clubs
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
Wednesdays Blender 8pm3am. Pop culture, fashion,
music, bands, vintage stalls and
DJ Emil in the bar until 3am.
Wed 6 is a Cardiff Tea Club
special. Thurs 7 Purrmotions
10pm-4am, £6/£5 adv. New club
promoters. In relation to their
name you get a free shot if you
wear cat whiskers. Newjack
house dude Applebottom is
the headliner, so this night
will probably be less naff than
that whiskers thing makes
it sound. Thurs 21 Deep
Inside x Signature Charity
Fundraiser 10pm-4am, £7/£6.
Prostate cancer/Movemberrelated rave headlined by Kry
Wolf, with The Organ Grinder,
The King Regards, Batesy
and Rich T in the main room.
They’re in the bar also, with
Boulevard, CYNT, Disco Palace
and Eclipse residents. Fri 1
Your Neighbourhood Disco
11pm-4am, £4. Lukas, A Bristol
lad from the Futureboogie
stable, headlines over Chesus
(playing a disco set) and
Monoco. *Fri 8 FAO 9pm-4am,
£6-£10. See Clubs for more
on Justin Martin (Dirtybird
Records), with FAO, City Bass,
Apex Collective, Disco Palace
and Signature DJs also on the
bill. Fridays Smash Disco
9pm-4am, £4/£3/free b4 11.
Stacey French plays “all killer
no filler”. 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.
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
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 1
Dirty Knees 10pm-6am, £15
adv. This is a very big rave
indeed. Room 1: Ratpack (25
years in the game set), Fabio
& Grooverider (two-hour history set), Nicky Blackmarket,
Lomas, Chuck-E & Shocker,
Kooley v Lubi J, Bason v Walshy
Selectah and hosts Evenson
Allan, Shocker, Traumatik,
Remidy, Joe Blow and XL.
Room 2: The Criminal v Stu
Grady, P-Midi & Pressure,
Random, T-Bone, Salted Slug,
Fav, Podge and Relish, plus
hosts NRG, Outbreak, Dean-E,
MD and Phoenix. Room 3:
house, breaks and electro from
D-Grove, Estee, Shocker v Dean
Young, Danny Fields, Steve
Howells, Jaxon and Madame
Twisted. Fri 15 Garage
Nation 9pm-4am, £12.50 adv.
Proper early 00s biz here I
tell ‘ee. DJ EZ, Artful Dodger,
Matt Jam Lamont and Mike
Ruffcut Lloyd appear alongside
Kie, DT and Allistair. Fri 29
Innovation 9pm-4am, £16 adv.
Three rooms of drum’n’bass
and jungle. Very big lineup.
Room 1: Hazard, Signma,
Phantasy, Mampi Swift, Sub
Zero, Guv and Basher, plus MCs
Skibadee, Ekaman, IC3, Evil B
and Stormin. Room 2: old skool
jungle from Billy Daniel Bunter,
2 Bad Mice, Dr S Gachet, Ollie,
Kooley, Kallista, Sterling Sound,
Mr Nice and MCs Karasel,
Texas, Kaydan and XL. Room
3: Bason b2b Smokey, Reaxion,
Dextone, T-Bone, Benny Blonko,
D-Minus, Max Long and MCs
Traumatik, R.Dot, Jaydee and
Slim Teng. 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 16 The Caterpillar Club
8pm-12.15am, £4. DJ sets from
Soul Cat (eclectic early on;
Motown, disco, funk etc later)
and Gareth Jones (80s new
wave early on; house, indie and
Madchester later).
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 1 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. First
Friday of each month. 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.
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 16
Marco V Dutch trance master.
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