The Angel Inn
Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 617878.
Fri 2 Subcon 11pm-4am, £3. Drum’n’bass from Skaramanga, D-Phect, Jake Radar and Oli Oli Oli.
Fri 23 Days Before 11pm-4am. A platform for young, hopeful DJs and MCs. Expect drum’n’bass, bassline, funky house and more.
Balter Festival
Chepstow Racecourse. www.balterfestival.com
Fri 2-Sun 4 Balter Festival £105 adv. Fourth year for this festival of jungle, breakcore, free party/‘tek’ stuff etc. Now situated on a horse racing site, so that the gags might write themselves. Lineup like so. The Caravan (punk, ska etc): King Prawn, The Baghdaddies, First Degree Burns, K.O.G And The Zongo Brigade, Counting Coins, Captain Hotknives, Luvdump, The Inexplicables, Zuri Aura, Bored Of Justice, The Stiff Joints, Agnosy, Radical Dance Faction, Dogshite, Who Killed The Bear, King Soloman Band, Binbag Wisdom, Mama Jerk And The Ladyfingers, Rev Schnider And The Band Of Angels. Jigsore (breakcore, jungle etc): Limewax, Emperor, Fexomat, Bizzy B, Spacedocker, DJ Producer, The Teknoist, Scamp, Ronin, Osh Kosh, Spongebob Squarewave, Demon Cabbage b2b Dave Skywalker, Mat Weasel Buster vs Billx, Vandal vs Mandidextrous, Tanukichi vs Dr Looney, Ed Cox vs E-Coli, Chris Liberator vs Aaron Liberator and MC Noia. The Hex: A. Skillz, Dutty Moonshine, Dephicit, Bear Twists, AK (Se7en Deadly Breaks), Matt Ma G, Alix Perez, Break, Sam Binga, Trafic MC and the Sunday Soundclash of Born On Road (Aries, Stivs, Kelvin 373, Selecta J-Man and Gardna vs Rumble In The Jungle (Benny Page, Serum, Kamoh and MC SYE). The Drawing Room: Stivs, Ghost, Tich Dextrix, Katch Pyro, MDS, Mattycore, Junglord, Supa Ape, Tony Jungle, Omen Breaks, Simply Dread, Omnirhythm, Skeptical, Leeroy, Subcriminal, Monroller b2b Noisy Antics, DJ Hybrid, Fat Frumos, Ninjah Fareye, Captain Raveman, Little Monster, T-Menace, Raggamortis, Major Upset, Lemon Girl, Drake Mallard, Figcake, Left Lucas, Matt:Scratch, Slinks, AcdBrnOut, Regent Cid, Sebby T, Lady Lox and Cun7. Balkanical Circus: Zen Hussies, Gypsies Of Bohemia, Big Red Ass, Op Sa!, Cula Bula and Johnny Kowalski & The Sexy Weirdos. 24hr Garage Girls: Rico Tubbs, Vital Techniques, B-Squared, DJ EJ, Phatworld, Dr Cryptic, Squire Of Gothos, Riffs, Shosh, Audiogutter, Inflatable Fuhrer, Wam Jam, Deadbeat, Thorpey, Cellardore, Womble, Gash b2b Hadean, Ali Monsta, Sample Junkie, Iller Instinct and MCs Krome, Stavros and Dert Bagginz. SIKA studios: Klashnekoff. SIKA Records Grime Division showcase: Devilman, Skinzmann, Bru C and Danja. SIKA Records showcase: Devilman, Deadly Hunta, My Bad Sister, Revorg Records Showcase ft: Gatecrasherz, Big Toast, Jack Diggs, Cracker Jon and Ash The Author, Danja & Joe Burn, Tenchoo, Ed Cox, Bonafyde, Flash Harry, King Bracket, I-Lodica, Brookie, Mantis, Omus One, Holly Flo Lightly, Boogie Man, Fiyahman, Snoopy Dubz, Kaotik Kartel, Inspeckta Veg and Wildflowa. Irie Bingo (reggae and dub): Dubmatix & Charlie P, YT, Gardna, Disorda, No Ice Cream Sound, Shire Roots, Gwarn Owl, Hidden Riddim, Benji’s Riddim Bus, King Bolo, Joe Burn, Babylon Rising, Blazenstein, James Tsoi and Frenchy. Buckyham Palace: Gorilla Tactics, Phibes, Selector Spinach, Underkind, Scratch Bandikoot, Jah Prang, Tommy D, Binksy, Bish, Alk-M-E, MickyRae, Miki Taiki, Kodiak, Chemistry, C3B b2b Thrackh, Test Tube Rabies, Vicious Matter, Jamin Nimjah, Els In Wonderland, Bman b2b Oxidizer, Dark City Sisters, Bassflexx, Shortson, Coriktal and Fields. Dutty Disco: Abba Gabba, Shut Up FM, Barry Von Weedhouson, Bizarre Rituals, Raggamortis, Jak MCs, Boundary, Lady Grey, The GSC, Dick Disco, Gav Bolt, Gav’s Dad and Greggery Peccary.
