The Miniature Music Press - March 2011 by The MMP

Issue No. 18 March 2011

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Editors: Aimée-Jade Hayes; Rowan Liggett; Simon Read.

Hello humans,

Staff Writers: Jonathan Day, Sion Trefor.

And, more specifically, Cardiffians.

Contributors: Greg Barton (GRAB); Bill Bellamy; Pippa Bennett; Emma Gould; Beckie Jordan; Kaptin; Jake May; Matt Pasternakiewicz; James Payne; Ruffstylz; J.M. Strange. Staff Photographer: Paul Roberts CONTACT: Demos/CDs To: The Miniature Music Press Ltd. Kings Road Art Studios, 183a Kings Road, Cardiff, CF11 9DF General: info@themmp.tv Advertising: ads@themmp.tv Listings: listings@themmp.tv

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myspace.com/themmp twitter.com/themmp Printed by: Sharper Print

COVER DESIGN BY: Adam Chard is a b-movieobsessed freelance designer and photographer from Cardiff. His website is croatoandesign.co.uk and you can follow him on Twitter @croatoandesign. He’s also part of hack/flash, a community arts group at hackflash.co.uk.

Having finally shaken off those New Year re-adjustments and forgotten all of 2010’s misdemeanours, it feels 2-0-1-1 has properly commenced. February brought us some fine spectacles with C.W. Stoneking, Efterklang, Thee Vicars, Eux Autres, The Go! Team, Jose Gonzalez and many, many more flowing through the city. And March looks just as peachy. Not least within these pages, where we, as always, accommodate, some of the city’s bulging bile duct of talent. Colorama are ruthlessly quizzed on the back of their unrelenting sequence of triumphs. The rootsy country stylings of Zervas & Pepper are considered and approved. While Afro Cluster’s hip-hop-funk bomb is still being defused as we speak. We are also trebling our live reviewing efforts all for your online delectation at www. themmp.tv, as well as filling these pages with all of the reviews, features, listings and musical paraphernalia you would ever wish for in a handbag/pocket-sized package. Plus, we now have a new column covering your alternative rock and metal needs fronted by the incandescently superb GRAB. Enjoy it you fiends. You’ve earned it. The MMP xx

6-7 Colorama

8 ZERVAS & PEPPER

PLUS... 4-5 Music News

12 INTERVIEW: SHAPE 15 Live Reviews

16-17 CD Reviews

20-29 Previews & Listings

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Music News

ROYKSOPP VIDEO FEATURES THE DIFF! At the end of last year international chart toppers Röyksopp launched a competition for film makers to craft them a shiny new music video. The prize included cash but mainly huge amounts of kudos. The winning entry for their song Forsaken Cowboy was created by Matt Callanan and filmed entirely on location in Cardiff. It’s a superb, surreal journey starring a modern day cowboy on a 1970s push bike. Perfectly interpreting the underlying sadness of the music, it’s self-evident why the band chose it to represent them. Starring Chris Capel as the cowboy, who some of us will recognise from the local acoustic circuit, it’s impressive work and we heartily congratulate Senor Callanan and his fine, hearty efforts. The single is available now. mattcallananproductions.com

Small Nations Big Celebrations Wales is home to some delightful little festivals and 2011 sees the 10th birthday of one of its quirkier, non-mainstream events. Small Nations is held on a farm near the pretty village of Cilycwm in the gentle rolling hills of Carmarthenshire. The organisers are promising to pull out all the stops to celebrate their big weekend-long anniversary. This probably means even more exotic acts, outlandish performers and every conceivable type of countryside worshipping maniac you could shake a stick at. It will run from the 8th to the 10th of July and will almost certainly not rain... Happy birthday! smallnations.co.uk

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BARFLY BECOMES BOGIEZ! With the ear-shattering death knell of Barfly Cardiff last year, it’s fair to say that the rock population of the city were collectively winded. It was a very sad day indeed. But those of us with hope and spirit always believed that the venue would re-open in some form or another given its prize location and long-held reputation. And sure enough, news has filtered through that Bogiez has taken the Kingsway bar-club over. And what better hands for a rock venue to fall into than the Bogiez crew. With or without a venue, the team have been putting on rock, metal and alternative nights in the city for decades and doing it with the kind of passion that’s essential when organising an entire month-long programme. Promising a blend of live music, band open mics and a continued, full-time run of their trademark club events, rock is truly back on Cardiff’s agenda. Welcome Bogiez Rock Bar and Club! Hell yeah! .......................... bogiez.com

Cardiff Visualized! Submit Your Poster Designs!

Cardiff based designer Adam Chard has dreamed up a cunning plan to help boost the local music scene and promote our wealth of artistic design talent in one fell swoop. He wants almost anyone and everybody to e-mail copies of their gig posters over to create a new blog simply called Cardiff Gig Posters. He intends it to become ‘a visual representation and record of the music scene in our city’. Here at the MMP we delight in showcasing a new artist every month on our cover and have become acutely aware it’s not just musicians finding their feet in the ‘Diff. There’s a whole bleedin’ army of creative types out there in need of some appreciation! So to see a combination of clever designs and fun nights out visit: ............................................... cardiffgigposters.tumblr.com

WE//ARE//ANIMAL

What We’ve Been

Listening To Simon:

SOAP & SKIN

BROTHER OF SLEEP

Serendipitous and ethereal kookiness from Austria of all places. It’s like a lullaby sang purely to discourage you from moving. But mostly out of fear. Utterly lush vocals and minimalist piano build a little cotton wool omelette to rest your head. myspace.com/soapandskin Aimee:

IT’S ALL COMING INTO FOCUS Focus Wales Festival, to be held at Llangollen Pavilion on 27th/28th May, looks set to pull together a lip-dampening array of Welsh talent - the likes of Masters In France, We//Are//Animal, Paper Aeroplanes, Gallops, Reaper In Sicily, Meilir and The Gentle Good all already being confirmed. The brainchild of Wrexham based promoters Neal Thompson and Andy Jones, the festival is also set to run a competition for bands and musicians to get a prized slot, of which you can find more on the web address below. Alongside the music side of things, though, the “focus” will be on a whole heap of industry minds who are joining in the frivolities with talks, workshops and discussion forums popping up like moles in a healthy soil patch. The MMP, for one, will be there with our tent poles pre-erected. focuswales.com

Cosmo, Cardiff’s premier modern political folkie, has been keeping himself busy as of late. His involvement in the Cardiff branch of the Folk Against Fascism movement has led to several profile gigs in the city, giving a big thumbs down to the BNP’s co-option of folk music for the purposes of hate-spreading and general short-sightedness. Now, though, he’s taken further steps with his wonderfully political new LP Picket Line Party. A new free track will be released every month or so, coinciding more or less with the FAF gigs, so that by year’s end the whole thing will be complete. With titles such as Oh! To Be In England (Now the EDL’s in Town), the MMP are expecting some confrontational but darn well-written songsmithery to come. folkagainstfascism.com ............................ cosmoguitar.net

TU FAWNING

I KNOW YOU NOW

Sheesh. Portland, Oregon increasingly seems a euphemism for bloody magnificent music. This sweetly sung yet eerily instrumented tune brings together manifest ideas - indie, soul, samples, psychedelia, pace shifts and more - while always sounding perfectly contained. Incredible stuff. myspace.com/tufawning Rowan:ULYSSES

EVERYBODY’S STRANGE To find inspiration I often choose the A-Team theme to get me going. If that doesn’t work, a listen to Bath’s four piece ‘future classic rock band’ does the trick. It’s like coffee for your ears. myspace.com/ulyssesgb Sion:

LAURIE ANDERSON

O SUPERMAN As relevant now as it was in ‘81, Anderson deals with concerns and controversies in a subtext that becomes increasingly profound and unmistakably sinister in its implication. 8 minutes of minimal, experimental electronic music isn’t everyone’s bowl of hot bovril, but I’m blown away on every listen... And bovril sucks... myspace.com/officialaurieanderson Johnny:

PJ HARVEY

THE WORDS THAT MAKETH MURDER

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COLORAMA

Timelessness is an oft overused term in musical discourse. Yet with Colorama it seems more fitting than most. The ceaselessly beautiful brainwaves of Carwyn Ellis have culminated in a set of releases that, particularly in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Box, are drenched in a sepia-glistening, nostalgic veil. Yet these wonders are unfurling here and now, before your very eyes, and with increasing rapidity. And while the dust of times gone by are referenced in the 60s psych-pop instrumentation and lyrically in Candy Street and Box itself, there is something undeniably fresh about the whole experience. Before Box had arrived the incredible Magic Lantern Show, and the more recent Cerdyn Nadolig also got MMPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stockings all sweaty just over Christmas. Having worked with Edwyn Collins and played with Jim Noir across the UK, along with a rather fetching band forming, Colorama are poised to quietly explode in 2011. With this in mind, the MMP caught up with Mr. Ellis pre-detonation to see how his eggs were floating... Words & Interview: Simon M. Read Photo By: Jon Pountney

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HOW IN THE NAME OF HADES ARE YOU? Never better, thanks.

often have their own voice musically so it’s trying to fit everything in.

WELL DONE ON BOX - AN INCREDIBLE RELEASE. TELL US HOW THE SONGS ALL CAME TOGETHER... They come from two or three different periods in recent times, for me. Half of the songs were written in Liverpool, where I lived before I moved to Cardiff. Then a few more were written down here and a few more on my travels. But the majority of it relates to my time in Liverpool three years ago. I suppose being British, I’m quite slow to process my emotional information. Even then I’m only doing it through songs, not in my own life. There’s something about Liverpool that I find nostalgic. Moving there was a big deal for me, I didn’t know anyone and I’d been living in London most of my adult life, so I just retreated into my own little world. The thrust of the album is about that and the child-like reverie of it all. But if I can give the impression that there’s some emotional depth, that’s great (laughs).

YOU MUST HAVE EXPERIENCED A LOT ON THE ROAD WITH EDWYN COLLINS AS WELL AS WITH COLORAMA AND MANY MORE - ARE YOU FEELING THE BENEFIT OF THESE TOURS? I don’t know if there’s been a point where I thought ‘oh, this is a good set of experiences which I can take this or that from’. I don’t think life’s like that. They’ve all enriched me as a musician and helped shape who I am but in terms of there being anything beneficial or detrimental, I don’t know. I didn’t write songs or sing until quite late and up until that point I was a musician. I was a sad, lost character who needed other bands and people in order to get work and survive (laughs). So it was out of necessity that I did a lot of work. Nothing was ever that bad. And I’ve been lucky in that regard, I’ve worked with some lovely people.

YOU HAVE ACHIEVED A SOUND WHICH SEEMS TIMELESSLY ETHEREAL YET STRANGELY PRESCIENT - HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT? It was a pre-conceived accident in that I chose where to record very carefully and knew the results would be interesting to me, which is the most important thing. We did it in the Isle of Wight and went through our good friend Rupert Brown, I know him through working at Toerag Studios in London. He has his own band called The Motion Pictures who I really liked and has his own studio too. He’s like an another member of the band, although he doesn’t play with us or do gigs, but he’s there in the creative process. He did both Box and Magic Lantern Show. Knowing in my head what the sound of the music would be but knowing which producer to take it to, who would make it magical, was basically how it came about. HOW ARE YOU DEVELOPING YOUR LIVE SOUND? We’re just trying our best. It’s hit and miss. Some gigs are brilliant, some gigs are good. We’re of the mindset that a live sound is different to the record, there’s no point in exactly replicating it. There’s a school of thought that subscribes to wanting to go and see a band play an album or the songs verbatim, but I don’t. It’s nice to surprise people and, for us, having to play every night, we don’t want to do the same thing every time. So that’s why I keep changing things around. I’m settling on a band behind me, but the people I tend to want to work with

YOU’RE, AS TOM WAITS ONCE SAID, BIG IN JAPAN - HOW DOES ONE ACHIEVE THIS? By eating lots (laughs). I don’t know if we’re big in Japan but we have got a couple of records out over there. That happened around 2007 when I went and worked with with a Japanese band who I met in London. We became friends and stayed in touch and they asked me to go over and help pull all of these eclectic instrumentations together into something coherent. I stayed over there for three months and part of the deal was to help me put out some records over there. So we released an EP which sold out, and then they put out our first album, Cookie Zoo, in 2008 and that was only out in Japan. And we’ve just put Box out there a couple of months ago. HOW DO YOU THINK YOU’VE DEVELOPED OVER YOUR CAREER? I think I’m just a better musician. With time, I’m a better musician. I’m a far better singer. I was rubbish when I started. I found it terrifying. Closing my eyes, singing to five people and banging my teeth off the microphone (laughs). The first gig I did with Luca (Guernieri), he was doing sound, and I was enamoured by the old footage of acoustic musicians playing with microphones in front of their guitars, so I wanted it like that. He said it wouldn’t work, and my guitar had no projection, so you couldn’t hear a thing. AS WE MOVE INTO 2011 WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE STATE OF WELSH MUSIC? I think it’s very healthy at the moment. There doesn’t seem to be a coherent national movement, but I don’t think

there ever has been. And that means people have to be fairly self-sufficient. That said, for Welsh speaking bands there’s a much greater chance of getting on the radio or on television. I do feel a bit for bands who are from Nottingham or Carlisle who don’t have access to these things. Being Welsh-language bands, we have more of an opportunity. But in terms of the quality, the status quo is really good in Wales. In Cardiff alone, the music is fantastic. The Keys and El Goodo. Then there’s Cate Le Bon, Sweet Baboo, H. Hawkline is coming through. There’s the whole axis of the Super Furries and Gruff Rhys’ new LP. Richard James too. And that’s just Cardiff. Then there’s Y Niwl and Yr Ods which is really good Welsh language music, and that’s needed. Too often it can sound over-Americanised, or chicken in the basket country-folk. I just think people should try and do something new with it. When I write in Welsh I don’t use English as a reference point, I listen to Francoise Hardy and Serge Gainsbourg or Brazilian music and that’s my major input there. HOW IS THE NEXT LP COMING ALONG? We’re already half-way through writing it and we’ve started recording it. It’ll be out next Autumn and it will be different again. Magic Lantern Show and Box are fairly thematically similar and interlinked both in sound and subject matter. The next one is drawing from a different well of experience. It’s going for more Balearic house beats, the pink pound (laughs). With Box I wanted to make a psych-pop record with all the trimmings. This one will be simpler, I don’t know if it’s more confessional, but it’s more first person. As I’m developing, I’m more able to articulate my own experiences. But generally, it will be stripped down, less bells and whistles. ANY OTHER PLANS IN THE QUEST FOR SUPERSTARDOM? Our overall objective is to be able to survive on making records and nothing else. But if anything else came along I’d be happy, obviously. As long as I can keep making music and eat and be warm, then that would be fine. There’s an expression initially used in a racial context, but it’s the same for musicians, we need something to eat, a roof over our heads and a warm place to shit. And that’s all I need. We’ve also got a load of dates coming up too. myspace.com/coloramasound

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Zervas & Pepper “Songs sugar-dusted with beautiful harmonies that vegetate around palpable melodic prowess, these two are the city’s own prescription antibody for the new millenium blues.” Words: Sion Trefor | Photo: Pete Hurley ell-established, much-loved duo Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper have unremittingly circled the semi-acoustica circuits for longer than Longstocking had braids. Still active as ever with their finely honed alt-country stylings, the two continually move from strength to strength, accumulating considerable accolades along the way. With a forthcoming debut album release bleeding on the dusty horizon, we at the MMP decided it’d be crazier than baked Alaska not to acknowledge the undoubtedly deserved successes of Zervas And Pepper. Perhaps not the most joyful of years, 2006 saw the untimely demise of Steve Irwin, devastating workforce protests in France and the United Kingdom; and someone thought it was a good idea to release Fast And The Furious III : Tokyo Drift. Quite wonderfully, it was this same, almost Vin Diesel-less year that saw the formation of Zervas And Pepper, based on mutual appreciation for one another’s clear musical aptitudes. Playing songs sugar-dusted with 08 The MMP March 2011

beautiful harmonies that vegetate around palpable melodic prowess, these two are the city’s own prescription antibody for the new millenium blues.

ist narratives. More often than not it feels like an outfit that can’t wait to burst out of drizzly British shackles onto a sunny Santa Monica Pier, circa 1971.

