clubs
alternative party upstairs.
411 Bar And Nightclub
3-6 St Mary Street, Cardiff.
Open Thurs 9pm-3am, Fri
+ Sat 10pm-4am. 029 2066
7996.
Tue 31 NYE Celebrstion
2014 10pm-6am, £15 adv/£20
with champagne reception.
This is selling itself as a ‘celeb
lookalike special’, something
to bear in mind when planning
your evening perhaps. Fridays
+ Saturdays Gawjus 9pm12am, free before 10. Pre-club
night offering drinks deals,
sexy staff and stuning beats.
Fridays Afrobeats 9pm-4am,
£10/£5 before 12/free before
10. I guess they play a lot of
Afrobeats, and have luminaries
of the scene every so often.
Saturdays Sofunked 9pm4am, £10/£5 before 12/free on
guest list before 10. R’n’b, old
skool, hip-hop, dancehall and
funky house.
Bassment
Stow Hill, Newport. 01633
252252 / www.
sixfeetunderclub.com
Fri 31 Jan Powercore 8pm5am, £10. First time in this
venue for hardcore/hard dance
promoters, who have taken
a break in the last half year
or so. Over two rooms... Alex
Prospect, Al Storm, Djc, Kyle
Wytchwood, Cruze, Pikey, Miss
Special K, Blocaldini, Ricky D
& Bassmental, Burn, Lozzie,
Vishaun & Snatch, Demize,
Instigate, Boyle, Webbe, Gaz
V, Riche, Leif Boii, Ray Raw,
Funk-E, Shift D, Tekno Bear,
Dash N App, Con Con, Ripps,
Rachel Red & Angel Eyez,
Rapid & Rampage, Coregasm,
Havok, Wreckage, Watkins, XL,
Krypton and a competition winner. MCs: Wotsee, Recognize,
3man, Energy, Turbo, Ricta,
Nemesis D, Smash, Pieman,
Bazza, Messiah, Demize,
Swift-E, China White and a
competition winner. Saturdays
Weekend Jukebox 11pm, free
before 12. All the hits from
all the genres, they say. Sat
21 Fash N Tuff Old Skool
Xmas Bash 9pm-5am, £9 adv.
Slipmatt is the hardcore hero
of old on the decks up top, with
Neil Young and Richie Moulton
also offering three and a half
hours of club classics from acid
house onwards. See also: Owen
Kilbey, Quadey, James Ynhell,
Stevie Dydyke, Clare James,
Paul Blandford and Darren Ini
Jungle.
Big Blue Sports Bar
(formerly The Old
Library)
Trinity Street, Cardiff. 029
2066 6566.
Saturdays Bang 9pm-4am,
free. Indie, Alternative, mashups and party rockers with
Hywel and DJ Loveless.
Buffalo
11 Windsor Place, Cardiff.
Open Mon-Thurs 11am-3am,
Fri + Sat 11am-4am, Sun
until 4am. 029 2031 0312 /
www.buffalocardiff.com
Tue 24 Xmas Eve Party £4/
free before 11. Mulled wine,
special festive cocktails and
two floors of music until 4am.
Tue 31 New Year’s Eve Party
Until 5am. Featuring an outdoor
marquee with soundsystem.
Glass of champagne on entry
and a mashup of party stuff
to dance to. Wednesdays
Blender 8pm-3am. Pop culture,
fashion, music, bands, vintage
stalls and DJ Emil in the bar
until 3am. Wed 4 and 11 are
Cardiff Tea Club specials.
Thurs 5 Purrmotions 10pm4am. New club promoters follow
up their debut Cardiff night last
month, with a bill headlined
by The Golden Boy. Thurs 26
Boxing Day Soiree Until 4am,
free before 11. DJs over two
floors. Fri 6 FAO 9pm-4am.
