The Attic
5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/theatticswansea
Mondays Concrete Junglists: The Community Works 10pm-3am, £3. Cardiff drum’n’bass/jungle brand branch into Swansea for a weekly session highlighting fresh local DJs etc.
Sat 6 Last Night Events: 90s Rave 10pm-3am, £5-£9. Classics, acid house, trance, techno, disco, house and garage. All these will get played in the 90s rave say promoters LNE.
Sat 27 100% Old Skool Halloween Ball 9pm-4am, £10 adv. House anthems and UK garage classics. Main room: Greg P, Nicky G, John Steffanick, Newman & Jordan Stiens and Justin Thomas. Room Two: Kai & Footy, Greg P, Lloyd-e SBA and Nicky G.
Bar Cocoa
Broad Street, Barry. facebook.com/cocoabarry
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3.30am, £3. With DJ James Bourne and sopecial guest appearances/live sets.
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 19 Killing Moon 10pm-3am. Long(ish)-running 80s alternative rock/new wave type night.
Fri 26 Rhetorik & Friends 9pm-3am, £5 adv. “Eclectic dance music” from Techník, Alex TM, and more TBC.
Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk and neo-soul.
Sat 6 Solar Orbit 10pm-3am, £3 adv. Dancey sounds of some kind.
Sat 27 Des Was A Bowie Fan 10pm, £5 adv. London clubnight with an indiepop/soul/postpunk type playlist.
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.
Fri 2 Nov Fixate First Birthday 2pm-4am, £5. Featuring Brandon Block, J-Tech, Madame Twisted, Owen Kilby and Dan Waite.
Saturdays Re:work 11pm, £5. Underground and cutting edge club music promised.
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.
Tue 16 Stickylemons 9.30pm-3am, £6-£10. Drum’n’bass from Mr Traumatik with Ego Trippin, Benji b2b Caaza, Dubmatt, Lowgli b2b Dankzy, T-Bone and MCs Endo, Donzilla and Slim.
Tue 30 Tek: Cardiff Launch Party 10pm-3am, £5 adv. House and techno with an opening night lineup claiming to feature “some of Bristol’s finest party-starters”, their identities seem to be TBC right now however.
Wed 3 Shabba! 10pm-3am, from £3 adv. Drum’n’bass, Afrobeat, house, dancehall, reggae, hip-hop and r’n’b. Thursdays Dazed Disco 10pm-3am, £4 adv. Disco, house, funk and soul.
Fri 5 Criminal Chapter 2: The Sequel 10pm-3am, £6/£3 adv. House, techno and disco from Sam Jenkins & Charlie Hitchcock, AC Martines, Seb Bliss, Jordan West and Andy O’Hara. Presented in conjunction with a London clothing brand I’ve never heard of.
Fri 19 Dedicated To The Streets 10pm-4am, £4/£3. As in the musicial project of Mike Skinner. I think it’ll feature a bunch of his tunes plus some garage and hip-hop classics.
Fri 26 Iconic – LNC Launch Party 10pm-4am, £3-£5. That’s Ladies Night Cardiff, who’ll preside over an evening of iconic female pop stars from down the decades.
Saturdays Hideaway 10pm-4am, £3. Disco, house, and hip-hop from residents over two floors.
Buffs
6 Station Road, Brynmawr. 01495 315334.
Sat 20 Infinity 7pm-2am, £10. Hard dance from Mark EG, Tekno Tom, J Tek, Alter:Ego, Brad Dunk, PH, Rossy D and Jordan Morgan.
The Bunkhouse
63B The Kingsway, Swansea. [email protected]
Fri 26 Heft x Skanklicious Halloween Free Rave 9pm-4am, free before 11.30. Drum’n’bass (I think – there’s info about winning a prize for the best costume but nothing about the DJs or music) at this new venue that used to be called Static.
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 12 Bedlam Mega Rave 2 10pm-5am, £32.95 adv. Very large bill of drum’n’bass and grime, probably sold out by the time you read this but featuring the following: Wilkinson (DJ set ft MC AD-Apt), Pendulum (DJ set), Benji Wild, Benny L, Carasel, Chimpo & Trigga, D Double E, Darkzy, Dubzsta, Evil B vs B Live, Friction presents Connections, Hedex, K Motionz, Macky Gee, Manga, Notion, Sammy Virji, Skue K, TS7, Tsuki, Turno, XX92 and more TBC. MCs: Carasel and Linguistics; room hosts: Bassline, B:Wild and Lengoland.
