The Arch
11 Commercial Street, Neath. 07791 923214 / [email protected]
Sat 17 Solo 9pm-4am, £12 adv. With a headline set from GW Harrison, London house DJ who’s a resident at the Abode club there as well as Sankeys in Ibiza.
The Attic
5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/theatticswansea
Sat 3 Gun Fingers 10pm-3am. Bassline and drum’n’bass from Bushbaby, Tom Nolan, Cellan Eynon, Ben From Wales and Lloyd Jones.
Sat 17 Noise Makers 21 9.30pm-3am, £10 adv. Drum’n’bass from Ed Solo, Grown b2b Benji, Chew & Hayez And Wozzi b2b Teaze, dubstep from Ribble-E and Nekura and ghetto funk/glitch hop from Rumoke and Golobonaize.
Bar Cocoa
Broad Street, Barry. facebook.com/cocoabarry
Thursdays Reggae Nights DJs Gadget and The Candyman (Love & Harmony Sounds) play lovers rock, classic and new reggae jams weekly.
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3.30am, £3. With DJ James Bourne.
Fri 9 Regal Nights 10pm-3.30am, £5 before 11. Featuring T Mulla playing live and DJ sets from Paz, James Bourne, Jigga, Wendale and Gummi.
Fri 23 Swish 10pm-3.30am, £5 before 11. Featuring a live PA from Jay Silva plus Jukkie, Luxas J Rowe, Piddy, James Bourne, Paz and Wendale.
Sat 3 Regal Nights 10pm-3.30am, £5 before 11. With So Solid Crew alumni Harvey and Romeo, plus DJ Dandaman and local residents Nezzy, Gummi, James Bourne and Wendale.
Sun 1 Apr The TOWIE Takeover 10pm-3.30am, £4 before 10.30. With Dan Edgar and Myles Barnett, plus DJs.
The Big Top / 10 Feet Tall
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / [email protected]
Thursdays Rock hits from DJ Andy Rhys Lewis. Fridays + Saturdays Resident DJs playing soul and funk.
Fri 2 Hey Mary 10.30pm, £5. Cardiff’s top gay/queer/drag/etc night. Hosted by Lucy Fur with Sissy Boy Tears DJs dropping the tunes. Normally on the first Friday of every month.
Fri 23 That Good Night 10.30pm. Acid house and weird leftfield dance, on here once a month. DJs include It’s Dando and Mikki Wings of Dogruff.
Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk and neo-soul.
Sat 24 Fleetmac Wood: Rumours Rave 10pm, £8 adv. A night consisting entirely of remixes and edits of songs off Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, courtesy of DJs Roxanne Roll and Smooth Sailing. I mean, I like that album well enough but this is a bizarre cultural wrinkle if you think about it for even a second.
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 Koncept & Friends 11pm, £3-£5. House, techno and bass music with guest DJs, breaking producers and residents from Wales’ freshest nights.
Saturdays Re:work 11pm, £5. Underground and cutting edge club music promised.
Blisters
63-65 Hanbury Rd, Bargoed. 01443 821500 / [email protected]
Thurs 1 Ultrabeat 10pm-4am, £22/£18 adv. Big stomping happy hardcore lineup for valley madheads! Ultrabeat is joined by Hixxy, Mark EG and Martin Dibble.
Blue Honey Night Cafe
Quay Street, Cardiff. 07512 247712 / facebook.com/bluehoneynightcafe
Thurs 1 Women, Wax & Digital Tracks Hosted by Jessie from techno promoters Doppler and featuring a lineup 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, from £2. R’n’b/hip-hop night which left this venue last year in seemingly high dudgeon, in favour of Clwb Ifor Bach, and has now come back again.
Thurs 1 Ethos 10pm-4am, £5-£10. Drum’n’bass from Serial Killaz, Pi-Singer, Ollie G, Cinimod, Kalo, DC Conan and host Siege.
