The Arch
11 Commercial Street, Neath. 07791 923214 / [email protected]
Fri 14 The Abbey Reunion 9pm-2am, £6/£5 adv. A 90s revival party, with DJs including Phil Hays. I guess you either know what The Abbey is/was, or you don’t.
The Attic
5-6 Castle Bailey St, Swansea. facebook.com/theatticswansea
Sat 28 Con7rol Freshers 007 9pm-3am. House and techno, lineup TBC, aimed at students.
Bar Cocoa
Broad Street, Barry.
facebook.com/cocoabarry
Fridays + Saturdays 10pm-3.30am, £3. With DJ James Bourne and sopecial guest appearances/live sets.
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 21 Killing Moon 10pm. Eighties alternative hits.
Saturdays Under A Groove 9pm-3am, £3 after 10. Funk and neo-soul.
Sat 15 Des Was A Bowie Fan 10pm, £5 adv. London clubnight, which occasionally travels to other locations such as this one, with a night promising a surfeit of Cure songs among its indiepop/soul/postpunk type playlist.
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 Beekay & 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.
Sat 15 Newport Underground Collective 2pm-4am, £5. House and techno from Code, Unity, Fixate and Perc residents from 2-11pm on the roof terrace, then until 4am inside.
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.
Thursdays (from Thurs 20) Dazed Disco 10pm-3am, £4 adv. Disco, house, funk and soul.
Fri 14 Official Inside Out Festival Warm Up Party 9pm-3.30am, from £5 adv. This is hosted by Stickylemons and will feature a bunch of jungle, drum’n’bass and bassline DJs .tbc, plus DJ Truth and the Uprising soundsystem delivering the dub reggae.
Fri 21 LNE x Climax 90s Rave 10pm-3am, £4 adv. Acid house (a subgenre famously associated with the 90s of course), techno, disco, house and garage.
Fri 5 Oct Criminal Chapter 2: The Sequel 10pm-3am, £6/£3 adv. House, techno and disco from Sam Jenkins & Charlie Hitchcock, AC Martines, Seb Bliss, Jordan West and Andy O’Hara. Presented in conjunction with a London clothing brand I’ve never heard of.
Saturdays The Shake Up 10pm-4am, £3. Pop, chart, house, r’n’b funk and soul from residents over two floors.
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.
Saturdays Juice 10pm-3am, £5/£4 NUS. Chart, dance and pop.
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 Void soundsystem.
Sat 8 Mr Traumatik 9pm-3am, from £5. Rude-lyricced drum’n’bass Welshman plays what Club Ice reckon is Ponty’s first d’n’b night this year. Residents from Back To Bassix and Heft also feature.
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. Upstairs: deep house, commercial house and tech-house. Downstairs: urban, chart, classics, r’n’b, hip-hop and UK garage.
Clwb Ifor Bach
Womanby St, Cardiff. 029 2023 2199 / www.clwb.net
Tue 18 Dazed 11pm-3am, £6-£12. Drum’n’bass headlined by Majistrate with MC Eksman, plus Clique with MC XL.
Tue 25 Dazed 11pm-3am, £6-£12. More drum’n’bass, this week headlined by S.P.Y. with Clique, Codify and host MC XL.
Fridays (bottom) Team Up! 11pm-3am, £3-£5. Weekly clubnight offering emo, pop-punk and alt-rock.
Fri 21 Chris Lorenzo 11pm-4am, £11 adv. Bassline/house fave embarks on his Me & You tour, which sees him DJing for the whole night.
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. Sat 29 is the 10th birthday of Dirty Pop, which is pretty amazing in fairness!
Coffee barker
Castle Arcade, Cardiff. 029 2022 4575 / facebook.com/coffeebarker
Fri 7 + Fri 5 Oct The Shakedown 8.30pm-12.30am, free. Funk, jazz, R&B, boogaloo etc from DJs Lee, Matt and Andy, newly in this venue on the first Friday of every month.
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.
Sat 29 Young T & Bugsey 11pm-5am, £10 adv. Upcoming grime/hip-hop duo from Nottingham.
Sundays Good Time Social Club 8pm, free. DJs til late and the weekend’s sports highlights.
