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Interviews with Ardal O’Hanlon, Gok Wan, The National and Shane Williams, plus another round of Ones To Watch, where we speculate who/what might do noteworthy things in the year ahead. A sort of ‘2020 vision’ you might say. A ha ha ho! Seriously though folks, it’s great that our long international nightmare of living through two consecutive decades with no consensus on what they’re called is nearly over
28film
Two months of cinematic releases across two pages, plus a bonus bounty of Keiron Self where our guy looks ahead to the rest of 2020 – and back into 2019. “Rant over,” he says at the close of his eminently reasonable case for unpopulist movies, while acknowledging the right of comic book multiplexfillers to exist too. If he thinks that’s a rant, he should have heard me when I knocked a jar of pens off a table earlier
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Two months of art, stage, clubs and live music condensed into four pages – a real tricky task I can tell you. OK, it wasn’t especially, but we did also have a preview of Ashanti written that we couldn’t use because all of the four or five people we tried to get a photo from totally ignored us. No doubt if we just nicked one from the internet they’d get in touch to try and sue us. Anyway, Ashanti is in Cardiff Uni on Thurs 30 Jan, check it out or something
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Lazy hacks with a Spotify subscription love to phone in articles about how the album format is dead, but the page and a half given over to them in here each month belies that, I feel. Or are we the critical equivalent of the apocryphal Japanese soldiers still fighting World War II in the 1970s? Listen, I want my free albums and you want your free magazine so let’s just leave it
45lifestyle
Sustainability and food miles in the… food, an ecological thrust to the Christmas decorations, an article by Jon Sutton in praise of charity volunteering and the sentiment “what is winter about, if not gorging on the calorific content of a small chocolate factory?” We never promised you a singular voice
59listings
Worst art exhibition name in this issue: This Isn’t Just Art... This Is Barnabas Art. Worst named club event: Kevin & Perry Club Night Experience. Worst named miscellaneous event: The Origins Of Our English Christmas. Worst named musical act: Beabadoobee. Worst named ‘adult panto’: Aladdin & His Magic Ring. May God curse you all
78competitions
Win tickets to see lots of boisterous call-and-response pantomimes, plus American rap duo Insane Clown Posse, which is different to the thing I just wrote. Thinking about the time I saw a pregnant juggalette (female fan of Insane Clown Posse) walking past the Buzz office. If you think this may have been you, please enter our competition, and if you win, don’t leave your child home alone
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