Posts by: fluorescentsoph
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Review – Avenue Q: The Musical, New Theatre, Cardiff
Don’t be fooled by the wide eyes and cheeky grins of Avenue Q’s puppets. From the outset, its visual imitation of a scene from an innocent, colourful children’s programme –…
by fluorescentsoph | 18/06/2019 at 4:16pm
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Review: Calendar Girls The Musical, Wales Millennium Centre
Inhibitions and clothes are stripped off frequently in Calendar Girls: The Musical, Tim Firth and Gary Barlow’s stage adaption of the 2003 flick. Based off of the true story of…
by fluorescentsoph | 02/05/2019 at 8:49am
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Review: Idles at Tramshed, Cardiff
“It goes and it goes and it goes…” So chants the supercharged crowd that has packed out Cardiff’s Tramshed this evening, knitted together in anticipation as IDLES drag out their…
by fluorescentsoph | 29/03/2019 at 1:39pm
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Review: Ward Thomas at St David’s Hall, Cardiff
As Brits, our uptight inhibitions often refuse to let us admit our ‘guilty pleasures’, so to speak, to one another. If you were to openly admit your penchant for country…
by fluorescentsoph | 06/03/2019 at 11:54am
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PREVIEW: Shimmer Sounds
Since the opening of Grangetown’s Tramshed in 2015, the Cardiff music scene has only reaped the rewards. The latest – and perhaps greatest – of these rewards is the introduction…
by fluorescentsoph | 13/11/2018 at 3:42pm
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Review: Estrons – You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough
For many a purist, Estrons may come across as a bona-fide punk band. Lead singer Tali Källström wants to askew that label, though. Speaking to NME in February 2017, Källström stated that “It’s…
by fluorescentsoph | 03/10/2018 at 9:15am
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Preview: HOYfest 2018
Sam Hoy’s triple threat shtick continues to pay dividends to to the Cardiff gig circuit in the form of his annual, eponymous weekender, HOYfest. The promoter, curator and bassist has vehemently…
by fluorescentsoph | 29/09/2018 at 10:04am
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Preview: Soccer Mommy
Sophie Allison – better known as Soccer Mommy to you and me – is a beacon of hope for the masses of bedroom pop producers that are currently trying to…
by fluorescentsoph | 10/09/2018 at 12:34pm
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Preview: Catfish and The Bottlemen
It’s not exactly a secret that Catfish and The Bottlemen are no strangers to big crowds… With a smattering of forthcoming festival headline slots until their collective belt, the band…
by fluorescentsoph | 28/07/2018 at 9:41am