live music
Cardiff. 1pm, free. Info 029 2039 1391.
Here After Trio Vulcan
Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669. John Sterckx Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 6.15pm, free. Info 08700 402000. A unique and exciting multi-percussion performance. I like how his name sounds like ‘sticks’ as spoken by someone with maybe a heavy French accent.
Kins Of Leon Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 07830 361915.
Marina & The Diamonds
Millennium Music Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10. Info
musichallcardiff@live.co.uk . Sold out. Ray Davies St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £35.50/£32.50. Info 029 2087 8444.
The Rooftop Sessions Koko
Gorilaz, Cardiff. 2-7pm, free. Info 029 2034 1767. Thoby Davies The North Star, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2062 4050. Tony Morley Live Lounge, Cardiff. 12pm. Info 07830 361915.
MONDAY 17
Cardiff’s Got Talent Vulcan
Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669.
Colours Of One + Hopeless Heroic + Steal Militia
Buffalo, Cardiff. 8pm, £4. Info 029 2034 5144.
*Double Dagger + Friendship + Saturday’s
Kids Cardiff Arts Institute. 8pm, free. Info 029 2023 1252. Scrappy Pavemental indie-rock from headline band, plus Too Pure’s Friendship and local dudes Saturday’s Kids. Honey Fungus Live Lounge, Cardiff. 12 + 9.30pm. Info 07830 361915. Jazz Attic Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £2. Info 029 2034 0591.
*Parenthetical Girls + Former Ghosts + Kita Akita
10 Feet Tall, Cardiff. 8pm, £7/£6 adv. Info 029 2022 8883. Loose with a good-sounding show of wonky indie experimentalism. Former Ghosts’ album is worth an ear.
The Damned + UK Subs
Millennium Music Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £17 adv. Info
musichallcardiff@live.co.uk . Presented by P4.
TUESDAY 18
BBC NOW Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 1pm, free. Info 08700 402000. Works by Mendelssohn and Brahms.
Colours Of One Spillers
Records, Cardiff. 8pm, £4. Info 029 2022 4905. Francis Rossi Glee Club, Cardiff Bay. 7pm, £19.50. Info 0871 4720400. If Alan McGee ever gets his minion to ghost- write a Guardian column ‘ironically’ claiming that Rossi is a major cog in the develop- ment of British rock, I will get revenge.
Ginge & Cello Boi Live
Lounge, Cardiff. 10pm. Info 07830 361915.
James Chadwick Sugo
Restaurant, Penarth. 7.15- 9.15pm, free. Info 029 2070 9955.
Jazz Piano Recital Royal
Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 8pm, £8/£6. Info 029 2039 1391. With Alex Douglas.
Jennifer Walker + Sharon
Richards St Donats Arts Centre, Vale Of Glamorgan. 3pm, £6/£5.50. Info 01446 799100. Cafe concert.
Jim Fryer’s American Welsh
Band Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £4/£3.50. Info 029 2034 0591.
Live Music Night The
Promised Land, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2039 8998. Lt Meat Buffalo, Cardiff. 8pm, £2. Info 029 2034 5144. This is part of the Cardiff skateboard Club Party which is also listed in Clubs.
Juan Martin Flamenco
Ensemble St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 8pm, £13. Info 029 2087 8444. A Roots Unearthed concert.
Mayor’s Charity Concert
Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale. 7pm, £5. Info 01495 355800. Featuring 10 different children’s ensemble groups.
North Atlantic Oscillation
Barfly, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2039 6589. Open Mic Y Fuwch Goch, Cardiff. 8.30pm. Info 029 2023 2199.
Robert Mitchell Dempseys,
Cardiff. 9pm, £5. Info 029 2023 9253.
Sion & Sion Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 12pm. Info 07830 361915.
Three Peters Piano Trio St
David’s Hall, Cardiff. 1pm, free. Info 029 2087 8444.
Wax Fang + Hunters Cardiff
Arts Institute. 8pm, free. Info 029 2023 1252. Indie band from Kentucky who will have just played ATP.
WEDNESDAY 19
A Wilhelm Scream + A Ne Day + The Fallthrough
Hobo’s, Bridgend. 7.30pm, £9/£7 adv. Info hobos_
bridgend@hotmail.co.uk . American punk band. The kids like ‘em, I think. Blues Jam The Garage, Swansea. 8pm. Info 01792 645007.
Cheviot Hill + Barefoot Dance Of The Sea + Si
Burns Cardiff Arts Institute. 8pm, free. Info 029 2023 1252.
