MARCH CLUBS LISTINGS
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10 Feet Tall
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / [email protected]
Wed 23 Slam Funk 7pm, £4/£3 NUS. “Playing music from Artists such as James Brown, Jamiroquai, Chic, Sugarhill Gang and many More great Songs of this style.” 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. Sun 27 Memorex Takeover 10pm, £5/£3. Spread over both floors of 10 Feet, plus Undertone, this will feature Earl Jeffers, The Organ Grinder, Kofi Tarris and Keeno in the main room; James Morgan Rees playing funk and boogie in the bar.
Aberystwyth Students Union
Old College, King Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 621700 / www.aber.ac.uk
Sat 30 Jan Black House 9pm-4am, £15/£12.50 adv. Irregular big, student-friendly Aber rave with a full lineup TBC (ie after this issue has gone to the printers) but headlined by Noisia, who are in Swansea the day before this if you’re over that way.
The Angel Inn
57-59 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 617878.
Fri 4 Buzz Introduces… 11pm-4am, £4/£3 before 12. Featuring jungle from DJ Hybrid, “multi-genre madness” from Josh Wellz plus sets from Ram ft. MC Camel-T, Fujin and Paranoize b2b Fanatic ft MC Muhreds. No relation to 25-year-old listings and entertainment magazine Buzz, by the way. Fri 11 Dutty Riddims 11pm-4am, £4. Drum’n’bass tearout headlined by DJ Looney & MC Fire. The rest of the bill comprises Darkfada v Fanatic ft Wozza MC, Kontrol TV ft MC Benji, Boundary v Fujin, Nexsuz & Eazydubz ft Hypnosis MC and Gemini Twins ft Lizzard MC.
Blind Tiger
49 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 243500.
Fridays Boombox Old school reggae, hip-hop, beats and bass with Blind Tiger residents and guest selecters on rotation. Saturdays Koncept & Friends House, techno and bass music with guest DJs, breaking producers and residents from Wales’ freshest nights, like so: Sat 5 Dale Rankmore; Sat 19 Madame Twisted; Sat 26 Gavin Woo.
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 10 Purrmotions 10pm-4am, £10 adv. Loosely cat-themed club promoters with their first Cardiff night of their years, featuring clubbable names in Midland and Tom Trago. Caracal and HighForThis are also in the main room; Blue Honey hold court downstairs. Fri 4 Aperture 10pm-4am, £10/£8. Drum’n’bass DJ/MC duo Dub Phizix & Strategy, who we write a lil’ bit about last month on the back of their date in Swansea, are in Cardiff for March. Nanobyte, Talis Man, Walbeoff, Speedo, Screwy, Quartz and host XL are the locals. Fri 18 Aperture 10pm-4am, £10/£5. Med School, an offshoot of the Hospital label, is toasting 10 years of life. Keeno, Anile, Lung, Mullett and host Ruthless are the people doing so. See Clubs. Fri 1 Apr Aperture 10pm-4am, £8.50 early bird. DJ Marky is headlining this one, so I’d expect it to sell out in advance. Consider this a headsup. Saturdays Shindig 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, funk and soul from residents over two floors. Drinks deals.
