what’s on


chat/Q&A with Nigel Owens, retired Welsh rugby ref and Media Personality.


DOREEN LAWRENCE


Art Shop & Chapel, Abergavenny, Thurs 20 July Tickets: £12. Info: artshopandgallery. co.uk. The latest edition of the monthly Conversations At The Chapel series sees Alastair Laurence speaking onstage with Doreen Lawrence, who has become one of the highest profile and most valuable spokespeople regarding issues of racial justice and systemic corruption in the 30 years since the murder of her son Stephen.


KAHANI RAAT WITH ASIAN PURRSUASION


Wales’ biggest outdoor July (tickets: £45)


gigs in July: a recap In case you missed our roundup of such things in the June issue of Buzz, let’s put all the big stadium/ park/castle shows on this month in one place again. Like so!


George Ezra [pictured], Chepstow Racecourse, Sun 2 July (tickets: £49.95-£110)


Sting, Cardiff Castle, Sun 2 July (tickets: £65. Info: cardiffcastle.com)


The Cult, Cardiff Castle, Tue 4


to mingle with your fellow pedalling nudists before riding from 2.30.


VINTAGE FOR VICTORY


Library Gardens, Cardiff, Sat 8 + Sun 9 July Tickets: £60 weekend/£40 Sat 8/£30 Sun 9 (adults); £50 weekend/£35 Sat 8/£25 Sun 9 (ages 16-21); FREE under-16s. Info: vintageforvictory.co.uk. You don’t hear as much as you used to about these ‘vintage’ events where everyone dresses like a Land Girl or wears a monocle or whatever and dances the lindy hop. They’re still out there though, in this case in “Whitchurch Village, a leafy suburb of Cardiff” (organisers’ words) with retro live music, dance classes, stalls full of gingham dresses etc.


Hozier, Cardiff Castle, Thurs 6 July (tickets: £40)


Classical, Singleton Park, Swansea, Sat 22 July (tickets: £42.50-£95)


N-Dubz, Stadiwm CSM, Colwyn Bay, Sat 22 July (tickets: £45-£57.50)


Tom Jones, Cardiff Castle, Fri 21 July, Mon 24 July + Sat 5 Aug (tickets: £82.50) Ministry Of Sound


Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Thurs 20 July Tickets: £10. Info: wmc.org.uk. Asian Purrsuasion are a queer cabaret trio who have performed with the Welsh Ballroom Community. For this evening, two of their number (Aliz and Muz) play hosts on a night of storytelling – “real-life stories told by the community” is the strapline here – with Rahim El Habachi and Jae Hee also chipping in.


Lang to name only three. CANCER BATS


Le Public Space, Newport, Mon 3 July Tickets: £20 per show. Info: lepublicspace. co.uk. In the UK primarily to play the 2000 Trees festival, Canadian sludgy metalcore types Cancer Bats’ surrounding tour includes a Newport date, which sold out sharpish. So after their first evening show, they’ll be playing a second one, at 10.30pm, which is nice of them.


THE MINUS 5 / THE NO ONES


Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Tue 4 July Tickets: £22. Info: clwb.net. Billed as a joint headline tour, these two bands will also include the pulling of double duty, with onetime REM guitarist Peter Buck and Young Fresh Fellows founder Scott McCaughey featuring in both The Minus 5 and The No Ones. Expect a melange of alt- rock, powerpop, garage and country from these old, esteemed hands.


SOLOS


Ben Howard, Cardiff Castle, Sun 23 July (tickets: £42.50)


THIS MUST BE THE PLACE


Candleston Campsite, Merthyr Mawr, Fri 14-Sun 30 July Tickets: £49-£149 per night. Info: thismustbetheplace.camp. A sort of pop-up campsite, devised by some of the people behind Forest Feastival here, encouraging campers to, quote, “disconnect from their devices and ‘rewild themselves’ in the forest”. It does also have events during its 16-day tenure, in the form of guest chefs: so far Minto’s Patisserie and Simmie Vedi have been announced.


GO GAGA BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH SHOW


Depot, Cardiff, Sat 15 July Tickets: £39.95. Info: depotcardiff.com. The only thing more bottomless than these Bottomless Brunches is the organisers’ ability to come up with new themes for them. Three (3) so far here this summer. From 12-4pm revellers can wallow in the oeuvre of Lady Gaga, with south Walian tribute act Donna Marie performing live and all you can drink (subject to T&Cs maybe) for 90 minutes.