Belfast garagey-house producer
Ejeca makes his Cardiff DJing
debut here, as part of what FAO
are calling their Up Close And
Personal series. *Fri 13 Pirate
Radio 11pm-4am, £4/£3.
Sunship, pioneering UK garage
duo who have the demeanour of
1980s football managers, headline a nice cheap evening. Tony
Blitz, Comfort b2b Gavin Woo
and Aaron Harris also weigh
in. Saturdays Buffalo Block
Party 8pm-4am, £4/free b4 11.
RichTea, James Size, Rackham
and Stacy French offer hip-hop,
house, garage, indie, alt-rock,
disco etc. Sundays The Hop
8pm-3am, free. Rock’n’roll,
swing, psych and alt-classic
anthems, plus cult 50s and
60s films.
The Bunk House
93-94 St Mary Street, Cardiff.
029 2022 8587 / www.bunkhousecardiff.co.uk
Fridays 10pm, free. Ska and
bluebeat every week with
DJs Potter and Ben Potter.
Saturdays 10pm, free. Jive,
swing and rock’n’roll every week
with DJ Ben Potter.
Cardiff University
Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only.
029 2078 1458 /
[email protected]
Wednesdays The Lash 9pm2am. Clubs/societies type night
which features “games on the
stage so filthy that the changing room showers don’t stand
a chance”. Quite. Saturdays
Flux 9pm-2am, £5/£4 NUS.
Chart, dance and pop.
Charlie Brown’s / Baa Bar
114-116 St Mary Street,
Cardiff. 07772 216358.
Wednesdays 9pm-3.30am, £4.
Indie, pop and rock courtesy
of resident DJs. Fri 6 The
Incubator 9pm-3am, £5/£3
NUS. Free party style techno
bosh specialists with the following: Cornelius Ponsomby, Matt
Griffin b2b Numb3rs Just, ArcE-Tek, Trigger and Crazy Carl.
There’s also a free party afterwards (venue TBC, natch) with
sets from Agitator, Robi & Ceri
Suss, Welsh Stan & Bridgeman,
Rag N Tekhead and DrUnK
FloYd. Fridays + Saturdays
9pm-3.30am, £4. Indie, rock and
metal courtesy of resident DJs.
Saturdays 9pm-3.30am, £4.
Indie, rock and metal courtesy
of resident DJs. Saturdays
(Baa Bar) Hellfire 9pm-3am.
New weekly metal night, springing up in the wake of Bogiez I’d
imagine. “The heaviest, darkest
and folkiest the genre has to
offer,” is what you’re due to
hear here.
Club Oxygen
1 Northampton Lane,
Swansea. 0844 8849171 /
www.globaloxygen.co.uk
Fridays 11pm-6am, from £5.
House and commercial music
all night from Big Al, Nicky
G, Kai, 3 Bird, Daniel Perry,
Jordan Stiens, Jamie Bevan,
Tom Chizzy and Luca Renaldi.
Saturdays Living For The
Weekend 10pm-6am. House
and commercial tunes from
residents on rotation. Sat 21
Christmas Party 10am-6pm.
Room 1: Judge Jules, Big Al,
Martin Dibble, Ben Parkin,
Nicky G and 3 Bird. Room 2:
Hijacked Xmas Party with Karl
Roberts b2b Frankie Ferrell,
Pickle & Griff, Salty & Saunders,
Anthony Tutton b2b Matthew
Jones and Cookie.
Clwb Ifor Bach
MR BENN & EVA LAZARUS
Aquarian Party @ Queens Hall, Narberth, Fri 24 Jan
Tickets: £10/£8. Info: 01834 869323 / www.span-arts.org.uk
Aquarian Party, Pembroke promoters who’ll have apparently notched up 15
years in the game come 2014, tend to favour acts who very much do it live, but
are explicitly about dancefloor ignition. Bristolian DJ Mr Benn, and his MC
foil for tonight Eva Lazarus – also from the cider-loving city – fit very nicely
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