The Arch
11 Commercial Street, Neath. 07791 923214 / [email protected]
Sun 26 90s Old Skool Presents 001 9pm-4am, £4/free before 10. Rave revival vibes from Lee Grey, Chris Miller, Phill Williams, Nicky G, DJ Nvee, Rob Evan and Jake McAvoy. Plus confetti, CO2 cannons, inflatables and other things you didn’t really get in the 90s.
The Attic
5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/theatticswansea
Sat 11 Con7rol x The Zoo Project Ibiza Summer Party 9pm-4am. House and techno, lineup TBC.
Sat 25 100% Old Skool 9pm-4am, £8-£10 adv. With a live PA by house vocalist Soraya Vivian, plus Greg P, Nicky G, John Steffanick and Newman & Steins in room 1; Kai & Footy, Greg P, Lloyd-E and Niccky G in room 2.
Bar Cocoa
Broad Street, Barry. facebook.com/cocoabarry
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3.30am, £3. With DJ James Bourne and sopecial guest appearances/live sets. Fri 3 is an afterparty for Keyboard Warriors 4 – The Final Chapter, which is an evocatively named charity boxing tournament.
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 24 Killing Moon 10pm. Eighties alternative hits.
Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk and neo-soul.
Sat 4 Robot Monkey Hula Party 9pm-3am, £5 adv. Deep/prog house with live vocals, saxophone and tribal drumming. Free drink for the first 50 people in.
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 Beekay & 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 25 Fixate 10pm-5am, £5. With a headline set from tech-house duo Tuff London plus Owen Kilby, Paul Blandford, Jack Edinborough, Tom Mahoney, Dan Waite and Madame Twisted.
Sun 26 Hardcore Classix 10pm-5am, £5. Featuring Scott Brown with MC Wotsee, Adam Harris, Pikey, Denzo, Leif Boi and Jonny P.
Blue Honey Night Cafe
Quay Street, Cardiff. 07512 247712 / facebook.com/bluehoneynightcafe
Thurs 2 A Scene Within A Scene Exhibition Launch 9pm, free. The exhibition in question (see Art listings) is showing here and in the Campfa Gallery, who have some bands playing earlier in the evening; from 9pm the Drunk Yoga DJ collective will soundtrack Blue Honey’s part of the launch.
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.
Fri 17 Spectrum 10pm-4am, £5/£4 before 11. Techno from JaMo, J-Tech, Iolo and Luke Winds.
Saturdays The Shake Up 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, house, r’n’b funk and soul from residents over two floors.
Buffs
6 Station Road, Brynmawr. 01495 315334.
Sat 4 Infinity: Goes Beyond! 7pm-2am, £5. House, techno and trance from DJs TBC.
Butetown COMMUNITY CENTRE
40 Louden Square, Cardiff Bay. 029 2048 7658 / butetowncommunitycentre.strikingly.com/
*Fri 3 Royal Ascension Sound 9pm-2am, £10 adv. Roots reggae and dub from this south Wales sound system, with a great special guest in London veteran Sir Coxsone. Dirty Harry (One Love Sound) and Royal Ascension themselves also feature. See Clubs.
Castell Roc
Chepstow Castle. 01291 627122 / [email protected]
Fri 31 The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 6.30pm, £20 adv. With live support from Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band.
Cathays Sports & Social Club
152-156 Cathays Terrace, Cardiff. 029 2022 0906 /www.cssc.ukpub.net
Sat 18 Fabulous 7.30pm-1am, £5. Yep, the long-running mod night that hung up its desert boots when Dempseys closed last year, but has returned for a one-off 20th birthday bash. Expect Motown, northern soul, ska, R&B, reggae etc.
Club Ice
Broadway, Pontypridd. 07771 920726 / www.clubiceponty.com
Fridays Flashback 10pm-3am, Retro hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s.
Saturdays Gravity 10.30pm-3am, £7/£5 before 11. House, techno and dance every week on the club’s 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. Upstairs: deep house, commercial house and tech-house. Downstairs: urban, chart, classics, r’n’b, hip-hop and UK garage.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Fridays (bottom) Team Up! 11pm-3am, £3-£5. Weekly clubnight offering emo, pop-punk and alt-rock.
Fri 3 Dazed 11pm-4am, £3-£5. Drum’n’bass headlined by Clique with MC XL.
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.
