Doctor Swansea Museum.

7.30pm, free. Info 01792 653763. Royal Institution Of South Wales lecture by Ceri Thompson.

Taith Iaith National Museum Cardiff. 12.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951.

Regular Welsh learners session.

Talk: CAER Heritage Cardiff Story, The Hayes, Cardiff. 6pm, free. Info 029 2034 6214. Dr. David Wyatt and Dr. Oliver Davis from Cardiff University give some insight into the CAER Heritage project.

FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER Autumn Gournet Vegetarian Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am-3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray.co.uk.

A View On Wildlife 2018 Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 6.30pm, £8/£6. Info 01646 695267.

Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum host an even featuring images and stories of experiences working with wildlife by speakers Steve Simpson, Sian Sykes, Joanna Barker, Ffion Rees and Beverley Phillips.

Glynn Vivian At Night Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 5-8pm, free. Info 01792 516900. Enjoy a range of workshops, film, poetry, music and performance in this free afterhours drop-in session.

Wales-Palestine Creative Exchange: Interactive Discussion Volcano, Swansea. 6-9pm. Info www. volcanotheatre.co.uk. An evening hosted by artists Deborah Aguirre Jones and Eleanor Davis, looking at our collective relationship with Palestine and Palestinian people.

SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER Ahoy Me Heartys! Cardiff Story, The Hayes, Cardiff.

Free. Info 029 2034 6214.

Pirate-themed activities as part of Year Of The Sea. Annual Local History Book Fair Swansea Museum. 10am-4pm, free.

Info 01792 653763. Hosted by the Royal Institution Of South Wales. uAutumn Apprentice Trail Dyffryn Gardens, Vale Of Glamorgan. 10am-3pm, free after admission. Info 029 2059 3328. Have you got what it takes to be a Dyffryn gardener? Have a go at some autumnal garden jobs this half term and see if you could keep up. Huge fan of children paying to do manual labour for lavishly funded National Trust piles.

(Until Sun 4 Nov) Back To Basics Screenprinting Workshop The Printhaus, Canton, Cardiff. 10am-4pm, £60.

Info 029 2022 0349. Get to grips with the basics of the screenprinting process.

Email info@ theprinthaus.org to book.

On once a month until November.

Bingo Lingo Halloween Special The Neon, Newport.

6pm, £8 adv. Info 01633 533666. uBobbing Boats National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10am-4pm, free.

BUZZ 67

* – recommended Info 029 2057 3600. Create a craft that makes a tiny boat bob on the sea, and learn sea safety facts No event on Wed 31. (Until Thurs 1 Nov) uBoutique Gift Markets Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. 12.303.30pm. Info 029 2087 7959.

On tomorrow also.

Bryngarw Spooktacular 2018 Bryngarw Park, nr Bridgend. 5-10pm, £7. Info 01656 815995. Ghost story walks in one-hour segments. uBuilding The Wicker Man National History Museum, St Fagans. 12-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3500.

Family-friendly drop-in sessions. (Until Tue 30) Carrie’s Spooktacular Prom! The Riverfront, Newport. 7pm, £10/£4 prom only. Info 01633 656757.

A screening of the movie Carrie followed by a prom.

Classic Curries Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £175. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Dylan Thomas Walking Tour – Uplands Uplands Tavern, Swansea (starting point). 11am, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Literary tour led

by Peter Thabit Jones. Book in advance please.

Football: EFL League Two – Newport Country v Morecambe Rodney Parade, Newport. 3pm. Info 01633 481896.

Football: EFL Championship – Swansea City v Reading Liberty Stadium, Swansea. 3pm. Info 0870 400004. uGraham The Ghost Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. £1.50 after admission fee. Info 029 2047 5475.

Interactive story session about a ghost who has lost his glow. Suitable for under7s. (Until Sun 4 Nov) uHalloween Half Tern Fun Gower Heritage Centre, Swansea. 10am-5.30pm, free.

Info 01792 371206. Various calendar-appropriate activities for schoolkids. (Until Sun 4 Nov) uHappy Birthday Dylan: Self-Led Activities Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

Free. Info 01792 463980.

Family activities including creative writing, making a mini comic, puppets, games, reading corner, crafts and dressing up costumes, all inspired by Dylan Thomas.

(Until Wed 31) Ice Hockey: Challenge Cup – Cardiff Devils v Guildford Flames Ice Arena, Cardiff Bay. 7pm. Info 029 2038 2001.

Life Drawing Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. 2-4pm, £5. Info 01792 516900.

Life Drawing Peak, The Old School, Crickhowell. 10am3pm, £25. Info 01873 811579.

With Tony Tribe. Please bring your own drawing materials and board/easel.

Made It Market St Eli Shopping Centre, Llanelli.

Info 07971 242730. Craft and produce fair.

Mollie’s Vintage Fayre BUZZ 68

Ararat Baptist Church, Whitchurch, Cardiff. 12-4pm, £2/free kids. Info 029 2052 4150. A City Hospice fundraising event.

Montage & Print BayArt, Cardiff Bay. 10.30am-3pm, £15. Info 029 2065 0016.

Workshop with David Garner.

Poppy Run – Cardiff Bute Park, Cardiff. 11am, £15 to enter/£7.50 under-17s/free under-7s. Info www. britishlegion.org.uk. 5k run organised by British Legion. uPumpkin Carving Dyffryn Gardens, Vale Of Glamorgan. 11am-3pm, £4 per pumpkin plus admission charges. Info 029 2059 3328.

(Until Wed 31) uSpooky Science Techniquest, Cardiff Bay. Info 029 2047 5475. Eerie events and ghostly goingson for half-term. (Until Sun 4 Nov) uSpot The Bat Tail National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 10am4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Kids’ activities. (Until Fri 2 Nov) 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 Nov) Talk At 4 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 4pm, free.

Info 029 2030 4400. A guide to the exhibition currently running here, Rachel Maclean’s Spite Your Face.

Textile Christmas Garlands National Wool Museum, Dre-Fach Felindre.

Free. Info 029 2057 3600.

Make a Christmas heirloom garland. Book in advance please.

Unknown Wales Conference National Museum Cardiff. 10am3.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. A day of free talks celebrating Welsh wildlife.

Vintage Kilo Sale St Catherine’s Church Hall, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 10am5pm, free. Info 07923 142285. Designer labels at £15 a kilo, on monthly here.

Vintage Kilo Sale Treforest Community Centre.

10am-4pm, free. Info 07923 142285. Designer labels at, again, £15 a kilo.

Weekend Adult Workshop: Paper Illustrations Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

10am-1pm, £5. Info 01792 516900. A class for people of all abilities to create art in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER 1st Jumble Sale The Laundry, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

11am-5pm, free. Info 07910 491565. Vintage etc gear from five sellers, mostly women’s stuff but not exclusively.

Chepstow’s Big Family Dog Walk 2018 Chepstow Racecourse. 10am, £5 adv.

Info 01291 622260. Taking place around Piercefield Park plus Chepstow Racecourse itself. uDark Llandaff Tour City Cross, Cathedral Green,

Llandaff (meeting point). 6.30 + 8.30pm, £10. Info 07538 878609. Presented by Cardiff History & Hauntings. (Until Wed 31) Dylan Thomas Walking Tour – Marina National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (starting point). 2pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3600. Literary tour led by Peter Thabit Jones.

Book in advance please.

Exposure Wrestling: Massacre YMCA, Newport.

7pm, £8 adv. Info www. exposurewrestling.com.

Featuring TKO, Axel Carter, Lucky Bowden, Casey Wild and many more.

Family Boardgaming Day Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

11am-3pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. With Rules Of Play.

Gower Fairy Stories National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 11.30am + 1.30pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Also featuring harp music. uHalloween Cinema Cardiff Castle. 6.30pm, £5.

Info 029 2087 8100. Luna Cinema present three evenings of date-appropriate (as in, the date of the year) movies. Nearly all these are listed as being sold out online but you might be able to buy on the door. Or not. Today: Suspiria (6pm) and The Lost Boys (8pm). Mon 29: Hocus Pocus (6pm). Tue 30: A Quiet Place (6pm); 8pm: Pan’s Labyrinth (8pm). Wed 31: The Nightmare Before Christmas (10.30am + 12.30pm); Hocus Pocus (2.30pm); The Lost Boys (8pm). Thurs 1 Nov: The Lost Boys (6pm); A Nightmare On Elm Street (8pm). (Until Thurs 1 Nov) Meat And Poultry Angela Gray’s Cookery School At Llanerch Vineyard, Hensol, Vale Of Glamorgan. 9.30am3.30pm, £185. Info 01443 222716 / www.angelagray. co.uk.

Pontcanna Brocante – Vintage Flea Market Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff.

10am-4pm. Info www. pontcannamarket.co.uk.

Stargazing Evening National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 7pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600. Featuring teams from South Wales Astronomical Societies, who will provide telescope tips and knowledge, 3D film presentations with Astrocymru. uSt Fagans Makers Market National History Museum, St Fagans. Free.

Info 029 2057 3500. (Until Fri 2 Nov) Towey Valley Vintage Crank-Down National Botanic Garden Of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. 11am4pm, free after admission.

Info 01558 667149. Members of Towy Valley Vintage Club show off their classic and vintage vehicles.

MONDAY 29 OCTOBER uCycle Instructor Training Cardiff Cycle Workshop, Gabalfa, Cardiff.

9.30am-4pm, £495 (four days). Info www.cycletrainingwales.org.uk. (Until Thurs 1 Nov) Dylan’s Big Birthday Bash Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 1-4pm, free. Info 01792 463980. An afternoon

of Dylan Thomas-themed and poetry activities.

Gwd Mondays Halloween Horror Film Quiz Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7pm, free. Info 029 2039 7933. uHalloween Nights National History Museum, St Fagans. 6-9pm, £15/£8/ free under-2s. Info 029 2057 3500. Scary stories, craft workshops, jugglers, live music and the burning of the Wicker Man at the end.

(Until Wed 31) Halloween Slime Special Margam Park, nr Port Talbot.

11am-4.30pm, £6.50. Info 01639 881635. Half-term kids’ activities.

Minecraft The Riverfront, Newport. 2-4pm, £8. Info 01633 656757. Sessions for kids aged 6-11.

The Gay Men’s Book Club Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400. This month it’s a discussion of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER uArtes Mundi Workshops National Museum Cardiff.

12-4pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951. Half-term activities.

(Until Fri 2 Nov) Lecture: Mount Stuart – Lord Bute’s Other House Cardiff Castle. 6pm. Info 029 2087 8100. Lecture by Matthew Williams. Sold out though.

Pirate Story Time Cardiff Story, The Hayes, Cardiff.

10am-12pm, free. Info 029 2034 6214.

Rene Dupree Exit 7, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff.

7.30pm, £16.50-£33. Info 029 2022 4488. WWE fave talks about his life and times.

Self-Led Activities Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

10am-4pm, £1 (suggested donation). Info 01792 516900. Visit the Gallery’s Garden Room and find out about our free activities on offer.

Welsh Wrestling Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7pm, £9.

Info 01656 815995.

WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER Art Festival Day Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

11am-3pm, £3 (suggested donation). Info 01792 516900. Free drop-in workshops, activities, films and more.

Behind the Scenes At The Museum: Halloween National Museum Cardiff.

11am-4pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951.

Bob Dylan, Literature & The Poetry Of The Blues The Riverfront, Newport.

7.45pm, £13. Info 01633 656757. Talk by Michael Gray.

Ghostbusters Halloween Takeover National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 6.30pm, £7.50. Info 029 2057 3600. Featuring a gallery trail, a chance to make ecto-slime and a screening of the first Ghostbusters movie with free popcorn.

Ghost Stories For Halloween Aberystwyth

Arts Centre. 7.45pm, £6-£9.

Info 01970 623232. Hosted

by Nigel Humphries.

Halloween Ball Coyote Ugly, Swansea. 8pm. Info 0208 4784888. The venue say “make an effort and get your scariest costume out,” there probably isn’t that much to it beyond that but maybe there is.

Halloween Special: Potions Margam Park, nr Port Talbot. 11am-3pm. Info 01639 881635. A spooky trail with a chance to make your own magic potions and slime.

Halloween Spooktacular Party Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 1 + 4pm, £3-£6.

Info 01656 815995. Featuring a disco, party games, competitions and a bar for the adults.

Halloween Spooky Funday National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 12-4pm, free. Info 029 2057 3600.

Varied kids’ activities.

Iron Age Jewellery Making Cardiff Story, The Hayes, Cardiff. 11am-2pm, free. Info 029 2034 6214.

CAER Studio artists Imogen Higgins and Dylan Sutton will be here to show you how to make clay jewellery inspired by Iron Age and Roman finds from the Caerau Hill Fort.

Neil Oliver Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £21.50/£15. Info 01874 611622.

Oriel Science Café Halloween Special: Will The Real Victor Frankenstein Please Stand Up? National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2057 3600. Talk

by Professor Morus of Aberystwyth University..

Witches In Wales National Library Of Wales, Aberystwyth. 1-2pm, free.

Info 01970 632800. A talk about the history of prosecutions for witchcraft in 16th and 17th-century Wales, based on a book by Richard Suggett. Book in advance please.

live MONDAY 1 OCTOBER uAcoustica54 Warehouse54, Newport.

8pm, free. Info 01633 213161. Every Monday.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Sin City, Swansea. 7pm, £12 adv.

Info 01792 468892. uLive Jazz Noah’s Yard, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 447360. Here every Monday.

Steeleye Span Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen.

7.30pm, £24.50/£22. Info 0845 2263510. uUkulele Session The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff.

8.30pm, free. Info 029 2021 2509. Every Monday, with The Plucking Fourstrings.

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER Acoustic Tuesday South Riverside Community

u – repeated

Development Centre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2030 4400. Regular event led by pioneering local musicians and singers.

Adrift Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www.thefluteandtankard.com. Jazz.

Baby Bushka Gwdihw, Cardiff. 9pm, £4-£6. Info 029 2039 7933. A Kate Bush tribute band comprised of eight American women from San Diego.

Candles – Piano Music Of The 20th And 21st Centuries Cardiff University Concert Hall. 7-9pm, £5/free NUS. Info 029 2087 4816.

Performed by Késia Decoté.

Cleopatrick + Rainbow Maniac Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £6. Info 029 2023 2199. uCommunity Samba Band – Practise Dates Llanfrynach Village Hall, Brecon. 7-9pm, £4/£2 under16s. Info sambabrecon@ yahoo.co.uk. Every Tuesday.

Elin Manahan Thomas & Jocelyn Freeman National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. 7.40pm, £5-£20. Info 029 2057 3600.

Soprano/piano duo, as part of Swansea International Festival.

Jazz Cafe The Gate, Cardiff. 8pm, £3 (suggested donation). Info 029 2048 3344. On the first Tuesday of every month.

John Owen-Jones Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £25. Info 01656 815995.

In Llanelli tomorrow; Carmarthen on Sun 7.

Mike Harries – The Early Years Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026. Tribute to a Cardiff jazz scene veteran who passed away not long ago. 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 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. uPi & Hash Open Jam Session NosDa, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. Every Tuesday this month.

Stephen Power Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. 12.45pm, free.

Info 01792 475715. Organ recital.

The Bluetones + Jordan Allen The Globe, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £21 adv. Info 07590 471888.

WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER Alex Woods Quartet Flute & Tankard, Cardiff.

9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www.thefluteandtankard. com. Jazz. *Angharad Davies & Lee Patterson + Susan Matthews & Ian Holloway Swansea Studios, University Of Wales Trinity St David, Swansea. 7.30pm, £7 adv.

Info www.rwan.cymru.

NAWR and the Swansea International Festival present two duos: Welsh violinist Davies with sound artist Patterson, plus ambient composers Matthews (based in Carmarthen) and Holloway (Swansea).

Ani Glass + Hana2k + Dead Method + Chew Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff.

7pm, £5. Info 029 2023 2199.

Presented by Forté Project and Focus Wales. 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 19. uBella & Gareth Blues Duo Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm.

Info 029 2038 7026. Also on Wed 17 and Wed 31 this month.

