listings live FRIDAY 1 JULY
Adwaith + Kim Hon + Gillie Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7-10pm, £10. Info 029 2023 2199. Album launch gig for the headliners, who we recently interviewed. Cân Aderyn The Met, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £10. Info 01495 355945. Female singing group.
Ceilidh: Mynd I’r Gap Blaenavon Constitutional Club. 7.30pm, £3. Info 01495 790244. With caller Rod Denley-Jones. Also taking place here on Fri 29 July. Fatherson Sin City, Swansea. 7pm, £13.50. Info 01792 468892. Earnest soft- pop band from Glasgow.
Ignitemares + Harrison Rimmer + Pseudo Cool + Zed Motel + Heartwork + No Murder No Moustache Bunkhouse, Swansea. 6pm, £5. Info 07716 767651. Rock bands from the approx region. uInternational Choral Festival Cardiff Various locations, Cardiff. Prices vary per event. Info
internationalchoralfestival.wales. Featuring an opening concert at Capel Y Tabernacl on The Hayes (today, time TBC); two events at the Wales Millennium Centre on Sat 2 July (a Day Festival from 12.30-4.30pm, and the Choir Of Choirs Competition from 7-9.30pm); and, on Sun 3 July, choral workshops with the adjudicators plus choral performances at various locations around Cardiff. (Until Sun 3 July) Islands In The Stream The Riverfront, Newport. 7.30pm, £26. Info 01633 656757. Country rockin’ tribute to K Rogers and D Parton.
Jeremiah Stephenson St David’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Cardiff. 7-8.30pm, £10. Info 029 2023 1407. First of three concerts from Fri 1-Sun 3 July celebrating the composer Mendelssohn. Stephenson’s organ recital will include works by Mendelssohn and Bach plus the world premiere of Samuel Adler’s Mendelssohnia, composed expressly for the festival.
BARTEES STRANGE Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Tue 19 July Tickets: £12.50. Info:
clwb.net
This fellow hails from Washington DC and makes eclectic, if modern- sounding, alternative pop. He’s just released his second album – and debut for 4AD Records – Farm To Table, and Buzz’s Hannah gave it a glowing review, so I’ll hand you over to her, by which I mean paste bits of her words here. “A shapeshifter with genuine grit, girth and emotionality … celeb fans as varied (apparently) as Hayley Williams, Ryan Reynolds and Phoebe Bridgers … meditatively drift away into Strange’s lush soundscapes.” Cheers!
Will Barnes Quartet Oriel Davies, Newtown. 7pm, £15. Info 01686 625041. Jazz/swing.
SUNDAY 3 JULY
Cardiff Chamber Choir St David’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Cardiff. 3-4.30pm, £10. Info 029 2023 1407. Last of three concerts from Fri 1-Sun 3 July celebrating the composer Mendelssohn. Works by Mendelssohn himself, the Schumanns, Liszt, Brahms, and others will feature. I Fight Bears + Mines + Social Experiment + Who Are The Monsters + Scrape + State Of Decay + This Is Wreckage + Blunt Trauma + People Eater The Moon, Cardiff. 3-11pm, £8. Info
themooncardiff.com. Punk, metal and hardcore bands benefitting local charities giving support to Ukraine. Jane McDonald Venue Cymru, Llandudno. 7.30pm, £38-£53. Info 01492 872000. It’s nearly 25 years since Jane McDonald starred in proto-reality TV show The Cruise, and she’s maintained a healthy career since, so you might say she’s not exactly “fresh off the boat”! But is no doubt fresh in all other relevant ways. Jive Talkin’ New Theatre, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £30. Info 0343 3100041. Bee Gees tribute.
Moonstorm Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 5pm, £3. Info 029 2062 6015. Rock covers.
Roving Crows Acapela, Cardiff. 8pm, 314. Info 029 2089 0862. Folk band. Rescheduled from this time last year. The Soap Girls + Stay Voiceless Bunkhouse, Swansea. 6pm, £10. Info 07716 767651.
MONDAY 4 JULY
Open Mic / Jam Session Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015. Hosted by Moonstorm. Polemics + Stay Voiceless + Excellent Skeleton + Benzo Queen The Moon, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £5. Info
themooncardiff.com. Headliners are from Bristol.
Li Harding Band The Garage, Swansea. 7pm, £7. Info 01792 213200. Jazz, blues and soul vocalist.
Limehouse Lizzy + Bad Jam Tivoli, Buckley. 7pm, £16. Info 01244 546201. Thin Lizzy tribute band. Delayed from March 2020. uMidsummer Jamboree Druidstone, Pembrokeshire. £95 weekend/ £75 members/£45 kids/£20 Sun 3 only. Info 01437 781221. Live music, dance and workshops over three days. Fri 1: Los Pulpos, Get The Blessing and DJ Ruby Samba. Sat 2: Korasan, Matthew Frederick, Jodie Marie, I See Rivers, ZuZu Men and DJ Ruby Samba. Sun 3: Spirit Of Nimba and dance and mosaic workshops. (Ubtil Sun 3) Olanza The Moon, Cardiff. 7.30pm, free. Info
themooncardiff.com. Bristol post- hardcore band who may or may not have an album out about now. Phoenix Choir Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.15pm, £15. Info 01792 602060. Local male voice choir. Sinfonia Cymru & Casi Wyn Pontio, Bangor. 7.30pm, £18. Info 01248 382828. Noted Welsh symphony orchestra (seven members of them, to be exact) collaborate with Welsh poet and musician Wyn. The Bohemians Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl. 7.30pm, £22. Info 01745 332414. Queen tribute band. Rescheduled from September 2021.
