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 7 + Fri 4 Aug 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 28 That Good Night 10pm. Leftfield electronic tackle with a live set from Beauty Parlour plus DJs Jessie B and It’s Dando.
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 15 is the Official Colour Clash Afterparty; Sat 22 is the NPCLUBHOP Summer Ball and has a headline set from DEvelopMENT.
Blue Honey Night Cafe
Quay Street, Cardiff. 07512 247712 / facebook.com/bluehoneynightcafe
*Thurs 27 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.
Thurs 13 Stickylemons 10pm-3am, £6 adv. Drum’n’bass/jungle from Devilman, Skamma, Beatbox Fozzy and Uprising Raggamuffin.
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.
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
Fridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox.
Fri 7 Time Flies Summer Party 10pm-4am, £25/£20 adv. TF’s latest timewarp back to the 1990s is a bumper one, with Seb Fontaine, Tall Paul, Brandon Block, Alex P, James Merritt, Shane Morris and Paul Cahill featuring. I am going to take this opportunity to mention Brandon Block’s autobiography, which is a trashy and remarkable memoir of frankly implausible drug use.
Fri 14 Show Me What You’ve Got 10.30pm, £4. This is a karaoke night rather than a club one per se, but the venue have put it in their club listings and have almost nothing else club-like going on this month.
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.
Sun 2 Tafwyl Afterparty 10pm, free. With Gareth Potter DJing.
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. Sat 15 is the Official Colour Clash Afterparty, featuring a headline set from Kiss FM’s Majestic; Sat 22 is the NPCLUBHOP Summer Ball.
Sundays Sunday Shisha Sessions 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
The Duke
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sat 8 + Sat 28 Hedone 8pm-2am, £8. Two nights of chunky summer house vibes this month. Sat 8 is headlined by Di Chiara Brothers and also features Nathan Lazda, Sam Balla, Dean Morgan, Rhys Howells, Simon (Criminal Hype), Sean Morris and Sam Jones. Sat 29 is headlined by Shaf Huse and also features Dean Morgan, Sean Morris, Nathan Lazda, Blake Parker, Rhys Howells, Sam Balla and Sam Jones. See Clubs for more on that last one.
Freerotation Electronic Audio/Visual Festival
Baskerville Hall, Hay-On-Wye. Members only event. www.freerotation.com
Fri 7-Sun 9 Freerotation £125 adv (sold out). Wales’ finest house/techno/electronic festival. With acarefully regulated member system that means it’s almost pointless listing this… but not quite, because it may help you dream. Lineup (DJs and live acts): Aboutface, Afrikan Sciences, Alex Downey, Andrew James Gustav, Amy Amor, Bambounou, Batu, Ben UFO, Blawan, Bruno Pronsato, Burnt Friedman, Cary Grace, Chris Farrell, Christina Wheeler, Cubic Space Collective, Dan Bean, DJ Bone, DJ Bus Replacement Service, Don’t DJ, Duckett, Earthdoctor, Escorting Sarah, Fade 2, Glenn Schofield, Grimes Adhesif, Gwenan, Howes, Ilmajaam, Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being, Jane Fitz, J-lab, Joe Ellis, Juju & Jordash, Karenn, Lawrence, Leah Floyeurs, Leif, Lovelacem Magic Mountain High, Mark Hand, Matt Pond, Monoak, Mono-poly, Move D, Myles Serge, Mr. G, Neel, Objekt, October, Old Shady Grady & The Neighbourhood Character, Onlyz & Winkles, Pangaea, Patrice Scott, Pearson Sound, Peverelist, Portable, Radioactive Man, Ramzi, Reflektor, Resom, Rick Nicholls, rRoxymore, Russ Gabriel, Sam Watson, Saoirse, Sebastian Mullaert, Shawn Rudiman, Shlømo, Simo Cell Simon Lynch, Steevio & Suzybee, Steffen Bennemann, Steve Legget, Suade Bergemann, Superhand, Surgeon, Sven Weisemann, The Transcendence Orchestra, Tom Demac, Tom Ellis, Tripcode, XDB, Yamma (Cary Grace & Basil Brooks) and Zip. Plus visual artists /\rt-S, Avery Bright Light, Becky Bee, Eye4anEye, KL30, Kumpa, Limbic Cinema, Marylou, Mash Cinema, Verdigris, Seanie Louise Smith, Suzybee, The Moth Factory, VJ Vesta, Yagama and Zeke.
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 1 + Sat 5 Aug Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.
Sat 1 Strictly Techno 9pm-3am, £10 adv. Featuring Antwerp DJ Amelie Lens plus Strictly Techno residents.
Sat 8 Acidosis Part 2 10pm-3am, £5/£3 before 11. The followup to a a night whose first part was eight years ago, apparently. Emma Jayne, Fraz, Dj Sioux, Suss Twins, Rixxy and Chapter plsy techno, drum’n’bass, breakbeat and acid techno.
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.
Mon 10 + Mon 17 MNG Graduation Special 10pm-3am, £2 adv. Three rooms of studenty celebration, with some reality show stars promised.
Saturdays Vanity 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed.
Sat 1 Groove 4-10.30pm, £8-£15 adv. The second of Glam’s summer rooftop parties with headliner Theo Kottis plus various local residents.
Sat 1 White Label Ents 10pm-4am, £8-£15 adv. Later on inside, meanwhile, UK garage lads Heartless Crew arrive with a bunch of local DJs in tow.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Fri 14 Gwdihw Brass Takeover 9pm, £4/£3 adv. With a live set from Bass 12.
Fri 21 The Hold Up 9pm. Hip-hop from DJs Alkemy, Jaffa and Auricom.