Performing on stages as far afield as Santa Cruz to just outside the MMP office, Z&P have unquestionably earned their stripes and bespangled stars. BBC Radio Wales shower the duo with affectionate support and their previous releases have amassed substantial critical acclaim. Live, the outfit fluctuates between a pleasantly linear doublet to a fully-fledged sixpiece, including the legends and likes of Pete Hurley, Tim Robinson, Dave Sivell and Lee Goodall. The latter, incidentally, being the respected producer behind Z&P’s upcoming debut. Expect pooled influence from the likes of Buffalo Springfield and Creedence Clearwater Revival, fused with the Deep South innocence of Nanci Griffith or West Coast sensibilities of Bonnie Raitt. Zervas And Pepper sustain a gentle balance of perfectly discernible influences with dreamy (if mildly melancholic) escap-

Fortunately, they haven’t fled the Isles yet. And there’s a good case for them to stay. Firstly, each and every song is a 3 minute Summer holiday. Secondly, easy as it might be to perceive and dissect the band’s influences, listening to their music is also a pathway to that era of exceptional songraft and harmonic mastery. Sustaining and securing this legacy with flying colours, we present to you, Zervas and Pepper. myspace.com/paulzervas

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Afrocluster.. ... have established themselves as an undisputed force for extracting dance from the masses, but now their recordings are ripping needles off the wheels and exacting themselves upon your sub-woofers like a barrage of mad professors thirsty for a beat. It’s mid-afternoon on a mild November day. Gwdihŵ is 2 years old and this city’s own technicolor hip-hop–funk mash-up are sound checking, for tonight this venue will be packed full of well wishers and music lovers occupying space where hollow guitar cases lie.

fibres into seizure and tuned our inner dial to funky. But even this came as no surprise to anyone in attendance at their by-nowlegendary Watusi festival slot last summer. Those who bore witness collectively testify to the juggernaut that walloped them with shaolin-like rhythmic precision.

Tumi Williams is rapidly becoming an institution among our underground, the enigmatic front man and starving artist is adored in isolation as Skunkadelic and equally revered as a part of the N.E.O.N. revolution. But now its time to direct your ears toward Afro Cluster – a six piece covert operation designed to lacerate your cerebellum resulting in unsettling and indeed upsetting lower body movements. At least this is what MMP gathered from that November night as the band seduced our fast twitch muscle

You see, since their formation Afro Cluster have established themselves as an undisputed force for extracting dance from the masses, but now their recordings are ripping needles off the wheels and exacting themselves upon your sub-woofers like a barrage of mad professors thirsty for a beat. Three demo tracks appeared in January, the secret officially out, and now it’s time for you to discover what everybody’s been talking about. Hip-Hop (The Love Of My Life) is a clash between the smooth

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positivity of A Tribe Called Quest mixed with the voodoo funk of Shibusashirazu Orchestra at their most uplifting, while Shame What The Fame Brings has a nimble tap on Kool And The Gang. Don’t mistake this for pastiche – because while hip-hop was born from the breaks of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul was never as subtle as the culture he inspired, and that’s where the intrigue of Afro Cluster stems; vivacious as George Clinton with the nouse of The Roots – the band that once pleasantly terrorised Cardiff’s live scene have successfully transferred to record. soundcloud.com/afrocluster

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INTERVIEW AS WELL AS PUTTING OUT RECORDS, THE SHAPE FUNCTION PARTIES HAVE BECOME ‘PROPER JOB’ EVENTS IN THE CITY’S MUSICAL CALENDAR - WHAT’S THE SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESS? We have a lot of fun and a good buzz putting on Shape Functions so maybe that comes across. We like to try and make them more than just your average gig. WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING AN INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL ECONOMIC BITCH SAUNA? We don’t really believe in moaning about all that, there are people out there buying music and it’s an exciting time. We’re lucky to live in this country and be able to do this at all.

HOW IN THE NAME OF THE ARGONAUTS ARE YOU?

I’m very well thank you, looking forward to sinking our teeth into 2011!

With an increasingly diverse roster including the likes of Sweet Baboo, Islet, H. Hawkline and The Failed NASA Experiment, it’s fair to say Shape Records has come a long way. Initially started by brothers Mark, Lee and Johnny Thomas to release the work of their band Attack + Defend, it has expanded now to boast some of the city’s most widely respected acts and, coincidentally, those garnering ample lip-smacked acclaim from beyond our own territories. This is an achievement in itself, but that it’s been done while maintaining the DIY ethos and aesthetic that first made the label stand out, just makes it all the more special. So it was with fanfare and pomp that we shook Mr. Mark Thomas by the hand, and quizzed as to exactly how his doves cry... 012 The MMP March 2011

CONGRATULATIONS ON A TREMENDOUS YEAR IN 2010. ARE THERE ANY PARTICULAR STAND OUT MOMENTS FOR YOU?

Thanks! 2010 was great as we took on more releases than ever before. A stand out moment was Greenman Festival where I played in Islet and Sweet Baboo and H Hawkline both played as well. We had a big Shape knees up all weekend!

YOUR ROSTER HAS GROWN AND EVOLVED IMPRESSIVELY OVER THE YEARS, AND TAKEN ON A WIDER RANGE OF GENRES MORE RECENTLY, ARE YOU LOOKING TO EXPAND FURTHER? OR ARE YOU HAPPY WITH YOUR LOT FOR NOW?

We’re very happy with the stable right now, though we are in talks with a new act at the moment, which we’re quite excited about! In general we don’t go out looking for anything, we just do things that feel right at that moment in time.

SHAPE SEEMS TO BE SYNONYMOUS WITH A RETRO DIY ETHIC - IS THIS AN INTENTIONAL MOVE ON YOUR PART?

It just happened naturally. We think ‘we could do that bit’ and cut out a cost. For example, we have no distribution for our records, the bulk of our sales we send out from home when people order them. We have learnt to make achievable targets.

HOW DO YOU FIND IT BALANCING A LIFE AS A MUSICIAN WITH THE DAY-TO-DAY OF LABEL ADMINISTRATION?

It is a tricky balance as often I want to be making music when I find myself doing admin and processing orders! Funnily enough though, due to the fact I work full time as well - I tend to have more time to think and to reply to emails and things when on tour. Lee is also a major part of the day to day running of the label so he does a lot of the ‘admin’ as well.

WITH SHAPE BEING AROUND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, HOW HAVE YOU PERCEIVED THE CITY AROUND YOU CHANGING?

There is always lot’s of things going on and coming and going. Swn has been a very welcome addition to Cardiff’s music scene, both the festival and the regular gigs. We work together with Turnstile to release Islet and they have lots of exciting things going on - the new Gruff Rhys record is fantastic!! We love Spillers, it is great to have an independent record shop / hub in the centre of town.

WHAT HAVE YOU CHAPS GOT IN STORE FOR US IN 2011?

We’re releasing ep’s by Sweet Baboo and H. Hawkline and an Islet full length. Lee is busy mixing an Attack + Defend EP as well and JT is doing a Them Squirrels record also. We have a good rule where the 3 of us can release anything we want on our own label, it’s handy! ......... Words & Interview: Simon M. Read

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Live Reviews The Canadians sure are generous, a point clearly displayed in this free show comprising four of the best bands that Cape Breton Island has to offer. Of course, Cape Breton Island is sparsely populated. But if there is a lack of people, there seems Buffalo to be no lack of fiddles. 2nd February The three support acts all sported them proudly as their chosen artillery, each in turn charting varying degrees of Gaelic folk. First Boucher’s accomplished, smooth technique was driven along by an incredibly assured backing band. The Colin Grant Band then followed offering up a polished set of instrumental Celtic folk-rock barring the brief, but amusing, appearance of a mostly silent bagpipe.

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With the arrival of The Beaton Sisters, the MMP was suffering from fiddle fatigue. The sisters came familiarly armed and duetted beautifully. Their versatility could not be questioned, yet come the end of their set, in spite of some folk-dancing-while-playing high jinks, this reviewer thirsted for something else. And it arrived, spectacularly, with The Tom Fun Orchestra. Mark Lanegan-esque vocals figureheaded a buoyant performance not far from countrymates Arcade Fire but with flashes of Calexico-style trumpet, shouty choruses a la The Pogues and an eclectic, but well measured, range of instrumentation. Bottom Of The River even had the temerity to flirt with Tom Waits and come good. Genuinely forceful stuff. So, while Cape Breton Island’s traditions were at the forefront of the evening, it ended up showcasing this alongside an example of how it can be thrillingly applied in entirely different contexts. Bravo. SMR ..... myspace.com/tomfunorchestra / myspace.com/thebeatonsisters myspace.com/colingrantmusic / myspace.com/gillianboucher

Being first band on is always an uphill struggle, especially for Darkrise, who had the unenviable task cheering up a crowd who had been waiting in the rain for at least half an hour. Luckily by the time Zonaria came on stage, people were a bit more Millenium Music Hall receptive. Despite it being 8th February hard to shake off that they were all dressed like sexually deviant riot police, their blend of melodic death metal was a refreshing twist on such an extreme bill.

Nile

Dew-Scented were probably the first band to instigate any real movement in the crowd, inciting a circle-pit that had bodies flailing and beers flying all around. In retrospect Dew-Scented should have probably taken higher billing than main support Melechesh, whose style of Middle-Eastern tinged Black Metal did little to excite a crowd that was either thrashed out from Dew Scented, or were saving themselves for the headliners. The moment Nile hit the stage, the whole venue erupted like a pack of rabid dogs on crack, bodies colliding like raging atoms and people falling over every 6 seconds. Aside from one incident where Nile threw their toys out the pram over sound issues, they blasted their way through the set with atomic-clock precision and relentless brutality, where even the most reserved metalheads were left banging their heads until their necks gave in. A few of the classics were missing from tonight’s set, but once Nile closed with Black Seeds Of Vengeance, the raging sing-along that ensued indicated all was forgiven. JP ..... myspace.com/nilecatacombs / myspace.com/melechesh myspace.com/dewscented / myspace.com/zonaria myspace.com/darkrise

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March is going to be a musical riot across the board with Kylie taking centre stage at the the CIA, and those young lads McFly larking about…hold on…what was that?... this is not a column about mainstream musical happenings? Welcome to a new column brought to you with an alternative element of rock and metal and everything else in between. I’ll be giving you a round up on the next month’s must sees and don’t misses. The local scene is brimming with talent at the moment with bands such as Straight Lines, Revoker, Tiger Please, Exit_International and Anterior making waves locally as well as nationally. Also Accident Music begin life with their new line-up this month (featuring Darran Smith, ex-Funeral For A Friend). Clwb Ifor Bach continues to host a good mix of local talent as well as some bigger names. This month’s highlights include The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (8th), Glamour Of The Kill (10th), Holy Grail & Revoker (17th), Fireworks (22nd), and Roddy Woomble of Idlewild fame (29th). To end the month and not to be missed, five piece Japanese Voyeurs (30th), fresh from their Rock Sound Exposure Tour around the UK, will bring early 90s grunge back to life with demon-like snarls and cathartic roars from iconic frontwoman Romily Alice. Other gigs offerings around Cardiff in March include Does it Offend You, Yeah? at The Globe (2nd). At MMH, catch My Ruin (12th), Ill Nino (20th), Sonata Arctica (23rd), and The Stiff Little Fingers (24th). Following the closure of Barfly Cardiff last September, mystery and various rumours have surrounded the venue’s next incarnation. Announced in early February, the venue is reopening as Bogiez rock bar and club with a healthy dose of multiple club events and live music planned, watch this space. Fuel Rock club (based at Pure night club) also continues to pull in the crowds on a fortnightly basis, keep an eye out for special events there. If all these gigs and club nights were not enough, ‘The End Of The World’ is upon us quite literally (12th), happening in 6 cities across the nation at the very same time. For more details seriously check out: theendoftheworld.co.uk – this will be a party to end all parties! Enjoy this month’s heavy riffage, keep it loud!

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Releases THE HOTEL AMBUSH Condemned

The issue with this record is not that it’s a bad record, but that The Hotel Ambush adhere to a distinct formula throughout the whole record, one that runs the risk of growing stale. The implementation of two vocal styles and chronic use of breakdowns was acceptable 5 years ago when everyone was seeming to have a go at it, but 5 years on, music has evolved a lot. The lyrics are also a sorepoint, lines such as “My life is over, you killed the last piece of me” and “Let the angels tear my soul to pieces, I think I’m falling now” sound close to the words written by angst-ridden teenagers listening to Hawthorne Heights. Still, the band manage to pull off a few catchy hooks throughout, and definitely have the technical skills to do some damage, it’s just the predictability of the record often cloaks these positive aspects. JP myspace.com/thehotelambush

DEAD RADIO Deadtime Stories EP

When a press release comes in with the phrase ‘Dead Radio were formerly known as Jizzwagon’, you would never normally be sure of what to expect. But the much more sensibly named Dead Radio are familiar to the MMP after being namedropped by Roadrunner Records’ Revoker within these very pages. So we knew to expect rock. Really granite hard rock. And we weren’t disappointed. Comparisons to Black Sabbath smack instantly with Defy, Questions and, indeed, all four tracks, boasting the same kind of distorted tomriffery and Ozzy-esque vocals. The closer Foolish Pride steps a little further out, embracing the darkly psychedelic elements of the genre. That said, the raw sludge of 70s rock has been power-washed off here and you’re left with high end punk sonics and relatively clean production. While in totality it may not be massively inventive, it is impressively rip-rockin’ and flippin’ loud nevertheless. SMR myspace.com/jizzwagon

The Lunar Cyclist Lunaria Annua

The first track on any album has the responsibility of ushering the listener through the magical door of musical enjoyment and hopefully into a new, never before realised landscape of wonder. In Job And Knock’s case it only succeeded in making the MMP want to burn the doorframe down and mark it as unsafe. This reaction proved hasty, however, as the catchy organ and rich backing vocals of The Woonsocket Weirdo kicked in. Flashes of ingenious guitar sounding as if they were played by a 16th century minstrel abounded. Tasteful flourishes of flugelhorn and other exotic instrumentation swelled happily in the speakers. Sadly, though, the loyal listener is soon met with more brilliantly produced, tastefully augmented but confusing flights of fancy. Lyrically, the songs on offer are confidently delivered but maddening pieces of work displaying the poise of a piano being dropped on a dwarf. It’s a pity as musically the majority of this album is rather amazing. RJL thelunarcyclist.bandcamp.com

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SIMON KILSHAW Talkbox Reggae

