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Open mic nights are always an unknown quantity. At best, you discover some real gems of hidden talent and at worst, you have to sit through an overlong set performed by a guitarist with an over-inflated ego.

The work of three world-class choreographers was showcased last week at the opening performance of the National Dance Company Wales’s spring tour.

Trying to pigeon-hole Enter Shikari is impossible. No matter how hard you try explaining their political post-hardcore dub-step to a newcomer, it always results in the same confused faces.

Lana Del Rey’s second album, Born To Die, has unsurprisingly received mixed reviews from critics since being release at the end of last month.

Keeping in line with Liam Neeson’s recent “tough guy” roles in Taken and Unknown, the Academy Award nominated actor teams up with his director from the A-Team reboot, Joe Carnahan, to take on the role of wolf hunter John Ottway in this emotional thriller.

This French/Belgian production has swiftly gone from a hyped indie darling to an Oscar front-runner for good reason.

Shame stars Michael Fassbender as 30-something Manhattan yuppie and sex-addict Brandon Sullivan who sates his carnal cravings in and around a nondescript but high-powered service job - so far, so American Psycho.

UK garage has been evolving since the 1990s, spawned from hip-hop, R&B and house music, which emanated from Chicago and New York. 

Roddy Woomble, vocalist from indie band Idlewild played an intimate gig at Clwb Ifor Bach on Tuesday evening.

Ma Vida Loca traces the influence of gangs in Los Angeles’ Mexican population. 

Despite an almost exhaustive repertoire of Victorian ghost story clichés, The Haunting is a superbly well-executed play. 

Anh Hung Tran's film adaptation of Norwegian Wood allows the audience to get lost in the moment. 

The Eagle is a superb attempt at recreating Roman Britain in all its gritty unpleasantness.

From the outset it needs to be made clear this is not one of Allen's best.

It cannot always bode well when a film’s reputation is centred around a personality, but in some cases there are lucky successes.

The Mercury prizewinners are in Cardiff touring their new album Build A Rocket Boys.

Newly opened Malaysia Cuisine is easy to miss in the city centre, but is well worth a visit for a good value, tasty meal. 

A satire on the world of cosmetic surgery and perceptions of the beautiful body, Prosthetic Soul is a bit like an episode of Holby City with sudden bursts of song.

Alan Bennett's most famous play, about the hopefulness of youth in a 1980s northern school, has come to the New Theatre in this West Yorkshire Playhouse production.

 

Watching Daedelus is like being caught in a time machine. His dandy outfit appears to have been plucked from the set of a period drama, but his musical equipment looks like it should be providing the soundtrack to a rave at NASA.

Dual sax and warped noise from the riff-heavy former Mercury nominees

Rachel Conner

 et al.

Scoundrels and missionaries collide in this spirited performance

After almost a year of musical dormancy Tomos Lewis and his band roared back into life with a vigorous performance at the Cardiff Arts Institute on Wednesday night.

Review of Toro Y Moi's new album Under the pine.