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ment in prisons and hospitals for over 50 years.( Until Sun 26 May) The Winding House Cross Street, New Tredegar. 01443 822666 / www. windinghouse. co. uk / windinghouse @ caerphilly. gov. uk Coalfaces Archive photos from the 1970s, taken by Kjell- Åke Andersson( who went on to work with Abba and on Wallander among other things) and depicting the mining comunity of Bargoed.( From Sat 4 May until 2014) Wyndcliffe Court Sculpture Gardens Off Penterry Lane, St. Arvans, Chepstow. Wed, Sat + Sun 11am-6pm. Free( charity donations welcomed). 01291 621242 / www. wyndcliffecourt. co. uk Elegance And Form: Spring Work by, at current count, 31 British sculptors who display water features, diaramas and work in metal, bronze, ceramics and more materials.( From Fri 3 May until Sun 16 June)
clubs 10 Feet Tall 11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / thisis10feettall @ yahoo. co. uk Mondays Late Night Live DJs 9pm-4am, free. Post-punk, garage rock, contemporary indie, hip-hop, electro etc in the bar downstairs. Wednesdays Bolt From The Blue 8pm- 3am, free. Indie, pop, electronic and new music over two floors. Thursdays On The Rocks 10pm-4am, free. Several hours of classic rock and indie. Fridays Fancy Footwork 6pm-4am, £ 5 /£ 4 / free b4 10. Future funk, electro pop, disco and party anthems. Saturdays The Me And You Club 6pm- 4am, £ 5 /£ 4 / free b4 10. Indie rock, pop, new music and classic alternative tunes. Sundays Sunday Social 10pm-4am, free. Alternative party mashup with electropop and new music downstairs; rock / alternative party upstairs. 200 Club 33A Stow Hill, Newport. 07866 152543 / www. 200clubnewport. com Wednesdays 9pm-2am, £ 2 / free b4 10. Old-skool hip-hop, funk, drum’ n’ bass and dubstep from DJ Minyon. Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am. Club night with DJ Jazzy B playing guilty pleasures, hip-hop, ska, punk, rock etc. 411 Bar And Nightclub 3-6 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Open Thurs 9pm-3am, Fri + Sat 10pm-4am. 029 2066 7996. Wednesdays 4play 9pm- 4am, £ 5 /£ 2 NUS / free b4 12. Dancehall and bashment led night with some r’ n’ b, hip-hop etc in there too. Fridays + Saturdays Gawjus 9pm, free before 10. R & B, HipHop, Old skool, Motown, Funky house, Dancehall. Table and birthday packages available. Sun 5 DJ Yung Quincy 9pm-4am, £ 10 /£ 5 special offer. Dancehall, r’ n’ b, hip-hop, bashment, reggae and garage from a Choice FM DJ who is also an LA medical examiner and solver of crimes.
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Aura 10 Mill Lane, Cardiff. auracardiff @ gmail. com Thurs 23 Reverb 11pm-4am, £ 8 adv /£ 6 early bird. Tim Green( Cocoon, Dirtybird etc) returns to Cardiff for some chunky See also: house thrills. Matt Owen, Soul Rebel and Aled Wynne. Fri 3 Reign 10pm-4am, £ 10 /£ 7 adv. Drum’ n’ bass night with an Ingredients Records special in room 1: Sceptical, Villem, Ruffhouse and MC Fokus, plus residents Pennygiles, Quartz, Knowledge and MC XL. Room 2 features graduates of Catapult’ s DJ School( lineup TBC). * Fri 17 Houzemasterz 11pm-6am, £ 13.50 adv. Baltimore house minstay Karizma crashlands in Cardiff for a four-hour set. Gareth Hopkins, Soul Rebel and Ryan Brown bookend him. Fri 24 System 909 10pm-6am, £ 15 /£ 13 adv. See Clubs for more on Marco Bailey, who is a leader of the school of tuff, stripped-down techno. Anthony Watkins, Paul Blandford, Matt Griffin vs Numbersjust and JLD are the local folks. * Sat 11 Hardcore Will Never Die 10pm-4am, £ 8 adv. And giving it the defibrillators are Mad P aka Top Buzz plus Donovan Smith, both kings of the classic 1992 era. Plus DJ Fav, Silk Cut, Jackal & Hyde plus MC Chico. Sat 25 Journey 10pm-6am, £ 10 adv /£ 8 earlybird. Scott Bond! Still doing it in the euphoric trance world, and here for Journey’ s ninth birthday night. Ferry Tayle, from France and with a name a burlesque artist would probably reject, is the other special guest. Steve Noxx, Ollie Jaye, Stu Grady, Hywel Matthews, Joe Byrne, P-Midi and Merivian join‘ em across two rooms. Sun 5 Memorex 10pm-6am, £ 10. This is a teamup with Purp & Soul, a Manc record label whose boss Ben Pearce will be doing a fourhour b2b with Harry Wolfman. Soul Rebel, The Organ Grinder and JV are also in room 1; Billy Disney, Hannah Mulvany and Alex Scott are in room 2. Bogiez Kingsway, Cardiff. 