The Arch
11 Commercial Street, Neath. 07791 923214 / [email protected]
Sat 10 Solo 9pm-4am, £21 adv. With a headline set from Skream (hence the high ticket price) plus Solo residents.
The Attic
5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/theatticswansea
Fri 9 Noise Makers 21 9.30pm-3am, £10/£5 before 10.30. Drum’n’bass from Benny Page, Low2 b2b Mowgli with MCs Chew and Haze, Grown, Wozzi and Teaze. Plus hip-hop from The Hungry Monk, J-Roudh, Theorem, Crkajak, Steezleez, MOB Man, Trippy Picture and Magilik.
Sat 3 Mar Gun Fingers 10pm-3am. Bassline and drum’n’bass from some folks who are also in The Vault in Swansea this month.
Bar Cocoa
Broad Street, Barry. facebook.com/cocoabarry
Thursdays Reggae Nights DJs Gadget and The Candyman (Love & Harmony Sounds) play lovers rock, classic and new reggae jams weekly.
Fridays Old School Fridays 10pm-3.30am, £3. With DJ James Bourne.
Fri 2 Regal Nights 10pm-3.30am, £5 before 10.30. With Artful Dodger, James Bourne, Piddy, Jigga and Gummi.
Sat 17 10pm-3.30am, £4 before 10.30. With special guest Toff, or Toffington Q. Toffeepoisoner to give her her full name, from off the reality TV.
The Big Top / 10 Feet Tall
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / [email protected]
Thursdays Rock hits from DJ Andy Rhys Lewis.
Fridays + Saturdays Resident DJs playing soul and funk.
Fri 2 Hey Mary 10.30pm, £5. Cardiff’s top gay/queer/drag/etc night. Hosted by Lucy Fur with Sissy Boy Tears DJs dropping the tunes. Normally on the first Friday of every month.
Fri 9 Rhetorik 10pm, free. A free party whose general nature I am not certain of, but does invite you to be “colourful, wavy, whatever, lots of glitter”.
Fri 23 That Good Night 10.30pm. Acid house and weird leftfield dance, on here once a month. DJs include It’s Dando and Mikki Wings of Dogruff.
Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk and neo-soul.
Blind Tiger
49 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 243500.
Wednesdays Wild Wednesdays Cocktails, drink deals and tunes as part of a cross-city midweek session.
Fridays Koncept & Friends 11pm, £3-£5. House, techno and bass music with guest DJs, breaking producers and residents from Wales’ freshest nights.
Saturdays Re:work 11pm, £5. Underground and cutting edge club music promised.
Sat 10 Fixate 10.30pm-4.30am, House and techno from Keefy, Liam O’Connor, Dan Waite b2b Owen Kilby and Madame Twisted.
Blisters
63-65 Hanbury Rd, Bargoed. 01443 821500 / [email protected]
Thurs 1 Mar Ultrabeat 10pm-4am, £22/£18 adv. Big stomping happy hardcore lineup for valley madheads! Ultrabeat is joined by Hixxy, Mark EG and Martin Dibble.
Blue Honey Night Cafe
Quay Street, Cardiff. 07512 247712 / facebook.com/bluehoneynightcafe
Thurs 8 Women, Wax & Digital Tracks Hosted by Jessie from techno promoters Doppler and featuring a lineup TBC.
Buffalo
11 Windsor Place, Cardiff. Open Mon-Thurs 11am-3am, Fri + Sat 11am-4am, Sun until 4am. 029 2031 0312 / www.buffalocardiff.com
Mondays Bump & Grind 10pm-3am, from £2. R’n’b/hip-hop night which left this venue last year in seemingly high dudgeon, in favour of Clwb Ifor Bach, and has now come back again.
Tue 13 Sri-Skanka 10pm-3am, £4 adv. Charity club night with all ticket profits going towards mental health work in Sri Lanka. House, techno, funky, jungle and drum’n’bass is on the musical menu.
Thurs 1 Get Funky 10pm-3am, £10 adv. Funk, disco and house with O’Flynn, Eben Rees and Bryn Salter.
Thurs 8 Ethos 10pm-4am, £6-£12. Drum’n’bass from Foreign Concept, Klax, DC Conan, KALO, Cesco Biz, Pi-Singer and host Siege.