Bennett Wilson Poole + Dan Bettridge Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Headliner sounds like one posh person but is actually three individual people of indeterminate background.

Black Foxxes Tiny Rebel, Cardiff. 7-10pm, £8 adv.

Info 029 2039 9557. Actually a solo acoustic set from the band’s frontman Mark Holley. Rescheduled from August and sold out now I think.

Brandom Reilly + John Nicholas + Pay The Man Hobo’s, Bridgend. 7.30pm, £8 adv. Info www. hobosmusicvenue.com.

Acoustic set from a member of The Movielife.

Donnie Joe’s American Swing Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Penarth. 7.30pm, £5/£4.40 adv. Info feelgoodmusicorg@gmail.com. Also featuring swing DJ The Medicine Man. John Owen-Jones Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £25. Info 0845 2263510.

Last Hyena + The Decoy + Excuses + Fort Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5.

Info 029 2039 7933.

Monmouth Big Band & Singers Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport. 8pm, £8. Info malc@dancebands.plus. com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

Nick Costley The Garage, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 01792 475147. A Swansea Jazzland night, now in a new venue but still taking place every Wednesday.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. With a different guest host every week this month; tonight’s is Christian Punter.

Open Mic Night Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 7pm, free.

Info 01685 384111. First Wednesday of every month. uOpen Mic Market Street Club, Barry. 8pm. Info 01446 733863. Every Wednesday.

Pizzatramp + Stupid

Brick + No Pulse + Die! Chihuahua Die! The Chatterton Arms, Pencoed, nr Bridgend. 7.30pm, free.

Info 01656 860293. Punk and hardcore bands. Stupid Brick is a proper name from the south Wales pop-punk vaults... looks like they just put out an album though!

Royal Welsh College Chamber Players Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6 adv. Info 029 2039 1391.

Sinfonia Cymru The Riverfront, Newport. 1pm, £5. Info 01633 656757.

The Now + The Collision + The Kaizens + Vanilla + Vain The Bunkhouse, Swansea. 7pm, £5 adv. Info info@bunkhousebar.co.uk.

This place is a new bar/live music venue and they seem to have a fair bit on this month. *Voivod + Bio-Cancer The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £17.50 adv. Info 07590 471888. Canadian thrash metal legends headline.

We previewed this gig last month.

Kokoshka Trio Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

8pm, £3-£12. Info 01970 623232. Music Club classical performance.

Onyx Brass Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6 adv.

Info 029 2039 1391. Jazz.

Phil Amos Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 6pm, free. Info 029 2089 0862.

Soundtracking pizza night here, so strictly speaking it’s free when you order a pizza.

Siobhan McCrudden + Bryony Sier + Yasmine Davies NosDa, Cardiff.

8.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. A Live By The River night presented by U&I Radio.

The Kicklips + The Riff + Violet Walk + Bear Island The Moon, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £7/£6 adv. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

Indie bands presented by This Feeling.

Zoe Mulford & Tom Kitching Crindau Constitutional Club, Newport. 8pm, £8/£5. Info 01633 858636. A Lyceum Folk Club night.

THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER Abbamania Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £22.50.

Info 0300 0040444. Tribute band.

Acoustic Sinners The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Baby Jools And The Jazzaholics Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 8pm, £9.50. Info 01656 815995.

BBC NOW: Season Opening Concert St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5-£41. Info 029 2087 8444.

Tadaaki Otaka conducts a programme of Vaughan Williams and Mussorgsky.

Breichiau Hir + Wigwam + Carma Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £5. Info 029 2023 2199.

Brightr + Heartwork + Pay The Man + Little To Nothing + Kayleigh Morgan + Kurt Jones The Bunkhouse, Swansea. 7pm, free. Info info@bunkhousebar.co.uk.

Charlie Says + Sienna + The Collision + The Kaizens + Lead Coloured River Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm, £6/£5 adv. Info 07970 063107. uFrankie Weeson Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny. 8pm, free. Info 01873 853613.

Presented by Nailed It Events. On every Thursday and Sunday this month.

Hackensack Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, from £5. Info 029 2038 7026.

Jane’s Calamity Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. Monthly singalong around the piano.

Jennifer Ku Cardiff University Concert Hall.

1.05pm, £5/free NUS. Info 029 2087 4816. Piano recital.

FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER Allan Yn Y Fan Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £14/£12.

Info 0845 2263510.

Armonight The Duke, Neath. Free. Info 01639 643892. First of five Welsh dates for this Italian band; the others are in Swansea and Bridgend tomorrow, then Bridgend again and Maesteg on Sun 7. Busy bees.

Aubrey Parsons Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Cadence The Plough, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 3017. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Calypso The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Chris Kelly Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events. uDeeds Not Words The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 5pm, free (donations welcomed).

Info gigs@thedragonffli. com. Two-day event for women’s rights (not sure if in a charitable or merely highlighting sense). Today features Charlie Says, Scarsun, Fioled and Beyond Oblivion (main stage); Vinna Bee, Chelsie Smallman, Selena In The Chapel and Stacie Maria Davies (acoustic stage). Sat 6: The KillJoys, Crystalline, Lunar Bird, Jemma Roper, Revello Drive and Box Cat (main stage); Little Eris, Katie Lou Rands, Emma Twomlow and Layla John (acoustic stage).

Dire Streets Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £17.50. Info 029 2089 0862.

Dire Straits tribute band.

THE FEELING Tramshed, Cardiff, Tue 16 Oct Tickets: £25. Info: 029 2023 5555 / tramshedcardiff.com This month, Cardiff’s Tramshed welcomes UK piano-popsters The Feeling, with a set leaning on their million-selling debut album Twelve Stops And Home. The album, named after the Piccadilly Train Line from Leicester Square to frontman Dan Gillespie Sells’ home, was released 12 years ago – hence this unusual anniversary – and was an instant hit in the UK, spawning singles including Fill My Little World, Sewn and Never Be Lonely. The band have claimed many songs were largely self-recorded in two sibling band members’ home in Sussex. The Feeling announced a long-term touring break in 2015, but came back early in the event, and autumn sees the quintet return for a full UK tour.

Dr Feelgood The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15 adv.

Info 07590 471888.

Excursia + Rapture’s End The Green Rooms, Treforest. 7.30pm. Info 01443 841133.

False Hope For The Savage + Poisonous Birds + Fort Tiny Rebel, Cardiff. 8pm, £6. Info 029 2039 9557. Ppost-rock bands, presented by Tone Deaf Creatures.

Flash The Neon, Newport.

7pm, £15 adv. Info 01633 533666. Queen tribute.

Gaz Brookfield + Jake Martin Rudry Parish Hall, nr Caerphilly. 7pm, £6/£5.

Info 07740 192879.

John Owen-Jones Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £25. Info 01874 611622. Musical theatre sort with songs off his new album.

Like A Lion The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free.

Info 01792 516194.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Live Acoustic Night The Pilot, Penarth. Free. Info 029 2071 0615. On the first Friday of each month. *Lovely Wife + Snakes Don’t Belong In Alaska + Made Of Teeth + Pathogenesis The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

Cosmic Carnage and Lesson No.1 with a bill of doomy noiserock, heavy psych, sludge punk and power electronics. Something for everyone!

Miloš Karadaglic Grand

Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £22-£37. Info 01792 475715.

Classical guitar crossover babe.

Natalie Clein Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6 adv.

Info 029 2039 1391. Cello recital.

Open Night Glais Rugby Football Club, nr Clydach, Swansea. 8pm, £3. Info 01792 425231. A Valley Folk Club night.

Paul Ashton City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Radio Amore Volcano, Swansea. 10pm, £10. Info www.volcanotheatre.co.uk.

Swansea International Festival event helmed by Welsh composer Charlie Barber and presenting itself as a “mixtape” of baroque and contemporary classical.

Rhys Davis + Hang 11 + Chopsy The Patriot, Crumlin. 7.30pm, £4. Info 01495 247178.

Rock For Heroes Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7.30pm, £18. Info 01633 868239.

Rock covers, in aid of Help For Heroes.

Sixties Gold St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £37.

Info 029 2087 8444.

Featuring The Searchers, The Merseybeats, The Fortunes, PJ Proby, Steve Ellis and Vanity Fare.

Sssnakes + The Rivers + Angri Kidd + Jack Mason Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd. 7pm, £4. Info 01443 491424.

Steve Turner & Helena

Torpy St Fagans Village Hall. 7.30pm, £8/£6/£4 kids/ free under-12s. Info 029 2023 2970. Playing the Pentreffest Noz folk night, with a music/dance workshop from 7.30pm and live music from 9.15.

Tenacious G + Breakdown Jac’s, Aberdare.

7.30pm, £5. Info 01685 879491. Tenacious D tribute band.

The Fugitives Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026. Blues.

The Hard Aches Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £7 adv. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Australian punk band presented by Fuelled By Jealous Lovers.

The People The Poet + The Devil In Virginia + Tom Jenkins Globetrotters Bar, Pontypridd. 7pm, free.

Info facebook.com/globesbar.

This is part of Link Fest, which apparently takes place across multiple Ponty venues from today until Sun 7 but which has no info online for anywhere other than here.

Either way there’s another evening gig here tomorrow, then an alldayer on Sunday, all presented by Staylittle Music. uThe Swansea Fringe Various venues, Swansea.

5pm, £20 weekend/£12 per day. Info theswanseafringe. com. Citywide lineup of music plus various other word- and art-based things.

Today (all listings in chronological order): Bunkhouse: Sarah Birch, Late Night Picture, Swim, The

J U S T A N N O U N C E D F O R N O V E M B E R : M A R T Y N J O S E P H ( Po n t a r d a w e A r t s C e n t r e , F r i 9 ; S t D a v i d ’ s H a l l , C a r d i f f , Tu e 2 9 J a n ) N E R I N A PA L L O T ( C l w b I f o r B a c h , C a r d i f f , T h u r s 1 5 ) T H E P R I M I T I V E S ( T h e G l o b e , C a r d i f f , S u n 1 8 ) S E T H L A K E M A N ( Tr a m s h e d , BUZZ 69

* – recommended Sandinistas and Picsel.

Cinema & Co: Listing Gear Engineer, Dead Method and Paul Hazel. Grand Hotel: poetry slam showcase, Caral Halliwell and Clare Ferguson-Walker. Hangar 18: Swansea University Live Music Society takeover, Art Bandini and Flowers For Freaks. The Hyst: Dan Phelps, Delyth & Angharad and a Poets On The Hill takeover. The Last Resort: Dead Crow, Rufus Mufasa, Craze The Jack, Dogruff DJs and Roughion. Morgans Hotel: Matthew Frederick, Tom Emlyn, Will Power and Christian Punter. The Perch: Laura Benjamin, Jeris and Late Night Punchlines. Sin City: Greenmailer, Heavy On The Ride, Sienna, Pearler, Hot Mass and Buffalo Summer, Tech Hub Cafe: Troy Boyz and The Ghastling. The White Swan: a Piano Party with Billy Lee Williams. YMCA: Dogfight.

Sat 6 (from 10am): The Bunkhouse: Papur Wal, Red Telephone, Los Blancos, La Forme, Cities, Keys, Breichiau Hir and All Dead All Dead. Cinema & Co: Diary Of The Last Man screening and Voices Of Swansea. Creature Sound: Inscape, Haemaria, Sepulchre, Ravenbreed, Woven Man, Reclvse, Godbomber and Made Of Teeth. Crowleys: Throwing Knives, Eva Bartok, Xtwentytwo, Iron Gosling, Curious Orange, People And Other Disases and Tenplusone. Dylan Thomas Centre: Young Writers Squad (age 11-16) sessions. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery: Where I’m Coming From and a Silent Art Disco. Grand Hotel main bar: Owen Felstead, Orphan Dinosaur, James & Mai Rees, Sian Richards, Ellis Thomas, Rosey Cale, Joe Kelly, Laura Benjamin, Kid Reddy & The Features, Bryony Sier, Chris Noir, Fountainhead and Big Scott (DJ set). Grand Hotel restaurant: The Whirligig Of Time, Campion, Collins & Davies, The Manics (“a show with mental health issues”, presumably no relation to the rock band), Rosie Wilby’s Is Monogamy Dead?, Killer Wales Showcase and Pigsty Jubilee. Hangar 18: Hot Red Chili Peppers. Morgans Hotel: Rosey Cale, Ed Bayes, Rachel Rimmer, Ben Luc and Dai C Thomas. The Perch, Ade Owen. Moose and Late Night Punchlines. Sun 7 (from 11am): The Bunkhouse: Ravenbreed, Death By Disco, Welterweight, Peaks, I Digress, Seven Stories High, I Am Gravity, Calling Apollo, A Night Like This and Acres.

Cinema & Co: a panel called More Poetry Is Needed, a Parthian poetry showcase and The Glass Aisle. Grand Hotel main bar: Harvey Marv, Natalie Jones, The Ninja Reflex, Yasmine Davies, Dave

Morris, Tanglejack, Tobias Robertson, Sarah Birch and Eclectic Mick (DJ set).

Grand Hotel restaurant: Hancock & Hooper, The Comedy Geek Sketch Show, Sarah’s World, Up The Antics Jokeshow Roadshow and Shandy. Hangar 18: King Kraken, Who Knows Didley, Beyond The Break and Departed. The Hyst: Ray Parton, Edie Bens, Aiden Keryn, Emi McDade, Emilie Merry, Eleri Angharad, Natalie Jones and Laura Benjamin. Morgans Hotel: Niugel Philip Davies, Paul Edwards, Ron Savory and Liz Crippin. Sin City: Chris Stringer & The Rocketeers, Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy, News From Nowhere, Jack Ellis, Shoot The Town, Mulder, The Now, King Goon, Pastel and The Riff, Tino’s: Tendons, James Bower, Tremolo Ghosts, Rhys Williams and Jebbers. The Perch: Seren-Jane, Dan Stockton, Dead Crow, The Rock Projects, Daisy BirchJones, Sonic Youth Band and Syncopators, plus a Late Night Punchlines comedy session. (Until Sun 7) uUpbeat Sneakers + ABM + Al Moses Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

7pm, £10/£6 adv. Info 01685 384111. Local ska band play two nights here, on tomorrow also. ABM is local social media microcelebrity Andrew ‘Biggie’ Morris, not sure what he’ll be doing exactly.

Who Knows Didley + Catalysts Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £3. Info 07970 063107.

SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER uAcoustic Duos The Plum Tree, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2022 5235. Local acts here every Saturday.

Armonight The Hanbury, Swansea. 5pm, free. Info 01792 641824.

Bass12 Porter’s, Cardiff.

8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

BBC NOW: Karl Jenkins Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.

7.30pm, £18-£30. Info 01792 475715. Featuring Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace plus the world premiere of his new Lament For Syria.

Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7.30pm, £14.50 adv. Info 01495 243252.

Bowie Experience St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £26.50. Info 029 2087 8444.

With Lawrence Knight as DB. Buddy Holly & The Cricketers The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £20/£18.

Info 01633 656757. Tribute show.

Deuces Are Wild Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Glenn Hughes Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £27.50 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

Hard rock icon, featured

recently in Buzz ahead of his Steelhouse Festival headline appearance, is back in Wales to perform his Deep Purple set.

Henry Marten’s Ghost Cockett Inn, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 588748.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Higher-On Maiden Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 8pm, £8. Info 07970 063107. Iron Maiden tribute band.

Hullabaloo Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 01443 682388. Muse tribute.

Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £16/£14.

Info 01792 602060. Top jazz sax man. In Cardiff on Fri 19.

Jimmy Mac’s Band Jac’s, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01685 879491. uJon Crespo Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 7-10pm. Info 029 2038 7026. Standards, funk and Latin tunes, every Saturday this month.

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £14. Info 029 2089 0862. Folk-rock duo.

Mangata Birchgrove,

Info 01743 860246.

Stereo Hearts The Vault, Swansea. 10pm. Info 01792 465300.

Strange Bones Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £8.50.

Info 029 2023 2199.

Sun Records: The Concert Grand Theatre, Swansea.

7.30pm, £24.50/£20. Info 01792 475715.

Tarion The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

The Best Of Wham!

Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry. 8pm, £23.50/£21.50.

