clubs
eight free drinks)/£1.50 b4 drum’n’bass dudes. Fridays Millennium Music Hall guest DJs
12/£5 after 12. Malcolm James Inner City Trash Resident
/ Code (formerly Sub29) Minskys Show Bar
(Fabric) and the Liquid team and very special guest DJs play
Millennium Plaza, Cardiff. Cathedral Walk, St David’s
give you club anthems, com- indie, rock and wonky pop.
musichallcardiff@live.co.uk Centre, Cardiff. 029 2023
mercial dance and old skool. Saturdays Switch £3/£2 b4
Thurs 10 C-Y-N-T 10pm-4am, 3128.
Saturdays Pure 10pm-4am. 11. Room 1: new and classic
£12/£10 adv. See Clubs for more Fridays & Saturdays 8pm-
WESTLIFE – Where We Are
Big Al and Nick White host the indie, rock and alternative with
on The Count & Sinden, who 1am. Dancing and cabaret with
‘Where We Are’ is the tenth album from the hugely success-
Pure Session. Life Bar also fea- a few surprises thrown in, from
headline. Boy 8-Bit, Brodinski regular drag acts including
ful Westlife. Includes the single ‘What About Now’ plus 12
tures Love Life, a weekly urban Graham The Bear and Vernon
and SBTRKT (who sounds up Miss Kitty, Fanny Dazzle & Dr.
night with DJs Raheem and Tessio. Sat 5 High Contrast
more new tracks. Other songs on the album include ‘Shad-
my street) also feature. Thurs Beverly Ballcrusher.
Lady Stylus. Sat 19 10pm-4am. Another set in here from Cardiff
ows’ – which was written by Ryan Tedder and AJ McLean
1 + Sat 5 + 19 Bogiez
Paul Oakenfold tours a new drum’n’bass big man. Sat 12
Mocka Lounge
9pm-3am, £4. Latest venue for
(Who have written for the likes of the Backstreet Boys); mix album which is reviewed Scubaroots Live ska, funk and
Mill Lane, Cardiff. Mon-Sat
"Cardiff's ultimate rock, metal
‘No More Heroes’ which was written by Lindy Robbins, and
in this issue. Adam White, Big drum’n’bass outfit from, where
11am-late. 029 2022 1295 /
and alternative club night", on
‘Beautiful’ which again was written by Ryan Tedder.
Al and Joe Byrne also feature else, Bristol. Sat 19 KJ Sawka
www.mockalounge.com
every first and third Saturday.
tonight in the main room; the Drum’n’bass drummer, plays all
Fridays + Saturdays DJs
The NYE date might be more
VIP room has Mogz-E, Dean the breakbeats himself with no
until 3am. From 5-7.30pm they
TAKE THAT - The Circus Live
expensive, not sure. Fri 4
Angel, Martin Dibble, Andy B samples or owt.
also offer complimentary cana-
Double-CD collection from Take That’s huge tour in sup-
Beautiful People £10. Urban
and Jaime Downes. Sat 26
Milgi Lounge
pes and bruschetta.
type night with garage types
port of their last album ‘The Circus’. The tour began on 10pm-4am, £10 adv. Dirty Vegas
213 City Road, Cardiff. 029 Heartless Crew headlining. That
Mojo Bar
5 June 2009 in Sunderland and finished on 5 July 2009
make a rare appearance (DJ set
2047 3150 / www. price gets you 10 free drinks. I’ll
Market Street, Newport (next
at London’s Wembley Stadium. The Circus Live was
with live vocal and percussion);
milgilounge.com express that as a word as well
to Meze Lounge). 01633
Take That’s biggest tour to date and was seen by over
trance longtermer Seb Fontaine
Fridays Fevela World music, to confirm. Ten free drinks. Sat
213161.
also plays a classics set with Big
1,000,000 people. The tour became the fastest selling
baile funk, samba, afrobeat, 12 Dave Pearce Dangerous
Wednesdays Student Night
Al featuring on the undercard.
in UK history, with the 600,000 for all original eight dates
hip-hop, house, reggae, dub disc jockey on another of his
8pm-3am, £8/£7 NUS. Classic
Room 2 is hosted by Lamerica
and bhangra. From Daf, Neil,
selling out in just five hours.
