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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. Sun 1 A Taste Of Kaya 2pm, £6-£10. Hippy dippy festival in Margam Park previewed here with Dub Culture DJs, a Shiko drumming troupe and live sets from Natty Paynter, Tree House Fire, Roughion and The Scribes. Plus Hully Gully DJs until the wee hours.
Aberystwyth Students Union
Old College, King Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 621700 / www.aber.ac.uk
Fri 6 Summer Ball 2016 9pm-3am, £40 adv. Apparently anyone can go to this, not just students, so if you fancy seeing DJ Fresh, Everything Everything, Luvbug (aka Marvin Humes), 5ive, Rewire & Varski and Jaguar Skills, with many more acts TBC, step this way.
The Angel Inn
57-59 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth. 01970 617878.
Fri 6 Rhythm’n’Bass 11pm-4am. “Extreme bassage” from the Gemini Twins plus many more TBC. Sun 1 Junglist Dub Club 11pm-4am, £3. Jon1st, a DJ who won I DMC title I am informed, headlines over Fujin, Dark Fada, Neurotik and residents.
Balter Festival
Secret location, Monmouthshire. www.balterfestival.com
Fri 3-Sun 5 June 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.
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 5 The Manor 10pm-4am, £5 adv. New night of grime, drum’n’bass and bassline from Brummie MCs Sox and Lil Choppa, plus Fielding, Styx and Mr L.A.. Thurs 19 Leng It Down 9pm-3am, £10 adv. Stickylemons present a night of ragga jungle badness (meaning goodness), from Top Cat, Mr Traumatik, Gavin Woo, DJ Truth/Uprising Sound System, Mace, Chew, Bason, Paradoxxx, Joe Blow, Slim Teng, Big Ron and Ben Britton. Fri 6 Aperture 10pm-4am, £5-£10. Hospital Records stalwart Logistics headlines this one, alongside Max Long, Format, Fluidity, Static, Ohms and XL. Saturdays Shindig 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, funk and soul from residents over two floors. Drinks deals. *Sun 29 Format 10pm-4am, £5-£12. Berlin-based techno/house fellow Sven Weisemann visits Cardiff for the first time in yonks. Nice one. Kofi Tarris, Scott Kerr, Butch Queen and Ross Anderson back him up.
Cardiff University Students Union
Park Place, Cardiff. All listings apply to term time only. 029 2078 1458 / [email protected]
Wednesdays YOLO 9pm-2am, £4/£3 adv/free before 11. New midweek club night promising both your favourite tunes and great offers. Good name, really on trend. Saturdays 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. Sun 29 Boxlife 10pm, £8 adv. Alex Arnout, a London house head with ties to the Hot Creations label, comes to Swaznia on this bank holiday.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Thurs 26 Brooklyn Zoo 10.30pm-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 13 Bullion 11pm-4am, £13. Big booking for drum’n’bass heads in the form of Logan D and MC Bassman. Fri 20 Journey 10pm, £5-£10. Main room: trance/hard trance classics from S.H.O.K.K, Marc West & Andy Bagguley and Richie Knight b2b Joe Byrne. Room 2: Journey Presents Back To The Vinyl with Hywel Matthews, Tom The Winner b2b Lanie, P.Midi, Franko and Fattman b2b Salted Slug. See Clubs. *Fri 3 June 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. 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. Sun 1 Slice 10.30pm, £4/£3. Another instalment of this pop-punk house party. Although they called it a pizza party last time. You used to be able to buy pizza in this venue, a very long time ago. Sun 29 Cellar Door 10pm-4am, £10. Another bank holiday house and techno party from regular indulgers in such things.
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 4 June 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. Sun 1 May Bank Holiday Party 9pm-4am, £4. This will feature pole dancers and burlesque performers apparently.
The Full Moon / The Moon Club
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Wed 18 Brian Wilson Pre/Afterparty 5pm, free. DJs Shelley Norton and Liam Curtin play classic and rare Beach Boys vinyl. 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 14 Killing Moon 11pm, £4. Nght celebrating 80s alternative music. Sat 21 The Hold Up 9pm, £6.50 adv. Monthly hip-hop night, with its May lineup TBC right now.