Fri 26 Treatment 10pm-4am, £tbc adv. First autumn event for big studenty clubbing brand, lineup TBC.
Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
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
Wed 3 Abba Disco Wonderland 11pm, £5. Disco hits and Abba songs. This night debuted here in May and sold out. Stuff like this really is a licence to take money off the easily pleased, I don’t know why I’m not doing it myself. This is also in Glam on Tue 2.
Thurs 4 Swindle 11pm-3am, £8-£12. Grime/dubstep intersection fave, not been to Cardiff for a while. Bandit, Ransom b2b Benny Bootleg, Dubzta and Shell Supply also DJ.
Fridays (bottom) Yum! 11pm-3am, £3-£5. Indie and pop. New, or at least refocused, 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.
Coffee Barker
Castle Arcade, Cardiff. 029 2022 4575 / facebook.com/coffeebarker
Fri 2 Nov 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 14 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 Halloween theme.
Creature Sound
Ken Bu Kan, 1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 01792 301178 / www.creaturesound.com
Sat 27 Tribe Of Swan 10pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12. Psytrance night with Chris B, Cloud and Mark Black. Also a Halloween fancy dress party.
Cwmbran Stadium
Henllys Way, Cwmbran. 01633 627101.
Fri 5 Clubland Classix 7pm-1am, £21 adv. Third (I think) night in this irregular series of chart dance/happy hardcore bigness: Dave Pearce, Flip & Fill, Ultrabeat with Rebecca Rudd, N-Trance, Mark Breeze and host Wotsee feature this time.
The Duke
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sat 27 Hedone 7pm-2am, £10. House and techno from headliners New Jack City, a 90s-styled house duo from Amsterdam, plus Michael Rutherford and Hedone residents.
Earl Haig Memorial Club
23 Penlline Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff. 029 2062 6015 / earlhaigclub.weebly.com
Sat 20 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12am, £3 adv. Soul, mod, ska and Motown with DJs Wayne Sheppard, Matthew Morgan, Shelley Barrett and Liam Curtin. £2 per ticket will go to Chernobyl Children Cancer Care Cardiff.
Eddies
4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co
Sat 27 Sigala 9pm-5am, £15 adv. “The biggest breakthrough DJ/producer of the past decade!” according to the blurb for this. If this is true, and I really have no gauge for it, it may say more about the past decade than it does about Sigala. Anyway the biggest DJ of the 2010s is coming from Norwich to Haverfordwest to play, standard.
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. Wed 3 features a set by FooR; Wed 17 has Patrick Nazemi.
Thurs 2 Basshunter 10pm-3am, £5-£10. On something called The Freshers Tour. I listed this as being on Thurs 4 last month, dunno if I was wrong or they changed the date but it’s down as 2 Oct now.
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.
Sat 27 Danny Howard 10.30pm-4am, £5. Danny seems to be at Glam in Cardiff tonight as well so maybe he’ll play everything at twice the speed.
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 Gallery Space
Newport Market. facebook.com/galleryspacenewport
Sat 13 Perc 6pm-12am, £10/£6 adv. Good lineup in what is apparently a really nice looking building. Finishes early but there’s an afterparty in Neon Lounge. Features BLAP (live set), Neil Effin Young, Agenda, Shai & DJ Vito, Tom Mahoney & Jack Edinborough, Matthew Miles, Paul Blandford, Owen Kilby, Richard Moulton and Chris Cain.
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.
Tue 2 Abba Disco Wonderland 11pm, £7/£5. Disco hits and Abba songs. Also on Clwb Ifor Bach tomorrow.
Fridays Antisocial 11pm-4am, £4 adv/£6 VIP. Weekly student night with special guests Deflef (Fri 5, in association with Groove). Saturdays Prvlg 10pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity.
Sat 27 Groove 10pm-3am, £8 adv/£15 VIP. With headliner Danny Howard.
The Globe
125 Albany Rd, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
Fri 12 Black Parade 9pm-2am, £4 adv. Millennial emo anthems night.
Sat 13 Club Tropicana 9pm-2am, £6 adv. Eighties night. Sold out.
Gwdihw
Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
*Thurs 4 Submerge presents Radikal Roots 9pm-2am, £4 adv. Reggae, dub, dubstep and jungle from guest Aleighcia Scott and residents Sarki, Mango b2b OCG, Ollie G, Lurid b2b Shay B and Spektrum.
Fri 5 Signor Funk 9pm, £3/£2 NUS. Motown, funk, disco and soul.