Trance Anthems tours. Sat
and funky grooves. Entry fee
(lineup TBC).
Si, Chris, Rich, Leon, Dave, 26 Funkin Marvellous
includes all the drinks you can
Mambo Shawandi and Matt The Hat. 10th Birthday Boxing Day
drink. Fridays Thank Funk
30 SECONDS TO MARS – This Is War The Kingsway, Swansea. Saturdays Rotating bill of
Bashment 10pm-4am, £15/£10
It’s Friday 8pm-5am, £8.
‘This Is War’ is the third studio album by Jared Leto and 07967 004697. local DJs cratedigging for disco, adv. Garage nostalgia I strongly
R'n'b, hip-hop, funk, dance and
co, their first in 4 years. 12 new tracks from the highly
Mondays Broken Soul funk, soul, acid house, jazz and suspect. Good lineup, with
prty anthems. Price includes
acclaimed festival favourites including the singles ‘Kings
9pm-1am, free. Jared and balearic. Matt Jam Lamont, Slimzee,
all you can drink. Saturdays
Docdaneeka play broken beat,
And Queens’ and ‘This Is War’. The album also includes
Milkwood Jam
Dubmatt, Che, Urban Fusion,
Urban Saturday 8pm-5am.
soul, funk, nu-jazz, deep funky
the Kanye West and Brandon Flowers collaboration ‘Hur-
Plymouth Street, Swansea.
Jigga, Veejay and Troopa and
Party tunes and "anything to put
house and Latin. Thursdays
01792 477577.
the decks; Creed, Viper, Chico,
a smile on your face".
ricane’. The album has been described as closer in style Miami Bass / Soul Shine
Thurs 1 + Sat 2 Jan
23, Dread and Gummi on the
Monkey Bar
to that of their debut album. Look out for the band on the 9pm-1am, free. On alternate
Dead Of Night 8pm-2am, £4.
mic. Sun 27 The Hippo Club
13 Castle Street, Swansea.
festival circuit next summer.
weeks, respectively: Ed Kurno
Goth, industrial and electropop
Reunion Bash 2009 9pm-
01792 480822 / www.
brings Latin beats through to
DJ sets. December features a
4am, £12.50 adv. See Clubs for
monkeycafe.co.uk
IL DIVO - An Evening With Il Divo – Live In Barcelona
cutting edge dirty trax, and
NYE party you’ll notice; Sat
more on a nostalgic romp fea-
Mondays (except Mon 7)
The Count (Funked Up) offers
Sublime 10-track CD and accompanying DVD, boasting
23 Jan is in conjunction with
turing John Kelly, Ollie, Shane
Benski’s Weekly night offer-
2-step, soul, rare groove, boogie,
rich and diverse repertoire from their five studio albums,
Cardiff goth night Inquisition
and Jimpy; Pablo P, Lyons and
ing dub, breaks and dubstep.
bosa and Latin. Fridays
More info to be found at www.
Touhey in the chillout room;
Wednesdays Allsorts Free
featuring songs from their latest record ‘The Promise’. Salsa Night 7pm. Salsa dance
hexnight.com .
Dave Jones, Martin Dibble and
b4 11. Soul, rare groove, house,
Accompanying the CD is a live DVD of the show in
instructors and cocktail offers. John Lenney Jr are further
hip-hop, breaks, electro,
English and Spanish versions. The DVD features two
Saturdays Roto / Mi Casa
songs never before recorded by the band, ‘Bridge Over
Es Su Casa 9pm-3am, free. On
alternate weeks: broken beat
Troubled Water’ and ‘The Impossible Dream’, as well as
with Docdaneeka and Dr Faux
insightful behind the scenes footage.
(Slam On The Breaks); Balearic
house with Dean (Vinylism)
SUGABABES – Sweet 7 and special guests. Sundays
‘Sweet 7’ is the seventh studio album by Sugababes. It
Sunday Surgery Chilled beats
is their first album since signing with Jay Z’s label Roc
and 2-4-1 on everything.
Nation, and features productions from RedOne, The
Matisse Music Venue
Smeezingtons and Ne-Yo amongst others. Includes the
Picton Place, Haverfordwest.
