The gair rhydd magazine, published by the students of Cardiff University

Get full on a fiver

Ingredients

A brilliant dish isn’t an expensive dish. Quite the opposite; most dishes you pay a lots for in an expensive restaurant cost as little as possible – Gordon (Rambo) Ramsay didn’t become a millionaire by throwing money at his food.You don’t need top of the range kit or loads of ingredients.

Continue reading...

This Week

Latest Edition

Issue 52 - Front Page

Light Years To Nothing - Soft Hearted Scientists

Jangly, mesmerising future folk guitar that undulates from the Cardiff-based pseudo-scientists specialising in lyrical one-liners. Complemented with soft touches of synthesiser that really does transport you into other galactic realms. Not necessarily the most memorable of twee-pop nuggets but certainly an intriguing listen with its optimistic layered vocals cooing.

Pulse

Can the latest edition to Cardiff’s nightlife, Pulse, live up to expectations?

A Little Less Conversation

Women: It’s time to put the volume firmly on ‘mute’...

LCD Soundsystem

To call LCD Soundsystem a ‘band’ would be somewhat like calling Robbie Williams ‘a bit of a drama queen.’ LCD Soundsystem are a fully-fledged multi-limbed funk contraption.

Seefeel - Quique (redux)

Eeeeeeeeeeel

Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

Snotty Nose

In Review: M.A.C.H

Modified Air Combat Heroes Is an acronym that has blatantly been reverse engineered by twatty marketing types. People who get to wear their own clothes to work and use phrases like ‘edgy’ and ‘bling’ far too much.

TMNT

Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were two young comic book artists who conceived the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1984 as the result of a joke.

The Fall

It’s 10.20pm at the Point and for 15 minutes a video screen mounted behind the stage has been showing repeated slow motion videos of James Brown, moulded into Pavarotti, blended into Sadaam Hussain – or that’s what it looks like to me.

Klaxons - Gravity’s Rainbow

Bursting out of the traps like a sprightly ‘Nu Rave’ greyhound is Gravity’s Rainbow. While the band might have since started a cult, popularised glow-sticks and revived indie-dance music, this re-released track is perhaps their finest moment, with thumping drums and a bass line to die for.