The Attic
5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/theatticswansea
Sat 21 LNE: 90s Rave 10pm-3am, £4-£8 adv. Acid house, trance, techno, disco, house and garage all in one nostalgic night.
Fri 27 Delusion 9th Birthday 9.30pm-3am, £8-£12 adv. Swansea’s number one trance promoters celebrate another one around the sun. Main room: Simon Patterson, Rhys Thomas, Callan Christie and Dan McShane. Delusion Deeper Room: Nic Lawson, John Hughes and Chris Miller.
Bar Cocoa
Broad Street, Barry. facebook.com/cocoabarry
Thursdays Reggae Nights DJs Gadget and The Candyman (Love & Harmony Sounds) play lovers rock, classic and new reggae jams weekly.
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3.30am, £3. With DJ James Bourne and sopecial guest appearances/live sets. Fri 6 features a live PA from west London rapper Ay Em; Sat 21 has a meet’n’greet with Dean Ralph, who was on some reality shows.
BBQ Jam
Newport Marketplace, Mill Parade, Newport. bbqjam.co.uk
Sat 21 BBQ Jam Summer 18 3-10.30pm, £17.50 adv. Urban showcase alldayer which debuted last year I think. Appearing today: WSTRN, Trillary Banks, Fernquest, Glamma Lexus, DJ Flipz, DJ Jigga, Lucas J Rowe, DJ Paz, DJ T and DJ 10Sion.
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.
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 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 14 is an afterparty for the Colour Clash Festival taking place in Tredegar Park.
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.
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 Aug Infinity: Goes Beyond! 7pm-2am, £5. House, techno and trance from DJs TBC
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. Sat 14 Cellar Door 8pm-4am, £10 adv. House and techno from the Undercover DJs. Sat 21 90s Rewind 7.30-11pm. Club classics of a house, trance and techno nature.
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. House, house & bass (what is this?), progressive and big room tunes.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Fridays (bottom) Seventy Times 7 11pm-3am, £3-£5. Weekly clubnight offering alt-rock and pop-punk.
Fri 6 Journey 10pm-4am, £15 adv. Trance and old skool house throwbackery over two rooms. Room 1: Enter The Dragon v Journey presents JFK, Jimpy, Hywel Matthews and Richie Knight. Room 2: Funkydory v Uptonogood presents Gari Worner, Tyrone Rose, Mark Jones, Andrew Berry, Mark Holmes and Pete Bass.
Fri 13 Crush The Laundrette! 10.30pm-4am, £3.50 adv. Presented by nearby coffee shop Hard Lines. “Dig through your washing basket, embrace your odd socks, shrunken jumpers and that thing you accidentally dyed pink. Let’s use that old tissue you left in your pocket as confetti.” I don’t know if this was intended but this seriously sounds like a niche fetish night.
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 1 Tafwyl Afterparty 9pm, £3. With DJ Gareth Potter.
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 8 Eclipse – Adults Special Needs Night 6.30-10.30pm, free. New club night aimed at adults with autism, Downs Syndrome, or a physical or mental inability.
The Duke
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sat 28 Hedone 7pm-2am, £10. Tech-houser Pirate Copy headlines, while down below we have John E, Matt Evs, Matt Hart, Callum Gillings and Owen Prydie.
Eddies
4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co
Sat 4 Aug 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.
Fri 6 Official Barons Charity Reunion #2 10pm-3am, £10 adv. Barons is an old Swansea nightclub that people presumably recall fondly. This night will feature DJs from its time, plus ones from The Wave and Swansea Sound, and profits will go to local charities.
Saturdays Agenda 10.30pm-3am, £3.50/£2 before 1. Fiction: house, r’n’b, EDM. Vinyl: pop and party.
Freerotation 2018
Baskerville Hall, Hay-On-Wye. Members only event. www.freerotation.com
Fri 6-Sun 8 Freerotation £125 adv (sold out). Wales’ finest house/techno/electronic festival. Always sells out, predominantly to members, but 200 new people can come every year, maybe it could be you (next year). Lineup: Aboutface, Alex Downey, Aybee, Batu, Ben UFO, Blawan, BMO, Bruce, Burnt Friedman, Cary Grace, Circle Of Live (Sebastian Mullaert, Mathew Jonson, Dorisburg, Johanna Knutsson & Steevio), Cosmin Nicolae, Cosmin TRG, Cubic Space Collective, Dan Bean, Deena Abdelwahed, DJ Bone, DJ Bus Replacement Service, DJ Python, DJ Qu, DjRUM, Dorisburg, Duckett, Earthdoctor, Erika, Fade 2, Franklin De Costa, Freedom Engine (feat. Mathew Jonson), Gigsta, Grimes Adhesif, Hakim Murphy, Hodge, Ilmajaam, Jade Seatle b2b Truly Madly, Jane Fitz, Jayson Wynters, Jenifa Mayanja, J-lab, Jo Johnson, Joe Ellis, Johanna Knutsson, Juju & Jordash, Jus Ed, Karenn, Lars Bartkuhn, Leah Floyeurs, Leif, Little Baby Cheeses (feat. Anthony & Doris Woo-Child), LF58 (Neel & Filippo Scorcucchi), Magic Mountain High, Mark Hand, Marylou Guerra, Mathew Jonson, Metrist, Midland, Miles Atmospheric, Monoak, Mono-Poly, Move D, Mr & Mrs Jonson, MTF, Myles Serge, Neel, Overmono (feat. Tessela & Truss), Pangaea, Pariah, Pearson Sound, Peverelist, Portable, Reflektor, Russ Gabriel, Sam Watson, Saoirse, Sassmouth, Sebastian Mullaert, Shawn Rudiman, Soulstate Jazz, Stanislav Tolkachev, Steevio & Suzybee, Steffen Bennemann & Vai, Steve Legget, Steven Rutter, Superhand, Surgeon, The Astralwalkers, Tom Demac, Tom Ellis, Tripcode, XDB and Yamma.
