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

Kaiser Chiefs - Everything is Average Nowadays

This must have been the Kaiser Chiefs attempt at irony, because, even for them, it’s really bland and ‘average.’ However, I am going to like this single to annoy all the trendy scenesters with leggings and haircuts from faux-Japanese hairdressers who regard them as ‘uncool.’ Because I hate them more.

This Week

Latest Edition

Issue 52 - Front Page

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.

Diversions

Exposure sees Diversions return to the stage with a new triple bill for 2007. Each of the dances is remarkably different from the others and it’s this variety that draws audiences back to see the dance company time and again.

Billy Whizz

Lizzie Pook celebrates the cult legend behind some of the best movies of the last 25 years. All hail Bill Murray...

The Jock

This unique species seem to breed only in the highly charged, competitive and testosterone filled world of University Sports. For the most part, they can be found loitering outside the back of the Union on a Wednesday, proudly wearing their red and black jackets.

K-Day

Fashion Desk takes on the crowds in Queen Street to battle it out for a piece of the most over-hyped collection of the year

What’s On

Welsh National Opera @ Wales Millennium Centre, May and June

The Maccabees - Colour it In

Racist

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.

Manga - A different kind of graphic novel

After the recent success of films based on graphic novels at the box office, Books examines its favourite style...

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81

Left-eye Lopez’s tragic demise