The Andrew Buchan Bar
Albany Road, Cardiff. Free. facebook.com/andrewbuchanbar
Sat 22 The Spillers RSD Afterparty 5pm, free. Today is the 10th birthday of Record Store Day, and once it’s all over with Ashli (Spillers Records), Ben-Jah, Diffian and DJ Rascal will be playing records here to celebrate.
The Angel Inn
Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 617878.
Fri 5 May BerlinBerlin Electronic music. “Techno is education. Not fashion,” state the organisers.
Big Love Festival
Baskerville Hall, nr Hay-On-Wye. www.biglovefestival.co.uk
Fri 28-Sun 30 Apr Big Love Festival £75 (three days). Second year for this cheerful, fancy dress-featuring weekender, with some impressive names on the bill. From the top: KRS-One, Horse Meat Disco, King (as in the American r’n’b ladies – amazing), Flamingods, Bodhi, András, Call Super, Blue Lab Beats, Penya, Esa Williams, Johnny Cage & The Voodoogroove, Palomino Party, AAA Badboy, Matt The Hat, Ecklectic Mick, Clare James, Joey P, Comfort, Richie Cordle, Castro, Ultra, Tom Bateman, Jake Mercanoglu, Neil Fucking Young and DJs from Bitch Please, Colours, Musu, We Like To Party, Mood, Disco Motel, Bi Swing Sound, Because We Can, Bump & Grind, Blue Honey, Rotary Club, Pleasuredome and Bodyworks. Plus a Fantazia stage with Slipmatt, Jerome Hill, Marcus Allen, Bunjy, Donovan Smith, The Fat Controller, Dazee, Andy Kinky, Thrilogy, Vinyl Junkie, Rachel EC, DIY Jack, 2 Bad Mice and Faydz.
The Big Top (above 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / [email protected]
Fridays Soulection 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Soul, boogie and the like.
Fri 7 Hey Mary 10.30pm, £5. On the first Friday of every month, this is Cardiff’s top gay/queer/drag/etc night.
Fri 14 That Good Night 10.30pm, £3. Inexpensive new night of house, acid and weird electronic music from Jessie B, Village Idiot and Apollo Chief.
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. Moved from Saturdays. Fri 7: Illa B; Fri 14: AC5es; Fri 21: Tom-E-Slim; Fri 28: J-Fader.
Saturdays House Sessions 11pm, £5. Underground club music each week with local DJs and special guests. Sat 29 has a headline set from Brett Gould (Toolroom, Glasgow Underground).
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, £4/£3 before 11.30. 90s r’n’b/hip-hop night.
Thurs 6 Carnival Cardiff: Spring Ting 10pm-3am, £3-£5. Reggae, dancehall, bashment etc once a month.
Fri 7 Aperture 10pm-4am, £6-£10. Drum’n’bass from Spectrasoul, Sundance, Beeson, Rewire, LDP and XL.
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 City Hall
Gorsedd Gardens Road, Cardiff. 029 2087 1736 / www.cardiffcityhall.com
Sat 8 Time Flies 8.30pm-1am, £25 adv. Nineties nostalgia-centric club promoters go back to their salad days in, well, the 90s, when they sometimes threw parties in this impressive building. K-Klass headline with a live PA, plus there’s Graeme Park, Craig Bartlett, James Merritt, Shane Morris and Jason King plus special guests. More info at www.timefliesuk.com.
Cardiff University Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / [email protected]
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.
Fri 5 May Bedlam 10pm-4am. Held in Y Plas, this will feature DJ sets from Pendulum and High Contrast at the top of the bill, with other names TBC right now.
Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
Club Oxygen
1 Northampton Lane, Swansea. 0844 8849171 / www.globaloxygen.co.uk
Fri 7 Release 11pm-4am, £3/free before 12. New venue, indeed a new city for this pumping house and techno night. DJs for thus’un are Dan Waite, Boy Griff, Madame Twisted Matthew Hayward and Vinnie G.
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 10pm-6am, £5/free before 1.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Mon 3 Triple Cooked 11pm-4am, £4-£10. Three creative spaces of live art, unique decor, live music and DJs doling out disco, house, bass, garage and grime.
Thurs 6 Brooklyn Zoo 10pm-3am, £5/£4. Hip-hop and grime night aimed at students.
Thurs 13 Propaganda 11pm. UK-wide indie disco institution, also featuring pop-punk pizza party night Slice.
Fridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox.
Fri 7 Disco Motel 11pm. Disco, funk and soul from DJ Jaffa and others.
Fri 24 Concrete Junglists 11pm-4am. Drum’n’bass, lineup TBC.
