Listings
April 25 2005
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Fun Factory @Solus, SU The usual alternative anthems. 10pm-2am. Free entry with NUS/£3 otherwise. On the Side @Fun Factory Live Music Society cooks up something special in the Xpress Lounge. New Noise @Metros Alternative therapy for the musically depressed. New music. New ideas. New noise. Get there between 9pm and 10pm for the ledgendary double and mixer for 80p. 9pm-2am. £3 before 11pm. Milk @Moloko DJ Phoenix and friends play nu jazz, Latin, broken beats, deep house, etc. Chocolate! It’s all happening now at Moloko on a Monday. Check it out. 8pm-2am. Free. Open Mic @The Toucan Hosted by Jeff and Rowan. 8pm-12.30am. £1 after 9pm. Jazz Attic Jam Session @Cafe Jazz Musicians and singers can sign in at the door to perform with the house trio. Variable quality of playing and singing but always enjoyable. 8.45pm. £2/£ if you perform. Coordinated @Amber Lounge House, breaks, funk, soul & disco with Gareth Davies & Mr Potter. 7-11pm. £1 NUS. Live @Barfly Hard-Fi / Boy Kill Boy / WhoKilledFrank. Hard-Fi are the product of a suburban West London environment; the sound of twentysomething gun-slingers on minimum wage, and weaned on the heady concrete glamour of The Stones, Dexys, Curtis Mayfield, and Happy Mondays. 7.30pm. £6 adv. We'll Meet Again: ‘Hits from the Blitz’ @St. David’s Hall This fantastic show is back to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of V.E. Day with singalong hits from the Blitz and featuring a superb cast of comedians, musicians and singers. ‘Springtime For Hitler’, anyone? At the OAP friendly time of 2.30pm. £8.
Quality Control @Taf, Sudents’ Union Hosted by top-notch DJ Killer Tomato, featuring local guest DJs spinning hip hop, funk, breaks and drum ‘n’ bass. 9pm-2am. Free. Fat Friday @Solus, SU It’s a revamped Lashtastic. 10pm-2am. £3.50/£3 adv. Holodeck @Clwb Ifor Bach See facing page for details. The Dudes Abide @Clwb Ifor Bach The Dudes Rock. Led Zepplin, Boston Aerosmith, Poison, Bon Jovi, Kiss, Iron Maiden, etc. One Friday each month Clwb Ifor Bach, becomes a haven for all things ROCK! 10pm. £3.50. Mad4It! @Barfly Join Mike TV (wasn’t he last seen trapped inside a television in a chocolate factory?) for the Greatest Indie & Alternative Hits Ever from The Stones to the Strokes, The Smiths and The Doors, etc, etc. Yawn. 10.30pm 2am. £3 NUS. Chaos @Metros Real rock. Begone cheesy Wednesday saps. £2.50 before 10pm. Full Fat @Moloko Cheeky bootlegs to heavy funk, old skool classics, and jump up party breaks. Free entry before 11pm. Live @Barfly Brant Bjork & The Bros / Winnebago Deal / Panel. Brant Bjork is a bona fide rock legend. As the drummer in Kyuss, he was part of one of the most influential and well-respected rock bands of the last 20 years. Brant went on to drum for Fu Manchu, and has relased five solo albums to date. His new live incarnation are just as thrilling as any of his previous guises and it goes without saying really – this will be tres loud. 7pm. £9 adv. Live @St. David’s Hall The 20th Anniversary Solid Silver 60s Show 2005. Fabulous. You can’t wait. Costs from £16 though so you’ll be saving up. 7.30pm.
Comedy Club@Seren Las, SU Come on, it’s got to be better than Eastenders. 8-11pm. £4 NUS. Ocean Colour Scene @Great Hall, SU Having slipped below the radar for a few years Ocean Colour Scene return in support of a brand new album, rumoured to feature a guest appearance from Liam Gallagher. £20. Sabotage @Metros Rock, metal, punk, emo. £1 before 11pm Rock Inferno @Clwb Ifor Bach Pretty much the same as Metros but with a marginally less sweaty ambience. 9pm. £2.50. Soul Motion @Moloko Deep funk, rare soul, Tamla Motown, jazz dance and boogaloo. Boasts a decent dancefloor surface too, which is a must for all that shaking and baking you’ll be doing. 7pm-2am. Free. Open Mic @The Toucan You know how it works. Live @Barfly Willard Grant Conspiracy / William E Whitmore / Christopher Rees. Headed by principal songwriter and vocalist Robert Fisher, The Willard Grant Conspiracy have over 30 musicians. 7.30pm. £10 adv. Live @Clwb Ifor Bach Lucy Lemon / Final Fight / Wilcox. 6 great local live bands in total. A stormer of a line up. Make sure you get there early if you’re serious about geting in. 6pm. £4.50. Live @St. David’s Hall Tony Hadley vs Martin Fry and ABC Premier 80’s stars. Some old and tired duffers join forces to squeeze a few more pennies out of floundering careers. 7.30pm. £18.50-£22.50. RoundtheHorne...Revisited@New Theatre Runs ‘til the 30th April. West End hit comedy Round the Horne..Revisited visits the New Theatre for “rip-roaring fun”. 7.30pm. Salsa @Callaghans Learn salsa. Free.