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 28 Groove: The Pete Tong Afterparty 10pm-4am, £8. Scottish house man Theo Kottis, along with Lucas Alexander, Josh Green and Jack Straker, drops bombs after a dance-meets-orchestral concert Glam describe as “arguably the biggest ever event to come to Cardiff”. Not sure even Brendan O’Neill would be willing to argue that but OK.
The Globe
125 Albany Rd, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
Sat 4 Aug 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.
Gwdihw
Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
*Sat 7 Sure Shot 9pm, £7/£5 adv. With a headline set this month from Samy Ben Redjeb, who runs the Analog Africa label. That means he has access to a bunch of killer old African records.
Tue 10 Cardiff Electronic Producers 7.30pm, free. In association with Cardiff Ableton User Group, plus an open decks session from 7.30-9pm.
Wed 11 Red Room 9pm. New night promising disco, Italo and electro.
Sat 14 + Sat 5 Aug Solar Orbit 2pm. Afternoon session of techno, ambient and the like from (in July) ARC 170, Varndell and more.
Sat 14 Cosmogramma 9pm, £5/£3 adv. With a live set from Bristol jazzers Snazzback, plus DJs I assume.
Sun 15 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 20 That Good Night 9pm, £3. Formerly in The Big Top, this eclectic, cheap and good dance night debuts in its sibling venue.
Fri 27 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Italo disco special again this month.
Sun 29 Delete 1pm-2am, £18 adv. The latest car park rave for these guys, with Enzo Siragusa, Matt Owen, Lee Graves and Mikki James DJing it. See Clubs.
Intrim
Queen Victoria Street, Tredegar. 01495 725510.
Sat 14 We Call It Techno #004 8pm-3am, £10. Free party techno type stuff, presented by the ARTP Soundsystem and from (in chronological order) Nicky Mills, Ricky Williams, Jordan Morgan, Scott Sandercock, Ant Chem D, Snorlax b2b Darkfrog and Welshstan.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Fri 6 Lamerica: One Last Dance 10pm-4am. This is an extra date booked to meet demand after the other, in a secret Cardiff venue (see a few entries along), sold out quickly. I think this one is sold out too though.
Lamerica: One Last Dance
Venue TBC, Cardiff city centre. [email protected]
Sat 7 Lamerica: One Last Dance 8pm. Cardiff’s top purveyors of soulful/classic house are bowing out for good, it seems, with a night in a venue close to their original home of the Emporium and vowing to continue “until the lights come on”. DJs: Craig Bartlett b2b Dave Jones, Gareth Hopkins, Darren Stewart, Neil Young, Dan Stephens, Nick Reeves and Simon Quinn. Another night has been booked in Jacobs Market, for Fri 6.
Laser Station
Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www.laserstationwales.com
Sat 28 Laser Station Presents 9pm-3am, £10/£8 adv. This venue has new management, it says here, and this is their relaunch party. Features a live set from Gypsy Unit plus dub/bass type Timbali, rapper Splitz P, 2 Hotty, Doc P, Martyn Kinnear and more TBC.
The Last Resort
207 High Street, Swansea. www.lastresortswansea.com
Sat 7 + Sat 4 Aug Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.
Sat 21 Totally Tropical Yard Party Part II 3pm-2am, £5-£10. Hosted by Wonka-Vision and with a lineup including The Nextmen feat. Kiko Bun, Wonka, Syn, Active, Jared, Survival Soundsystem and Golobnaise (outdoors) and Shaun Edwards, Luke Tainton, Mikki James and Emma Jayne Smith (Dogruff DJs in room 2).
Level 2 @ Kongs
114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. [email protected] / www.kongsbars.com
Fri 20 Riddim 10pm-3am, £6-£10. Drum’n’bass from Low, Sinu8, Bass Phase, Obsidian, Ebbens, Mascot and host PKT. Also featuring the Submerge soundsystem.
Sat 21 Rotary Club 10pm-3am, £6-£10. See Clubs for more on this night of eclectic beatwork with special guests D. Tiffany and Donald Dust.