029 2039 6590 / www. bogiez. com Thursdays Hammer’ d 9pm-2am.“ From metal to metalcore, emo to screamo, rock to math-rock, pop-punk to power metal, dance to the undanceable, dark to light and virtually all genres in between,” is what is promised here. Fridays The Furnace 10pm-3am, free. Rock, metal punk and alternative both old and new. Saturdays Mayhem 9pm-3am, £ 4. Rock, metal and alternative. Old. And new. Drinks deals too. Buffalo 11 Windsor Place, Cardiff. Open Mon-Thurs 11am-3am, Fri + Sat 11am-4am, Sun until 4am. 029 2031 0312 / www. buffalocardiff. com Wednesdays Blender 8pm- 3am. Pop culture, fashion, music, bands, vintage stalls and DJ Emil in the bar until 3am. Wed 8, 15 + 22 Cardiff Tea Club 8pm, free. DJs play reggae, dub, hip-hop, funk and more, while celebrating the drinking of tea. Thursdays Signature 10pm-4am. Thurs 9 is a co-promotion with FAO and has Karma Kid, The Golden Boy and Sub Troupe, with their residents DJing; Thurs 23 is a Bank Holiday Party. Thurs 30 Circles 11pm-4am, £ 6 before 12 /£ 5 adv. Hiver, a Rome duo who make deep techno sort of stuff, headline Circles’ first birthday party. Wefeelnomath, Chris Thomas and Hepple also |
spin discs. Fridays Smash Disco 9pm-4am, £ 4 /£ 3 / free b4 11. Stacey French plays“ all killer no filler”. The first two Fridays of the month are Free up Fridays, with free entry and guest DJs – DJ Format on Fri 3, Too Many T’ s on Fri 10. Saturdays The Beatbox Ballroom 8pm-4am, £ 4 / free b4 11. Booty-busting breaks, pimped-out soul and clock-stopping rhythms. Sundays The Hop 8pm-3am, free. Rock’ n’ roll, swing, psych and alt-classic anthems, plus cult 50s and 60s films. Sun 5 is a bank holiday special with Klezmer Kollektiv playing live in the garden. Buffs 8 Station Road, Brynmawr. 01495 315029 / www. facebook. com / buffs. brynmawr Sat 25 Deja Vu: The Rebirth 2013 £ 3. Spanning the genres from trance to hardcore, this features Blocaldini, DJ Ray & MC Bazza, Dash & App, Tranceshifter, Audio Splicerz v Swift-ee, Valley Houser and Marc-E Anquetil. 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 / studentsunion @ cardiff. ac. uk Wednesdays The Lash 9pm-2am. Clubs / societies type night which features“ games on the stage so filthy that the changing room showers don’ t stand a chance”. Quite. Fri 3 Treatment 9pm-4am, £ 16.50 adv. Following up the way sold out Disclosure night here in January, a large lineup of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs( DJ set), Eats Everything, Catz N Dogz and T Williams( Solus) and Dark Sky, Bondax and Maribou State( Kitchen / Buffers). Fri 31 Eclipse 9pm-4am, £ 14.50 adv. Hefty lineup of modern house tackle, apparently in a“ festival setting”. Dusky, Fur Coat, Jonas Rathsman, Phaeleh and Fortay hold down room 1; room 2 has Undercover DJs, The King Regards, FAO Collective, Webber & DJ Riddlr and Sam Roberts. Room 3: Fortay( again), Indo, Dody C, Slik Pikinz, Jamford and Crucial Atlantik. Saturdays Come Play 9pm-2am. Chart, dance and pop in another of the Union’ s venerable club nights. Cathays Liberal Club Cathays Terrace, Cardiff. 029 2022 0906. Sat 18 Saturday Social v Feral Disko 7.30pm-12am, £ 4. Techno breakbeat soundclash with guests in the form of Feral Disko: Disko Llew, Tommy Tank and KatFeeder. Proceeds go to Concern Universal. 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 3 + Fri 7 June The Juice Joint 9pm-3am, £ 2.50. DJ Racz plays funk, rare groove, acid jazz, northern soul, Latin dance, hip-hop and Afrocentric type stuff. Fifty pence of your entry fee is donated to MIND. Now on the first Friday of each month. Fridays + Saturdays |