Thurs 15 Haws 10pm-3am, £5-£10. Rhythm Section’s Bradley Zero returns to Cardiff for an eclectic headline set. Viewpoints and other Haws residents also feature.
Thurs 22 Stickylemons 9.30pm-3.30am, £8-£12. Local jungle etc promoters have been going 10 years apparently! Fair play. Shadow Demon Coalition, Mr Traumatik, D-Minus & Frenzee, Shabba, Slimteng, Skamma and Jaydee all feature.
Fri 9 MC Funsta & Stickylemons Present Bar Rage 10.30pm-3.30am, £6 adv/£4 early bird. Jungle and hip-hop, I think, with MC Funsta, Hoodfellaz v Telford Never Sleeps, Kendrick b2b DJ Pabz, the Gemini Twins with MC Vizable and DJ Kallista.
Fri 16 Breathe 10pm-4am, £4 adv. Techno from Viciöus Créatures (associated with Glasgow’s Sub Club, which is a good pedigree), Tom Ware and Bitdef.
Saturdays The Shake Up 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, house, r’n’b funk and soul from residents over two floors. Plus, when you order a drink from the bar you roll a dice and, if you roll a double, it’s half price. My commiserations to this venue’s bar staff for having to put up with this.
Cardiff University Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / www.cardiffstudents.com
Wednesdays YOLO 9pm-2am, £4/£3 adv/free before 11. New midweek club night promising both your favourite tunes and great offers. Good name, really on trend.
Thurs 8 Refugee Rhythms 8pm-3am, £5/free for refugees or asylym seekers. World music, food and dance are promised at this night in aid of refugee-focused funding projects in Cardiff. The bill: The Alsaher Brothers, Barron Fitzpatrick, Eben Rees, Flo Pugh and Ben Cowper (sax and DJ), Harry Fitzpatrick and Canopy.
Fri 9 Treatment 10pm-4am, £20 adv. Featuring Camelphat, Sonny Fodera, Eli Brown and more TBC. CamelPhat are also playing a Treatment night in Swansea this evening, confusingly (which is to say, it confused me).
Fri 16 My Nu Leng & M8s 9pm-4am, £18 adv. Major bass music lads plus a whack of support DJs/acts: Mike Skinner, Royal T b2b Champion, Kings Of The Rollers (Serum b2b Bladerunner b2b Voltage), Fine Art b2b Notion and Bedlam Family DJs.
Fri 2 Mar Hannah Wants 9pm-4am, £22 adv. Brummie bass gal returns to Cardiff Uni with a probably big, but currently TBC, supporting cast.
Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
Club Ice
Broadway, Pontypridd. 07771 920726 / www.clubiceponty.com
Sat 3 Core Collision UV Paint & Foam Spectacular 8pm-3am, £5 adv. With DJ Fallon, Blocaldini, Ray Raw, Andy Demize, Lozzie, Webbe, Gee & Atom, Xsiv DJ and DJ Hyde, plus hosts Energy, Venom and Andy Demize.
Sat 24 Cellar Door 9pm-4am, £10 adv. Cardiff house and techno faves trek out to Ponty, with Undercover DJs doing the honours as usual. Saturdays Gravity 10.30pm-3am, £7/£5 before 11. House, techno and dance every week on the club’s new Void soundsystem.
Club Oxygen
1 Northampton Lane, Swansea. 0844 8849171 / www.globaloxygen.co.uk
Fridays Dance Anthems 11pm-6am, free. House and commercial music all night from Big Al, Nicky G, 3 Bird, Jordan Steins, LJ Isaac and Tom Chizzy.
Saturdays 11.30pm-5am, £5/free before 1. House, house & bass (what is this?), progressive and big room tunes.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Mon 5 Soul Jam 11pm-4am, £4-£6. Funk, soul and disco night.
Wed 7 Dazed Disco 11pm, £3-£5. A groovy, funky disco nights says the venue listings.
Wed 14 Crush 11pm. An alternative Valentine’s disco.
Thurs 1 Brooklyn Zoo 10.30pm-4am, £4-£6. Current and classic hip-hop alike.
Thurs 8 Carnival 11pm, £3-£5. Bashment, dancehall and reggae.
Thurs 15 Propaganda 11pm, £3-£5. Big national indie disco brand.