Info 01446 738622. Tribute show that even claims to feature a Pepsi & Shirlie section.

The Coyotes + Crippled Hillbillies The Dolls House, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01495 213300.

The Guy Tortora Band Cwmbran RFC, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran. 7.30pm, £8. Info 01633 483238. Borough Blues Club gig.

Tom Auton + The Algal Bloom + Brad Dickenson NosDa, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 029 2037 8866. Pi & Hash music showcase.

The slightly dauntingly named Kidz R Us in Tredegar is the venue for TredFest 2018, an alldayer of decent locally-drawn rock spread across two stages on Sat 6. A tenner gets you 11 bands, highlights including Henry’s Funeral Shoe, The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk, Chroma, Gindrinker, Deep Hum and Massa Circles.

Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Mike Dennis + Madcap The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

Naomi Heap The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Neville Staple Band The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15 adv. Info 07590 471888. UK ska/2-tone don.

Ofelia + James Bower + Colenso Jones Globetrotters Bar, Pontypridd. 7pm, free. Info facebook.com/globesbar.

Penny Arcade The Pheasant, Bridgend. 4.30pm, free. Info 01656 653614.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Ranka Chanka The Garage, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 475147.

Soothsayers + DuBiod & D-Selekta The Lost Arc, Rhayader. 8pm, £10/£8 adv.

*TredFest 2018 Kidz R Us, Tredegar. 4-11.30pm, £10 adv. Info 07884 071414.

Alldayer of rock, indie, punk and experimentalish stuff down Rhondda way.

Main stage: Johnny Cage & The Voodoogroove, Henry’s Funeral Shoe, The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk, Chroma, The Vega Bodegas and Charlie Says. Stage 2: Gindrinker, Head Noise, Atomic Supermen, Deep Hum and Massa Circles.

Tree House Fire Hobo’s, Bridgend. 7-10pm, free. Info www.hobosmusicvenue.com.

Turin Brakes Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £22.

Info 01792 863722.

Vinna Bee The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 029 2021 2509.

Warwick Johnson The Muni, Pontypridd. 7pm, £15 adv. Info 01443 490390.

Ricky Warwick and Damon Johnson of Black Star Riders play an acoustic duo set.

u – repeated

SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER Armonight Liquid Lounge, Maesteg. 6pm, free. Info: search on Facebook because this place doesn’t seem to have a phone number or anything else.

Armonight Riverside Tavern, Bridgend. 6pm, free.

Info 01656 657755.

Bigfoot Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm, £10 adv. Info 07970 063107. Hard rock band from Wigan.

Blaenavon Hobo’s, Bridgend. 7pm, £10. Info www. hobosmusicvenue.com. Indie band with no affiliation to the Welsh town of the same name.

Blair Dunlop Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £12.

Info 029 2089 0862.

Cardboard Fox West End Club, Barry. 7-10.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01446 735739. Folk and bluegrass band from Devon.

Dai C Thomas Browns, Laugharne. 3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Diamond Head + Killit The Muni, Pontypridd. 7pm, £15 adv. Info 01443 490390.

Early-80s pioneers of NWOBHM, the acronym that takes longer to say than its full-length version. But not, crucially for me, to type.

Dirty Sound Magnet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 029 2038 7026. A band who apparently scooped the title of Best Swiss Rock Song 2017. Seems to be a proggy psych-rock type thing, unusual for this venue but could be fun.

John Owen-Jones Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen.

7.30pm, £25. Info 0845 2263510.

Larger Than Life! Three Arches, Cardiff. 3pm, free. Info 029 2075 3831.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Morriston Orpheus Choir Supporters’ Association Young Welsh Singer Of The Year Competition Great Hall, Swansea University Bay Campus. 4pm, £12 adv. Info 01792 295665. Swansea International Festival event with a £2,000 purse for the winner.

Mothership Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.30pm, £14/£12.

Info 0871 4720400. Led Zeppelin tribute band.

Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama Students National Museum Cardiff.

1pm, free. Info 029 2039 7951.

Staylittle Music Alldayer Globetrotters Bar, Pontypridd. 1pm, £3-£5. Info facebook.com/globesbar.

Featuring music from Toby Hay & Jim Ghedi, Bella Collins & Gareth Evans, Aled Rheon, Bryony Sier and Matthew Frederick, plus poetry from Milieu poets Mark Blayney, Rebecca Parfitt, Rhys Milsom, Ellen

Davies, Mike McNamara, Ben Smith and Zillah Bowes. uSteve Tarner Jazz Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny.

2pm, free. Info 01873 853613. Presented by Nailed It Events Every Sunday this month.

The AC/DC Experience The Patriot, Crumlin. 6-9pm.

Info 01495 247178. Tribute band.

The Great Unknown The Windsor, Penarth. 9pm, free. Info 029 2070 8675.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Red Hot Pokers Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff.

6-8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

MONDAY 8 OCTOBER *Accü + R. Seiliog Swansea Studios, University Of Wales Trinity St David, Swansea. 7pm, £7 adv. Info www.rwan.cymru. The last of four concerts presented

by NAWR and the Swansea International Festival, featuring two Welsh solo artists with both experimental and pop leanings.

Childcare + Lazy Day The Moon, Cardiff. 7-10pm, £8/£7 adv. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Daniel O’Donnell St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £37-£46.50. Info 029 2087 8444.

The Billy Joel Songbook Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

8pm, £22.50-£24.50. Info 01970 623232. Tribute act.

TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER Anne Page St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 1pm, £5-£7. Info 029 2087 8444. Organ recital.

Coheed And Cambria Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union. 7pm, £27.50 adv. Info 029 2078 1458. The emos’ favourite prog band, pretty much, played here in 2012 (I wrote “two or three years ago” then before going to check... oh god) and are back with a new album just out.

Graham Parker & The Goldtops Tramshed, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £25 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

Jess Gillam & Friends St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £3-£10. Info 029 2087 8444.

Youngish saxophonist.

Kenneth Hamilton Cardiff University Concert Hall.

7-9pm, £10/£8/free NUS or under-18s. Info 029 2087 4816. Piano recital, primarily Chopin, by the Head Of School here.

Mandy Starr Dolman Theatre, Newport. 2pm, £7.

Info 01633 263670.

Rockers Reunion Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Sam Rapley Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www. thefluteandtankard.com.

Jazz.

Surreal Kinnock + Scott Lavene + Shop Girls Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £3.

S u n 1 8 ) S K I N D R E D ( S i n C i t y, S w a n s e a , S u n 1 8 ; Tr a m s h e d , S a t 2 4 ) S U N F L O W E R B E A N ( T h e G l o b e , M o n 1 9 ) N A S H V I L L E P U S S Y ( T h e G l o b e , We d 2 1 ) S T E F F L O N D O N ( C a r d i f f U n i v e r s i t y S t u d e n t s U n i o n , F r i 2 3 ) C O N A N ( C l w b I f o r B a c h , T h u r s 2 9 ) A S T R O I D BUZZ 70

Info 029 2039 7933.

The Breath Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £15.

Info 029 2089 0862. Irish folk duo, albeit based in Manchester.

The Jon Davies Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER Bridgend Big Band & Singers Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport. 8pm, £8. Info malc@dancebands.plus. com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

Concerts & Cakes Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare.

1pm, £4. Info 0300 0040444.

Grace Petrie + Natty Paynter The Moon, Cardiff.

7-10pm, £12/£10 adv. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

New-skool protest folkie headlines.

Jodie Marie & Bella Collins The Parrot, Carmarthen. 7.30pm. Info 01267 231012. Blues duo.

Lewis & Dav The Garage, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 01792 475147. A Swansea Jazzland night.

Los Blancos + Eädyth + Telgate Porter’s, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. Forté Project showcase gig.

Massive + The Rocket Dolls Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £7 adv. Info 07970 063107.

Australian hard rock band.

Maya Youssef Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £3-£15. Info 01239 621200.

Syrian qanun player, was in Cardiff last month.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. With a different guest host every week this month; tonight’s is Brad Dickenson.

Parsons & Dark Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £12.

Info 029 2089 0862.

Postcards From Spain Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

1.15pm, £8/£6 adv. Info 029 2039 1391. Roger Argente presents music influenced by his Spanish roots and the golden era of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.

Rascalton Sin City, Swansea. 7pm, £6 adv. Info 01792 468892. Scottish indie band Rob Harbron & Emma Reid Burnett’s Hill Chapel, Martletwy, Pembrokeshire.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01646 651725. Anglo-Swedish folk duo. uRoyal Welsh College Of Music & Drama Jazz Students Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www. thefluteandtankard.com.

Performing two sets. Also here on Wed 24 Sinfonia Cymru & Caroline Pether Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm,

£5-£16. Info 029 2039 1391.

In Newtown on Fri 12. uThe Bay Rum Hounds Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm.

Info 029 2038 7026. Also on Wed 24.

The Proclaimers + Jack Lukeman St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £34.50. Info 029 2087 8444. Enduring Scotpop duo supported by my favourite Anonymous mask lookalike.

THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER Andy Fairweather Low And The Hi Riders Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £25. Info 01600 772467.

Andy’s band are normally called the Lo Riders but on this occasion they have a brass section and Hammond organ player.

Anthony Moulton The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

DnA + Vrï The Angel, Llandeilo. 7.30pm. Info info@llandeiloacoustic.com.

A Llandeilo Acoustic Club night.

False Heads The Moon, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

Opening time is for the Wales v Spain game which’ll be screened in here, then the band are on after.

Finding Aurora + Carolines + Parish + Parla + Chopsy Cardiff Bus Transport Club. 7pm, £4 adv. Info 029 2023 3658. EP launch for the headliners.

Ga Ga Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £16/£14.

Info 01239 621200. Queen tribute band.

Greg Sterland Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5. Info 029 2038 7026.

Jive Talkin’ Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot. 7.30pm, £21.50/£30.50. Info 01639 763214. Bee Gees tribute.

Llyr Williams Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20-£24.

Info 029 2039 1391.

Nathan Bell Drovers Music Venue, Puncheston, nr Haverfordwest. 7.30pm. Info 01348 881469. Americana solo artist.

Neil Innes + Gaudy Orde Jac’s, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £12/£10 adv. Info 01685 879491. Blowout present a grand wizard of British surrealism, ex of The Rutles, Bonzos etc.

Radio Amore Art Shop & Chapel, Abergavenny.

7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 01873 852960. Described as “a live mixtape of British and Italian music from baroque to the present day”. Sounds pretty neat.

Robin Nolan Trio The Hyst, Swansea. 8pm, £15.

Info 01792 654366. Gypsy jazz.

Say Sue Me + Perfect Body + Los Blancos Le Public Space, Newport.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info sam@ lepub.co.uk. Headline band are from South Korea and

I seem to recall sound a bit like Yo La Tengo, so that’s good.

Sinfonia Cymru The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £6-£17. Info 01633 656757.

With director Caroline Pether.

Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack The Globe, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £14 adv. Info 07590 471888. uSteve Edmunds The Lime Tree, Chepstow. 8pm, free. Info 01291 620959.

Presented by Nailed It Events. Also here on Thurs 25 The Magic Of Motown St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £32/£29. Info 029 2087 8444.

The Orb + System 7 Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £26 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

See Upfront for an interview with Alex Paterson from The Orb. The Sherlocks + Trampolene Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union.

7pm, £13.50 adv. Info 029 2078 1458. Laddy indie bands.

Who Saves The Hero? The Bunkhouse, Swansea. 7pm.

Info info@bunkhousebar. co.uk.

Wildwood Jack The Unicorn, Pontypool. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01495 751304.

Playing the monthly Upstairs At The Unicorn folk night.

FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER Adam Bomb Jac’s, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £10/£8 adv. Info 01685 879491.

Hard rock band who I think have been touring for a few decades, unless this is a different Adam Bomb.

Acoustic Sinners City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913. Presented by Nailed It Events.

A/M + Wyllt The Green Rooms, Treforest. 7.30pm.

Info 01443 841133. Heavy rock and doom bands.

Benjamin Appl & Simon Lepper Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

1.15pm, £8/£6 adv. Info 029 2039 1391. Lieder recital.

Bleed From Within + I Fight Bears + Conflicts + Cutting Teeth Hobo’s, Bridgend. 7pm, £12 adv. Info www.hobosmusicvenue.com.

Cara Dillon Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £22.

Info 029 2089 0862.

Chris Kelly The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Christopher Howe The Plough, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 3017.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Deathtraps + Tenplusone + Wager Crowleys Rock Bar, Swansea. Free. Info crowleysrockbar@hotmail. com. Punk bands.

Fastlove Tramshed, Cardiff.

7pm, £17.50 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. George Michael

tribute. Sold out.

Jagger & Kenzie Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

James Clode Cwtch Coffee, Pembroke Dock. 7.30pm. Info 01646 687635. Folk.

Jimmy Mac’s Blues Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026.

Blues.

Motown’s Greatest Hits The Riverfront, Newport.

7.30pm, £24/£22. Info 01633 656757.

Pity The Foo + Hullabaloo The Patriot, Crumlin. 7.30pm. Info 01495 247178. Tributes to Foo Fighters and Muse.

Rory Jackson Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £15. Info 01633 868239.

Michael Jackson tribute act, nicknamed The Dance Machine.

Scarlet Rebels + Reece The Bunkhouse, Swansea.

7pm. Info info@ bunkhousebar.co.uk.

Shackleford + Sweet Diego + SKIV + Swan Prince + Swaktang The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £2. Info gigs@thedragonffli.com.

Sinfonia Cymru & Caroline Pether Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £5-£16. Info 01686 614555.

Table Scraps + All Dead, All Dead + Tyrannosaw The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

The Bohemians Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly. 7.30pm, £15 adv. Info 07512 237983.

Queen tribute.

The Cavern Beatles Gwyn Hall, Neath. 7.30pm, £21.50 adv. Info 0300 3656677.

Tribute band.

The Pollen Count + Sarah Birch The Parrot, Carmarthen. 8pm, £5. Info 01267 231012.

The Rubies The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Rumble + Bottlekids + Bronwen Davies The Big Top, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5 adv. Info 029 2022 8883.

The Skiptones Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

The Ultimate Classic Rock Show Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7.30pm, £15.50. Info 01495 227206. It’s just a cover band though really, isn’t it.

Van Morrison St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £47£77. Info 029 2087 8444.

According to the tour blurb it’s 50 years since Van released Astral Weeks, although they wisely refrain from speculating about whether he’ll play anything from it.

Whitesnake UK Ebbw Vale Institute. 7.30pm, £11. Info 01495 708022. Tribute band.

Wolfgang Flür Clwb

Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £16.50. Info 029 2023 2199.

Kraftwerk percussionist in their best years (unless you’re a Krautrock nerd and/ or contrarian). See Upfront.

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER Allan Yn Y Fan The Function Room, Llanidloes.

7.30pm, £6 adv/£3 kids. Info 01686 412817.

Anonymous Iconoclasts The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info 029 2021 2509.

Aubrey & Paul The Mariners, Laugharne.

8.30pm, free. Info 01994 427688. In sister venue Browns tomorrow.

Black Angus Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv.

Info 01443 682388. AC/DC tribute.

Carmarthen Male Voice Choir Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 6.30pm, £12.

Info 0845 2263510.

Celtic Pride Jac’s, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £4. Info 01685 879491.

CVC + Ramnastax The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info info@themooncardiff. com.

Funke And The Two Tone Baby Snails Deli, Cardiff.

7pm, £22.50 adv. Info 029 2062 0415. Some one-man band hippy-indie festival thing. Price includes a buffet.

Gus G The Muni, Pontypridd. 7pm, £20 adv.

Info 01443 490390. Metal guitar sideman, for Ozzy Osbourne among others, strikes out solo style.

Hang 11 NosDa, Cardiff.

8pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866.

Jagger & Kenzie Birchgrove, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Jason Price The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

Kamikazee Millionaire The Patriot, Crumlin. 8pm, free. Info 01495 247178.

Kee Marcello The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

7pm. Info 01685 387925.

Let’s Hang On 2018 Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £22/£21. Info 01873 850805.

Frankie Valli tribute.

Logicaltramp Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £19. Info 029 2089 0862.

