Tag Archives: Cardiff

The audience are on their feet cheering and clapping, the local press photographer is snapping away as we launch into our encores for the wonderful audience at Thieles Garten in Bremerhaven, Germany. The venue is a small concert hall, with ancillary bar and food preparation area, set among the most extraordinary sculpture garden – the setting providing the inspiration for …

A bus service where passengers set the daily timetable is helping people in the north of Carmarthenshire and south Ceredigion to get to the National Eisteddfod this summer. But people are being urged to remember to book their bus journey for the Llanelli festival, which takes place on Festival Fields, Millennium Coastal Park, Llanelli from 1-9 August. Bwcabus allows residents …

Cardiff’s Queen Street will have yet another starring role in the new series of Doctor Who as filming is taking place there again today. New Doctor Peter Capaldi, assistant Jenna Coleman and the Tardis returned to the capital’s main shopping street for some early morning filming for series 8. Queues started gathering early as fans tried to get an autograph …

With just weeks to go before this year’s Carmarthenshire National Eisteddfod, organisers say the Gorsedd of the Bards’ preparations are running smoothly. The Gorsedd of the Bards is a society of poets, writers, musicians, artists and individuals who have made a notable contribution to the nation, its language and culture and it operates through the medium of the Welsh language. …

Store Where? Royal Arcade, Cardiff city centre. When? July 19, 10am to 4pm. What? Store is a shop offering a completely different shopping experience. Much as a normal high street shop sells pre-packaged goods in tins, bags or boxes, STORE sells live performances to passing shoppers at prices starting from as low as 50p. Arriving in Cardiff after appearances in …

A lot of time has passed since series one of Utopia. Perhaps the shock of the violence has numbed and we fondly remember Alexandra Roach chugging away on a train. Those hazy memories are jolted from your mind by the opener of series number two. So vivid and horrible at times, that this reviewer had to run from her TV …

We have become accustomed to TV film crews. We’ve watched Doctors chased down Cardiff streets by Daleks and Cybermen, seen Sherlock Holmes sitting with master criminals at local Italian restaurants. If we’re being honest, Aberystwyth was as much the star of Hinterland as DC Mathias, and Barry has appeared on the small screen in both Gavin and Stacey and Being …

As anticipation levels go into meltdown for the sold out Series 8 premiere and the first date of the world tour, we have trawled through half a century of adventures in time and space for this ultimate A-Z of the science-fiction phenomenon. View gallery “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ View gallery   More on Doctor …

The saying “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” seems particularly apt at this time. As far as bad news was concerned, the announcement that the Welsh Music Foundation was to be disbanded signified a cruel blow for a Welsh music scene that many will tell you is revelling in rude health. And as always in these matters, …

Tom Jones wowed a sell-out crowd at Chepstow Racecourse with his newer material – but some fans were left disappointed with the lack of older hits. The music kicked off at 9.30pm  after three hours of horse racing at the track, which has been a hotspot for musical acts such as Madness and Jools Holland, recently. The crowd we very …