Fri 9 Stickylemons x Fox King Clothing 9.30pm-4am Featuring DJs/MCs from respected drum’n’bass label V Recordings – Bryan Gee, David Boomah and Bladerunner – plus Cardiff’s Ransom b2b Low & Mowgli, Kallista b2b Poison with JK Ripper Jaydee, T-Bone v Benny Bootleg and Pabz b2b Shannyshan.
Fri 6 Apr Stickylemons Random Concept Origins 10pm-4am. Drum’n’bass, not many details yet but there’s an MC competition with MC Fearless as one of the judges. T-Bone and Joe Blow will be DJing.
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.
Buffs
6 Station Road, Brynmawr. 01495 315334.
Sat 24 Infinity: Goes Beyond! 7pm-2am, £5. House, techno and trance from Lucas Alexander, Tekno Tom, J-Tek, Just Joe & Tom-e Slim , Dan Newman, Spctrm & Pipes, Synchronize & Jiggy andRossy D & Brad Dunk.
Cardiff Speaker Hire
Unit 4 Anchor Industrial Estate Dumballs Road, Cardiff. 029 2009 5590 / www.cardiffspeakerhire.com
Sat 10 Robot Monkey Warehouse Rave 8pm-2am, £10/£7 adv. Not a huge amount of info about this one but ir promises “Deep House: Live Percussion: Tribal Chants” and is presented by DND Productions and Loophole Events.
Sun 1 Apr Delete Warehouse Residents Party 4pm-2am, £10 adv. Local house/techno specialists toast both fools and risen Christs with sets from Matt Owen, Marc Parsons, Lee Graves, Kofi Tarris, Owain Kimber, Gerrard and Aled Wynne.
Cardiff University Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / www.cardiffstudents.com
Wednesdays YOLO 9pm-2am, £4/£3 adv/free before 11. New midweek club night promising both your favourite tunes and great offers. Good name, really on trend.
Fri 2 Hannah Wants 9pm-4am, £22 adv. Brummie bass gal returns to Cardiff Uni with a supporting cast including Sam Divine, Low Steppa, Devstar and Junga.
Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
Sat 31 Super Hans 7.30-11pm, £16 adv. A DJ set by the actor playing the Peep Show character, and why not? It’s your own student debt you’re getting into. Also in Swansea this month, on Fri 9.
Club Ice
Broadway, Pontypridd. 07771 920726 / www.clubiceponty.com
Fridays Flashback 10pm-3am, Retro hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s.
Saturdays Gravity 10.30pm-3am, £7/£5 before 11. House, techno and dance every week on the club’s new Void soundsystem.
Sat 24 Focus 9pm-3am, £3 adv. House and techno featuring a bunch of DJs (names TBC) from various Cardiff nights.
Club Oxygen
1 Northampton Lane, Swansea. 0844 8849171 / www.globaloxygen.co.uk
Fridays Dance Anthems 11pm-6am, free. House and commercial music all night from Big Al, Nicky G, 3 Bird, Jordan Steins, LJ Isaac and Tom Chizzy.
Saturdays 11.30pm-5am, £5/free before 1. House, house & bass (what is this?), progressive and big room tunes.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Tue 6 David Attenborough’s Jungle Boogie 11pm-4am, £5. The remise of this seems to be that disco, house, funk and soul will be DJed, with rainforest decor and visuals, and for some reason everyone is given a paper David Attenborough mask to wear. As far as I can tell it has nothing further to do with him, nor his official endorsement.
Tue 13 Applebum 11pm. Hip-hop and r’n’b.
Wed 7 Dazed 11pm, £10. Drum’n’bass from DJ Hazard, Clique, MC XL and more TBC.
Wed 21 Got Bass 10pm, £10-£15. Featuring Chris Lorenzo, Koncept, Styx, Oni, Chez and host Benji Wild.
Wed 28 XL Presents 11pm. Drum’n’bass I would imagine.