Supertramp tribute band Macka B Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15. Info 029 2023 2199. UK reggae geezer who recently discovered the rejuenating properties of viral videos.

Megadeth UK Hangar 18, Swansea. 7pm, £4 adv. Info enquiries@ hangar18musicvenue.co.uk.

Tribute band.

Naked Citizens + Spencer Segelov The Gate, Cardiff. 7pm, £10 adv.

Info 029 2048 3344. Album

launch gig for a new Cardiff band made up of people from Railroad Bill and Wonderbrass, plus a long list of guest musicians.

Nikki Pope The Heath, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2039 4207. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Panic Station Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Port Talbot Cymric Choir Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot. 7pm, £12. Info 01639 763214.

Punchline Three Horse Shoes, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2069 4630.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Rocket Joe Joe & The Old Time Bangers Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Sex Pistols Experience The Dragonffli, Pontypool.

7pm, £10. Info gigs@thedragonffli.com. Tribute band.

Sidewinder The Dolls House, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01495 213300.

Simon Trigg The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Allergies Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 10pm, £10. Info 01970 623232. Live hip-hop group with Andy Cooper from Ugly Ducking on vocals here. Presented by WaxWurx.

The People The Poet + WYNT + Tom Jenkins Beddau Rugby Club, nr Pontypridd. £4 adv. Info 07540 151398. Charity gig in aid of Jax’s Journey.

The Roy Orbison Story Congress Theatre, Cwmbran.

7pm, £20.50. Info 01633 868239. With Barry Steele as Roy. The Stoned Roses The Bunkhouse, Swansea. 7pm, £5 adv. Info info@ bunkhousebar.co.uk. Tribute band play a night also featuring Fools Gold DJs until 2am.

The Tony Breen Band The Roath Park, Cardiff. 8.30pm, free. Info 029 2047 1961.

Country/rock/Americana.

Tinc Y Tannau Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £10. Info 01239 615952. Folk/ classical duo.

Westerman Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £8. Info 029 2023 2199. Sensitive acoustic indie stuff.

SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER uFolk Music & Song Session Arvon Ale House, Llandrindod Wells. 4pm.

Info 07477 627267. Every second and fourth Sunday of the month (also on Sun 28 in October), with an extra acoustic session on the third Sunday (Sun 23) too.

Aubrey & Paul Browns, Laugharne. 3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Estrons Llanelli Library.

4pm, £8 adv. Info 01554 744327. Cardiff indie band

B OYS (Clwb Ifor Bach, Fri 30) JUST ANNOUNCED FOR DECEMBER: [SPUNGE] (Bunk House, Swansea, Sat 1) GRUFF RHYS ( B r a n g w y n H a l l , S w a n s e a , We d 5 ) B L A C K S T O N E C H E R RY ( M o t o r p o i n t A r e n a C a r d i f f , T h u r s 6 ) C A S T ( Tr a m s h e d , F r i 7 ) G O L D I E BUZZ 71

* – recommended play a Get It Loud In Libraries gig as part of a UK tour promoting their new album, which wasn’t sent to us in time for review.

Glas Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 6pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Hot Club Swing Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2038 7026. Regular Gypsy Jazz jam and performance club.

Maggie Bell & Dave Kelly Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff.

8pm, £20. Info 029 2089 0862. UK blues-rock/R&B veterans. In Swansea tomorrow.

Party Fears + Wheniwas5 Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £3. Info 029 2039 7933.

RWCMD Chamber Orchestra & Nicola Benedetti Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 3.30pm, £15-£22.

Info 029 2039 1391. In-house orchestra joined by violinist Stepback! 90s Concert Motorpoint Arena Cardiff.

7.30pm, £45. Info 029 2022 4488. Featuring Peter Andre, B*Witched, Blazin’ Squad, East 17, Booty Luv, Big Brovaz and more TBC. MONDAY 15 OCTOBER Chatham County Line Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £17.50. Info 029 2023 2199.

Alt-country of some sort.

Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration Cardiff University Concert Hall. 6-8.30pm, free. Info 029 2087 4816. A journey through Chinese folk music organised by the Welsh Government, the Cardiff Confucius Institute and the School Of Music Book in advance please.

Coasts Tramshed, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £13 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. A farewell tour for a band I never even had a chance to say hello to.

Dermot Kennedy Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union. 7pm, £12.50 adv.

Info 029 2078 1458. R’n’binfluenced sadlad singersongwriter from Dublin.

Easy Street Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2038 7026.

Echo & The Bunnymen St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £21.50-£77. Info 029 2087 8444. Scouse indie veterans with a new album which is reviewed in this issue.

Top price is a VIP ticket which gets you a seat near the front and a few bits of tat like you might expect Michael Flatley or someone to fleece his fans with.

Maggie Bell & Dave Kelly The Hyst, Swansea. 6.30pm, £18. Info 01792 654366.

Tomorrow Calling Today Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 8pm, £5.50. Info 0845 2263510.

Acoustic singer-songwriter showcase nights.

TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER Ancient Shapes + The

Violent Hearts + Human Heat Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £8 adv.

Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Headliner features Daniel Romano who is quite popular in Canada I think.

Chickn + Flowers For Freaks + Hunter From Fremonte The Moon, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Headliners are a Greek band on a 70s style psych/prog tip apparently, could be good.

Chinese Orchestra Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 6pm, £3-£10. Info 01792 475715. Hailing from Shandong University, specifically.

Glasvegas The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20 adv. Info 07590 471888.

Remember these guys?

Greg Sterland Quartet Flute & Tankard, Cardiff.

9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www.thefluteandtankard. com. Jazz.

Hawthorne Heights Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £12.

Info 029 2023 2199.

Jon Foley’s Merry Men Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

London Philharmonic Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5-£49.50.

Info 029 2087 8444. Alondra de la Parra conducts a programme of Glinka, Chopin and Tchaikovsky.

Orion String Trio Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.45pm, £12. Info 029 2039 1391.

Performing at the Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert. which takes place here annually.

Students Of Atlantic College St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan.

3pm, £6.50. Info 01446 799100.

The Feeling Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £25 adv.

Info 029 2023 5555. See the boxout.

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER Andy Collins Open Mic Night Cockett Inn, Swansea.

8pm, free. Info 01792 588748. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Banshee Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www.thefluteandtankard.com. Jazz improv/ open jam session.

Gabrielle DuComble The Garage, Swansea. 8.30pm, £12.50. Info 01792 475147. A Swansea Jazzland night.

Gwyneth Herbert Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7-£14. Info 029 2039 1391.

UK jazz fave with an audiovisual performance titled Letters I Haven’t Written.

Joan Armatrading St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £34.50. Info 029 2087 8444.

Veteran UK singer-songwriter, a regular in these pages

and touring without a band for the first time apparently.

Matt Ford & Capital City Jazz Orchestra Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport.

8pm, £8. Info malc@ dancebands.plus.com.

A South Wales Big Band Society gig, with the musicians performing a special Sinatra/Basie set.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. With a different guest host every week this month; tonight’s is 3MPH. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers + Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £12. Info 07970 063107.

Royal Welsh College Wind Orchestra Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6 adv. Info 029 2039 1391. Performing works by

Savages + Echoic Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5 adv. Info 029 2039 7933.

Toots And The Maytals Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £29.50 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. Reggae veteran. Sold out.

Treorchy Male Choir & Lloyd Macey Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £17/£15. Info 0300 0040444.

Performing their annual autumn concert.

We Are Scientists The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18 adv. Info 07590 471888.

American indie band with a lolrandom sense of humour.

FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER Abba Mania Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £20.50. Info 01656 815995.

Brecon Baroque Festival: A Guardian Angel Brecon Cathedral. 7.30pm, £20/£18.

Info 01874 611622. One of a series of events happening around Brecon until Mon

Oxjam, the annual bonanza of live sets in aid of the UK’s fourth most donated-to charity, is back on Sat 27 in three Cardiff venues: Gwdihw, The Moon and Tiny Rebel. Acts playing include Big Thing, The Pitchforks, Codewalkers, John Mouse and Burning Ferns.

American composer Frank Ticheli.

THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER Drenge + Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union. 7pm, £16 adv. Info 029 2078 1458. One of the standalone gigs as part of the Swn Festival.

Gabrielle Ducomble & Nicolas Meier Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth. 7.30pm, £5-£11. Info 01834 869323.

Spanjazz night.

Jackson Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £17.50£21.50. Info 01792 475715.

As in Michael, as in a tribute by someone merely called CJ. Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club.

7.30pm, £8/£5 members. Info 01443 226892. A Llantrisant Folk Club night. In Narberth on Fri 26.

Lorraine Baker’s Eden Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5. Info 029 2038 7026.

Rising UK jazz drummer, playing as part of a quartet.

Siblings Of Us + Fioled + Head Noise The Moon, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

The Italics The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Wood Burning

22; this features Voces8 and Rachel Podger performing works by composers including Tallis and Bach.

Brecon Baroque Festival: Evensong Brecon Cathedral. 6pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

Calypso Ty Newydd, Barry.

9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

China Crisis The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Eighties pop smoothies.

Chris Kelly The Plough, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 3017. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Coco & The Butterfields Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff.

8pm, £14. Info 029 2089 0862.

Composers Of The First World War: A Commemoration St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5.50-£24. Info 029 2087 8444. Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra presents a concert of works by composers who served in WWI. Dansette Café Jazz, Cardiff.

8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026. Soul.

Funky Love Posse The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free.

Info 029 2048 3344. Free gig as part of Made In Roath.

Book in advance please.

Go Now! The Music Of

u – repeated

The Moody Blues Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £24.50. Info 01792 475715.

Tribute band featuring Gordy Marshall, who was their drummer for 25 years.

Hogjaw + Henry’s Funeral Shoe Ebbw Vale Institute. 7.30pm, £8. Info 01495 708022. Arizona-based rock band headline.

Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

7.45pm, £7.50-£15. Info 029 2039 1391. We previewed the Swansea date of this tour in the last issue but didn’t mention this one because I didn’t know about it. Sorry RWCMD/Cardiff/Jean etc. *Karine Polwart Pontardawe Arts Centre.

7.30pm, £22. Info 01792 863722. Scottish folk envelope-pusher. See Music.

Louise Halliday The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Mangata City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Money For Nothing Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry. 7.30pm, £23.50/£21.50. Info 01446 738622. Dire Straits tribute.

Natalie Holmes The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £5. Info 01497 821762.

Off The Record The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Professor Elemental + Curious Orange + Ananas Cinema & Co, Swansea. 7pm, £8 adv. Info 07982 624959. One of the main people to blame for ‘chap-hop’ is still going, and not only plays live here tonight, earlier in the day he is also charging £20 to have afternoon tea with him at The Front Room, a cafe in Mumbles.

Royal Air Force In Concert Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £26.50-£32.50. Info 029 2063 6464. Plus compere Aled Jones. uRudry Autumn Festival Rudry Parish Hall, nr Caerphilly. £61 (three days).

Info rudry2018@pentreffest. org.uk. Hosted by the people behind Pentreffest Noz, this will feature dance and music workshops plus live dance/music performances.

Artists this year will include Cecilia (Belgium), Duo Talec Noguet (Brittany) and Josefina Paulson ( Sweden) plus dance tutors Sylvian Sahli, Sonia Almeida and Pat Goodacre. (Until Sun 21) Rumney Folk Club St Augustine’s Church, Rumney, Cardiff. 7pm, £3.50/£1.50 for performers.

Info derek@rumneyfolkclub. co.uk. Monthly night.

Russell Watson Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm,

£45.50. Info 0845 2263510.

A new show titled Canzoni D’Amore. In Aberystwyth on Sat 20. *Sly & The Family Drone + Cruel Prank + Gluehorse The Moon, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@themooncardiff.com.

First Cardiff date in a couple of years for the headliners, Supports are from Newport and Bristol and debut here; Cosmic Carnage and Lesson No.1 co-present; not affiliated with Swn but will be timed so attendees can pop in if they like.

Soul In Motion Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £16. Info 01633 868239. Soul covers band. uSwn Festival Various venues, Cardiff. £20 today only/£25 Sat 20 only/£35 both days/£60 full pass. Info www.swnfest.com. Don’t think we’re going to get the full band/venue breakdown in time for print but Swn is happening in these venues this year: The Big Top, Blue Honey Night Cafe, Buffalo, Clwb Ifor Bach, Fuel, Gwdihw, Kongs, The Moon Nosda, O’Neills, Off Track Café, The Old Market Tavern, Tiny Rebel and Undertone, in addition to standalone gigs in Cardiff Uni and Tramshed.

Acts playing today: The Go! Team, Boy Azooga and Gaz Coombes (in the Tramshed), The Blinders, Bo Ningen, Farm Hand , Goat Girl, Great News, Heavy Rapids, Low Island, Mellt, Rascalton, Suuns, Vive La Void and Yassassin. Sat 20 features the following: 77:78, Accü, Adwaith, Al Moses, Alfa Mist, Andromeda Jones, Annabel Allum, Another Sky, Argrph, Bandicoot, Bitw, Boniface, Boy Azooga, Breichiau Hir, Bugz In The Attic, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Carolines, Carw, Cassia, Castorp, Chartreuse, Christian Punter, Cosmo Sheldrake, Cousin Kula, Cowtown, Cpt. Smith, CVC, Dead Method, The Death Of Money, Dream Wife, Drenge, Drunk Yoga DJs, Ed The Dog, The Effect, Esther, Estrons, Fling, Frown Upon, The Gentle Good, Giant Party, Greta Isaac, Grey Hairs, Griff Lynch, GRLTLK, Gwenno, Halo Maud, Hana2k, HMS Morris, Honey Hahs, I See Rivers, Islet, Keeva, Keir, Knowbetter, L.A. Salami, Lewys, Los Blancos, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Marged, Martha, Mellow Gang, MRPHY, My Name Is Ian, The Mysterines, Night Flight, Oh Peas!, The Orielles, Perfect Body, The Pitchforks, Pizzagirl, Private World, Queen Zee, Red Telephone, RedFaces, Right Hand Left Hand, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, RYD, Sam Evian, Scott Xylo, Silent Forum, Snapped Ankles, Sock, Spinning Coin, Y Sybs, Talkshow, Tamu Massif,

L O O K I N C H A I N ( Tr a m s h e d , S a t 8 ) S N E A K B O ( T h e G l o b e , M o n 1 0 ) T H E K E N N E D Y S O U N D T R A C K ( L e P u b l i c S p a c e , N e w p o r t , F r i 1 4 ) R O S S F R O M F R I E N D S ( C l w b I f o r B a c h , F r i 1 4 ) J U S T A N N O U N C E D F O R JA N UA R Y: T H E 1 9 7 5 ( M o t o r p o i n t A r e n a , M o n 1 4 ) BUZZ 72

Teddy Hunter, Tigress, Tracy Island, Wasuremono, Wild Cat Strike, The Witching Hour, Ya Yonder, Yves, Zabrinski and Zac White.

The Sabbath Years Hangar 18, Swansea. 8pm, £6 adv.

Info enquiries@ hangar18musicvenue.co.uk.

Black Sabbath tribute band.

The Velveteers + Radio Rays The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £5. Info gigs@thedragonffli.com.

Wissam Boustany & Aleksander Szram Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2039 1391.

Flute/piano duo.

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER Blind River Scare The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

Brecon Baroque Festival: A Heav’n Below The Plough Chapel, Brecon.

1pm, £10/free under-18s.

Info 01874 611622. English devotional songs and Italian sacred music Brecon Baroque Festival: Bach’s Angels Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7pm, £22/£20/free under-18s. Info 01874 611622. With Rachel Podger and the Brecon Baroque ensemble. uBrecon Baroque Festival: Cafe Paradiso The Muse, Brecon. Free. Info 01874 611622. Pop-up performances here all day.

Cadence Birchgrove, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Crush Hate Crime 2018 Warehouse 54, Newport.

2-11pm, £18 adv. Info 01633 213161. Annual alldayer aiming to highlight the rise of hate crime via punk, hardcore and metal sets.

These are by Discharge, Grove Street Families, Pizzatramp, Disorder, Dead Hands, Hunger Strike, They Live | We Sleep, Hold Tight, Burnout, Drunken Marksman and Hippodrone D’Alma Porter’s, Cardiff.