Come Play @Solus Party tunes in the main room. Hip hop, breaks, etc, in the Junction Bar. Jazz, soul, funk, and Latin in the Xpress Lounge. Sweets and stuff. 10pm-2am. £3.50 adv. Uberalles @Barfly Expect the usual indie suspects and sweaty atmosphere. 10.30pm-2am. £3/£4 NUS. Delinquent @Metros Alternative and new music. 9pm-3am. Free with flyer before 10pm / £4. Blueprint @Moloko Retro disco, future house, disco roots. Ends at 2am, drinks promo all night. Free before 10pm. Live Saturday @Incognito Swiss & pals from the house circuit of Wales and the West. Guests include Gareth Cortez, Funky Dorey, Cool House, Escape. Until 2am. Mind Your Head @Toucan DJ Captain Paranoid & guest MCs. Free B4 10pm / £3.50 thereafter. Live @Barfly Nick Harper / Lone Pine. Nick Harper is a virtuoso guitarist, yet his guitar playing is only a part of his skill. As well as a distinctive and soulful voice, Nick is the kind of artist who reaffirms faith in the art of original songwriting, putting him on the crest of a new wave of British acoustic troubadours. 7pm. £7 adv. Hooker @Chapter Arts Centre The Manchester power trio kick off their promotional UK tour at Chapter. Hooker’s short, sharp, arresting punk bursts, have secured them support slots with the cream of the indie scene: Le Tigre, The Donnas, Interpol, 50 Foot Wave, Brassy and The Gossip. 7.30pm. £5. Samba Festival @Toucan To coincide with the Welsh Samba festival… Bands, drummers and dancers join the party. Right, so who else didn’t know there was a Welsh Samba Festival going on? I realise as Listings editors we should know about these things but really! C’mon samba promoters - get it together. £5.
Varsity @Bridgend The Accenture Varsity 2005 is set to be the biggest ever as thousands of Cardiff students head to Bridgend to see the might of Cardiff take on Swansea. Busfare costs £3 and run from the back of Union from 4.30pm. Tickets for the game (that starts at 7pm) are £5. Rubber Duck @Solus, SU The Varsity Afterparty 10pm-2am £3.50/£3 adv. (£1 withVarsity ticket) Wednesday Social @The Barfly Relax, soak up the atmosphere or even play an impromptu set. 12noon-2:30pm. Bang! @Barfly Popscene has outgrown Clwb’s three floors. This is the overspill. 10.30pm-2am. £3 NUS. All 3 Floors @Clwb Ifor Bach Cheesy Club: motown, funk, disco. Popscene: indie. Milky Bar: electric chill out and Playstations! 9.30pm £2.50 NUS. Cheapskates @Metros Alternative & cheese. 9pm-2am. Wednesdays @Moloko Spud, Optimas Prime, Kovas, Focus, Haze, Paul B. Sweets. 8pm-3am Bread and Butter @The Toucan Night of hip hop and new beats. 10pm. £2. Hang the DJ @The Model Inn 8pm. Free. Traffic @The Philharmonic Union DJ and Clubbing Society’s weekly night. 8pm-1am. Free for members /£1 NUS. Loudon Wainwright III @St. David’s Hall See facing page for details. Martha Wainwright @Barfly The 28-year old daughter of folk legends Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and sister of acclaimed singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is part ingénue, part punkster; strong and vulnerable all at once. Martha plays tonight in direct competition with her father in what must be the strangest method of family touring. Johnathan Rice supports. 7.30 pm NB. This gig is sold out, if you don’t already have tickets, tough luck.