Thurs 8 Carnival 11pm, £3-£5. Bashment, dancehall and reggae.
Thurs 15 Propaganda 11pm, £3-£5. Big national indie disco brand.
Thurs 22 Brooklyn Zoo 10.30pm-4am, £4-£6. Current and classic hip-hop alike.
Fridays (bottom) Seventy Times 7 11pm-3am, £3-£5. New weekly clubnight offering alt-rock and pop-punk by the looks of things. It’s (still!) named after a Brand New song if that’s any indicator.
Fri 2 Disco Motel 11pm, £3-£5. Disco and classic pop club night.
Fri 9 Lycra 11pm-4am. Eighties disco and pop.
Fri 16 Submerge 10.30pm-4am, £6-£10. Dubstep and the like headlined by Gantz of the Deep Medi stable, plus Vaun, Koma, Rich Tea, Blokeye & Ransom and Oni b2b Calamity.
Fri 23 Get Funky 11pm.
Fri 30 Fiesta Bombarda 11pm-4am, £14 adv. Ragga jungle ledge General Levy headlines, more acts TBC.
Fri 6 Apr Journey 10pm-4am, £15 adv. Semi-regular trance night returns with a headline set from techno and prog-infused hot-to-trot name Gai Barone in the headline slot. Will Rees will also feature. See Clubs.
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 Spotlight Sessions / The Kickstart 5pm, £3/free before 9. Urban and club anthems and drinks deals. Part of the NPCLUBHOP price deal which also includes entry to Blind Tiger, Meze Lounge and Lambaba.
Saturdays Mischief Beat-driven anthems is the ambiguous description for tonight’s music policy.
Sundays Good Time Social Club 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Creature Sounds
Ken Bu Kan, 1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 01792 301178 / www.creaturesound.com
Fri 16 Beats Not Bombs 7pm-4am, £2.50. Multi-genre live music event raising money for homeless people in Swansea. So in addition to the bands, who are listed in the Live Music section, DJ sets will come from Funktion Tek, Ruin and Heft representatives. MCs on the night: SayKridd, T-Rev and Matenj.
Cwmbran Stadium
Henllys Way, Cwmbran. 01633 627101.
Fri 6 Apr Clubland Classix 7pm-1am, £21 adv. This night debuted back in October, with a night of 90s-tastic pop rave, and was enough of a hit that it’s back. Lineup: Scott Mills, Sash!, Joel Corry , Ultrabeat, N-Trance, Leif Boii and Lewis Hayes.
The Duke
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sat 17 Hedone 8pm-2am, £5. House from Lucas Alexander, Thomas Rees and Kieran Roberts.
Sun 1 Apr Hedone 7pm-2am, £5. Bank holiday special with Tennan plus Hedone residents Simon, Luke Armstrong and Tom Murray.
ECLIPSE
University Of South Wales Students Union, Forest Grove, Treforest. 01443 483500 / www.uswsu.com
Fri 9 Ramshackle 9pm-1am, from £3. Ramshackle is Bristol’s biggest (student) club night, and this is the launch of Ramshackle Cardiff… despite it clearly not being in Cardiff. Anyway, ‘the finest drum’n’bass, house, hip-hop, bassline and much more will be played.
Fiction & Vinyl
The City Gates, Little Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 828777 / www.fictionclub.co.uk/swansea
Mondays Quids In 10.45pm-2.30am, £3.50/£2 before 11. Chart, cheese, r’n’b, dance and house.
Wednesdays Underground 11pm-3.30am, £3.50/£2 before 1. House, chart, r’n’b and cheese across two rooms. Fridays 11pm-3am, £5/£3 adv. Drinks offers and, uh, music I guess.
Saturdays Agenda 10.30pm-3am, £3.50/£2 before 1. Fiction: house, r’n’b, EDM. Vinyl: pop and party.
Fuel
5 Womanby Street, Cardiff. 07970 063107 / facebook.com/fuelcardiff
Thursdays FUBAR 10pm-2am. Rock, metal and alternative clubnight.