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. Sat 14 has Kenzie out of Blazin’ Squad as the special guest. Sat 7 Glam Rooftop 4-11pm, £15 adv. Cadenza Records’ house maestro Andrea Oliva, who helms a big night in Ibiza (aren’t they all), plays this venue’s first rooftop rave of 2016. It looks to be sold out though. Sun 1 The Mayfair Sessions 9pm-3am. First bank holiday Sunday is a house crowdpleaser, with DJ Russke, CJ iDJ and Darrell Privett. Sun 29 Kisstory 9pm-3am. With special guests Romeo and Harvey out of So Solid.
The Globe
125 Albany Road, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
Fri 6 DJ Yoda 8-11pm, £6 adv. Audiovisual hip-hop cutup goofball returns to Cardiff. Don’t know the specific details of his set here though.
Gwdihw
6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Fri 13 Superchango Takeover 9pm-2.30am, £4/£3 adv. With a classic funk set this month. Fri 20 Cafe A Go Go 9pm, £4. Groovy mod sounds of all types plus a live set from Red Jam. Fri 27 Pleasuredome 9pm-2.30am, £5/£3 before 11. Conroy, Deemo and Teoman play the electronic music of the 80s. Sat 7 Blue Honey 9pm, £3. Modern disco and electro from Van Pelt and Veto. Sat 14 Awesome Tunes From Africa 9pm, £4. Live music from Darbuka plus Sure Shot, Fat City and Club Tropicana DJs. Sat 21 Mise En Bouche 9pm. DJing from Gidge and Toclifrench. Sat 28 Hully Gully v Hashtag Unity 9pm, £4. With Dolenz and Dan Jose representing from the latter group. Sun 29 Delete 1pm, £15/£12. See Clubs for more on this sold-out day of house and techno. Gerd Janson and Jeremy Underground are the special guests; Matt Owen, Marc Parsons and Lee Graves the residents.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Sun 29 Babylon Rooftop Party 3-10pm, £15 adv. Annual student-centric event offers a day of tunes from residents and guests; special cocktails; face painting and an afterparty somewhere thrown in with the price. All sold out sorry.
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 because 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. Sun 1 is a bank holiday special, whatever that may entail.
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. Sun 1 The Meze Reunion: May Ball Alternative, drum’n’bass, indie and rock featuring a DJ set by members of the band Hacktivist.
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. Sat 7 has Fatman Scoop shouting in the headline role (£13.50 adv/£10 early bird).
Mozarts
Walter Road, Swansea. 01792 649984 / www.mozartsswansea.co.uk
Fri 6 Hip-Drop 8pm-3am. Mod, Stax, reggae and northern soul. Fri 13 Yum Yum Club 8pm-3am. Funk, soul, reggae, disco and hip-hop. Sat 7 Rewind 8pm-2.30am, free before 12. Nineties revival night.
The Neon
Clarence Place, Newport. 01633 533666 / www.theneon.co.uk
Sun 29 Hed Kandi 9.30pm-3am, £8 adv. Featuring DJ sets from Kisch and Tom Da Lips, plus hundreds of women who look exactly like the drawings on the Hed Kandi compilation albums. Or your money back.
Penarth Ex-Servicemens Club
69 Windsor Rd, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 21 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12.30am, £3 adv. A night of classic soul, northern soul etc, at this venue every other month (July, September and November are still to come).
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
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 7 + Sat 4 June 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
Sat 7 + Sat 4 June Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month. Sun 29 Delusion 10pm-4.30am, £15/£12 adv. Trance classics in room 1 from Big Al, Rob Davies, Rhys Thomas, Jonny Griffiths, Callan Christie and Nic Lawson; house and techno in room 2 from Jamie Hernandez, Paul McLoughin, Liam Evans and Lloyd Haines.
Sin City
Dilwyn Street, Swansea. 01792 468892 / www.sincityclub.co.uk
Tuesdays Hustle 10pm-3am, £3/£2 before 12. Funk, soul, Motown 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.
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.