Fri 28 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Electro, synthpop, italo disco, new wave, funk and more.
Sat 1 Shanti Launch Party 9pm, £4. Reggae, dancehall, soca and tropical club music from F-Block and Shanti Squire.
Sat 8 Sure Shot 9pm, £3. Funk, soul, boogie, disco and hip-hop from Veto and Miles Day.
Sat 15 Tone Pagoda 9pm, £5/£4 adv. Hip-hop from Jungle Brown, with Beatboxx Hann, DJ Click and Triz.
*Sun 30 Delete 1pm-2am, £18 adv. See Clubs for more on this epic sesh, headlined by Swiss minimal miss Sonja Moonear. Marc Parsons, Matt Owen and Kofi Tarris complete the backyard bill, and from 10pm-2am the party moves inside.
Inkspot
The Old Church, Newport Road, Cardiff. 029 2049 0254 / www.inkspotartsandcrafts.com
*Sat 8 Groove Theory x Rotary Club 4pm-3am, £6-£10. Long old party featuring two of Cardiff’s top house/disco/other good stuff promoters. DJs: Giovanni Damico (Lumberjacks In Hell), Kofi Tarris, Mikey H plus Hully Gully, Rotary Club & Groove Theory DJs.
*Fri 28 Submerge Soundsystem 10pm-4am, £6-£10. Dubstep, dub and jungle with, as the event name suggests, this promo crew’s own soundsystem in use for the first time. RSD from Bristol headlines the main room over Halcyonic & G Roots, Tom Bateman and Blokeye. Room 2 features Ital Lion, Ul Tra, Jimanoli, Benny Bootleg, Kalo and Effigy.
Karma
75 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. [email protected]
Sat 15 Dancehall Nice Again 10pm-6am. Dancehall, reggae, bashment and soca from Young Lion, Big Crumb, Don Dee, Tony V Sound and DJ Moko.
Fri 21 Digidol 10pm-6am, £5. Drum’n’bass from Cardiff veteran DJ MOD, Jesus (from Barry, it says here), Tom WareAudio Autopsy b2b Ketchum, Soluble Sounds, Iolo and Jam. The promoters also promise £1 Jagerbombs all night. My ventricles are rupturing just thinking about it.
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
Mon 3 Blink 182 Afterparty 10pm-4am, £2. An unofficial afterparty I might add. Stereo Brain play pop-punk, ska and other appropriate sounds.
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 14 Back To The 80s 10pm-4.30am. Richie Moulton, Neil Young and Carl Bassett play 80s club anthems. This is an afterparty for the Billy Ocean show in Rodney Parade.
Saturdays Rock You! 10pm, £3-£5. A selection of anthems across the decades plus party/covers bands each week. Sat 15 is the Colour Clash Festival official afterparty.
Sat 22 Reggae Summer 9pm-5am, £10. With UK reggae don Tippa Irie plus Papa Crook, Sun I Tafari, The Lockdown Band, Aleighcia Scott and The Hiya Vibes Band plus special guests.
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 2017.
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 / info@thefullmooncardiff.com
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.
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.
Sun 23 Diffdo Featuring a live set from dubstep-ish producer Stereoripe, plus DJ sets from Diffian and Ben Jah.
Penarth Ex-Servicemens Club
69 Windsor Rd, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 29 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12.30am, £3 adv. A night of classic soul, northern soul etc. Also at this venue in September and November this year.
The Pit
The Strand, off Wind Street, Swansea. facebook.com/pg/thepitswansea
Sat 1 + Sat 5 Aug Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month. Moved from its previous home (one of several) in The Garage.
Platform 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Sat 15 005 2pm-3am, £15 adv. Big house hotshot Darius Syrossian is the headline act, but there’ll presumably be a packed undercard with 13 hours of rave time to fill.
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 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”.
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 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.
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.
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South.
Sat 8 Delusion 10pm-4am, £12. Swansea’s top trance night of the moment Main room: Sneijder, Rhys Thomas, Callan Christie and Dan McShane. Room 2 is hosted by Con7Rol and features Lloyd Haines, Taz Meah, Vedra & Rinaldi, Alex Eley & Jamie Morgan and Scott Phillips.
Small World Theatre
Bath House Road, Cardigan. 01239 615952/ www.smallworld.org.uk
Sat 29 Move On Up 8pm, £5. Mr. A plays greats from his collection of 45s and 33s. “No mixing, no scratching, no overdubs … just Detroit Soul, New Orleans Funk, West Coast Wah-wah, Harlem Shuffle and New York Disco.” is promised.
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. 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.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Fri 14 La Fiesta 10pm-4am. Salsa, reggaeton, some bachata and Spanish rock.
Fri 21 Selecta 10pm, £5/£3. Classic garage night. Fri 28 Temple 10pm. Monthly drum’n’bass night, lineup TBC.
Sat 1 Flatline 10pm. Drum’n’bass, 140 and bassline from local DJs.
Sat 8 Paranoize 10pm-4am, £8 adv. See Clubs for more on this fun-sounding night, which features Chimpo, Black Josh, Ransom, Sub:Stance, Gavin Woo, Warcharm, Boston and host MC XL.
Sat 15 Rotary Club 11pm-4am. Residents night.
Sat 22 Helium 10pm, £5. Techno, house and disco. Residents showcase night
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Fri 14 Cellar Door 10pm-5am, £12 adv. Techno in room one, house and disco in room 2 and cartoons/chillout in room 3.
Warehouse 54
54 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.
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 Viva R’n’b and club classics. entry fee, again, gets you into all the clubs listed above. Sat 15 is the Official Colour Clash Afterparty; Sat 22 is the NPCLUBHOP Summer Ball
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.