live music
Brave + Allusondrugs
CF10, Cardiff University
Students Union. 7pm, £9 adv.
Info 029 2078 1458. UK rock
7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 0845
2263510. Choral performance
to commemorate WWI.
The Urban Voodoo Machine
Le Pub in Newport wants
your money, to pay for
soundproofing, and glad to say
also deserves it on account
of being a great bar/music
venue. From Fri 17-Sun 19
they have three fundraising
gigs – headlined by Mimas and
Dad Rocks! (Fri 17), Left Lane
Cruiser (Sat 18) and Paper
Aeroplanes (Sun 19).
bands arrive as part of the
Big Cheese tour, which is an
attempt to increase awareness
of big cheeses (such as 400g of
Cheddar, or a whole wheel of
Stilton) among the public.
Nik Kershaw Pontardawe
Arts Centre. 7.30pm, £20. Info
01792 863722.
Philharmonia Orchestra
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.
7.30pm, £18-£30. Info 01792
475715. A Swansea Festival Of
Music And The Arts event.
Porthcawl Male Choir
Annual Celebrity Concert
Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl.
7pm, £15. Info 01656 815995.
Salvation Porter’s, Cardiff.
8pm. Info info@porterscardiff.
com.
Sendelica Cellar Bar,
Cardigan. 8pm, pay by donation. Info 07818 056599.
Launch of Welsh psych/spacerock band’s Live At Crabstock
album.
Steve Ignorant’s Slice
Of Life + Louise Distras
+ Andy T The Moon Club,
Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10 adv. Info
[email protected].
Former herberty frontman of
anarcho punk godpeople Crass,
these days Steve looks a bit
like Phil Collins and works on
the lifeboats in Norfolk. So if
you go for a swim over that way
this evening, be extra careful.
Sylvan Esso + Cosmo
Sheldrake Buffalo, Cardiff.
8pm, £5 adv. Info 029 2031
0312. Nebula Multimedia present a debut Cardiff show for
Esso, whose indie-friendly electronic soul sound caught some
‘buzz’ at SXSW it seems.
The Drifters Memorial
Hall Theatre, Barry. 7.30pm,
£25/£24. Info 01446 738622.
The Lucy Ward Band
Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly.
7.30pm, £12. Info 07512
237983.
The Sick Livers + The
Lash + Smiler Hobo’s,
Bridgend. 8pm, free. Info www.
hobosmusicvenue.com. Garage
punk, rock’n’soul and powerviolence on one endearingly
lopsided bill.
*The Stupids + Thirty
Six Strategies + This
System Kills + Trigger
McPoopshute Le Pub,
Newport. 7.30pm, £5 adv. Info
01633 221477. Punk rockers, mostly of venerable age:
The Stupids invented British
skatepunk, pretty much, and
reformed in the late-00s to a
warm reception.
The Town Remembers St
Elli Parish Church, Llanelli.
+ Johnny Cage & The
Voodoogroove The Globe,
Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12.50 adv.
Info theglobevenue@gmail.
com. Headliners play some
kind of swampy rock’n’roll
stuff.
Yr Ods + Y Reu + Ysgol
Sul Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff.
8pm, £5. Info 029 2023 2199.
SUNDAY 5
Albino Frogs The Queens
Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm,
free. Info 01600 712767.
Alison Balsom St David’s
Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £15£32.50. Info 029 2087 8444.
British star of the classical
trumpet.
A Night At The Musicals
Congress Theatre, Cwmbran.
7.30pm, £15.50/£14.50. Info
01633 868239.
Aubrey Parsons Tempus
Bar, St David’s Hotel, Cardiff.
1pm, free. Info 0844 8246171.
Cowbridge-based singer performs here every Sunday.
Canada The Andrew Buchan,
Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029
2021 2509.
Guerrilla Monsoon +
Masts + Deadlines +
Square Peg The Moon Club,
Cardiff. 7.30pm, £4 adv. Info
[email protected].
Square Peg are reviewed in this
month’s demo section.
Italian Moods Through
Time Royal Welsh College
Of Music & Drama, Cardiff.
7.30pm, £4-£13. Info 029
2039 1391. Small Nations, Big
Sounds concert.
Jake Bugg + Hudson
Taylor + Man Made
Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff.
6.30pm, £25 adv. Info 029
2022 4488.
Mike Pilley & Arek
Mazurek The Yard, Cardiff.
1-3.30pm, free. Info 029 2022
7577. Sunday jazz session,
of which there is one every
Sunday this month.
Opus 8 Foyer, Wales
Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Bay. 3pm, free. Info 029 2063
6464. Chamber music.
The Gentle Good Chapter
Arts Centre, Cardiff. 8pm, £8.
Info 029 2030 4400.
Ultimate Thunder
Workmen’s Hall, Caerphilly.
7.30pm. Info 07512 237983.
Actually a tribute to Thunder,
the hard rock band. I can tell
you’re impressed.
MONDAY 6
*Admiral Sir Cloudesley
Shovell + Dead Shed
Jokers + Lacertilia The
Moon Club, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7
adv. Info [email protected]. Great booking in
the headline slot, their first
such show in Cardiff: ASCS
have released two albums of
impressively authentic sounding early 70s hard rock on the
Rise Above label.
Donnie Joe’s American
Swing Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm,
£3/£2.50. Info 029 2038 7026