Coffee Barker
Castle Arcade, Cardiff. 029 2022 4575 / facebook.com/coffeebarker
Fri 3 + Fri 7 Sept The Shakedown 8.30pm-12.30am, free. Funk, jazz, R&B, boogaloo etc from DJs Lee, Matt and Andy, newly in this venue on the first Friday of every month.
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.
Sun 12 Eclipse – Adults Special Needs Night 6.30-10.30pm, £3/carers free. New club night aimed at adults with autism, Downs Syndrome, or a physical or mental inability. This month’s edition has a Disney theme.
Creature Sound
Ken Bu Kan, 1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 01792 301178 / www.creaturesound.com
Fri 17 Wonkcrafts 6-11pm, £4/£3 adv. Drum’n’bass from Wonkcrafts residents Teejay, LRB, Syphr, Aksrevenge, Pie-Fi, Boyley and Top Grot.
De Valence Pavilion
Upper Frog St, Tenby. 01834 218228 / www.devalencepavilion.co.uk
Fri 24 Tranz@action vs Evolution Experience 8pm-2am, £16.50 adv. With headliner Dave Pearce, off of the radio, plus hardcore techno don Slipmatt.
The Dilwyn Arms
Herbert Street, Pontardawe. 01792 863310.
Sat 18 Logic Festival 3 Launch Party 2 11am-11pm, £12/£9. Logic Festival itself is in September in Swansea; this 12-hour bash follows a night on Sat 4 Aug at the Rainbow Rooms and features 90s pop-dance colossus N-Trance plus Rob Rees, Jason Pufal, Danny Slade, Trixta, Chris Miller, Jay Pufal, Rob EJ and more TBC. Best info number is 07763 000382. See Clubs.
Eddies
4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co
Sat 4 Cafe Mambo Ibiza 9pm-5am, £10. House from singer and sax player Lovely Laura plus DJs Ben Santiago and Ridney, with local support TBC
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.
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.
Fridays Gasolina 11pm-4am, £4 before 12. Reggaeton, r’n’b and club bangers.
Saturdays Rumour 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity.
Sat 4 Groove 4-10.30pm, £12.50-£17.50. Regular-in-the-summer house night with a big headliner TBC.
The Globe
125 Albany Rd, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
Sat 4 Huey Morgan’s NYC Block Party 8pm-1am, £14 adv. Funk, hip-hop and the groovier end of rock, I would imagine, based on the times I’ve heard his 6 Music show in shops or cars or whatever.
Fri 10 Club Tropicana 9pm-2am, £6 adv. Eighties night. Sold out.
The Globe At Hay
Newport Street, Hay-On-Wye. 01497 821762 / [email protected]
Sat 25 A Jaunt Through The Kingdom 7pm, £20 adv. See Clubs for more on a night which launches Kingdom, a mysterious project starting next year in Hay. As well as live music from Stoke-based hip-hop/shoegaze project Footdragger, there are DJ sets from Rita Ray, Don Letts and Tom Ravenscroft.
Gwdihw
Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Sat 5 Solar Orbit 2pm. Afternoon session of techno, ambient and the like from (in July) ARC 170, Varndell and more.
Sat 11 Red Room 9pm. New night promising disco, Italo and electro.
Sat 18 Cosmogramma 9pm, £5/£3 adv. With a live set from The Lotus Tribe, plus DJs.
Sun 19 Speakeasy x Zambouley Bros 7.30pm, £5. DJs and performers playing music of all genres and backgrounds to show the diversity of the Cardiff artist, apparently.
Fri 24 That Good Night v Hey Mary 9pm, £5. Eclectic, cheap and good dance night, until recently in the Big Top, hooks up with Cardiffian queer/drag night for a pre-Pride special with It’s Dando and Sissy Boy Tears DJing.
Hangar 18 (Formerly The Scene)
50 Plymouth Street, Swansea. [email protected]
Fri 3 Heft 10pm-3am, £5. Bassline and drum’n’bass from Rogue One feat Illustrate MC, Raptcha, Tvndra, Martyn Kinnear, Hayez MC, Mr Matenj and Llew.
Sun 26 Delusion Bank Holiday Classics 9pm. Swansea’s top trance promoters with a night whose details are TBC, although unlikely to deviate from their norm I daresay.