8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Dire Streets Borough Theatre, Abergavenny.

7.30pm, £18. Info 01873 850805. Dire Straits tribute.

Doctor And The Medics + Bloodshake Chorus Jac’s, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £15/£12.50 adv. Info 01685 879491.

Elvana Tramshed, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £13.50 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. A Nirvana tribute fronted by an Elvis impersonator. Think this is featured in Roundup.

Freya Ridings The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £13.50 adv. Info 07590 471888.

London keyboard-and-vocals singer-songwriter. Her dad is the voice of Daddy Pig in Peppa Pig, which makes her Peppa. Probably why this is sold out.

Georgia Patterson The

Red Dragon, Bridgend.

8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Green Haze Hobo’s, Bridgend. 7.30pm, £7/£5 adv.

Info www.hobosmusicvenue. com. Green Day tribute band.

Holy Diver Hangar 18, Swansea. 7.30pm, £4 adv.

Info enquiries@ hangar18musicvenue.co.uk.

Dio tribute band.

Junior Conservatoire Concert Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.45pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391. Taking place in the foyer.

Kelly’s Heroes Cockett Inn, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 588748. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £20. Info 029 2089 0862.

Level 42 + The Blow Monkeys St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £37/£31.50.

Info 029 2087 8444.

Lucy Spraggan + Callum Beattie Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union.

7pm, £18 adv. Info 029 2078 1458. X Factor contestant who seems to have done better of her own accord than she did on the show.

MeatLoud Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £12 adv.

Info 01834 869323. Meat Loaf tribute.

One Eighty Two The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

8pm. Info 01685 387925.

Blink 182 tribute.

Redfern, Hutchinson & Ross The Globe At Hay, HayOn-Wye. 7.30pm, £12. Info 01497 821762. Blues-rock Rhiannon Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7pm, £8 adv. Info 01495 243252. Fleetwood Mac tribute band Russell Watson Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

8pm, £30-£35. Info 01970 623232.

Ryders Creed + These Wicked Rivers + The Wicked Jackals The Patriot, Crumlin. 8pm. Info 01495 247178.

Soul Stripper The Dolls House, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £5. Info 01495 213300. AC/ DC tribute.

The Coyotes + Flying Spider Revival The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £3. Info gigs@ thedragonffli.com.

The Heavy Hallows Ebbw Vale Institute. 7.45pm, £11.

Info 01495 708022. Tribute band.

The Heist Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £4 adv. Info 01443 682388. Rock covers.

The Shakes Hen Dderwen, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 203631. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Walk Like A Man Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7.30pm, £23.50/£21.50. Info 01495 227206. Frankie Valli cover band.

Wheniwas5 Creature

Sound, Swansea. 7pm. Info 01792 301178.

Wonderbrass The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344. Made In Roath-related gig featuring new material for this Cardiff big band institution.

SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER Brecon Baroque Festival: Festival Eucharist Brecon Cathedral. 11am, free. Info 01874 611622. With the Brecon Cathedral Choir.

British Horn Society Festival 2018 Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 10.30am, £15/£10 British Horn Society members/£5 under-18s. Info 029 2039 1391.

Cardiff University Jazz Society Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2038 7026.

Chapter Four Jazz Quartet Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 9pm, free.

Info 029 2030 4400. Jazz in the bar.

European Union Chamber Orchestra Borough Theatre, Abergavenny.

4pm, £10-£20. Info 01873 850805. An ensemble who, in between performing works by Vivaldi, Bach and Barber among others, might just generate a few rather trenchant political quips from Monmouthshire’s finest saloon bar wits!

Martin Turner The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15 adv. Info 07590 471888. Ex-Wishbone Ash man performs Wishbone Ash’s first album.

Only Men Aloud Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 4pm, £26.50-£80. Info 029 2063 6464.

Oratorio The Moon, Cardiff.

7pm. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Prognosis Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 6pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015.

Thecityisours + As Everything Unfolds + Icantdie Hobo’s, Bridgend.

7pm, £10/£7 adv. Info www. hobosmusicvenue.com.

Metalcore bands with variously broken and functioning space bars.

The Luck Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £12.

Info 029 2089 0862.

Tom Walker + Maisie Peters + Sody Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14 adv.

Info 029 2023 5555. One of those very mildly urban singer-songwriters they grow in a lab and who also sell out gigs in advance, as has happened here.

Woolfey Browns, Laugharne. 3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Whitney – Queen Of The Night St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10-£27.

Info 029 2087 8444. Tribute show.

MONDAY 22 OCTOBER Acoustic Session Arvon Ale House, Llandrindod Wells.

4pm. Info 07477 627267.

Brecon Baroque Festival: Archangelo Corelli And Other Angels Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7pm, £16/£14/free under-18s. Info 01874 611622. Final concert of this festival.

Bry The Globe, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 07590 471888. Irish singersongwriter.

Gwd Mondays Open Mic Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2039 7933.

TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5-£49.50. Info 029 2087 8444.

Our Girl Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8. Info 029 2023 2199. Sensitive acoustic indie stuff.

Paul Young Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £34 adv.

Info 029 2023 5555. Sold out.

The Camelia Jazz Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026. *The Guests + Jemma Roper + Private World + Trophic Cascade The Moon, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6.

Info info@themooncardiff. com. Synthpop and postpunk four wonderful ways, with the headliners hailing from Philadelphia and featuring two members of hard rock heroes Sheer Mag. WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER Alternative Open Mic The Moon, Cardiff. 7pm, free.

Info info@themooncardiff. com. Presented by Paradiso’s Musicbox.

Caro Emerald St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £27£101. Info 029 2087 8444.

Retro jazz-popper whose own bio describes her as “gorgeous and stylish” in its first sentence.

Churchfield Trio Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www. thefluteandtankard.com.

Jazz.

DB Big Band & Lee Gilbert Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport. 8pm, £8. Info malc@dancebands.plus. com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

Eivør + Ayowa The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £16 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Faroe musician headlines, we’ve a wee thing about it in Roundup.

Emma Blackery Tramshed, Cardiff. 7pm, £13 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

Mark Bassey with Dave Cottle Trio The Garage, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 01792 475147. A Swansea Jazzland night.

New Music For People And Machines Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6/£3. Info 029 2030 4400.

Showcase for current composition students at

the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. With a different guest host every week this month; tonight’s is Jim Swidenbank.

Smokey Brights + The Lucky Strikes Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £7 adv. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

The Carrivick Sisters Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club. 7.30pm, £8/£5 members. Info 01443 226892. A Llantrisant Folk Club night.

Why Don’t We Newport Centre. 7.30pm, £25/£27.50.

Info 01633 656757. Boy band of some kind.

THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER Alaw Newport Fugitives Athletic Club, Rogerstone, Newport. 8pm. Info 01633 897923. A Newport Folk Club night.

Capital City Jazz Orchestra Porter’s, Cardiff.

8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

Dave Jones Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5.

Info 029 2038 7026.

Ian Poole Quartet The Pear Tree, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2025 2042.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Katy Treharne with The Abertillery Male Voice Choir & Blaina Town Band The Met, Abertillery.

7pm, £10. Info 01495 355945. *Melvins + Jon Spencer Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union. 7pm, £28 adv. Info 029 2078 1458. See Music.

Michael Bolton St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £28.20£238.20. Info 029 2087 8444.

White soul hunk who is now also a social activist apparently. This concert is fully sold out, even the top-tier VIP stuff which gets you a photo with Mike.

Nervous Twitch Gwdihw, Cardiff. 7pm, £6.50 adv. Info 029 2039 7933.

Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, from £35. Info 029 2063 6464. Sold out sorry.

The Marble Tones + Keith Thompson The Drill Hall, Chepstow. 7.30pm, £15 adv. Info 01291 627122.

Blues gig in aid of Eden Gate homeless charity.

Tom Robinson The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £18 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Touring to commemorate 40 years since his Power In The Darkness LP. FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER American Hitmen + Blackjack Zero Crowleys Rock Bar, Swansea. Info crowleysrockbar@hotmail. com. Headliners’ unique selling point is that they’re all former Marines.

Ben Evans And The Valli Boys Congress Theatre,

Cwmbran. 7pm, £15/£14.

Info 01633 868239. Or Ben Evan’s And The Valli Boy’s, as the venue website greengrocerishly lists this Frankie Valli tribute act.

Catrin O’Neill Ty Tawe, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 456856. Playing a Tyrfe Tawe acoustic evening here.

Christopher Howe The Plough, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 3017.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Dan Messore Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@ porterscardiff.com.

Digital Criminals + This Elegant Chaos + Flowerpot The Patriot, Crumlin. 7.30pm, £5. Info 01495 247178.

Dominic Nation & The Dirty Dead + Windshake + Hobgoblin Creature Sound, Swansea. 7pm, £3.

Info 01792 301178.

Dub Pistols + Skacasm + The Refusal Jac’s, Aberdare. 7pm, £12/£10 adv.

Info 01685 879491.

Emma Lohan + Julian’s Reluctant Skafterparty Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 8pm, £10. Info 01239 615952.

ESP The Duke Of Wellington, Cowbridge.

9.30pm, free. Info 01446 773592. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Failed State + Nicotine Pretty + Disruptive Influence The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £5. Info gigs@thedragonffli.com.

Fat Barry’s Ghoul Band Gwyn Hall, Neath. 8pm, £10.75 adv. Info 0300 3656677. Halloween-themed concert.

Geraint Roberts & Caradog Jones Glais Rugby Football Club, nr Clydach, Swansea. 8pm, £7.

Info 01792 425231. A Valley Folk Club night.

Gideon Conn Le Public Space, Newport. 8pm. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Gitta De Ridder + John Charles The Globe At Hay, Hay-On-Wye. 8pm, £5. Info 01497 821762.

Henry Marten’s Ghost City Arms, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 1913.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Nebosja Zivkovic Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6 adv. Info 029 2039 1391. Percussion recital.

One Of These Days Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff.

8pm, £17. Info 029 2089 0862. Pink Floyd tribute.

Organ Recital National Museum Cardiff. 1pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7951.

Paradiso’s Musicbox Homeless Fundraiser The Moon, Cardiff. 7pm, pay by donations. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Featuring sets by This Is Wreckage, Ghosts As Alibis, And The Sky Darkened, Kasia and Incursion.

A R C H I T E C T S + B E A R T O O T H ( M o t o r p o i n t A r e n a , S a t 1 9 ) B O Y Z O N E ( M o t o r p o i n t A r e n a , S u n 2 0 ) U N C L E A C I D & T H E D E A D B E AT S + B L O O D C E R E M O N Y ( T h e G l o b e , T h u r s 2 4 ) V N V N AT I O N ( T h e G l o b e , M o n 2 8 ) T H E W O M B AT S ( N e w p o r t C e n t r e , M o n 2 8 ) BUZZ 73

* – recommended Public Service Broadcasting Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £22.

Info 01792 863722. Second of five Welsh tour dates (the first was yesterday in Bangor) for the inferior PSB. In Blackwood tomorrow, Newport on Sun 28 and Pontypridd on Mon 29.

Punchline The Vivian Arms, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 516194. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Rammlied Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 8pm, £6 adv. Info 07970 063107. Rammstein tribute.

Roy Orbison & The Travelling Wilburys Experience Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £22.50/£20. Info 01686 614555. Tribute show.

Schubertiade: Folk Music Of Wales Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire. 8pm, £10.

Info 01239 841387. First of three Schubertiade events here, the others being on Sat 27 and Sun 28. Today features Angharad and Delyth Jenkins on violin and harp plus a programme of folkinfluenced chamber music compositions.

Sid And The Skatterbrains The Master Mariner, Gibbonsdown, Barry. 9pm. Info 01446 732300. Ska and reggae covers.

Sid Goldsmith & Jimmy Aldridge Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth. 8pm, £10/£8. Info 01834 869323.

Stratus Fear Ty Newydd, Barry. 9pm, free. Info 01446 407767. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Amy Winehouse Experience AKA Lioness Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

Tribute act.

The Bella Collins Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3. Info 029 2038 7026.

Soul.

The Carpenters Experience Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £16.

Info 01600 772467. Tribute show. In Abertillery tomorrow.

The Shakes The Twelve Knights, Port Talbot. 9pm, free. Info 01639 882381.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Three Cane Whale The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7/£5 adv. Info 029 2048 3344.

Folk.

Ultimate Bowie The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £13 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Tribute show.

Unwelcome Guests + Human Heat + Honest Thieves Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff.

9pm, £5. Info 029 2037 3144. DIY Cardiff present some melodic punk from the States and nearby.

What The Floyd Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £20. Info 01874 611622. Pink Floyd tribute.

In Narberth tomorrow.

SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 10x10 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12/£10.

BUZZ 74

Info 029 2030 4400. Ten works by new/established Welsh composers, performed by contemporary music ensemble Uproar.

Archfest The Arch, Neath.

3pm. Info 07791 923214.

Annual alldayer with sets from -Elphies Kingdom, The Something, The Electric Company, R-Y-G and The Soulskunks.

BBC NOW: Music For The Fallen Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £5-£15. Info 029 2063 6464.

Adrian Partington conducts the first complete performance of Mass Via Victrix (1914-1918) by Charles Villiers Stanford.

Bristol Ceilidh Quartet Morganstown Village Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £8/£5 kids.

Info ruffceilidhs.org. A RUFF Ceilidhs night.

Chilren Of The Gravy The Patriot, Crumlin. 7pm.

Info 01495 247178. Black Sabbath tribute.

Chris Kelly Birchgrove, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2031 1319. Presented by Nailed It Events. *David Byrne + Benjamin Clementine Motorpoint Arena Cardiff.

6.30pm, from £39.50. Info 029 2022 4488. Erstwhile Talking Heads man arrives here on his American Utopia world tour.

Democratus The Green Rooms, Treforest. 7.30pm.

Info 01443 841133. Heavy rock and doom bands. 27 First Annual Halloween Fest The Dolls House, Abertillery. 4pm, £5 adv. Info 01495 213300. Punk and metal from The Caspiens, Drunken Marksman, Sweet Ignitions, Trigger McPoopshute, Social Experiment, Red Light Syndrome and System Scare.

Frank – Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £27.50.

Info 01633 656757. Sinatra tribute starring David Alacey.

Free Beer Blinkin Owl, Cwmbran. 9pm, free. Info 01633 484749. Presented by Nailed It Events.

Hamell On Trial + Ruth Theodore Le Public Space, Newport. 7pm, £7 adv. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Hells BellsWorkmen’s Hall, Caerphilly. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10 adv. Info 07512 237983. AC/DC tribute.

Her-Osmith The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £10. Info gigs@thedragonffli.com.

Aerosmith tribute with a woman on vocals. *Hotel De Marl Halloween Covers Show The Andrew Buchan, Cardiff.

7pm. Info 029 2021 2509.

People from local punk type bands do one-off sets covering one band, all for charity.

Along the lines of the longrunning Stars In Their Eyes nights in Newport Le Pub. Jamie Smith’s Mabon St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £5-£20. Info 029 2087 8444.

A Roots Unearthed gig.

John Paul The Red Dragon, Bridgend. 8.30pm, free. Info 01656 654753. Presented by

Nailed It Events.

Killer Queen Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £23.50.

Info 01970 623232. Tribute band.

Knotslip Hobo’s, Bridgend.

7pm, £8. Info www. hobosmusicvenue.com.

Slipknot tribute band.

Lotus Eater + Harbinger + LifeLust + Sentry Fuel Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, £7/£5 adv.

Info 07970 063107.

Michaela Fedeczko The Waterfront, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 1-3pm, free. Info 01874 611622.

Nearly Dan The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £14 adv.

Info 07590 471888. Steely Dan tribute band.

Nerys And The Soul Traders West End Club, Barry. 8pm. Info 01446 735739.

Oxjam Cardiff 2018 The Moon / Tiny Rebel / Gwdihw, Cardiff. 12pm, £6 adv. Info 07891 580349. Annual multivenue charity alldayer in aid of Oxfam. Lineup like so. The Moon: The Witching Hour, The Last Ankle, Yasmine Davies, Big Thing, 6foot7, Bryony Sier, Carolines, Aaron Douglas, The Devil In Virginia, The Pitchforks and The Moon Birds. Tiny Rebel: Rain Maker, Lighthammer, To Bear Sir, Codewalkers, Stay Voiceless, Handsome Ape, Elliot Oakley, The Rotanas, Rhys Davis, The Brwmys and John Mouse.