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND Welcome Home Armageddon

THE IDOL RICH Counter Attack

THE GENTLE GOOD Tethered For The Storm

Y BANDANA Y Bandana

JAM WITH ROBINA Dark Recollections

30 years of music listening did not prepare this MMP reviewer for Talkbox Reggae. That’s not to say that everything, technically, isn’t rather good. But the application of spectacular levels of vocoder to electronic, often shuffling, dancehall rhythms may have been an ill-conceived concept in the first place. When The Who Start Playing is rather chic in its electro-layers and builds tremendously in its latter stages, but suffers terribly from lyrical pastiche. The driving Reggae Fever is a highlight but mainly because the vocoder somehow sounds more sinister, a la Daft Punk, and fits its backing. Let The Beat Go On is also rather intoxicating, like a futuristic keyboard dreaming on a beach. But in spite of these odd moments, and the awareness that Kilshaw is very accomplished at pulling everything together structurally, one can’t help but feel his abilities could be directed at more worthy causes. SMR myspace.com/simonkilshaw

Counter Attack is one thing above all else – eclectic. Tallying up the styles, genres and potential touchpoints as they emerged became like ladelling an ocean of water. It all starts with the catchy synth-pop of The Last Day I’m In Town before cascading splendidly into Drunk Winter Lovesong - at once like Death Cab For Cutie and Bright Eyes. Then, suddenly, it’s like Tom Waits has found a vintage casio in Never Trust A Lawyer. It then strays into hard-rock, a tad of ska and innumerable other nuances. That it does it with such convincing lyricism and accomplished delivery is mighty impressive. And it’s also partially tied together by a lo-fi ethic which is reminiscent of early Babybird. And that’s definitely no bad thing. In other ways, though, it feels disconnected. Elstob’s switching of genres does show immense deft of craft but, collectively, it’s often as baffling as it is brilliant. Definitely worth looking at, though, as you’re bound to like something. SMR myspace.com/theidolrich

The major characteristic one can attribute to Y Bandana, and their debut LP, is that associated with the unabated joys and trials of youth. From the first guitar-synthskin-pounding of Dyna Be Di’r Son onwards, the overriding feeling is of a young band who’ve learned how to express their life experiences with unprecedented vigour and enthusiasm. Very much in keeping with their half-naked live thrill shows, the pace never truly eases off: Clywch Clywch Buwch channels The Fratellis into a glorious Welsh language critique of the under-debated cows farting / global warming issue; single Dal Dy Drwyn bemoans the smell of another with Arctic Monkeys precision; and Anturiaethau Sali Mali has more imaginative musical breaks than any band this age should be able to summon. They may exist in a realm of silly subject matter but their tunes are far too catchy to be ignored - a band to become immediately familiar with. SMR thelunarcyclist.bandcamp.com

Returning to the emphatic mix of raw heaviness and killer melodies that gave them their name, Funeral For A Friend return with studio album number five - Welcome Home Armageddon. Fans won’t be unfamiliar with the style of the disc, but it’s a fresh take on an old formula and feels like receiving an uppercut of explosive riffs and metal screams, leaving you flat out to count the impressive melodic numbers. The Bridgend quintet have nailed some awesome axe-work on this record, writing some of their heaviest licks to date on tracks like the multi-riff spectacular Aftertaste and Front Row Seats To The End Of The World. There are racy, punk rock elements in Old Hymns and Sixteen, with some rest bite given by Owls and Medicated. Welcome Home Armageddon demonstrates Funeral’s songwriting prowess and ability to evolve their sound to a multitude of new levels. There’s life in the old dogs yet! MB funeralforafriend.com

The Gentle Good follows the excellent While You Slept I Went Walking with both clear signs of development and familiar, expertly excavated, 70s folk influences. Opener Aubade offers the intricate guitarwork, hushed vocals and carefully placed strings one would associate with Nick Drake and pulls its weight in this comparison across its full five minutes. The Welsh language Colled then sees the debut of Cate Le Bon’s presence on the album, a theme that recurs throughout to quite beautiful effect. While the LP could be accused of being slightly one-paced, it really doesn’t matter when it offers such consistent quality in its gait. And even then, there are odd deviations from template as found in the piano-led Old Window Song and incredible fret mastery of the instrumental title track. But the overwhelming feeling is of soothing winterscapes, quiet but important moments and thoughtful songcraft. It’s in the name - it’s gentle and it’s very, very good. SMR myspace.com/jizzwagon

Track titles like Forbidden Wood, Spirit Of Fire and Sons Of Odin suggest leanings towards the psychedelic imagery of Tyrannosaurus Rex or Incredible String Band; a point reinforced by Prologue and its murmuring of demons and mystic songbirds. What follows is occasionally brilliant with harmonised vocals and excellently layered, almost mediaeval, folk guitar riffs. Miracle is softly entrancing with reverb and retro production values echoing Jethro Tull - a feat achieved throughout with Epic Mother’s guitar lead-in offering further evidence. Silhouettes’ bongos, Spanish guitar and sultry pace also work rather impressively together. Quite often, though, the LP can feel overwrought, as though it’s trying to convince you with vocal bluster and heavy strumming at the expense of composure - Without You being one of a number of examples. But while their reference points aren’t at all fashionable or trendy, JWR are generally good exponents of 70s prog-folk and worth a listen if that’s your bag. SMR myspace.com/jamwithrobina

Singles KING LOUIS COLLECTIVE Sunny Days

PETE LAWRIE Fell Into The River

THE METHOD We Don’t Know!

Listening to Sunny Days on a freezing and endlessly grey February Sunday felt like a bitterly ironic experience. But you can’t hold such unfortunate timing against the band themselves who offer oodles of spanking brass, funky guitar lines and candy sweet vocals. It all amounts to a very smooth three and a half minutes - like Jamiroquai ice-skating. Or something. It motors along with some encouraging musical breaks, and builds more vocal strength in towards the end. So while this reviewer’s listening context (cold and subdued living room) may have left the joy of the track feeling a little shallow, come Summer it’s not hard to imagine dancefloors getting all sweaty for it. SMR myspace.com/kinglouiscollective

Released on St. Valentine’s Day, Pete Lawrie’s latest offering is a big dollop of Motownesque manly love. With high-end production values, backing singers and an occasional string section this single feels like it has had the proverbial kitchen sink thrown at it. His management professes that he has an inner jukebox which is stuffed with great music from every decade and on this outing he seems to be harking back to a late eighties, middle of the road groove that certainly won’t frighten the horses. Airplay guaranteed but at what cost? As Lawrie sings ‘Happiness doesn’t have a schedule, your time will come around’. I’m sure it will, but perhaps not this time. BB petelawrie.com

Ahead of the forthcoming and much-anticipated debut album in April, comes this hookladen, crunch-riding bombast of a single from The Method boys. Literally dripping in reverb and swaying heavily with a drunken fury, the initial guitar and handclaps are soon met by the horniest trumpet this side of Rhyl and keys with more soul than a blackbird on ice. What follows is a showcase of unconventionally anthemic garage rock applying multiple imaginative breaks, mad backing vocals and ceaseless energy on a purely as-andwhen-appropriate basis. B-side Take Your Shot offers a more refined effort, conjuring The Coral in its melodicism, and demonstrating a depth of capability when the manic pace of the A-side calms down. Classic. SMR myspace.com/methodofficial

OK Lego

SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON Pessimist Light

MOWBIRD Gusto! / You Are Revolting

Sirens are blaring. A trio of surf punks from Wrexham and Newport broke into the carnival and set-up camp. The MMP bought a ticket and are on their fast ride down the psychotic tunnel of craziness right now. Neither track on this 2-track EP (aka single) are for easy strolling folk, unless you’ve a pocket full of firecrackers and are prepared to use them. Distorted riffs and distant vocals roll across the speakers in an initially disorientating but utterly compelling moony at the mainstream. The clue’s in the title of the first track Gusto! - there’s plenty of it – and if you don’t believe us, ask the buzzards overhead preying on our bewildered and battered bodies. WD mowbird.bandcamp.com

If world domination starts with a ginger frontman, then get ready for an OK coup. This single offers a double dose of feel-good pop from four self-confessed buffoons who like to jump around. The A-side Lego shows the lads in breezy form imagining a relationship where ‘we could fit together like Lego’. Nice try, and not a whiff of Shelley or Keats in their poetic ramblings. The B-side Perfect World is another rambunctious track, where OK envisage love in a parallel universe and, if truth be told, there must be somewhere out there where the Cardiff crazies play to legions of adoring fans who are captivated by their honest, no-frills approach to tuneful post-punk rock. Keep bouncing, boys, and the disciples will follow. BB myspace.com/thatbandok

McGarry’s grand plans to release six albums of entirely different styles seems set to take yet another unpredictable turn. Following on from the angular indie of Episode 1 and the musical showtunes of Episode 2, this free single picks up somewhere in the mid-80s. If any other heralded Cardiff hero jumped on that bandwagon, it would be almost certainly wrong. But the deeply retro synths, simple beats and horn section are, as always, surrounded by a lyrical masterclass and collectively it all seems inversely very right and natural. At points it evokes Prince’s best peacock strut but still has room for some unexpected breaks. Very good indeed. SMR myspace.com/spencermcgarry

Inc.A

SNOW IN JUNE

BYRON BALJAK

Let all prospective Inc.A releases be just as ambitious and as exciting as this demo. This delightful troupe of strings, brass, drums and electric bass combine general traits from Eastern European music with traces of funk and drum ‘n’ bass. Littered with some very convincing performances and instrumental arrangements, Inc.A bring to mind aesthetics from the likes of Devotchka and The Warsaw Village Band, minus the same level of virtuosity. At times, some motifs feel underdeveloped, a slightly dulled spark that will no doubt be rectified with a longer, more fastidious stint in the studio. Can’t wait to hear more. ST myspace.com/incawales

As far as acoustic led balladry goes, the issue is that there’s a lot of competition. It’s so widely covered, it either needs to take some sort of different, experimental approach or be really very good to merit repeated listens. Although obviously only in demonstrative rather than final form, Snow In June’s music doesn’t consistently fulfil either. Songs demonstrate evident musical ability with pleasant finger-plucked acoustics and, on occasion, do take a slightly dark and dramatic folk-y turn but on the whole are too safe and middle of the road. Perhaps a full-length, expected Spring 2011, will provide more strength and daring. JM myspace.com/snowinjunemusic

These three songs fired through cyberspace came with the briefest of clues to Mr Baljak’s whereabouts or activities. From listening we learned he’s madly talented with an appreciation of classic psych-rock. We discovered a wall of sound incredibly familiar yet somehow fresh and inviting. Lock Him Up almost outmuscles Pink Floyd with, well, Floydiness, and So They Say is multi-textured retro-musical glory. Imagine Sgt Pepper’s era Beatles fronted by Dave Gilmour while Phil Spector twiddles the buttons. Byron is on the lookout for a drummer and a bassist and fate will decide if we ever see a live show. If/when it happens, the ghosts of mind-altered musical loons will be nodding approvingly through the reverb. RJL

Demos

myspace.com/byronbaljak39sbollockbreakers

Download Society It may not look all that aesthetic - the laptop, the wires, the unbearable noise as the computer grinds myspace onwards. But amidst the buzzing whir of your computer fan and the endless electronic ambience that spews out from the Internet itself, there is some immense sonic beauty to be found. Our Download Society is MMP’s contribution to this, each month offering up the talents of our featured artists for you to stream and download on www.themmp.tv entirely free of charge. This time we have the dream-psych-folk of Colorama to greet you, as well as Afro Cluster’s hip-hop-funk party tuneage and the country roots of Zervas & Pepper. Take thy leave, people. Go forth and listen.

This Month’s Free Tracks: 1. COLORAMA - OUT OF LINE 2. ZERVAS & PEPER - CHILD OF THE OCEAN 3. AFROCLUSTER - SHAME WHAT THE FAME BRINGS 4. SPENCER MCGARRY - PESSIMIST LIGHT 5. JOHN MOUSE - CAIRO

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Kaptin’s Column

I mentioned briefly before about the next generation of artists that Cardiff has to offer and this year it really looks as if some of them have been grabbing the game by the goolies. The triple headed Dubstep beast that is Esoterra have been churning out some fiendishly tasty stompers recently, check their Soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/esoterradubstep/) for a selection, including a remix of the Dr Who theme that could probably blast a Dalek to bits. They’ve said that if they reach 3,000 listens they’ll put it up for a Free Download too so get over there and start spreading it around. Another act I mentioned was Exotope, who I’d been accustomed to sending me rather violent Electro / Dubstep beats and so was rather surprised when his new album hit my inbox cos it’s actually a selection of soulful 2step tracks. It’s out this month on Juvenile Scum so if your on a Garage tip (whether it be ‘Future’ or not) make sure you grab a copy. Astroid Boys always get a lot of love in this column and rightly so, they’ve been tearing up shows across the UK for the past couple of months and I’ve heard many a funny story from some of them. They shall be dropping their next single ‘Welcome To The Zoo’ on Brain Juice for March 15th, it has some seriously, seriously killer remixes too believe me. They also plan to drop 2 free tracks around the same time, the quality just keeps getting better every time as well. Also with a free EP to come is Kitty Cowell, her video for the rack ‘We Keep On Partying’ (featuring MK from Flow Dem) is doing the rounds online (featuring a DJ cameo from yours truly) however this is by far the poppiest track and it certainly seems like she’s heading back to her underground roots slightly, I most definitely approve of that direction. Not to be out done by all the youngsters, though, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Monky is getting ridiculously good on the production tip and is really pushing things out there. He has a bunch of releases to come but I shall tell you more about that next month. Going out wise, you are bloody spoilt this month with the truly legendary Daedelus (March 11th @ Cardiff Arts Inst.) alongside Darkhouse Family and Mr Healan. Signature have Instra: Mental (March 31st @ Buffalo), without a doubt one of the most exciting acts to have emerged from the Drum N Bass scene for some time and Obey have Manchester bass music stalwart Indigo (March 3rd @ Undertone). Also, if it’s not too late, look out for the tickets to a massive Warehouse party run by the Backrooms lot featuring Derrick Carter + Cassy (April 23rd @ TBA). Until next time. bigLOVE, Kaptin .... Twitter: @kaptinisdead / www.chromekids.com Photo by: Paul Roberts

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Cardiff Rising Easy Cardiffians and Cardiffiettes, this is what’s up OK... Astroid Boys have dropped their first CD - Space Jam and it’s part of their growing story of success. Since they released the video for Jungle Booku, which was quite a strange-as-in-interesting mix of hip-hop and dubstep influence, they’ve been getting noticed by major artists and been doing some big shows. Benji’s talked about how the Astroid Boys vision is one step out of the grime scene where everyone just wanted to talk about who’s got beef with each other all the time. But they’ve kept one foot in and it works. Introduction To Us is the intro track and the way it flips from a piano line into dubstep sets up the method for how they hit the right musical note of today but breathe a bit of musicality in too. The production’s tearing still, Traxx has been larging up Dell for a long time who provides most of the tracks but JSP and Exotope fire off two ill bangers and they even manage to fit in a Jamie Winchester hip-hop outro that sits alongside the rest just fine. The way they keep the street sound but step out of the grime darkness is by rolling lyrics about partying and the occasional claim of being space aliens. So if you’re a bit tired of hearing teenage assassins screaming rudeboy I’ll shank your grave then come and check out this sound and see what you think. Fun grime. In other experimentations into mental music, the Stagga feat. Skamma & Joe Blow - Genik Riddim video is out now, directed by Ryan Andrews and Jon Rennie. Big tune, watch it on youtube. And I’m out like I’m claustrophobic. ........ myspace.com/ruffstylz twitter.com/ruffstylz Photo by: Dan Green