Fridays (bottom) Seventy Times 7 11pm-3am, £3-£5. New weekly clubnight offering alt-rock and pop-punk by the looks of things. It’s (still!) named after a Brand New song if that’s any indicator.
Fri 2 Disco Motel 11pm, £3-£5. Disco and classic pop club night.
Fri 9 Lycra 11pm-4am. Eighties disco and pop.
Fri 16 Wubwub 11pm-5am, £13 adv. Cardiff’s, 1,000,000th new drum’n’bass promotion of the last 12 months, although these guys are ex-Catapult Records so they’ve paid their dues. DJ Marky is their dependable headliner, with Casey Jones, Ransom, Sundance, Dabz and host MC XL also along.
Fri 23 Baseline 11pm. With a headline set from Flava D.
Saturdays Dirty Pop 10pm-4am, £5. Three floors of fun: The Vinyl Vendettas’ top floor resident indie shindig; Dirty Pop and Mr Potter’s proper disco.
Courtyard
48 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.
Wednesdays Wild Wednesdays Upfront dance anthems and “Urban Vibes”.
Fridays Spotlight Sessions / The Kickstart 5pm, £3/free before 9. Urban and club anthems and drinks deals. Part of the NPCLUBHOP price deal which also includes entry to Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Lambaba.
Saturdays Mischief Beat-driven anthems is the ambiguous description for tonight’s music policy.
Sundays Good Time Social Club 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Creature Sound
Ken Bu Kan, 1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 01792 301178 / www.creaturesound.com
Sat 10 Labyrinth – Valentine’s Masked Ball 7-11pm, £3/free adv. DJ Gwilym Games plays Bowie, 80s classics and Labyrinth tunes, which I assume means the Bowie-starring 80s movie. Get free guestlist by joining on the Facebook event page.
Fri 23 Tribe Of Swan 8pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12. Psytrance wibble’n’bosh, the Goa way. In order of performance: Chris B, Golobnaize, Tryptonaut, SiZeY and headliner Neutron.
The Duke
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sat 24 Hedone 8pm-2am, £10. Local house heads with a residents night.
Eddies
4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co
Fri 16 Housewerk 9.30pm-4.30am. They’ll be playing house music, and “they” in this case is ADR, The Dog, Tomcept and Housewerk residents..
Fiction & Vinyl
The City Gates, Little Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 828777 / www.fictionclub.co.uk/swansea
Mondays Quids In 10.45pm-2.30am, £3.50/£2 before 11. Chart, cheese, r’n’b, dance and house.
Wednesdays Underground 11pm-3.30am, £3.50/£2 before 1. House, chart, r’n’b and cheese across two rooms.
Fridays 11pm-3am, £5/£3 adv. Drinks offers and, uh, music I guess.
Saturdays Agenda 10.30pm-3am, £3.50/£2 before 1. Fiction: house, r’n’b, EDM. Vinyl: pop and party.
Fluidity Freerun Academy
Unit G, Pengam Road, Cardiff. 07747 888931 / www.fluidityfreerunacademy.co.uk
Fri 9 Canopy 10pm-4am, £15 adv. Drum’n’bass in a big gym, just the thing I need how nice. Sub Zero, Benny Page, Heist the Run Tingz Cru and hosts Redders, Da Fuchaman and Shaddy MC DopeAmmo are on the bill.
Fuel
5 Womanby Street, Cardiff. 07970 063107 / facebook.com/fuelcardiff
Thursdays FUBAR 10pm-2am. Rock, metal and alternative clubnight.
Fridays + Saturdays Rock and metal anthems each weekend, plus special guests when such types are in town.
Glam
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2022 9311 / [email protected]
Mondays Bed 10pm-3am, £2/free before 11. A mashup of chart, r’n’b, cheese and dance across two floors. Formerly known as The Fest.
Saturdays Rumour 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity.
The Globe
125 Albany Rd, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
Fri 23 Black Parade 9pm, £4 adv. A full night of 00s emo anthems, as in My Chem, Jimmy Eat World etc.
Gwdihw
Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Tue 13 Cardiff Electronic Producers 7.30pm, free. In association with Cardiff Ableton User Group, plus an open decks session from 7.30-9pm.