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. Fri 4 Chase & Status 9pm-2am, £22.50 adv. Bedlam & Lunacy team up with top crossover drum’n’bass duo for a DJ set, also featuring MC Rage. Dimension, Frisco & Maximum, Bonkaz, Rude Kid
and Skankandbass also feature. 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. Sat 5 Inner Bass 11pm. New night of house, tech-house and garage. Room 1: Esquire, DJ Kai, Nicky G, Big Al, Lloyd E, Teri Simmonds, Rob Illing, Vedra and Luca Rinaldi. Room 2: Apollo 84, Kieran Lansley & Benny Lew, John & Evs, Ashley Lashout & Dave Eaves and Adam Why.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Thurs 17 Carnival 11pm-4am, £4. Dead popular student-friendly night helmed by “a bashment collective that bring the sounds of Jamaica to Cardiff”. Thurs 24 Brooklyn Zoo 10.30pm-4am, £3-£5. Current and classic hip-hop alike, selected by Patrick Nazemi. Thurs 31 Slice: A Pop-Punk Pizza Party 10pm, £2. Playing pop-punk hits from bands both good and rubbish (in the opinion of this reporter, who will almost certainly not be in attendance). Fridays (bottom) Zerox 10.30pm-3am, £4/£3 NUS. A “party jukebox” night. With DJs, though, not an actual jukebox. Fri 11 Bullion 9pm-4am, £9-£13. Sound of the DJ Hype! HYPE! Not my words, but probably those of MC Texas, who is on chief mic duties for the drum’n’bass stalwart tonight. 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. Sun 13 Big Fish Little Fish Cardiff: Super Raving Animals 2-4.30pm, £7 adv/free for babies. This is the Welsh debut for a promotional group who do afternoon club nights aimed at babies and toddlers, plus the adults who wheel them around. Huw and Daf from the Super Furries will be DJing house, disco etc, plus there’s craft and soft play areas. All sold out though! Sun 27 Cellar Door 10pm-4am, £10. House and techno party vibes from local faves who often spring to life on bank holiday weekends like this one.
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.
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 5 W.O.Y. Fun-draiser 7.30pm, £5. Afrobeat, funk and disco-influenced DJ sets from DJs Ben Jah, DaveGrooveSlave and, from the Back To Nature Paint Jam (also happening today – see Events listings), Psyklops and Millimagic. All proceeds of the evening go to the Women Of The Year Project and the Good Shepherd Centre in Lesotho. See Clubs. Sat 2 Apr 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. 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 4 Sub:Culture 11pm-4am, £5. Stomping techno from B.L.A.P (live) and Michaela. Fri 18 Twisted Souls 11pm, free. “Groove-Laden Post-Minimal Music and Original Generative Visual Performances.” Fri 25 Release v One House 10pm-4am, £5/£4 adv. Techno and house respectively from Tom M, Gorilla-Matic, Ka-Roka b2b Kepler, Madame Twisted and Dan 3man b2b Vinnie G (room 1); Dale Rankmore, A5ces b2b Beekay, Lori, Concept and Jhester (room 2). Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Free. DJ Puddlefunk with bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between. Sat 12 Killing Moon 11pm, £4. Newish night celebrating 80s alternative music. Sat 19 The Hold Up 9pm, £6.50 adv. Monthly hip-hop night, with Jam Baxter and DJ Sammy B-Side. Sat 2 Apr Hypnotion 11pm. Oxford-based junglist crew Dope Ammo come down for a session tonight. Sun 27 Ultimate Power 10pm, £4 adv. Power ballad club night.
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. Saturdays Vanity 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Sun 27 Kisstory 10pm-4am, £8 adv. House stuff, lineup released soon but probably not until this is at the printers.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Fri 11 Superchango Takeover 9pm-2.30am, £4/£3 adv. Funk, disco, hip-hop and party, this month with a live set from Disco Panther. Fri 18 Cafe A Go Go 9pm, £4. James Parker, Mark Taylor, Eddie Crole and DJ Moz of Fabulous play groovy mod sounds. Fri 25 Pleasuredome 9pm-2.30am, £5/£3 before 11. Conroy, Deemo and Teoman play the electronic music of the 80s. Sat 5 Blue Honey 9pm-2am, £5. Peggy Gou, a Berlin resident who’s released deep house ish on the Rekids label, headlines. Sat 12 Fat City 9pm, £4. With a headline set from Normanton Street. This is set to be the last Fat City after six years of funk, soul and suchlike. (My listings also said this last month but, er, it really is the last one this time.) Sat 19 Mise En Bouche 9pm. DJing from Gidge and Toclifrench. *Sun 27 Blue Honey Bank Holiday 3pm-4am, £20/£15. See Clubs for more on this large lineup, featuring Hunee, Harvey Sutherland, Al Zanders and “loads of [Blue Honey’s] favourite local legends”.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Fri 11 Teak 10pm-5am, £13.50 adv. This one sold out quickly, as is often the case with Teak, but if you want to try and hunt around for one, know that Antal headlines over regulars Rikky Humphrey and Seka.