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. Classic 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 Sunday Shisha Sessions 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Sun 16 NPCLUBHOP Easter Carnival 9pm-6am, £5. Ticket price also includes entry to includes entry to Wh54, Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Labamba, as it also does on…
Sun 30 NPCLUBHOP Spring Ball 9pm-6am, £5.
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.
The Full Moon
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Wed 26 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 Cardiff.
Fridays Gigantic Free. Funk, punk, rock’n’roll, hip-hop, indie, reggae, soul until 3am.
Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Free. DJ Puddlefunk with bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between.
The Garage
47 Uplands Crescent, Swansea. 01792 475147 / http://www.whitez.co.uk/#garage
Sat 1 + Sat 6 May Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month. Now moved from The Scene back to its original location!
Glam
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2022 9311 / [email protected]
Mondays The Fest 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).
Fridays Deep Inside present The Gold Den Sessions 9pm-3am, £4 adv. House and techno every week, with a monthly special guest.
Saturdays Vanity 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed.
The Glascoed Pub
Off the A472, Usk, Monmouthshire. 01291 673275 / www.theglascoedpub.com
Sat 6 May Blackwood Soul Club 7pm-2am, £5. Info 07789 582491. With Dave Thorley, Jerry Hipkiss, Jay Jones, the Soul Twins, Nigel, Leon and Al Kent.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Wed 12 Clwb Tropicana 9pm-2.30am. Tropical house, afro-boogie and other nice weather musics.
Sat 1 + Sun 16 Blue Honey 9pm. With a lineup TBC on both dates. Blue Honey have just part-taken over that cafe on Quay Street (if you don’t know where that is, it’s opposite my dentist) and will be doing nights there I think, which is nice.
Sat 15 Totally Righteous House Party 9pm, £4. I don’t know exactly what this is but the venue listings quote Wayne’s World and the dress code is “perms and mullets”.
Sat 22 The Hold Up Record Store Day 9pm. Guessing this will be hip-hop-themed and maybe feature some rare vinyl, or perhaps a transparent lathe reissue of Nottingham Forest’s 1991 FA Cup Final commemorative single.
Inkspot
The Old Church, Newport Road, Cardiff. 029 2049 0254 / www.inkspotartsandcrafts.com
Sat 1 Delirio 10pm-3am, £7/£5 before 12. Psytrance, psybreaks, psydub, psy no more ladies psy no more. DJ sets from Kasmik, Crystalogic, Fattman & Slug, IOLO and RevDread. Plus decor, facepainting and all that stuff.
Fri 21 Groove Theory 10pm-3am. Cardiff’s foremost night for quality house/disco/cratedigger stuff. Headliner and other info TBC but I’ve listed it so you know it’s going on!
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Fri 7 Teak: Is It All Over My Face? 10pm-4am. Local disco/house promoters with an Arthur Russell-inspired night in which they team up with formerly-but-no-longer-local promoters Studio 89.
*Sun 30 Delete 1-10pm, £25. See Clubs for more on this seventh birthday party, held in a marquee outside the venue and headlined by techno godfather Derrick May (in Wales for the first time, as far as I’m aware). Matt Owen, Marc Parsons and Lee Graves will also hold it down over nine hours.
Kazbar
Market Street, Llanelli. 07512 031958
Fri 7 Royal Ascension Sound 9pm-3am. Roots and dub night from local dealers in same, celebrating the life of Bob Marley. This night features London’s infamous Sir Coxsone plus Digital and PJ of Cardiff’s Royal Ascension, plus special guests TBC.
Level 2 @ Kongs
114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. [email protected] / www.kongsbars.com
Fri 14 Network. 9pm-3am, £10 adv. More brand new promoters! These guys are on a kinda techno/minimal tip I’d think, with Romanian DJ Alexandra headlining and Alex Taylor, Shaun Edwards and Gareth Richards also booked in.
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
Sundays Mary’s Mad Sundays 12pm-1am, free. Cabaret and cocktails with Mary Mac.
Metros
Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www.metroscardiff.com
Wednesdays Cheapskates 9pm-4am, £5. Hywel plays ‘alternative mayhem’ and old skool cheese.
Fridays Freespirit 9.30pm-3.30am, £3 with flyer before 10.30pm. Drinks promos, no dress code. Rock, punk, metal and alternative beats.
Saturdays Cherry Bomb 9.30pm-3.30am. Indie, electroclash (!) and good time rock’n’roll.
Meze Lounge
6 Market Street, Newport. 01633 259144 / facebook.com/mezeloungenewport
Thurs 13 Club U18 7.30pm-12.30am, £10. Grime, house, r’n’b and urban sounds for the kids. Elro (live), Fernquest, Corey Lloyd, Midge and Snub bring the sounds.
