live music
+ Johnny Alchemist + Anthony Wickham Cardiff
Arts Institute. 8pm, free. Info 029 2023 1252.
Tony Morley Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 12pm. Info 07830 361915.
Workshop And Open Mic
Jam Session Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd. 7.30pm, £2. Info 01443 491424. Every first Wednesday of the month.
THURSDAY 6
Amigos Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £7/£5. Info 029 2034 0591.
Annika Kaschenz & Francesco Attesti Memorial
Hall Theatre, Barry. 7.30pm, £412.50/£10. Info 01446 738622. Classical concert from mezzo soprano and pianist respec- tively. Cal Newman The North Star, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2062 4050.
*Damon & Naomi Cardiff
Arts Institute. 8pm, £3/£2. Info 029 2023 1252. This is a great booking, by Three Syllables: formerly of Galaxie 500, this duo have gone on to make very pretty washy guitar rock. If you go to this and talk all the way through it I will kick your teeth down your throat, just thought I’d mention that. David Nash La Tasca, Cardiff. 8.30-10.30pm. Info 029 2023 0087. Spanish guitarist, every Thursday.
Eric Bibb Aberystwyth Arts
Centre. 8pm, £12/£11. Info 01970 623232. Acoustic blues guitarist.
Eugene Monteith: Choral
Conducting Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £2. Info 029 2039 1391.
Hebble Woodwind Prize
Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 2pm, £2. Info 029 2039 1391.
Jazz Night La Brasserie,
Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 029 2023 4134. Every Thursday. Reserve a table for the dinner menu for £20.
Jimjam Open Mic Session
The Claude Hotel, Albany Road, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2041 8741. Every Thursday.
La Roux + I Blame Coco
Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union. 7pm, £15. Info 029 2078 1458. See Upfront.
Larry Garner & The Norman Beaker Band Parc
& Dare Theatre, Treorchy. 8pm, £16.50/£13. Info 01443 773112. Blues in the Blues Lounge.
Leighton Jones Vulcan
Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669.
Live Music Now! Foyer, Wales
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 1pm, free. Info 08700 402000.
Live Music Thursdays Hard
Rock Cafe, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 029 2037 3403. Every Thursday, believe it or not.
Masters In France + Mechanical Owl + Field Commander Short Shorts
Buffalo, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3 NUS. Info 029 2034 5144. Headlined by North Walian band who feature ex-members of The Heights and Frizbee, who are contentuously described as “the biggest Welsh language act of the 00s” in MAF’s own press biog.
Matthew Hamilton: Choral
Conducting Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 5pm, £2. Info 029 2039 1391. No Tedium The North Star, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2062 4050. Live music from local
names and guests from further afield, every Thursday.
Open Acoustic Session
Toucan Club, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info www.toucancardiff.co.uk . In the downstairs bar every Thursday.
Open Mic Night The Gate Arts
Centre, Roath, Cardiff. 8-11pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344. Every Thursday.
Open Mic Night The Promised
Land, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2039 8998. Every Thursday.
Richard Jones Foyer, Wales
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.15pm, free. Info 08700 402000. Jazz guitarist.
Sion & Sion Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 12pm. Info 07830 361915.
Spider Kitten + Circa
Regna Tonat The Old Library, Cardiff. 8pm, £3. Info 029 2066 6544. Heavy bands from the area. Fun to watch, says I. DJ Junko will also feature, DJing.
Steinitz Bach Prize For Solo
Strings Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 11am, £2. Info 029 2039 1391. Surfer Blood Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 8pm, £6 adv. Info 029 2023 2199. Swn and Flux=Rad present American indie-rock band who have had some good reviews and suchlike. Terrafolk Wyeside, Builth Wells. 7.30pm, £12/£10 adv. Info 01982 552555.
The Wilders Borough Theatre,
Abergavenny. 8pm, £13/£11. Info 01873 850805.
Traditional Jazz Bands
Mumbles Conservative Club, Swansea. 8.30-11pm. Info 01792 361302. Every Thursday.
Victoria Raltorguva & Francesco Attesti Memorial
Hall Theatre, Barry. 7.30pm, £12.50/£10. Info 01446 738622. Soprano and pianist respec- tively.
FRIDAY 7
Alexander Douglas: Choral
Conducting Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 5pm, £2. Info 029 2039 1391.
Boyz II Men + Mica Paris
Cardiff International Arena. 7pm, £32.5-. Info 029 2022 4488.
Camelia Jazz Band The
Riverside Tavern, Newport. 2pm, free. Info 01633 666699. Every Friday.
