Live Review: Wild Beasts, Bristol O2 Academy
After the release of two critically acclaimed albums this year from East India Youth and Wild Beasts, the pairing made […]
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Live Review: Deaf Havana, The Great Hall
“Mike’s on daytime radio, and John played Reading + Leeds, and I’m still playing the Purple Turtle on New Year’s
Live Review: Chvrches, Cardiff Solus
It’s hard to know what to expect from a band like CHVRCHES. When the band consists of essentially two guys
Live Review: Franz Ferdinand, O2 Academy Bristol
About ten minutes in to Franz Ferdinand’s gargantuan 90 minute set I am struck by how bizarre a situation I
Live Review: Bombay Bicycle Club, The Great Hall – Cardiff
Spring is finally descending, the sun is beginning to shine; that means one thing, it’s time for everyone to realise
Live Review: Howl and Birth of Joy, The Moon Club, 27.03.14
Eerie blue stage lights illuminate the Moon Club. The floor is sticky with its carpet of spilled lager. An audience clad
Live Review: Straight Lines, Solus, 09.03.14
Solus is busy before Falling With Style even start.┬á Their sound is powerful, vocal driven, heavy rock ÔÇô not unlike
Live Review: Drenge, The Fleece (Bristol), 27.02.14
In February Drenge were handed the accolade of ÔÇÿBest New Band’ at the NME Awards, fittingly rounding off a year
Live Review: Royal Blood, The Globe, 14.02.14
The misery of a wet and windy Friday night in Cardiff is lost as you walk into The Globe, a
Live Review: Skindred, Newport Centre, 08.03.14
A Newport-based reggae/metal band. It sounds like two musical genres and a place name picked out of a hat at
Live Review: Avicii, Earls Court (London), 21.02.14
Swedish sensation Tim Bergling, better known by his stage name Avicii, is one of the biggest and most in-demand DJ’s
Live Review: Mayday Parade, Solus, 03.02.14
You can forgive people for thinking that pop punk is for kids. The steadily growing queue of fans that snakes
Live Review: London Grammar, Solus, 28.01.13
London┬áGrammar’s UK tour has been eagerly anticipated.┬á Solus is illuminated by a thousand smartphones; Cardiff waits to watch it through
Review: MIND Fest, 23.11.13 – Undertone & Four Bars
Is there any better way to raise awareness of mental health than to put on a multi-venue inner-city festival? No,
Live Review: Bullet For My Valentine, Asking Alexandria, Young Guns – Motorpoint Arena – 06.12.13
Bullet For My Valentine have been marking Wales’ place on the heavy metal map of the UK for some years
Live Review: Future of the Left – Thekla, 15.11.13
Walking into a venue to see the mass of curly blondness that is Big Jeff in the front row is
Live Review: Akala – The Moon Club – 5.12.13
The Moon Club feels like the queue for a Ryanair flight. It’s rammed, bursting at the seams with a mass
S┼Án Festival – Sunday
Aled Rheon – The Hayes┬á Aled Rheon represents what S┼Án Fest is all about. Performing his carefully written songs in
S┼Án Festival – Saturday
Rhodri Brooks Rhodri Brooks’ electric guitar remained muted and mellow as the inevitable rain hit The Hayes at the start
S┼Án Festival: Thursday
Chl├Âe Howl ÔÇô The Angel Hotel At just 18 years of age, Chl├Âe Howl writes the sort of brutally honest,