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CLUB Listings

MONDAYS

Buffalo - Blender, 8pm, Upstairs: Prices

vary. Downstairs: FREE * A unique experiment in pop culture and fashion

10 Feet Tall - Late Night Live, 8pm, £TBC * Live music upstairs and chart

Cardiff University Student Union - The Lash - 10pm, £3.50 - £3 * Ever-

Bar Icon - You’re The DJ, 12am-12pm, FREE * Go nuts on the free jukebox

Clwb Ifor Bach - Listen Up! 9pm, £3 *

Buffalo - Buffalo Live, 8pm, Upstairs: Prices vary. Downstairs: FREE * All

The Crockerton, 9pm, FREE *Hits and

friendly material throughout the bar available all day

the latest new music from Jen Long and guest DJs

Cardiff University Student Union - Fun Factory - 9pm, £4 - FREE * Weekly

night of live bands and club tunes across multiple rooms The Crockerton, 9pm, FREE * DJs playing chart and pop and all manner of things in The Crockerton

Exit Club - Monday Madness, 10pm, FREE * DJ Andy brings chart hits and old faces

Glam - Jagerfest, 10pm, £4 / £3 *

High likelihood of coming away from this celebration of liquer Live Lounge - 11pm, FREE * Guest DJs playing after the feast of live acts

Mocka Lounge - Hangover Cure, 9pm, FREE * Chilled out evening to sooth the edges of the weekend’s excesses

Oceana - Fuzzy Logic , 9.30pm, £5 *

The UK’s biggest student night with hoards of people and plenty of cheap drinks

morphing club night where drinking is the main consistent theme

All avenues of indie, electro and cheese are covered across three floors

club anthems through the night

- £3.50 *Weekly Friday night bash with a taste of rock and a whole lot more

Metros - Cheapskates, 9pm, £6 *

Bar Yupi - Discount Night, 8pm, FREE *DJ tunes and, that’s right, discount drinks Walkabout – Bounce, 9pm, £5 / £4 *

All the societies and clubs are celebrated here Live Lounge - 11pm, FREE *Guest DJs every night following the live music

Cheap drinks and endless tunes in Metro’s

Mocka Lounge - Cocktail Heaven, 9pm, FREE *A veritable Valhalla of cocktails Oceana - Addictive Wednesdays, 9.30pm, £4.50 * Ten bars, three club rooms and a wild mass of people every Wednesday night

Pure - Spare Change, 9pm, £TBC *Weekly Wednesday student night on

Reflex - 8pm, FREE * The 80s are put under clinical focus in the Reflex bar

DJs with all the anthem and chart biggies Flares - 10pm, FREE * DJ Jay plays a variety of cheese, party anthems and big hits

Glam - Propaganda, 10pm, £4 / £3 *Major player indie night in Glam King’s Cross - Karaoke With Rachel, 9pm, FREE * Free karaoke sessions with your host Rachel

Live Lounge - Salsa Classes, 7pm, FREE * Free dance classes in Live Lounge Live Lounge - 11pm, FREE * Post

live music shindig with the Live Lounge guest DJs

Metros - Metropolis, 9pm, £TBC *

Electro, trance, dubstep and drum & bass, all wth an alternative edge

Mocka Lounge - Relax and Unwind, 9pm, FREE * Loosener tunes to aid the midweek blues

9th March Throw Up @ The Gate, 7.30pm, £2 *

New night of performance DJs and MCs in The Gate’s Café space - painting, drawing and general creativity Pronto @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £2 *Midweek dose of funk, Motown, soul, dub and reggae

YTU13 Mixtape Launch @ Buffalo, 9.30pm, £7 * Night of live performances, DJs and MCs as YTU13 launch their mixtape

THURSDAYS out weekly

classy night in Buffalo with a revolving door of top quality DJ guests and themes

Clwb Ifor Bach - C-Y-N-T, 10.30pm, £4 * The undisputed champion of mid-week

9pm, £TBC * Old school hip-hop and club classics all night

continues in 10FT

10 Feet Tall - Boom Boom Boutique, 10pm, FREE * Bass-blowing night littered

with cocktail deals

Bar Icon - Midweek Mayhem, 6pm, FREE * Plenty of drinks offers and some quality DJs

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Signature Cardiff Fashion Network @

C-Y-N-T Present Reset @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 10.30pm, £4 * Another special

guest at the massive C-Y-N-T midweek rave

17th March Signature Presents Phantom @ Buf-

falo, 9pm, £TBC * Another special guest for Signature as Phantom pops through with some pristine beats in tow

31st March

are complimented by electro-hoodwink Mr Fogg until late

90s Hip Hop Party @ Buffalo Lounge, 8pm, FREE * The joys of 90s hip-hop is

10 Feet Tall - Zouklambada!, 8pm, £6 * The craze for public dance lessons

night brings in Skrillex for its pumping electro dosage

Sugardrop Presents Mr Fogg @ 10 Feet Tall, 9pm, £2* The Sugar Drop dandies

raves, featuring guest DJ’s from all over the UK every week

WEDNESDAYS

Drowse and more guests visit the Undertone basement for a late night shindig

C-Y-N-T Present Borgore @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 10.30pm, £5 * One of Mixmag’s

22nd March

invoked here with dressing up encouraged

Obey! Presents Indigo @ Undertone, 10pm, £4 / £3 * Indigo, Owain K, Dvrsfy,

30th March

Buffalo - Signature, 8pm, Upstairs: Prices vary. Downstairs: FREE * Utterly

inviting maverick DJs to show their wares

Signature - Designer Violence Free Live

Art Party @ Buffalo, 10pm, FREE * Free live art and the same superlative tunes played by the Signature crew

Buffalo, 10pm, £3 * The Signature night celebrates the fashions of Cardiff with more than a hint of fashion

The best from the 80’s and 90’s spun by DJ Krys

top UK nights brings in the talents of Borgore

Exit Club - Classix Chart, 10pm, FREE

* Chart hits and exclusive remixes from DJ Andy

Flares - Cocktail Night, 10pm, FREE *

The theme of the night is self-explanatory - cocktails

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SIGNATURE PRESENTS INSTRA:MENTAL Another great night put on by the Signature posse with the emotional electronica of Instra:mental on show. Lots of synthesizers being played but all with a strict and distinct purpose - a fine way to close the clubbing month down for March

Buffalo 31st March

C-Y-N-T Present The Muskets @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 10.30pm, £5 * Electro, dub-

step and techno in this weekly cavalcade of clubbing excellence

Kings Cross - Therapeutic Thursdays, 5pm, FREE * Weekly cabaret in the

FRIDAYS

Lava Lounge - Ladies Night, 8pm, FREE * Just want to do something special, for

10 Feet Tall - Hustle, 6pm, FREE b4 10 * Funky Motown and disco chic classics

King’s Cross

all the ladies of the world

Live Lounge - 11pm, FREE *Nightly DJs following the live tunes

in 10FT

floor-fillers from C.T. and Hilly

Club X - 10pm, FREE before 10, £10 After * Funky house, electro and pop Clwb Ifor Bach - ?? - 10.30pm, £4.50

Exit Club - Dance Zone, 10pm, FREE * All your favourite club and dance tunes from DJ Al

Flares - 9pm, FREE * Kickstart your

weekend with Dr INC

The Flora - 8pm, FREE * DJ sets through until the early hours

In-house DJs playing a mix of party classics through the night

Kings Cross - Cwm Camping, 5pm, FREE * Party tunes with DJ J-A-Y and happy hour from 5-8pm

Lava Lounge - Fever Friday, 8pm, FREE * Retro and pop classics every week in

Lava Lounge Live Lounge- 11pm, FREE * Live Lounge brings in the DJs to keep the party flowing beyond the live music

Mbargo- Get Funked. 9pm. FREE.

* The theme of the evening is funk, surprisingly Metros - 9pm, £4 * The best place to fuel your need for rock, punk and ska Milgi’s - 9pm, FREE * World and dance music from an array of guest DJs

Millennium Music Hall/Code - Deal Or No Deal, 10pm, £3 * Plenty of R n B and barely any boxes to open

Mocka Lounge - 9pm, FREE * Live

jazz performances with DJ’s throughout the night

Reflex - 7pm. FREE * The 80s bar serves

up some more, um, 8os stuff Revolution - 9pm, £3 * Guest DJs front up the endless drinks offers in Revs Rococo - 10pm, £TBC * DJ Soul Sessions plays dubstep, electro, funk and more Salt - 8pm, FREE * Funky house and all the latest chart hits from 8pm onwards Sodabar - 10pm, FREE * DJ Raheem takes his decks and his instinct to Sodabar The Old Library - 9pm - £TBC * Alternative tunes in The Old Library from the resident DJs

Tiger Tiger - Private Karaoke, 6pm,

Signature Presents Instra:Mental @ Buffalo, 9pm, £TBC * See Clubs of the

Cougar Lounge - Twisted Thursdays-

Cougar Lounge - 10pm, £TBC * Urban

The Great Western - 9pm, FREE *

3rd March

do karaoke to a more limited, sympathetic crowd

Tiger Tiger - Private Karaoke, 6pm, £2.50 * Private karaoke booths for your

Tony’s Kitchen Bar & Gallery - Open Decks, 8pm, FREE * Open deck session

The St. Mary St’ Australia bar does a wildly rampant student night

10th March

Reflex - 8pm, FREE * A Tuesday batch of

pleasure

Amber Dextrous’ camp Traffic Light party playing retro classics

and Paz give Wednesdays a sound endorsement

10 Feet Tall - On The Rocks, 10pm, FREE * Classic rock and indie thrown

80s tunes to cover all your nostalgic needs

those singing demons

C-Y-N-T Present Skrillex @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 10.30pm, £7 * The weekly C-Y-N-T

Rococo - I Love Wednesday, 9pm, FREE * DJ’s Raheem, Sinky, Monique, Scarface

WOW Bar - Rewind, 8pm, FREE *

Clwb Ifor Bach - Just Dance - 10pm, £3 * Weekly mix of pop, rock, R&B, and more The Crockerton - 9pm, FREE * Various

(too much) humiliation

primary focus

Buffalo - 8pm, Upstairs: Prices vary. Downstairs: FREE * DJs, live acts, visuals

night albeit different to its billed title, electro to dubstep and more

up at the Union

all round good show

Tiger Tiger - Private Karaoke, 6pm, £2.50 * Tiger Tiger give the chance to

Cardiff University Student Union FAIL!, 10pm, £4-£3 * Heavily successful

anthems and afro, soul, funk vibes in the swanky Buffalo

Cardiff Students Union - Boombox 10pm, £1.50 * Pop themed club night

WOW Bar - Connextions, 8pm, FREE *

10 Feet Tall - Insider Sound, 10pm, £4 / £3 * Old funk meets modern hip-hop-

and more in Buffs

drink offers aplenty

Buffalo - Bumper, 8pm, Upstairs: Prices vary, Downstairs: FREE * Weekly party

Lava Lounge - Sub Social, 9pm, FREE *

Revolution - Shotgun Rules, 9pm, £3 * Midweek student night with shots the

mash-ups and dancefloor fillers

Open platform for you to be embarassed or congratulated, just make sure to keep in tune

Bar Icon - Weekend Warmup, 6pm, FREE * Chart, pop and dance music, with

Varsity (Roath) - Karaoke Night, 8pm, FREE * Weekly karaoke fixture to expel

your draw, its time to pull them out Glam - Uptight, 10pm, £3 * Weekly night of R&B and hip hop

Tiger Tiger - Private Karaoke, 6pm, £2.50 * Start the evening in good fashion

TUESDAYS

The Royal Oak - Karaoke, 8pm, FREE *

with old skool, R n B and plenty more on rotation

Tiger Tiger - Private Karaoke, 6pm, £2.50 * Sing your face off without risk of

Guildhall Crescent

with Tiger Tiger’s private karaoke booths

Classic favourites and plenty of cheap drinks Mocka Lounge - 9pm, FREE * Chilled house and R n B in the classy Mill Lane hotspot Rococo - Pink, 10pm, £TBC *DJ Warren on the decks like a pied piper of drinks offers

Exit Club - Club & Dance, 10pm, FREE *Club and dance tunes with guest remixes Flares - Put On Your Party Pants, 9pm, FREE * If you have any party pants in

Owain Glyndwr - Salsa Classes, 8pm, FREE * Weekly salsa classes in the city centre pub

Mbargo - Fat Penguin - 9pm, FREE *

411 - So Seductive Friday, 9pm, £TBC * Night for people who love their music,

£2.50 * Private booths for the more discerning public singers

Varsity (City Centre) - 9pm, FREE * DJ Gigabyte plays his weekly residency

Varsity (Roath) - 8pm. FREE * Various live DJ guests every week

WOW Bar - The Wow Showgirls. 8pm. FREE * DJ Kitty and MC Marcia presents a

their weekly House sets Bar Yupi - Socialize, 9pm, £TBC * Club classics and old school anthems until 3am Walkabout - 5pm, FREE * Get the Friday feeling with occasional live music, heaps of DJs and drinks offers

4th March Fanny Dazzle @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 *

Superbly named diva on show in Minsky’s

One Mission feat. Kito @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, £TBC * Rising dubstep starlet from Australia with nods from Benga, Mary Anne Hobbs and more

Undertone Basement Party @ Undertone, 10pm, £2 * A simple concept - a party in a basement - sounds chipper

Aperture Present Jungle Drummer Vs. Vapour @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 10.30pm, £7 / £5 * Prime cuts of drum ‘n’ bass and

dubstep from the Aperture nights

11th March Jolene Dover @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 * Jolene Dover plays it cool down in the showtunes bar

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CLUB Listings Daedelus @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 10pm, £4 * See Clubs of the Month

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One of the forefathers of the US West Coast experimental hip-hop scene pops by for a visit to the Diff and, to be honest, this should be utterly scintillating. The multiinstrumentalist has a reputation for unpredictability and genre-bending which inevitably makes the potential for an exciting show all the more prescient

Cardiff Arts Institute 11th March Hell’s Bent @ Undertone, 10pm, £TBC * Night of raucous alternative rock tunes

for alternative gays

18th March I Loves The Diff - DJ Showcase @ Buf-

falo Lounge, 5pm, FREE * Ahead of the big launch in Undertone tonight, here’s a free taster of what to expect Pixie Perez @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 *

Showtunes galore and high class diva entertainment

I Loves The Diff @ Undertone, 9pm, £5 - £3 * Launch night for this new club

event featuring guest DJs playing electro, dirty and commercial house as well as dubstep

Traffic Present Future Fridays @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 10pm, £4 / £2 * More

party antics and rinsed basslines with themed sets a go go

Aperture Present Phace @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 10.30pm, £7 / £5 * Freakily good guest slots from Aperture with Phace coming in

25th March Delete + The 50-50 Affordable Art Show @ Undertone, 7pm, £TBC *

Art show with guest DJs followed by the regular Delete night in Undertone

Brain Juice feat. Mikill Pane @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, £4 / £2 * The regular Brain Juice crew bring the latest dubstep, grime and hip-hop with the hipster rap of Mikill Pane guesting

Dr Bev Ballcrusher @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 * Prepare for ball-crushing mayhem

SATURDAYS 10 Feet Tall - Me And You Club, 8pm, FREE b4 10 *Assorted selection of indie and pop from Mike TV

411 - So Funked, 9pm, FREE before midnight *Smooth grooves and hip-hop

with a funk edge

Bar Icon - The BIG nite-out, 6pm, FREE * Quality tunes and cheap drinks on Charles St

Buffalo - Beatbox Ballroom, 8pm, Upstairs: Prices vary. Downstairs: FREE * Weekly dose of soul, hip-hop and booty-busting breaks

Café Jazz - 9pm, £TBC * The jazz DJ

regulars front up for the Saturday night disco

Cardiff Student’s Union - ComePlay - 10pm, £4.50 - £4 * Always busy

clubnight in the Union with pop and chart stuff on offer amongst lots more Cougar Lounge - 9pm, £TBC * DJs CT and Hilly playing club and dance through the night

