DECEMBER-JANUARY | CLUBS LISTINGS
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10 Feet Tall
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / [email protected]
Fridays Soulection 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Soul, boogie and the like from Blue Honey DJs. Fri 9 Funk’d 10pm, £5/£3 adv. Funk, hip-hop, disco, house, garage and old skool jungle with acts TBC. *Fri 27 Jan Palette 11pm-4am, £6/£5 adv. New monthly dance night gets highly rated experimental house DJ/producer Willow to headline. Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk, neo-soul and Motown with music from James Morgan-Rees & Alex Moxham. Sundays 10 Feet Tall Industry Night 5pm-3am, free. 50% off all drinks for industry staff with this venue’s Industry card, alongside late-night Blue Honey DJs.
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 The Friday Night Project With special guests, prizes and karaoke sessions until late. Saturdays Koncept & Friends House, techno and bass music with guest DJs, breaking producers and residents from Wales’ freshest nights. Sat 3 Dec features Josh Woolsly (Spctrm); Sat 10 features Liyle and Sat 17 is a Koncept and Friends Xmas Special with guests TBC.
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, £4/£3 before 11.30. 90s r’n’b/hip-hop night. Thurs 1 Ten Thousand Yen Showcase 10pm-4am. Doc Daneeka’s bass music label, set up in 2010, has actually been quite busy in the last year or so. XXXY, Earl Jeffers and the Doc himself tip up here for sets. Thurs 15 Let’s Dance! A Bowie Christmas Party 10pm-3am, £3 adv. Also featuring hits by other ‘knackered vinyl copy bought for £12 by students’ artists like Prince and Fleetwood Mac. Thurs 8 Carnival Cardiff End Of Term Bash 10pm-3am, £5/£4. Reggae bashment party aimed at students, as this month’s event title betrays. Fri 2 Aperture 10pm-4am, £10/£8. Monthly drum’n’bass blowout, headlined by A-Sides with GLXY, G>coin, Bandit, 1Time, Erb and hosted XL. Saturdays The Shake Up 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, house, r’n’b funk and soul from residents over two floors. Plus, when you order a drink from the bar you roll a dice and, if you roll a double, it’s half price. My commiserations to this venue’s bar staff for having to put up with this.
Cardiff University Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / [email protected]
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. Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
Club Oxygen
1 Northampton Lane, Swansea. 0844 8849171 / www.globaloxygen.co.uk
Fridays Dance Anthems 11pm-6am, from £5. House and commercial music all night from Big Al, Nicky G, 3 Bird, Jordan Steins, LJ Isaac and Tom Chizzy. Saturdays 10pm-6am. Room 1: ED, progressive, big room, electro, deep and house. Room 2: r’n’b, bassline, garage and hip-hop. Plus big name guests TBC.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Tue 6 Triple Cooked 11pm-4am, £4-£10. Live art, decor, live music and DJs (Jamie Thomson, Lurcott Bros, SM One, Sam Hodkinson, Adam Goward, TRiN, Loz and Triple Cooked residents) playing disco, house, bass, garage and grime. Wed 7 C-Y-N-T 10pm. Student clubbing, lineup TBC. Thurs 1 Soul Jam 11pm, £4. Apparently this is the UK’s top touring soul, funk and disco party. Thurs 8 Brooklyn Zoo 10pm-3am, £5/£4. Hip-hop and grime night aimed at students. Fridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox. Fri 2 Rotary Club 10pm, £4-£7. First night in this venue for newish promoters, who have enlisted DJ Steaw to headline. Fri 9 Groove Theory 10pm, £6-£10. Featuring Mr Mendel (Lumberjacks In Hell / Disco Deviance) and residents. Fri 16 Journey Presents The Labels 10pm-4am, free before 11.30. Pre-Christmas trance party for which local DJs will be playing sets concentrating on one or two specific labels: Arran Roberts (Drumcode and Soma), Hywel Matthews (Anjunabeats), Joe Byrne (Perfecto) and Richie Knight (BXR and Nukleuz). Room 2 features more local talent playing house, techno, minimal etc. Fri 23 Lamerica 10.30pm-4am, £10 adv. UK house pioneers Heller & Farley headline. Craig Bartlett & Dave Jones, Darren Stewart and Gareth Hopkins also spin ‘em. 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. Sat 31 Nos Galan – Lost In Space 10pm-5am, £5-£10. This is pretty much like the normal Saturday nights here except there are space-themed decor and visuals, and you get a glass of champagne on entry.