Sun 12 Eclipse – Adults Special Needs Night 6.30-10.30pm, £3/carers free. New club night aimed at adults with autism, Downs Syndrome, or a physical or mental inability. This month’s edition has the theme of ‘glitter and gold’.
CREATURE SOUND
Ken Bu Kan, 1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 01792 301178 / www.creaturesound.com
Sat 1 Tribe Of Swan 10pm-4am, £10/£5 before 12. Psytrance night headlined by Chris B, with more guests TBC. This even will also have a fire pit and a swimming pool; “bring a towel” advise Tribe Of Swan, causing me to imagine dozens of psytrance fans’ towels collected in one room. Thanks for that.
THE DEPOT
Dumballs Road, Cardiff. 029 2034 1199 / www.depotcardiff.com
Sun 23 Big Fish Little Fish: No Sleep Til Bedtime 2-4.30pm, £7.50/free pre-walkers. Rave aimed at babies and toddlers, with DJs Eddy Temple Morris and Bunf from the Super Furry Animals.
THE DUKE
Old Market Street, Neath. 01639 643892.
Sat 15 Hedone 8pm-2am, £5. House and techno from Hedone residents plus Massiz, Lee Grey, Phil Williams and Jake Mcavoy.
Eddies
4 Quay Street, Haverfordwest. 01437 779595 / www.eddies.co
Sat 15 Black House & Rumble In The Jungle 9pm-5.30am, £18 adv. Drum’n’bass from Chase & Status (DJ set, also featuring Rage), A.M.C & Turno, Kelvin 373, Gardna, Bish, Rogue One, Boundary, Teej, One_Z, Late Night, Rob Why, Infamous Len and host Y Dott.
FERNHILL FARM
Pontsarn Road, Merthyr Tydfil. cellardoorcardiff.com
Sat 29 Cellar Door – Rave In A Barn 5pm-1am, £17 adv (camping £20 extra). Cardiff clubbing brand, now frequently found elsewhere in south Wales, have hired a farm for one night to play house and techno al fresco (well, in the barn strictly speaking).
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.
Thurs 26 The Big Freshers Icebreaker 10pm-3am, £12.50 adv.
Thurs 4 Oct Basshunter 10pm-3am, £5-£10. Basshunter is on something called The Freshers Tour, indeed he visits Cardiff first (Pryzm, Wed 26 Sept).
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.
FLuIDITY FREERUN ACADEMY
Unit G, Pengam Road, Cardiff. 07747 888931 / www.fluidityfreerunacademy.co.uk
Thurs 27 Canopy 10pm-4am, £10-£20. Drum’n’bass and breaks from Serum b2b a special guest TBC, Benny Page with MC Sye, Deekline and Canopy residents. Hosted By MCs XL and Sye Powered by Submerge Soundsystem.
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.
Thurs 27 The Block Party Freshers Rave 10pm-4am. This takes place across two other clubs as well as Glam (one is Tiger Tiger I think), is for students, and has Nathan Dawes headlining somewhere.
Fridays (from 21 Sept) Antisocial 11pm-4am, £4 adv/£6 VIP. Weekly student night with special guests Official Nancie (Fri 21) and Tom Zanetti (Fri 28, £8-£15).
Saturdays Prvlg 10pm-3am, £5-£10. Two rooms of quality music, everyone catered for it is claimed. Formerly known as Vanity.
The Globe
125 Albany Rd, Cardiff. 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
Fri 7 Ultimate Power 9pm-2am, £4 adv. Power ballad club night, here every few months.
Fri 14 Trojan Sound System 7.30-11pm, £13.50 adv. Selectors and vocalists from, or at least associated with via branding, the legendary reggae label.
Fri 21 DJ Yoda 8-11pm, £10 adv. Japey hip-hop cut-up audiovisual fella, plays here about once a year.
Gwdihw
Guildford Crescent, Cardiff. 029 2039 7933 / www.gwdihw.co.uk
Sat 1 Get Down For Cancer 9pm, £5. Cancer Research benefit night with live music from skunkadelic and DJ sets from Triz & Reba, Laüft, Ben Hunter (City Bass), DJ Click and Dizzy Pineapple.
Tue 4 Buena Disco Social Club 8pm-2am, £3. Launch night. DJs Morris, Ross Harvey and Harry Fitz offer “an ethereal mix of disco, funk and eclectic world music”.