Sat 28 Time Flies Summer Ball 10pm-3am, £20 adv/£15 early bird. This is an afterparty for the Pete Tong orchestral concert in Cardiff Castle and features Jeremy Healy, James Merritt, Dave Eaves, Tyrone Rose, Rick Latham and Gary Pugh.
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.
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]
Wed 25 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.
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.
The Neon
Clarence Place, Newport. 01633 533666 / www.theneon.co.uk
Sat 14 Neon Under-18s Summer Beach Party 7-11.30pm, £10/£8 adv. Urban, house and club anthems… plus a foam machine.
Sat 21 Nu Bass Generation Summer BBQ 12pm-12am, £20. Drum’n’bass from DJ Guv, Majistrate, Modified Motion, Subzero, Mr Traumatik, Harry Shotta and more.
Sat 28 Summer Shutdown 7pm-12am. Urban night aimed at ages 14 and up, headlined by trapwave MC M Honco with lots of local talent also on the bill.
Neon Lounge
Market Street, Newport. 01633 533666 / theneon.co.uk/neon-bar-lounge
Fri 6 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.
Newport Colour Clash
Tredegar Park, Newport. bbqjam.co.uk
Sat 21 Newport Colour Clash 2018 12-10.30pm, £27.50 adv/£37.50 VIP. See Clubs for more on this grime/drum’n’bass/trance/hardcore blowout whose lineup goes like this. Main Stage: Sub Focus (DJ Set), Wiley, Lotto Boyzz, Redlight, Ramz, Fatman Scoop, Skepsis, General Levy, Dappy and Sharky P. Rewind Arena: Darren Styles, Ian Van Dahl , Kelly Llorenna, Ultrabeat and N Trance.
The Parrot
32 King Street, Carmarthen. 01267 231012 / facebook.com/theparrotmusicbar
Sat 28 Grimecrafts 9pm-2am, £8/£6 adv. Grime and hip-hop headlined by Birmingham grime MC Tantskii (“a relevant name in the grime scene since as long as I can remember,” according to someone who is clearly much younger than me) and DJ Aksrevenge, plus Culture Vultures, LRB, Syphr, Pie-Fi, Maxy-B & Top Grot, Boyley b2b Teejay and ADN.
Penarth Ex-Serivcemen’s Club
69 Windsor Road, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 28 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12am, £3 adv. An NYE of classic soul, northern soul etc, also on in September and November this year.
Platform 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Sat 28 016 4pm-4am, £12/£9. This instalment is headlined by popular tech-house sort Secondcity, and you can read more in 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.
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.
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
Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”.
Saturdays Agenda 10pm-3am, £5. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff.
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. Fri 20 Traumatik Eruption 9pm-4am, £15 adv. “A NIGHT FULL OF EUPHORIC HEAVY DRUM’N’BASS MELODIES FILLED WITH SOME PUMPING TRANCE AND SOME RIDICULOUSLY FILTHY BASSLINE.” Is that an acceptable genre combo now? OK. Mr Traumatik, The Gemini Twins, Suspect, Culprit, Raw, Crag and Kross Sektion all feature.
Saturdays 9pm-4am. With residents plus guest DJs each week – in July it’s DJ Trixta (Sat 7), Jason P (Sat 14), Danny Slade (Sat 21) and Rob Rees (Sat 28).
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 Aug Techno Asylum 10pm-4am, £10. Featuring Glasgow’s DMCK, Madame Twisted, Jack Darwin, Tom Ware and Fattman & Salted Slug.
Small World Theatre
Bath House Road, Cardigan. 01239 615952 / www.smallworld.org.uk
Sat 28 Move On Up 8pm, £5. Mr. A presents another vinyl-only mix of Detroit soul, New Orleans funk, West Coast wah-wah, Harlem Shuffle and New York disco.
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. 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.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
Sun 1 Raver Tots 2-4pm, £11/£9 early bird (kids £9/£6 early bird). “A family rave where kids and grownups can hit the dance floor and let off some steam together,” and very much the Dennis Leary to Big Fish Little Fish’s Bill Hicks.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Sat 7 Flatline 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Sat 14 Paranoize 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 20 Selecta 11pm, £5/£3 adv. UK garage classics.
Sat 21 XL Invites 10pm. Drum’n’bass. Fri 27 Noise Makers 21 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Sat 28 Time Flies 10pm. An afterparty for the Pete Tong Ibiza Classics night in Cardiff Castle. Their afterparty is also in Kongs a short walk away, indeed Time Flies’ Facebook page only mentions that venue but Undertone inform me that it’ll be here as well.
The Vaults / Portland House
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
*Fri 20 Vaults Presents 9pm-5am, £18.50/£16. See Clubs for more on the Cardiff debut (I think?) of German bosh machine Chris Liebing. Julez Wyl and Blake Parker are also in room 1, while room 2 is hosted by High Fidelity and has Tekno Tom, Shaun Edwards, Zakk Plaister, Bran Newman, Alex T, Wells and Brad Dunk.
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.