The Arch
11 Commercial Street, Neath. 07791 923214 / [email protected]
Fri 20 Solo 9pm-4am, £20 adv. Big shot house duo Solardo hold it down here. This might be sold out by the time you read this, but not definitely.
The Attic
5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/theatticswansea
Sun 1 LNE 90s Rave 9pm-3am. This night promises classics, acid house, trance, techno, disco, house and garage, also that it will sell out. Seems to be pitched at people who were still babies at the end of the 90s.
Fri 6 Funktion Tek 9pm-3am, £4. Boshing drum’n’bass with Noise Makers 21, Kalo v DC conan, Cryptik Noise and SMG.
Sat 14 Con7rol 9pm-4am, £10 adv. Tech-house fave Latum headlines over a bill of Lloyd Haines, Taz Meah, Jamie Morgan, Bode, Alexander Eley and Vedra & Rinaldi in the main room. Room 2 features Natasha Denby and guests TBC.
Bambu Beach Bar
51-52 Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 651651 / www.bambu-bar.co.uk
Fri 27 Con7rol Rooftop: The Return 6pm-3am, £5. Local house, techno and tech-house pushers with a lineup that is TBC, and hoping that the sun will be out I guess.
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 from the following: M Dot R (Fri 6 Apr); MoStack (Sat 14); Lisa Maffia (Sat 21) and Mowgli (Sat 28).
Sun 1 The TOWIE Takeover 10pm-3.30am, £4 before 10.30. With Dan Edgar and Myles Barnett, plus DJs.
Big Love Festival
Baskerville Hall, nr Hay-On-Wye. www.biglovefestival.co.uk
Fri 4-Sun 6 May Big Love Festival Annual Cardiff-transplanted-to-Hay weekend of sparkling and spangling, here is the lineup so far: Joy Orbison, Sian Evans, Oh My God! It’s The Church, Xylaroo, Captain Accident & The Disasters, Dana Immanuelle & The Stolen Band, Stagga & Magugu, AAA Badboy, Johnny Cage & The Voodoogroove, Bodhi, Vibe Roulette, Billy Momo, Eclectic Mick, Codewalkers, Boston Shakers, The Brwmys, Comfort feat. Benji MC, Jazzy F, Reba, Richie Cordle, Neil Fucking Young, Apollo, Matthew Frederick, Yakul, James Bower Band, The Moonbirds, Grand Tradition, Barracwda, Trin, Sarah Passmore, Dave Morris, Jemma Krysa, Joe Bayliss, Tobias Robertson, Toriah Fontane, Selena In The Chapel, Chris Conroy, Broken Bones Matilda, James ‘Towel’, Dan Stan & Brian, Asha Bray and Jon Bongly. Plus Delete DJs across the whole weekend, including Matt Owen, Marc Parsons, Lee Graves, Jessie Belters, The Organ Grinder, Joey P, Clare James, Tom Bateman, Jake Mercanoglu, Mikey Harisson, Oisin, Murder, Harry Wootten, Paul Blandford, Jack Siddall, Morgan Evans, Sainte Melon, Kye, Mikki Wings, Shaun Edwards, Ben Smith, Dave Llewellyn, Paul Cahill and Alex Taylor.
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 13 Killing Moon 10pm, £4. The return, in a new venue, of this alternative 80s (postpunk, synthpop, new wave etc) night.
Fri 27 That Good Night 10.30pm. Acid house and weird leftfield dance, on here once a month.
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 5 May Fixate 2pm-12am, £5. Bank holiday house alldayer! See Clubs for more on Danish headline duo Anëk, but don’t forget about Marco Strous, E-Type, Rhys Bowler, Owen Kilby, Dan Waite and Madame Twisted on the bill.
Blisters
63-65 Hanbury Rd, Bargoed. 01443 821500 / [email protected]
Fri 20 Ultrabeat 10pm-4am, £22/£18 adv. Big stomping happy hardcore lineup for valley madheads! Ultrabeat is joined by Hixxy, Alex Kiddand Martin Dibble. Rescheduled from March (Mark EG was down to pay that date but can’t make this one).