Gwdihw: Wynt, Asha Jane Band, Art Bandini, Loralie, Burning Ferns, Laura Power, Conformist and George Glew.

Penny Arcade Hen Dderwen, Swansea. 9pm, free. Info 01792 203631.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

Public Service Broadcasting Miners Institute, Blackwood. 8pm, £20.50 adv. Info 01495 227206. Sold out.

Purple Zeppelin Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £17/£16. Info 01633 868239.

Dual tribute to Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Also it’s funny because the band name sounds sort of like something you might call a penis.

Ragnarock (AD: Year One!) Ebbw Vale Institute.

3-11.45pm, £15/£12 adv. Info 01495 708022. Featuring sets from Bad Touch, Skam, The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk, Mick O’Toole, Saints Of Arcadia, Blackjack Zero, Reece and Wheniwas5.

Ralph McTell Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 8pm, £25/£22. Info 029 2039 1391. In Swansea tomorrow; Cardigan on Mon 29.

Schubertiade: Llyr Williams Piano Recital Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire. 8pm, £15. Info 01239 841387.

Performing works by Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt. *Sons Of Kemet Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £15. Info 029 2023 2199. Cutting-edge London jazz biz. See Music.

Soul Stripper + King

Kraken Rhondda Hotel, Porth. 7pm, £5 adv. Info 01443 682388. AC/DC tribute band headline.

Stonehouse McCann’s Rock N Ale Bar, Newport. 9pm, free. Info 01633 253648.

The Annual Royal British Legion Charity Gala Concert Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £18. Info 0845 2263510. Featuring Shân Cothi, Dunvant Male Choir, Côr Seingar and more.

The Big What?! Band Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.com.

The Blues Sisters Three Horse Shoes, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2069 4630.

Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Carpenters Experience The Met, Abertillery. 8pm, £16. Info 01495 355945.

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 Kate Bush Song Book Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff.

8pm, £18.50. Info 029 2089 0862. Tribute act. Sold out.

The Shakes The Heath, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2039 4207. Presented by Nailed It Events.

The Stoned Cherries + Viv Bell + Hugh Knight The Globe At Hay, Hay-OnWye. 8pm, £5. Info 01497 821762.

What The Floyd Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £20/£15 adv. Info 01834 869323.

SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER ClownSmashEverything Le Public Space, Newport.

7pm. Info sam@lepub.co.uk.

Punk band from Norwich.

Cryptic Street The Moon, Cardiff. 5pm, £5. Info info@ themooncardiff.com.

Glas Browns, Laugharne.

3pm, free. Info 01994 427688.

Jessica Dandy & Dylan Perez Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 3pm, £3-£12. Info 01970 623232. Music Club concert featuring a contralto/piano duo.

Luna Rossa Acapela, Pentyrch, Cardiff. 8pm, £16.

Info 029 2089 0862.

Public Service Broadcasting The Riverfront, Newport. 7pm, £21. Info 01633 656757.

Rag Mama Rag Hang Fire Southern Kitchen, Barry.

6.30pm, £10 adv. Info 07561 143114. Roots N All gig.

Ralph McTell Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £12-£23. Info 01792 602060.

Rupak Kulkarni & Gurdain Rayatt Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 2pm, £6.50£15. Info 029 2039 1391.

Indian classical flute and tabla duo.

Schubertiade Rhos Y Gilwen, Pembrokeshire.

7.30pm, £15. Info 01239 841387. Featuring performances bgy Côr Teifi, Gwawr Edwards, Llyr Williams and conductor Henry Ward. Final

u – repeated

of three Schubertiade events here.

The Dave Jones Quartet Melville Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £10/£8/£3 NUS. Info 01873 853167. Black Mountain Jazz gig, with the band paying tribute to Kenny Kirkland.

Whitchurch Jam Session #111 Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 5.30pm, free.

Info 029 2062 6015.

WNO Family Concert St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 3pm, £7-£18. Info 029 2087 8444.

Featuring a Halloween theme.

Yellow Days The Globe, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £11 adv.

Info 07590 471888.

MONDAY 29 OCTOBER Acoustic Open Mic Curado Bar, Cardiff. 7pm, free. Info 029 2034 4336. New event on the last Monday of every month and hosted by Bella Collins.

Brecon Town Band & The Salvation Army Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £7.50. Info 01874 611622.

Public Service Broadcasting The Muni, Pontypridd. 7pm, £20 adv.

Info 01443 490390.

Ralph McTell Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £20. Info 01239 621200.

TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER Dusty Cut Gwdihw, Cardiff.

7pm. Info 029 2039 7933.

Jazz Jam Session The Garage, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 01792 475147. A Swansea Jazzland night with the Dave Cottle Trio.

Owen Jolly Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £2.50.

Info 01686 614555. Acoustic singer-songwriter.

Phil Wall’s Jazz Quartet Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4.50/£4/£2 NUS. Info 029 2038 7026.

Sworn Enemy + Stranded + Hunger Strike Fuel Bar, Cardiff.

7pm, £12/£10 adv. Info 07970 063107. Rough tough buff US hardcore band headline.

Trish Clowes Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 9-11.30pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info www. thefluteandtankard.com.

Notable UK jazzer with selections from her album My Iris.

WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER BC Camplight Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £12. Info 029 2023 2199.

Dunkie + The Flying Spider Revival + Vella The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil. 9pm, £3. Info 01685 387925. A U&I Radio night.

Haggard Cat + Bitch Falcon Undertone, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £10/£8 adv. Info 029 2022 8883. Presented by Blowout.

Henge The Lost Arc, Rhayader. 8pm, £8 adv. Info 01743 860246. Psych-funk band who dress up like aliens and are reviewed in this month’s album section.

A DJ set from Earthdoctor also features.

Jason Moran Royal Welsh

College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7.50-£15.

Info 029 2039 1391. An audiovisual jazz tribute to James Reese Europe, whose military band the Harlem Hellfighters helped to bring jazz to Europe 100 years ago. *King Crimson St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £72/£57. Info 029 2087 8444.

Prog legends led by Robert Fripp. Played here a few years ago and it ruled, yeah it’s pricey but you get bang for your buck.

Llantrisant Folk Club Halloween Special Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01443 226892.

Nigel Price Organ Trio The Garage, Swansea.

8.30pm, £10. Info 01792 475147. A Swansea Jazzland night.

Open Mic Night NosDa, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2037 8866. With a different guest host every week this month; tonight’s is The Freeway.

Perfect Body + Hippodrone + The Bloodshots Porter’s, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info info@ porterscardiff.com. Forté Project showcase gig.

Royal Welsh College Brass Band Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1.15pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2039 1391.

Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama Big Band Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Bassaleg, Newport.

8pm, £8. Info malc@dancebands.plus.com. A South Wales Big Band Society gig.

stage MONDAY 1 OCTOBER Rip It Up The 60s St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £24.50-£102. Info 029 2087 8444. Aggravatingly-titled show in which former Strictly types dance to a live band playing 1960s pop hits.

This Incredible Life Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

7pm, £7 adv. Info 01685 384111. Alan Harris’ latest comedy about a news reporter who finds herself distrusted by family members in an era of fake news, presented by Canoe Theatre and Theatr Sir Gar. In Aberystwyth tomorrow; Abertillery on Wed 3; Cardiff on Thurs 4 and Fri 5; Blackwood on Thurs 11.

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER Helen Bauer The Cambrian Tap, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2064 4952. Headlining the Crafty Laughs night of standup comedy, here on the first Tuesday of each month.

Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot. 7pm, £13. Info 01639 763214. Presented by BFMTC. On at 1pm and 5pm

on Sat 6. (Until Sat 6) uLoot Miners Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £14.50/£12.50 adv. Info 01495 227206. Black RAT present Joe Orton’s play. In Newtown on Sat 6; Cwmbran on Mon 8; Pontardawe on Wed 10; Carmarthen on Thurs 11; Aberdare on Tue 16 and Wed 17; Porthcawl on Thurs 18; Cardigan on Fri 19; Milford Haven on Sat 27; Llanelli on Tue 30; Aberystwyth on Wed 31; Cardiff on Thurs 1-Sat 3 Nov and Abergavenyn on Tue 6 Nov. See Stage. (Until Thurs 4) uRomeo & Juliet Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

7.15pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 01792 475715. Presented by Fluellen. Also on at 1pm on Wed 3 and Thurs 4. (Until Thurs 4) This Incredible Life Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

3pm, £10. Info 01970 623232.

WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER u2023 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8-£12.

Info 029 2030 4400. Illumine Theatre with a play set in the year of the title, and concerning a young woman seeking the identity of her sperm donor father. Also on at 2.30pm on Mon 8 and Sat 13. No performance on Sun 7. (Until Sat 13). uHickory Dickory Dock Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly.

6pm, £7/£5 under-17s.

Info 07512 237983. Panto

by Norman Robbins. On tomorrow also, plus Sat 6 at 1.30pm.

Karen Sherrard + Leroy Brito + Calum Stewart + Liam Howells The Albion, Penarth. 8pm, free (donations welcome). Info 07946 407145. Comedy. uMoby Dick Transporter Bridge, Newport. 7.30pm, free. Info tinshedtheatre@ gmx.com. This famous novel is retold by Tin Shed Theatre in a site-specific setting – the gondola on the bridge, to be completely exact. Book in advance please. Captioning and audio description included from Thurs 11-Sun 14; no performances on Sat 6 or Wed 10. See Stage.

(Until Tue 16) uOne Man, Two Guvnors Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £8.50-£18.50.

Info 01646 695267. West End fave presented here by the Torch Theatre Company.

Also on at 2.30pm on Wed 10 and Wed 17. No performances on Sun 7, Mon 8, Sun 14 or Mon 15. (Until Sat 20) Rhondda Rips It Up! Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £18/£15.

Info 01792 602060. Another runout for this Welsh National Opera production, which debuted across Wales in June. uRob Brydon Grand Theatre, Swansea. 8pm, £32.

Info 01792 475715. First actual tour for pleasant Welsh comedy imp since 2009, apparently. On tomorrow also; in Cardiff from Mon 8-Sun 14.

Ross Noble St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £27. Info 029 2087 8444. uRuby Wax, The Monk And The Neuroscientist Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £22 adv. Info 029 2064 6900. The monk is Gelong Thubten, the neuroscientist is Ash Ranpura and the show is about the notion of upgrading one’s mind. On tomorrow also.

This Incredible Life The Met, Abertillery. 1.30pm, £8 adv. Info 01495 355945..

THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER Jason Byrne Tramshed, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £19.50 adv. Info 029 2023 5555.

Comedian with a show titled You Can Come In But Don’t Start Anything. uLa Traviata Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.15pm, £10-£49.50. Info 029 2063 6464. Presented by Welsh National Opera. Also on Sat 6. uNaomi Cooper + Gary Little + Simon Clayton Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £9/£8 NUS/£16 with a pie. Info 0871 4720400.

Tomorrow’s lineup, also with Bobby Mair: 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Sat 6, also with Bobby Mair: £17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink. (Until Sat 6) uThis Incredible Life Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

7pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2030 4400. On tomorrow also, at 2.30pm and 7pm. uTree & Wood RSPB Nature Reserve, Ynys-Hir, Aberystwyth. 7.30pm, £10£13. Info 01970 623232.

New immersive outdoor performance exploring our relationship with trees and forests. You have to walk across 2km of fields etc to get to the venue, apparently, so get there early. (Until Sun 7) uWe Are Ian The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com. In Bed With My Brother present the second play in The Other Room’s autumn/winter programme. It’s set in the early 90s UK rave scene. Also on at 3pm on Sat 6. (Until Sat 6) FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER u35 Times Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 7.15pm, £11. Info 01792 475715. Play

by Bethan Morgan inspired by real women’s experiences.

On tomorrow also, at 2pm. uAberystwyth Comedy Festival Various venues, Aberystwyth. Info abercomedyfest.co.uk. The debut of this three-day, multi-venue standup bonanza, orgainsed by Little Wander who also do the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. This is a fairly similar format to that: today we have Goose, Golden Eggs (Arad Goch, 7pm, £10); Sam Campbell, Trough (Arad Goch, 9pm, £10); Larry Dean, Bampot (Castle Theatre, 9pm, £10); Kiri Pritchard-

Mclean, Victim Complex (Ceredigion Museum, 9pm, £10) and a Comedy Festival Showcase (Commodore Cinema, 10.30pm, £12). Sat 6: Cat Pictures To Music For An Hour (The Old College, 1.30pm, £5); Jarred Christmas & The Hobbit, The Mighty Kids Beatbox Show (The Royal Pier, 2pm, £5); William Andrews, Willy (The Old College, 3.30pm, £10); Emma Sidi, Faces Of Grace (Arad Goch, 3.30pm, £10); Stuart Laws, Stops (The Old College, 3.45pm, £8). Lou Sanders, Shame Pig (The Old College, 5.30pm, £10); Lazy Susan, Forgive Me, Mother (Arad Goch, 5.30pm, £10); John Luke Roberts, All I Wanna Do Is... (Castle Theatre, 5.30pm, £10), Rob Newman, Total Eclipse Of Descartes (The Old College, 7pm, £15); David O’Doherty, You Have To Laugh (Commodore Cinema, 7pm, £19); Sarah Breese A Ffrindiau (Arad Goch, 7.30pm, £8); Brian Gittins, Do Not Feed The Monkey Man (Castle

Gamble, Blizzard (Royal Pier, 7.30pm, £15); Lloyd Langford, Why The Big Face? (Arad Goch, 9.30pm, £10); Alun Cochrane, You. Me. Now. (The Old College, 9.30pm, £10) and Gary Delaney, Gangster’s Paradise (Royal Pier, 9.30pm, £15). (Until Sun 7) Austentatious The Riverfront, Newport. 8pm, £17.50/£16. Info 01633 656757. Improv troupe riffing on Jane Austen themes.

See Stage.

Cinderella Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 6.30pm, £13.50£17.50. Info 01656 815995.

Presented by Ballet Cymru.

Also inclues a pre-show workshop at 4.30pm.

Chris Ramsey Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £20 adv. Info 029 2064 6900.

Comedian. In Monmouth tomorrow Comedy Club Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £12. Info 0845 2263510. With comics TBC. uDrones Comedy Club Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

8.30pm, £3.50. Info 029 2030

Porthcawl’s Hi Tide Inn is the primary base for 2018’s Welsh Rockabilly Fair, on from Thurs 20-Sun 23 and featuring lots of bequiffed, double bassthrummin’ bands whose names mostly follow the [X] & The [Y]s rule. Might be sold out but worth a look if it sounds good.

Theatre, 7.30pm, £10); Sara Barron, For Worse (The Old College, 9.30pm, £8); Jonny And The Baptists, The Best Of (The Old College, 9.30pm, £10); David Trent, Now That’s What I Call David 2018 (Castle Theatre, 9.30pm, £8); Jarred Christmas, Remarkably Average (Royal Pier, 9.30pm, £10) and Anna Mann, Late Night Cheese & Sex Party (The Old College, 11pm, £10). Sun 7: Stu Goldsmith, Congratulations! You Are An Idiot! (Ceredigion Museum, 2pm, £6 – this is a kids’ show); Evelyn Mok, Bubble Butt (The Old College, 3.30pm, £8); Amy Annette, What Women Want (The Old College, 3.30pm, £8); Stuart Goldsmith, End Of (Ceredigion Museum, 3.45pm, £10); Tudur Owen, Understanding (The Old College, 5.30pm, £10); Suzi Ruffell, Nocturnal (Royal Pier, 5.30pm, £10); Josh Widdecombe, work in progress (Commodore Cinema, 5.45pm, £12); Mark Thomas, Check Up – Our NHS @ 70 (Arts Centre, 7.30pm, £16); Tudur Owen A Ffrindau (Arad Goch, 7.30pm, £8); Paul Foot, Image Conscious (venue TBC, 7.30pm, £12); Jen Brister, Meaningless (Ceredigion Museum, 7.30pm, £10); Ed

4400. Also on Fri 19. uExodus Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 0300 0040444.

Comedy drama presented

by Motherlode Theatre. On tomorrow also, at 2pm; in Llandinam on Thurs 11, Merthyr on Fri 12, Cardiff from Wed 17-Sat 20, Newport on Tue 23, Gwynfe on Wed 24, Milford Haven on Thurs 25, Blackwood on Fri 26, Brecon on Sat 27 and Cwmavon on Tue 30.

