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[Pictured] HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-On-Wye Front Cover Photo: Wet Leg


revies


Art exhibitions, theatrical carry-ons and rock concerts. There’s even a club night lurking on the live music page! Big up Mike Dunn for his pioneering acid house 12”s he released in the late 1980s, and for coming to play here


msic


“It’s not clear whether this is intended to satisfy a certain audience or is simply the result of mediocre writing” – nope, not the official verdict on these contents pages but an extract from a review of the second album by… well, go and read for yourself


lifestyle


The future of esports in Wales (spoiler – there very much is one!, ruminations on smartphones, video games, fried chicken, recipes, restaurant reviews. From such things are lifestyles made


listis 


APRIL 2022 roundup


upfront


Welsh matters, matters taking place in Wales, events, openings, headsups, things of that nature


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In addition to the Buzz festival guide, as traditional a feature of our April issue as us doing an April issue at all (i.e. it is the first one since , there are interviews with Wet Leg, Bastille, Jim Kerr and others


film


Keiron Self looks ahead, in some cases to the distant future of Fri 29 Apr, and wonders what the films coming out on various dates might be like. In a few cases he has actually seen them already and will write reviews you can read on our website. Smoke and mirrors


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Several hundred events across all of  Wales that are sometimes described in the listings editor’s words and sometimes those of the event organisers or another third party, depending on whether or not the listings editor knows anything about the event


live reviews


We’re trying out with having these on the final editorial page.  little looking back after a load of looking forward. Something like that. Anyway it’s Royal Blood and De La Soul this month. Enjoy


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