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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. New night. 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.
Balter Festival
Secret location, Monmouthshire. www.balterfestival.com
Fri 3-Sun 5 Balter Festival £100 adv. Third year for this festival of jungle, breakcore, free party/‘tek’ type stuff and other soundtracks to rotting one’s bladder. Here’s the lineup, which took up half of thos page before I formatted it. The Caravan (punk, ska etc): Los Albertos, The Carny Villains, Inner Terrestrials, The Autonomads, Captain Hotknives, Faintest Idea, Ed Cox, Mad Apple Circus, Jake & The Jellyfish, The Rev Schnider & The Band Of Angels, Chris The Poet and Marmalady & The Pasty Smashers. Jigsore (hardcore and breakcore): Hellfish, Drumcorps, Slipmatt, Detest, FFF, Feyder, Aaron Spectre, Jerome Hill, Mattycore, Monster X, Junglord, Humb, Katch Pyro, Scheme Boy, Vocoda, J Man, Dub Liner, Omen Breaks, Dr..Um, Killabomb, Psykosis, Pants & Socks, Osh Kosh, Spacedocker, E-coli, Default, T-Menace, Raggamortis, Doomham and MC Noia. The Black House Hex: DJ Hazard ft Skibadee, Featurecast, Born On Road vs Chopstick Dubplate Sunday Soundclash (Stivs, Kelvin 373, Gold Dubs & Lion Art vs Aries, Jacky Murda, Sunday Lion & Cheshire Cat), Father Funk, Don Johnston, Mr Traumatik, Sebby T, Boundary, Spectrum and Rogue One. Tremor Soundsystem & Swing N Tings Takeover: Bear Twists, Leo, DIB and Usagi Drop & Offbeat. The Drawing Room (jungle, tek and neuro): Ragga Terror Front & Monkey Business Soundsystem, Wan Bushi, Audiotist, Mr Bad Monkey, Tropmanga, Bman and Els In Wonderland. Amen4Tekno: Mandidextrous, Stivs, C3B, Heatzy, Major Upset, Slinks, Matt:Scratch and Ruff Tek & T-Menace. Bris-Tek: DLR, Amoss, Mikal, Gerra & Stone, Onset, Subtle Element, General Waste, Breakforce One, M1dlet, Danger Marc, Circus Brekovic, Doc, Simply Dread, Vincent Van Sloth, Thrackh, Pixl, Lady Lox, Gizmode b2b Breakwhore, Leeroy and Lemon Girl. Neverlution Soundsystem: Brew Machine, Tapeworm, BooGhost and TMG. Rigurgitate Soundsystem: Ruckus, Shortson, Muzzy, Mole Eyes and DJ Gary Glitter. Balkanical Circus: The Turbans, Buffo’s Wake, Manushka, The Balkan Bandits, Disco Panther, The Rubber Duck Orchestra and The Piratones. 24hr Garage Girls: DJ Luck & MC Neat, MC Kie, Phatworld, Thorpey, Deadbeat, Gash, Cellardore & MC Stavros, Hadean, Fiyahman, Wit!?, Womble, Ali Monsta, Riffs, DJ Shosh, Mustard Gunn, Iller Instinct, Prude LeRude, Wonka & Syn, WamJam, Detrivore, DJ Fukrag, Inflatable Fuhrur and MC Dert Bagginz. SIKA studios: Klashnekoff. SIKA Records Grime Division showcase: Devilman, Skinzmann, Bru C and Danja. SIKA Records Hip Hop Squad showcase: Wordsmiff Flip & Spitfire, Omus One, 420 and Chedeye Knights.RLD showcase: Leaf Dog & BVA, Smellington Piff, Jack Jetson, Team Dreebs, Omni Prezidents, SWMS, K-orse & Basshound, Tea Unit, Last Tree Squad, Holly Flow Lightly, Verbal Highz and Snoopydubz. Irie Bingo (reggae and dub): Mungos Hifi, Solo Banton presents Classic Wonder Veterans, Konquering Soundz, Derw Tha Damaja, Shire Roots & Blazenstein ft Joe Burn, Roots Factory ft. Frankie Dread, Freshly Baked ft Snoopy, Reason Sound, Gwarn Owl, King Bolo, Frenchy, Hezit, Dub Et Al and Rugga & Rusta. BuckyHam Palace: Mood Swings, Jenova Collective, Dephicit & Summer Bright, Extra Spectrum, Shamen, Ezee and Key-lo. Long Live The Animals: Alk-M-E, Wonkrete, Alternate and Funkstain b2b Drake Mallard. 