Live review: The Stylistics, New Theatre, Cardiff, 12 November 2024

The Stylistics introduced their timeless soulful allure to the New Theatre on 12 November as a part of their Best Hits Tour. The long-lasting Philly Soul group – who've been via various line-up modifications throughout their 56 years of performing – delivered an excellent night of best hits and loads...

Sŵn Connect 2024 – the music industry conference reimagined – free tickets!

In addition to the primary Sŵn pageant this 12 months, Sŵn additionally presents their reimagined music business convention, Sŵn Join. And you will get FREE tickets with the code under! Do you (or anybody you realize! wish to get into the music business, get booked for festivals, or broaden your business contacts?...

Sŵn Festival 2024!

YOU GUYS Sŵn Pageant is COMINGGGGG – it takes place this coming week, Thursday, October seventeenth – Saturday, October nineteenth (and truthfully we’re grateful for having Sunday to recuperate!). Tickets are RUNNING LOW so that is your informal weekend reminder to recover from to the Sŵn Pageant tickets web page...

Exploring CULTVR – Cardiff’s immersive research lab for digital arts, live performance, XR and fulldome cinema

Cardiff pals! Our exploration of Cardiff’s cultural scene continues as we speak with a peek inside CULTVR. Genuinely certainly one of my favorite venues within the metropolis, CULTVR is without doubt one of the solely areas of its variety IN EUROPE (by no means thoughts Wales / the UK), and...

Heads Above The Waves

Subsequent in our unbiased enterprise profile sequence is Heads Above The Waves, a Cardiff-based non-profit that raises consciousness of melancholy and self-harm in younger individuals. Chloe Jackson-Nott catches up with them. The place did the concept for Heads Above The Waves come from? Funnily sufficient, it began with me [Si]...

Two more men jailed over Birmingham gun and knife violence on Ward End church car park | I Am Birmingham

Two extra males have been jailed after gun and knife violence flared on a Birmingham church automobile park. One man was stabbed with a machete and one other was shot within the chest as two teams clashed on the automobile park of Christ Church on Burney Lane, Ward Finish. West...

Guns and drugs seized as West Midlands Police major crime unit uncover organised crime gangs | I Am Birmingham

Police in Birmingham and the Black Nation have seized medicine and weapons from properties throughout the area in latest months, they've revealed. “Extra weapons, medicine and suspected severe and organised criminals have been taken off the streets of the West Midlands by our devoted Main Crime Unit Proactive Groups (MCUPT),”...

Streets flooded and roads closed as burst water main causes chaos in Birmingham | I Am Birmingham

This was the scene earlier in the present day as households waded by flooded streets in Birmingham following a serious water leak on Stratford Highway. Severn Trent has confirmed {that a} burst principal water pipe within the Sparkhill space of the town resulted in residents being left with out water...

Review: The Gangs of New York, Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre

Photograph: Mark McNulty Phrases – Paul Crofts / Footage – Mark McNulty & WAC On an excellent summer time’s night, I took my seat at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre for a efficiency of ‘The Gangs of New York’.  Based mostly on Herbert Astbury’s novel set amongst the clashing communities...