Flying Atoms Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 1.30 + 7pm, £6. Info 01686 614555.

Kids’ show presented by Powys Dance. uLa Cenerentola Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.15pm, £12.50-£49.50.

Info 029 2063 6464. Rossini opera, presented by Welsh National Opera. Also on Sun 7.

Mike Doyle Gwyn Hall, Neath. 7.30pm, £17.20 adv.

Info 0300 3656677.

Not About Heroes Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7.50-£15. Info 029 2039 1391. Play about the friendship between WWI poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Previously shown in several south Wales venues.

Paul Foot The Riverfront, Newport. 7.45pm, £15. Info

01633 656757. Comedian.

‘Stute Comedy Nights Miners Institute, Blackwood.

8pm, £12.50/£11.50 adv. Info 01495 227206. uThe Wizard Of Oz Dolman Theatre, Newport.

7.15pm, £10. Info 01633 263670. Musical presented

by Phoenix Productions. On tomorrow also, at 1pm and 5.30pm.

SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER Chris Ramsey Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 7.30pm, £20. Info 01600 772467.

Loot Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.45pm, £12/£9.

Info 01686 614555.

Made In Wales Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £18/£16. Info 01874 611622. Described as “a reverent, nostalgic, bawdy and biting celebration of Wales and Welshness in poetry and music,” so could be in the wrong section, hard to know.

Mike Doyle Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £16/£14.

Info 0845 2263510.

Milkshake! Live: The Magic Storybook Park & Dare, Treorchy. 12.30 + 4pm, £5-£14.50. Info 0300 0040444.

Tales From Wales Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

7.30pm, £7. Info 01685 384111. Welsh comedy duo of Drew Taylor and Steffan Evans.

Theatre In Focus: Susan Glaspell Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

12.30pm, £6.50 adv. Info 01792 475715. Talk followed by a scrip-in-hand performance of a Glaspell play.

The Empty Chair Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 11.30pm, £7. Info 029 2039 1391.

Kids’ musical, followed by a workshop at 1.30pm which costs £2 extra if you want to attend.

SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER Glenn Moore + The Death Hilarious + Robin Morgan Buffalo, Cardiff.

7pm, £4-£8. Info 029 2031 0312. Buffalo Comedy night. uLive Cabaret Market Street Club, Barry. 8.30pm.

Info 01446 733863. Every Sunday.

Milkshake Live! Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot.

11am + 2pm, £14. Info 01639 763214.

MONDAY 8 OCTOBER uCaterpillar Comedy Gwdihw, Cardiff. 8pm, free.

Info 029 2039 7933. Open mic standup night hosted by James Dunn. Also on Tue 23.

Loot Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £14/£12.

Info 01633 868239. uRob Brydon Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £21.50-£27.50.

Info 029 2063 6464. (Until Sun 14) uSkin A Cat The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £10 adv. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com. Rive Productions with a play looking a young woman’s struggles with her sexuality.

Also on at 3pm on Sat 13.

(Until Sat 13) Tabby McTat Grand Theatre, Swansea. 2 + 4.30pm, £14. Info 01792 475715. Another product of the Donaldson/Scheffler axis of kids” literature.

TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER Cosi Fan Tutte Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7.30pm, £5-£19. Info 01495 227206. Opera, presented by Heritage Opera. uThe Comedy About A Bank Robbery New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £16-£32. Info 029 2087 8889.

West End hit courtesy of Mischief Theatre. On at 2.30pm on Wed 10, Thurs 11 and Sat 13. £14-£27 on Wednesday and Thurs afternoon; £19-£36 on Fri 12 and Sat 13 (Until Sat 13) WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER Carmen Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £28-£35.

Info 01792 475715. Opera, presented by Russian State Opera.

Cinderella Park & Dare, Treorchy. 7.30pm, £14/£12.

Info 0300 0040444. Ballet, presented by Ballet Cymru.

Heroes Without A Parachute Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 1pm, £6.50. Info 01656 815995. Lunchtime theatre by Fluellen.

Jen Brister Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10. Info 029 2023 2199. Comedian presented by Little Wander.

See Upfront.

Larks And Magic Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil.

6.30pm, £5. Info 01685 384111. The story of children’s author E Nesbit, performed by Alison Neil. I guess this is more a dramatisation than, like, a lecture but not certain.

Loot Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £12. Info 01792 863722.

Terror On The Tracks Gwyn Hall, Neath. 7.30pm, £10.75 adv. Info 0300 3656677. Spooky one-man theatre show, based on a Dickens tale and presented

by Don’t Go Into The Cellar. uThe Darling Buds Of May Paget Rooms, Penarth.

7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 029 2070 0721. Penarth Operatic & Dramatic Society with a show based on the 1950s book. I thought the 90s TV show was an original work until now, point and laugh at my ignorance everyone.

THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER Dreaming The Night Field Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.45pm, £8-£10. Info 01970 623232. Storytelling/ theatre/music based on a Mabinogion tale and presented by Adverse Camber.

In Ammanford tomorrow; Llanelli on Sat 13.

Exodus Llandinam Village Hall, Powys. Info 01686 688902. uFel Anifail Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 7.15pm, £8-£16. Info 029 2064 6900.

Welsh-language play (with an English translation BUZZ 75

option offered) written by the late Meic Povey and concerning an elderly couple who have lived at the same farmhouse all their lives. On at 7pm on Fri 12; no performance on Sun 14. (Until Sat 20) Felicity Ward Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

8pm, £13. Info 01792 475715.

Comedian and podcaster with a show she has chosen to call Busting A Nut. uHigh School Musical Jr Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil.

6pm, £8/£6. Info 01685 722176. Presented by CAST Performance Academy. Also on at 2.30pm on Sat 13.

(Until Sat 13) La Traviata Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £28-£35. Info 01792 475715.

Another offering from Russian State Opera.

Loot Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £15/£13.

Info 0845 2263510.

Nolton Comedy Nolton Corner, Bridgend. 7.30pm, free. Info 01656 655015. With standups TBC, every second Thursday of the month. uPillars Of The Community Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £10. Info 0845 2263510. Ibsen thriller presented by the Phoenix Theatre Group. (Until Sat 13) Subtitles Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 7pm, £6. Info 07933 844234. The Caravan Theatre Company with a debut show about how brains can be our best friends and our worst enemies.

This Incredible Life Miners Institute, Blackwood.

3pm, £10.50 adv. Info 01495 227206.

Twisted Tales The Riverfront, Newport. 7.45pm, £13/£11. Info 01633 656757.

Triple bill of dark comedies.

Zoe Lyons Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells. 7.30pm, £15. Info 01982 552555.

Comedian who you can see on the telly, or hear on the radio, or watch in Cardigan tomorrow/Pontardawe Sat 13.

FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER A Child’s Christmas, Poems & Tiger Eggs By Dylan Thomas Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £15/£13. Info 01874 611622. A Child’s Christmas In Wales reinterpreted by Ballet Cymru with musci by Cerys Matthews.

Ceri Dupree Borough Theatre, Abergavenny.

7.30pm, £16/£14. Info 01873 850805.

Christian Reilly + Rob Mulholland + Paul James Narberth Rugby Club. 8pm, £12/£10. Info 01834 869323. Comedy Club night hosted by Span Arts.

Dreaming The Night Field Miners Theatre, Ammanford. 7pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 0845 2263510.

Exodus Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info 01685 384111. uMacbeth – Director’s BUZZ 76

Cut Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2030 4400. Presented by Volcano. On tomorrow also.

Princess Charming Pontardawe Arts Centre.

6pm, £8/£6 kids. Info 01792 863722. An exploration of gender stereotypes by Ovalhouse and Spun Glass Theatre. In Cardiff on Wed 31 and Thurs 1 Nov. Phil Evans + Gary Slaymaker + Aled Richards + Karren Sherrard + Steffan Evans The Hyst, Swansea.

7.30pm, £10. Info 01792 654366. Comedy. uResident Magicians The Small Space, Barry.

7.30pm, £20. Info info@ thesmallspace.co.uk. Notably small (only 20 seats!) magiccentred Vale venue. Also on Fri 19, Fri 26, Sat 27 and Wed 31.

Richard Alston Dance Company Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £8-£14. Info 01792 602060.

Choreographer Alston celebrates 50 years in this business with a programme of four pieces: Brahms Hungarian, Detour, Proverb and Mid Century Modern. Also includes a preshow talk at 6.30pm. uSteve Bugeja + Sean Collins + Andy Robinson + George Zach Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink). uThe Graduate Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £14/£13.50. Info 01656 815995. Presented by Phoenix Theatre. On tomorrow also.

Zoe Lyons Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 8pm, £15. Info 01239 621200.

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 80th Birthday Gala Concert Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £10/£8.

Info 0300 0040444. Variety show toasting eight decades down for this venue.

Andrew Rutledge Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd.

7.30pm. Info 01443 491424.

Comedian.

Bluestocking Lounge Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea. 8pm, £16. Info 01792 475715. Burlesque, headlined by Dee Dee De La Rouge.

Ceri Dupree Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £17.50/£16. Info 01239 621200.

Dreaming The Night Field Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

7pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 0845 2263510.

Jimeoin Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £20.

Info 01792 475715. IrishAustralian comedian, in Cardiff tomorrow and Newtown on Wed 31.

Paul Brook The Small Space, Barry. 7.30pm, £20.

Info info@thesmallspace. co.uk. Brummie hypnotist.

Peter Pan Jr Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £10/£9. Info 01686 614555.

Presented by the NYP Theatre Group.

Twinkle Twinkle The Riverfront, Newport.

11.30am + 2.30pm, £9. Info 01633 656757. Kids’ show.

Zoe Lyons Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £15. Info 01792 863722.

SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER Alice In Wonderland Jr Pontardawe Arts Centre. 3 + 7pm, £9. Info 01792 863722.

Presented by the Raie Copp Academy.

Jimeoin Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £17.50. Info 0871 4720400.

Yana And The Yeti Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

2pm, £6-£10. Info 01970 623232. Puppet show written

by Hattie Naylor.

MONDAY 15 OCTOBER uDara Ó Briain Grand Theatre, Swansea. 8pm, £25. Info 01792 475715.

On tomorrow also, if Dara doesn’t take umbrage at

Hypnotist whose show is apparently a bit risque.

“Forget tired old pocket watches,” urges the press copy, which would be easier to do if the accompanying tour poster didn’t have a large image of a pocket watch on it. Maybe Robert will be able to hypnotise me into forgetting.

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER April In Paris Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.45pm, £6-£9.

Info 01970 623232.

Cabaret At The College Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.

6-7pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391. Songs from the musicals, in the foyer. uExodus Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2030 4400.

On at 2pm and 7.30pm on Sat 20. (Until Sat 20) uJoseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Theatr Hafren, Newtown.

7.30pm, £15/£12.50. Info

Blackwood Miners Institute has an original play, Broken Harp, on Wed 24 and Thurs 25. It was partly devised by the local Lewis School and its premise concerns two ghosts, revealed to be former Lewis pupils sent to die in World War I. this venue writing his name as Dara O’Briain that is. In Cardiff on Fri 26 and Sat 27. uOne O’Clock From The House Little Theatre, Neath.

7pm, £8 adv/£5 under-16s.

Info 01639 643462. A play by the late Frank Vickery, indeed this production is intended as a tribute to the Real Valleys ambassador in chief. (Until Sat 20) TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER April In Paris Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £11. Info 01792 863722.

John Godber play, presented here by It’s An Act. In Aberystwyth tomorrow; Llanelli on Tue 23; Cwmbran on Wed 24; Cardigan on Thurs 25; Builth Wells on Fri 26; Newtown on Sat 27. uDr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Dolman Theatre, Newport.

7.15pm, £12.509/£8.50 NUS. Info 01633 263670. Also on at 2.30pm on Sat 20 (£11).

(Until Sat 20) uLes Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £16.50-£32.50.

Info 029 2063 6464. You might know them as The Trocks; they are from New York and have been active, as a company, for over 40 years.

On tomorrow also. uLoot Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare. 7.30pm, £14/£12.

Info 0300 0040444. On tomorrow also, at 1pm.

Robert Temple Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £19/£17. Info 01633 868239.

01686 614555. Presented by NMTC. Also on at 2.30pm on Sat 20. (Until Sat 20) uLord Of The Flies Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £8-£26. Info 029 2064 6900. Dystopian novel of note presented for the stage by Sherman Theatre and Theatr Clwyd. Also on at 2pm on Sat 20, Tue 23, Thurs 25, Thurs 1 Nov and Sat 3 Nov. No performances on Sun 21 or Sun 28. (Until Sat 3 Nov) Myths For Millennials The Gate, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344.

Short plays based on old myths but put in a modern context.

Nye & Jennie The Met, Abertillery. 1.30 + 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01495 355945.

Acclaimed play about Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee. In Blackwood tomorrow; Ystradgynlais on Fri 19; Aberysywyth on Sat 20; Newport on Wed 24; Brecon on Thurs 25.

Rich Hall Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7.30pm, £17.

Info 01873 850805.

Sara Pascoe Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £18/£14 NUS. Info 0871 4720400.

Irish-Sold out. uSpring Awakening Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7pm, £6-£13.

Info 029 2039 1391. Frank Wedekind’s play, presented here by the Richard Burton Company. No performances on Sun 21 or Mon 22. (Until Sat 27)

uStick Man New Theatre, Cardiff. 2pm, £12.50£14.50. Info 029 2087 8889.

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s kids’ book, onstage. On at 11am and 2pm on Thurs 18-Sat 20.

(Until Sat 20) THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER uAll My Sons Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6-£13.

Info 029 2039 1391. Arthur Miller’s play, presented here by the Richard Burton Company. Also on at 2.30pm on Tue 23 and Fri 26; captioned performance on Sat 27. No performances on Sun 21 or Mon 22. (Until Sat 27) Dolly Chicken Comedy: Fun At The Flute Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 7.3010.30pm, £6.50/£5 adv. Info dollychickencomedy@gmail. com. Featuring Jenny Collier will be headlining, with support from Richard James, Wes Packer, Beth Jones, Gareth Thomas and MC Anita Shaw plus house band Molly Katz.

From Laugharne To Penarth Pier Penarth Pier Pavilion. 7pm, £10/£8. Info 0844 8700887. The A48 Theatre Company with a play based on the life of Dylan Thomas.

How To Hide A Lion Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 4.30pm, £9/£8. Info 01792 602060. Kids’ show based on Helen Stephens’ book. uJarlath Regan + Dana Alexander + David Trent Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £9/£8 NUS/£16 with a pie. Info 0871 4720400.

Tomorrow’s lineup, also with Josh Pugh: 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Sat 20, also with Josh Pugh: £17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink. (Until Sat 20) Loot Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £15.50/£14.50. Info 01656 815995. uLands The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com.

Antler present a play which purports to dissect a relationship veging on collapse, with a trampoline and a jigsaw puzzlke among the stage props. Also on at 3pm on Sat 20. (Until Sat 20) Nye & Jennie Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7.30pm, £14.50/£12.50 adv.

Info 01495 227206.

PlayPen Beginnings Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

7.45pm, £6. Info 01970 623232. Plays by new local writers.

FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER uHedda Gabler Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.15pm, £6-£13. Info 029 2039 1391.

Henrik Ibsen’s play, reinterpreted by Patrick Marber and presented here by the Richard Burton Company.

Also on at 2.30pm on Wed 24. No performances on Sun 21 or Mon 22. (Until Sat 27)

Loot Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £14/£13.

Info 01239 621200.

Marcus Brigstocke Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. 8pm, £16. Info 01600 772467.

Comedian with a new show titled Devil May Care; interviewed in the September issue of this mag.