The Big Top / 10 Feet Tall
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / [email protected]
Tue 6 Ogun State 10mp-3am, £5/£4 adv. Night of Afrobeat and music inspired by it, named after the birthplace of Fela Kuti. Features DJ sets from Viewpoints and The Milkshake Boys.
Thursdays Rock hits from DJ Andy Rhys Lewis.
Fridays + Saturdays Resident DJs playing soul and funk.
Fri 9 Hey Mary 10.30pm, £5. Cardiff’s top gay/queer/drag/etc night. Normally on the first Friday of every month, but not this time it appears.
Fri 16 Johnny Cage & The Voodoo Groove’s Rock N Roll Revue 10pm.
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 13 has a guest headline set from Jay Robinson of the Mad Decent label.
Blue Honey Night Cafe
Quay Street, Cardiff. 07512 247712 / facebook.com/bluehoneynightcafe
*Sat 10 Teak presents Miami Vice 11pm, £22 adv. This is part of a night also held in Jacob’s Market, which is about a 10-minute walk away. Blue Honey host Bristolian DJ October, who’ll be doing an Italo set as Malestripper. Cool! Natural Sugars and Blue Honey residents also feature.
*Thurs 29 Biryani Jazz 7-11pm, free. DJ Don Leisure plays cosmic/free/Afrocentric jazz – Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Pharaoh Sanders and so on. You can also eat a biryani while listening. This sounds well good!
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.
Tue 6 Canopy 10pm-3am, £5-£8. New jungle promoters in Cardiff (why are there so many of these recently?) light up your Tuesday with Kenny Ken, Dox, Ollie G, Styx, Clique and Oni.
Thurs 8 Carnival Cardiff End Of Term Bash 10pm-3am, £5 adv. Dancehall, reggae and bashment aimed at students.
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 /
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 2 C-Y-N-T 9pm-4am, £20 adv. Solid lineup of classy and house and techno spinners: Hunee, Young Marco, Midland and Clare James.
Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
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 10pm-6am, £5/free before 1.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Tue 6 Itchy Feet 10.30pm, £5. Ska, reggae and soul.
Wed 7 Get Funky 10.30pm, £5. Disco and house.
Thurs 1 Brooklyn Zoo 10pm-3am, £5/£4. Hip-hop and grime night aimed at students – indeed billed as an ‘end of exams’ party.
Thurs 8 Soul Jam 11pm. Funk and soul.
Thurs 15 Propaganda 11pm. UK-wide indie disco institution.
Fridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox.
Fri 9 C-Y-N-T 11pm-4am. Local house/bass music promoters, lineup TBC.
Fri 30 Journey 10pm-4am. Local trance promoters, 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. 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 Sunday Shisha Sessions 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Depot
22 Dumballs Road, Cardiff. 029 2034 1199 / www.depotcardiff.com
Thurs 1 Good Life Cardiff 2-11pm, £10-£15. This is billed as a ‘Caribbean Carnival’ and, while the description makes no mention of anything that gives weight to that name, there is a set promised by disco specialist Late Nite Tuff Guy.
