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Things To Do This Week... in Wales
Newport: An Audience With Mr Nice
An Audience With Mr Nice, Newport Centre, January 27, www.howardmarks.name He’s the Welshman who was infamous as an importer of cannabis on a scale that would impress a supermarket chain and is now famous for banging on about that fact. Mr Nice, or Howard Marks to his mum, always attracts an audience of red-eyed student types. Perhaps that means you.
Swansea: The Johnny Cash Roadshow
The Johnny Cash Roadshow, Swansea Grand Theatre, January 25, www.johnnycashroadshow.com If you’re a fan of the Man in Black (and we’re not talking about Gok Wan) you’ll love this tribute show. If you’re a boy called Sue, accept our deepest sympathies.
Cardiff: Percussion: Up Close and Personal
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Dora Stoutzker Hall), January 25, www.rwcmd.ac.uk Percussionists are unsung heroes of the orchestra and possibly the worst neighbours you could ever have. In this one-off show, the bangers, tinklers and bongers emerge from the shadows to do the sort of thing that would get them an Asbo in a residential area.
Swansea: Grow Your Own (masterclass)
National Botanic Garden of Wales, Swansea, January 28, www.gardenofwales.org.uk This masterclass from the National Botanic Garden of Wales will teach you how to cultivate organic veggies, which will save you tons of cash in these skint times. If only the gardeners could teach us how to grow a new flat and perhaps a car, life would be doubly rosy.
Cardiff: Piaf – The Songs
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Richard Burton Theatre), January 25, www.piaf-the-songs.co.uk Edith Piaf was France’s most popular singer and the story of her rise from street urchin to musical superstar is the stuff of legend. As the 50th anniversary of her death approaches, singer Eve Loiseau will perform all her hits. Bring a hanky.