Cardiff Violins Chamber Music Prize Royal Welsh
College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 1pm, £2. Info 029 2039 1391.
Jack The Biscuit Café Jazz,
Cardiff. 9pm, £4. Info 029 2034 0591. A Blues Dragon night.
Jimmy Mazzy & The Camelia Jazz Band
Sebastopol Social Club, Pontypool. £8/£6. Info 01495 762504. Live Music The Ship Inn, Barry. 8pm, free. Info 01446 729060. Every Friday.
Magic – A Kind Of Queen
Borough Theatre, Abergavenny. 8pm, £16/£14. Info 01873 850805. (Finishes today)
Masterclass Concert Theatr
Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £14/£12. Info 01874 611622. Operatic ensembles and arias, plus a Q&A session.
Orchestra Of Welsh National
Opera St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10-£30. Info 029 2087 8444. Lothar Koenigs conducts the orchestra and soprano Lisa Milne in a programme featuring Satrauss and Mahler.
Outgunned + Life Death Prizes + Blind Ambition + Lifer The Dollhouse,
Abertillery. Info 01495 213300.
RWCMD Brass Band Concert
Canton Salvation Army Hall, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2039 1391.
Salvation Vulcan Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669.
Singers Night The Ivy Bush, Pontardawe. 8.30pm, free. Information huwpudner@ ntlworld.com . A Valley Folk Club night, on the first Friday of every month. All welcome.
Straight Lines + I Am Hope + Rico & The Thieves + Magden Audio Hobo’s,
Bridgend. 7pm, £5. Info hobos_
bridgend@hotmail.co.uk .
Super Natural Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 10pm. Info 07830 361915.
Contemporary Guitarist La
Tasca, Cardiff. 7-10pm. Info 029 2023 0087. Every Friday.
Creative Sound & Music Showcase 2010 The
Riverfront, Newport. 6pm, £8/£5. Info 01633 656757. Showcase for students from the Newport School Of Art, Media & Design, Creative Sound & Music. On tomorrow also. David Nash La Tasca, Cardiff. 8.30-10.30pm. Info 029 2023 0087. Spanish guitarist, every Thursday. D’taba The North Star, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2062 4050.
Edward Rhys-Harry: Choral
Conducting Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 6.30pm, £2. Info 029 2039 1391.
Honey Fungus Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 07830 361915.
Ian Scott Performs The Songs Of Neil Diamond The
Globe, Cardiff. 7pm, £7/£5 NUS. Info 029 2045 2151.
Superstate Barfly, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2039 6589.
The Bambi Killers + Galanastra + Filthy Habits + Scarcoma + Sidekick The
Garage, Swansea. 8pm, £2. Info 01792 645007.
The Complete Stone Roses
Parc Hall, Cwmparc. 7.30pm, £15. Info 01443 776920. The Wilders Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy. 8pm, £16.50/£13. Info 01443 773112. Kansas-based bluegrass new- bies. In the Blues Lounge. Also in Cardigan in a week’s time.
Tony Morley Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 12 + 4.30pm. Info 07830 361915.
Underground Heroes +
Town Buffalo, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5 adv. Info 029 2034 5144. “The sound of booze-sodden, crap fag smoking, concrete Britain. Lyrically they are inspired by the day to day life they know – the fights, night life, friends, birds – and the identikit town they live in.”
SATURDAY 8
2 Sick Monkeys + Smut Puppets + The Nukes + Need To No The Green Rooms,
Treforest. 8pm, £2. Info 07890 909164. Punk rock.
A Gala Of Massed Male
Choirs St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £14.50-£19.50. Info 029 2087 8444. Featuring Elin Manahan Thomas and the Regimental Band Of The Royal Welsh.
A Grand Charity Concert
Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 7.30pm, £13.50/£12.50. Info 01874 611622. Featuring The Grenfell Singers, Llanelli Male Choir, Rhosgoch Young Farmers’
Club and Thom Beetham.
Amy Wadge + Jonathan
Powell Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £13.50. Info 01646 695267.
An Evening With Rick
Wakeman Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy. 8pm, £21.50. Info 01443 773112. Prog, Henry VIII, on ice, curry, Tory, grumpy old man. What did I miss?
Beth Jeans Houghton
Blackwood Miners Institute. 7.30pm, £10. Info 01495 227206. See Music. Anyone who is upset that we didn’t use the press photo mentioned in the piece, write in to the normal address marking your envelope “I AM A CREEP”.
Creative Sound & Music Showcase 2010 The
Riverfront, Newport. 6pm, £8/£5. Info 01633 656757. D’taba Vulcan Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669.