01437 768580.
single ‘Get Sexy’ which has since proved to be Keisha
Fridays 6pm-2am. 6-10pm is
Buchanan’s last single with the group. Also includes
an under-18s night; 10pm-2am
the single ‘About A Girl’ which will be the first single to is various dance nights on rota-
feature new bandmember Jade Ewen. tion. Saturdays All Inclusive
10pm-2am, £15. That price gets
ALICIA KEYS – Element Of Freedom
you drinks free all night.
This fourth album from the immensely popular r’n’b singer,
Metros
songwriter and pianist follows 2007’s ‘As I Am’. Featuring
Baker’s Row, Cardiff. 029
a diverse collection of moods ranging from the edgy to
2039 9942.
Mondays Holiday Factory
the vulnerable and based around the theme of freedom,
10pm-2am, £5. Every Monday
it sees Keys’ virtuoso piano work sitting in amongst an until September 14, ie until
eclectic mix of styles including retro soul and modern r’n’b. the students come back, this
Includes the single ‘Doesn’t Mean Anything’ and a follow-
alternative/indie/rock etc night
up to the Jay-Z track ‘Empire State Of Mind’.
gives you four drinks and an
ice lolly with the entry price.
Wednesdays Cheapskates
JAY SEAN – All Or Nothing
9pm-2am, £3. Tepid Oxo
Released following the Hounslow-born artist’s successful
plays metal and alternative.
conquering of the US market, ‘All Or Nothing’ contains the Fridays Strike 9.30pm-
key single of this campaign. ‘Down’ – a collaboration with
3.30am, £2.50 with flyer b4
superstar rapper ‘Lil Wayne – became a summer anthem
10.30pm. Drinks promos, no
stateside when it hit the Billboard no.1 spot. Full of the
dress code. American alterna-
tive tunes from Hywel and Ian.
slick r’n’b for which Jay Sean is renowned, this album also
Saturdays Anthem 9.30pm-
features the hit singles ‘Maybe’, ‘Stay’ and ‘Ride It’.
3.30am. Wherein Hywel plays
alternative and new music. Sun YOUSEF
RHYDIAN ROBERTS – O Fortuna 6 + Sun Jan Shine 5-9pm,
£5. Alternative and rock party
Sat 12 Dec, The Garage, Swansea.
The biggest selling debut male artist of 2008 is back with
‘O Fortuna’ which showcases Rhydian as his very own
for 13-17-year-olds, on the first Tickets: £8. Info: 01792 475147.
man. Produced by Karl Jenkins and Nigel Wright, ‘O
Sunday of every month.
Meze Lounge
For quite a while The Garage has been a venue in Swansea given over to
Fortuna’ is a natural progression from Rhydian’s debut
Market Street, Newport. blues-rock, local bands and open mic nights, but has recently made strides
release and confirms his place as the UK’s leading clas-
01633 213161.
sical cross over artist. The new album sees him teaming
Wednesdays Student Night
in its efforts to establish itself as a dance venue. To this end it – or rather the
up with Karl Jenkins, Bryn Terfel, Catrin Finch and Dame 9pm-4am, free NUS. Indie,
JnkFnk team responsible here – has made a wise decision by getting newish,
Kiri Te Kanawa. rock, opld skool hip-hop, funk
and party music. Thurs 1
student-friendly Cardiff house/techno promoters Supacell to help them out.
FALL OUT BOY – Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits
NYE Rave 8pm-8am, £10.
This has manifested itself in a booking for Yousef, an Israel-originated and
The first greatest hits compilation from from the hugely
That price gets you entry to five
venues, namely Meze, Mojo,
Liverpool-based big room house DJ who rose to prominence in the late 90s
successful Fall Out Boy. The album contains most of the
Kama Lounge, OTT and Sub
songs they have released as singles throughout their
with residencies at Cream, Renaissance etc. Deft enough in his styles to not
Club. This place will give you
career thus far as well as two new songs. It also includes all manner of lazers, glowsticks blow away with the winds of change, he’s continued to tour the world, and
a DVD commentary by the band on each video. The
etc to accompany the r’n’b,
hip-hop, rock, chart etc playlist.
released his first artist album, A Collection Of Scars And Situations, in the
first single from the album is ‘Alpha Dog’ and the album
features an original wrap-around illustration by noted
Also if you’re still at Meze come summer.
8am you get a free breakfast.
artist Daniel Danger.
Curry or toast. Fri 4 Epoc Live
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