DECEMBER-JANUARY | CLUBS LISTINGS
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10 Feet Tall
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / [email protected]
Thurs 31 Hully Gully NYE Super Disco 9pm-3am, £5 adv. Fridays Soulection 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Soul, boogie and the like from Blue Honey DJs. New night.
Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk, neo-soul and Motown with music from James Morgan-Rees & Alex Moxham. New night.
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. Sun 3 Jan is a Christmas/NYE special which 10 Feet Tall have left in the oven waiting for you to get home. So to speak.
Aberystwyth Students Union
Old College, King Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 621700 / www.aber.ac.uk
Sat 30 Jan Black House 9pm-4am, £15 adv. Irregular big, student-friendly Aber rave which is previewed in Clubs. Confirmed so far: Calyx & Teebee, Split Prophets, JFB, Radikal Guru and Distro.
The Angel Inn
57-59 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 617878.
Fri 5 Dutty Riddims 11pm-4am, £4. Dubstep, jungle and drum’n’bass featuring (first to last) B Fujin & Fanatic, Kreat:ure & Nykto, Boundary, Mr Traumatik & DJ Frenzee, Nexsuz & Eazydubz ft Hypnosis MC, Gemini Twins and host JMZ MC.
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, which recently relocated to here from Undertone.
Tuesdays Knee Socks 10pm-3am. Cardiff’s trendiest new music and indie pop club night.
Thurs 3 C-Y-N-T 10pm-4am. Studenty club promo cats with their last bash of 2015. Dale Howard and Citizenn are the guests of honour.
*Thurs 10 Concrete Junglists & Bump N Grind present Unity Beats Hate 10pm-3am, £3-£5. Charity night in aid of the Welsh Refugee Council, aiming to highlight the benefits of multiculturalism (in Cardiff and in general) via these DJs, and their chosen genres: Cygnus (future beats), Jaffa (hip-hop), Jimanoli (ska/reggae), Kooley (jungle), Love & Harmony Sound (reggae), Magenta (dubstep), Mister Bibs (hip-hop), Ransom (jungle), Shanti Squire (ska/reggae) and host Beni Wild.
Fri 4 Aperture 10pm-4am, £10/£5. Calyx & Teebee with one of their three appearances in this issue’s club listings. Also featuring Speedo, Rewire, MMRB, Ohms, JE3 and host XL.
Saturdays Shake Shake 9pm-4am, £4/free before 12. “Cocktail makin’ bassline quakin’ booty shakin’ best credible Saturday night party!” Their words.
Cardiff University Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / [email protected]
Mon 7 Itchy Feet 11pm-3am, £8 adv. Rock’n’roll, swing, ska, R&B, funk and soul all together in a night that’s moved from Clwb Ifor Bach for reasons I don’t know.
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.
*Thurs 31 NYE Cardiff £17.50 adv. Aperture, Bedlam, Bullion, Circle 8, Concrete Junglists, Lunacy and Yagga – in other words, every drum’n’bass/jungle promoter in Cardiff – team up for a night featuring Noisia, Big Narstie, Cause & Effect, D Double E, Hazard, Ivy Lab, Mike Skinner and various locals. Not too shabby.
Saturdays Flux 9pm-2am, £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
Thurs 31 10pm-4am, £8/£5. The Saturday night DJ crew (see below) cook up something epochal for the new year, plus Auld Lang Syne.
Fridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox
Fri 29 Jan Time Flies Big Birthday Allnighter 10pm-5am, £15-£10. Featuring every DJ from the 1990s who is still alive – Jeremy Healy, Allister Whitehead, Brandon Block and Alex P – plus several locals, many of whom are pretty much as venerable: Craig Bartlett, Dave Jones, Shane Morris, Footlong DJs, Dave Eaves, Tyrone Rose, Rick Latham and Paul Cahill. Saturdays 10pm-4am, £5/£4 NUS. Three floors of fun: The Vinyl Vendettas’ top floor resident indie shindig; Dirty Pop and Mr Potter’s proper disco.
Courtyard
48 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.
Wednesdays Wild Wednesdays Upfront dance anthems and “Urban Vibes”.
Fridays The Kickstart / Terrace Session Classic anthems, downstairs, Mr Ifsta plus allstar residents up on the roof terrace.
Saturdays Mischief Beat-driven anthems is the ambiguous description for tonight’s music policy.
Sundays Shisha Sundays DJs til late, Shisha served on the roof terrace and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Dempseys
Castle Street, Cardiff. 029 2023 9253.