Club X - 10pm, FREE before 10, £5

After * Chart, pop, dance and funky house in Club X

Clwb Ifor Bach - Vinyl Vendettas / Dirty Pop / Mr Potter’s Proper Disco, 10pm, £5 * Indie, soul, Motown and pop across three rollicking floors

The Crockerton - 9pm, FREE * Latest

chart hits and club anthems

Dempseys - Twisted By Design, 9pm, £TBC *One of the longest running and

widely respected indie and alternative club nights in the city Embassy Club - 10pm, £20 * Two floors

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of dress coded dancing with electro, house and dance on the ground and R ‘n’ B, pop and classic party anthems in the main club

Exit Club - Sonic Saturdays, 10pm, FREE * Chart hits and Dance classics from

a selection of guest DJs Flares - 9pm, FREE * Resident DJs give you all the cheese and chart hits you could laminate for pleasure The Flora - 8pm, FREE * Occasional live acts with DJs playing until 1am Glam - Vanity, 9pm, £5 * Two floors filled with R&B, dancefloor anthems and funk

The Great Western- 9pm, FREE *

In Full Swing @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, £5 * The electro swing night continues unabashed and full of filthy, filthy fun

Juju Nations @ Gwdihŵ, 9pm, £2 *

Outrageously cool monthly night of afrobeat, funk and reggae drawn from Africa, the Caribbean and America

Tina Sparkle & Mona Lotte @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 * A double bill of

showtunes and innuendo-driven humour

Toolroom Knights @ Millennium Music Hall, 9.30pm, £10 * See Clubs

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26th March Mise En Bouche w/ Healer Selecta Sound System @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £3 *

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MISE EN BOUCHE w/

HEALER SELECTA SOUND SYSTEM Purporting to be London’s most popular live party sound soul system, the credentials for massive good-time vibe are all in place. Asher Storm MCs through a backdrop of R ‘n’ B, soul samba, raggabeat and more in one hell of a euphoric evening topped by the Mise en Bouche DJs

In-house DJs playing a mix of party classics through the night King’s Cross - KXS, 5pm, FREE * DJ Lee Briant plays the party tunes on Mill Lane Lava Lounge - 8pm, FREE * Commercial hits and retro classics filling up the weekend Live Lounge - 11pm, FREE * The Live Lounge DJs play popular classics following the live music Mbargo - 9pm. FREE. * Dancefloor anthems all night through to 4am Metros - 9pm, £4 * The Metro’s crew bring an eclectic blend of alternative shades - indie to nu metal and plenty more Milgi’s - 9pm, FREE * The City Road gem pushes out a variety of world music and more with guest DJs

Ministry of Sound favourite Mark Knight comes to Cardiff fresh off some manic London parties and a 2-month tour of the US. The Toolroom Knights shows are fastgaining notoriety for some riotous house shapes being thrown and here they have a line up of guest DJs longer than an orangutan’s arm (Mark Storie, Dave Eaves, Calvin Reid and more). Spangling!

celebrated as though they were ages ago, weekly club night at Code Mocka Lounge - 9pm, FREE * DJ Styles and Sinky front up with the party tunes

* Monthly club night featuring prized DJ slots and putting the fun into a fundamental party vibe

SUNDAYS

Massive Saturday night drunken institution playing commercial chart and R n B The Old Library - 9pm - £TBC * Alternative tunes in The Old Library through the weekend Owain Glyndwr - 9pm, FREE * DJ Yas plays all the party classics until 1am Reflex - 7pm. FREE * Literally non-stop 80s classics in Reflex bar

12th March

10 Feet Tall - 10 Feet Tall Sunday Social, 8pm, FREE * Greg Ramshackle

two floors

Fuel Rock Club @ Pure, 9pm, £TBC *Fortnightly rock night in Pure Dr Bev Ballcrusher & Jolene Dover @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 * The ballcrusher

Millennium Music Hall / Code - Back To The 90s - 9pm - £TBC * The 1990s are

Oceana - Big Night Out, 9.30pm, £8 *

Revolution - 9pm, £3 before 11pm, £5 after * Electro and house across

Rococo - 10pm, £TBC * DJ Soul Sessions plays electro, funk and house Salt - 8pm, FREE * Cheesy pop and chart hits down in Cardiff Bay Sodabar - 10pm, FREE * DJ Jay Vivet plays out his weekly residency Tiger Tiger - Private Karaoke, 6pm, £2.50 * The chance to do your karaoke

amidst the privacy of your friends Tiger Tiger - 10pm, £TBC * House anthems and dance classics from KISS 101

Varsity (City Centre) - 9pm, FREE * Weekly DJ set from DJ Extreme

Varsity (Roath) - 9pm, FREE * DJ

Dan pulls out his collection for a Roath based party WOW Bar - Ice. 8pm. FREE. * A mix of chart hits from resident DJs Krys and N18El T Walkabout - 9pm, £TBC * Big time atmosphere and party times in tha Australia bar

Bar Yupi - Funked Out, 9pm, £TBC *

Electro and funky house in Yupi

5th March All Mod Cons @ Promised Land, 8pm, £TBC * Monthly DJ night consisting of fine threads, Northern soul and all the Mod madness you’d ever dream

Bedlam In Cardiff feat. Chase & Status @ The Great Hall, Cardiff Uni, 9pm, £17 * See Clubs of the Month

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BEDLAM IN CARDIFF

Bewildering array of DJ talent alongside hip-hop acts such as Astroid Boys - and while the main emphasis will be on Chase & Status, the like of Ms Dynamite, Tempa T and Trolley Snatcha warrant more than enough jigging elbows for one mammoth night out

The Great Hall 5th March

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Millennium Music Hall 5th March

Release @ Undertone, 10pm £TBC

Bareback @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £3 * The

ever-expanding Garden Festival brings some of its incendiary party-crew to town including Futureboogie and Universal Vibes

Café A Go Go @ Promised Land. 8.30pm. £TBC * Another monthly dose

of incredible Mod DJing from the resident Café A Go Go

is back in Minsky’s with Jolene Dover helping out

Dirty Knees Present North Tour @ Koko Gorilaz, 9pm, £10 adv * Hard

party talent with the likes of Hellfish who comes all the way from France for their first Welsh show in 10 years

System 909 @ Undertone, 10pm, £TBC

* Another quality monthly night bringing techno from the future The End Of The World @ ?Secret Location?, 10pm, £TBC * See Clubs of the Month

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THE END OF THE WORLD

A night with more than a little mystique requiring you to really put your ear into the ground to even find out where it is. Alas, we cannot tell you but what we can say is that this night, themed as the last night in the world ever, is attempting to access the one last stand mindset. Promising dirty/ party tracks as opposed to forlorn last attempts to hear Morrissey, you should really only be finding out more if you’re prepared to shake your legs off

?Secret Location? 12th March

Gwdihŵ 26th March Fuel Rock Club @ Pure, 9pm, £TBC *Fortnightly rock and metal in Pure Tina Sparkle & Pixie Perez @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 * Regular Saturday double bill of

the high octane showtunes and comedy routines of the Minsky’s peeps

Sleep When You’re Dead @ Un-

dertone, 10pm, £TBC * The regular party vibe accompanied by fire gimps and general insanity

and Steve French host an alternative party in 10FT

Bar Icon - Sunday Nite Chill-out, 6pm, FREE * A chilled out affair with an open jukebox to while Sunday away

Buffalo - The Hop, 8pm, Upstairs: Prices vary, Downstairs: FREE * 50s

rock’n’roll, blues, soul, psych, rockabilly, jive and some new music The Crockerton - 9pm, FREE * Chart and club anthems from various DJs each Sunday

Exit Club - Sunday Sanctuary - 10pm, FREE * Resident DJs play the best chart and dance, old and new

King’s Cross - Rachel’s Songs Of Praise, 9pm, FREE * All-night happy hour and karaoke with your host Rachel

Lava Lounge - Industry Sunday - 8pm, FREE * Night dedicated to bar, club and hotel industry staff with regular and guest DJs

Live Lounge - 11pm, FREE * DJs

shepherd in the early hours following the live music Mocka Lounge - 9pm, FREE * The barstaff of Cardiff get given the VIP treatment, with resident DJ Chris Evans Reflex - 8pm, FREE * End the weekend with more retro goodness Revolution - 9pm, FREE * Latin beats played through the night in Revs

Rockin’ Chair - Love N Harmony Sessions - 7.30pm. FREE * Reggae vibes

down on Lower Cathedral Road with these Love N Harmony sessions

Sodabar -Sunday Industry Night, 10pm, £2 / FREE * A night dedicated to those who have been working Friday and Saturday serving drinks

Tiger Tiger - Private Karaoke, 6pm, £2.50 * Rentable booths for a set of

posh karaoke with friends

WOW Bar - The Cuckoo Club. 6pm. FREE * Special Guests and Cabaret

performances set to spend what’s left of your weekend party spirit Bar Yupi - 9pm, FREE * DJ Jamie H plays a selection of chart, funky house and electro

19th March Candela @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £2 * Freshly squeezed Colombian and Brazilian beats bringing a quality soul stomp

Tina Sparkle & Pixie Perez @ Minsky’s, 9pm, £3 * More showtunes and hen

parties abound in Minsky’s

Femme Fatale @ Undertone, 10pm,

£TBC * Monthly night dedicated to the music that women love

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LIVE Listings to find any fascists in attendance - which is nice

Tuesday 1st Ysgol Gynradd Albert Primary School @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 11am, FREE * Traditional Welsh songs

Nos Da Open Mic w/Singing Huw @ Nos Da, 8pm, FREE * Open mic on River-

side with a free drink for every performer

and poems

Rowan Liggett’s Open Mic @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * Open mic on North

opera performance in the WMC foyer

Acoustic Session @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8.30pm, FREE * Weekly acoustic session

Welsh National Opera @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * A free

Road hosted by MMP’s Liggett

Acoustic Lounge @ The Woodville, 7pm, £3 * St David’s Day acoustica in The

in little O’Neills

St. David’s Day Party @ Buffalo, 7pm, £TBC * A selection of bands to be

stream standards

Woodville courtesy of UWIC

confirmed

Necrocest / Cannibal God @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £3 * Death metal in Clwb’s

bottom floor

Il Trovatore @ Millennium Centre, 7pm, £39.50 - £15 * Verdi’s classic, pas-

The Combo @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £4 / £3 * Bebop, Latin American and mainTony Morley @ The Royal Oak,

8.30pm, FREE * Morley returns, unwearied, for another set of acoustic covers No Sweat @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, FREE * Acoustic showcase this

time featuring Tom Lewis Band & Digvijay Bhonsale

sionate Italian opera

Trust Trio @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 *

David’s day concert with Rachmaninov and Orff being played

9pm, FREE * The Irishman takes his acoustic show to big O’Neills

BBC National Orchestra of Wales @ St David’s Hall, 7pm, £25 - £10 * Special St. Die So Fluid / Killing For Company @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7.30pm, £8 * London

based hard-rockers visit off the back of last year’s The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime LP

Evocative jazz tunes from this trio

Colum Regan @ O’Neills (St Marys),

Thursday 3rd Die Fledermaus @ Millennium Centre, 7pm, £39.50 - £15 * Johann Strauss’ Vien-

nese comic operetta at the WMC

Welsh Bands For St David’s Day @ Promised Land, 8pm, £TBC * The

Bournemouth based power poppers

celebrations for St. David commence in earnest with a set of Welsh bands

Nyth feat. Colorama @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm,

£3 * The exquisitely incredible Colorama, fresh from being our featured act take on Nyth

The Memphis Seven @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £4 / £3.50 * The jazzy sounds of Memphis are reignited

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * The Aces don’t stop for

breath before another magnificent month of gigging

Capital City Jazz Orchestra @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 * The cream of

South Wales’ jazz musicians put in another rousing performance

Kickback Open Mic @ The Old Library, 9pm, FREE * Normally a jam-packed open

Amy Can Flyy / The Calling Card @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £5 * Overly clean Live In The Taf @ The Taf, Cardiff University, 7pm, FREE * Weekly session

in The Taf

Anton & Erin “Puttin’ On The Ritz” @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £39.50 - £15 * Live orchestra conducted by Richard

Balcombe with Anton & Erin bringing the movement

Larry Miller Band + Tim Crahart Band

@ The Globe, 7.30pm, £8 adv * One of Europe’s finest blues rock guitar wielders visits The Globe

RWCMD String Ensemble @ St Peter’s

Church, Roath, 8pm, £8 / £6 * Soloist Thomas Trotter joins the RWCMD ensemble Owain Glyndwr Open Mic @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Charmingly run

open mic in the city centre

Jim Jam Open Mic @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * One of the longest running open

mic in the city centre

mics in the city

open mic, smack bang in the centre of town

@ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £3 * Polish guitarist Mazurek plays this normally packed jazz night with a full band backing him

Open Mic Night @ O’Neills (Trinity Street), 9pm, FREE * Well established

Wednesday 2nd RWCMD Music Students @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Classical performance from the talented

RWCMD students

Dance! RWCMD Symphonic Brass @ St Andrew’s and St Teilo’s Church, 1pm, £3.50 / £2.50 * A celebration of dance ranging from 16th Century German to modern day jazz and Balkan

Vialka / Threatmantics @ Buffalo, 7.30pm, £5 * Intensely experienced touring act who incorporate their multitude of influences to dizzying effect - desert blues, Chinese folk songs, rock

The Ginger Rogers @ The Gate, 7.30pm, FREE * The Gate cafe hosts a live

bands night

Fairport Convention @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £19 * True traditional British

folk legends

Does It Offend You Yeah? @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £10 * See Gigs of the Month

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DOES IT OFFEND YOU YEAH? The Reading-based darlings of electronic-rock music are taking their endlessly raucous show on the road with threats of instrument breakage, heavy riffs and divine digitalism. Definitely not one to miss

The Globe 2nd March

Folk Against Fascism @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm,

£2 * The FAF team bring another night of folk wonder and you’re highly unlikely

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Il Trovatore @ Millennium Centre, 7pm, £39.50 - £15 * As 1st March Jam With Robina Album Launch @ Promised Land, 7pm, FREE * Some

superb folk-influenced Jethro Tull baiting trad-psych material

Benjamin Francis Leftwich + Support @ Buffalo, 7pm, £6 * See Gigs of the Month Reaper In Sicily / This Is A Setup + Support @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £5 * Powerpop for the evening on Albany Road Three Pairs Of Shoes / Lay Leighton @ The Pot, 7.30pm, £5 / £4 * One of the city’s finest student folk troupes with touring singer-songwriter support

Kill It Kid / Scoundrels / Fjords @ Clwb

Ifor Bach, 7.30pm, £6 * Utterly impressive blues-rock-Americana Salvation @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * Well-performed covers set from the cheesy but accomplished Salvation Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (Trinity St),

8pm, FREE * The Aces take their rock covers into little O’Neills

The Rise @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE *

St. David’s Day Party @ 10 Feet Tall, 7.30pm, £TBC * The Welsh saint is celebrated in 10FT

Welsh National Opera @ Glanfa Stage,

Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE * Operatic showcase from WNO on the Glanfa

The Jazz Revhŵ feat. Arek Mazurek

Rock covers in The Claude with The Rise providing the choruses

Swing Discotheque feat. The Hot Potato Syncopators @Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £3 * Swing themed discotheque with the amazingly retro comedy-jazz of HPS headlining along burlesque and quality DJs

Hail! The Planes / Jon Roberts @ Ffresh Bar, WMC, 8pm, FREE * See Gigs of the Month