The Flora
Cathays Terrace, Cardiff. 029 2115 1016 / www.
theflora.co.uk
Sat 10 Fiesta Bombarda Hot Cakes BBQ 4pm-2am, £10-£15. Recently revamped student pub hosts its first ever clubbing type event that I know of. Breakbeat, jungle, reggae and dub on the menu. Outdoors (3-10pm): Deekline, Ed Solo, Shanti-Squire, Jurassik and Beeson & Cesco Biz. Indoors (10pm-2am): Fish x Sherry S , 1Time, Bandit and Ollie G.
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 Garage
47 Uplands Crescent, Swansea. 01792 475147 / http://www.whitez.co.uk/#garage
Sat 3 + Sat 1 July Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.
Sat 1 July Strictly Techno 9pm-3am, £10 adv. Featuring Antwerp DJ Amelie Lens plus Strictly Techno residents.
Glam
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2022 9311 / [email protected]
Mondays New Quid On The Block 10pm-3am, £2/£free before 11. A mashup of chart, r’n’b, cheese and dance across two floors. The name is to commemorate the launch of the new pound coin, which in time you may also be able to use to purchase this nightclub.
Saturdays Vanity 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed.
Sat 1 July Groove 4-10.30pm, £8-£15 adv. The second of Glam’s summer rooftop parties with headliner Theo Kottis plus various local residents.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Thurs 8 Club Tropicana’s Summer Party 6pm-2am, £4.
Fri 2 Gwdihw’s European Discotheque 9pm, £3. “Italo funk, French space-disco and scintillating synth-pop” is mooted here, which does sound up my street in fact.
Fri 9 Gwdihw Brass Takeover 9pm, £4/£3 adv. With live sets from Wonderbrass and Iron Eye plus DJ Gwallgoff playing funk, soul and disco.
Fri 16 Starving Artists 9pm, £6 adv. Local hip-hop promoters bring UKHH fave Verb T down; he’s joined by Chillman feat. Entra P, Project and Mansfield Green.
Fri 23 Comfort Presents… 9pm. Hip-hop, disco, funk and more.
Fri 30 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Electro, synthpop, italo disco, new wave, funk and more.
Sat 3 Signor Funk 9pm, £4/£3 adv. Motown, funk, disco and soul.
Sat 17 Fat City v Superchango Summer Showdown 9pm, £4. Funk, soul and other groovy music from two Gwdihw promoter faves, both coaxed out of retirement for a one-off night.
Sat 24 Hully Gully: Neon Dreams 9pm. Disco, funk etc, this month focusing on music by and that inspired Dâm-Funk “to keep carving his distinctive path through contemporary synthesizer soul”. This should therefore feature some bangers.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
*Sat 10 Teak presents Miami Vice 3pm-5am, £24 (Jacob’s day and night)/£22 (Jacob’s day and Blue Honey night). Jacob’s carpark, daytime: Optimo (five-hour set), Rocky Newman and Dismalman. Jacob’s basement, evening: Sassy J, Seka and David Bull. Blue Honey Night Cafe, evening: DJ October, Natural Sugars, Blue Honey DJs. See Clubs. This is sold out but people will be selling tickets, they always do.
Sat 24 The Summer Solstice Terrace Party 2pm-3am, £10-£20. This takes place in the carpark in the day and the basement in the night, and features house and disco but is something of a mystery other than that.
Karma
75 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. [email protected]
Sat 3 Random Concept, Origins & Circle 8 9pm-6am, £12 adv. The occasion of this big d’n’b night is Joe Blow’s 40th birthday. Here’s who’s playing it: Fatman D, Basslayerz, Garry K, Presha, Kallista, Joe Blow himself, Bason, Pabz, Low, Mowgli, Tbone, Hoodfella, Development, Slim Teng, Chew, Conrad, Jaydee, Deadly Knightshade and C-Za.
Level 2 @ Kongs
114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. [email protected] / www.kongsbars.com
*Fri 2 Doppler 10pm-4am, £15/£12.50. Doppler’s second night is headlined by Detroit electro don and Drexciya live member DJ Stingray. Dai Murder, Mikey H, Mr Ben and Jessie B also feature.