Fridays + Saturdays Rock and metal anthems each weekend, plus special guests when such types are in town.
Glam
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2022 9311 / [email protected]
Mondays Bed 10pm-3am, £2/free before 11. A mashup of chart, r’n’b, cheese and dance across two floors. Formerly known as The Fest.
Saturdays Rumour 9pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity. Sat 31 is a Joshua v Parker afterparty, or at least is billed as such, although it looks like they’re just cashing in.
The Globe
125 Albany Rd, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
Fri 30 Trevor Nelson’s Soul Nation 9pm-2am, from £11 adv. Sold out.
Gwdihw
Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Tue 13 Cardiff Electronic Producers 7.30pm, free. In association with Cardiff Ableton User Group, plus an open decks session from 7.30-9pm.
Fri 16 Groove-ist 9pm. Eclectic grooves taking in ska, soul jazz and Latin are promised.
Fri 30 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Electro, synthpop, Italo disco, new wave, funk and more.
Sat 3 Bodywork x Bedmo Disco 9pm, £4. Two groovy Bristol DJ collectives join Sure Shot DJs, also this is a launch for the Soundwave Festival in Croatia somehow.
Sat 10 Cosmogramma 9pm, £6/£4 adv. Featuring Blue Honey DJs plus live sets from Vels Trio and Alfie Swan.
Inkspot
The Old Church, Newport Road, Cardiff. 029 2049 0254 / www.inkspotartsandcrafts.com
Fri 2 Instincts: Spirit Trance Gathering 10pm-4am, £5. Psytrance wibble all night from The DMT Experiment, Radiostorm, Meskalin and Psychodelicacy. Plus UV lighting, glitter and face painting, of course.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Fri 16 Teak 10pm-5am, £14. With a headline set from Young Marco. Description in full on the Facebook event page says, quote, “<Insert something relevant about the event here>” and nevertheless it has sold out weeks before the event.
Jubilee Club
98 Herbert Street, Pontardawe. 01792 863142
Sat 10 Jubilee Soul 7pm-12.30am, free. Northern soul and the like, in aid of Cancer Research UK. .
Karma
75 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Fri + Sat 8pm-6am. [email protected]
Sat 24 Dancehall Nice Again: Back To The 90s 10pm-6am. Beenie Man, Mr Vegas, Sean Paul, Elephant Man, Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, TOK, Tanya Stephens, Cecile, Lexxus and Frisco Kid are all invoked by the promoters, and should hopefully give you an idea of what to expect.
The Kirkhouse / Koolers
Dynevor Street, Merthyr Tydfil. 01685 388872.
Fri 30 Cellar Door 8pm-3am, £10 adv. House and techno from Cardiff clubbing brand who also go round the valleys now and again.
La Bamba
19 High Street, Newport. 01633 259144.
Fri 2 Privileged 10pm-4am, £5/£3 before 11. UK garage and bassline from 10sion & Liam Fry of Privileged plus guests Wisk, the superbly named Form 696, Quadey, DJ Shai and hosts Ally Pally & Supa Darkaz. Room 2 is hosted by Empire Flipz.
Laser Station
Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www.laserstationwales.com
Sat 3 Fat Soul presents Timbali 8pm-3am, £5-£8. Reggae, riddims and hip-hop from Timbali (soundsystem show), Miss Mitten (dub and Afrobeats set), Sub-Conscious, Doc. P, Billy Phono & PR1, Culture Vultures and MC Shrubz.
Sat 17 Just My Day 7pm-3am, £12 adv. Featuring a live set by Dr Meaker .plus DJ sets from E-Coli (gypsy tek), Tamika (drum’n’bass), Babz b2b Dwaine Whyte, Rnx, CNS Crew, BlueMD and a DJ competition winner. MCs: Catfishbobby, KroSs SeKtion and Hypnosis.