Exit_International + The Last Broadcast + Traitors Pull Triggers Le Pub,
Newport. 7.30pm. Info 01633 221477.
J Alexander & The Blues
Devils The Globe, Cardiff. 7pm, £5. Info 029 2045 2151.
Llanelli-Agen Twinning Link 20th Anniversary
Concert Theatr Elli, Llanelli. 7.30pm. Info 0845 2263510.
Montgomery Country Music
Festival Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.30pm, £10/£5 NUS. Info 01686 625007. Welsh language adaption of David Harrower’s play Blackbird. In
Aberystwyth on Tuesday 4.
Mr Huw + Cymdeithias Yr
Hobos Unig Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 8.30pm, £6. Info 029 2023 2199. Mwsog Buffalo, Cardiff. 7.30- 10pm, £4. Info 029 2034 5144.
New Generation Of Blues
Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale. 8pm, £13.50/£11. Info 01495 355800. Youthful blues trio.
Puneet Shah Cardiff Central
Library. 1pm, free. Info 029 2078 0160. Sitar player.
Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama JMAS
Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 3pm, free. Info 08700 402000.
Ruby Turner The Met,
Abertillery. 8pm, £17. Info 01495 322510. British soul singer of note.
Sal + Eject Pilot Eject + Bomb Factory Barfly, Cardiff.
7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2039 6589.
Sion & Sion Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 12pm. Info 07830 361915.
Smerins Anti-Social Club
Queens Hall, Narberth. 7.30pm, £11/£9 adv. Info 01834 861212.
Smoking Aces Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 6.30pm. Info 07830 361915. Songdog The Chattery, Swansea. 8pm, £8. Info 01792 473276. Blackwood-originated auteur plus folkish band play second SW date of late.
The Rooftop Sessions Koko
Gorilaz, Cardiff. 2-7pm, free. Info 029 2034 1767. Acoustic acts every Saturday and Sunday here this summer.
The Troubleshooters The
Dollhouse, Abertillery. Info 01495 213300.
Unified Festival Merthyr
College. 12pm-12am, £6/£4 adv. Info 07818 872642. Featuring The Guns, Portraits, Revoker, The Oratorios, Accident Music, Headline, Eight Piece Suit, Missdalogik, My Ceramic Rabbic, Kiss Silver, The Secret Enemy, The Doublecross, Y Betti Galws, Mike Morgan,
Dicey, Colon and The Gubbins.
Under The Driftwood Tree
The North Star, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2062 4050.
SUNDAY 9
Amigos Uplands Tavern, Swansea. Info 01792 458242.
Attack! Attack! + As We Climb + Ship To Shore Clwb
Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6 adv. Info 029 2023 2199. South Wales rock band headline. This seems to be sold out!
Austin Lucas + El Morgan + Darren Johns Le Pub,
Newport. 8pm. Info 01633 221477. Lucas seems to be one of those dudes who used to be in punk bands and now plays country music, and is liked by people who only listen to country music if it’s made by people who used to be in punk bands, or Johnny Cash. I’m not saying he’s not good, I’ve not heard him.
Calling Madison + Robbie
Price Revolution, Cardiff. 9pm- 2am, free. Info 029 2023 6689.
Chiddy Bang Sin City,
Swansea. 8pm, £7 adv. Info 01792 468892. Philly rap duo whose ‘thing’ is using samples of indie bands rather than, idk, P-funk or whatever.
Chillout Sunday Gwdihw,
Cardiff. 2pm, £3. Info 07816 906558. Live music from Spencer McGarry, Stephen Wheel, Three Second Memory, Ginger Rogers; DJing from The Magnificent Attic Salt and Jumbo Cruiser; a poetry read- ing from Roberto Pastore; Yarn And Yarn (knitting sessions); Blaencamel Organic produce stall and a lucky dip. Raising money for a Kilimanjaro climb in aid of Air Ambulance.
Chuck Prophet + Gallow
Birds Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £12 adv. Info 029 2023 2199. See Music.
HOT WATER MUSIC (The Bassment, Newport, Wed 23) ELVIS COSTELLO (St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Thurs 24) ELLIOT MINOR (Millennium Music Hall, Thurs 24) DEICIDE (Millennium Music Hall, Sat 26) JUST ANNOUNCED FOR JULY: JOEY NEGRO + CJ MACKINTOSH (Millennium Music Hall, Sat 3) TERRORVISION (Millennium Music Hall, Sun 18) EZIO (The Chattery, Swansea, Sat 24) GRUFF RHYS & TONY DA GATTORA
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