LISTINGS 25
gairrhydd | LISTINGS@GAIRRHYDD.COM MONDAY NOVEMBER 2nd 2009
Thursday
5th November ALABAMA 3, Coal Exchange, £16 Legendary Brixton collective, best known for the theme tune to the TV show 'Sopranos'. They combine techno beats with country instruments and are a group best sampled live. Y + T, The Globe, £17 Who says classic rockers are an endangered species? Still rocking on 30 years later with David Meniketti in front, Y & T as ready as ever to open fire on audiences all over the world with their contaious brand of heavy rock 'n' roll. Never down for the count for long, the group are reunited once more, and dedicated to bringing more than just a set of golden oldies to their legions of adoring fans. ALABAMA 3, Coal Exchange, £16 With rock and roll blasting out from 10 til 2am, you do have to love your Stone Roses and your Motorhead. If you do, then this is a night designed especially for you. Have your picture taken with any of the cut-out celebs as part of your rock and roll jam fest! CYNT, Clwb Ifor Bach, £3 Hi Rankin and DJ Burns are spinning the wheels of steel at CYNT this week. For only £3 this is a bargain! Massive tunes and a truly great atmosphere, I can't see why anyone would be somewhere other than Clwb on a Thursday (unless they are saving up for the mega-CYNTs!)
Friday
Saturday
6th November
7th November
BILL BAILEY, Millenium Centre, £25 Musical deity and comedic visionary? Bathborn founder member of The Rubber Bishops and one of the top stand-up comedians in Britain today. He was winner of the Best Live Stand Up 1999 Award, and spent six years as team captain on BBC TV's Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
HOSPITALITY, SU, £15 Featuring High Contrast aka Link Barrat, a leading Welsh junglist whose sound has been described as 'the most uplifting drum'n'bass in the universe'. Also appearing is Logistics, a drum & bass producer and former graphic designer from Cambridge, making waves in clubland with his Future Sound Of Cambridge EP and hefty contributions to the Weapons Of Mass Creation LP.
EDDIE IZZARD, CIA, £30 Ebullient, unpredictable and a sincere comic who is just as likely to play a village hall in Scotland as a mainstream venue, 'cos he can! He has been hailed as one of the foremost stand-ups of his generation, taking ideas and situations and extrapolating them into bizarre, tangential, absurd and surreal comic narratives. Eddie's musings have earned him countless awards including two Emmys. HELL'S BENT, Clwb, £4 The legendary alternative gay night is back!!! Clwb hosts the most outrageous party this side of San Francisco. Come out and play!
DESTROY THE DISCO, Glam, £8 Hed Kandi DJ Phil Faversham is part of the line up at Glam this Saturday. Fast becoming one of the places to be (if you like chart topping dance music). £8 is probably a bit too much for most folk though. DANIEL JOHNSON, The Gate, CANCELLED For all those out there that were truly looking forward to this gig, bad times. The performance has been cancelled. I am pretty dissappointed, so I can only imagine how you are feeling.
Sunday
8th November A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, Barfly, £6 Hotly tipped New Yorkers fusing the sounds of My Bloody Valentine and the Jesus & Mary Chain to create euphoric synthesized pop with a dark and brooding edge. The image of rock 'n' roll turned inside out: all the ugly viscera spilling out in an excess of anger, ghostly melodies, and crushing noise. JAPANDROIDS, Barfly, £6 Very hotly tipped Vancouver two-piece, Japandroids have set tongues wagging in North America with some of the most explosive and exciting live shows of 2009. Like a halfway house between The Sonics and Mclusky, Japandroids fuse together lo-fi production with punk's spittle-flecked velocity. What marks the band from other guitar/drums duos is their rip-roaring melodies are never compromised by the band’s visceral energy and lo-fi production.
THE APPLES, Cardiff Arts Institute, £3 The Apples are a nine-piece band hailing from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, weaving big band jazz into raw funk rhythm patterns and scratch routines.
(The Welsh Club), 11 Womanby Street 02920 232199 www.clwb.net ◆ Barfly, Kingsway, Tickets: 08709070999 www.barflyclub.com/cardiff ◆ MetIncognito, Park Place 02920 412190 ◆ Liquid, St. Mary Street 02920645464 ◆ The Philharmonic, 76-77 St. Mary Street 02920 230678 ◆ Café The Hayes 02920 878444 www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk ◆ Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton 02920 304400 www.chapter.org ◆ Wales Sherman Theatre, Senghennydd Road 02920 646900 www.shermantheatre.co.uk ◆ The Glee Club, Mermaid Quay 0870 2415093 www.glee.co.uk ◆ Greyfriar's Road 02920 391944 www.tigertiger.co.uk ◆ Tommy’s Bar, Howard Gardens (off Newport Road) 02920 416192 ◆