GigOfTheMonth HAIL! THE PLANES

This marks the launch of a monthly showcase of outstanding Welsh contemporary talent put on in association with Journal of Plastik. In the first of the series, they’ve come up trumps by putting on the fantastically (post) folky Hail! The Planes. Jon Roberts also supports leading to a pretty fantastic evening. Expect future concerts from Meilir, Stephen Wheel, Alexandra Comana and more

Ffresh Bar, WMC 4th March

The Tony Breen Band & Guests @ Blue Dragon Hotel, 9pm, FREE * Country,

Elvis Show @ The Royal Oak, 8pm,

FREE * Elvis based show down on Broadway

Word Virus Essay @ North Star, 8pm,

FREE * One of Cardiff’s finest drum ‘n’ bass driven trip-hoppers Zephyr @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm, FREE * Zephyr’s rock takes to the smaller

O’Neills

Afro Cluster / The Sweet Spots @ Pen & Wig, 8pm, FREE * The MMP featurees take their funky afrobeat to Pen & Wig

Nation Stack @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * Weekend live covers in the Albany

Road pub

SESH feat. Inconsiderate Parking @

Nos Da, 8.30pm, FREE * New weekly Saturday session this time featuring Inconsiderate Parking and Miss Maud’s Folly

Leighton Jones @ Vulcan Lounge, 9pm,

FREE * The man with masses of soul in his growling larynx

Sunday 6th Amanda Whiting & Band @ North Star,

2pm, FREE * Whiting leads on harp with a band backing her for this Sunday session

Acoustic Jam Session @ The Royal Oak,

3pm, FREE * Afternoon acoustic Sunday jam on Broadway

Performer + w/ ATOS Trio @ BBC Hod-

dinott Hall, 3.30pm, £6 / £4 *Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn charted here

Elfen @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 3.30pm, FREE * Welsh folk performed

on the Glanfa

Choirs Kensington @ Millennium Centre, 5pm, £35 - £15 * 400 male voices

all going in unison

Jumping Ships @ Buffalo, 7.30pm,

£TBC * Up-tempo indie-pop with plenty of interesting elements Jamie Woon & Ghostpoet @ Cardiff

Arts Institute, 7.30pm, £6 adv * Widely heralded as one of 2011’s most wanted, Woon brings his lush vocal and credibility to CAI Acoustic Open Mic Night @ Buffalo Lounge (Woodville Road), 7.30pm, FREE * The open mic format spreads as

Buffalo Lounge try their hand - MMP’s Liggett hosts

Phillip Henry / Meilir / Barefoot Dance Of The Sea @ 10 Feet Tall, 7.30pm, £4 * Slide guitarist headlines with excellent

folky support

Sunday Acoustic Night @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Pleasant acoustic

evening with Jollie Holly

Battle Of The Bands - Q/Finals @ Vulcan Lounge, 8pm, FREE * Let battle

blues, jazz all sitting happily

Claude, 8.30pm, FREE * Morley turns his musical eyes to the city’s up-and-comers

Dick Pearce & John Gibbon Trio @

of the Lazy Mojo Band

FREE * The acoustic pair push out another polished set of covers

the weekend

Monday 7th

filling out big O’Neills

Fellows @ Cafe Jazz, 10pm, £4 * The Blues Dragon sessions host these sprightly named bluesboys

Westlife @ Cardiff International Arena, 6.30pm, £40.50 * The bastions of big

The excellent sunshine funk of King Louis Collective with some fine support and DJs

Saturday 5th

commence between these up-and-comers in Cathays

Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £7 / £5 * Long-time Ronnie Scott associate Pearce takes his trumpet on tour

Paradigm Shift @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Covers band from Newport King Louis Collective / Benji & The Greats @ 10 Feet Tall, 9pm, £3 / £2 *

The Lazy Mojo Band @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * The smooth covers Manalishi @ The Royal Oak, 9pm, FREE * The Oak throws up some covers for Smokey Smothers & The Mellow

Rob Lear @ Cardiff Central Library,

Friday 4th Live Music Friday @ Owain Glyndwr, 5pm, FREE * Friday night live band

session in OG

GigOfTheMonth

BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH With a range of influences like a who’s who of great singersongwriters (Elliot Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Iron & Wine and Jose Gonzalez to name a few), York-based Leftwich could be accused of strict adherence to template. But there is considerable depth on show here with lyrical complexity and melodic prowess at work in every fibre. Interesting stuff

Buffalo 4th March

1pm, FREE * Lear’s acoustic folk pop plays beautifully in the library

Tony Morley’s Open Mic Night @ The S & M @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm,

soppy pop ply the massed crowds with their Irish charms

The Ignition Tour @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £4 / £3 * NEON, Brandon & The Healers, Single For Saturday and Diversify all on the bill

Contagious @ Pen & Wig, 7.30pm, FREE * Open mic night every Monday in

Lowri Evans @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1.30pm, FREE * Acoustic

the Pen & Wig

Welsh National Opera @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE * Even-

* Old and new songs all taken on by the perfectly formed ukulele

Die Fledermaus @ Millennium Centre, 7pm, £39.50 - £15 * As the 3rd March Philip Henry and Hannah Martin @ The Minstrel Room, 7.30pm, £8 * Cow-

tone, 8pm, £5 / £4 * Yorkshire’s Napoleon IIIrd recalls the off-kilter harmonies of Panda Bear but noisier

Hjaltalin / Among Brothers @ Buffalo, 7.30pm, £7 / £6 * Icelandic soulful

Veritas @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 *

tunes played in the WMC foyer

ing free show of opera from the WNO

bridge once more offers up some fine roots music with the exquisite guitar and dobro of Henry and virtuoso fiddle of Martin

chamber-pop with shades of Arcade Fire thrown in, excellent local support too

Jon Airdrie & The Shellies @ Pretence, 7.30pm, FREE * Special night of folk

wonderment in the lovely Whitchurch Road wine bar

James Taylor Quartet @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £15 * The acid-jazz funk favour-

ites stop by in The Globe

Ukulele Night @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, FREE Napoleon IIIrd + Support @ Under-

Traditional Folk Session @ Beverley Hotel, 8.30pm, FREE * The soothing

sounds of traditional Welsh folk music in the Cathedral Road pub

Alex Douglas on piano leads a large Welsh College ensemble

Poet’s Corner Open Mic @ Poet’s Cor-

ner, 9pm, FREE * Huwie Price comperes this open mic on City Road

Open Mic @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm,

FREE * Regular open mic every Monday in big O’Neills

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club

Thursday 7 April, 7.30pm featuring OMARA PORTUONDO

They’re back in Cardiff for one night only - celebrating 40 years - don’t miss it!

LIVE Listings Liggett hosts this open mic

Tuesday 8th

Tony Morley @ The Royal Oak, 8.30pm, FREE * Morley returns, unwea-

Cardiff University Students @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Students from Cardiff University play

ried, for another set of acoustic covers

Americana Teatime Show - Blind River Scare @ Buffalo Lounge (Woodville Road), 6pm, FREE * Acoustic Americana

Acoustic Session @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8.30pm, FREE * Lush acoustica every

classical material

in this special early evening show

Westlife @ Cardiff International Arena, 6.30pm, £40.50 * As yesterday Joe Brown @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £23.50 / £19.50 * Legendary 60s guitarist and songwriter

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus / Yashin @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7.30pm, £8.50 * Alternative rock from Florida of fairly squeaky clean nature

Wonderbrass Presents Mardi Gras @ Koko Gorilaz, 7.30pm, £6 / £4 * The mega monolith of brass that is

Wonderbrass present a Mardi Gras show with the samba drummers of Batatan & DJs helping out

Take The Stage @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £1

* The launch of the brand new Gwdihŵ enhanced, Rowan Liggett powered open mic night

The Operators + Support @ Buffalo, 8pm, £3 * Indie-funk-dance with shades of The Clash and Prince

Norman Thatcher’s New Orleans Band @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £4 / £3.50 * Tradi-

Jazz Attic @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £2 *

Legendary improv session with the finely honed house trio week in little O’Neills

No Sweat @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, FREE * Acoustic showcase with

Efa Supertramp, Esther Taylor and Molly Zacharias

Colum Regan @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * The one-man jukebox plays

big O’Neills

Led Bib @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 * See Gigs of the Month

GigOfTheMonth LED BIB

If energetic and inventive jazz is your bag, you’d be hard pressed to find a better gig than Led Bib to go and see this month. Mercury Prize nominees in 2009, the band have been hailed by the likes of The Independent and The Guardian too. Cool and contemporary stuff with more than a few twists and turns

Dempsey’s 9th March

tional jazz from its New Orleans roots

Alex Douglas @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 * Pianist Douglas entertains the

Dempsey’s crowd

Open Mic Night @ O’Neills (Trinity Street), 9pm, FREE * Little O’Neills long-

running open mic

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * The Aces return for another

show in big O’Neills

Kickback Open Mic @ The Old Library, 9pm, FREE * Popular open mic in town

Thursday 10th Neath Port Talbot College Jazz Band @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Swing jazz from just down the M4

performed in the WMC foyer

Music For Two Guitars @ Weston Gallery, RWCMD, 7pm, £8 / £6 * Hayley Savage and Dimitris Dekavallas play some sweet classical guitar duets

Wednesday 9th RWCMD Music Students @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Another classical showcase for the talents of the RWCMD

Harps And Friends! @ Weston Gallery, RWCMD, 1pm, £3.50 / £2.50 * The harp

department present chamber music

Afternoon Concert w/ Jac van Steen @ BBC Hoddinott Hall, 2pm, £10 / £7 * Works form Martinu and Painter

among others

Ian Michael Thomas @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE * Piano show tunes for the Glanfa Stage this evening

Westlife @ Cardiff International Arena, 6.30pm, £40.50 * As the 7th March Voices Of Partition - Panjabi Folk Song @ Chapter, 7.30pm, FREE * See Gigs of the Month

Glamour Of The Kill @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £7 * Metalcore from York, one of the prettiest towns of the North - must have angry suburbs

Live In The Taf @ The Taf, Cardiff University, 7pm, FREE * Live Music Society hosts this weekly session

Example @ The Great Hall, Cardiff University, 7pm, £14 * Off the back of a massive year in sales and supporting Faithless, Example brings his intelligent hook-laden stuff to The Great Hall

Jim Jam Open Mic @ The Claude, 8pm,

FREE * The Jim Jam open mic rolls onward in The Claude every Thursday

Owain Glyndwr Open Mic @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Well run open mic

in the centre of town

Battle Of The Bands - Q/Finals @ Vulcan Lounge, 8pm, FREE * Second quarter

The Blades @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * Threateningly titled covers act in The

FREE * More rock covers in The Royal Oak every weekend

Claude

Colum Regan @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm, FREE * The Irishman plays little

O’Neills just a few days short of St. Patrick’s

Sicknote Steve & The Blues Hogs @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * The blues

traditionalist leads his band of hogs to the North Star

Go Faster Stripe: The Return Of Boothby Graffoe @ Chapter, 8pm, £10 * One

of Omid Djalili’s writers with his hilarious and incredibly clever political tunes

Round The Houses feat. Things Make Electric @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £3 * The

smart-pop of Things Make Electric visits Gwdihŵ

The Tony Breen Band & Guests @ Blue

Dragon Hotel, 9pm, FREE * Tony Breen leads the country, blues, jazz and rock Audio Scam @ O’Neills (St Marys),

9pm, FREE * The covers of Audio Scam echo in the big O’Neills The Journeymen @ The Royal Oak,

9pm, FREE * The classy rock and pop covers of The Journeymen

The Fugitives @ Cafe Jazz, 10pm, £4 *

Blues rock sessions every Friday in Cafe Jazz

In Chapters: Mothers @ Chapter, 8pm,

Antique Women @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Female

GigOfTheMonth THE GREAT WRECK ‘N’ ROLL CIRCUS

With a mass line-up including Cardiff’s fine show ponies Cakehole Presley, Johnny Cage & The Voodoo Groove, Llwybr Llaethog, Dead Residents and more alongside the further afield likes of Skip’Little Axe’McDonald, Here & Now Band, Dead Silence Syndicate,Tribazik and Headjam this is an all-dayer’s worth of aceness

The Coal Exchange 12th March

‘n’ roll performed on the Glanfa

The veteran Welsh language rocker comes back to Cardiff

from the haven of pop-punk-rock that is Cheltenham...

Punks Not Dad / The Siren Sisters @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £8 / £5 * CD launch

My Ruin @ Millennium Music Hall,

An Evening With Lee Mead @ Millennium Centre, 7.30pm, £27 * The winner

Friday 11th

The Sweet Spots @ Vulcan Lounge, 8pm, FREE * Classy soul cuts playing down

of Any Dream Will Do takes his West End tuneage to WMC

in The Vulcan Lounge

Under The Driftwood Tree @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * The Driftwood boys and

after work with live bands in the city centre

Nos Da Open Mic w/Singing Huw @ Nos Da, 8pm, FREE * Open mic on

chamber-pop of Powell lights up the Glanfa for the evening

acousticism to little O’Neills

7.30pm, £26 * The Welsh icon takes his rugby inspired everyman songs to the WMC

accessible blend of folk, hip-hop and reggae Acab @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * The

Riverside

Rowan Liggett’s Open Mic @North Star, 8pm, FREE * Fire-haired adonis

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Max Boyce @ Millennium Centre,

on Mozart, Schumann, Profokiev and more

vocal harmonies on the Glanfa

Synergy @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Male a cappella

choral works in the WMC

Under The Driftwood Tree (Acoustic) @ North Star, 2pm, FREE * UDWT return to North Star following last night’s show for an acoustic set

Acoustic Jam Session @ The Royal Oak, 3pm, FREE * Afternoon acoustic Sunday

jam on Broadway

Hootananny Open Mic @ Gwdihŵ,

7pm, FREE * Huwie Price hosts this open mic in Gwdihŵ Kast Off Kinks @ The Globe, 7.30pm,

£12 adv * Kinks tribute with Mick Avory, one of the original members, actually in the band

Acoustic Open Mic Night @ Buffalo Lounge (Woodville Road), 7.30pm, FREE * Buffalo Lounge welcomes Liggett to

host their weekly open mic

Something Personal @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE * Rock

Vegas @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm,

Jonathan Powell @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE * The

Ba Ba Boom Presents Rio Carnival @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, £4 / £2 *

of the Month

The Great Wreck n Roll Circus @ The Coal Exchange, 6pm, £TBC * See Gigs

Elaine Paige @ Millennium Centre, 7.30pm, £38.50 - £25 * The theatre and musical monolith brings her sultry vocal to the WMC

Millennium Music Hall 12th March

Cardiff Coffee Concerts National Museum @ National Museum, Cardiff, 11.30am, £10 - £6 * The Bridge Duo take

7.30pm, £11 * Los Angeles hard rockers come visit their more devoted audience over here in the UK

Live Music Friday @ Owain Glyndwr, 5pm, FREE * The weekend begins straight

Beardyman brings his livedance-music-production system and mighty fine MCing skills to MMH as part of one of the more imaginative and interactive concepts for a tour in recent history - facebook, twitter and texts sent to Beardy will appear behind him, allowing him to do some off the cuff ad-libbing

library’s lunchtime session every Saturday

Jonathan Crespo leads the tribute to the jazz great

FREE * Rock covers to begin the weekend worship

BEARDYMAN

Sunday 13th

classical works performed in WMC

Proms

Miles Davis Tribute @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £6 / £5 * Canadian trumpeter

GigOfTheMonth

Nicky Swann @ Cardiff Central Library, 1pm, FREE * Country folk rock in the

for the punk-rock headliners here with £8 entry getting you a copy as part of the deal - preceded by the Wales v Ireland match on the big screen from 5pm

The Venture @ Promised Land, 8.30pm, £TBC * Indie-rock pop up in

Beardyman @ Millennium Music Hall, 9pm, £10 * See Gigs of the Month

Live Music Now! @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Popular

Jet-Pack / Red Room Therapy @ Buffalo, 7pm, £3 * Pop-punk-rock

£5 * The regular intelligent blend of spoken word, instrumental and guest songwriters entertain the theme of mothers on this occasion

The Journeymen @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Rock and pop covers in the

big O’Neills

Rio Carnival celebrations continue on here with live music, capoeira, samba and Ba Ba Boom DJs

of the original Supremes takes her band and flawless soul vocal to St David’s

A night of celebration for Panjabi folk song with one of the innovators of bhangra, Kuljit Bhamra, taking his unique approach to the Chapter theatre space alongside British Asian singer Shahid Khan from London and a Panjabi and Welsh folk collaboration - these events form part of a bigger Sangat series of debates which will build to the launch of play A Lifetime On Tiptoes by Mazhar Tirmazi - sounds delightfully erudite and thoughtful

Glasshouse @ The Royal Oak, 9pm,

Saturday 12th

Bryn Fon @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £10 *

Mary Wilson (The Supremes) @ St David’s Hall, 8pm, £27.50 / £24 * One

Chapter 9th March

Claude favourites return with a set of rollickin’ popular tunes

acts to bring the start of the weekend

final in The Vulcan Lounge BoB

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VOICES OF PARTITION

Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack / Erja Lyytinen @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £12 * Blues

girl take their upbeat folk-pop to North Star

Rob Cross @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm, FREE * The talented Mr. Cross brings his

The Undercover Hippy @ Pen & Wig, 8pm, FREE * Politically charged yet utterly

10cc @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £25

- £20 * One of the legendary pop groups of the 70s

Encore: Bay Divas @ Millennium Centre, 8pm, £12 * The Bay Divas - Patti Flynn, Humie Webbe and Jacky Webbe return with their new show Encore!