Sat 6 The Mixtape Freshers Party 9pm, £3. Dance music of some description, house I think, aimed at students.
Fri 12 Drunk Yoga 1st Birthday Disco 9pm, £3. Cardiff DJ troupe throw a 12-months-not-out party. Not sure if any actual yoga is involved.
Sat 13 Sure Shot 9pm-2am. Funky stuff, deets TBC.
Sun 14 Our Time: Inclusive Club Night 4-10pm, £4.
Fri 19 Starving Artists 9pm, £7/£5 adv. Hip-hop from Dr Syntax & Pete Cannon, SA Collective, Mansfield Green (AV set), Mesijo, something called a Rhythmically Applied Rap Battle, Konk, Teej, Slick Tricks, Are Why, T-Motion and host Ro Wan.
Wed 24 Cardiff Electronic Producers 7pm. Live electronica and monthly networking.
Fri 26 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Eighties dance goodness, last Friday of most months in here.
*Sat 27 Felabration 9pm. As in Fela Kuti. Not sure what the occasion is exactly, although he was born in October, but there’ll be DJs playing his music, a live band and some (presumably Nigerian?) food.
Hangar 18
50 Plymouth Street, Swansea. 07984 664008 / facebook.com/hangar18mv
Sat 27 Delusion Halloween Special 9pm-3am, £6-£10. Trance from Jase Thirlwall, Maria Healy and Will Rees. All big in the scene right now it says here.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Fri 12 Haws 8pm-5am, £12/£11. Featuring a four-hour set by Fantastic Man and a two-hour ambient set by Viewpoints. See Clubs.
Sat 27 Delete 10pm-5am, £12 adv. House and techno from Pierre Codarin, Marc Parsons, Matt Owen and Lee Graves.
Koolers
14 Dynevor Street, Merthyr. 01685 725000.
Fri 26 Cellar Door 8pm-3am, £10 adv. House and techno from this south Wales clubbing staple that originated in Cardiff and now spends about as much time in tour round the region. The Undercover DJs and a Void soundsystem will be in place as standard.
Laser Station
Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www.laserstationwales.com
Sat 27 Fat Lace 16th Birthday Rinseout 9pm-4am, £7/£6 before 11. Drum’n’bass and jungle from Kryptix b2b Optimystic b2b Radar, T-Bone, D-Sia b2b Bass Patrol, Oli Oli Oli, Glitch and Doctor P.
The Last Resort
207 High Street, Swansea. www.lastresortswansea.com
Fri 5 The Swansea Fringe: Wired 6pm-12am, £12-£20 (full weekend pass). The complete listings for the Swansea Fringe, which is on the first weekend of October, are elsewhere in this issue, but this is a sort of clubby thing so I can include it here. Live and DJ sets, variously, from Roughion, Dogruff DJs, CrazeTheJack, Rufus Mufasa, Jamey P and Dead Crow.
Sat 6 + Sat 3 Nov Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month (apart from August).
Sat 13 Music & Mind Round 2 2pm-2am, £5. Charity night alldayer with DJs from Rise, Polymer, 10243, Hustle, Beats Not Bombs, DJ Society and more.
Level 2 @ Kongs
114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. [email protected] / www.kongsbars.com
Fri 5 Submerge x Firmly Rooted 11pm-3am, £5-£10. Local soundsystem purveyors Submerge team up with Firmy Rooted from Bristol for a night of dub and dub-influenced heaviness: Buggsy, Halcyonic & G Roots, Lionpulse, a Hold Tight Records showcase featuring Dutchie, Supplya, Walker, Roots Agenda and MC Indra/ Plus Submerge residents Benny Bootleg, Blokeye and Tailored Sound on live sax.
Sat 6 The Spin Doctors 10pm-3am, £6-£12. Liquid drum’n’bass from Spectrasoul, Beeson, Screwy, Benji and MC XL.
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 31 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.
Mozarts
Walter Road, Swansea. 01792 649984 / facebook.com/mozartsbar
Sat 6 Dogruff 10pm-3am, £15-£20 adv. Ninth birthday bash for Swansea’s minimal supremos. Ferro (VBX/Fuse) is the headliner, with Luke Tainton, Shaun Edwards and Mikki James also billed. There’ll be an afterparty somewhere too. Also, you may have seen (in, for example, Music News Extra) that this venue has now closed, but will open for this night specifically, which is nice.