9pm-3.30am, £ 4. Indie, rock and metal courtesy of resident DJs. Fri 17 Serious Sounds 7pm-5am, £ 10. Hardcore and related rave extremity featuring DJ Mob & MC Enemy, Al Storm b2b DJ Burn & MC Static, Last Of The Mohicans b2b Stu Grady & MC Wotsee, The Criminal & MC Dean-E, DJC & MC Reconize, RJ Shax & MC Mono, Narcotic Smugglers & MC Racy, Webbe b2b Moggz & MC Turbo b2b MC Skyz, Tekno Bear b2b Noizeannoyz & MC Ode and Benji b2b Chemical X. Club Oxygen 1 Northampton Lane, Swansea. 0844 8849171 / www. globaloxygen. co. uk Mondays Tiger Beat 10pm- 4am. House / bass music / etc night aimed at students and boasting £ 1.50 drinks. Fridays Traffic Light Future Fridays 10pm, £ 1 b4 12 / free NUS. House and commercial music all night with a traffic light party dresscode. Saturdays Saturday Savers 10pm, £ 5. House and commercial tunes all night. Sun 26 May The Dreem Teem 10pm-6am, £ 10. UK garage revivalism courtesy of Timmi Magic, Mikee B, DJ Spoony and MC Rankin. Fabian, Lloyd-E, Kai, K-Lo, Greg P, Gary D, Alistar and MC Footy are the local talent. Clwb Ifor Bach Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www. clwb. net Wednesdays Listen Up! 10pm-4am, £ 3. Middle floor: rockabilly, soul, R & B and Motown. Bottom floor: indie, electro, rock, disco and classic pop and hip-hop. Fridays( bottom) Xerox 10.30pm-3am, £ 4.50 /£ 3.50 NUS. A“ party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox. * Fri 3 + 17 Aperture 10pm-4am, £ 10 /£ 8. Drum’ n’ bass and hiphop, plus a Droneboy Lounge room. Fri 3 is headlined by jungle originators Congo Natty. Nanci & Phoebe, Jekyll & Hyde, Erc, Oisin, Serengetti and Billy Gone Bad are also in the main room. Fri 17 is headlined by Goldie and a full bill will be forthcming. Fri 24 CYNT 10.30pm-4am, £ 4 /£ 3. Bass music, house and suchlikefrom artists TBC. The Craddock Arms Green Park Industrial Estate, Port Talbot. 01639 886956. Sun 5 Hijacked 12pm-11pm, £ 3. Delgado, a tech-house chap based between London and Spain, headlines this alldayer. Karl Roberts, Frankie Ferrell, Lee Sexton, Pickle & Griff, Wayne Hannigan, Ben Joseph, Jonny Griffiths, Anthony James, Rob Williams, Dean Morgan, Wang, Lewis J, Gary D, Liam Barness, Cookie and Sean O’ Connor are also up for it. Crystal 41 St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2034 5477. Sun 26 May Time Flies Legends Of House 10pm-4am, £ 10 adv /£ 5 earlybird. Allister Whitehead is this month’ s legend, and is backed up by Uptonogood DJs, DJs, Shane Morris and Jason King. Da Vinci’ s 10 High Street, Newport. 01633 259641. Sun 5 Perc 9pm-3am, £ 5 /£ 4 b4 11. Info percclub @ gmail. com. Another bank holiday special, this time featuring Jon Williams, Paul Blandford, Matthew Miles, Chris Cain and Billy Jordan. Delilahs 54-55 High Street, Newport. 01633 259144. |
Wednesdays Pounded Student night with drinks deals galore. Fridays Wicked 9pm- 4am, £ 3- £ 5. Dance, chart and urban classics with drinks deals and theme nights. Saturdays Medication 9pm-4am, £ 3- £ 5. Dr Kirke and Dr Ifsta offer chart anthems, r’ n’ b, urban and dancehall hits. Dempseys Castle Street, Cardiff. 029 2023 9253. Thursdays
( downstairs) Twisted By Design 9pm- 2am, free. Weekly night along the lines of the Saturday lineups. Sat 11 Twisted By Design 9pm- 2am, £ 3.50 /£ 3 NUS. Monthly event with Gary playing the best in indie choons – Belle & Sebastian, Bowie, Cure, Dead Kennedys, summat like that. Escape Northampton Lane, Swansea. escapenightclub @ live. co. uk / www. escdj. com Sun 5 Bank Holiday Sunday Classics 11pm-5am, £ 5. Room 1: Escape anthems, and trance classics from Hywel Matthews, Joe Byrne, Gareth Siddell, Ben Joseph, Jonny Griffiths and Michael Gregory. Room 2: Wayne Hannighan, Rhys Bowler, Adam Hopkins, Andrew Hartley and Greg Matthews. PSY Lounge: Rhys Thomas, Ben Joseph and Callan Christie. Fantasy Lounge 93 St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2038 2201. Mondays-Saturdays Erotic Dancing Mon-Sat 8pm-2am, Fridays 2pm-2am. Lap dancing, pole dancing, theme nights, waitress service and suites for hire. Fine wines and champagne available. Smart dress. Floyd’ s Bar 93 St Mary Street, Cardiff. barfloyd @ hotmail. co. uk Fridays Sessions 10pm, £ 5. Hi. El. Why and C. Tizzle play old skool, r’ n’ b, hip-hop and dancehall. Saturdays Touch 10pm, £ 5. Much like Fridays, with extra urban and bashment and DJ Special. Fuel 5 Womanby Street, Cardiff. 