Fridays Panic! Alternative anthems, pop-punk, hardcore and guilty pleasures.
Saturdays Rock You! 10pm, £3-£5. A selection of anthems across the decades plus party/covers bands each week.
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
Fridays Unfunkinbelievable Half price drinks from 5-10pm. What I find ‘unfunkinbelievable’ is that there’s a club night called ‘Unfunkinbelievable’ in the year 2016.
Saturdays ‘Miss’ Behaviour Music, cocktails, party. All these things are found here.
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.
Mozarts
Walter Road, Swansea. 01792 649984 / www.mozartsswansea.co.uk
Sat 1 + Sat 6 May Can’t Touch This 10pm-2.30am, £2/free before 12. Nineties revival night, previously known as Rewind.
The Parrot
32 King Street, Carmarthen. 01267 231012 / facebook.com/theparrotmusicbar
Fri 7 Sesh On 9pm-2am. “A full night of music” but I know not what kind.
Fri 21 Funk & Soul 8pm-1am, £5. DJ Eugene and co bring you a range of soul, R&B, funk, boogaloo, mod, jazz and more. Strictly vinyl only!
Platform 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Sun 16 002 2pm-2.30am, £10 adv. All-day bank holiday special with rated house DJ Josh Butler headlining alongside various Platform 11 residents. See Clubs.
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.
Wednesdays Giggle Free before 12. Student night.
Thursdays Poptails. 9pm-3am. Non-stop pop with DJ Lyndon and 2-4-1 cocktails deals.
Fridays + Saturdays 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.
Mondays Society Wars The name sounds pretty interesting but sadly it actually refers to university societies. There are however various cheap drinks to ease your disappointment.
Wednesdays Toast Student night where drinks are £1 and they give you free toast.
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 House Party 10pm-3am, £4 “Imagine the greatest ever house party, with 2000 mates, the best drink deals, the freshest tunes and craziest entertainment you could ever imagine!” I… I can’t.
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am, £4. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Saturday is in conjunction with Jongleurs comedy club, which also takes place here.
Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”.
Sun 16 Kisstory 10pm-3am, £12/£8. AJ King, DJ Swerve, Freddie Smith, Jordan Reed and Lucas Alexander are the DJs, and there’s a live PA from Amerie of 1 Thing fame.
Pulse
3 Churchill Way, Cardiff. 029 2064 1010 / www.pulsecardiff.com. Gay venue.
Wednesdays Warped 10pm-4am. Join DJ Craig W on a journey through time with the best hits from the last two decades.
Fridays Pulsetastic 10pm-5am, £4/£3. With live PAs once a month.
Saturdays Pop Til You Drop 10pm-5am, £5/£4 b4 11. The very best chart remixes and classic hits all night long.
The Rainbow Rooms
12 High Street, Gorseinon, Swansea. 07563 111225 / www.the-rainbowrooms.com
Sat 1 Logic & Pukka Up 7pm-4am, £10 adv. Banging house biz from Falseface, Alex P, Dannuy Slade, Jason P & Rob Rees, D Grove & Michael Connolly, Rob EJ and Peters Mobile Disco.
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.
The Riverfront
Bristol Packet Wharf, Newport. Mon-Sat 10am-8pm, Sun 10am-6pm. Free. 01633 656757.
Sat 29 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm, £3. Motown, northern soul and other classic 60s and 70s soul from this regular DJ collective – Shelley Barrett, Liam Curtin, Matthew Morgan and Steve Kaged – on an awayday. Held in the venue’s basement space. See Clubs.
Room 112
3-6 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Thurs 9pm-3am, Fri + Sat 10pm-4am. 029 2066 7996 / www.room112.net
Fridays Bedrock 9pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12. R’n’b, hip-hop and dancehall.
Saturdays Cliché 9pm-4am, £10. Old and new skool r’n’b and hip-hop is this night’s deal.
The Scene
Plymouth Street, Swansea. [email protected] / www.thesceneclub.co.uk
Fri 14 Funktion Tek 9pm-3am, £5/£3 before 11. Drum’n’bass headlined by Mistanoize and also featuring Anonymo, Wozzi, Nordle, Kuro and Grimlock.
Sat 29 + Sun 30 Delusion 10pm-4am, £17.50. Big trance whomping from Ben Nicky, plus Rhys Thomas and Callan Christie. Both dates are totally sold out!
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.
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South.
Sun 30 The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 10pm-4am, £12 adv. This will probably be sold out by the time you see this listing. Maybe not though.
Soda
St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3363 / www.sodacardiff.com
Thursdays Thursday Club 10pm, £4. Live music, live DJ and live games.