PENARTH DOWNHILL DERBY Vintage For Victory


SEED TALKS: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FETISH & KINK


Glee Club, Cardiff Bay, Thurs 13 July Tickets: £13.50/£18.50 VIP. Info: glee. co.uk/cardiff. These ‘Seed Talk’ evenings seem to be popping up here semi-regularly now, and are so named because of their “Plant an idea. Watch it grow” slogan rather than because they’re necessarily anything to do with actual seeds. In this one, Dr Lori Beth Bisbey invites us to “discover what drives fetish and kink behaviours”..


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Cliff Hill, Penarth, Sat 15 July Admission: free to spectate. Info: facebook.com/penarthdownhillderby. Surely the most wholesome event in this month’s What’s On section, assuming no-one spoils it by wearing a problematic costume or something, the Penarth Downhill Derby takes place on Cliff Hill, is expected to attracts thousands of spectators, and is open to any entrant who has built their own soapbox derby racer.


AN EVENING WITH NIGEL OWENS


William Aston Hall, Wrexham, Tue 18 July Tickets: £25. Info: williamastonwrexham. com. July 2023 is the last month in which it will be permitted to be a rugby fan in Wrexham, and so oval ball events company Ad/Lib Cymru have thrown a bone to the soon-disenfranchised by hosting a cosy


Shift, Cardiff, Thurs 6 July Tickets: £7/£4. Info: linktr.ee/shiftcardiff. The new music/modern composition landscape in Wales is showcased here, in one of Cardiff’s most pleasing locations for experimental art. Composers Ethan Davies, Niamh O’Donnell, Richard McReynolds, Tayla-Leigh Payne, Will Frampton and Julia Plaut present newly scored pieces for violin, harp, piano and oboe.


CHARLIE SPARKS This Must Be The Place


AN EVENING WITH GRAND SLAM HEROES


Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen, Fri 21 July Tickets: £30/£50 VIP. Info: theatrausirgar. co.uk. Participating in Rugby Culture is not only legal but heavily encouraged in Carmarthenshire, hence this four-strong ex-pro natter sesh. Lee Byrne, James Hook, Tom Shanklin and Martyn Williams are the men referenced in the title, and if you turn up an hour early and pay £20 more you can get a photo with them.


HOT AS HELL


Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff, Sat 29 July Admission: FREE. Info: facebook.com/ hellonearthevents. Hell On Earth return to this Cardiff metal bar, where independent traders will sell wares targeted at the goth and ‘alternative’ (which most people would also just call goth but is different somehow) communities. Art, oddities, homeware, clothing, accessories, apparel, taxidermy, jewellery and much more, sez the flyer.


Cancer Bats


Ware-House, Swansea, Fri 7 July Tickets: £30. Info: ware-house.uk. Hard techno in a big gym, and we don’t mean leaking out your headphones while you sweat to death on the treadmill, because Ware-House is doing its occasional thing of turning into a club to accommodate a headline set by rave maven Charlie Sparks. Still in his early 20s, as most of his audience appear to be, the London DJ is at the forefront of the recent hard techno boom.


THE LUMINEERS music BOO HEWERDINE


Penarth Pier Pavilion, Sat 1 July Tickets: £19.95. Info: facebook.com/ penarthpavilion. The main man behind The Bible – referring to the 80s band of that name – Boo Hewerdine has maintained an unstarry yet consistent career in the field of rootsy, melodic pop-rock. As well as albums under his own name he’s penned songs for Eddi Reader, Natalie Imbruglia and KD


Cardiff Castle, Fri 7 July Tickets: £46. Info: cardiffcastle.com. Hey ho, it’s Ho Hey hitmakers The Lumineers hitting Cardiff on their world tour and earnestly folk-rocking the castle with promotional aid from Depot Live. Not the Denver band’s first rodeo in this region, it’s certainly their biggest Welsh show to date however.


NRT FEST


Cwrt Herbert Playing Fields, Neath, Fri 7 + Sat 8 July Tickets: £22 both days/£6 per day under-16s/free under-6s. Info: gwynhall. com. Two evenings of live entertainment conveniently split into ‘rock’ and ‘urban’, or whatever tag you prefer, though if you are Neath’s fabled fan of Toploader and Tinchy


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