12:34 Productions: Monroller Pull Up Collective, Dubtime, Subcriminal, King Long Ting, Earl Grey, Supa Ape, Daddy Long Legs, The Silly Tang, Waggles, Buster, Black Orchid, Itoa, Ile Flottante, Ivory & Sust, Jungle Jewce, More or Less and Kane & Abels. The Dutty Disco: Chinstroke Records, DJ Detweiler, Armand Van Hard On, Wit!?, The G.S.C, Shut Up FM, Mademoiselle Carousel, Ras Nukem, The Cool Willy Brothers, Gavoc, Minghead, Barry Von Weedhousen and BlueSisters5.
Blind Tiger
49 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 243500.
Fridays Shake It Off Alternative anthems, pop-punk, hardcore and guilty pleasures. Saturdays Koncept & Friends House, techno and bass music with guest DJs, breaking producers and residents from Wales’ freshest nights: Sat 4 Dante De Marco; Sat 11 Chris Bates (Deep Inside); Sat 18 Lassandro (Su Casa Ibiza) and Sat 25 Owen Kilby (Perc).
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. Wed 1 Systm 10pm-3am, £7. House, techno and tech-house presented by a clothing company called Theo. The first 50 people to buy a ticket get a free t-shirt. Thurs 9 Official Festival Of Voice Afterparty 10pm-4am, £6-£10. Specifically, an afterparty for the Scritti Politti gig in the Tramshed, which will feature a DJ set by the support act, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip. Fri 3 Aperture 10pm-4am, £10 adv/£8 early bird. Monthly drum’n’bass blowout, headlined by Calibre this time round. Saturdays Shindig 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, funk and soul from residents over two floors. Drinks deals.
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. Sat 4 Warehouse 11pm, £8 adv. Trance/EDM stalwart Michael Woods headlines over Vedrea, Rob Illing, Luca Rinaldi, Taz Meah and Corey Squires. Room 2 is hosted by Bassline Live and features Lloyd-E, Kai, Nicky G, K-Lo, Alistar, Kyle P and Fabian Tremorfire
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Wed 8 Itchy Feet 11pm-3am, £7. Rock’n’roll, rockabilly etc. Thurs 9 Carnival 11pm, £3-£5. Bashment, reggae and dancehall. Thurs 30 Bump & Grind / Brooklyn Zoo Unofficial Beyonce Afterparty 10pm-4am, £3-£5. Current and classic hip-hop alike. Fridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox. Fri 10 Bullion 11pm-4am, £13. Drum’n’bass night headlined by Optical, of ‘Ed Rush &’ fame, plus BTK & Rym. *Fri 3 C-Y-N-T 10pm, £12 adv. First showing in Cardiff since, er, a few years ago for genre-shifting UK dance fave Joy Orbison. 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.
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 Sunday Sessions DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Cube
Greyfriars Place, Cardiff. 07920 445930.
Sat 4 Deep Inside x Mi Casa: The After Party 10pm-4am, £5 adv/£4 early bird. An X Music Festival afterparty headlined by Jamie Roy of Viva Warriors. Lucas Alexander, Batesy and Masy also DJ.