Blue Honey Night Cafe
Quay Street, Cardiff. 07512 247712 / facebook.com/bluehoneynightcafe
Sun 1 Blue Honey Bank Holiday On their home turf as well as over in Gwdihw (see their listing) for several hours of getting on it.
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 which left this venue last year in seemingly high dudgeon, in favour of Clwb Ifor Bach, and has now come back again.
Thurs 19 Ethos 10pm-4am, £6-£12. Drum’n’bass from Alix Perez and SP:MC plus Ethos residents.
Fri 6 Stickylemons Random Concept Origins 10pm-4am. Drum’n’bass, not many details yet but there’s an MC competition with MC Fearless as one of the judges. T-Bone and Joe Blow will be DJing.
Fri 13 Spectrum 10pm-4am, £4. Techno from J-Tech, Iolo and Jamo. Launch night.
Saturdays The Shake Up 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, house, r’n’b funk and soul from residents over two floors.
Cardiff Speaker Hire
Unit 4 Anchor Industrial Estate Dumballs Road, Cardiff. 029 2009 5590 / www.cardiffspeakerhire.com
Sun 1 Delete Warehouse Residents Party 4pm-2am, £10 adv. Local house/techno specialists toast both fools and risen Christs with sets from Matt Owen, Marc Parsons, Lee Graves, Kofi Tarris, Owain Kimber, Gerrard and Aled Wynne.
Cardiff University Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / www.cardiffstudents.com
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 27 Bedlam 9pm-4am, £15.50 adv. David Rodigan has been in the reggae game 40 years and returns to Cardiff as part of that celebration. Good supporting cast too: DJ Zinc & MC GQ, Sir Spyro and Channel One Soundsystem (saw this some years back and it was really good).
Fri 4 May Hannah Wants 9pm-4am, £22 adv. Brummie bass gal returns to Cardiff Uni with a supporting cast including Sam Divine, Low Steppa, Devstar and Junga. One of a few events rescheduled from early March due to the snow.
Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
Cellar Sports & Music Bar
39 Broad Street, Blaenavon. 01495 617140.
Sat 5 May Cinco De Mayo 6pm-1am. House music from Wells and Bradz, plus a special guest – and there”s a Mexican theme to this event, in which the best costumes will win free drinks. This is of course appropriative but are YOU woke enough to travel to Blaenavon and complain?
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 new Void soundsystem.
Sat 14 Focus 9pm-3am, £3 adv. House and techno featuring a bunch of DJs (names TBC) from various Cardiff nights. Rescheduled from last month.
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
Thurs 19 Propaganda 11pm, £3-£5. Big national indie disco brand offering a Paramore v Arctic Monkeys special this month.
Thurs 26 Gucci Gang Trap Night 11pm, £3-£7. “Expect to hear: Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, Lil Uzi Vert, Migos, Cardi B, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Drake, Young Thug, Travis Scott, Future, Playboi Carti, Gucci Mane, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Ferg, 2 Chainz, Post Malone and many more.” I will.
Fridays (bottom) Seventy Times 7 11pm-3am, £3-£5. New weekly clubnight offering alt-rock and pop-punk by the looks of things. It’s (still!) named after a Brand New song if that’s any indicator.
Fri 6 Journey 10pm-4am, £15 adv. Semi-regular trance night returns with a headline set from techno and prog-infused hot-to-trot name Gai Barone in the headline slot. Will Rees will also feature, while Fixate will host the middle room.
Fri 13 CYNT 11pm, £14. Featuring a headline set by Palms Trax, which we’ve previewed in Clubs but which also appears to be sold out. Check for box office returns/knobheads who bought way more tickets than they’d need.
Fri 4 May Helium 10pm-4am, £7-£9. Big baller house with a headline set from Dirtybird’s Will Clarke.