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. Classic 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. Sat 31 NPclubhop NYE Ball 8pm-8am, £10. That price gets you into this venue, Labamba, Blind Tiger and Meze Lounge, and promises you the ability to “party like an A-lister” to boot. Sundays Sunday Shisha Sessions 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Dempseys
Castle Street, Cardiff. 029 2023 9253 / www.dempseyscardiff.com
Thursdays (downstairs) Twisted By Design 9.30pm-2am, free. Weekly night along the lines of the Saturday lineups. Fridays (downstairs) Blah Blah Blah 10pm-3am, free. Gary Twisted offers up Motown, indie, rock’n’roll, reggae and “no cheesy pop”. Saturdays 9pm-3am, free. Rock’n’roll, funk, soul, party tunes yadda yadda, selected by Chris PJ Martin. Sat 10 Twisted By Design 9pm-2am, £3.50/£3 NUS. Christmas party special. Gary will be playing, as ever, the best in indie choons – Belle & Sebastian, Bowie, Cure, Dead Kennedys, summat like that. Sat 17 Fabulous 9pm-2am, £4. Mod, ska, reggae, indie, R&B, funk, boogaloo and northern soul, running here for the mods since the 90s.
Fuel
5 Womanby Street, Cardiff. 07970 063107 / www.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 Full Moon / The Moon Club
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Mon 26 Sub:culture 10pm-3am. Local techno promoters invite you to dance until the fattened calf you consumed yesterday falls from your hindquarters. Fridays Gigantic Free. Funk, punk, rock’n’roll, hip-hop, indie, reggae, soul until 3am. Fri 2 Be Happy 10pm-3am, £4/£3 adv. Don’t know what the main theme of this club night is, aside from trying to tell me what to do. Fri 9 House Of Rasta 9pm-3am, £6 before 11. Roots reggae and dub, this month featuring Royal Ascension Sound meets Tafari Warriyah Sound. Fri 23 Ultimate Power 9pm-3am, £5/£4 adv. Power ballads club night. Do they just have the same playlist every time? I mean there’s six hours to fill and a finite number of power ballads with sufficient recognition factor. Fri 7 Jan One More Time 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 adv. Room 1: pop, r’n’b, pop-punk and dance. Room 2: alt-rock, indie, Britpop. Fri 27 MK Ultra 11pm-3am, £4. Electroclash, industrial, EBM, dubstep and drum’n’bass is on offer here. Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Free. DJ Puddlefunk with bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between. Sat 10 + Sat 14 Jan Killing Moon 11pm, £4. Night celebrating 80s alternative music. Sat 31 New Year’s Eve Extravaganza 10pm-6am, free. Not sure if there’s anything special on, but it’s open late and free to get in, sometimes that’s all you need. Sat 28 Jan Blue Honey Alldayer Free. Nice beats and good vibes spread over two floors.
The Garage
47 Uplands Crescent, Swansea. 01792 475147 / http://www.whitez.co.uk/#garage
Sat 17 Red Light 10pm-3am, £5. DJ John-Paul plays house music all night long.
Glam
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2022 9311 / [email protected]
Mon 26 The Mayfair Sessions 10pm-3am, £8/£4. Featuring three guest DJs: Masterstepz, Max Denham and Doneao. Mondays The Fest 10pm-3am, £3.50. Two floors of charts, dance and student anthems (room one) and r’n’b, hip-hop, urban and funky (room two). Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am. This night has moved from, er, some other Cardiff club, I can’t be arsed looking up which one. Saturdays Vanity 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Sat 3 The Mayfair Sessions Winter Shutdown 10pm-3am, £10/£6. Featuring DJ Russke and Hannah B. Sat 31 Kisstory New Year’s Eve 10pm-3am, £10-£20. While I still refuse to kiss a Tory, this night features a live PA from Funky Dee performing his hit Are You Gonna Bang Doe? (just reading the lyrics to this song, quite enjoying the Sid The Sexist vibes) plus special guests Dixon Brothers, Shortee Blitz, DJ Pioneer and Sharky P.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Wed 14 Clwb Tropicana 9pm. Tropical house, afro-boogie and more. Wed 21 Comfort’s Christmas Cracker 8pm, £2. Funk, soul, reggae, disco, hip-hop etc. Free Baileys at the door too. Fri 16 Modula x One Good Thing 9pm. Experimental dance music, details TBC. Fri 23 Pleasuredome 9pm-2.30am, £5/£3 before 11. Conroy, Deemo, Teoman and Ally Parkhurst play the electronic music of the 80s. Sat 3 Blue Honey 9pm-4am, £3. house, disco, boogie etc, lineup TBC. Sat 10 Cosmogramma 9pm, Swish jazzy out-there-ness of some kind, details TBC. Sat 17 Mise En Bouche 9pm. DJing from Gidge and Toclifrench. Sat 31 Funk You 2016 9pm, £8/£5 adv/£3 early bird. Boogie, disco and good vibes, with 2016-themed fancy dress encouraged. Another entry in the series of NYE nights trading on how the year sucked. When was the last time this kind of consensus was formed? Don’t recall it myself.