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 4 Fabulous 9pm-2am, £4. Mod, ska, reggae, indie, R&B, funk, boogaloo and northern soul, running here for the mods since the 90s.
The Duke
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sat 2 July Hedone Opening Party 8pm-2am, £5. Underground house and techno from Dean Morgan, Nathan Lazda, JohnE, Evs and Joe Thomas.
Eddie’s
4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co
Wednesdays WTF 9pm-2.30am. Drinks deals and the DJing presence of Chris Lee and Wayno. Fridays Stock Exchange 9pm-3am. Toby Ellis and TTD are the DJs as the drinks rise and fall in price according to some pseudo-stock exchange thing, inviting you to be the ‘Wolf Of Quay Street’. Topical reference. Sat 4 Cellar Door Cardiff house/techno night moves to a new venue out west for a monthly residency. Not sure why they’ve chosen here but why not. Saturdays The Main Event 9pm-3am. Three floors, three DJs, one venue. Amazing but true.
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. 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]
Fri 3 Sub:Culture 11pm-4am, £5 adv. Irregular techno night, with Viers the headline act for June. The main room also has Tom Ware, Dan Gough and Aneurin; room 2 features Iolo, Dirty Techno Dog, Butch Queen and Jam. Fri 24 Ultimate Power 11pm-4am, £4. Regular night of power ballads and silliness. Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Free. DJ Puddlefunk with bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between. e down for a session tonight. Sat 11 Killing Moon 11pm, £4. Nght celebrating 80s alternative music. Sat 18 The Hold Up 9pm, £6.50 adv. Monthly hip-hop night, with its May lineup TBC right now. Sat 25 One House 11pm, £7. Featuring Ke-An of the Simma and Punks labels, plsu Undercover DJs, Stu Grady, Madame Twisted, Dean Angel Quadey, Jhester, Lori, Ac5es and Kendawg.
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). Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am. This night has moved from, er, some other Cardiff club, I can’t be arsed looking up which one. Fri 3 has a guest DJ set from Low Steppa. Saturdays Vanity 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Sat 25 Glam Rooftop 4-11pm, £10 adv. Deflef, a house DJ who is “often billed on the same line-up with industry giants,” headlines the second of Glam’s summer roof raves.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Tue 14 Club Tropicana 9pm. Disco, afro-influenced electro (?) and house. Fri 10 Superchango Takeover 9pm-2.30am, £4/£3 adv. The last one in this series, apparently. Fri 17 Modula x One Good Thing 9pm, £4. Fri 24 Pleasuredome 9pm-2.30am, £5/£3 before 11. Conroy, Deemo and Teoman play the electronic music of the 80s. Sat 4 Blue Honey 9pm, £3. Modern disco and electro from Seka (Teak) and Natural Sugars (Pardon My French). Sat 18 Mise En Bouche 9pm. DJing from Gidge and Toclifrench. Sat 25 Hully Gully 9pm, £4. Sorry these Gwdihw listings are so terse this month, this is about all the info I was given.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Sat 11 Teak Miami Vice Party 5pm-5am, £20 adv/£9 day only. Return of a bash that happened here last June, and sold out like this has. There are two parts to the evening, starting off outdoors and finishing inside. Outdoors: Jan Shulte, People Like Us and Dismalman. Indoors: Pender Street Steppers, Seka and Rikki Humphrey. *Sun 19 Delete 1-11pm, £15/£12. This is headlined by Ron Bacardi, an alias of UK hard techno don Ben Sims when he doesn’t feel like being quite as boshing. Matt Owen, Lee Graves, Marc Parsons, Luke Winds, Butch Queen and Jon Bird also feature over 10 hours. Anyone want to go to this with me? It’s my birthday weekend.
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. Fri 3 Memorex & Mi Casa After Party 10pm-4am, £9/£6. After the X Music Festival, specifically. (This and the thing in The Cube the day after appear to be under some sort of legal instruction not to mention the festival in any of their promo.) One or more special guests from its lineup will feature alongside Sinky, Lucas Alexander, Scott Kerr, Tom Rees, Adam Carey, Mr Sass and more. 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.
