🔖 Welsh National Opera’s Un Ballo in Maschera - terrific gory fun with pirates, witchcraft and murder. Just seen this and definitely agree with the review.

Un ballo in maschera - interval.

Pre-opera glass of wine. At Wales Millennium Centre for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.

Another Sky 🎵 🔖 Heavens above

🔖 King Crimson Cardiff Show by Tony Levin

🔖 David Byrne: ‘My agent says I’m having a Leonard Cohen moment’

David Byrne at Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Saturday 27th October 2018. Brilliant show with excellent support from Benjamin Clementine. 🎵

K. T. Tunstall 🎵

Edit after the event, when I wasn’t watching the bands:

K. T. Tunstall was supporting

The Pretenders and

Simple Minds

Fantastic! The Selecter at Caerphilly Castle 🎵

The Breeders at the O2 Academy Bristol, Tuesday 10th July 🎵

Pip Blom 🎵

At the O2 Academy, Bristol awaiting The Breeders 🎵

PiL – Public Image Limited – at Tramshed, Cardiff on Thursday 21st June 🎵

Fatoumata Diawara, Le Gateau Chocolat and stage views last night at Utopia, curated by Charlotte Church as part of the Cardiff Festival of Voice. 🎵

David Attenborough - World Music Collector ― Fascinating documentary from BBC Radio 3 featuring some great music from around the world recorded by Attenborough over 50 years ago.

Dreadzone – Friday 25th May

Roland Gift (of the Fine Young Cannibals) – Saturday 26th May

The Blockheads – Sunday 27th May

Enjoying my first listen to Sweet Thursday – the new Herman Dune album released today. 🎵

Interesting - island stage set up for Arcade Fire tonight at the NEC. Don’t know where the front is! 🎵

Now I’ve just got to investigate Ursula K Le Guin’s electronica album and the associated book Always Coming Home

‘Deeply weird and enjoyable’

🎵📚

Arcade Fire interview

‘People have lost the ability to even know what a joke is. It’s very Orwellian’

Looking forward to seeing them in just over a fortnight. 🎵

First listen to Solar Divination by Kavus Torabi 🎵

Legend of the Fall – Mark E Smith kept swinging to the end 🎵

New Face in Hell 🎵 – Mark E Smith, lead singer with The Fall, dies aged 60. So many hours of my life spent listening to The Fall, from the late 70s, recording their sessions from the John Peel Show, to seeing them at the Green Man festival a couple of years ago (pictured here). Favourite albums Live at the Witch Trials and Grotesque.

Xylouris White – Only Love 🎵

St. David’s Hall, Cardiff for La Traviata.