Inkspot
The Old Church, Newport Road, Cardiff. 029 2049 0254 / www.inkspotartsandcrafts.com
Sat 3 Sound Of Impact 9pm-12am. The guys behind the Saturday Social in Roath present a night that promises to be akin to their usual vibe, with lasers, smoke and two rooms of tunes. Held, improbably, in an arts and crafts shop.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Fri 9 Teak 10pm-5am, £15 adv. James Tiller of Music For Memory Records is the headliner; Seka and David Bull the regulars. Sat 31 Harlequin Pop-Up Club 9pm-5am, £15 adv. An add-on to the main party in the Tramshed, so you can have three extra hours, this will feature two rooms: funk, disco etc upstairs, plus rave, acid house and techno in the basement courtesy of Big Love Festival people.
Karma
75 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. [email protected]
Mon 26 Circle 8 / Raveology 9pm-6am, £12 adv. You’ve heard of d’n’b (drum’n’bass), well this is b’n’d (boxing’n’day). Nicky Blackmarket, Harry Shotta and Magika are the travelling headliners; Bason, Joe Blow, Low, Mowgli, Pabz, T.Bone, Razor, Dark. D, Rapid, Kookie, Slim Teng, Paulo, Deadly Knight Shade, Comma Dee and Ras Robbie the locals.
Ladybird
41 St Mary St, Cardiff. 029 2066 5500 / [email protected] / www.ladybirdcardiff.com
Wednesdays Cheeky 10pm-4am, £2. Tickets are £2, drinks (some of them) are £2 and there are two rooms of music. Thursdays Propaganda 10pm-4am, £4. UK-wide indie night’s Cardiff wing. You can tell it’s the Cardiff one becuse they list Stereophonics first on the list of bands likely to be played. Fridays Mi Casa 10pm-4am. House and techno every week, often with some pretty big names. They never announce them in time for these listings though. Saturdays Solution 10pm-4am. A night whose flyer has a big photo of a model in her bra and pants. Sundays Sunday Project 7pm-3am, free with guestlist. Free industry night offers floor fillers and house classics.
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
Sundays Mary’s Mad Sundays 12pm-1am, free. Cabaret and cocktails with Mary Mac.
Metros
Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www.metroscardiff.com
Wednesdays Cheapskates 9pm-4am, £5. Hywel plays ‘alternative mayhem’ and old skool cheese. Fridays Freespirit 9.30pm-3.30am, £3 with flyer before 10.30pm. Drinks promos, no dress code. Rock, punk, metal and alternative beats. Saturdays Cherry Bomb 9.30pm-3.30am. Indie, electroclash (!) and good time rock’n’roll.
Meze Lounge
6 Market Street, Newport. 01633 259144 / facebook.com/mezeloungenewport
Mon 26 Undaground Presents 10pm-5am, £10. Ragga jungle don General Levy is in town for a night that also boasts sound system action from Luckymountain, Love N Harmony, Echo Vybes and guests. Fridays Shake It Off Alternative anthems, pop-punk, hardcore and guilty pleasures. Saturdays Totally 90s! 10pm, £3-£5. Britpop, indie, r’n’b and club classics. Sat 3 Akil The MC 9pm, £5. A night of hip-hop headlined by one of the Jurassic 5 dudes. Sat 31 Meze NYE 2016 10pm-8am, £5. Two floors of alt-anthems in the main room; heavywieght bass music in the attic with Koncept and friends.
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
Fridays Unfunkinbelievable Half price drinks from 5-10pm. What I find ‘unfunkinbelievable’ is that there’s a club night called ‘Unfunkinbelievable’ in the year 2016. Saturdays ‘Miss’ Behaviour Music, cocktails, party. All these things are found here.
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.