Thurs 8 Dance For A Diff-erence 9pm, £4. Fundraising night foor homelessness in the city, with DJs Tom Downs (Mixtape), Josh Worthy (Club Tropicana) and Thomas Piesinger (Haws).
Fri 23 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Electro, synthpop, italo disco, new wave, funk and more.
Sat 3 Sure Shot 9pm, £3. Today is Dilla Day, as in late hip-hop producer J Dilla, and this night will be dedicated to music by (or influenced by, or in some way connected to) him and his pal Madlib.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Fri 16 Talk To Frank IX 10pm-5am. Local DJs, special visuals and decor and a theme (sartorial I assume?) of Romeo & Juliet, as in the 90s movie.
Sat 24 Delete 10.30pm-5am, £12 adv/£10 early bird. A first for Delete, with their two guests – Youandewan and The Ghost – manning the decks for the whole night. See Clubs..
Karma
75 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. [email protected]
Sat 17 Dancehall Nice Again 9pm-6am, £5 before 11. Valentine special with reggae and dancehall on the top floor, chart and urban classics on the ground floor and house, garage and club classics in the basement.
Laser Station
Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www.laserstationwales.com
Sat 3 Antix Sounds 8pm-3am, £5. Free party type drum’n’bass stuff, I think.
Sat 3 Mar Fat Soul presents Timbali 8pm-3am, £5-£8. Reggae, riddims and hip-hop from Timbali (soundsystem show), Miss Mitten (dub and Afrobeats set), Sub-Conscious, Doc. P, Billy Phono & Pr1, Culture Vultures and MC Shrubz .
Level 2 @ Kongs
114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. [email protected] / www.kongsbars.com
Fri 2 Submerge Soundsystem 11pm-4am, £6-£10. Dub and jungle on Submerge’s own big rig, with sets from Jinx In Dub, Kreed x Gardna, Halcyonic & G RootsTailored Sound and Submerge Soundsystem residents Blokeye and Benny Bootleg.
*Sat 10 Groove Theory 10pm-3am, £12/£10. Funky disco house stuff from Jamie 3:26 (of the modern day Salsoul stable), Don Leisure, Tom Bateman and Paul Longstaff.
Mackintosh Sports Club
38 Keppoch Street, Cardiff. 029 2049 4697 / www.mackintoshsportsclub.org
Sat 24 The Saturday Social 7.30pm-12.30am, £5. Featuring set by Freebass, Welsh rave DJs from the scene’s early-90s golden age.
Mary’s
89 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Mon-Thurs 4pm-2am, Fri 4pm-3am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-1am. 029 2066 8647 / www.maryscardiff.co.uk
Wednesdays Wednesday Club 8pm-2am. Dance and chart toppers with DJ Chris.
Thursdays Mixxet 8pm-2am. Fun, games, and cabaret with Amber Dextrous and Alphaa Heart.
Fridays Non Stop Party 8pm-2am. DJ Lee plays tunes from the 90s onwards.
Saturdays 8pm-2am. Dance, pop and chart with DJ Billy Joe.
Sundays Service 5pm-2am, free. Bingo with Aunty Ade and Aunty Betty from 5pm, with cash prizes; DJ Mary Golds until 9pm; guest cabaret at 9pm and DJ Billy Joe on the tapes (this is an odd turn of phrase but I like it) until 1am.
Metros
Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www.metroscardiff.com
Wednesdays Cheapskates 9pm-4am, £4/free early bird. Hywel plays ‘alternative mayhem’ and old skool cheese.
Fridays Havoc 10.30pm-4am, free before 11. Mismatched alternative tunes from Hywel.
Saturdays Lose Yourself 10.30pm-4am, free before 11. Stereo Brain playing indie, beats, treats and pop-punk.
Minskys Show Bar
Cathedral Walk, St David’s Centre, Cardiff. 029 2023 3128 / www.minskys-showbar.com
Fridays & Saturdays 8pm-1am. Dancing and cabaret with regular drag acts including Tina Sparkle, Miss Babs and Jolene Dover.
Missoula
84-86 St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 1315 / www.missoulabars.co.uk/missoulacardiff
Mondays Mojito Mondays 5pm-12am. Motown classics and mojitos 2-4-1 all night.
Thursdays Rock The Night 5pm-12am. Indie classics.