Thursdays (downstairs) Twisted By Design 9.30pm-2am, free. Weekly night along the lines of the Saturday lineups.
Thurs 31 Twisted By Design New Year’s Eve Party 9pm-3am, £6 adv. Without the centuries-old ritual of a Twisted NYE in Dempo’s, superstitious types would refuse to accept that the new year had began, causing productivity to grind to a halt.
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 21 Dec + Sat 23 Jan Twisted By Design 9pm-2am, £3.50/£3 NUS. Monthly event with Gary playing the best in indie choons – Belle & Sebastian, Bowie, Cure, Dead Kennedys, summat like that.
Sat 30 Jan Fabulous 9pm-2am, £4. Mod, ska, reggae, indie, R&B, funk, boogaloo and northern soul, running here for the mods since the 90s.
Face 11
105 Cathays Terrace, Cardiff. 029 2022 8221 / www.face11.co.uk
Fridays DJ 45 Free. Funk, soul, hip-hop and more, or “poppin’ funk and funkin’ pop” as the tagline goes.
Fuel
5 Womanby Street, Cardiff. 0845 6430032 / www.givemefuel.co.uk
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]
Thursdays Hullabalooza 10pm-4am, free. Alternative party tunes.
Thurs 31 Dusk Til Dawn New Year’s Eve Extravaganza 6pm-6am, £10. Live music and DJs for 12 hours over both floors.
Fri 11 Ultimate Power 11pm, £5 adv. Power ballads club night, here every other month or so.
Fri 18 Submerge 10.30pm, £5 adv. Cardiff’s finest dubstep night, they claim, although I think that’s a title they’ve earned by default at this point in time.
Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Free. DJ Puddlefunk with bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between.
Sat 19 + Sat 16 Jan The Hold Up 9pm, £6.50 adv. Monthly hip-hop night, acts TBC at the mo.
Sat 26 Sub:Culture & Castles Nights 10pm, £5. A brace of techno promoters join forces on the fabled day of the box. Sub:Culture: Dirtytechnodog, Iolo, Daen, Aneurin and Tom Ware. Castles Nights: Murder, Silver Red and Mendezismz.
Glam
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2022 9311 / [email protected]
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).
Wed 9 Shangri-La 11pm-4am, £7 adv/£5 early bird/£10 VIP. Hot Creations fave Richy Ahmed headlines tonight, with Nic Saunders, Adam Carey, Liam Matear and Elliot Mitchell joining him in room 1. The VIP room has James Coughlin, Josh Green and Eben Rees.
Thurs 3 Fatman Scoop 10pm-3am, £5 adv/£7 VIP. “Joining us for one night only to perform all his massive hits,” according to the wag who writes Glam’s listings copy.
Thurs 10 Glam Christmas Party 10pm-3am, £4 adv/£6 VIP. Hosted by Pete Wicks from The Only Way Is Essex.
Thurs 31 Kisstory New Year’s Eve 9pm-4am, £15 adv/£10 early bird/£20 VIP. Twenty quid to kiss a Tory? Worst NYE ever.
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 5 The Mayfair Sessions 10pm-3am, £4-£10. With DJ Russke.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Thurs 31 Cult Heroes NYE Ball 8pm, £8/£5. Full details TBC.
Fri 4 Sure Shot 9pm-2.30am, £5. The last ever party under this promo banner (discounting their Boxing Day co-promo)! Not sure why, maybe our preview of the night will say, or maybe it’ll just talk about Mr Thing who is the headliner.
Fri 11 Modula x One Good Thing 9pm. Homegrown beats, live performances and visual art dawn from the local pool of DJs, producers etc.
Fri 18 + Fri 8 Jan Superchango Takeover 9pm-2.30am, £4/£3 adv. Funk, disco, hip-hop and party.
Fri 22 Jan Pleasuredome 9pm-2.30am, £5/£3 before 11. Conroy, Deemo and Teoman play the electronic music of the 80s.
*Sat 5 + Sat 2 Jan Blue Honey 10pm, £8-£12. Atlanta-based true-skool house DJ Kai Alce is December’s guest, should be a great set. January is still TBC.
Sat 12 + Sat 9 Jan Fat City 9pm, £3. With a headline set from Zion Road (December) and Jacob’s Heep (January).
Sat 19 + Sat 16 Jan Mise En Bouche 9pm, £4. With a live set from Kookamunga (in December), plus DJing from Gidge and Toclifrench.
Sat 26 Hully Gully, Blue Honey & Sure Shot 8pm. Disco selector of note John Morales visits this venue for the second time in 2015.