National Museum Cardiff
Cathays Park, Cardiff. 029 2057 3500 / www.museumwales.ac.uk/cardiff
Fri 5 + Sat 6 Hush Silent Disco 8pm-12am, £14 adv. The return of an event which sold out in 2017, offering you the chance to don headphones and shuffle among the art, fossils etc in this storied building. The Fri 5 date sold out so they added a second.
The Neon
Clarence Place, Newport. 01633 533666 / www.theneon.co.uk
Sat 20 Raver Tots Family Halloween 90s Rave 2-4pm, £6-£11. Baby/toddler/parent rave in the afternoon with guest DJ Slipmatt alongside the face paint, balloons etc. Halloween isn’t for another 11 days by the way.
Wed 31 Urban Circle Halloween Shutdown 7-11.30pm, £6. Under-18s night with r’n’b and dance anthems plus a big headliner TBC.
Neon Lounge
Market Street, Newport. 01633 533666 / theneon.co.uk/neon-bar-lounge
Fri 5 Old School R’n’B Night 9pm-2am, free. With some old skool hip-hop and reggae too, on the first Friday of every month.
Saturdays Urban Dance Night 9pm-3am, free. Classic urban, house and r’n’b from DJ Steve C.
Sat 8 Switch 9pm-3am, £3. Opening night for this house and techno session with DJs Quadey, Chris Cain (Perc), David Foster and residents James Evans and Ryan Goodman.
No.3
The Old Warehouse, Bridge Street, Haverfordwest. [email protected]
Fri 26 Back To Bassix 10pm-5am. Deekline is the headliner for what I assume is going to be a night of bass-oriented sounds, no further deets though sorry.
Ocean Arts Cardiff
Unit 2, East Moors Business Park, East Moors Rd, Cardiff. 029 2132 0030 / www.oceanartscardiff.co.uk
Sat 13 Warehouse Afro Beats 10pm-3am, £10/£5 before 11. DJs playing Afrobeats, Afro-pop , soukous coupe decale, South African house, Zim dancehall and more. Normally on the second Saturday of each month.
The Parrot
32 King Street, Carmarthen. 01267 231012 / facebook.com/theparrotmusicbar
Sat 20 Wonkcrafts 7-10pm, £4/£3 adv. Underground rap night and a launch for LRB’s Devil Inside album. He’ll be playing alongside Youthana$ia, Matenj b2b Aksrevenge and DJ Pie-Fi.
The Perch
66 Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 462002 / www.theperchswansea.co.uk
Wednesdays 10243 9pm-3am, £3 adv. New techno night on every week from this date. Named after the Berlin area code apparently.
Pitcher & Piano
Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 461312 / www.pitcherandpiano.com/
Thurs 4 Navigate 10pm-3am, £12.50/£10. Featuring headliner Ferreck Dawn, a tech-house sort on Defected and Toolroom, plus Hutchy, Lloyd Haines and Taz Meah. Navigate is apparently a clothing brand rather than club promoters per se, but they are putting this night on for whatever reason.
Fri 26 Sonik Friday 9pm-3am. House and techno here on the last Friday of each month. Cellan Eynon plays outside until 12am; Tom Westerholm inside from 11pm.
Platform 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Fri 5 017 7pm-4am, £3 early bird. The latest long ’un in this Ponty nightspot is headlined by Ulster trance/house fella Paul Skelton. If he has a booking on or near Halloween he should change his name to Paul Skeleton, and give me a commission fee as it was my idea.
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
Mondays Quids In 10pm-3am, £1 adv/£6 VIP. Student night featuring various special guests Jedward on Mon 1.
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 5 is this night’s eighth birthday and featurers Cause & Affect.
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 10pm-4am. Resident DJs every week.
Saturdays 9pm-4am. With residents plus guest DJs each week – in October it’s Brisk and Vinylgroover (Sat 6, open 8pm-6am); John Hughes (Sat 130; Rob Rees (Sat 20) and the Logic Halloween Ball with Dave Pearce, Rob Rees, Jason P, John Hughes, Jay P, Michael Connolly and Chris Miller (Sat 27).
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.
Wed 3 Dazed Swansea Launch 10pm-4am, £10 adv. One of Cardiff’s many student drum’n’bass promotions comes to Swansea and kicks off with a double bill of DJs Hype and Hazard, plus more TBC.
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.
Fri 5 Bassline 10pm-4am. Headlined by My Nu Leng and sold out.
