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The Welsh re-Development Agency
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An excuse to do nothing
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When the thin blue line becomes a garrote
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Providing a useful sex education
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A mirrored darkness
February 6, 2012 09:02
Posts Tagged ‘music’
All praise, no blame
Gone are the days of Tom Jones’ “Dad Dancing” turbo disco drivel: Praise and Blame is a record to be lived with, to contemplate
There is a light that never goes out
Stuart Cable’s death meant more than the end of one of Wales’ most-loved public figures. He was one of us, and this country is the poorer for his passing
The Mastersinger of Caerdydd
The global cultural world had its eyes firmly pinned on Cardiff this weekend and the WNO certainly delivered the goods, says our new resident opera critic as he reviews Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg at the WMC
Vu-vu voom: vuvuzelas are beautiful instruments if you know how to play them
HAVE you had enough of that relentless, monotonous noise ruining your enjoyment of a wonderful tournament? Me too. So could the spoilsports complaining about the fabulous vuvuzela horns please pipe down and get back to obsessing about the jabulani ball? Having the task of covering the World Cup all day every day, it is clear [...]
For Hay, see England?
For a Welsh event, the Hay Festival can seem terribly English. Plaid AM Bethan Jenkins found that there is scant evidence of the festival’s setting, but they are there if you are prepared to look – and be inspired
Master of silence
The progress of Mark Hollis and his band Talk Talk is a latter day tale of unflinching, uncompromising artistic integrity, and his influence can still be heard in post rock bands like Radiohead and Department of Eagles. So why did he quit at the height of his powers?
In her troubled eyes she started to speak
Rachel Trezise, one of this country’s best authors, is frankly confessional in her work and never holds back in laying bare Wales and the Rhondda. But are her contradictions worth exploring, too?
The sound of our soul
They are often dismissed by our marketeers, but the male voice choir reaches deep into the cultural identity of industrial South Wales, and enjoys mass audiences around the world. No wonder, then, that they are attracting a new generation of singers
The Associates
Rap is widely regarded as urban, American … and misogynist. Having to live with the prejudices against Welsh hip hop, Cardiff label Associated Minds ploughs its own furrow, and confounds assumptions in the process
A broken record
The music industry is in crisis. Does it have enough imagination to take account of our changing consumer tastes?
The accidental jazz pianist
Gwilym Simcock’s latest album will cement his reputation at the vanguard of the contemporary British jazz scene. For this we can thank a nine-minute tune on a crackly compilation tape
Done nothing
The Specials take to the stage in Cardiff tomorrow on the latest date of a national tour for the reformed ska band. But this is no nostalgic reunion, and we shouldn’t take comfort from the resonance that their lyrics of 30 years ago still bear today
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