Dub Orchestra, Bez plus Arlo, The Gulps, Dub War, Bottlekids, Stay Voiceless, The 501s and Dirty Deluxe. Sat 2 July: Goldie Lookin Chain, The Oasis Experience, Black Metro, The Vega Bodegas, Don Letts, Chroma, Deathtraps, The Electric Shakes, Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy, Johnny Trashed, System Reset and The Oversights. Acoustic Stage, schedule TBC: Roby Kelly, Adam Jones, Gwenifer Raymond, Rob Pennington, Huw James, Ian Lynn Palmer and Tim Southern. Will Barnes Quartet The Lost Arc, Rhayader. 7.30pm, £8. Info 01597 811226. Jazz.
SATURDAY 2 JULY
Barry Steele & Friends: The Roy Orbison Story Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £27. Info 01792 475715. Tribute show.
Bronwen Lewis Galeri, Caernarfon. 7.30pm, £15. Info 01286 685222. Singer- songwriter who got popular via TikTok I believe.
The Darling Buds + I, Doris Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £12. Info 01633 221477. Indie locals who came to prominence in the late 80s headline. The Leighton Jones Band Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015. Local singer-songwriter. The Weekend Rumble Great House Farm, Usk. £35 weekend. Info
theweekendrumble.com. Two-day fest with the following confirmed. Fri 1 July: Future
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Cantemus Chamber Choir St Martin In Roath Church, Cardiff. 7pm, £15. Info 029 2048 2295. Music from Handel, Parry, Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons and Elgar, to cele- brate the Queen’s platinum jubilee. Doing so a month after the event feels like a risky gambit to me so best of luck. Coldplace Acapela, Cardiff. 8pm, £20. Info 029 2089 0862. Coldplay tribute. Dead Method + Tom Aspaul + Maditronique Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7-10pm, 37. Info 029 2023 2199. Album launch gig for headliner; the album is reviewed in this issue. Genesis Connected Gwyn Hall, Neath. 7.30pm, £22.50. Info 0300 3656677. Genesis tribute band. Junior Conservatoire At 25 Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff. 5.30pm, £7.50. Info 029 2039 1391.
Concert to mark 25 years of this orchestra. Mannequin Pussy Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £14. Info 029 2023 2199. Punk trio from Philadelphia. They’re signed to Epitaph now I think. McLusky + Frakard Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £20. Info 01633 221477. Noisy rock trio, founded in south Wales although not really based in the region as such nowadays, play one of their occasional reunion gigs, partly to toast 30 years of Le Pub but also, well, just to let people have a nice time.
Omnichron + Karl Beer Elysium Gallery, Newport. 9pm, free. Info 07980 925449. A band and a poet respectively. DJ sets come from Viki Metz and Non-Stop Neil.
Retro Electro The Globe, Cardiff. 7pm, £12. Info 07590 471888 Synthpop cover band.
Sing The Musicals St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 5.30pm, £18. Info 029 2087 8444. Featuring the City Voices Concert Orchestra and pianist Rhiannon Pritchard. The Bella Collins Band Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 9pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015. Performing in the bar area. The Mendelssohn Festival Octet St David’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Cardiff. 7pm, £10. Info 029 2023 1407. Second of three concerts from Fri 1-Sun 3 July cel- ebrating the composer Mendelssohn. The ensemble here will perform Mendelssohn’s Octet in Eb, Op. 20, and the String Quartet No. 1, Op. 12.
The Soap Girls + Tarion + The Woodsman The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, £12. Info 01495 758597. Rock duo from South Africa who don’t exactly dress for winter in their press photos and onstage. In Swansea tomorrow. Whitesnake UK The Patriot, Crumlin. 7pm, £10. Info 01495 247178. Tribute band.
Red Hot Pokers Priory Hotel Gardens, Caerleon. 8.30pm, £10. Info 01633 430194. Blues-rock. Caerleon Arts Festival event. Rival Sons Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union. 7pm, £25. Info 029 2078 1458. UK hard rockers touring to celebrate 10 years since their Pressure & Time album, which came out, you guessed it, 11 years ago.
TUESDAY 5 JULY
A-ha Cardiff Castle. 5pm, £45. Info 029 2087 8100. Norse pop giants who are tied to the 1980s in the public imagination but are clearly still enough of a draw to play in the castle. That’s the idea at least. CAVMS Youth Big Band + Monmouth Big Band Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Newport. 8pm, £10. Info 01633 893227. A South Wales Big Band Society night.
Gecko + Gavin Osborn + Francesca’s Word Salad The Moon, Cardiff. 7.30pm, 37. Info themooncardiff. com. Alt-folky type stuff. Seated gig rescheduled from a few months back. Hayseed Dixie + Rusty Shackle Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. 8pm, £19.50. Info 01874 611622. Faux redneck rock covers band.
No Devotion + Nate Bergman The Globe, Cardiff. 7pm, £18.50. Info 07590 471888. Two-thirds Welsh one-third American alt-rock band with a short tour ahead of their second album and first in several years. Rory McLeod The Cellar, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £12.50. Info 07818 056599. Folk- rock one-man-band type.
WEDNESDAY 6 JULY
Brian Wilson + Al Jardine & Blondie Chaplin Motorpoint Arena Cardiff. 6.30pm, £46.50. Info 029 2022 4488 He’s well into his 70s, his hair is kept in place by the will of God himself and he’s carted around the world by a team of helpers
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