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 Brooklyn Zoo 10.30pm-4am, £4-£6. Current and classic hip-hop alike. This one is subtitled Yeezus Walks so is presumably Kanye-themed.
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.
Cwmbran Stadium
Henllys Way, Cwmbran. 01633 627101.
Fri 6 Clubland Classix 7pm-1am, £21 adv. This night debuted back in October, with a night of 90s-tastic pop rave, and was enough of a hit that it’s back. Lineup: Scott Mills, Sash!, Joel Corry , Ultrabeat, N-Trance, Leif Boii and Lewis Hayes.
The Duke
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sun 1 Hedone 7pm-2am, £5. Bank holiday special with Tennan plus Hedone residents Simon, Luke Armstrong and Tom Murray.
Eddies
4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co
Fri 13 Housewerk 9.30pm-4.30am. House music from The Crow, Lewis John, ADR and Pipes.
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.
Sun 1 No Tomorrow 11pm-3am, £5/£3 adv. With a guest set by newjack grime MC Fekky, plus two rooms of hip-hop and r’n’b/chart hits/house, dance and EDM.
Fluidity Freerun Academy
Unit G, Pengam Road, Cardiff. 07747 888931 / www.fluidityfreerunacademy.
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Sat 21 Canopy 10pm-4am, £10-£20. First birthday night for jungle/d’n’b promoters. Lineup: Ed Solo, Serial Killaz, Annix, Canopy residents and host MC XL.
Sat 28 Digidol 9pm-3am, £7-£10. Drum’n’bass plus a bit of other stuff, with headliner Audio (from the Ram and Virus labels) plus Fortitude, Casey Jones, Slamfish, CN$ and Tom Ware.
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.
Saturdays Rumour 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity.
Sat 5 May Groove Rooftop Summer Series 2018 Part 1 4-10.30pm, £12-£18. Featuring a headline set from Christoph, looks like it’s sold out though.
Gwdihw
Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
*Sun 1 Blue Honey Bank Holiday 2018 3pm, £15 adv. Featuring the Welsh debut of continental archive/collector legend and record label Awesome Tapes From Africa, so called because that’s what he plays. Darkhouse Family, Esther, Rotary Club and Blue Honey DJs will also get involved across the day.
Sat 7 Groove-ist 9pm. Eclectic grooves taking in bhangra, Latin, pop and punk are promised.
Tue 10 Cardiff Electronic Producers 7.30pm, free. In association with Cardiff Ableton User Group, plus an open decks session from 7.30-9pm.
Sat 14 Cosmogramma 9pm. Featuring a lineup TBC.
Fri 20 The Mixtape 9pm. Disco, house and funk.
Fri 27 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Electro, synthpop, Italo disco, new wave, funk and more.
Sat 28 Cypher/Stax 9pm, £5/£3 adv. Hip-hop night featuring live band Ramnastax, who MCs are invited to get up and freestyle over. Plus a DJ set from Joe Shrimpling.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Sat 21 Teak: Wild Combination 10pm-5am, £12.. Promoters’ annual Arthur Russell tribute night.
Karma
75 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. [email protected]
Sat 14 Circle 8 Meets Next Level 9pm-6am, £12 adv. Laaaarge drum’n’bass lineup like so: Bassman & Trigga with Rowney & Props, Bason, Joe Blow, Tbone, Kallista, Lowgli, Juice, Venom, Missy G, C-Za, XL and Chew.
La Bamba
19 High Street, Newport. 01633 259144.
Sun 1 Bank Holiday Bunny Bashment 10pm-4am. Two floors of bashment, old skool r’n’b and hip-hop with Empire Flipz and DJ Lee. Not sure where the bunny comes in in this context.
Laser Station
Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www.laserstationwales.com
Sun 1 Conspiracy Easter Sunday 8pm-3am, £5-£8. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass and dubstep from Skunkadelic, CHEW, Winger Set, Duvz, 7breaths, 2hotty, Doc-P, Kyle Waters, RGT and Martyn Kinnear.