Fri 12 Raze The Roof x Rize 10pm-4am, £10 adv. Jungle and drum’n’bass, lineup TBC but featuring three big names apparently.
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South.
Sat 20 Bassline 10pm-4am. Headlined by drum’n’bass sort Macky Gee and sold out.
Sat 27 Bassline 10pm-4am. Headlined by bassline collective (?) Lengoland and likely to sell out.
Small World Theatre
Bath House Road, Cardigan. 01239 615952 / www.smallworld.org.uk
Fri 5 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.
Mondays Dolla Dolla 10pm-3am, £5/£2. Student night with special guests Gemma Collins (Mon 1) and Dick & Dom (Mon 8) this month,
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
Fri 5 Triple Cooked: Cardiff – Weird & Wonderful 10pm-3am, £6-£12. “An explosion of live art, unique decor, live music and disco, house, bass, garage, grime and more.” They never name any of the DJs, which I find pretty weird.
Sat 13 Playaz Cardiff 9pm-3am, £10-£14. Drum’n’bass from DJ Hype b2b DJ Hazard, Annix, MC AD, IC3 and Daddy Earl in room 1. Room 2, wherever that is in here, is hosted by Canopy.
Sat 27 Shangri-La Presents Drumcode 2pm-12am, £17.50 adv. Reliably robust techno label returns to Cardiff with a showcase of its roster: Bart Skils, Harvey McKay, Julian Jeweil and Wehbba.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Tue 2 Wile Out 10pm, £5/£3 adv. Bassline and drum’n’bass.
Thurs 4 Pull Up 10pm, £5/£3 adv. “Get ur bionic arms ready nd ur augmented eyeballs locked nd loaded cos this shitshows gonna test the limits of human anatomy.” It’s drum’n’bass of course.
Fri 5 Groove Theory 10pm-4am, £5/£3 before 11.30. Residents session with Stiff Jeff, Morgan Evans, Paul Longstaff and Tom Bateman.
Sat 6 Flatline x Shelter 10pm-4am, £5/£3. Drum’n’bass.
Thurs 11 Darth Presents: Active 10pm, £5 adv. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 12 Breathe 10pm-4am, £5 adv. See Clubs for more on this night, headlined by Dudley Strangeways and also featuring Mikki James, Jack Darwin and Ryan Ross.
Sat 13 Paranoize x Incursion Audio 10pm, £5 adv. Drum’n’bass from Ransom, Caaza, Benji , Plethora, Tremmah, Mango & OCG and host Pablow.
Tue 16 Luna 10pm, £2 adv. House, techno and acid.
Thurs 18 Pressure 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 19 Helium Resident Showcase 004 10pm-4am, £5. House, disco and techno.
Sat 20 Junction 11pm, £5/£3. Drum’n’bass. Only two new drum’n’bass nights starting in Undertone this month, less than usual.
Thurs 25 Illusion No info whatsoever on this night so it’s probably more drum’n’bass.
Fri 26 Switch Up 10pm. Garage, grime, bassline and drum’n’bass.
Sat 27 Haws & Eminent 10pm, £3-£5. House and techno headlined by London DJ Aleksandir.
Tue 30 10243 10pm. Techno from a group of promoters who launched in Swansea about a month ago.
Vale Warehouse
Cambria House, Penarth Road, Cardiff. facebook.com/valewarehouse
Wed 3 Mayhem University Inflatable Rave Cardiff 10pm-3am, £5 adv. “Think of a WAREHOUSE rave, but the dance floor is like a giant wipeout course. The ULTIMATE grown-ups playground.” The fun could even be HEIGHTENED if everyone was on KETAMINE.
The Vault
56 Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 465300 / www.nosignwinebar.com
Sat 27 The Techno Asylum Halloween Ball 1-8pm, £5. Boshy techno promoters with their second event, this one featuring Tom Murray, Alter:Ego (I still cannot believe a techno duo would call themselves this), Lee Grey and more TBC.
The Vaults / Portland House
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Fri 26 Vaults Presents 9pm-5am, £14 adv. Main room: drum’n’bass from Roni Size, Ransom, Mascot, Beeson and Lubi J. Room 2: Got Bass presents Koncept, Oni, Styx and B:Wild.
Wed 31 Good Life: Halloween In The Vaults 10pm-4am, £12/£10. “This year we’ve found the most amazing venue yet; a disused bank in the heart of Cardiff!” say Good Life of one of the city’s best known club venues. Anyway they’ve booked DJ Boring to play an all-night-long set and you can read more in Clubs.
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.