Sat 31 Progrezzion 8pm-3am, £10. Hard dance from Jakka-B, Ed ET & DTR, S-Worx, Toxic, Narcotic Smugglers, Will EG and Arnie & Fakulty vs Turk & Smiler, plus Progrezzion residents XSIV DJ vs Pete Rampage and Little Jack. MCs: Smiler and Hypnosis.
Level 2 @ Kongs
114-116 St Mary Street, Cardiff. [email protected] / www.kongsbars.com
Fri 23 Riddim 10pm-3am, £12/£10. Liquid drum’n’bass from Hybrid Minds, Mascot, Entakah, JuicE, Ebbens, Sker and host MC XL.
Sat 24 Rotary Club 10pm-3am, tbc. With headliner LuvJam coming to Cardiff for an extended set, more details TBC.
Mary’s
89 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Mon-Thurs 4pm-2am, Fri 4pm-3am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-1am. 029 2066 8647 / www.maryscardiff.co.uk
Wednesdays Wednesday Club 8pm-2am. Dance and chart toppers with DJ Chris.
Thursdays Mixxet 8pm-2am. Fun, games, and cabaret with Amber Dextrous and Alphaa Heart.
Fridays Non Stop Party 8pm-2am. DJ Lee plays tunes from the 90s onwards.
Saturdays 8pm-2am. Dance, pop and chart with DJ Billy Joe.
Sundays Service 5pm-2am, free. Bingo with Aunty Ade and Aunty Betty from 5pm, with cash prizes; DJ Mary Golds until 9pm; guest cabaret at 9pm and DJ Billy Joe on the tapes (this is an odd turn of phrase but I like it) until 1am.
Metro’s
Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029 2039 9942 / www.metroscardiff.com
Wednesdays Cheapskates 9pm-4am, £4/free early bird. Hywel plays ‘alternative mayhem’ and old skool cheese.
Fridays Havoc 10.30pm-4am, free before 11. Mismatched alternative tunes from Hywel.
Saturdays Lose Yourself 10.30pm-4am, free before 11. Stereo Brain playing indie, beats, treats and pop-punk.
Meze Lounge
6 Market Street, Newport. 01633 259144 / facebook.com/mezeloungenewport
Sat 10 DJs In PJs NSPCC Charity Fundraising Event 6pm-6am, £5. A night for a good cause in a venue that closed at the start of this year BUT! has opened back up for one night only. Room 1: house and techno from Martin Dibble, K33fey, Owen Kilby, Madame Twisted, Dan Waite, Tom-E Slim b2b Just Joe, Pipes, Shaun Llewelyn, Guzzy b2b D-Sia, Tekno Tom, Paul Blandford and Smudge & Mandi. Room 2: drum’n’bass from Dirtbox b2b Kevlar, Quadey, 10sion, Ini Jungle, Dan 3man, Lubi J, Dabbz, Benny Bootleg, ERB and Pedeadstrian. Also, as per the event title, there’s a fancy dress theme: pyjamas or onesies.
Minskys Show Bar
Cathedral Walk, St David’s Centre, Cardiff. 029 2023 3128 / www.minskys-showbar.com
Fridays & Saturdays 8pm-1am. Dancing and cabaret with regular drag acts including Tina Sparkle, Miss Babs and Jolene Dover.
Missoula
84-86 St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 1315 / www.missoulabars.co.uk/missoulacardiff
Mondays Mojito Mondays 5pm-12am. Motown classics and mojitos 2-4-1 all night.
Thursdays Rock The Night 5pm-12am. Indie classics.
Fridays #Friday 5pm-2am. Funky house and half price drinks from 5-10pm.
Mocka Lounge
Mill Lane, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 11am-late. 029 2022 1295 / www.mockalounge.com
Thursdays 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.
The Moon
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Wednesdays The Hustle 10pm. Hip-hop, Motown, funk and soul.
