ROUGH & TUMBLE
Various venues, Aberystwyth. Fri 10 May
This looks like a more or less unique event for the coastal climes of Aberystwyth, and a fairly original partying concept in general. I mean, it’s a Friday night pub crawl in essence, so not when you put it like that, but Roughion – a duo of Gwion James and Steffan Woodruff, based in Aberystwyth and already possessing a rep for outside-the-box dance events – have pulled out many stops for this night, booking no less than six pubs and clubs and sticking various fun acts in each.
Rough & Tumble starts at 6pm, and with a peaktime ‘tude, as newish techno promoters Ymuno host a room in Cal’s Kitchen, a cafe normally specialising in fryups. Bar 46, one of the best small-scale places in town for rave jollies, has a crop of DJs from 10pm until late, with the big name being Cardiff’s Bodhi. A briskly-hyped name near the start of the decade, thanks to bootleg edits and original productions in a gospel-flecked deep house style, Bodhi has been lying low for the last two years, but this appearance and others might signal a resurgence.
Roughion themselves feature at another local clubby den, The Angel Inn, cranking out their multi-styled electronica alongside another large booking, drum’n’bass remix dons Phibes, plus lairy bassman local Paranoize.
Tickets: £20 (price includes tote bag and T-shirt). Info: facebook.com/roughion
words Noel Gardner