Fridays #Friday 5pm-2am. Funky house and half price drinks from 5-10pm.
Mocka Lounge
Mill Lane, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 11am-late. 029 2022 1295 / www.mockalounge.com
Thursdays The Social Affair 9pm-3am. Over-25s night with chart hits through the ages.
Fridays Timeless DJ Dan Nicholas plays r’n’b, funk, disco and old skool. Just old skool.
Saturdays Decorum Soulful and upfront house, plus funk, disco etc, from Sinky and Styles.
Sundays VIP Chris Evans (My Playhouse) plays club classics, funky house and r’n’b.
The Moon
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Wednesdays The Hustle 10pm. Hip-hop, Motown, funk and soul.
Wed 21 Womanby’s Clubbing 5.30-8pm. Monthly clubbing events for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health conditions. Run in partnership with Student Volunteering.
Fridays Gigantic Until 4am, free. Funk, punk, rock’n’roll, hip-hop, indie, reggae and soul after bands finish playing.
Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Until 4am, free. Bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between, after bands finish playing.
Neon Lounge
Market Street, Newport. 01633 533666 / theneon.co.uk/neon-bar-lounge
Fri 9 Soul, Funk & Motown Night 8pm, £3. DJs from Penarth Soul Club and A Basement Full Of Soul with an all-vinyl set on the second Friday of each month.
Saturdays Urban Dance Night 9pm-3am, free. Classic urban, house and r’n’b from DJ Steve C.
Sat 24 Code 9pm-3am, £3. House and techno (I think, the poster doesn’t specify) from Adam Carey b2b Lucas Alexander, Owen Kilby, Jack Edinborough, Tom Mahoney, Peel and Rhys Curtis.
The Parrot
32 King Street, Carmarthen. 01267 231012 / facebook.com/theparrotmusicbar
Fri 16 Sub FX 9pm-2am, £4. Drum’n’bass from Aksrevenge, Pie-Fi and Decay, plus MCs.
The Pit
The Strand, off Wind Street, Swansea. facebook.com/pg/thepitswansea
Sat 3 + Sat 3 Mar Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.
Platform 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Sat 3 Groove 7pm-3am, £10/£8. House night headlined by De La Swing, who’s associated with party stable Elrow.
Pontardawe Arts Centre
Herbert Street, Pontardawe. 01792 863722 / www.pontardaweatrscentre.com
Sat 17 Soul Circle 7pm-1am, £7/£6 adv. Northern soul, Latin, bluebeat, mod classics and R&B from Alfie Linney, Ian Jackson and Ali Bongo Goby.
Popworld
96 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Mon, Tue + Thurs 9pm-3am; Wed 8pm-3am; Fri 5pm-3am; Sat 1pm-3am. 029 2023 5825.
Mondays Pop Rocks 9pm. A night of what they call alternative pop but their examples (Green Day, Blink, Linkin Park) seem to suggest will be pop-punk and nu-metal. Ah, it’s all just names at the end of the day.
Fridays + Saturdays Popworld Party Until 3am. Drinks deals from 5-11pm (Fri) and 3-8pm (Sat).
Popworld
Wind Street, Swansea. Mon-Fri + Sun 8pm-3am; Sat 3pm-3am. 01792 470676.
Tuesdays Timewarp Music from the 1980s and dance competitions.
Wednesdays Quids In 8pm-3am. Student night where drinks are £1.
Thursdays Destination Popworld Lots of cocktails, 2-4-1 offers and, naturally, pop music.
Fridays + Saturdays Ain’t No Party Like A Popworld Party 8pm-3am, £2-£4 (Fri)/£3-£5 (Sat).
Pryzm
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2023 3854 / www.pryzm.co.uk/cardiff
Mondays Quids In 10pm-4am. Student night.
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am, £4. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”. Fri 2 features special guest Kissy Sell Out.
Pulse
3 Churchill Way, Cardiff. 029 2064 1010 / www.pulsecardiff.com. Gay venue.
Wednesdays Kapow! 10pm-4am. Student night with Jolene Dover and DJ Warren.
Fridays Full On 10pm-5am, £4/£3. DJ Craig downstairs, Opal upstairs. Fri 1 and Fri 8 Dec have X Factor finalists making guest appearances
Saturdays Pop Til You Drop 10pm-5am, £5/£4 b4 11. The very best chart remixes and classic hits all night long.