Sat 23 Jan Hully Gully 9pm. With details TBC.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Sat 5 Teak 2pm. Daytime double headliner special featuring sets from Portugal’s Tiago, Berlin’s Paramida and token local Seka.
*Sat 19 City Bass 10pm-5am, £17/£15. Great booking, maybe City Bass’ biggest yet? Off-centre American house ideologue debuts in these parts (unless you count Freerotation in Hay), resident DJs TBC feature also.
Karma
75 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. [email protected]
Sat 5 Circle 8 9pm-6am, £12 adv/£10 early bird. Large drum’n’bass mania, headlined by the Shadow Demon Coalition. Bason, Kooley, Pabz, Kookie Crumble, Screwy, T.Bone and a competition winner are the DJs; MCs are Joe Blow, Endo, Slim Teng, Deadly Knightshade, Chew and Ras Robbie.
Sat 19 Modulate 9pm-6am, £8 adv. House, prog, techno and trance from Daniel Skyver, Rio Lorenzo, Dean Angel, Madame Twisted, Dave Hassell and Greg Livingstone.
Sat 26 Circle 8 & Stickylemons 9pm-6am. Three floors of Boxing Day brocking out. Top floor: secret headliner TBC, Stoned Mason, T-Bone v DJ Pabz, Kookie Krumble v Bason, Jay Dee v D Dott and host Slim-Teng. Ground level: reggae and jungle from Uprising Sound System, DJ Truth, Oisin, Jackal & Hyde, Hoffers b2b Gee and more TBC. Basement: grime, garage, 4×4 and dubstep hosted by Submerge and featuring Dubzta b2b RSK b2b Hoax, Chew & Dex, Blokeye b2b Pedeadstrian, Effegy, Ben Britton and Elmono.
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 guest list. Free industry night offers floor fillers and house classics.
Metros
Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www.metroscardiff.com
Wednesdays Cheapskates 9pm-4am, £5. Hywel plays ‘alternative mayhem’ and old skool cheese.
Thurs 31 Cheapskates NYE Party 9pm-4am, £10/£8 adv. They still do doubles for £1.70 in here, you know.
Fridays Subversion 9.30pm-3.30am, £3 with flyer before 10.30pm. Drinks promos, no dress code. Rock, punk, metal and alternative beats.
Saturdays Slacker 9.30pm-3.30am. Wherein Hywel plays alternative and new music.
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 2015.
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.
Thurs 31 Mocka Rouge 9pm-3am, £7 adv. Burlesque, live music and DJs.
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.
Sat 26 Persuasive 9pm-3am, £5-£10. R’n’b and soul from headline DJ Matt White, plus a live PA TBC, Raheem and Shendi Bowers.
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. Fri 4 is headlined by Calyx & Teebee, who are also in Aberystwyth at the end of January; Fri 11 welcomes DJ Zinc plus host Tippa, playing a set of half jungle half house; Fri 29 Jan has a big jungle headline, who is TBC right now.
Saturdays Get Busy £3 with a Kon Tiki stamp. Funk, soul, hip-hop, Motown, boogie and party.
NP21
6 Market Street, Newport. 01633 259144.
Fridays Retro-Vibe Party anthems from across the decades to kickstart your weekend at Newport’s brand new cver-21s club. Saturdays 80s vs 90s Taking it back to the old school with a back-to-back session of retro-centric selections.
Penarth Ex-Servicemens Club
69 Windsor Rd, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 12 + Thurs 31 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12.30am, £3 adv (Sat 12) / £5 (Thurs 31). Motown, northern soul and other 60s and 70s fare, all played from vinyl by Shelley Norton and Liam Curtin.
Perc
108 Lower Dock Street, Newport. [email protected] / www.facebook.com/perc.newport
Sat 12 Perc Xxxmas 6pm-3am, £8 adv. Featuring DJs from Cardiff’s steely techno stronghold2, Holodeck. Limited capacity with only 100 tickets, which are all sold out! Sorry to get your hopes up.
Popworld
Wind Street, Swansea. Mon-Fri + Sun 8pm-3am; Sat 3pm-3am. 01792 470676.
Tuesdays Popstar Karaoke 9pm-3am. Karaoke night with a £50 prize.
Wednesdays W.H.I.P. 9pm, free before 11. That’s short for What Happens In Popworld.
Thursdays T.N.T. 9pm-3am. That’s short for Thirsty Night Thursday. All drinks are £1.50 before 12am, apart from wines, cocktails, champagnes and – oh, Swansea – Rekorderlig.