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm, FREE * Another show from the

Smokin’ Aces

Sunday Acoustic Night @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Acoustic night of

tunes to wind down

Tony Morley’s Open Mic Night @

The Claude, 8.30pm, FREE * Morley continues his training of the city’s young musicians S & M @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm,

FREE * Duelling acoustic guitars and vocals in big O’Neills

Monday 14th Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan @ St David’s Hall, 7pm, £10 - £6 * Per-

formance from the talents of the Counties Junior Ensembles

Heavy Quartet @ 10 Feet Tall, 7.30pm, £4 * The young jazz impresarios play a

special night of 2 sets

Contagious @ Pen & Wig, 7.30pm,

FREE * Open mic night every Monday in the Pen & Wig

Pangea @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £4 / £3 * Student night with live bands Rockaoke @ Gassy Jacks, 8.30pm, FREE

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LIVE Listings * Rock out at Gassys every other Monday Ukulele Night @ The Butcher’s Arms, 8.30pm, FREE * The Ukulele nights format

moves to Canton

Traditional Folk Session @ Cayo Arms,

8.30pm, FREE * The Cathedral Road Monday folk sessions switch to the Cayo Arms this time around

Poet’s Corner Open Mic @ Poet’s Corner, 9pm, FREE * Open mic in this City Road boozer

Open Mic @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Big O’Neills hosts this well run

open mic

Tuesday 15th The Lay Lows / Men On The Chessboard @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £6 *

Youthful angular riffs from this local troupe

Lord Mayor’s Charity Spring Showcase @ St David’s Hall, 7pm, £10 - £6 *

Nine of the counties’ ensembles on show plus a massed choir of 250 primary school children

Godsticks + Support @ Buffalo, 8pm, £TBC * Much celebrated progressive

prog-pop-rock

Holy Grail / Revoker @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £6 * Homecoming for Roadrunner

country Americana i’n the library

Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £13 adv * Classic rock

Pretence as its 3rd year of life is greeted with music from Dragon’s Breath, Lauren Shields, Stewart Alexander and Mari Davies

The Wombats @ Solus, Cardiff University, 7.30pm, SOLD OUT * Only

FREE * Steel-pan mavericks Duo-Flex take to Nos Da with funk and Latin sounds from DJ Eb following into the night

Records’ Revoker as well as Holy Grail

comprising Wishbone Ash’s original singer and bassist returns for the pop mongrels on this rescheduled date

Jaya The Cat / Broken Nose @ Undertone, 8pm, £7 / £6 * Reggae-ska-punk

from the US

Owain Glyndwr Open Mic @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Performers

welcomed at this open mic

Jim Jam Open Mic @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * The hugely experienced Jim Jam

with is open mic

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm, FREE * The Aces are back once

more with all the rock covers your heart could desire

Eruption Button feat. The Thieving Beggars @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £3 * St. Pat-

rick’s Day special for Eruption Button featuring the usual DJs as well as the ragtime ska of The Thieving Beggars and more

Pretence 2nd Birthday @ Pretence, 2.30pm, FREE * Celebrations abound in

SESH feat. Duo-Flex @ Nos Da, 5pm,

7.30pm, FREE * The ukulele troupe bring their arms and a collection of old and new songs to Lochaber Street

the headliners with James James and Shape Record DJs too

The Electric Company + Support @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * 70s-styled pub and festival band in North Star

Salvation @ Pen & Wig, 8pm, FREE *

The cheeky, cheesy covers of Salvation play out in Pen & Wig

Heart Beats @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * A weekend full of rock down in

The Claude

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (Trinity St),

Mr Duke + Support @ Promised Land, 8.30pm, £TBC * Good quality Welsh

rock in Vulcan Lounge this Saturday

Phil Wall’s Jazz Cardinals @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £4 / £3.50 * Rather excellent

Louise Ryan Vocal School @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £6 / £5 * The talents of the

good covers act

and hard rock trad jazz

Open Mic Night @ O’Neills (Trinity Street), 9pm, FREE * City centre open mic

bi-lingual singer songwriter Louise Ryan Vocal School

Goose @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm,

Bare Threads @ Vulcan Lounge, 8pm, FREE * Top notch fuzzed out bluesy garage Beavers @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Abruptly named but no doubt very Casper Jack @ The Royal Oak, 9pm, FREE * The Oak hosts another night of

at little O’Neills

FREE * Party covers from this O’Neills regular act

raucous rock energy

O’Neills with covers

Friday 18th

See Gigs of the Month

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Smokin Aces light up big Kickback Open Mic @ The Old Library, 9pm, FREE * Generally well-attended

open mic

Chris Gilligan / Stuart Power Group @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 * Pianist

Gilligan and gutarist Power, supported by bass and drums

Wednesday 16th RWCMD Students @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * The Welsh College music students play their classical works

From Russia With Love @ St Andrew’s and St Teilo’s Church, 1pm, £3.50 / £2.50 * Concert of Russian orchestral classics

Philharmonia Orchestra @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £32 - £10 * Two concertos and two soloists

Earth Hour 2011 Schools Project @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Musical performed by a range

of schools

Live Music Friday @ Owain Glyndwr, 5pm, FREE * A prelude to the weekend’s

festivities

Whiskey & Lace / Riot City Saints @ Buffalo, 7pm, £4 * Early show of finely

balanced and intelligent rock

Percussion Ensemble @ St Andrew’s and St Teilo’s Church, 7.30pm, £8 / £6 * Evening of percussive talent The ZZ Tops @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £10 * Fantastic tribute to the bearded rockers Rumney Folk Club @ St Augustine’s Church Hall, Rumney, 7.30pm, £3 * Whitehall Parade in Rumney hosts this stellar folk evening

Rachel K Collier & Band @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * Collier’s pristine vocal backed

Nos Da Open Mic w/Singing Huw @ Nos Da, 8pm, FREE * Open mic on

by a full band

Rowan Liggett’s Open Mic @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * The North Star hosts

* Friday night rock and pop covers in The Claude

Riverside every Wednesday this open mic

Freeway @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE North Star @ The Royal Oak, 8pm, FREE * The North Star boys will be playing

Nodzzz / The Mantles + More @ Undertone, 8pm, £6 / £5 * Joyful and in-

their covers down Splott way

Open Space @ The Gate, 8pm, FREE * Re-formatted Gate open mic on

Crimes Against Folk echo in little O’Neills

Acoustic Session @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8.30pm, FREE * Little O’Neills hosts this

Compared to the likes of Jurassic 5, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul - this should be one hell of a funky evening

vigorating garage rock in the basement club Wednesdays with this theme being a completely open space for poets, storytellers, musicians weekly acoustic session

Fraser Allibone @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £5 / £4 * Blistering swing and bebop

on alto sax

Colum Regan @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Big O’Neills hosts Regan’s

weekly residency

Dan Messore Band @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 * Messore’s masterful

guitarwork backed by a jazz band

No Sweat @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, FREE * The Ped & Joe Show, Huwie

Price and Patty

Thursday 17th Cardiff University Students @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * More classical works from the CU students

Live In The Taf @ The Taf, Cardiff University, 7pm, FREE * The Union’s pub

takes on some live acts

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Crimes Against Folk @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm, FREE * The folk swirlings of Peches Mignon Presents ASM (A State Of Mind) @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £4 *

The Tony Breen Band & Guests @ Blue Dragon Hotel, 9pm, FREE * The

Tony Breen Band play their blues-rock on Newport Road

Graffiti @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm,

FREE * Covers band in the environs of big O’Neills

Blues Central @ Cafe Jazz, 10pm, £4 *

Peches Mignon Presents Benin City @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 10pm, £4 / £2 *

GigOfTheMonth BENIN CITY

Following their last visit, Cardiff was a crumbled vessel of a city, torn asunder by waves of funk, hip-hop, jazz and afrobeat. Now they are returning with plaudits from Craig Charles, Mark Lamarr and plenty more - should be tiptop action until late

Cardiff Arts Institute 19th March

Sunday 20th Live And Unsigned Regional Final @ The Coal Exchange, 12pm, £10 / £7.50 * The regional final of this competition to

uncover the unsigned talent from across the UK - let’s see how Wales fairs...

Okanagan Mission School @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Choral works performed in the WMC

Thoby Davis @ North Star, 2pm, FREE

* The loop-pedalling madman pulls out another Sunday session

Rob Lear @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6.30pm, FREE * Lear takes his

the Pen & Wig

O.Children / The Chapman Family @

Buffalo, 8pm, £8 / £7 * Rotating headline tour from this pair of indie darlings

Performer + w/ Jack Liebeck @ BBC Hoddinott Hall, 8pm, £6 / £4 * See Gigs of the Month

GigOfTheMonth JACK LIEBECK

Liebeck, one of Britain’s finest young soloists, takes his violin and charts the works of Robert Schumann, Karol Szymanowski, Sergey Prokofiev and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - this forms part of the excellent Performer + series putting soloists under the microscope throughout March and April

BBC Hoddinott Hall 21st March

Traditional Folk Session @ Beverley

Hotel, 8.30pm, FREE * The Beverley welcomes a traditional Welsh folk session Open Mic @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm,

FREE * Regular as clockwork and ticking over just fine, it’s the big O’Neills open mic Poet’s Corner Open Mic @ Poet’s Corner, 9pm, FREE * The effervescently talented Huwie Price plays host in this open mic

Tuesday 22nd Rougemont School Rocks @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Rock is now part of the KS3 curricu-

lum, these pupils show all they’ve learned

Igor Tchetuuev @ St David’s Hall, 1pm, £6.50 - £4.50 * Tchetuuev takes on Beethoven and Liszt on piano in this lunchtime concert

Johnny Cage & The Voodoo Groove @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6.30pm, FREE * Rock Learning Week

brings the city’s premier rock showmen to the Glanfa

I Am Arrows + Support @ Buffalo, 7.30pm, £7.50 * Former Razorlight

tiny sister

City Of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra @ The Gate, 8pm, £10 / £8 * The orchestra

Acoustic Open Mic Night @ Buffalo Lounge (Woodville Road), 7.30pm, FREE * Weekly open mic in Buffalo’s Plymouth and Pendyrus Male Choir @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £20 / £12.50 * The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines

this weekly acoustic session

Saturday 19th

8pm, FREE * The likes of Molly Pants, the Autumn Waltz and more provide the live music to accompany the market shoppers

Joshua Caole @ Cardiff Central Library, 1pm, FREE * Caole’s impressive alt-

by all accounts, comes to visit with a few friends in tow (P Money, Logan Sama)

Contagious @ Pen & Wig, 7.30pm, FREE * Open mic night every Monday in

way from New Jersey

on every Friday

from this choir

Skepta / Plastician @ Millennium Music Hall, 7.30pm, £10 * The king of grime,

Fireworks / Make Do And Mend @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £7.50 * A 14+

Ill Nino @ Millennium Music Hall, 7pm, £12.50 * Latin metal legends all the

Plymouth team up with the Pendyrus Male Choir

Cardiff And Vale High Schools Choir @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Popular, classical and world music

Ukulele Nights @ Milkwood Gallery,

acoustic songcraft to the Glanfa

Blues session in Cafe Jazz hosting the very centre of blues tonight

Pat Grover & The Hawkes @ Cafe Jazz, 10pm, £4 * The Blues Dragon sessions roll

Coleg Glan Hafren Students @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * Students from the Coleg play jazz on

the Glanfa

Cabaret comedy and rock melded together on the Glanfa

Necrocest / Kryophere + Support @ Undertone, 8pm, £TBC * Death metal

stage of Vulcan’s BoB

Monday 21st

Munch Munch / James James @ Buffalo, 7pm, £5 / £4 * Keyboard-pop from

8pm, FREE * Third gig of the week for the Aces, early pace-keepers in the race for live slots

brand new open mic night

Sunday Jazz: Chapter Four @ Chapter,

9pm, FREE * Free jazz from the Glen Manby Quartet to while away those remaining hours of the weekend in the Caffi Bar

Rayguns Look Real Enough @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE *

Battle Of The Bands - S/Finals @ Vulcan Lounge, 8pm, FREE * The semi-final

Take The Stage @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £1 * Rowan Liggett hosts the second of this

O’Neills

Sunday Acoustic Night @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Jollie Holly hosts Gwdihŵ Sundown Market @ Gwdihŵ,

Tony Morley’s Open Mic Night @ The

Claude, 8.30pm, FREE * Morley demonstrates his immense knowledge of songs, while encouraging others to play too S & M @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Pleasant acoustic covers in big

show for these young pop punkers

drummer takes his intriguing solo project of pastoral pop to Buffalo

GigOfTheMonth THE UNTHANKS

The MOJO, Guardian and Uncut acclaimed Unthanks are heading to St David’s on the back of their new album...as always you can expect traditional folk bliss on display along with the normal quirks of modern composition and adventure to which they are synonomous

St David’s Hall 22nd March

LIVE Listings take on Mendelssohn’s Italian symphony

The Unthanks @ St David’s Hall, 8pm, £13 / £12 * See Gigs of the Month Take The Stage @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £1 *

department

funk tunes from the headliners

University, 7pm, FREE * The Live Music Society with bands every week

Wig, 8pm, FREE * Another top night at Pen & Wig, with the funk-hip-hop-soul mash of N.E.o.N.

