Cate le Bon sold-out her gig in the intimate and rather plush surroundings of The Gate Arts Centre, a former church in Roath, was Cate Le Bon’s first on home-soil since the Carmarthenshire- born songstress decamped to sunnier climes to record her third album in Los Angeles last year. With the record garnering rave reviews […]
Cultural Events
Jack and the Beanstalk, Review – New Theatre, Cardiff
Jack and the Beanstalk is as festive as Brussels sprouts and bath salts but a lot more enjoyable, the New Theatre panto has a habit of attracting big names. And in keeping with tradition, this year’s show featured comedy star and world double entendre champion Julian Clary. Produced by leading theatrical producer Qdos, renowned for […]
How one man has helped boost Wales’ contemporary art collection
Contemporary art: It’s a well known fact that the Davies sisters bequeathed more than 250 pieces of art to National Museum Wales following their deaths, including work by Monet, Cezanne and Van Gogh. But another benefactor has also helped boost the nation’s contemporary art collection during the last two decades. Exactly 20 years ago, the […]
Art Galleries and studios
There is a diverse selection of studio art galleries in Cardiff. Each of these art galleries has a certain uniqueness about it. The Victoria Fearn Gallery is to be found in Rhiwbina and displays contemporary art in a walk through gallery. Gifts of British origin are to be found in the body of the shop […]
Cardiff Theatre History
Cardiff Theatre History started in a loft over a stable in 1825, a year later the old Theatre Royal opened in Crockherbtown. A lane of the same name is less than 100 yards from the current location of the New Theatre. In 1877 the Theatre Royal burnt down. The ‘new ‘Theatre Royal’ opened in Wood Street […]
Review: The Rocky Horror Show, New Theatre
It’s the 40th anniversary of this, the Rocky Horror Show that audience participation was made for. Thankfully, the hot summer night was just the ticket for those who fully entered into the spirit of the evening and arrived in stockings, suspenders, basques and little else. Richard O’Brien’s rock ‘n’ roll musical, the Rocky Horror Show […]
Review: Hairspray, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
On a warm summer’s evening in Cardiff Bay, the mood inside the Wales Millennium Centre was already excitable, the musical Hairspray was in town. So it was hardly surprising that when Tracy Turnblad burst on the stage with the trademark wide grin and endless enthusiasm that has become synonymous with the much-loved character, the whole […]
Kyffin Williams and RS Thomas are Welsh cultural greats and a credit to their country
Both RS Thomas and Kyffin Williams give the lie to the attack once made on Wales by AN Wilson in the London Evening Standard when he said: “The Welsh are held in universal derision. They have never made any significant contribution to any branch of knowledge or culture.” It says more about Wilson than Wales for here […]