Fridays + Saturdays Ain’t No Party Like A Popworld Party 8pm-3am, £2-£4 (Fri)/£3-£5 (Sat).
Pryzm (formerly Oceana)
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2023 3854 / www.pryzm.co.uk/cardiff
Wednesdays Nu 9.30pm-3am. Room 1: Monique B and Dan Willow play commercial r’n’b; room 2: Sole and Pro play old skool house.
Thurs 31 9pm-3am, £15/£25 VIP. Three rooms of dance, r’n’b and pop/party anthems, with Nottingham breakthrough DJ Philip George the headline act.
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Saturday is in conjunction with Jongleurs comedy club, which also takes place here. Fri 4 Dec features a guest appearance from the UK Pleasure Boys, a ‘male revue’ who feature someone off Big Brother. Sat 5 ushers in Danny Mac, aka Dodger from Hollyoaks.
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.
Revolution
Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk
Tuesdays Sync 9pm-3am. Student night featuring hazers, lasers and drink deals.
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 5 Dec + Sat 2 Jan Totally 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. Open 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 Pillow Talk 9pm-4am, £10. Old skool r’n’b, hip-hop, house and decadent partying is this night’s deal.
The Scene
Plymouth Street, Swansea. 07730 432166 / www.thesceneclub.co.uk
Fri 4 Dec, Fri 8 Jan + Fri 5 Feb Night Train 10pm-3am, £3. Swansea Scooter Society DJs play R&B, mod, soul, jazz etc on the first Friday of every month.
Sat 5 Dec, Sat 2 Jan + Sat 6 Feb Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.
Fri 18 Dec, Sat 26 Dec + Sat 30 Jan 10pm-5am, £10 adv. Three big trance nights in six weeks here. Fri 18 (tickets £14/£12) is headlined by Bryan Kearney and also features Sam Jones, Rhys Thomas, Callan Christie and Kye Davies in room 1; Nicky Cursio, Ben Parkin, Teri Simmonds and Kieran Lansley in room 2. Sat 26 (tickets £6-£10) is the now-annual Boxing Day Classics night with trance biggies from Rob Davies, Jonny Griffiths, Callan Christie, Nic Lawson, Kieran Lansley, Ben Saunders and Andrew ‘Butty’ Davies in room 1 (house in room 2 from DJs TBC). And Sat 30 Jan is still TBC regarding lineup, but features hard dance types Dirtbox hosting the second room.
Sin City
Dilwyn Street, Swansea. 01792 468892 / [email protected]
Tuesdays Hustle 10pm-3am. Funk, soul, Motown and hip-hop.
Thursdays Sin Savers 10pm-3am, £3. Student night, back for the new term.
Thurs 31 New Year’s Eve + Sin City’s 9th Birthday 10pm-4am. In which all the greatest anthems from across the decades will be played.
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. On Sat 5 Dec Mike Skinner is doing whatever he does in his DJ capacity, while on Sat 30 Jan grime big boss Stormzy appears (£10 adv – see Clubs).
Soda Lounge
St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3363 / www.sodalounge.co.uk
Tuesdays Cartel £4/£3.50. UK-wide student night. Mr. Mozafari will be playing vocal house and electro upstairs; DJ Wallace will supply r’n’b and chart in the Soda Lounge.
Wednesdays Replay 10pm, £5/£4. The official sports night of the Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Thursdays Clique 10pm, £4. New night promising the hottest r’n’b and dancefloor fillers.
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.
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 Koosday 10pm-3am, £7/£5. Something that has lots of decor, smoke machines etc and describes itself as an “Arrogantly Premium Clubbing Experience”. How depressing.
Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 0117 9259273 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
Sat 5 The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 7pm, £14 adv. BBC radio staple, ex comic actor and regular seller-out of Cardiff’s Globe venue moves to a new, bigger room this time out. Craig Bartlett, Spirit Of Boogie (live) and James Parker will also deliver sets.
Thurs 31 Harlequin 8pm-2.30am, £25 adv/£20 early bird. See Clubs for more about a night which features Milky and Gadget from This Is England (DJ sets), The Carny Villains (live set), Johnny Cage & The Voodoogroove, Big Swing Sound and Studio 54 Allstars (both DJ sets).
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Tue 8 + Tue 12 Jan Dropped 10pm-4am, £4/£3. New midweek student dance night offering house and techno, plus a name that tempts fate a little.
Tue 26 Jan Mixtape 10pm. Featuring resident DJs and special guests.