Live In The Taf @ The Taf, Cardiff

More open mic fun hosted by the constantly baffled Mr.Liggett. Free entry if you play

Stiff Little Fingers @ Millennium Music Hall, 7pm, £18 / £17 * The veteran

Society’s weekly night brings the Liberty Street Quartet this time around

Welsh Sinfonia Chorus @ City United Reformed Church, 7.30pm, £12 / £10 *

Liberty Street Quartet @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £4 / £3.50 * Preservation Jazz

N.E.o.N. / Word Virus Essay @ Pen &

2 Tickets 2 The Gun Show @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm, FREE * Rock action in

Northern Irish punks show they still have what it takes

little O’Neills for the weekend

Kickback Open Mic @ The Old Library, 9pm, FREE * Cardiff Uni’s Live Music

The chorus perform Bach’s St John Passion

playing the Vulcan

Little Fish @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 *

Cantorion Creigiau w/ Treorchy Male Choir @ BBC Hoddinott Hall, 7.30pm, £15 * Concert celebrating the 40th anniver-

Society hosts this weekly open mic in The Old Library CD launch for this jazz act

Open Mic Night @ O’Neills (Trinity Street), 9pm, FREE * Little O’Neills hosts

this open mic night every week

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * The rock covers of Aces head

up big O’Neills every Tuesday

Wednesday 23rd RWCMD Music Students @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE * The RWCMD sends its students down

to the Bay

New Music For Brass @ Weston Gallery, RWCMD, 1pm, £3.50 / £2.50 * Brass

ensemble showcases some new work from students

Gwent Music Electric Cello Quartet @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE * Classical works performed on, yes,

electric cello

Elbow @ Cardiff International Arena, 6.30pm, £30 * See Gigs of the Month

GigOfTheMonth ELBOW

The ever-impressive Guy Garvey leads his ever-impressive band into a battle waged between hooks, intelligence, crafted songwriting and intense credibility. With the whoop and splendour of new album Build A Rocket Boys! coinciding neatly, this will be a top, top night

CIA 23rd March Sonata Arctica @ Millennium Music Hall, 7.30pm, £15 * Finnish power met-

allers come touring

Rowan Liggett’s Open Mic @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * Weekly open mic up in the

livingly decored North Star

The Australian Pink Floyd @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £27.50 * Now sold out, this tribute are touted as more Floyd than Floyd

sary of mixed choir Cantorion Creigiau

Lewis Floyd Henry / Ned Rundell @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £4 * Seriously great one-

man-band style showmanship

My Gambino @ Vulcan Lounge, 8pm, FREE * Homegrown rock-pop-funk quartet Derwyddon Dr Gonzo @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 8pm, £6 * The Welsh language funk

crew fill Clwb

The Journeymen @ North Star, 8pm,

FREE * Rock and pop covers from the classy Journeymen SESH feat. Yr Angen / Tylwyth Teg @ Nos Da, 8.30pm, FREE * Welsh indie rock

from the headliners and student folkies Tylwyth Teg

jazzy stylings

Martin Simpson @ St David’s Hall, 8pm,

£13 / £12 * One of the finest acoustic and slide guitarists in the world

Die Fledermaus - RWCMD @ Millennium Centre, 8pm, £12 / £8 * RWCMD’s

Opera masters students display their talents

Take The Stage @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £1 * Free if you perform. Rowan Liggett hosts this open mic

The Bronze Medal / Love The Judge @ Buffalo, 8pm, £TBC * Heavy, choppy riffs

brimming with youthful energy

John Scantlebury Quartet @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £4 / £3.50 * John Scantlebury

leads the Preservation Jazz Society’s Tuesday session

Ollie Howell Trio w/ Duncan Eagles @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 * Drummer

Goose @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE

Howell leads a band featuring saxophonist star Eagles

Dakaus @ The Royal Oak, 9pm, FREE * The popular rock covers continue down

Street), 9pm, FREE * Well established open mic, smack bang in the centre of town

Jim Jam Open Mic @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * Weekly open mic in The Claude Battle Of The Bands - S/Finals @ Vulcan Lounge, 8pm, FREE * Final instalment of

* Colum Regan’s covers band takes to the big O’Neills stage

Owain Glyndwr Open Mic @ Owain

on Broadway

Joe Webb Quartet @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm,

the semi-finals

Jazz Cafe @ The Gate, 8pm, £3 / £2 * The professional house trio play their

Open Mic Night @ O’Neills (Trinity

The Correspondents @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 10pm, £5 * Infinitely popular

electro-swing mainstays

Smokin’ Aces @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Rock covers in big O’Neills Kickback Open Mic @ The Old Library, 9pm, FREE * Busy and popular open mic

£6 / £4 * Pianist Webb takes on a Lennie Tristano project

Sunday 27th

Wednesday 30th

big O’Neills

Thoby Davis @ North Star, 2pm, FREE * Sunday session for Cardiff’s primary loop-

pedalling lothario

RWCMD String Ensemble @ St Andrew’s and St Teilo’s Church, 1pm, £3.50 / £2.50 * Music from the string and

in a 14+ show

Kate Nash @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £12.50 * Exclusive concert with the

Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Well established open mic night in the OG

Polar Bears @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * The bears take their set to

Friday 25th Barbican Trio @ Weston Gallery, RWCMD, 1pm, £6 / £5 * One of the UK’s

leading chamber ensembles

Boys With X Ray Eyes @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £5 * Young thrash metallers Acoustic Open Mic Night @ Buffalo Lounge (Woodville Road), 7.30pm, FREE * Open mic every week in the lovely little

harp departments

ever-popular Nash and her contemporary reference points

Live Music Friday @ Owain Glyndwr, 5pm, FREE * Live Friday night session every

Buffalo Lounge

Japanese Voyeurs @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7.30pm, £6 * Ominous sounding and well-

Kylie - Aphrodite Tour @ Cardiff International Arena, 6.30pm, £85 / £65 * Undoubtedly poptastic from the rejuvenat

lineage of Brighton

Die Fledermaus - RWCMD @ Millennium Centre, 8pm, £12 / £8 * As

week in OG

Curly Hair / Martha Rose @ Buffalo, 7.30pm, £4 * DIY effort from the anti-folk Sunday Acoustic Night @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Lovely acoustica to

textured grunge

yesterday

Ten+1 + Support @ Buffalo, 7pm, £TBC * Early show with oodles of hardcore riffs

close the weekend

Rowan Liggett’s Open Mic @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * Friendly open mic with

Silent Gig @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium

penned by Mr Cohen

Nos Da Open Mic w/Singing Huw @ Nos Da, 8pm, FREE * Open mic on

Minogue

to hit you with

Songs Of Leonard Cohen @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 8pm, £4 * A night of songs as

Centre, 7pm, FREE * Not one but three silent gigs played through headphones to the crowd

Charity Doctor Who themed band night in Undertone

of psychedelia, pop, folk and whimsy

for an heir in the role of Most Gigging Musician continues

Soft Hearted Scientists / J.R. @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 7pm, £5 * Seriously good blend Fragile @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £12 * A

tribute to Yes at The Globe

Cathedral Celebration @ Llandaff Cathedral, 7.30pm, £8 / £6 * The cathedral’s fine organ is played alongside the RWCMD Brass Band

Trockfest @ Undertone, 8pm, £TBC *

Tony Morley’s Open Mic Night @ The Claude, 8.30pm, FREE * Morley’s search

S & M @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Sweet, sweet acousticism in big O’Neills

Liggett hosting

Riverside every week

Aimua Eghobamen @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £5 / £4 * Eghobamen has the kind of rich, resonant vocal you’d expect from a jazz great

Acoustic Session @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8.30pm, FREE * Weekly acoustica

Wednesday in little O’Neills

Colum Regan @ O’Neills (St Marys),

Monday 28th

9pm, FREE * The Irishman plays it solo and acoustic tonight Chris Hyson Band @ Dempsey’s, 9pm,

Nos Da Open Mic w/Singing Huw @ Nos Da, 8pm, FREE * Open mic on

Cheesy but well-done covers in North Star

David Rovics / Cosmo @ Buffalo, 7.30pm, £5 * American indie singer-

£5 / £4 * Bassist Chris leads his band of London colleagues

The New Objects / Supergene + Support @ Buffalo, 8pm, £3 * Emotive rock ‘n’ roll

FREE * The 617 crew take their covers to The Claude

Contagious @ Pen & Wig, 7.30pm, FREE * Open mic night every Monday in

FREE * Lowri Evans brings the acoustica to the No Sweat circus

Acoustic Session @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8.30pm, FREE * Acoustic session in

FREE * Cross leads proceedings in this acoustic night

Ukulele Night @ The Butcher’s Arms, 8.30pm, FREE * Another night of ukulele

Thursday 31st

Riverside every week with plenty of licks

Salvation @ North Star, 8pm, FREE * SixOneSeven @ The Claude, 8pm,

songwriter with strong political insights

Rob Cross @ O’Neills (Trinity St), 8pm,

the Pen & Wig

Jazz Attic @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm, £2 *

Vertigo w/ MFC Chicken @ Gwdihŵ, 8pm, £3 * The garage rock ‘n’ roll of MFC

revelry

Colum Regan @ O’Neills (St Marys),

Lone Shark @ The Royal Oak, 9pm, FREE * Clever pun band names are better

Welsh folk tunes

the city centre

House trio leads this long-running jam session

9pm, FREE * Acoustic set from one of the city’s busiest troubadours

No Sweat @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm, FREE * Cushioned both in decor and in spirit

- acoustic show

Sugar Drop Presents Inc.A @10 Feet Tall, 9pm, FREE * The madly blended tones

of Eastern European techno-jazz infect the 10FT dance floor

Heavy Quartet @ Dempsey’s, 9pm, £5 / £4 * Youthful veterans of the local jazz

scene with originals

Thursday 24th

Chicken come pay a visit

than silly pun band names

The Tony Breen Band & Guests @ Blue Dragon Hotel, 9pm, FREE * Blue Dragon

Hotel hosts Tony Breen’s country-blues-rock

The Big What?! Band @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * Soul style covers

in O’Neills

Poet’s Corner Open Mic @ Poet’s Corner, 9pm, FREE * City Road open mic with Huwie Price

are fanned by the likes of Chris Farlowe, Dave Berry, Wayne Fontana and more

The Enid @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £15 *

The legendary 70s prog-rockers bring their majestic riffs

Die Fledermaus - RWCMD @ Millennium Centre, 8pm, £12 / £8 * As 29th March

Lowri Evans @ Cardiff Central Library, 1pm, FREE * The folk musings of Ms Evans

Sinfonia Cymru @ St David’s Hall, 1pm, £6.50 / £4.50 * Schubert is performed by

week in The Claude

The Script @ Cardiff International Arena, 6.30pm, £26 * Dublin soft rockers Skyrockets And Sparklers @ Weston Gallery, RWCMD, 7pm, £6 / £5 * The exquisitely named Maggie

every Thursday in OG

at the library

language rock-pop from these scenesters

Burlesque Night feat. Peaches And Cream @ The Globe, 7.30pm, £5 *

Friends Musical Theatre Evening @ Weston Gallery, RWCMD, 7pm, £10 - £7 * Talents from the MA in Musical Theatre

weekly open mic

The Solid Silver 60s Show @ St David’s Hall, 7.30pm, £23 - £19 * The 60s flames

Tuesday 29th

Rock Learning Week provides opportunity for the kids to mosh and rock out

Nos Sadwrn Bach @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 6pm, FREE * Welsh

Rockaoke @ Gassy Jacks, 8.30pm, FREE * Live band rockaoke Open Mic @ O’Neills (St Marys), 9pm, FREE * St Mary’s St’s Big O’Neills hosts this

Live In The Taf @ The Taf, Cardiff University, 7pm, FREE * Another night of

live music in the Uni Pub

Saturday 26th

Kylie - Aphrodite Tour @ Cardiff International Arena, 6.30pm, £85 / £65 * As yesterday Morning Star + Support @ Buffalo, 7pm, £TBC * Fairly banal indie-rock with

Cardiff Schools Rock Out @ Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre, 1pm, FREE *

Traditional Folk Session @ Cayo Arms, 8.30pm, FREE * Quaint and lush traditional

No Sweat @ Cardiff Arts Institute, 9pm,

touches of interest

Live band and burlesque dancers for the weekend

Rich & Olly Wood / Joshua Caole @ The Pot, 7.30pm, £5 / £4 * Comedy acoustic

the young orchestra

Faultless takes on Mozart, Mendelssohn and more on violin

Roddy Woomble (Acoustic) @ Clwb Ifor Bach, 8pm, £12 * The Idlewild legend takes

his super folkier efforts out on the road in an acoustic show

Jim Jam Open Mic @ The Claude, 8pm, FREE * Smooth and well run open mic every Owain Glyndwr Open Mic @ Owain Glyndwr, 8pm, FREE * Open mic night Battle Of The Bands - FINAL @ Vulcan

Lounge, 8pm, FREE * It all comes down to this pivotal evening - who will be declared winner? Be Bop Da Jig @ Cafe Jazz, 8.30pm,

£6 / £5 * Incredibly precise fusion of folk, modern jazz and blues No Disrespect @ O’Neills (St Marys),

9pm, FREE * With a name lending itself to criticism, one hopes their covers are there to compensate

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Rumours Put Straight! Recently, a whole lot of wild rumours have been swarming around me like the pack of flies which constantly orbits my increasingly weary and bedraggled frame… when will the waking nightmares end? So, in the interest of keeping my spotless social image a continued shade of spotless, and on the advice of my made-up imaginary lawyer Alfred P. Doohickey - he’s a giant talking pigeon wearing a suit adorned with the confederate flag didentcha know - I feel I should use this space to put straight a few of those tall tales involving me currently circling in hushed whispers behind the bike shed , between inhaled gasps round the water cooler and yelled over the top of terriers ripping each other apart in amateur dog fight clubs. Without further ado… • Television personality Tray Peterson and myself did not not attempt to set fire to what we believed at the time to be a pack of Nazi Communists spreading 030 The MMP March 2011

their sexually charged message of conflicting ideological hatred to the masses via the medium of interpretative dance (but what later turned out to be an apparently very flammable troupe of regular, sort of sexy, dancers) whilst under the influence of medicine normally used during liver surgery. • I have never been, never will be and most certainly am not at this precise moment of time a high ranking member of alleged secret organisation “The House of The Four Dynasties of The Temple of All Knowing Lord Naxus“….I can say with conviction that I do not long for the glorious awakening of the ancient God Naxus from deep within his volcanic tomb sealed beneath the earth’s crust, to reclaim this destitute and vermin ridden excuse for a world with cleansing fire and the mighty fist of swift fist based judgment…this is defiantly not a thing I’m into…. • Judy sorry I’ve been ignoring your calls, it’s

just I know the baby’s mine…and I really, really don’t want to have to deal with it….buzz kill much. Stop calling… LOL! • A stripper named “foxy rod sucker” never existed….go ahead check the birth records…no one under that name has ever legally come into being…..sooooo how can you “kill” some one that’s never existed… huh, pretty hard if you ask me…..so leave it… • Sideways….I know I told you I blew up the house you spent your formative years in as revenge for that creepy… custard…bat…thing… you sent after me…well, I lied! It wasn’t the house you grew up in, it was a replica of the house constructed out of your childhood pets, friends and sentimental objects! Fuck you! • Me and Ted Danson are just good friends…. nothing more……though Ted, if you’re reading, please, please call me….I miss your voice.

• Yes, my blood was surgically replaced with an experimental super serum composed of beef jerky, malt liquor and “chemical X” (old bleach) in a secret government project conducted back in the late 50s. No, it didn’t grant me any special abilities other than the whole mastery of time thing…. stop asking. • I really did once punch David Cameron’s repugnant little face clean of his even more wretched head. However, due to the abnormally fast level of healing humanoid lizards are gifted with, it grew back almost instantly. • My favourite cheese is Roquefort goddamnit! Me and Alfred P.Doohicky will continue to file lawsuits against all those that say differently… including you….yeah, you…you sonofabitch. THE VIEWS OF J.M. STRANGE DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE MMP.

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