Uncle Midriff’s Jazz Party @Seren Las, SU Details are still being confirmed for this, the last of the year’s jazz parties from the Cardiff Student Jazz Society. Live Cuban music looks to be in the offing and based on past experience, it’ll be a corker. Make the most of it; it won’t be back until next year. 8pm. £3/£2 society members. Cleverdick Quiz @The Taf, SU Questions. MedClub Quiz @MedBar, Heath Site The same. 8pm. Sunday @Incognito Audio Chefs' end of the week. 8pm-12.30am. No Wax @Moloko Bring your MP3's and you be the DJ! Free entry. 7pm-2am. Acoustic Cafe @Toucan Bar Open mic sessions where anyone can get up and jam or just listen. The Toucan provide the guitar and mic; you provide the talent. Hosted by Peter and Lee, a double act based closely on the model of Turner and Hooch, I believe. 8pm-12.30am. £1 after 9pm. Live @ Clwb Ifor Bach Holland's finest, Face Tomorrow’s debut album For Who You Are and follow up The Closer You Get both received critical acclaim. But it's the intense and electrifying live shows that have got people talking. 8pm. £4. Live @Barfly The Trip and Little Kishky present music, dancing & fun. Lights Above Cairo / Matthew Saunders (acoustic) / Niko and DJ Babybell playing music. Loudly. 7.30pm-2am. £3. Live @St. David’s Hall Sinfonia Cymru Annual Gala Concert. Sinfonia Cymru are joined by one of Wales’ greatest operatic tenors, Dennis O’Neill, who’ll perform a selection of arias by composers including Puccini, Verdi and Massenet. The Gala also features Welsh violinist, Chloë Hanslip, who’ll perform SaintSaëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Ravel’s Tzigane. 7.30. From £7.
Devious @Barfly Track requests + top tunes + cheap drinks = a rocking night out! 10.30pm-2am. £3. Metal @Metros Er... metal. 9pm-2am. Enthusiasm @Moloko Cardiff’s premier hip hop / drum ‘n’ bass night. 8pm-3am. Free before 11pm. Sugar and Spice: Marques Houston, DJ Urban Fusion , DJ Ams @Creation A rare appearance for Creation in these pages. Don’t expect it to last. 9pm. £12.50adv. Boomshanka @Toucan Bar Acoustic soul / hippy funk with The Pockets. 8pm-1am £3/£2. Live @The Barfly The Bellrays / Sunshine / Cellar Door. See facing page for details. The King's Consort @St. David’s Hall If you were present at the King’s Consort’s Music for the Coronation of George II last year, then this celebration of the music of Henry Purcell is a must. The opera, Dido and Aeneas, culminating in Dido’s moving Lament, is a grand and passionate drama packed into just one hour. It is heard alongside the majestic and ceremonial Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday performed by a large colourful orchestra and chorus. 7.30pm. £9.50 -£28. Live @Clwb Ifor Bach Dark Chunk / Pondlife MC's. Dark Chunk play runk music which, they say, is a fusion of rock, funk and hip hop. The local band were last years winners of Glastonbury’s Unsigned Band competition, which saw them playing to over 6000 new fans in the Dance Tent. They've been holed up in the studio throughout March recording the follow up to their mini album 'Raw Runk Music'. This will be an exclusive chance for you to hear some of the new songs. 8pm £3 Live @ Jumpin Jaks The Monophonics. The stereophonics but there’s only one of them. You can also win tickets to see the real band live. 10pm.
Student’s Union, Park Place 02920 387421 www.cardiffstudents.com Med Club, Neuadd Meirionydd, Heath Park 02920 744948 Clwb Ifor Bach (The Welsh Club), 11 Womanby Street 02920 232199 www.clwb.net The Toucan, 95-97 St Mary Street 02920 372212 www.toucanclub.co.uk Barfly, Kingsway Tickets: 08709070999 www.barflyclub.com/cardiff Metros, Bakers Row 02920 399939 www.clubmetropolitan.com Dempseys, Castle Street 02920 252024 Molokos, 7 Mill Lane 02920 225592 Incognito, Park Place 02920 412190 Liquid, St. Mary Street 02920645464 The Philharmonic, 76-77 St. Mary Street 02920 230678 Café Jazz, St Mary Street 02920 387026 www.cafejazzcardiff.com The Riverbank Hotel, Despenser Street www.riverbankjazz.co.uk St. David’s Hall, The Hayes 02920 878444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton 02920 304400 www.chapter.org Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay 0870 0402000 www.wmc.org.uk The New Theatre, Park Place 02920 878889 www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk The Sherman Theatre, Senghennydd Road 02920 646900 www.shermantheatre.co.uk The Glee Club, Mermaid Quay 0870 2415093 www.glee.co.uk Cardiff International Arena, Mary Ann Street 02920 224488 The Millennium Stadium Can’t miss it. www.millenniumstadium.com