Monkey Bar
13 Castle Street, Swansea. 01792 480822 / www.monkeycafe.co.uk
Wednesdays Drop 10pm-4am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, house, garage, jungle and grime. Fridays Dime 10pm-6am, £5/£3 before 12 or with a Kon Tiki stamp. Hip-hop, grime, house and drum’n’bass. Saturdays Get Busy £3 with a Kon Tiki stamp. Funk, soul, hip-hop, Motown, boogie and party.
NosDa
53-59 Despenser Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 8866 / www.nosda.co.uk
Fri 2 Pryme Cut 6pm-12am. End of year hip-hop and grime MC battle event.
Now The Bass
Location TBC, Cardiff. facebook.com/nowthebass
Mon 26 Now The Bass: Back To The 90s Part 1 9pm-5am, £12.50/£10 early bird. See Clubs for more on this retro rave night, the location of which will be revealed on the day I believe. Iconic hardcore duo Top Buzz headline, while Dubmatt, Jackal & Hyde, Fav, Paul Lyons, Silk Cut, T Bone and Tyrone Rose will also feature.
Penarth Ex-Servicemens Club
69 Windsor Rd, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 3 Rudie Can’t Fail 7.30pm-12am, £3 adv. Reggae, ska and 2 Tone with DJs Baz, Private Britton and Liam Curtin (Penarth Soul Club). All playing vinyl.
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. Wednesdays Giggle Free before 12. Student night. Thursdays Poptails. 9pm-3am. Non-stop pop with DJ Lyndon and 2-4-1 cocktails deals. Fridays + Saturdays 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 Toast Student night where drinks are £1 and they give you free toast. 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 House Party 10pm-3am, £4 “Imagine the greatest ever house party, with 2000 mates, the best drink deals, the freshest tunes and craziest entertainment you could ever imagine!” I… I can’t. Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am, £4. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Saturday is in conjunction with Jongleurs comedy club, which also takes place here. Sat 31 Mistajam 9pm-3am, £10 adv/£20 VIP. Three rooms of tunes as per, with special guest Mistajam from the radio.
Pulse
3 Churchill Way, Cardiff. 029 2064 1010 / www.pulsecardiff.com. Gay venue.
Wednesdays Warped 10pm-4am. Join DJ Craig W on a journey through time with the best hits from the last two decades. Fridays Pulsetastic 10pm-5am, £4/£3. With live PAs once a month. Saturdays Pop Til You Drop 10pm-5am, £5/£4 b4 11. The very best chart remixes and classic hits all night long. Sat 31 Pulse New Year Street Party 6pm, £20 adv/£35 VIP. As well as all the shenanigans going on inside there are unlimited funfair rides included in the ticket price.
Revolution
Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk
Fridays + Saturdays 9pm-3am. DJs, drinks offers, free area hire.
The Robin Hood
16 Severn Grove, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 029 2037 8829 / www.robinhoodbar.co.uk
Sat 3 Dec + Sat 7 Jan Mod For It Free. Every first Saturday of the month, DJ 45 presents an evening of 60s/70s beat, rhythm & blues, soul, ska, 80s/90s Britpop and 2-tone.
Room 112
3-6 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Thurs 9pm-3am, Fri + Sat 10pm-4am. 029 2066 7996 / www.room112.net
Fridays Bedrock 9pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12. R’n’b, hip-hop and dancehall. Saturdays Cliché 9pm-4am, £10. Old and new skool r’n’b and hip-hop is this night’s deal.
The Scene
Plymouth Street, Swansea. [email protected] / www.thesceneclub.co.uk
Mon 26 Delusion Boxing Day Classics 10pm-4.30am. With more info to come shortly. Sat 3 Delusion Xmas Party 10pm-4.30am, £9-£13. Before Delusion’s Boxing Day special, there’s this, which features sets from Will Atkinson, Shugz, Big Al, Rhys Thomas and Callan Christie. Sat 3 Dec + Sat 7 Jan Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month. Sat 28 Jan Platform 10pm-5am, £12.50/£10 adv. See Clubs for more on this house/techno/minimal night, which features Francesco Del Garda as well as Gyan Bhatia and Dan Knight.
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. Fri 9 UV Snow Riot End Of Term Party 10pm-4am. This is a seasonal version of The Colour Riot, a culturally appropriative student night where attendees throw coloured powder in the air a la the Indian Holi festival. Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South. Sat 10 has special guests Mak & Pasteman. Sat 3 Faux Pas 10pm-4am, £7.50 adv/£5 early bird. Headlined by popular UK DJ Monki, off of the radio.