Fri 20 Wonkcrafts Presents 4/20 8pm-3am, £10. It’s a very secret drugs reference that you will only get if you know all the special youth code. Drum’n’bass and dubstep from DJ Raw, Pie-Fi, Aksrevenge, Top Grot, Teejay, Late Wake and MCs LRB, Syphr, Boyley and Crag.
The Last Resort
207 High Street, Swansea. www.lastresortswansea.com
Sat 7 + Sat 5 May Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.
Level 2 @ Kongs
114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. [email protected] / www.kongsbars.com
Sat 7 Paranoize 10pm-3am, £10 adv. Drum’n’bass from Dr Meaker (also in Sin City, Swansea this month) with Carasel MC plus Terrahawk, Rosco & MC XL, Paragon and Paranoize residents Ransom and Lubi J.
Sat 21 The Young Tour 10pm-3am. The latest night hosted by local electronic duo Roughion features sets from Bodhi, Cloaka, Benji Wild and Tom Bateman. They’re also visiting Aberystwyth on Fri 27, but there doesn’t seem to be a venue confirmed yet.
Fri 27 Flatline 9pm-3am, £15/£12.50 adv. The biggest booking to date for these drum’n’bass promoters, with Kings Of The Rollers headlining. Buckfast Boys Club, Oni, Dox and Mowgli also feature.
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 9pm-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.
Sun 1 Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Clubnight 10.30pm-4.30am. Emo and pop-punk for bank holiday Sunday. Name is a Fall Out Boy reference. I may have looked that up.
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 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 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
Fri 6 Neon Under-18s Party Spring Ball 7-11.30pm, £10/£8 adv. Urban, house and club anthems.
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.
Platform 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Sun 1 011 6pm-4am, £10/£8. The 11th night in this club’s series of guest DJs features burgeoning house duo OC & Verde. Pete Tong is a big fan you know.
Sun 6 May 012 7pm-3am, £6-£10. This instalment is headlined by Leftwing & Kody, more Ibiza-conquering house jollies ahoy.
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.
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 Quids In 10pm-4am. Student night.
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am, £4. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff.
Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”.
Sun 1 Mayfair Sessions 10pm-3am, £8/£15 VIP. Featuring a guest appearance from comedy grime MC Big Shaq.
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 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 Delusion 9pm-4am, £10/£8. Trance classics/anthems from Dave Pearce, Big Al, Jonny Griffiths, Rhys Thomas, Dan McShane and John Hughes.
Sat 7 Dirtbox 5th Birthday 10pm-4am. Anniversarial hard dance jollies, lineup TBC. Fri 13 The Devils Party 9pm-4am. Hard house, psytrance and trance.
Sat 28 We Are One – Jam For Jacob! 8pm-6am, £10 adv. Charity event for a two-year-old who needs £250,000 for cancer treatment in America. DJs: Swankie DJ & Kashi b2b Ed ET & DTR, McBunn, D-Grove, Stu Grady, Deimos, Natski, Racy, ADHD, Jason P & Rob Rees, Audio Nitrate, Stylezzy, Head Splitterz, Pesky & Onyx, Ryan Rees and host MCs Shocker, Venom, Ode and MCV.
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 14 Guv & Friends 10pm-5am, £15/£12. Jump-up drum’n’bass from DJ Guv, Hedex, Dilate, Clique, Dazed DJs, Rise DJs, Trigga and more TBC.
Sat 21 Rise 10pm-4am, £14/£12. Drum’n’bass from Dr Meaker (whom this is an album launch for), Kings Of The Rollers and Break.
Sat 5 May Hustle 10pm-4am, £15/£14. With ragga jungle OG General Levy, Scott Neill and Teagle.
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.
Sat 14 Tic Toc Live 1-pm-3am, £4 adv. Featuring a DJ set from DJ Tiiny, who is apparently Stormzy’s DJ. Jewel Bar: house, bass and garage w/ DJ Lloyd Haines. Decadia: chart, cheese and disco w/ Daron Probert. Club Room: r’n’b, grime and hip-hop with DJ Sole.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
Sun 8 Big Fish Little Fish 2-4.30pm, £7.50 adv/free pre-walkers. Baby and toddler-aimed afternoon rave featuring junglist soldier DJ SS plus resident Bunf from the Super Furry Animals.
