APRIL 2023


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KEIRON SELF (films), JONATHAN SWAIN (food), CHRIS WILLIAMS (stage), SIMON AYRE, PETRE-ADRIAN BANUTA, HARI BERROW, EVE DAVIES, JOHN-PAUL DAVIES, JAMES ELLIS, RHIANNON FARR, RHIANON HOLLEY, ELIZABETH MORRIS, INDIA MUNDAY, LYNDA NASH, DAVID NOBAKHT, ELLIOT OAKLEY, RACHEL REES, RHONDA LEE REALI, HUGH RUSSELL, CHRIS SEAL, AMY WILD, BEN WOOLHEAD


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roundup / 4 From Rocky Horror to Paul Young, tacos to


magic mushrooms, it’s all here, due to not ap- pearing elsewhere


upfront / 10


Pretty much all this section is given over to our annual festival guide this month, which you’ll be wanting to read should a guide to (mostly) Welsh festivals be useful to you. Shout out to UK psych-pop progenitors The Zombies, inter- viewed at the end of this section, for being its sole non-festy item


film / 26


Keiron Self surveys the month ahead in the world of going to ‘the pictures’, or sitting at home streaming stuff so as to avoid the indig- nity of sneaking your own food in


previews / 28


Hard-hitting confessional art across the great plains of west, mid and north Wales – and that’s just the new show by comedian Rich Hardisty, as previewed on the Stage page. Naturally the pampered south gets a look-in too, with theatre shows Es & Flo and Romeo & Julie plus gigs by Aldous Harding and Kruelty among others


music / 32


Reviews of albums by Billie Marten, David Bowie – yes, he’s back! OK, it’s a collection of his old 60s singles – and, again, The Zom- bies precede a grab-bag of Welsh independent releases and an interview with Cardiff synth- poppers Voya


digital culture / 38


Playlists, podcasts and streaming (aka TV, if you’re old) rounded up as is traditional, plus a guide to successful video games-turned-drama adaptions in the wake of HBO’s hit series The Last Of Us


food&drink /40 A review of busy new central Cardiff joint Par-


allel, in which a steakhouse branches out into the ‘small plates thing’, plus an appraisal of the similarly new TwentySix in the Bone Yard across two pages


lifestyle / 43


April is the month when foraging season real- ly kicks off in the UK, and we have not only a short rollcall of obtainable edible plants to watch out for but a list of organised foraging events in Wales


books / 46


Novels, short story collections, oral histories, memoirs, manuals and another novel. That’s how the books stack up this time out


listings / 47


There are things happening across the coun- try nearly every day. That’s where this section steps up to the plate


profile / 62 Emma Way on a Welsh theatre-and-other-arts


company who are telling the story of this coun- try’s part in global hip-hop culture, 50 years since the genre’s birth


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Front Cover Photo: Big Retreat Festival, © Hawlfraint y Goron / © Crown copyright (2023) Cymru Wales festival images


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