CLUBS LISTINGS | MAY
CLUBS LISTINGS | MAY ABERGAVENNY CASTLE Castle Street, Abergavenny. 01873 854282. Sun 12 Owain Glyndwr Silent Disco 5pm, £7 adv/£5 under-18s. “Join in dancing the rebellion to a DJ mixing …
CLUBS LISTINGS | MAY ABERGAVENNY CASTLE Castle Street, Abergavenny. 01873 854282. Sun 12 Owain Glyndwr Silent Disco 5pm, £7 adv/£5 under-18s. “Join in dancing the rebellion to a DJ mixing …
RAKHI SINGH QUARTET & VESSEL: WRITTEN IN FIRE Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff, Sun 5 May Written In Fire is a collaborative piece between electronic musician Vessel and …
JOURNEY 15 YEARS The Vaults, Cardiff Bay. Sun 5 May “There were five of us who loved trance and the harder side of dance music, who were travelling hundreds of …
NUBYA GARCIA Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. Thurs 2 May Since her acclaimed release Nubya’s 5ive in 2017, saxophonist, composer and bandleader Nubya Garcia has leapt from the thriving London jazz scene …
WILKO JOHNSON BAND | LIVE REVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Fri 26 Apr In their Roxette days in the mid-70s, Dr. Feelgood’s rawest rhythm & blues weapon was Wilko Johnson: an …
SUEDE | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Fri 26 Apr By their own admission, it’s been a long time since Suede have graced a Cardiff stage, …
GOT BASS The Vaults, Cardiff Bay. Sat 4 May Wobbly basslines, growling MCs and the usual four-to-the-floor: bassline is a sound that isn’t widely appreciated by the masses but it’s …
TOPETTE Pontardawe Arts Centre. Tue 30 Apr Anyone interested in European folk music needs to check out Topette, an Anglo-French acoustic five-piece who will be visiting Pontardawe as part of …
SEB ZITO Hedone @ The Duke, Neath. Sat 27 Apr Seb Zito is another DJ quick to point out his roots in the mid-90s when cornered with a bio. He …
STEFFLON DON | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Thurs 18 Apr It’s easy to see why Stefflon Don stands out in the UK music scene. While …
LOWKEY | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Thurs 18 Apr “Free free Palestine” is not a chant you would necessarily expect to hear chanted within the somewhat sticky …
The sea and the sand have long been part of the British creative psyche, so it’s no surprise that folk maestros The Unthanks have tapped into it. Rhonda Lee Reali …
DRUMSOUND & BASSLINE SMITH / DJ STORM Function:al @ Kongs, Cardiff. Sat 4 May Drum’n’bass nights in Kongs always go down a treat, where in May the variety on offer …
He was punk before punk existed and now he’s alive when he was supposed to be dead and buried. Former Dr Feelgood guitarist and national treasure Wilko Johnson talks …
ALBUMS ÅRABROT SPECIALE *** Die Nibelungen (Pelagic) A soundtrack album for Fritz Lang’s legendary 1924 silent film of the same name, originally performed live at Tromsö. As a soundtrack, it …
Hair **** New Theatre, Cardiff, Mon 15 Apr It may be difficult for people to see what all the fuss was about, but Hair, or to give it its full …
UT Le Public Space, Newport. Sat 20 Apr Out of the original no wave scene in New York, the best and most interesting band were Ut. Developing a racket that …
SAVING GRACE | LIVE REVIEW The Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen, Tue 16 Apr Robert Plant, the golden-haired god of rock, could be happily living on the legacy of his world-conquering, …
Donna Marie- #MyGagaLife Despite regularly imitating one of the biggest celebrities of the past decade, renowned Lady Gaga impersonator Donna Marie is remarkably down-to-earth. Ahead of her new show, #MyGagaLife, …
ALAN FITZPATRICK Con7rol @ Sin City, Swansea. Sat 13 Apr Now, THIS is an event you can’t afford to miss. Swansea’s Sin City sees a plethora of DJs, huge or …
Liminality Sun 7 Apr, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff The concept of liminality is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process’, whilst …
CHAOUCHE The Bunkhouse, Swansea Fri 12 Apr Aisha Chaouche brings her soulful, emotional vocals to The Bunkhouse in Swansea, the city where she grew up before moving to Bristol to …
SLEAFORD MODS / LIINES | LIVE REVIEW Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union, Fri 5 Apr Liines are aptly named – every song of a relentless, rapid-fire set takes …
COLIN BLUNSTONE | INTERVIEW Singer-songwriter Colin Blunstone, in addition to being vocalist in The Zombies, is also a successful solo artist, playing Cardiff on Sun 7 Apr. With co-founder …