Hodge / James Dexter
Corn Exchange High Street, Newport, Newport, United KingdomWith the 500-capacity Corn Exchange having opened in Newport last month – the city’s first music venue in that size bracket since TJ’s closed in 2010 – it’s been quick to introduce club nights to its repertoire too. Paul Blandford’s first event under the Perc banner this year is a double-headliner job, with the techno …
Solo: Ben Hemsley
Swansea Arena Oystermouth Road, Bae Copr Bay, Swansea, Swansea, United KingdomJust over a year after Swansea’s biggest club brand Solo debuted in the city’s Arena with a Patrick Topping headline set, they return with Newcastle breakout star Ben Hemsley at the helm. A Topping protégé of sorts, with releases on his label Trick, Hemsley brings the north-east’s love of hardcore euphoria to his house mannerisms.
Oasis 96 + The Kopycat Killers + Scam Fender + Subarctic Monkeys
Depot Williams Way Curran Embankment, Cardiff, CardiffFour tribute acts saluting British blokey rock icons (plus the peculiarly British-sounding Killers), performed by one group of musicians who either side of various costume changes rack up about three hours onstage. Doubt any of the bands they’re imitating could manage that to be fair! (Oasis 96 appear to have a different singer, one ‘Miguel …
Yxngxr1
The Globe 125 Albany Road, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomAnother homecoming gig for this Cardiffian hip-hop type who accrued a following via Soundcloud before moving to London like so many before him. More akin to sleepy indiepop with breakbeats …
David Rust
Hands-in-air activity as Ponty club Platform11 entice trance DJ David Rust down from Glasgow to headline. Cycling between various trance subgenres in his energetic, technically adept sets, this one may …
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