The Queens Hall
44 High Street, Narberth. 01834 861212 / www.thequeenshall.org.uk
Fri 23 Verb T & Pitch 92 7.30pm, £10-£14. See clubs for more on this UK hip-hop billing. Full lineup TBC.
The Rainbow Rooms
12 High Street, Gorseinon, Swansea. 07563 111225 / www.the-rainbowrooms.com
Sat 3 Dirtbox Classics 9pm-6am, £10. Hard dance and hardstyle from Swankie & Kashi, Stu Grady, Ed ET & DTR vs MCP, D-Grove, Rob Davies, Defiant & Distortion, Icey, Steve Hollands, Martin Rogers and hosts K-Ner and Venom.
Revolution
Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk
Tuesdays Mode 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Popular student night returns.
Fridays + Saturdays 9pm-3am. DJs, drinks offers, free area hire.
Sin City
Dilwyn Street, Swansea. 01792 468892 / www.sincityclub.co.uk
Tuesdays Hustle 10pm-3am, £3/£2 before 12. Motown, r’n’b and hip-hop.
Thursdays Sin Savers 10pm-3am, £3. Student night.
Fridays Monsters Of Rock 10pm-3.30am, £4/£2 before 12.30. Indie in room 1, metal in room 2.
Fri 2 + Sat 3 Rise 10pm-4am, £16 adv per night. Swansea drum’n’bass promoters present Andy C two nights in a row, because once wasn’t enough. For the city’s keen Andy C fans, I mean. Teagle, Screwy b2b JE3, Walbeoff b2b Beeson and Woo are also billed on Sat 3.
Fri 9 Treatment 10pm-4am, £20 adv. Featuring Camelphat (who Treatment are also putting on in Cardiff tonight) and more TBC.
Fri 16 Propaganda Valentines Party 10pm-3am, £3 adv. Indie disco, also featuring a Broken Hearts Emo Party in room 2. Arf!
Fri 23 + Fri 2 Mar Bassline 10pm-4am. Featuring headline sets from Flava D (Fri 23) and silly-sounding drum’n’bass supergroup SaSaSaS (Fri 2 Mar, price currently TBC).
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South.
Sat 17 Annapurna 10pm-4am, £10 adv. Drum’n’bass from headline duo Hybrid Minds plus Brad Carter, Jon Hunt, Louis Hoskins b2b George Tyson, Ellis Robinson and Teagle.
Soda
St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3363 / www.sodacardiff.com
Wednesdays Replay 9pm-4am, £4. Chart, cheese and r’n’b for students.
Fridays Fade 10pm-3am, £4/£6 VIP. R’n’b, hip-hop, house and UK garage from Vijay, Jigga, Monique B and Dan Willow.
Saturdays Soiree 9pm-4am. Three rooms including the Attic which is “the social playground for the high flyers and social elite, the only place to be seen.” Imagine catching your reflection in the mirror just after writing that.
Sundays Soda Sundays 9pm-3am, £4/£8 VIP. Three floors of music for students and industry workers.
Tap House 72
Students Union, Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen. 07522 267919 / facebook.com/taphouse72
Fri 9 Tinchy Stryder 9pm, £10 adv. (Relatively) veteran grime MC headlines at Carmarthen student club. Welsh rapper Chew is also on the bill. See Clubs.
Tiger Tiger
Friary House, Greyfriars Rd, Cardiff. Open Mon-Fri 12pm-2am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-12.30am. 029 2039 1944 / www.tigertiger-cardiff.co.uk
Every Day Lucky Voice Karaoke From £2.50 per session. The UK’s leading private karaoke experience each day of the week.
Wednesdays Shotgun Rules 10pm-3am, £5/£3.50. Exclusive midweek student party. You don’t need NUS to get in though.
Fridays Tic Toc 10pm-3am, £4.
Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
Sat 3 Foreverland 8pm-1am, £18 adv. Described by the organisers as both a “magical touring circus” and an “adult playground”, this will feature circus acts, theatre, inflatables, confetti cannons and DJ sets in a garage/bassline style from Cause & Affect, FooR, Taim, Bassic and Bitr8. It’s also sold out.
