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Michael Buble, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
Michael Bublé is back with a bang for his first UK arena tour in four years, Higher, and he was in fine form at the Motorpoint in Cardiff...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20243 min read


Lucy Spraggan, O2 Academy Bristol
Since wandering onto the X Factor stage in 2012, Lucy Spraggan has had an incredible journey, both professionally and personally. An...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Lucy Spraggan, O2 Academy Bristol
What to wear; what to eat; where to spend the hours – and who to spend them with; our days are full of choices, each of which has its own...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20241 min read


Steeltown Murders
The new four-part BBC One drama Steeltown Murders is from writer Ed Whitmore and director Marc Evans, who between them produced Manhunt...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Maryland
The ascendance of Suranne Jones from Coronation Street star to a creative force to be reckoned with over the last couple of decades has...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Poor Things
To describe director Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Poor Things, which is adapted by Tony McNamara (The Favourite) from the 1992 novel by...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


The Zone of Interest
Some films strike like a lightning bolt on a first watch and stay with you, scarring themselves into your psyche and subtly but...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read


Annika
Ever since Nicola Walker was unforgivably written out of Unforgotten, leaving Sanjeev Bhaskar with no one to moon at over the body bags,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Ten Pound Poms
Danny Brocklehurst is perhaps best known as a writer on Shameless and Brassic, series with big mouths, big hearts and anarchic spirits,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read


Without Sin
Without Sin is a heavyweight thriller cut from the same cloth as Happy Valley and Save Me, so fans of deep-rooted trauma and grief...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Succession
Tonight’s episode of 'Succession' was one of the best in the entire series, if not the best, which I suppose should come as no surprise:...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Steeltown Murders
Big warning and spoiler alert - do not read this if you have not watched the last episode of BBC's Steeltown Murders. Who was Joseph...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read


Succession
There was, in the end, no joy for the Roys. The backstabbing siblings exited the final ever episode of "Succession" much as they had...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read


Poker Face
"Poker Face" is a modern homage to the classic murder-mystery-of-the-week shows which filled those parts of 1970s and 80s television...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read


Poker Face
Thank goodness for Poker Face, the enormously successful mystery-a-week show that debuted in the US earlier this year and has finally...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read


Best Interests
Written by Jack Thorne (Help, Kiri, The Virtues), Best Interests is a devastating four-part drama about a family torn apart over making a...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20242 min read


Anna Karenina, Bristol Old Vic Theatre
Bristol Old Vic’s summer blockbuster for 2023 is a world premiere of Tolstoy’s 19th century classic, ‘Anna Karenina’, adapted for the...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20244 min read


Bruce Springsteen, Villa Park
Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band blew into Birmingham on Friday night, thundering through a barnstorming three-hour set for their...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20247 min read


Bruce Springsteen, Hyde Park
Bruce Springsteen called on London to “be good to yourself and the ones you love” as he rolled back the years during a three-hour, 29...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20245 min read


Oklahoma!, Wyndham's Theatre
Less a revival than a dark and unsettling reimagining of the well-loved Western-themed musical, Daniel Fish’s audacious deconstruction of...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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