Nye & Jennie The Welfare, Ystradgynlais. 7.30pm, £12/£10 kids. Info 01639 843163.

The Armistice Suite Miners Institute, Blackwood.

7pm, £12/£9. Info 01495 227206. Multimedia performance piece consisting of words, music and visuals to commemorate the centenary of the end of WWI. SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER Made In Dagenham The Riverfront, Newport. 7pm, £21. Info 01633 656757. The latest ‘organised and defiant working class immortalised in a feelgood movie which then becomes an even more twee musical’ scenario.

Applause Productions and Impact Theatre Company are behind this one.

Nye & Jennie Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £9-£12.

Info 01970 623232.

This Is The Greatest Show Grand Theatre, Swansea. 4 + 7.30pm, £23.

Info 01792 475715. Musical based on the life of circus magnate PT Barnum.

SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER Gary Delaney Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £17.

Info 0871 4720400. With a show tepidly titled Gagster’s Paradise.

New Dimension Dance Academy Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 2.30pm, £5.50-£7.50 adv. Info 01495 243252.

MONDAY 22 OCTOBER Jamali Maddix Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10. Info 029 2023 2199.

Comedian with a show titled Vape Lord.

TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER April In Paris Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £15/£13.

Info 0845 2263510. uBlithe Spirit Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly. 7.30pm, £9/£6. Info 07512 237983.

Performed by Caerphilly Players Amateur Dramatics society. (Until Fri 26) Dwyn Y Gof Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £10£12. Info 01970 623232.

Welsh language play written

by Meic Povey.

Exodus The Riverfront, Newport. 7.45pm, £11/£9.

Info 01633 656757. uLet Me Look At You Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

7.45pm, £8-£16. Info 029 2064 6900. Starving Artists (no relation to the Cardiff hip-hop promoters) with a play in which a middle-aged gay man recalls his sexual experiences. On tomorrow also. uMacbeth Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 1.15 + 7.30pm, £7-£12. Info 01792

602060. Presented by Volcano, who describe this take as arresting and untraditional. On tomorrow also, at 11am.

Monét X Change Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £20/£30 VIP. Info 0871 4720400. Drag Race season 10 favourite. uMurder For Two New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £16-£27. Info 029 2087 8889.

Comedic musical whodunnit.

Also on at 2.30pm on Wed 24 and Sat 27. £19-£30 on Fri 26 and Sat 27. (Until Sat 27) Passion Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £12.25-£29.50. Info 029 2063 6464. A Music Theatre Wales/National Dance Company co-production which portrays two lovers separated in different worlds.

WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER April In Paris Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £13/£11. Info 01633 868239. uBroken Harp Miners Institute, Blackwood. 7pm, £5.50/£3.50. Info 01495 227206. Lewis School Pengam and ChainWorks present a play coinciding with both Halloween and the end of WWI: two ghosts inhabiting this area are revealed to be those of fallen soldiers once of Lewis School. On tomorrow also, at 1.30pm and 7pm.

Calum Stewart & James Dunn Little Man Coffee Co, Cardiff. 8pm, pay by donation. Info 07933 844234.

Local comedy duo with a show titled The Sons Of Devolution. uChitty Chitty Bang Bang Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.15pm, £15.50£19.50. Info 01792 475715.

Musical presented by Abbey Players. Also on at 2.15pm on Sat 27. (Until Sat 27) uElis James & John Robins Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £17.50. Info 0871 4720400. Radio regular comedy duo on a tour promoting, and reading, their new book The Holy Vible. On tomorrow also. uEvita Dolman Theatre, Newport. 7.15pm, £12.50.

Info 01633 263670. Musical presented by CentreStage Cymru. (Until Sat 27) Exodus Gwynfe Village Hall, Carmarthenshire. 7.30pm.

Info 01550 740462. uHigh School Musical Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl.

12.30 + 7pm, £11/£9. Info 01656 815995. Presented by Brynteg Comprehensive. On at 7pm only on Thurs 25 and Fri 26. (Until Fri 26) Macbeth Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £12.50/£11.50. Info 01970 623232. Not sure who this version is done by. uMysterious Maud’s Chambers Of Fantastical Truth Insole Court, Llandaff, Cardiff. 6 + 8.30pm, £14/£8. Info 029 2116 7920. Site-specific theatre production with a haunted house theme, devised by Caroline Sabin.

Presented in conjunction

with Chapter. (Until Wed 31) Nye & Jennie The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £14/£12. Info 01633 656757.

The Island Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 1.30 + 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 0845 2263510.

See Stage for more on this apartheid-era play. In Cardiff from Sat 27-Mon 29.

The Storm Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £15/£13. Info 01874 611622. Dance production incorporating acrobatics, breakdancing, martial arts and contact work. uTuck Ffresh, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 9pm, £15. Info 029 2063 6464. Drag-themed play about a Cardiff-based queen named Patsy Thatcher.

Fictional name but wonder if it’s basded on anyone in particular. (Until Sat 3 Nov) THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER April In Paris Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £13/£12. Info 01239 621200.

Exodus Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £8.50-£15. Info 01646 695267.

Jim Davidson Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £22.50. Info 01633 868239.

“A brand new show which promises to be the antidote to this ‘PC’ world we now live in”. Indeed, this will be Jim’s final tour under that name as he is being forced to change it to ‘He/Him Davidson’.

Nye & Jennie Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01874 611622.

FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER April In Paris Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells. 7.30pm, £13/£12. Info 01982 552555. uDara Ó Briain Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 8pm, £25. Info 029 2063 6464. On tomorrow also.

Exodus Miners Institute, Blackwood. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 01495 227206.

Finding Joy Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £10-£13. Info 01646 695267.

Full mask dance production about a grandmother and grandson, plus the challenges they face. uLaura Lexx + Joe Bor + Micky P Kerr + Craig Murray Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £15.95/£8 NUS/£23.95 with food. Info 0871 4720400. On tomorrow also (£17.95/£10 NUS/£27.95 with pizza and a drink), and on Sun 28, at 1pm, minus Murray and aimed at a family audience (£10/£7 under18s or NUS). (Until Sun 28) MK Ultra Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £12/£10.

Info 01970 623232. Mind control-themed dance production which we wrote about last month. uRun For Your Wife Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

7.45pm, £6-£9. Info 01970 623232. Noted British farce, on tomorrow also Studio Comedy Club Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £11/£9 adv. Info 029 2064 6900. Monthly event (until December) with comedians TBC. The Electric Burlesque The Neon, Newport. 7.30pm, £12. Info 01633 533666.

Featuring Domino Barbeau, Paulus and Foofoo Labelle, plus more TBC The Wizard, The Goat And The Man Who Won The War Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01792 602060.

Lloyd George-themed play presented by Theatr Cadair.

Tom Wrigglesworth + Ed Aczel Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 8pm, from £10. Info 01874 611622. Comedy Club night.

SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER April In Paris Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.45pm, £12/£9. Info 01686 614555.

Cafficadabra Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8-10pm, free. Info 029 2030 4400.

Magic from Joseff Badman in the bar Exodus Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £12/£10.

Info 01874 611622.

Flawless Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 7.30pm, £25.50. Info 0845 2263510. Dance troupe with a new show titled Chase The Dream: The Reboot.

Heidi Wurst The New Crown Inn, Merthyr Tydfil.

9pm, £4. Info 01685 387925.

Drag queen.

Loot Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £14/£12. Info 01646 695267.

Phantoms Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

12.30pm, £6/£5. Info 01792 475715. Lunchtime theatre.

Rob Kemp Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 10.45pm, £12/£10 NUS. Info 0871 4720400. Halloween-themed show, starting after the regular comedy bill finishes here, in which Kemp reinterprets the movie Evil Dead 2 using the songs of Elvis.

Test | Capture Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2063 6464. Double bill tour from Jack Philp Dance with a science theme. uThe Island Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 029 2030 4400.

(Until Mon 29) SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER Adam Rowe Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 6.45pm, £13 adv.

Info 0871 4720400.

MONDAY 29 OCTOBER Derwen Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

8pm, £12.50/£10.50. Info 0845 2263510. Play by Tim Crouch, translated into Welsh for Invertigo Theatre Company.

Jethro Tramshed, Cardiff.

7pm, £20 adv. Info 029 2023 5555. uLittle Baby Bum St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 12.30 + 3pm, £14. Info 029 2087 8444. Kids’ show, presented

by Just Kidding. On tomorrow also, at 10.30am and 2pm.

Mischief And Mystery In Moomin Valley

EXODUS Various venues, Fri 5-Tue 30 Oct Tickets: £8.50-£15 (prices vary per venue). Info: motherlodetheatre.com Starting in Aberdare, Welsh theatre company Motherload, in conjunction with RCT Theatres, will be bringing this new show to Llandinam (Thurs 11), Merthyr (Fri 12), Cardiff (Wed 17-Sat 20), Newport (Tue 23), Gwynfe (Wed 24), Milford Haven (Thurs 25), Blackwood (Fri 26), Brecon (Sat 27) and Cwmavon (Tue 30), before heading to London. Exodus is a tragicomedy written and directed

by Motherlode’s artistic director Rachael Boulton. It promises to bring to life this distinctively Welsh story of four neighbours who, after the last factory in their southern town closes, plot a plan to build a plane and fly away from the politics and pressures of life. The play merges fun and entertainment with a reverberating awareness of life and its challenges.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

11am + 2pm, £6-£10. Info 01970 623232. Get Lost And Found with a family show aimed at ages 4-7. In Ammanford tomorrow; Llanelli on Wed 31.

Ned And The Whale Miners Institute, Blackwood.

2pm, £5/£4. Info 01495 227206. Floosy & Boo production for kids, in Narberth tomorrow.

One Man Shoe Memorial Hall Theatre, Barry. 2pm, £7. Info 01446 738622.

Physical theatre type show for families. uSeussical Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot. 7pm, £10. Info 01639 763214.

Dr Seuss-themed musical presented by PTAOS Youth Theatre. (Until Wed 31) Slipstones The Welfare, Ystradgynlais. 11am + 2pm, £6. Info 01639 843163.

Interactive kids’ theatre, in English in the morning then Welsh in the afternoon. uThe Messiah New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £16-£30. Info 029 2087 8889.

This Nativity-themed comedy stars Hugh Dennis and Lesley Garrett and is a sort of trial run for the West End showing. Also on at 2.30pm on Thurs 1 and Say 3 Nov. £21-£33 on Fri 2 and Sat 3 Nov (Until Sat 3 Nov) TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER uCardiff Boy The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff.

7.30pm, £5 adv. Info info@ otherroomtheatre.com.

New play by Kevin Jones which was developed from an original idea at a Chippy Lane experimental night.

Today and tomorrow are preview nights; in November tickets will be £10. Also on at 3pm on Wed 7 Nov. No performances on . Thurs 1, Sun 4 or Sat 10 Nov. (Until Sun 11 Nov) Exodus Cwmavon Village Hall, Torfaen. Info 01495 774526 .

Loot Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli.

7.30pm, £15/£13. Info 0845 2263510. See Stage for more on this apartheid-era play. In Cardiff from Sat 27-Mon 29.

Milkshake! Live Grand Theatre, Swansea. 12 + 3.30pm, £17/£15.50 kids.

Info 01792 475715.

Mischief And Mystery In Moomin Valley Miners Theatre, Ammanford. 11am, 1pm + 3pm, £8/£6. Info 0845 2263510.

Ned And The Whale Narberth CP Primary School.

2pm, £6. Info 01834 869323.

Presented by Span Arts. uOliver! Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 7pm, £12 adv.

Info 01873 850805. Amateur production by AAODS Juniors. On at 5pm on Sat 3 Nov. (Until Sat 3 Nov) The Snail And The Whale The Riverfront, Newport.

11.30am + 3.30pm, £7. Info 01633 656757. Kids’ show

by Tall Stories, based on the book.

WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER Comedy Club Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.

8pm, £11. Info 01792 475715.

Jimeoin Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 8pm, £17. Info 01686 614555.

Mischief And Mystery In Moomin Valley Y Ffwrnes, Llanelli. 11am, 1pm + 5pm, £8/£6. Info 0845 2263510.

Loot Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £10-£12.

Info 01970 623232. uOh What A Lovely War Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £12/£10. Info 01792 473238.

Renowned WWI play presented by Swansea Little Theatre. (Until Sat 3 Nov) uPrincess Charming Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

2.30pm, £6. Info 029 2030 4400. uSister Act Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £12/£10.

Info 0845 2263510. Musical presented by Carmarthen Amateur Operatic Society.

Also at 2.30pm on Sat 3 Nov. (Until Sat 3 Nov) Sue Perkins Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £29.50.

Info 01792 475715. uWicked Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £20-£69. Info 029 2063 6464.

See Upfront for more on this popular musical. I’ll list the fiddly time/price bits in November if it’s alright with you. (Until Sat 24 Nov) Willam Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £20/£40 VIP. Info 0871 4720400. Drag Race alumnus (well she was booted out so not sure that’s the right term), brought here

by Slay!.

You Might Laugh Open Mic Night Le Public Space, Newport. 8.30pm, pay by donation. Info sam@lepub. co.uk. October’s edition of the this comedy night, here on the last Wednesday of every month, has a Halloween theme.

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TWO TICKETS TO MADE BY HAND AT CARDIFF CITY HALL Made By Hand is a contemporary craft fair at the renowned Cardiff City Hall. The fair is for craft exhibitionists and enthusiasts alike, encouraging proactivity, educational initiative and opportunity for the community at large. It has masterclasses, workshops, demonstrations and a pottery showdown! Expect to be enriched by what the world of contemporary craft has to offer with this weekend pass, Fri 2-Sun 4 Nov. TWO TICKETS TO DARA Ó BRIAIN IN WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE, CARDIFF BAY AND GRAND THEATRE, SWANSEA

That thing you use to dot your lowercase “i” with is called a tittle.

Horses can’t throw up.

Dorothy’s companion Toto was replaced by a cow named Imogene in the early stage version of The Wizard Of Oz. Only female mosquitoes bite you.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.

The filthy, poop-covered toilet in Trainspotting was actually covered in chocolate.

The technical name for a stomach growl is borborygmus.

With two tickets to grab for each event in Cardiff and Swansea, Dara Ó Briain’s Voice Of Reason tour is not to be skipped.

Whether at the Swansea Grand on Mon 15 Oct, or ther WMC on Fri 26, you’re guaranteed a hilarious live performance from one of British TV’s most iconic faces.

Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa’s lips.

TWO TICKETS FOR ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS AT TORCH THEATRE, MILFORD HAVEN

In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig as it is considered to be denying your pet the chance to make friends with members of its own species which could be considered an act of cruelty.

This classic comedy, written by Richard Bean adapted from a 18th century Italian text, lands in Milford Haven’s Torch Theatre, from Wed 3-Sat 20 Oct, for which we have two tickets. Since Bean’s version debuted in 2011 on the West End, One Man, Two Guvnors has played up and down the country; there are now many men, and twice as many Guvnors.

Flat wearthers don’t actually exist. It’s a conspiracy by the government.

Corgi is Welsh for ‘dwarf dog’.

TWO TICKETS FOR THE FEELING AT TRAMSHED Can you feel that? It’s The Feeling stopping by at Cardiff’s Tramshed on Tue 16 Oct. Celebrating 12 years since the band’s debut album Twelve Stops And Home (presumably, the title is why they chose to celebrate 12 years rather than 10 or so), we have two tickets to give away for their particular brand of hook-filled piano pop.

TWO TICKETS FOR THE MESSIAH AND MURDER FOR TWO AT NEW THEATRE We’ve got two pairs for two shows coming up at Cardiff’s New Theatre. The Messiah is a Christmas play (yes, starting on Mon 29 Oct), starring Hugh Dennis and previewing before its West End run, whilst Murder For Two, starting on Tue 23 Oct, is a riproaring Broadway hit that’s now making its way across the pond.

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In 2017, more people were killed from injuries caused by taking selfies than shark attacks.

The Welsh word for jellyfish is ‘pysgodyn wibli wobli’ which translates to wibbly wobbly fish in English.

Guinness estimates that 93,000 litres of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone.

Queen Elizabeth II is a trained truck mechanic.

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