0845 6430032 / www. givemefuel. co. uk Fridays + Saturdays Rock and metal anthems each weekend, plus special guests when such types are in town. The Full Moon / The Moon Club Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / info @ thefullmooncardiff. com Thursdays Boom! Until 2.30am, free. Electroswing, ghetto funk, dub, reggae and party mashups. Fridays Womp / Reggae-Hop 11pm-3am, £ 3 / free b4 12. Kaptin and F-Block play electroswing, ghetto funk, mashups etc in the main room; Toclifrench and MC Little Tree deliver reggae, dancehall, afrobeat and hip-hop in the Loft. Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Free. DJ Puddlefunk with bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between. Sat 4 Before Diana Died 10pm, £ 3. Debut night of non-canonical sounds from the 90s. Pop, indie, grunge, one-hit wonders, singles that were number 40 for one week. * Sat 11 Operate 10pm-4am, £ 6 adv. See Clubs for more on
this night. Clouds, the Scottish headliners, are minty if you like slightly off-kilter Euro-sounding techno. 22:22, Grant Alexander & JMT and Obey DJs are also in the main room, while the Attic is helmed by Slipped Disco. Sat 18 Back To Basskicks 10pm, £ 3 b4 11. Breaks and swing night featuring Gypsy Unit, J-Sound, F-Block and The Tank Cat Allstars.
Delroy Edwards is an American who makes house with rough edges and analogue imperfections – a good thing. City Bass bring him to Undertone, Cardiff on Fri 10.
The Garage 47 Uplands Crescent, Swansea. 01792 475147 / www. garagevenue. com * Fri 3 Wax 10pm, £ 8 /£ 6 before 12 /£ 5 adv. Toronto’ s Kevin McPhee, on labels including Hypercolour and Idle Hands, makes his Welsh debut. Sat 11 Get Loose 9pm, £ 10 adv. Soul II Soul’ s Jazzie B comes here to play a set of the music that inspired him, which I daresay would mostly be a bit good. See Clubs. Sun 5 Jnk 10pm-5am, £ 15 adv. Guti, an acclaimed house producer with product on Crosstown Rebels, Cadenza and Desolat among others, headlines over Mark Juntz Jones, Gary Howells, AC / CC, Ashley Harding, Nicky Cursio and Dan Knight. Glam Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2022 9311 / info @ glamnightclub. co. uk Mondays Jagerfest 10pm- 3am, £ 3.50. Two floors of charts, dance and student anthems( room one) and r’ n’ b, hip-hop, urban and funky( room two). Wednesdays Gossip 10pm-3am, £ 3.50.“ Cardiff’ s sexiest weekly Wednesday night, allowing you to get spotted with Cardiff’ s social elite, enjoy cheap drinks and dance all night.” Thursdays Propaganda 9pm-3am, £ 3 adv. UK-wide indie night comes to Cardiff with special guests on some weeks. Residents: DJ Dan, The Postman, Andy Tokyo, Matt Nelmes and Joshcat. Fridays Therapy 9pm-3am. Level 1: r’ n’ b, hip-hop and mash-ups from DJ Sole and DJ Pro. Level 2: house, electro, dubstep and drum’ n’ bass from Ian Davies and DJ Rewire. Fri 3 includes a Boat Party that runs from 7.30- 10.30pm, goes round Cardiff Bay, gives you queue jump entry to Glam afterwards and costs £ 20. Saturdays Vanity 9pm- 3am, £ 5. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Sat 18 features special guest Pete Tong, who apparently has a new album with Skream called All Gone Pete Tong & Skream Miami. Wow. Sun 5 Mark Knight 9pm-4am, £ 13.50 adv. Him from the Toolroom Knights, back again in this venue. Mark Storrie, Lucas Alexander, Nick Saunders, Pete & The Fox, Dave Eaves and Calvin Reid are also down to party. The Globe 125 Albany Road, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www. globecardiffmusic. com
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