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02/05/2019

Britain’s Got Talent’s Micky P Kerr had us all laughing with his performances last year. He talks to Carl Marsh ahead of his performance at The Glee Club on Sunday 5th May 2019 Carl Marsh: Would you say that of all the comedians, Bill Bailey has been a significant influence to you? Micky P Kerr: Yes, I think so because I’ve seen Bill Bailey a couple of times. I believe we are quite similar in the sense that we’re musical…

02/05/2019

Starring in The Hustle alongside Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, which is in cinemas in May 2019, Carl Marsh speaks to actor Ingrid Oliver about her character Inspector Desjardins.   Carl Marsh: You’re appearing in a remake of the film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which I have seen about 50 times, and it’s called The Hustle.   Ingrid Oliver: Really?   Carl: – Yes, it is my ‘go-to-comedy’, you can’t beat a bit of Steve Martin’s character Freddy pretending to be…

02/05/2019

Appearing at St Davids Hall on Sunday 26th May 2019,Howard Jones chats  to Carl Marsh. Carl Marsh: Am I correct in saying that this new tour is going to be about the new album Transform and your first album, Human’s Lib? Howard Jones: Yes, I’m structuring it so it’ll be like one song from the heritage section and then one new one. We’ve gone back to all the songs I’ve chosen from the catalogue and revisited some of the sounds…

02/05/2019

On Tuesday 7th May 2019, Katherine Jenkins performs at St David’s Hall in Cardiff, Carl Marsh chats to her in advance. Carl Marsh: Can I ask what your reasoning was behind the tracks you chose for this new album? Katherine Jenkins: It’s been four years since my last album came out and a lot has changed in that time. I was just married when the last album came out. Two children since. I just felt in a very different place….

02/05/2019

A group of operators from the Craft Union Pub Company have raised £3,000 for two Down Syndrome charities by co-ordinating multiple climbs of Pen Y Fan – the largest peak in South Wales – over one day. In total, a group of six people successfully managed to scale and descend all 886m of Pen y Fan three times over one day. A second group of 12 people (and a dog) managed to navigate the challenging climb twice.   The money…

02/05/2019

A new £1 million fund has been launched by Co-op’s charity, The Co-op Foundation, today (Wednesday, 1 May) to enable groups in Wales with a community and environmental focus to safeguard spaces and become more sustainable. The funding boost has been generated by proceeds from the 5p single-use carrier bag charge in the Co-op’s Welsh food stores. Welsh groups can “bag” grants of up to £10,000 to explore enterprising ideas that could contribute to a more sustainable future for their…

02/05/2019

AUDITIONING NOW EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY 15TH MAY 2019.  Top comedian Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, A League of Their Own, Taskmaster…) will be hosting a new topical comedy entertainment series for BBC2, and we are looking for fantastic people to be a part of it!   Romesh and his celebrity guests will get to the heart of the hot topics everyone’s talking about with the help of his Great British focus group – THE RANGANATION!   We are looking…

02/05/2019

Put on your best PJ’s to help families get a good nights’ sleep! Ronald McDonald House Charities UK are inviting schools, community groups and businesses from across the UK to take part in their annual PJ Day on Friday 14 of June to help families get a good nights’ sleep. The independent Charity provides free ‘home away from home’ accommodation to families with sick children in hospitals across the UK, enabling them to maintain a degree of a normal life…

02/05/2019

A chorus of beautiful songs filled with inspiring, and heart-warming sentiment performed to a packed of centre full of people who couldn’t stop laughing and clapping leading to a final standing ovation in which the cast members clapped back to the audience. This is what you would have witnessed in the Wales Millennium Centre this evening as  Calendar Girls- The Musical took to the stage. The first thing that strikes you as the curtain lifts on this Musical miracle was…

01/05/2019

  The new Pitching In DVD introduces us to Daffodil Dunes Caravan Park, the home and business of Frank Hardcastle played by Larry Lamb. This small village of Glen Mor set in the heart of the Welsh countryside, seems peaceful from the wide panning shots of the opening credits, as we meet the residents in the opening scenes, we soon see it is a modern representation of a small village with breath-taking scenery. We open on the day of Frank’s…