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.
The Lemon Factory
37 St Helens Road, Swansea. 07969 671379 / www.facebook.com/thelemonfactoryswansea
Fri 11 Dogruff 10pm, £8-£12. Barac (Pressure Traxx/Moment.Metereze) headlines over Shaun Edwards and Mikki Wings. See Clubs. Sat 26 Fools Gold 9pm, free. Indie/Madchester club night. Sat 2 Apr Funktion Tek 9pm, £8. Rowdy sounding grime night headlined by Birmingham’s Devilman along with DJ Boogieman. Pryme Cut Kazm with Chew & Dex, DJ Darkfada with Papa T (open mic grime session), T-Rev and Rhys Mann comprise the rest of the (confirmed) lineup.
The Lounge
6 Market Street, Newport. 01633 259144 / www.facebook.com/theloungenewport
Fridays Chillout:Lounge Retrocentric grooves and signature cocktails. Saturdays Live:Lounge Air guitar anthems and indie classics, along with live bands whose names you can hopefully find in the Live Music listings.
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
*Fri 11 Hey Mary 9pm, £5/£3 before 10. Debut night of self-proclaimed queer drag disco, with indie, disco, electro, riot grrrl etc on the menu. Hosted by Lucy Fur and the Diamond Dogs. Mon 28 + Tue 29 Battle Of The Seasons Unofficial Afterparty 8pm-2am, free. After you have done whatever it is you do while watching the stars of Drag Race over at the Tramshed (see Events listings), come here. If you want.
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 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 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. 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. 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 18 is headlined by drum’n’bass heavy hitters Noisia, and costs £12 in advance or the ominous “way more” on the door. 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 4 Hip-Drop 8pm-3am. Mod, Stax, reggae and northern soul. Fri 11 Yum Yum Club 8pm-3am. Funk, soul, reggae, disco and hip-hop.
Penarth Ex-Servicemens Club
69 Windsor Rd, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 12 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12.30am, £3 adv. A night of classic soul, northern soul etc, at this venue every other month (so May, July, September and November 2016).
Popworld
96 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Mon, Tue + Thurs 9pm-3am; Wed 8pm-3am; Fri 5pm-3am; Sat 1pm-3am. 029 2023 5825.
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).
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
Wed 2 Reggie & Bollie 10pm-3am, £4-£7. Ghanian duo off of X Factor visit Cardif to perform in some way. Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Saturday is in conjunction with Jongleurs comedy club, which also takes place here. Sat 5 has a guest DJ set from Charlie Hedges, from the Kiss FM Breakfast Show. Sun 27 OMG! Easter Special 9.30pm-3am, £6/£3 adv. “If you were at the last one you will already know that this is the only place to be on on a Bank Holiday Sunday!” And I thought my listings were unhelpful.
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 + Sat 2 Apr 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. 07730 432166 / www.thesceneclub.co.uk
Fri 4 + Fri 1 Apr 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 + Sat 2 Apr Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month. Sat 26 Lockdown 9pm-3am, £3. Relaunch of a night promising “house/bounce/future”. If this is your kind of thing you’ll no doubt find it amusing that I don’t know what that is. Anyway, on the bill tonight is Kill The Empire, Dwaine Whyte, Rob Logik, Matt Damage, Limey, Out Of Control and MC Venom.
Sin City
Dilwyn Street, Swansea. 01792 468892 / www.sincityclub.co.uk
Tuesdays Hustle 10pm-3am. Funk, soul, Motown and hip-hop. Thursdays Sin Savers 10pm-3am, £3. Student night, back for the new term. 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. Sun 27 Goodgreef & Delusion 10pm-4am, £17 adv/£25 VIP. A trancestravaganza, or trance extravaganza, with these lot on the lineup. Room 1: Eddie Halliwell, Will Atkinson, Shan, Rhys Thomas and Callan Christie. Room 2: Rob Davies, Hywel Mathews & Richie Knight, James Walsh, Ben Parkin & Jamie Hernandez and Kieran Lansley & Teri Simmonds.