Wed 21 Womanby’s Clubbing 5.30-8pm. Monthly clubbing events for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health conditions. Run in partnership with Student Volunteering.
Fridays Gigantic Until 4am, free. Funk, punk, rock’n’roll, hip-hop, indie, reggae and soul after bands finish playing.
Saturdays Five Dollar Shake Until 4am, free. Bebop, funk, soul, Motown, hip-hop, reggae, ska and everything in between, after bands finish playing.
The Neon
Clarence Place, Newport. 01633 533666 / www.theneon.co.uk
Fri 2 Rave On Jacob 9pm-3am, £10 adv. Charity night in aid of cancer treatment for Jacob Jones, a toddler. This evening will feature house, techno and trance from Martin Dibble, Matthew James O’Keefe, Shane Morris, Tyrone Rose, Liam O’Connol and more TBC.
Sun 25 Ravertots 2-4pm, £6 adv. An old skool rave, but for small children, with jungle veteran Nicky Blackmarket and MC Chalky White.
Neon Lounge
Market Street, Newport. 01633 533666 / theneon.co.uk/neon-bar-lounge
Saturdays Urban Dance Night 9pm-3am, free. Classic urban, house and r’n’b from DJ Steve C. I wonder how many people who attend this night will also be here on Thurs 1 Mar for this month’s meeting of UKIP’s Newport branch, which is being held here because the Neon supports UKIP and is owned by one of its former candidates.
Penarth Ex-Serivcemen’s Club
69 Windsor Road, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 17 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12am, £3 adv. An NYE of classic soul, northern soul etc, also on in May, July, September and November this year.
The Pit
The Strand, off Wind Street, Swansea. facebook.com/pg/thepitswansea
Fri 2 Funktion Tek 10pm-4am, £4. A rave with a Dr Seuss theme, because it’s his 113th birthday today. Got a suspcion Funktion Tek looked up famous people born on this day cos they couldn’t think of a theme, but fair play. Anyway this features DG Boh & El-Raz (live set), Dayo, Llew & Matende, Benji & JuicE and Chris E.
Sat 3 + Sat 7 Apr Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month.
Platform 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Sun 1 Apr 011 6pm-4am, £10/£8. The 11th night in this club’s series of guest DJs features burgeoning house duo OC & Verde. Pete Tong is a big fan you know.
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.
Fridays + Saturdays Popworld Party Until 3am. Drinks deals from 5-11pm (Fri) and 3-8pm (Sat).
Popworld
Wind Street, Swansea. Mon-Fri + Sun 8pm-3am; Sat 3pm-3am. 01792 470676.
Tuesdays Timewarp Music from the 1980s and dance competitions.
Wednesdays Quids In 8pm-3am. Student night where drinks are £1.
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 Quids In 10pm-4am. Student night.
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3am, £4. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff.
Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”.
Pulse
3 Churchill Way, Cardiff. 029 2064 1010 / www.pulsecardiff.com. Gay venue.
Wednesdays Kapow! 10pm-4am. Student night with Jolene Dover and DJ Warren.
Fridays Full On 10pm-5am, £4/£3. DJ Craig downstairs, Opal upstairs. Fri 1 and Fri 8 Dec have X Factor finalists making guest appearances
Saturdays Pop Til You Drop 10pm-5am, £5/£4 b4 11. The very best chart remixes and classic hits all night long.
The Rainbow Rooms
12 High Street, Gorseinon, Swansea. 07563 111225 / www.the-rainbowrooms.com
Sat 3 I Am A Raver 10pm-4am, £10 adv. “Music Genres: Cheesy Dance, Club Classics, EDM, Hardcore/Hardstyle, Old Skool.” Fair play! DJ Cammy, Gary MCF, DJ Bad Boy and DJ Zitkus are your guides.