Inkspot
The Old Church, Newport Road, Cardiff. 029 2049 0254 / www.inkspotartsandcrafts.com
Fri 24 Instincts: Spirit Trance Gathering 10pm-4am, £5. Psytrance type stuff from Dr Nitrogen, Meskalin and Radiostorm.
Intrim
Queen Victoria Street, Tredegar. 01495 725510.
Sat 4 Alternate 8pm-2am. House and techno from Alter:Ego, Undercover DJs (Cellar Door), Orangepeel, Brad Dunk, Joel Jones and Jordan Morgan b2b Jay Jones.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Sat 4 Teak x Blue Honey 3-10.30pm, £10 adv. House, techno, disco etc from two local promo sorts. DJs: Andy Richards, Ben Arthur, David J Bull, Esther, James Teak and Seka.
Sat 11 Babylon 4-11pm, £22.50 adv. Some kind of summer day party rave presrnted by the Depot and Shangri-La. All sold out I think.
Sun 26 Delete 1-10.30pm (outdoor)/10.30pm-late (indoor), £27.50 (daytime and afterparty)/£25 (daytime only)/£5 (afterparty only). Romanian and Italian techno faves plus some local goodness for bank holiday: Raresh, Francesco Del Garda, Matt Owen, Lee Graves, Marc Parsons and Knoll Beach. Initially in a dome in thee carpark until 10.30pm, it then moves inside for an afterparty.
The Last Resort
207 High Street, Swansea. www.lastresortswansea.com
Sat 4 Dogruff Open Air Summer Series Part 2 3pm-4am. Techno and minimal specialists return for a second alldayer and allnighter. Daytime: Rumple, Dan Brooks, Nicky Hewitt, Ulex, Amy Amor, Luke Tainton, Gareth Richards and Shaun Edwards. Evening: Mikki James, Dan Knight and Alex Taylor.
Sat 11 + Sat 1 Sept Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month (apart from August). Fri 31 The Anti-Social 7pm-2am. Showcase for underground talent in multiple genres: hip-hop, beatbox, grime and drum’n’bass are the ones they mention as examples.
Legacy
Old Works Lane, Pontardawe. 01792 865370 / mamas-paradise.wixsite.com/swansea
Sun 26 Modaa 9pm-4am, £6-£8. Rescheduled from the late May bank holiday, this also features Jortdan Steins, Cory Squires, Joshua Dale Morgan and Chris Miller in addition to the chunky house headliner, real name Lloyd Scoulding.
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.
Metro’s
Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www.metroscardiff.com
Wednesdays Cheapskates 10pm-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 (apart from Fri 10 Aug, when it’s a takeover by DJ Scoundrel).
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 Iqos Social Club / Intuition 7-9pm: Iqos Social Club; 9pm-late: Intuition with DJs Monique B and Dan Willow.
Fridays Feeling Soul, funk, disco, rare groove and r’n’b with resident DJs and happy hour from 5-8pm.
Saturdays House Of Play House and r’n’b from resident DJs.
Sundays Secret Resident DJs play 90s music.
The Moon
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
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 3 Old School R’n’B Night 9pm-2am, free. With some old skool hip-hop and reggae too, on the first Friday or every month.
Saturdays Urban Dance Night 9pm-3am, free. Classic urban, house and r’n’b from DJ Steve C.
Ocean Arts Cardiff
Unit 2, East Moors Business Park, East Moors Rd, Cardiff. 029 2132 0030 / www.oceansrtscardiff.co.uk
Sat 11 Warehouse Afro Beats 9pm-3am, £20. DJs playing Afrobeats, Afro-pop , soukous coupe decale, South African house, Zim dancehall and more, on the secoind Saturday of each month. Price includes a BBQ dinner.
The Philharmonic
St Mary Street, Cardiff. Mon-Thurs 11am-12am, Fri + Sat 9am-3am. 029 2132 0740 / www.
thephilharmoniccardiff.co.uk
Sun 26 Liberate 9pm-4am, £5 adv. Headlined by Dave Pearce and also featuring Kris Hill (associated with early 00s Cardiff club Evolution), Gavin Pearce, Dean Angel, Rui J, Kiki V and Hampton & Collard.
Pitcher & Piano
Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 461312 / www.pitcherandpiano.com/
Sat 4, 11 + 25 Sonik 6pm. Three dates, a sort of residency you might say, for Bristol-based DJ/producer Marco Strous. He’s on Solid Grooves and looks so much like he plays mersh tech-house that I’m not going to bother verifying this.