Soda
St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3363 / www.sodacardiff.com
Thursdays Thursday Club 10pm, £4. Live music, live DJ and live games. Saturdays Soiree 9pm-4am. Three rooms including the Attic which is “the social playground for the high flyers and social elite, really the only place to be seen.” Imagine catching your reflection in the mirror just after writing that.
Sully’s Yard
Quay Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Saturdays (in December) Silent Disco Free. This is a new pop-up venue at the end of Womanby Street, run by the Full Moon folks until NYE. It’s outdoors but covered and heated.
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, now transferred from Revolution. You don’t need NUS to get in though. Fridays Tic Toc 10pm-3am, £4. Fri 2 Dec is a ‘sELFie party’, which may just be an excuse to use that portmanteau. Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
Fri 2 The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 7pm, £18 adv. Sold out. Sun 11 Big Fish Little Fish Family Rave 2-4.30pm, £7 adv/free pre-walkers. Babies and toddlers can dance to tunes, selected this time by Rhys & Eggsy from Goldie Lookin Chain, and do various activities. Sat 31 Harlequin NYE 8pm-2am, £20. A follow-up to Matt The Hat and Kaptin’s similar NYE bash here last year, this one features Don Letts, Legends Of Goldie Lookin Chain, Big Swing Sound, Afro Cluster, The Jones Twmpath Band, a Clwb Tropicana Disco room and three extra hours (for an extra £15) in Jacob’s Market after this place’s licence runs out.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Thurs 1 Get Funky 10pm, £5. Funky disco house from Hannah Ezekiel, Brynn Salter, Daryl Finn and Eben Rees. Fri 2 + Mon 26 Groove Theory 10pm. Both lineups are TBC right now but expect good house, disco, disty deep funk cheer. Fri 9 Castles Nights 11pm, £5-£10. See Clubs for more on this night of techno, headlined by Detroit’s Tim Baker and also featuring Silver Red, Corey Lewis and Murder. Fri 16 + Sat 31 Selecta 10pm. UK garage night appears once in its normal mid-month slot and once on NYE. Details TBC, presumably the later date will cost more to get in. Fri 23 Sprung 11pm. London techno-ish label does a pre-Christmas night, as they have the last two years. I presume one of them comes home to see their parents or whatever. Sat 3 Psychotherapy Sessions 10pm-4am, £5. Cheap and cheerful lineup hosted by some Bristol promoters hopping over the bridge. Batu, Tom E. Vercetti, Roy Bar, Jurango, Vio_l3t and NoFile are the DJs. Sat 17 Intrinsic 10pm-4am, £5-£10. New promoters, albeit ones who were trading as Memorex until recently, debut with a headline set by Oliver Deutschmann. Clare James, Matt Owen, Murder and JV also feature. Sat 10 Gangster’s Paradise 11pm, £4/£3 before 11.30. Pre-2010 hip-hop and r’n’b night. Sat 28 Jan Intrinsic 10pm-4am, £10-£15. These guys’ second show is headlined by Honey Dijon and also features Scott Kerr, JV, Butch Queen and Mr Sass.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Fri 23 Delete 10pm-5am, £30/£25. Loco Dice visits Cardiff for the first time in several years. Caleb Calloway, Matt Owen, Marc Parsons and Lee Graves are also in room 1; the second room is hosted by techno heads Compound and features Corey Lewis, Matt Griffin, Juelz Wyl, Midge, Paul Blandford and Luke Winds. Sat 31 Cellar Door 10pm-5am, £20 adv. Back in their original venue and with a decently priced NYE bash. Techno in room one, house and disco in room 2 and cartoons/chillout in room 3.
Wow Bar
4 Churchill Way, Cardiff. Gay venue. Free all day Sun-Thurs; before 11pm Fri + Sat. 029 2066 6247 / www.wowbarcardiff.com
Wednesdays Wish You Were Here Free. Student night with “inflight entertainment” from Lambrini Rampage and Mary Golds, plus music from DJ Krys. Thursdays The Night With No Name Free. DJ Craig and Mary Golds offer “mad games and crazy entertainment.” Fridays The Greatest Show In The City Free b4 11. With WOW Showgirls Miss Kitty and Marcia, plus special guests every week. Saturdays The VKend Free b4 11. With DJs Craig and Krys. You can get cheap deals in VK. £6.50 for a fishbowl. £6 for a jug of WKD. Settle down now, kids. Sundays The Cuckoo Club Free. DJ Krys plays the tunes until late.