Newport Archive

  • copacabana-neonlogo

    My Copa Experience – New Venture Players

    For anyone like myself who knows of the song but not of the story, Copacabana is a world-famous nightclub in New York City and Stephen, (played by Ben Hurley) an aspiring songwriter is transported to a time when “music and passion were always the fashion”!...

    Full Story

  • Bank Job

    The Bank Job, New Venue, Same Date

    ONLY A FEW DAYS TIL THE BIGGEST PARTY IN TOWN!! THE BANK JOB. SIX FEET UNDER. CHRISTMAS BASH Will be held at Six feet under Newport, on Stow Hill, in conjunction with ‘The Legendary TJ’s Christmas Reunion Party’ and so is guaranteed to be rammed!...

    Full Story

  • john higgins

    New format for Snooker’s Welsh Open

    World class snooker returns to Newport in February with the Welsh Open – and the world ranking event boasts a brand new format. The tournament runs from February 14 to 20 at the Newport Centre and will feature the top 16 players in the world...

    Full Story

  • Just So

    26-29/01/11 | Dolman Theatre Presents…

    Full Story

  • we4

    Big, loud and different: Border-Live! strikes again

    BANDS drawn from a thirty mile radius of Newport showed there’s a plethora of accessible new music in the area on Friday night at Six Feet Under. The bright piercing stage lights first danced to the big electro beats of ‘We Start Parties’, a Bristol five-piece that...

    Full Story

  • tents

    Nick Hendrickson | So i woke up in a tent.

    So i woke up in a tent with the early morning light creeping through the small hole my girlfriend Emma made while trying to put up an umbrella to go for a pee. This was last summer camping in cornwall, why she had to put the umbrella...

    Full Story

  • Tessio 1

    The Talented Mr Tessio

    Very glad to be able to showcase some of Vernon’s illustrative work at last as Border have become great fans of his cool, humorous and irreverent style. Check out more pieces at  http:www.vernontessio.com

    Full Story

  • All Shook Up5

    Jamie Adams – Writer / Director / Producer

    Jamie begun making films in 1996 at the age of sixteen,in the fourteen Years that have past he has developed as a Film Maker at Royal Holloway University of London underGideon Koppel (Sleep Furiously 2009) and then at InternationalFilm School Wales, Newport where he workedwith...

    Full Story

  • Logo_Blue2

    The Raconteur goes online

    This autumn The Raconteur becomes an online publication, giving us and our writers the opportunity to cover a wider range of subjects in greater depth. What we found as editors of an ambitious print magazine was that more often than not we were pitting one excellent...

    Full Story

  • dragons flag

    Year of the Dragon

    Is this to be the year of the dragon? With all the latest goings on at Rodney Parade I daren’t bet against it. There seems to be a real buzz around the place of late as it becomes the most rapidly developing welsh region. And...

    Full Story