Subsonic Festival
Location TBC, Usk. www.subsonicweekender.co.uk
Fri 6-Sun 8 Subsonic Weekender £70/£65. This used to be called Gearfest and professes to offer funk, soul, reggae, ska, folk, balkan, house, techno, old skool. disco, breaks, drum’n’bass, old skool, glitch-hop, acid house, hip-hop, electroswing, psybreaks, jungle and psytrance. Yikes! Here’s who’s playing. Live: Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, First Degree Burns, Magnus Major, Crinkle Cuts, Ushti Baba, Will Tun & The Wasters, Million Way, Sounds Of Harlowe, Dephicit & Summer Bright, The Inexplicables, Mount Nakara, Solana, Manushka, Mr Tea & The Minions, Captain Accident & The Disasters, Lounge Cat Ideals, Kieran & The Iguanas, Offbeat, D.I.B (aka Trafic & Twitchee), Habitus And Osmo. DJs: Distro & Twitchee , Gerra & Stone, Ed Cox, Leeroy, Vinyl Junkie, Rachael Ec, Father Funk, Sharkman, Phibes, X-ray Ted, Broken Eye, Marcus Allen, Kotch, Bear Twists, Selecta J-Man, Pull Up Collective, King Long Ting, Octo Pi, Cantle Ft. Trafic Mc, Shosh Osh Begosh , Wamjam, Ned Kelly, Das Butcher, DJ Hiphoppopotamus, Omega Flight, Itoa, Stitch, Hookline & Sinker, Pedeadstrian, Blokeye, Effigy, Error One, Weeeble, String Live b2b Bates, Worm Disco Club, Mobility, Jon Birch, Digital Danboi, Royal, Circe’s Diner, Only Takes A Day, The Happy Few, And Benny B (hosting Poetry Slam. MCs: Remidy, Trafic, Twitchee, Y Dott and Dirt Bagginz.
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. Sun 1 Shotgun Rules Old Skool Bank Holiday Sunday 10pm-3am, £4 adv. They claim that “Prices are slashed back to what you would expect from decades ago” but this is basically untrue even if the number of decades in this case is one.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 0117 9259273 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
Sun 1 Shangri-La 2pm-12am, £20 adv. House promoters with a hefty lineup for their bank holiday alldayer: Joris Voorn, Yousef, Kydus and residents Nic Saunders, Lee Charnock, Adam Carey, Caracal & Eben Rees, James Coughlin & Josh Green, Josh Thomas, Dave Eaves and Puff Richards. Room 2: The Lighthouse Project present Tom Francis, Stu Gray, Ben Fowler, Nicky Cursio and Lewis Elsey.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Fri 6 Groove Theory 10pm, £8 adv. With a headline set by Al Kent, disco edit don. Fri 13 Castles Nights 10pm, £5. Techno from Edu Franco (Spain), Corey Lewis and Dai Murder. Fri 20 Selecta 11pm, £7/£5. Leeson, Onslaught and Woo Ha serve up classic garage and grime. Fri 27 Temple 10pm-4am, £7 adv. Monthly drum’n’bass night, launching the Outlook Festival in some context but with a TBC lineup. Sat 7 Zanzibar 10pm, £7. The guys behind Temple launch a new night with Jus Now, a UK/Trinidad duo who combine drum’n’bass, UK bass music and soca, if you can imagine that. Sat 14 Gangster’s Paradise 11pm, £5/£3 before 11.30. Pre-2010 hip-hop and r’n’b night. Sat 21 Rotary Club 10pm-4am, £5/£3 before 12. Disco, house and boogie. Sat 28 Cardiff’s Finest 10pm-4am. House and techno from Matt Bailyes b2b Adam Ward, Dale Rankmore, Masy, Manifest and Matthew Griffin. Sun 1 + Sun 29 Move On Up 10pm, £5/£4. Funk, soul, Motown, disco and swing.
Unit
Neath Road, Swansea. www.facebook.com/events/1708523832750187
Sat 14 Strictly Techno Warehouse Party 8pm-3am, £10 adv. Featuring sets from Blap (live), Luke Winds, Blake Parker, Jason Wilkinson, Lewis Elsey b2b Nicky Hewitt, Sam Balla b2b Sean Morris and Rhys Jenkins, plus a quality soundsystem. The FB event page with the long string of digits is the closest you’re getting to a contact number I’m afraid.
The Vaults
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Sun 1 Memorex 10pm-5am, £15-£25. The Martinez Brothers headline the main room for this big house bank holiday banker. Haematoma, Scott Kerr, Sinky and JV are also in there; room 2 has Lucas Alexander b2b Incus, Griff b2b Pat Hickey, Masy b2b Drew Watkins, Josh Tarrant b2b Alex Taylor, Ryan Howells b2b Kurtis Simpson, Ross Powel b2b Gatesy and Teri Simmonds. The Banking Hall has Gareth Hopkins, Terry Hardwicke and Mike Touhey. This looks to be sold out though.
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. Sun 1 The May Ball Featuring a guest set from Radio 1’s dancehall selector Seani B.
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 June 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.