Laser Station
Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www.laserstationwales.com
Sat 25 Cool 10pm-4am, £10/£8 before 12. Pumping hard dance from Dirty Funk Rockers, Dale ‘Shocker’ Lee b2b Nuflex, Jonzzo & Butty, The House Junkies, Boy Griff and Chrisy B.
The Lounge
6 Market Street, Newport. 01633 259144 / www.facebook.com/theloungenewport
Fridays Flashback Signature cocktails and a selection of retro-centric grooves from the 80s, 90s and 00s. Saturdays Live:Lounge Air guitar anthems and indie classics, along with live bands whose names you can hopefully find in the Live Music listings.
The Mackintosh Sports And Social Club
Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff. 029 2049 4697 / www.mackintoshsportsclub.org
Sat 4 The Saturday Social 7.30pm-12am. Acid house, new wave, funk, electro and techno from Jake Mercanoglu plus Shaun and Kat from Feral Disco.
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.
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.
Mozarts
Walter Road, Swansea. 01792 649984 / www.mozartsswansea.co.uk
Fri 3 Hip-Drop 8pm-3am. Mod, Stax, reggae and northern soul. Fri 10 Yum Yum Club 8pm-3am. Funk, soul, reggae, disco and hip-hop. Sat 4 Rewind 8pm-2.30am, free before 12. Nineties revival night.
Perc
108 Lower Dock Street, Newport. www.facebook.com/perc.newport
Sat 18 Perc 4-11pm, £8 adv/£5 early bird. Newport’s top, indeed only, quality house and techno night rides again, with the Delete DJs (Cardiff) guesting today. In full: Matt Owen, Lee Graves, Paul Blandford, Owen Kilby, Billy Jordan, Chris Cain, Richie Moulton, Ali Boksh and more. See Clubs.
Popworld
96 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Mon, Tue + Thurs 9pm-3am; Wed 8pm-3am; Fri 5pm-3am; Sat 1pm-3am. 029 2023 5825.
Mondays Candy Pop Karaoke 9pm, free. Does what it says in the tin I guess. 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.
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
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Saturday is in conjunction with Jongleurs comedy club, which also takes place here.
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
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 4 + Sat 2 July 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. 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. [email protected] / www.thesceneclub.co.uk
Fri 24 That’s My Jam 90s Party 9pm, £3 adv. Pop and rock hits from said decade. And some more modern stuff in case you can’t actually handle the retro. They’re also getting Reef, Bacardi Breezers, Smirnoff Ice and 20/20 in to drink as well, none of which have sold a single bottle in Swansea since Jan 1 2000, I imagine. Sat 4 + Sat 2 July Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month. June’s edition incorporates a live set from neo-industrial sorts Nachtmahr. Sat 25 Funktion Tek x Bad Design 10pm, £8 adv/£6 early bird. Drum’n’bass and related bigness. Room 1 (hosted by Funktion Tek): Dillinja, Grok, Parklife and Rob Shaw. Room 2 (hosted by Bad Design): Mandra, Gabe, Cal, Starmix and Kuro.
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 11 is a Sink Or Sin night, ie a teamup between Sink and Sin Savers. Sun 12 Silent Disco 10pm-3am, £5 adv.
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.
Splott Warehouse
Titan Road, Cardiff. www.splott-warehouse.co.uk
*Sat 11 CYNT & Purrmotions Warehouse Day Party 2-10pm, £20 adv/£32 inc afterparty. See Clubs for more on this. One of the most impressive lineups of its type I can recall in these parts: Scuba, Boddika, Daniel Avery, Ejeca and Dekmantel Soundsystem. Plus an afterparty in the Vaults (see their listing).