Fri 7 Beat Cartel 9pm. First night in this venue for this clubnight. Reggae, funk, disco, and hip-hop with a smattering of house, tech and the unknown is what they claim to offer.
Sat 8 + Sat 29 Cosmogramma 9pm. With a live set from Tetes Des Pois on Sat 8 (£5/£3 adv) and Skinny Pelembe (£6/£4 adv), plus DJs.
Fri 21 Tropical Soundclash 9pm, £5/£3 adv. Worldwide grooves from DJ Sam Redmore and live percussionist The Mighty Magoo. Launched here in June.
Sun 23 Welsh Beatbox Championships 4pm-12am, £7/£3 daytime only/£4 evening only. Featuring main solos, loop station, tag teams and under-18s categories.
Tue 25 The Shutdown Show 9pm, £4. Hip-hop, grime and r’n’b upcomers. Hosted by MC Prendy and featuring live performances from Lucas J Rowe, Dom James and Lloydylew, plus DJ sets from Don and Noah Lloyd.
Fri 28 Pleasuredome 9pm, £4/£3 before 11. Eighties dance goodness, last Friday of most months in here.
Sun 30 Speakeasy x Zambouley Bros 7.30pm, £5. DJs and performers playing music of all genres and backgrounds to show the diversity of the Cardiff artist, apparently.
INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL
Bute Park, Cardiff. www.insideoutcardiff.co.uk
Sat 29 Inside Out Festival 12-10.30pm, £30 adv/£42.50 VIP. Featuring Rudimental (DJ set), TQD, My Nu Leng, Not3s, Mike Skinner, M.O, Foor, Nathan Dawe, Sole and Local x Fernquest on the main stage; Carl Craig, Bambounou, Big Miz, O’Flynn, D & Lamb b2b Eben Rees, Lloyd Haines, Casey Lee and AC Martines on the Memorex x Get Funky stage; a drum’n’bass stage with Bladerunner b2b Voltage (Kings Of The Rollers), Logan D, Mr Traumatik, David Boomah, Bellyman and Minus b2b Frenzee; and AJ, Fabian Dubz, Hilly, Jigga, Mista Bibs, Paz, Piddy, DJ T, Glamma Lexus and Lucas Rowe on the VIP stage. See Clubs.
INTRIM
Queen Victoria Street, Tredegar. 01495 725510.
Sat 22 MOTUS 8pm-2am, £10. House and techno from Joey Rich, Luke Haworth, Kurtis Simpson b2b Tom Williams, Dan Newman, Rossy D b2b Brad Dunk and Alter:Ego.
Jacob’s Market
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. 029 2039 0939.
Sat 29 Teak 10pm-5am, £13 adv. House, techno and disco from Thomas Bullock aka Tom Of England, David J Bull and James Teak.
Laser Station
Bridge Wharf, Carmarthen. 01267 235648 / www.laserstationwales.com
Sat 8 Concur 9pm-3am, £8. House, techno and minimal techno night headlined by Rudosa and also featuring Kyle Waters, Joe Jones, Scott Phillips and Ryan Holmes.
The LAST RESORT
207 High Street, Swansea. www.lastresortswansea.com
Sat 1 + Sat 6 Oct Dead Of Night 10pm-3am, £3. Goth/alternative club night, on the first Saturday of every month (apart from August).
Sat 8 Dogruff Open Air Summer Series Part 3 2pm-2am, £8 adv. Techno and minimal specialists, with a night elsewhere in Swansea in early October too (see Clubs), do a day-and-night party here with residents.
Fri 14 Beats Not Bombs 7pm-2am, £5 (suggested donation). Bass-heavy rave in the garden raising money for the Swansea Drop-In Centre.
Fri 5 Oct The Swansea Fringe: Wired 6pm-12am, £12-£20 (full weekend pass). The complete listings for the Swansea Fringe, which is on the first weekend of October, will be in next month’s issue, but this is a sort of clubby thing so I can include it here. Live and DJ sets, variously, from Roughion, Dogruff DJs, CrazeTheJack, Rufus Mufasa, Jamey P and Dead Crow.