Wed 23 Sprungnacht 10pm-5am, £5/£3. Featuring reborn 90s Cardiff techno-scene staple DJ Guy as headliner, plus Sam Watson (Freerotation), Doppellate, Fa·çade, Läuft and Ben and Chris from City Bass.
Wed 6 Jan + Fri 15 Jan Selecta 10pm, £5/£3. Classic UK garage anthems with a hint of grime all night long with Rich Tea.
Wed 27 Jan Boiler Room 7.30-11pm. Details TBC but presumably this will have DJs playing in front of a live stream, and if you want to show your coupon on the internet you’ll need a ticket.
Thurs 10 + Tue 21 Jan Fire: Strictly Grime 10.30pm-4am, £4/£3. Rich Tea plays the big hitters of UK grime. The January night is called Shutdown on the listings but as far as I can tell they’re the same night.
Thurs 17 Paranoize 10.30pm-4am, £4. An eclectic mix of disco, 90’s house and techno from residents.
Thurs 31 RSP 10pm-4am, £11/£8. Not sure who these promoters are but they snagged NYE in Undertone back in July, and are entrusting vibes to DJs of an intrumental grime/bass music nature Madam X, Silk Road Assassins, Majora, Odeko and Fa·çade.
Fri 4 Hully Gully 10pm-4am, £5. Away from their normal Gwdihw home as a one-off, top disco DJ Frank Booker spins alongside Veto, Double Cee and Van Pelt.
Fri 11 Castles Nights – Techno Culture 10.30pm-4am, £5-£10. Headlined by Cardiff’s own The Organ Grinder, hard techno until the early morning is promised here (not really sure hard techno is TOG’s ‘thing’ but we’ll see).
Fri 18 Rotary Club 10.30pm-4am, £4/£3. Exciting, decorative parties with a wide range of dance music ranging from disco/funk, to house and techno. Andrew Hill is the guest DJ tonight.
*Fri 1 Jan Memorex 10pm-4am, £12/£10. Cardiff house promoters seem to be getting more ruffly techno with every booking. Scottish duo Clouds are headlining (over The Organ Grinder, Dave Little and Murder) this one. If their productions are any indication this will be fairly mental. Maybe have a nap during the day if you’re planning to do NYE then this.
Fri 22 Jan Distant Glow 10pm-4am. Electronic stuff (I think a DJ set, maybe live) from a Cardiff duo who claim to be influenced by Vangelis, Stockhausen and Harry Partsch.
Sat 5 Deep Inside 10pm-4am. Modern style deep/jackin house with a lineup TBC.
Sat 12 + Sat 26 Groove Theory 10pm-5am, £10-£14. On Sat 12, Sadar Bahar of the Soul In The Hole label in Chicago headlines with one of his acclaimed sets of rare disco, soul, boogie etc. Sat 26 is TBC but carries with it the inevitable prompt to “work off that turkey”.
Sat 19 + Fri 8 Jan Yagga 10.30pm-4am. Big boy jungle bizness with further details yet to be released.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Fri 18 Delete 10pm-5am, £15/£12. UK house duo Dungeon Meat, who include Tristan Da Cunha and Brawther, headline tonight. Matt Owen, Lee Graves and Marc Parsons are present and correct as residents.
Sat 26 Delete 10pm-5am, £15/£12. Back for Boxing Day in the basement of a bank! Top rated house head Mandar is the headliner tonight, to say nothing of Matt Owen, Lee Graves and Marc Parsons’ efforts. Boogie Cartel DJs control room 2.
Sat 6 Feb Memorex 9pm-4am, £20 adv. Siberian goddess of the tundra Nina Kraviz makes what I think is her Cardiff debut, with The Organ Grinder, Scott Kerr, Sinky and JV also on board. Tickets for this sold out immediately but this probably has a lot to do with dickheads buying loads more than they actually need, so check Facebook or whatever.
Warehouse 54
Cambrian Rd, Newport. 01633 259144 / www.wh54.com
Wednesdays Wild Wednesdays Matt Kirke mixes up club-influenced beats from reggae to rock, d’n’b to dancefloor-led house.
Thursday Warehouse54 Live! A free festival-inspired mix of bass and live bands every week.
Friday Shake It Off An eclectic mix of live band sounds From hip-hop to swing to punk to soul to folk to funk, then DJs playing alt anthems, pop-punk and ‘dirty pleasures’.
Saturdays VHS Vandals An audiovisual mix of indie anthems, old school hip-hop, mashups and funk-infused beats.
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.