Fri 16 Shangri-La 7pm-12am, £17.50/£15 adv. Featuring a five-hour set from Eats Everything.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Sat 3 Flatline 10pm. Drum’n’bass, 140 and bassline from local DJs and MCs.
Tue 6 Wile Out 11pm. Bassline.
Tue 13 Luna 10pm-3am, £3. Techno, house, acid, electro and everything in between from Varndell, Ninety8, Benek, Alex T and more.
Fri 9 La Fiesta 10pm-4am. Salsa, reggaeton, some bachata and Spanish rock.
Sat 10 Function:al 10pm-4am, £5-£10. As you can perhaps guess by the colon thrust into the event name, this is a drum’n’bass night presented by Paranoize and Function Records. It features longstanding scene faves Digital and Total Science, along with MC Blackeye and locals Ransom, Lubi J and Character b2b G Fync.
Thurs 15 Pressure 10pm-3am. Second edition of a night which launched in January, and features… hold on to your hats… drum’n’bass DJs with special guest MCs. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY NIGHTS LIKE THIS IN CARDIFF RIGHT NOW?
Fri 16 Selecta 11pm, £5/£3 adv. Bass house, bassline, garage, grime, dubstep, drum’n’bass and jungle.
Sat 17 The Different Vibe 10pm. More drum’n’bass.
Tue 20 The Mixtape 11pm. House, disco, techno etc.
Thurs 22 Shelter 10pm-3am. Bass house, bassline, garage, grime, dubstep, drum’n’bass and jungle.
Tue 27 Skank Ground 11pm. Bassline and drum’n’bass.
The Vault
56 Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 465300 / www.nosignwinebar.com
Wed 7 Gun Fingers 9pm-1am, £5. Bassline and drum’n’bass from LHGP, Koncept, Cellan Eynon, Ben From Wales and Lloyd Jones. Launch night.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Fri 2 Twisted X 8pm-5am, £15 adv/£25 VIP. New night looking to hark back to the glory days of Club X, and why not. Main room: house, trance and techno from Matt O’Keefe, Stu Grady, DJ Andre and Madame Twisted. Banking Hall: Funkydory’s Tyrone Rose, Gari Worner, Paul Williams Burnett and Richie Evans.
Sat 3 Cellar Door 10pm-5am, £15 adv. House and techno at this ever-popular night, courtesy of the Undercover DJs.
Fri 2 Mar Concept v Circle 8 10pm-5am, £15 adv. Impressive lineup of drum’n’bass, like so. Main room: DJ SS, Bassman, Fatman D, Dialogue, Chunky Bizzle, Kallista b2b Stu Grady, Low b2b Mowgli, Joe Blow b2b Bason, Luke Ebbens and MCs Chew, Skamma, XL and Vizable. Room 2: Hoodfella Development, Plethora, Reload, Mascot, Kyam & Kalo, Oni and Scoops.
Sat 3 Mar Shangri-La: Solardo Sessions 10pm-5am, £16 adv. Big name house duo Solardo return to Cardiff after a set last year.
Warehouse 54
54 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.
Wednesdays Krazy Wednesdays Cocktails, drink deals and tunes as part of a cross-city midweek session.
Fridays The Good Time Social Club 11pm, £3. Laid back beats and live sessions to kick off the weekend. Entry fee also grants you entry to Courtyard, Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Labamba.
Saturdays The Throwback 9pm-5.30am, £5. Club classics and r’n’b. Entry fee, again, gets you into all the clubs listed above.
Wow Bar
4 Churchill Way, Cardiff. Gay venue. Free all day Sun-Thurs; before 11pm Fri + Sat. 029 2066 6247 / www.wowbarcardiff.com
Wednesdays Get Pounded Free. Hosted by Gypsy Divine, soundtracked by DJ Basil and named in reference to the £1 drinks offers. And nothing else.
Thursdays Let’s Have A Kiki Free. DJs Basil and Chris soundtrack non-stop fun and games.
Fridays Kitty’s Kabaret Free before 11. With WOW Showgirls Miss Kitty and Marcia, plus special guests every week.
Saturdays Hi Energy Free before 11. Pop and party upstairs, chart and dance downstairs.
Sundays The Cuckoo Club Free. DJ Krys plays the tunes until late.