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04roundup
“ I had gone to Cambridge and it occurred to me that
maybe I would take my harp with me”
10upfront
As noted in our preview, and about 5,000 previous pieces on it, Bill Clinton once called Hay Festival“ the Woodstock of the mind”. He never specified which of the three Woodstocks he referred to though. Diffusion Festival: the V96 of photography. Big Splash: the Castlemorton of family-friendly Gwent arts weekends. Hey, this is fun
22film
Ten years ago we had Roger Ebert, Barry Norman and Keiron Self. Now we have no Ebert, nor man, but we do have‘ selfies’. Please, don’ t let Richard Bacon die
24food & drink
Last Sunday, on a whim, I really wanted a takeaway burrito at about 8.30pm, but didn’ t know anywhere in Cardiff I could get one. Emma from EJ Catering has submitted a recipe this month, but I doubt her catering extends to tortilla origami for one berk who’ s been inexplicably watching superbike racing in the pub of an afternoon
32previews
Just want to give a shout out to Jazzie B from Soul II Soul for his( unused) responses to clubs ed Ryan’ s genial email questions. Talk about monosyllabic! Let’ s just say his fingers didn’ t‘ keep on movin’’ on the keypad for too long
40reviews
One of the albums appraised this month was reviewed in an alternative format, which consisted of the word‘ Beck!’ repeated 80 times. Like a coward refusing to accept his medium is a sinking ship, I went for the review which engaged with and discussed the album to some extent
45travel
Dave Brayley isn’ t just about the sport, you know. Unless birdwatching counts as a sport, which I hardly think it does. Anyway, he’ s been to Ceredigion to look at and indeed learn about Red Kites, with the guiding hand of the RSPB
46sport
Editor Gareth bigs up some new indoor surfing facilities. He wrote this before going on holiday in Mauritius, where he might well be catching nonindoor waves, as I type … ironic to say the least
47listings
Dark confession time: I took the listings out for the Machynlleth Comedy Festival and the Fishguard Folk Festival because they’ re not, strictly speaking, in the area we profess to cover, and they take up a pulped forest’ s worth of paper. In the event that you didn’ t know about them until just now, and want to go, they’ re the first and last weekend of May respectively
70competitions
Q: Which philosopher famously wrote“ God is dead. And we have killed him”? A: Dick Bruna
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