Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour The Welsh capital with a proud musical identity from Manic Street Preachers to a current crop of guitar bands.
Norma is at the centre of two Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard songs, but the stories behind them travel in very different directions.
A late-March 1991 Vox shoot in Wales grew into nearly two years of close access, before rediscovered prints became Valerie Phillips’ Manic Street Preachers photo book.
The 23rd October release brings together 2014 Roundhouse performances, Kieran Evans’ long-unreleased tour film and new Steven Wilson mixes of the 1994 album.
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard’s debut pairs huge hooks with political frustration, collective responsibility and the uncomfortable work of trying to change yourself.
The 20th anniversary edition expands the 2004 record with remastered audio, B-sides, demos, alternate versions, BBC sessions and two new takes on ‘1985’.
After Rob Collins’ death, Martin Duffy helped The Charlatans take the stage. Tim Burgess has since described how close they came to never playing again.
Enter Shikari will play intimate October shows in Oxford and Leicester before their November UK arena run.
Tom Rees’s second album moved from the public arguments of ‘Backhand Deals’ towards alienation, self-doubt and the complicated release of asking for help.
On their fifteenth album, Manic Street Preachers set Nicky Wire’s self-doubt against James Dean Bradfield’s more humane counterarguments.
As It Is’ anniversary re-recording turns Never Happy, Ever After into a map of the friendships, influences and newer voices around a 2015 pop-punk record.
Last autumn, a band that doesn’t exist overtook HOLDING ABSENCE on Spotify. They were already tearing up their own rulebook, building a robot mascot and making an album about human connection. Lucas Woodland explains why ‘Modern Life Is Lonely’ means so much to them.
Holding Absence have shared 'Heaven', the fourth and final single from their new album 'Modern Life Is Lonely'.
The reported ticket price was £22.50. Travel was another matter, and comparing that figure with today's prices takes more than a percentage increase.
The Cardiff quintet’s second EP arrives on 16th October via Brace Yourself Records.
Nine support acts played across Oasis’s Knebworth weekend, with Manic Street Preachers appearing twice. Behind the shared billing were very different occasions.
We land at Brudenell Social Club on Saturday 14th November, with Cowboy Hunters, Ain't and Brodie Milner also on the bill.
The Roundhouse recordings from 2014 arrive on 23rd October, alongside Kieran Evans' 'Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave' and a Steven Wilson remix of the original.
Nine years ago, Sarah Harvey worked Boomtown in fancy dress for a free ticket. This week Panic Shack play it twice. Cardiff's finest talk vans, pickles, mosh pits and the dream of finally quitting the day jobs, as Dork's latest festival guide cover stars prepare to give the fictional city a very real seeing to.
Brighton multi-venue weekender returns for eighth edition across ten grassroots spaces.
Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield have wriiten songs for a forthcoming musical.
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