Fri 13 Hush Silent Disco 8pm-1am, £10/£8. With a Grease meets Dirty Dancing theme.
Fri 20 Mungo’s Hi Fi Sound System 8pm-1am, £12/£10. Scottish dub heavyweights with a live/DJ/MC lineup including MC Eva Lazarus (DJ Set), Afro Cluster, Unchainedxl, Mr Phormula and Shanti Squire as well as themselves. The flyer for this says 10pm-4am, not a chance I’m afraid fellas.
Sat 21 Triple Cooked: Deep Fried Disco 8pm-1am, £10/£8. “We explore the origins of Disco and House and return to America’s retro side. Expect vintage art, custom installations and show stopping music!” Still don’t really understand this night but it sure seems popular.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Sun 1 XL Invites 10.30pm-4am, £8 adv. Drum’n’bass from Critical Impact, Apollo, Hoodfella Development, Shanny Shan and Obsidian, plus hosts Hoodfellaz, Slim Teng and MC XL.
Fri 6 Groove Theory 10.30pm-4am, £10. House, disco and funk, with headliner Red Greg from London plus residents Chris Conroy and Tom Bateman b2b Jack Siddall. See Clubs.
Sat 7 Flatline 10pm. Drum’n’bass, 140 and bassline from local DJs and MCs.
Fri 13 Castle Nights 10pm. Techno.
Sat 14 Disco Rekah 10pm. Drum’n’bass, at least their last night in November was but they’ve not put anything online since then so who knows.
Tue 17 Luna 10pm, £2 adv. Techno, house and acid, launched in February and back for a second night here.
Thurs 19 Pressure 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 20 Selecta 11pm, £5/£3 adv. UK garage classics.
Sat 21 Cosmonaut 10pm. Drum’n’bass, bassline and UK speed breaks, which I still don’t believe is a real genre.
Tue 24 Skank Ground x Switch Up 11pm. Drum’n’bass with headliner Banzai from Great Yarmouth, the sort of place drum’n’bass DJs come from in 2018.
Thurs 26 Tribe 10pm. Don’t know what this is, as ever I’m going to guess drum’n’bass.
Fri 27 Synthesis 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
The Vaults / Portland House
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Sun 1 High-Fi 002 9pm-5am, £15 adv. Heavily populated bill of house and techno, presumably across two rooms: Phutek, Argy, Tekno Tom, Natasha Denby x Taz Mea, Alter:ego, Bran Newman. Corey Stephens x Dan Freeman, Fridge, J-Tek, Jack Darwin x Tom Ware, Lee Cooke and Madame Twisted.
Sat 28 The Bank Job 9pm-4am, £25.50 adv. See Clubs for more on this themed night, the first promotion by Endgame. Main room: Redlight, Toddla T, A-Skillz, DJ Target, Featurecast, Ransom and hosts Dynamite MC and Local. Vaults: Jamie Duggan, Bassboy, Kissy Sell Out, Dutty Moonshine, Canopy (Dox b2b Oni & MC XL), Onslaught & Lucas J Rowe, Mowgli, Alex T, So Sash, Ollie Bad, DJ Loose and hosts Fernquest XL, Local, Chew, Lucas J Rowe and more TBC. Plus a load of theatrical stuff involving armoured trucks and actors.
Walkabout
Castle Bailey Street, Swansea. 01792 450850 / www.walkaboutbars.co.uk/venues/swansea
Sun 1 Mad Hatter’s Tea Party 10pm-4am, £5-£9. Pop, chart, dance and r’n’b, plus inflatable lollipops and chocolate giveaways. Call me a cynic but that hardly sounds like it amounts to a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
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 Live Forever 12am, £3. Britpop classics. 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.