Tag: music
Mai by Georgia Ruth
Evocation of locales that hold a personal connection to artists is a common feature in the medium of music. Rich soundscapes will frequently echo plac …
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My Mother Taught Me How to Sing and Graveyards in My Closet
Welsh boys and their mothers, eh? A cup of milky tea, a hunk of barabrith and mammy’s becardiganed cwtch – these have a Proustian ability to melt the …
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Breabach: Taliesin Live, Swansea
On 27 February, I made the trip to the Taliesin Theatre to see the Scottish Folk group, Breabach. Breabach have performed together for fifteen years, …
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The Silver Field & This is About
On the 4 March, Volcano Theatre in Swansea hosted yet another NAWR night. NAWR, (now) is a series of multidisciplinary concerts staged by Volcano over …
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Denis and Katya
The Aberystwyth Arts Centre theatre was an alien place to me until I went there to see Denis + Katya (2019). Through the doors, into the spacious and …
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Now I Become Myself: A Woman’s Voice in Music and Poetry, a Lecture by Rhian Samuel
This year’s annual Richard Burton lecture was delivered by Rhian Samuel in the Great Hall of Swansea University’s Bay Campus. Rhian, a widely successf …
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Just Help Yourself: Tom Jones, The Squires and the Road to Stardom
Tom Jones belongs to a tiny niche of the very famous that seem always to have been around. As a mainstream artist whose creative peak was some five de …
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Dusty Cut’s Hawaii
Tŷ Newydd was behind me and it was very wet. I’d spent a couple of days with Phil – Dusty Cut Phil – writing about everything, staying up too late, wa …
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Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away
Stevie Davies is one of our finest contemporary authors, and it’s a pleasure to see some of her short fiction collected here for the first time. Bette …
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They Can Be Heard
She encouraged me to have my ears tested. The first audiologist said the results were ‘pretty nasty’ and urged me to consider hearing aids. The second …
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