Saturdays Soiree 9pm-4am. Three rooms including the Attic which is “the social playground for the high flyers and social elite, really the only place to be seen.” Imagine catching your reflection in the mirror just after writing that.
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, now transferred from Revolution. 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
Sun 9 Big Fish Little Fish Family Rave 2-4.30pm, £7.50 adv/free pre-walkers. Babies and toddlers can dance to tunes, selected this time by Alex Paterson out of The Orb, who I expect has plenty of experience playing to audiences which crawl around the room, chew things incessantly and are unable to formulate sentences.
Sun 30 Shangri-La 4pm-12am, £12.50-£18. Bank holiday early start early finish with Cardiff clubbing brand. Swiss house/techno big roomer Andrea Oliva is the one confirmed name right now.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Tue 25 The Mixtape 10pm. Student-y night with DJs TBC.
Thurs 13 Intrinsic 10pm-4am, £5-£10. Pre-Bank Holiday bash headlined by UK houser Adam Shelton. Lee Graves, Kerbo and JV are on the case too.
Fri 14 Castles Nights – Techno Culture 10pm, £8-£12. Intermitten local technoheads with guests Joton and Julez Wyl plus residents Corey Lewis and Silver Red.
Fri 21 Selecta 10pm, £5/£3. Classic garage and – it says here – a bit of big beat. Holy Space Raiders CD singles!
Fri 28 Temple & Shelter 10pm. Eclectic student night and monthly drum’n’bass night team up, lineup TBC.
Sat 1 Doppler 11pm, £7/£5. A new techno night for Cardiff! Berlin’s Stojche headlines their first night, with residents Mikey H, Mr Ben and Jessie B.
Sat 15 Rotary Club 11pm-4am. Eclectic house’n’stuff people with a headliner TBC.
Sat 22 Flatline 10pm, £4/£3. No idea what this is, there’s nothing in the venue listings (other than the name and date) or online. Probably some sort of sex party. Animal, vegetable or mineral, which one are you?
Sat 29 Anthem 9pm, £8/£5. Club classics from the 90s and 00s from DJs Scott Kerr, JV, Jake Cusack, Rob Huntley, Zaccy, Drew Thomas b2b Robert Frost and NJ Gibbs b2b Am_iN7.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Sat 1 Shangri-La 11pm-5am, £10 adv. Popular UK techno duo Dense & Pika head up a bill also featuring residents in the main room; Mi Casa guests in room 2.
*Sat 29 Temperance Town 10pm-5am, £20/£15. Main room: Derrick Carter, Gareth Hopkins, Nathen Marren, Lloyd Haines and Hot Property. Discodungeon : John Morales, Craig Bartlett & Darren Stewart and Alex Dinham & Jimmy The Twin.Temperance Jazz Funk Bar: Joylon Green, The Shakedown DJs, Jon Rea & Lee Sigerson, Gareth Potter and Simon Quinn.
Sun 30 Got Bass: Cardiff Bass Rave 10pm-5am. Two rooms of bass, bassline and drum’n’bass. Room 1 has Cause & Affect, Ussy, Koncept and Gavin Woo. Room 2: DJ Low & MC Chew, Mowgli, Dox, Oni and more TBC. This is aimed at students, like about 80% of club nights in Cardiff.
Warehouse 54
54 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.
Fridays The Good Time Social Club 11pm, £3. Laid back Bar beats and live sessions to kick off the weekend. Entry fee also grants you entry to Courtyard, Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Labamba.
Saturdays Viva 9pm-5.30am, £5. R’n’b and club classics. Sat 29 has a guest DJ set from UK garage dude Dr Psycho (Twice As Nice).
Sun 16 NPCLUBHOP Easter Carnival 9pm-6am, £5. Ticket price also includes entry to includes entry to Wh54, Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Labamba, as it also does on…
Sun 30 NPCLUBHOP Spring Ball 9pm-6am, £5.
Wow Bar
4 Churchill Way, Cardiff. Gay venue. Free all day Sun-Thurs; before 11pm Fri + Sat. 029 2066 6247 / www.wowbarcardiff.com
Wednesdays Wish You Were Here Free. Student night with “inflight entertainment” from Lambrini Rampage and Mary Golds, plus music from DJ Krys.
Thursdays The Night With No Name Free. DJ Craig and Mary Golds offer “mad games and crazy entertainment.”
Fridays The Greatest Show In The City Free before 11. With WOW Showgirls Miss Kitty and Marcia, plus special guests every week.
Saturdays The VKend Free before 11. With DJs Craig and Krys. You can get cheap deals in VK. £6.50 for a fishbowl. £6 for a jug of WKD. Settle down now, kids.
Sundays The Cuckoo Club Free. DJ Krys plays the tunes until late.