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
Sun 27 The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 7.30pm-12.30am, £12 adv. Also featuring The Invisible Orchestra.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Tue 8 Get Funky 10pm-4am, £4/£3 before 11. Funky house from Eben Rees (CYNT), Daryl Finn (Waved) and Lewis Beale (God Made Me Funky). Thurs 24 Big Love Launch Official Afterparty 10pm, £3/free for Big Love Festival ticket-holders. Disco, funk and house. *Fri 4 Groove Theory 10pm-4am, £12/£10. Linkwood, deep house’n’disco fave from Scotland, makes what I think is his Cardiff debut. Plus residents. Fri 12 La Fiesta 10pm-4am, £3. The best in commercial music and the biggest of hits, apparently. Fri 18 Selecta 10pm, £4/£3. Classic UK garage anthems with a hint of grime all night long with Leeson, Onslaught and Woo Ha. Fri 25 Temple 10pm-4am. Monthly drum’n’bass night, headliner TBC as usual. Sat 12 Gangster’s Paradise 11pm, £4. Nineties hip-hop and r’n’b night. Yes, another one. Sat 19 Rotary Club 10pm-4am, £4/£2 before 12. Disco, house and boogie with Bristol’s Jay L being the guest DJ of honour. Sat 26 Cardiff’s Finest 10pm-4am. House and techno played by residents and locals. Sun 6 + Sun 20 Society 10pm. House and techno all night long, or thereabouts. Sun 27 Memorex Takeover 10pm, £5/£3. Murder, Scott Kerr, Sinky and JV offer house and techno; see the listings for 10 Feet Tall (upstairs) for the other part of this Bank Holiday special.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Fri 4 Bionic: The Final Chapter 10pm-5am, £17.50 adv. South Wales’ hardstyle pioneers are doing two final nights… ever! One’s in Bristol on Sat 14 May and one’s here. Lineup TBC at the time of writing. Sat 5 Memorex 10pm-5am, £18.50/£15. Eclectic takes on house and techno. Main room:Borrowed Identity, Honey Dijon and Molly – from Germany, the US and France respectively – plus Memorex DJs. Room 2 is Hosted by Octave and features Cono Frito, Liam Matear, Elliot Mitchell, Adam Carey, HighForThis, James Coughlin and G Love. The Banking Hall is hosted by Trip City. Fri 1 Apr Vaults D&B Presents 10pm-5am, £13 adv. S.P.Y. of Hospital Records headlines this one. Stu Grady, Kooley, Pabz, Sheppa D b2b Fernandez and Resonate also feature in the main room; Paranoize promise “savage party fun” in room 2.
Warehouse
Penarth Road, Cardiff. www.facebook.com/nowthebass
*Sun 27 Now The Bass 8pm-4am, £10-£20. A new promotional name appears in time for 2016’s first bank holiday, toting house and garage delight. Jason Kaye, Mike Ruffcut Lloyd, PSG, Champagne Bubblee, MC Det and a special guest host TBC top the bill. Local residents: Lion UK & T Bone, RSK & Dubzta, Ricardo Banks & Gavin Woo, Oisin and Blak Sheep, Kiarash Shanti, Local, Fernquest, Benji Wild, Comma Dee and Slim Teng. The venue is an actual warehouse, they’ll tell you precisely where it is when they’re ready alright.
Warehouse 54
Cambrian Rd, Newport. 01633 259144 / www.wh54.com
Wednesdays Wild Wednesdays Alt anthems from Aaron Lille, along with live bands whose names you can find in the Live Music listings. 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 Hype R’n’b, hip-hop and urban classics from Mr Ifsta and others.Sun 27 Stylo G Dancehall crossover type and MOBO award winner visits Newport on this bankest of holidays.
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.