Sat 10 Logic Hardcore 12 Hour Mega Rave 6pm-6am, £12.50 adv. DJs: Hixxy, Alex Prospect, Fallon, Last Of The Mohicans (reunion set – was gonna say, not heard that name for a while), Racy, Narcotic Smugglers, Reflux & Pierce, The Corruptorz, Patt-E & Chemikalz, Con Con & Misteve, Gee & Atom and Rob Rees & Jason P. MCs: Wotsee, Shocker, Energy, Offside, Venom, Destroyer, MCV and Skyz.
Fri 23 Heft 10pm-4am, £8 adv. New promo company’s second night is headlined by bass house fave Jay Fade.
Sun 1 Apr Delusion 9pm-4am, £10/£8. Trance classics/anthems from Dave Pearce, Big Al, Jonny Griffiths, Rhys Thomas, Dan McShane and John Hughes.
Revolution
Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk
Tuesdays Mode 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Popular student night returns.
Fridays + Saturdays 9pm-3am. DJs, drinks offers, free area hire.
Sin City
Dilwyn Street, Swansea. 01792 468892 / www.sincityclub.co.uk
Tuesdays Hustle 10pm-3am, £3/£2 before 12. Motown, r’n’b and hip-hop.
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 Free Silent Disco 10pm-4am, £3 adv/free with guestlist. This is replacing the Super Hans DJ set that was supposed to be here, which has been postponed because Super Hans has a back injury. Not sure if that now becomes part of Peep Show canon.
Fri 2 Bassline 10pm-4am., £22 adv. Featuring a headline set from silly-sounding drum’n’bass supergroup SaSaSaS, way sold out though.
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South. Sat 10 Rise x Critical Sound 10pm-4am, £12-£15. Drum’n’bass from The Upbeats (whose own bio describes their music as “digital pub rock anthems for the club”), Kasra, Sam Binga, Chimpo and Klax.
Sat 17 Sink 10pm-4am, £8-£12. Drum’n’bass from DJ Hype and Mollie Collins, plus residents.
Soda
St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3363 / www.sodacardiff.com
Wednesdays Replay 9pm-4am, £4. Chart, cheese and r’n’b for students.
Fridays Fade 10pm-3am, £4/£6 VIP. R’n’b, hip-hop, house and UK garage from Vijay, Jigga, Monique B and Dan Willow. Saturdays Soiree 9pm-4am. Three rooms including the Attic which is “the social playground for the high flyers and social elite, the only place to be seen.” Imagine catching your reflection in the mirror just after writing that.
Sundays Soda Sundays 9pm-3am, £4/£8 VIP. Three floors of music for students and industry workers.
Tiger Tiger
Friary House, Greyfriars Rd, Cardiff. Open Mon-Fri 12pm-2am, Sat 12pm-3am, Sun 12pm-12.30am. 029 2039 1944 / www.tigertiger-cardiff.co.uk
Every Day Lucky Voice Karaoke From £2.50 per session. The UK’s leading private karaoke experience each day of the week.
Wednesdays Shotgun Rules 10pm-3am, £5/£3.50. Exclusive midweek student party. You don’t need NUS to get in though. Fridays Tic Toc 10pm-3am, £4. “Forget the DJs who play the stuff you’ve never heard of, ours will be playing your favourite tracks all night long.” Fri 2 has a guest appearance from Charlie Sloth-supported British grime/rap/pop fella J-Fresh (£5 on the door), while Fri 9 is billed as a McNuggets giveaway but provides no further info.
Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Fri 2 Groove Theory 10pm-4am. House, disco and funk, residents night this month.
Sat 3 Flatline 10pm. Drum’n’bass, 140 and bassline from local DJs and MCs.
Tue 6 Wile Out 11pm, £4/£2 adv. Bassline.
Fri 9 Cosmonaut 10pm-4am, £5/£3. New night with drum’n’bass, bassline and “speed breaks” (NB I just googled this term and these promoters are the only people who appear to use it).
Sat 10 The Nest 10pm-4am. This seems to be a radio show from Manchester, looks like a house and techno thing but further details are currently elusive.
