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FEBRUARY.11.2008
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MONDAY MONDAY LAST GANG @ BARFLY - Wakefield based band making upbeat indieNot much on this week in the way of comedy, so Listings makes their rock with a youthful, anthemic feel. 7.30pm. £5. own. What do you call a sheep with no legs? A cloud. LAURA VEIRS+ YOUR HEART BREAKS @ THE POINT - Laura Veirs is TUESDAY one of the more original country singer/songwriters to emerge from the COMEDY CLUB @ SU - Alex Horne and Tom Deacon face the masses US in recent years. 7.30pm. £10. at this Tuesday’s Comedy Club. Hopefully, doing a much TUESDAY better job than us. TONIGHT IS GOODBYE @ BARFLY - “Bittersweet WEDNESDAY melodies, bouncy energy and big choruses Knock Knock. Who’s there? Ivan. Ivan packed with poetry” says Kerrang. 7.30pm. who? Ivan infectious disease. £5. There was a man who entered a local paWEDNESDAY per’s pun contest. He sent in ten different MARC ALMOND @ ST. DAVID’S HALL - Former puns, in the hope that at least one of the Softcell front man brings all that is good and 80s puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in to Cardiff. Oh yes. Contact venue for details. ten did. GRAMMATICS @ BARFLY - Experimental Leeds THURSDAY based art-poppers. 7.30pm. £5. Patient: Doctor, I can’t feel my legs! THURSDAY Doctor: I know, we had to cut your arms F*** BUTTONS+ALEXANDER TUCKER @ BARoff. FLY - Does anyone else find it amusing that a FRIDAY band called “F*** Buttons” are playing on ValenTHE DRONES COMEDY CLUB: CLINT EDtines Day? No? Well, awesome band anyway. WARDS. DAN THOMAS @ CHAPTERS ART PAPIER TIGRE+SPACE IN THE 50S+LIGHTS TO CENTRE. 8.30pm. £3 all tickets. LEAD US @ CLWB IFOR BACH - Lights To Lead NICK REVELL, MARKUS BIRDMANN, TONY Us are a band stemmed from our fine university. GERRARD @ JONGLEURS - Markus Bird7.30pm. £5. mann: Dry, witty, confused little boy. THE BAD ROBOTS @ BARFLY - Camden based Nick Revell: One of the original alternative band invade Cardiff. Something nice to woo your comedians of the early 1980s, Nick was lover to. 7.30pm. £5 w/flyer. nominated for the Perrier award in 1987. He FRIDAY was the resident compere at The Comedy DEVON SPROULE+PAUL CURRERI+THOM Store for 10 years. In 1992 he retired from STONE @ THE POINT - Devon Sproule is a fanthe comedy circuit, but now he’s back with tastic folk-pop songwriter with an interest in the twin aims of bringing down the George Markus Birdmann - Playing Jongleurs on Friday, jazz. 7.30pm. £10/11 adv. Bush administration, and paying his monthly hopefully showing more of his face. SATURDAY mortgage bill. You know the drill, 8pm till PALLADIUM+ALPHABEAT @ CLWB IFOR BACH late in Risa. Tenner all tickets. Palladium are four supernaturally talented musiSATURDAY cians who look like they got lost in a fancy dress NICK REVELL, MARKUS BIRDMANN, TONY cupboard. 7pm. £7. GERRARD @ JONGLEURS. 8pm. £10. SUNDAY SUNDAY MIRRORVIEW @ BARFLY - Hollyoaks omnibus should have finished I back a horse at 10 to 1 the other day. It came in at Half past 4. by now... So eliminate boredom with live music. 7.30pm. £5. We’re here all week.
The Hoosiers Great Hall, SU ◆
12/02/08 ◆ SOLD OUT.
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was wondering recently, why do I always feel compelled to write about something that I like, or would actually want to go to in the confines of this (newly adorned) grey box? Why am I so always affected by the subconscious constraints of convention, hmm? Well, enough of this blind conformity! Lets be different, lets make a stand! Stuff convention and all its sensible...ness. Ahem. So, in my new found sense of rebellious liberation I looked for an event that I really wouldn’t want to go to (goodness me, all of this unruly behaviour is making me feel quite dizzy), something that would really bore me. Something that rather than going to, I’d prefer to spend my evening washing cutlery instead. And lo and behold, The Hoosiers are rolling up into town. Now I don’t have anything personal against The Hoosiers themselves (I’m sure they’re lovely, albeit with slightly dubious facial
THEATRE
MONDAY TREASURE ISLAND: THE BIRMIN THEATRE - When young Jim Ha in The Admiral Benbow Inn, he Seized with excitement, Trelawn the island. Jim faces the most da his life! 7pm. £16 - £7. ROMANZA: HOLIDAY ON ICE @ CIA skaters from all over the world wh in their vibrant visual displays, com the grace and flair of dance. 7.30 TUESDAY TREASURE ISLAND: THE BIRMIN THEATRE ROMANZA: HOLIDAY ON ICE @ CIA WEDNESDAY TREASURE ISLAND: THE BIRMIN THEATRE. Matinee 2pm. ROMANZA: HOLIDAY ON ICE @ CIA THURSDAY LOVE AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES ings from and discussion of three by Cardiff-based Sarah Broughto Love & Other Possibilities by Lew RUSSIAN ROMANTICS: CARDIF 7.30pm. £17 - £5. TREASURE ISLAND: THE BIRMIN THEATRE. Matinee 2pm. ROMANZA: HOLIDAY ON ICE @ CIA FRIDAY DANCE ROADS 2008 @ CHAPT gramme of contemporary dance tinctive new choreographers acro DISCOVERING DUTILLEUX FESTIV WALES. Contact venue for ticket d TREASURE ISLAND: THE BIRMIN THEATRE. Matinee 2pm. SATURDAY TREASURE ISLAND: THE BIRMIN THEATRE. Matinee 2pm. SUNDAY DISCOVERING DUTILLEUX FESTI OF WALES
hair), and I’m not one of these people who have a personal ven-detta against all that is mainstream and indie, just because they’re mainstream and indie. But I mean, “indie” – what does that even mean anymore? The reason I’d rather count the hairs on my head instead of spending money on a ticket to see this band is because, well, they sound like every other Tom, Dick and Harry to grace the radio waves with their “lighter-than-air pop laced with indie-folk influences” (ents24.com). Scouting For Girls? The Courteeners? The Wombats? The Pigeon Detectives? One Night Only? Who the hell are these bands? And what are they, apart from all sounding the same? Boring, that’s what! Same old, of-recent run-of-the-mill, bla bla bla music that all merges to make one big brown drudge of noise in my ears. But I guess if you’re still reading this, then I should probably get the following out of the way – The Hoosiers scored their first chart hit, Worried About Ray in July 2007, when it reached no. 5 in the UK charts. Their second hit-single, Goodbye Mr. A (not “Good Plan Mr. A”, “Goodbye Mr. Rain” or slurred mixture of the two when you’re trying to sing along to it), got to no. 4 in October, and their debut album, The Trick To Life was released to general all-round approval and massive record sales. Which actually, must say something. And so does the fact that this gig has The (W)hoosiers? sold out. But I don’t care. Enjoy!
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