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 …
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 …
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 …
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 and on-off MCing than rap per se, at least the last time I listened, Yxngxr1’s at the Globe as part of a Euro tour.
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 well be sold out by 4/20 and at the very least will be a sweatfest.
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