LOGIC FESTIVAL
Ynysfoprgan Farm, Swansea. 07763 000382 / www.logicfestival.wales
Sat 8 Logic Festival 11am-11pm, £30 adv. Third year running for this hard dance festival with a capacity of 4,999 (they specify that figure, I guess it’s a tax band thing) and five arenas. Logic/Delusion arena: Judge Jules, Argy, Will Rees, Danny Slade b2b Big Al, Rhys Thomas & Dan McShane, Jonny Griffiths & Callan Christie, Rob Rees, John Hughes, Rob EJ, Andrew ‘Butty’ Davies and Richie Williams. Logic Hardcore arena: Darren Styles, Cally & Juice, MKN, Ed ET & DTR, Frisky, Fallon, Last Of The Mohicans, Jason P & Jay P Junior, D Grove, Jamo, Misteve, Pesky & Onyx and hosts K-Ner & Skyz. New Town arena: Official Nancie, Dale Shocker Lee & Steve John, Chris Miller, James Wild, Steve Edge, Lee Grey, Michael Connolly, Mark Muller, Dan Pritchard and Rob Evans. 100% Old Skool arena: Greg P, Trixta, Nicky G, John Steffanick, Newman & Stiens, Martin Dibble, Dan Thomas, Teri Simmonds, Lloyd-E and Mobs v Jenks. The Evolution Experience arena: Eddie Loco, DJ Damage, Nextlevel, Dip-E, Rob Davies, Audio Nitrate & Stylezzy, Rhod Morgan, Marky, Aksrevenge & LRB, Ryan Rees & Martin Rogers, Limey, DJ Cloud and DJ Collycol. Plus there’s an afterparty at the Rainbow Rooms until 6am.
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 10pm-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.
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 Iqos Social Club / Intuition 7-9pm: Iqos Social Club; 9pm-late: Intuition with DJs Monique B and Dan Willow.
Fridays Feeling Soul, funk, disco, rare groove and r’n’b with resident DJs and happy hour from 5-8pm.
Saturdays House Of Play House and r’n’b from resident DJs. Sundays Secret Resident DJs play 90s music.
The Moon
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 / [email protected]
Wed 27 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.
MOZARTS
Walter Road, Swansea. 01792 649984 / facebook.com/mozartsbar
Sat 6 Oct Dogruff 10pm-3am, £15-£20 adv. Ninth birthday bash for Swansea’s minimal supremos. Ferro (VBX/Fuse) is the headliner, with Luke Tainton, Shaun Edwards and Mikki James also billed. There’ll be an afterparty somewhere too. See Clubs.
NATIONAL MUSEUM CARDIFF
Cathays Park, Cardiff. 029 2057 3500 / www.
museumwales.ac.uk/cardiff
Fri 5 Oct Hush Silent Disco 8pm-12am, £14 adv. The return of an event which sold out in 2017, offering you the chance to don headphones and shuffle among the art, fossils etc in this storied building.
The Neon
Clarence Place, Newport. 01633 533666 / www.theneon.co.uk
Sat 15 David Rodigan 8pm-2am, £12 adv. Celeb reggae selector. The evening also features DJ Nezzy, DJ Juicy, Grantos Productions and Ecko Vybz Sound.
Neon Lounge
Market Street, Newport. 01633 533666 / theneon.co.uk/neon-bar-lounge
Fri 5 Oct Old School R’n’B Night 9pm-2am, free. With some old skool hip-hop and reggae too, on the first Friday of every month.
Saturdays Urban Dance Night 9pm-3am, free. Classic urban, house and r’n’b from DJ Steve C.
Sat 8 Switch 9pm-3am, £3. Opening night for this house and techno session with DJs Quadey, Chris Cain (Perc), David Foster and residents James Evans and Ryan Goodman.
OCEAN ARTS CARDIFF
Unit 2, East Moors Business Park, East Moors Rd, Cardiff. 029 2132 0030 / www.oceansrtscardiff.co.uk
Sat 1 Warehouse Afro Beats 10pm-3am, £10/£5 before 11. DJs playing Afrobeats, Afro-pop , soukous coupe decale, South African house, Zim dancehall and more. Normally on the second Saturday of each month, but on the first this time.
Penarth Ex-Serivcemen’s Club
69 Windsor Road, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 / www.penarthexservicemensclub.co.uk
Sat 15 Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm-12am, £3 adv. An NYE of classic soul, northern soul etc, also on in November this year.