Fri 23 Riddim 10pm-3am, £6-£12. Jungle, jump-up and neurofunk from Levela feat MC XL, DJ Low feat MC Chew, Mowgli, Luke Ebbens b2b DJ Reload and Mascot. See Clubs.
The Mackintosh Sports And Social Club
Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff. 029 2049 4697 / www.mackintoshsportsclub.org
Sat 24 Mabuk Recordings Summer Release Party 8pm-12am, £4. House, disco and funk with sets from Cardiff’s Jean Jacques Smoothie and Nottingham’s Tim Tonal (both of those have a new single out around now), plus Gareth Jones.
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
Fridays Panic! Alternative anthems, pop-punk, hardcore and guilty pleasures.
Fri 23 Hard Alliance 9pm-5am, £15. Hardcore and hardstyle from DJ Sy, Argy, Mike Steventon & Side-E-Fect, Shocker, Watsee and more.
Fri 30 Cylent Beatz 7.30-11pm, £4. Homegrown hip-hop from this south Wales collective.
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.
The Moon
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Wed 28 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.
Thursdays Twisted Thursdays Until 3am, free. Gary of Twisted By Design fame gets a regular Thursday night gig again, playing indie and alt-rock tunes after bands finish here.
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.
Mozarts
Walter Road, Swansea. 01792 649984 / www.mozartsswansea.co.uk
Fri 2 Hip Drop 10pm-2.30am, £2/free before 12. Northern soul, Motown and Stax.
Sat 3 Can’t Touch This 10pm-2.30am, £2/free before 12. Nineties revival night, prevously known as Rewind.
Pitcher & Piano
Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 461312 / www.pitcherandpiano.com
Sat 17 The Lighthouse Project Summer Sessions 3pm-2am, £7 adv. Outdoor alldayer on a house tip, DJs not confirmed but will be locals I think.
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).
Portland House
Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. 029 2048 7602 / www.portlandhousecardiff.com
Fri 23 The Dock Of The Bay Soul Night 7pm-1am, £5 adv. Hosted by Penarth Soul Club, who are in Newport tomorrow (and back in Cardiff in July). Steve Kaged, Matthew Morgan and Liam Curtin play 60s and 70s soul and Motown off vinyl.
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”. Was in nearby Glam until recently.
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
Sun 1 July Logic Presents Hed Kandi 9pm-4am, £10 adv. With Eibhlin Flynn plus more DJs TBC.
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 24 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.
Room 112
3-6 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Thurs 9pm-3am, Fri + Sat 10pm-4am. 029 2066 7996 / www.room112.net
Fridays Gawjus 9pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12. R’n’b, hip-hop and dancehall.
Saturdays Fusion 9pm-4am, £10/£5. Afrobeats, r’n’b and dancehall.
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 30 Funktion Tek 9pm-4am, £10. Drum’n’bass from Mr Traumatik, Chew, DJ Darkfada, Tom Llew, Nordle, Blueeyes, Golobnaise, Parklife and SMG & Kontra.
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South. Sat 10 features Dimension with MC ID. Sat 3 90s Reload 10pm, £2-£6. Nineties dance night.
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
Fri 2 Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 7pm, £18 adv. Sold out.
Sun 18 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 Rhys and Eggsy from Goldie Lookin Chain.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Tue 27 Mixtape 10pm.
Fri 9 Castles Nights – Techno Culture 10pm, £5. Residents: Corey, Silver Red and Murder. Guests: Tom Bateman (Groove Theory) and Harry Wootten.
Fri 16 Selecta 10pm, £5/£3. Classic garage night.
Fri 30 Temple 10pm. Monthly drum’n’bass night, lineup TBC.
Sat 3 TDV – The Different Vibe 10pm, £3. Drum’n’bass.
Sat 17 Rotary Club 11pm, £5/£3 adv. With headliner Telfort, a DJ from Edinburgh, plus a slew of residents.
Sat 24 Flatline 11pm. Drum’n’bass.
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 R’n’b and club classics. entry fee, again, gets you into all the clubs listed above.
Sundays The Sunday Sessions 8pm. Allstar residents in session.
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.