Clark Tracey Sextet
Jazzland, Swansea. 8pm, £12/£9. Info 07802 912789. Daddy The Chattery, Swansea. 8pm, £9. Info 01792 473276. Collaborative project between Tommy Womack and Will Kimbrough.
Dave Jones Solo Piano Café
Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2034 0591.
Debbie McClatchy The
Windsor Hotel, Pontyclun. 7.30pm, £6/£4. Info 01443 226892. American banjo-play- ing folkie from the Appalchian mountains. She sounds great actually. Emarosa Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £7 adv. Info 029 2023 2199.
Jimjam Open Mic Session
The Promised Land, Cardiff. 8.30pm, free. Info 029 2041 8741.
Mike Jones Acoustic Night
Hard Rock Cafe, Cardiff. 9pm. Info 029 2037 3403.
Mini Mojo Band Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 9.30pm. Info 07830 361915.
Mike Jones Acoustic Night
Hard Rock Cafe, Cardiff. 9pm. Info 029 2037 3403.
Open Mic Night Milkwood
Jam, Swansea. 7.30pm, free. Info 01792 477577.
Open Mic Night Nos Da,
Cardiff. Info 029 2037 8866. Every Wednesday.
Open Mic Night The
Hawaiian, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 029 2049 3337. Rove Dempseys, Cardiff. 9pm, £5. Info 029 2023 9253.
Rowan Liggett’s Open Mic
The North Star, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2062 4050. Talon Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 8pm, £16.50/£15. Info 01874 611622.
The Line Up Vulcan Lounge,
Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669. Tony Morley Live Lounge, Cardiff. 12pm. Info 07830 361915.
THURSDAY 20
Cats & Cats & Cats + Siegfried Sasson Buffalo,
Cardiff. 8pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 029 2034 5144.
Dave Jones Trio Foyer, Wales
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 6.15pm, free. Info 08700 402000. David Nash La Tasca, Cardiff. 8.30-10.30pm. Info 029 2023 0087.
European Union Chamber
Orchestra Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 7.45pm, £12/£10. Info 01686 625007. Friends Event Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £10/£8.50. Info 029 2039 1391. Violin and piano recital.
Jazz Jam Night Queen’s
Head, Monmouth. 8.45pm, free. Info 01600 712767. Jazz Night La Brasserie, Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 029 2023 4134.
Jimjam Open Mic Session
The Claude Hotel, Albany Road, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2041 8741. John Lewis Vulcan Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669.
Jonathan Braetoff Quartet
Café Jazz, Cardiff. 8pm, £6/£5. Info 029 2034 0591. London ensemble with a multinational pool of influences, who sprang from the scene around Acoustic Ladyland/Polar Bear types.
Live Music Thursdays Hard
Rock Cafe, Cardiff. 7pm. Info 029 2037 3403. Nineplanfailed The Old Library, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2066 6544. South Wales rock band.
Nochaa + Necrocest +
Kryophere Barfly, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6. Info 029 2039 6589. Local extreme metal bands. No Tedium The North Star, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2062 4050. Open Mic Night The Gate Arts Centre, Roath, Cardiff. 8-11pm, free. Info 029 2048 3344.
Open Mic Night The Promised
Land, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2039 8998. Rockaoke The Globe, Cardiff. 7-11.30pm, £5/£4 NUS. Info 029 2045 2151. Perform on stage with the in-house Rockaoke band to classic indie hits, rock,
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punk or pop classics.
Sion & Sion Live Lounge,
Cardiff. 12pm. Info 07830 361915.
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart
Canteen On Clifton Street, Splott, Cardiff. 8pm. £22.50. Info 029 2045 4999. Country- folk duo from the States. That price includes a meal in the Canteen, which is something worthy of your gullet. No idea how you fit a live band in here, it’s pretty small, but fair play.
The Siren Sisters The North
Star, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2062 4050.
The Soda Men + The
Ukelelians Y Fuwch Goch, Cardiff. 8pm. Info 029 2023 2199. EP launch gig for local jangly rock band.
Traditional Jazz Bands
Mumbles Conservative Club, Swansea. 8.30-11pm. Info 01792 361302. Westlife Cardiff International Arena. 7pm, £30. Info 029 2022 4488. (Until Sat 22)
FRIDAY 21
2 Tickets 2 The Gun Show
Live Lounge, Cardiff. 10pm. Info 07830 361915. Amigos NRG, Neath. Info 01639 644888.