THE PeRCH
66 Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 462002 / www.theperchswansea.co.uk
Wed 26 10243 9pm-3am, £3 adv. New techno night on every week from this date. Named after the Berlin area code apparently.
PITCHER & PIANO
Wind Street, Swansea. 01792 461312 / www.pitcherandpiano.com/
Fri 28 Sonik Friday 9pm-3am. House and techno here on the last Friday of each month. Cellan Eynon plays outside until 12am; Tom Westerholm inside from 11pm.
PLATFORM 11
High Street, Pontypridd. Fri-Sun 7.30pm-2am. www.platform11.co.uk
Fri 5 Oct 017 7pm-4am, £3 early bird. The latest long ’un in this Ponty nightspot is headlined by Ulster trance/house fella Paul Skelton.
PONTARDAWE aRTS CENTRE
Herbert Street, Pontardawe. 01792 863722 / www.pontardaweartscentre.com
Sat 22 Soul Circle 7pm-1am, £7/£6 adv. Soul, mod classics, Latin, bluebeat, northern soul etc from DJs Bill Kealy, Glyn Preece, Dave Weir and Mark Taylor.
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.
Thursdays Top Of The Pops 10pm-3am. Discounted drinks, free entry and a chance to party the night away, all advertised using the logo from defunct TV show Top Of The Pops which, as a national brand of venues, I assume Popworld are using with the full permission of the BBC.
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.
Wednesdays Quids In 8pm-3am. Student night where drinks are £1.
Thursdays Pop Rocks 10pm-3am. The very best in pop-punk, pop-rock, alternative music and pop classics.
Fridays Ain’t No Party Like A Popworld Party 8pm-3am, £2-£4. Saturdays Club Classics 8pm-3am, £2-£4.
Pryzm
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2023 3854 / www.pryzm.co.uk/cardiff
Mondays Quids In 10pm-3am, £1 adv/£6 VIP. Student night featuring various special guests: Wes from Love Island on Mon 3, Jedward on Mon 1 Oct.
Wed 19 Dappy 10pm-3am, £6/£5 adv. Is it students that are mainly responsible for Dappy still being popular? It seems like it is, to me.
Wed 26 Basshunter 10pm-3am, £6/£5 adv. Now it’s definitely students that are responsible for Basshunter still being popular.
Thurs 20 Ramz 10pm-3am, £2 early bird. I don’t know who this guy is but it says he’ll be performing all his hits, always a popular move that.
Thurs 27 Majestic 10pm-3am, £2 early bird. DJ, MC and producer from the Kiss FM stable.
Fridays Smack. 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Weekly student event described by one enthusiast as “lit Friday nights with chilled fam bams and regular bants”. Fri 21 is the Freshers Launch and has special guests Ill Phil; Fri 5 Oct is this night’s eighth birthday and featurers Cause & Affect.
Saturdays Agenda 10pm-3am, £5. Three music arenas, VIP booths, other stuff. Sun 23 Wired 10pm-4am, £6 adv. Bass music, bassline and drum’n’bass with Fineart and a special guest TBC
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.
Saturdays The Sound Of Saturday 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. 07763 000382 / www.the-rainbowrooms.com
Fridays 10pm-4am. Resident DJs every week.
Saturdays 9pm-4am. With residents plus guest DJs each week – in September it’s Jay P (Sat 1); the Logic Festival 3 aftershow party (Sat 8, 6am finish); Rob Rees (Sat 15); Cool with Dale ‘Shocker’ Lee, Steve John and a special guest TBC (Sat 22) and Chris Miller (Sat 29).
ReDHOUSE
Old Town Hall, High Street, Merthyr Tydfil. Free. 01685 384111 / [email protected]
Sat 29 Northern Soul Night 7pm, £10. Merthyr Scooter Club and Quality Sounds with a lineup of south Wales’ top soul selectors: Geraint & Celyn (Quality Sounds), James Parker (Café-A-Gogo), Eddie Crole, Laurence Cullen (Soul Island), Craig Brick (Manor Suite) and Phill Mansell (Merthyr Got Soul).
Revolution
Castle Street, Cardiff. Open from 11am. 029 2023 6689 / www.revolution-bars.co.uk
Tuesdays Mode 9pm-3am, £4 adv. Popular student night.
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.
Saturdays Sink 10pm-3am. Hip-hop, drum’n’bass, dubstep etc, with special guests plus resident DJs Dubman, Swiss Elf and South.