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 3 June is a Start Of Summer party; Fri 10 is ‘Ibiza v Napa’; Fri 24 is a Beyonce Special. Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 0117 9259273 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
Sun 12 Big Fish Little Fish Family Rave 2-4.30pm, £7.50 adv. Carnival-themed afternoon dance party for small kids and the people who parent them. Daf and Bunf from the Super Furries, plus their cohort Kris Jenkins, are the DJs.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Fri 3 Groove Theory 10pm, £12/£8. With a headline set by Fouk, a jazzy house duo made up of Dutch producers Daniël Leseman & Junktion. Fri 10 La Fiesta 10pm, £4/£3. Guilty pleasures, commercial hits and traditional Spanish music. Keen to confirm my assumption that this is Undertone’s, if not Cardiff’s, horniest clubnight. Fri 17 Temple 10pm, £5 adv. Monthly drum’n’bass night, lineup TBC as always. Fri 24 Selecta 11pm, £7/£5. Leeson, Onslaught and Woo Ha serve up classic garage and grime. Sat 4 Selecta X Music Festival Afterparty 11pm, £5/£3. Classic garage jams for them what’s been to Bute Park and haven’t peaked/puked too early. Sat 11 Gangster’s Paradise 11pm, £5/£3 before 11.30. Pre-2010 hip-hop and r’n’b night. Sat 18 Rotary Club 10pm-4am, £5/£3 before 12. Disco, house and boogie with a headlien set by Seb Wildblood. Sat 25 Cardiff’s Finest 10pm-4am. House, techno and tech-house. Sat 2 July Graft x Leftback Records Party 10pm-4am, £5. Deep, house, dub techno and garage al promised from Leftback Records’ Dudley Strangeways and Michael Mclardy, alongside Richie Curran and The Organ Grinder. I really like the flyer for this night.
Unit
Neath Road, Swansea. www.facebook.com/events/1708523832750187
Sat 11 Dogruff 5pm-3am, £10 adv. Another indoor/outdoor two-parter. Carpark (early): Nicvius, Shaun Edwards b2b Gazesh, Mikki Wings, Oli Evans, Dale Willams and Richie Curran. Warehouse (later): Jack Wickham, Matthew Riley b2b Jack Fossy, Alex Taylor b2b Aled Wynne and Kye.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Sat 11 Warehouse Afterparty 10pm-4am, £32/£28 (inc ticket to daytime party). Eight hours of whooping it up to techno gentry (see Splott Market listing) not enough for you? Have another four down the bay with headliner Alanb Fitzpatrick, plus CYNT, Purrrmotions, Mi Casa & Deep-Inside resident DJs. You need to have bought a ticket for the daytime thing to go to this.
Warehouse 54
Cambrian Rd, Newport. 01633 259144 / www.wh54.com
Friday Aloha! Live sessions and drinks deals early on; club classics from residents later. Saturdays Old Skool Saturdays R’n’b, hip-hop and urban classics from Mr Ifsta and others.
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.
X Music Festival
Bute Park, Cardiff. www.xmusicfest.com
Fri 3 + Sat 4 X Music Festival 2016 £44-£64. Second year of a dance-centric festival which looked a bit shakey, shall we say, in its preamble last year, then actually did OK in the end, and is back for 2016. Pretty strong lineup too (schedule TBC): Annie Mac, Craig David’s TS5, Flume, Stormzy, Andy C, Hannah Wants, Eats Everything, Snakehips, Blonde, Redlight, Shy FX, 99 Souls, Barely Legal, Big Narstie, D Double E, Preditah, TQD (aka Royal T, DJ Q and Flava D), B Traits, Bodhi, Friction, Jackmaster, Jasper James, My Nu Leng & Dread MC, Waze & Odyssey, Astroid Boys, Dellux, Digital Farm Animals, Kideko, Nvoy, Uniiqu3, Culture Shock, Dimension, Hazard, The Prototypes, Rene Lavice and Sasasas.