Sat 25 Shangri-La 4-11pm, £12.50. Another day party from this “clubbing brand”, headlined by Liverpool DJ Lauren Lo Sung, who it says here plays dub techno.
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.
Thursdays Top Of The Pops 10pm-3am. Discounted drinks, free entry and a chance to party the night away, all advertised using the logo from defunct TV show Top Of The Pops which, as a national brand of venues, I assume Popworld are using with the full permission of the BBC.
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.
Wednesdays Quids In 8pm-3am. Student night where drinks are £1.
Thursdays Pop Rocks 10pm-3am. The very best in pop-punk, pop-rock, alternative music and pop classics.
Fridays Ain’t No Party Like A Popworld Party 8pm-3am, £2-£4.
Saturdays Club Classics 8pm-3am, £2-£4.
Pryzm
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2023 3854 / www.pryzm.co.uk/cardiff
Thurs 16 A-Level Results Fest 9pm-3am, £7.50 adv Featuring Artful Dodger, Danny T, EO, Mozafari, DJ Blighty and DJ Hilly.
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 3 features a guest appearance by Adam Collard off of Love Island.
Saturdays Agenda 10pm-3am, £5. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Sat 11 features a guest appearance by Josh Denzel off of Love Island.
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.
Saturdays The Sound Of Saturday 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. 07763 000382 / www.the-rainbowrooms.com
Fridays 9pm-4am. Resident DJs every week. Saturdays 9pm-4am. With residents plus guest DJs each week – in August it’s Rob Rees (Sat 11) and Dip-E (Sat 25) in addition to the two nights listed below.
Sat 4 Logic Festival 3 Pre Party 9pm-6am, £10 adv. Trance anthems from Sonique, Big Al, Danny Slade, Rob Rees, Jason P, Mark Muller, Rob EJ, Jay Pufal, Chis Miller and Jonny Griffiths.
Sat 18 Logic Festival 3 Launch Party 2 Afterparty 11pm-4am. This confusingly named night follows the alldayer in Pontardawe’s Dilwyn Arms and is headlined by Trixta.
Revolution
Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk
Tuesdays Mode 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Popular student night.
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.
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South.
Sat 4 Techno Asylum 10pm-4am, £10. Featuring Glasgow’s DMCK, Madame Twisted, Jack Darwin, Tom Ware and Fattman & Salted Slug.
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.
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.
Thurs 16 A-Level Results Party 9pm-3am, £5 adv/£10 VIP. With a guest live set by Dappy, who according to the internet boasted about his three GCSEs when he was in the Big Brother house, meaning this will surely be a humbling experience for him.
Fridays Tic Toc 10pm-3am, £4. “Forget the DJs who play the stuff you’ve never heard of, ours will be playing your favourite tracks all night long.”
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
Sat 4 Flatline 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 10 Selecta 11pm, £5/£3 adv. UK garage classics.
Sat 11 Paranoize 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 17 Cosmonaut 11pm. UK “speed breaks”, which I’ve put in inverted commas because it’s still not a real genre.
Sat 18 The Wave 10pm. Trap and “twerk”, again not a style of music.
Fri 24 Switch Up 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Sat 25 Ascend 10pm-4am, £5/4 with Hub wristband. House and techno.
Sun 26 Disko Rekah 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
The Vault
56 Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 465300 / www.nosignwinebar.com
Fri 17 Eruption Vol.1 9pm-3am, £7. Drum’n’bass and bassline from Antix Sounds, Crag, Gemini Twins, Suspect, Culprit and Raw b2b Kross Sektion.
The Vaults / Portland House
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
*Sun 26 Vaults Presents 9pm-5am, £14.50/£13.50. See Clubs for a writeup of this night, especially boshy techno headliner Blawan. Joining him in room 1 are Compound residents Julez Wyl, Midge, Blap and Luke Winds. Room 2 is hosted by Spectrum and features Iolo, JaMo, J-Tech and Tom Ware.
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 Party Like It’s 1999 7pm-5am, £4/£1.99 before 12. Part of the NPclubhop multi-venue deal.
Saturdays The Indie Rock Disco 12am. (Former) Meze Lounge DJs playing indie and rock classics. Also an NPclubhop night.
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.