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.
Thurs 27 Freshers UV Neon Rave 10pm-4am, £9 adv. Described by the organisers as “a freshers’ party on steroids”, which I kind of assume describes most freshers’ parties. #gains
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.”
Saturdays Kanaloa Polynesian style area with cocktails, VIP booths, dancers etc.
Tramshed
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 / www.tramshedcardiff.com
*Sat 22 Matt Jam Lamont Presents History Of Garage & Bass 9pm-3am, £11-£17. See Clubs for more on this night, which features Matt Jam Lamont himself b2b Cartier, Oxide & Neutrino, Zed Bias, Champion with MC Serious and Jamie Duggan.
Fri 28 Shangri-La 8pm-3am, £20 adv. The opening event of their autumn/winter series, headlined by Seth Troxler and Carista.
Fri 5 Oct Triple Cooked: Cardiff – Weird & Wonderful 10pm-3am, £6-£12. “An explosion of live art, unique decor, live music and disco, house, bass, garage, grime and more.” They never name any of the DJs, which I find pretty weird.
Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall)
11a + 12 Church Street, Cardiff. 029 2022 8883 / www.undertonecardiff.com
Sat 4 Flatline 10pm-4am, £7-£10 adv. Drum’n’bass with a confirmed lineup for once! Filthy Habits headlines, Low, Dox, JE3, Raudi TT, Oni and Indo support.
Fri 7 Solar Orbit 10pm-4am, £5. Techno, house and tech-house with headliner So Sash.
Sat 8 Paranoize 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 14 Cosmonaut 11pm. Bassline and drum’n’bass.
Thurs 20 Pressure 10pm. Drum’n’bass.
Fri 21 Selecta 11pm, £5/£3 adv. UK garage classics.
Sat 22 Shelter 11pm, £5/£3 adv. Drum’n’bass.
Tue 25 Skank Ground 10pm. Bassline and drum’n’bass from two DJ/two MC Bristol quartet Dark Moon plus Shell Supply (ManGo, Styx and Pablow), Reload b2b Low and OCG.
Fri 28 Switch Up 10pm. Garage, grime, bassline and drum’n’bass.
Sat 29 Rotary Club 11pm. House and disco, headlined by Owain Bellis of the 124 label. Based in Pontyclun according to the internet, didn’t know that.
Thurs 4 Oct Pull Up 10pm, £5/£3 adv. “Get ur bionic arms ready nd ur augmented eyeballs locked nd loaded cos this shitshows gonna test the limits of human anatomy.” It’s drum’n’bass of course.
VALE WAREHOUSE
Cambria House, Penarth Road, Cardiff. facebook.com/valewarehouse
Sat 29 Got Bass Warehouse 10pm-4am, from £10. Bassline specialists with a big show in a big shed. Confirmed so far: Distinkt, Shapes, Shosh (24 hour Garage Girls) with more TBC.
Wed 3 Oct Mayhem University Inflatable Rave Cardiff 10pm-3am, £5 adv. “Think of a WAREHOUSE rave, but the dance floor is like a giant wipeout course. The ULTIMATE grown-ups playground.” The fun could even be HEIGHTENED if everyone was on KETAMINE.
THE VAULTS / PORTLAND HOUSE
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.vaultspresents.com
Sat 29 Circle Eight & United Sounds 10pm-5am, £16.50 adv. Drum’n’bass across two rooms. Room 1: Nicky Blackmarket, Basslayerz, Slipz, Blue Boma, Hoodfella Developement Showcase , Nick The Greek, Somewhite Kid & Donzilla, Joe Blow, T-Bone, Kallista And Lowgli, plus host MCs Fatman D, Spyda, Sweetpea, Weeji, Reeality, Xl, Jaydee, Chew and Vizable. Room 2: DNA takeover featuring Harry B, Nydro, Bason, Juice, Topz, Minimal, Presto, Benji, DJ Alx, Jawdan, Atik, Riddim68, Plethora, Dark D, Reload, Oni and Apollo, plus MCs RC, Missy, Asha, Mvp, Chronic, Drop, Tango, Delta, 4Dee, Hayez and 7Breaths.
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 Party Like It’s 1999 7pm-5am, £4/£1.99 before 12. 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.