By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
Welly’s National Service Tour Part 1 (the South) travels this month from Gloucester to Northampton, with stops including Exeter, Reading and, of course, a homecoming kind of gig in Southampton.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
TRACKLIST: Femininomenen; Red Wine Supernova; After Midnight; Coffee; Casual; Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl; Hot To Go!; My Kink Is Karma; Picture You; Kaleidoscope; Pink Pony Club; Naked In Manhattan; California; Guilty Pleasure
Good things come to those who wait – and this album was released almost a year ago but it wasn’t until Roan supported Olivia Rodrigo that things really started to take off for her.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
Next month is a big 1 for Lady Gaga with the release of the film in which she stars with Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix – Joker: Folie à Deux – and the launch of the 1st single from her upcoming album currently known as LG7 and due February 2025.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 31 August (matinee), runs through 23 February 2025 RUNTIME: 150 minutes (with a 20-minute interval)
Is brat summer over?
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
Singer Elliot Hall (pictured below left) may be nicknamed Welly but this new single feels very much that it is showcasing the strengths of the 5-strong band.
You, dear reader, are given the chance to vote in 17 categories from October this year to tell us your favourite theatre, music, TV, film and podcast of 2024.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****/*****/****
WHEN?: Saturday 24 August and runs through 28 September 2024 RUNTIME: 3 successive 100-minute plays without interval
Paapa Essiedu (The Effect, National Theatre) plays Delroy in the 2nd of these intertwined state-of-the-nation dramas and it’s a performance so electric it draws an immediate standing ovation from an audience including Pedro Pascal and Russell Tovey (Constellations, Vaudeville Theatre) who are sitting together near our front row seat.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Thursday 29 August and runs through 13 February 2025 RUNTIME: 145 minutes (including a 20-minute interval) Update: now closing 19 January 2025
It’s such a simple idea – 2 best friends on a sofa discussing their lack of romantic success as big song and dance numbers break out all around and starring them – that it really shouldn’t work.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Sunday 25 August 2024 (press ticket)
It’s getting harder every year to get down early for the good bands. Day Three seems to be in reverse, with our best bands on at the beginning on the Castle Stage.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Sunday 25 August 2024 (press ticket)
We’re here because we want to see Isle Of Wight’s Wet Leg play almost on home turf after a meteoric rise to success but sometimes festivals surprise you and so it is with the 1st act we catch on the Castle Stage, Cardiff’s very own Panic Shack (pictured).