Thurs 15 S!lence present The Silent Disco – Anthems 11pm-3am, £5 adv plus £5 headphone deposit. Pop, rock and dance hits from the 90s and 00s.
Fri 16 Groove 11pm. Local house newcomers get Netherlands DJ Franky Rizardo down for a headline set. He was supposed to play in December in fact, but it didn’t happen.
Sat 17 Beat Cartel 10pm. Literally no info on who or what this is sorry. I’m just going to call it drum’n’bass, like I do with everything when I don’t know what it is, as I’m right more often than not.
Tue 20 Skank Ground 11pm. Bassline and drum’n’bass.
Thurs 22 Pressure 10pm-3am. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 23 Selecta 11pm, £5/£3 adv. UK garage classics.
Sat 24 Unity 10pm, £5/£3 NUS. House from Matt Owen (Delete), Beekay b2b Half & Half, Jon Williams and Oliver Harvey.
Thurs 29 Rough N Tumble 03 10pm-3am. Featuring Majora, The Organ Grinder. Roughion and Tom Bateman.
Fri 30 Synthesis 10pm. Drum’n’bass. Sat 31 Curfew 10pm-3am, £10/£8. Leeds deep techno type DJ Jack Wickham is tonight’s headliner; Hotted, Agenda and Luke Tainton fill out the rest of the bill.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Fri 2 Concept v Circle 8 10pm-5am, £15 adv. Impressive lineup of drum’n’bass, like so. Main room: DJ SS, Bassman, Fatman D, Dialogue, Chunky Bizzle, Kallista b2b Stu Grady, Low b2b Mowgli, Joe Blow b2b Bason, Luke Ebbens and MCs Chew, Skamma, XL and Vizable. Room 2: Hoodfella Development, Plethora, Reload, Mascot, Kyam & Kalo, Oni and Scoops.
Sat 3 Shangri-La: Solardo Sessions 10pm-5am, £16 adv. Big name house duo Solardo return to Cardiff after a set last year. Sold out.
Walkabout
St Mary Street, Cardiff. 029 2072 7930 / www.walkaboutbars.co.uk/venues/cardiff
Thurs 15 TNT presents Scouting For Girls DJ Set 10pm-3am, from £4. Yeah.
Walkabout
Castle Bailey Street, Swansea. 01792 450850 / www.walkaboutbars.co.uk/venues/swansea
Fri 9 Vice 10pm-3am, £5-£9. Another south Wales appearance for eager-to-please grime MC Tinchy Stryder, whose Carmarthen slot was previewed in the February issue. Vice is a new promo venture, unrelated to the abuse-enabling youth media company but with a commitment to “getting smashed off Walkies student drink deals”.
Warehouse 54
54 Cambrian Road, Newport. 01633 213161.
Wednesdays Krazy Wednesdays Cocktails, drink deals and tunes as part of a cross-city midweek session.
Fridays Live Forever 12am, £3. Britpop classics. Part of the NPclubhop multi-venue deal.
Saturdays The Indie Rock Disco 12am. (Former) Meze Lounge DJs playing indie and rock classics. Also an NPclubhop night.
Wow Bar
4 Churchill Way, Cardiff. Gay venue. Free all day Sun-Thurs; before 11pm Fri + Sat. 029 2066 6247 / www.wowbarcardiff.com
Wednesdays Get Pounded Free. Hosted by Gypsy Divine, soundtracked by DJ Basil and named in reference to the £1 drinks offers. And nothing else.
Thursdays Let’s Have A Kiki Free. DJs Basil and Chris soundtrack non-stop fun and games.
Fridays Kitty’s Kabaret Free before 11. With WOW Showgirls Miss Kitty and Marcia, plus special guests every week.
Saturdays Hi Energy Free before 11. Pop and party upstairs, chart and dance downstairs. Sundays The Cuckoo Club Free. DJ Krys plays the tunes until late.