BBC NOW: Mahler’s Sixth
Symphony St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7pm, £10-£22. Info 029 2087 8444. Conducted by Jac Van Steen..
Blessed By A Broken Heart + Love Hate Hero + The First + The Morning After
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £8.50 adv. Info 029 2023 2199. American metal band with some vague 80s revival/dressing for a bet theme.
Camelia Jazz Band The
Riverside Tavern, Newport. 2pm, free. Info 01633 666699. Every Friday.
Cardiff’s Got Talent Vulcan
Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669. Chris Wood Theatr Hafren, Newtown. 8pm, £8. Info 01686 625007. English folkie. Colum Regan Live Lounge, Cardiff. 7.30pm. Info 07830 361915.
Contemporary Guitarist La
Tasca, Cardiff. 7-10pm. Info 029 2023 0087. Every Friday.
Inme + Fei Comodo + Envy Of The State Barfly, Cardiff.
7.30pm, £10. Info 029 2039 6589. Live Music The Ship Inn, Barry. 8pm, free. Info 01446 729060. Every Friday.
Los Campesinos! + Slow
Club Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union. 7.30pm, £12. Info 029 2078 1458. Mean Mistreater Café Jazz, Cardiff. 9pm, £4. Info 029 2034 0591. A Blues Dragon night.
Psycho Kiss + Deathbullet + This Is Suffering + Conquer The Decade The
Dollhouse, Abertillery. Info 01495 213300. Salvation Vulcan Lounge, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2023 1669.
Subsection Funky Buddha Lounge, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2064 4311. Live electro dub. Talon Torch Theatre, Milford Haven. 7.30pm, £17.50. Info 01646 695267. On tomorrow also.
The Tennessee Three The
Globe, Cardiff. 7pm, £18. Info 029 2045 2151. See Music.
This Isn’t Hollywood + Man Of The Hour + Calling Card + Hit Or Miss Le Pub,
Newport. 7.30pm. Info 01633 221477. Presented by Riot Act. Thoby Davies The North Star, Cardiff. Free. Info 029 2062 4050. Tony Morley Live Lounge, Cardiff. 12 + 4.30pm. Info 07830 361915. Westlife Cardiff International Arena. 7pm, £30. Info 029 2022 4488. (Until Sat 22) Will Killeen Sebastopol Social Club, Pontypool. £8/£6. Info 01495 762504.
*Zonderhoof + Ironbird +
Witch Trial Buffalo, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5. Info 029 2034 5144. Local heavy rock bands. Witch Trial are playing their debut show and Ironbird aren’t much older as a band.
SATURDAY 22
Carrie Tree The Minstrel Room, Little Shop Of Calm, Cowbridge. 8pm, £10/£8 adv. Info 01446 771166. Singer-song- writer lady who will be perform- ing songs from her new album
The Kitchen Table.
Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band
Memorial Hall, Newbridge. 7pm, £8. Info 01495 243252.
Choir At The Castle Weobly
Castle, Llanrhidian, Gower. 7pm, £10 adv. Info 01792 281595. Featuring Dunvant Male Choir and conductor Jonathan Rogers.
Dead & Divine + Through Solace + This Distance
Barfly, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6. Info 029 2039 6589.
RHOD GILBERT
St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Sat 10 Apr
words ANGHARAD BROWN
Rhod Gilbert’s two-hour rant also known as The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst was always going to be right up my street. We expected dark, angry comedy and that was exactly what we got. You know when a comedy gig opens with “Newport: the only city in the UK where the signs read ‘Kill our children, not your speed’,” that it’s going to be ever so slightly more controversial than a Michael McIntyre performance. However, instead of the uncomfortable awkwardness – as created by a certain distasteful routine by Frankie Boyle – the whole of St David’s Hall fell about laughing.
Being something of a homecoming gig, it was always going to be full of local references but Gilbert did this well. He refrained from the typical “what’s up with that?” gag, and instead used them to help add to his sto- ries, referring to a relaxing (or not) girlie day out with his girlfriend at St David’s Hotel and Spa, testing out the ‘fl ight or fi ght’ theory by running up and down Queen St with an erection and pants full of poo – probably best you try and see the live show or impending DVD to explain that one. His attempts to make the audience feel sorry for him as though the world conspired against him to paint him out to be an angry man were brilliant, as were his desperate pleas to the audience for reassurance that he isn’t actually in need of anger management. A latecomer to comedy, I’m glad to see Gilbert’s popularity is quickly increasing and I strongly recommend you catching him before he has a heart attack induced by a household appliance salesman.
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