listings
Open Mic / Jam Session Earl Haig Memorial Club, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info 029 2062 6015. Hosted by The Steve Bryant Orchestra.
Six Sided Men Rhostio, Cardiff. 7pm, free. Info
facebook.com/rhostiocoffee. Local rockers.
TUESDAY 19 JULY
Bartees Strange Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £12.50. Info 029 2023 2199. Washington DC alt-pop guy with a new album on 4AD. Really wasn’t my thing but Buzz colleagues like him. Burum Flute & Tankard, Cardiff. 8pm, £10. Info 029 2039 8315. Jazz from a fine Welsh ensemble who have an album out about now, also play in Monmouth the following day, and are previewed in Music. Dropout Kings Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7-10pm, £10. Info 029 2023 2199. Nu- metal band from Phoenix who seem to be an impressively meticulous genre exercise, right down to being managed by Dez out of Coal Chamber. Ebbw Fach Choir The Met, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £8. Info 01495 355945. Mixed choir with a mixed repertoire also. Swingcopation Big Band Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Newport. 8pm, £10. Info 01633 893227. A South Wales Big Band Society night.
WEDNESDAY 20 JULY
Bethan Semmens Memo Arts Centre, Barry. 1.30pm, £7.50. Info 01446 738622. Songs & Scones lunchtime concert from Penarth-based harpist. Burum The Queens Head, Monmouth. 8pm, free. Info 01600 712767. Haim Motorpoint Arena Cardiff. 6.30pm, £35. Info 029 2022 4488. Rescheduled from June 2021.
Michael Bublé Cardiff Castle. 6pm, £70. Info 029 2039 1391. A little bit of the Bublé (2019-vintage reference for you there), rescheduled from this time in 2021 but sold out. Pauline Vallance Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club. 7.30pm, £8. Info 01443 222182. Folk singer from Ayrshire. A Llantrisant Folk Club event.
THURSDAY 21 JULY
Claire Roberts with Dave Cottle Trio The Garage, Swansea. 8.30pm, £10. Info 01792 213200. Swansea Jazz night headlined by Manchester-based Welsh vocalist.
MJ The Legacy Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7pm, £16. Info 01633 868239. Tribute to disgraced entertainer Michael Jackson, starring CJ.
Lewis Capaldi Cardiff Castle. 6.30pm, £47.80. Info 029 2039 1391. Scottish pop fella, relocated from Alexandra Head in Cardiff Bay and also moved from the previous day. Talon Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 7.30pm, £18. Info 01633 868239. Acoustic show by Eagles tribute act. The Bug Club + Pigeon Wigs Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £10. Info 01633 221477. Caldicot indie band, who sold out not one but two gigs here a few months ago, are back for more in the headline slot.
The Insole Court Community Choir & The Primo Children’s Choir Acapela, Cardiff. 6pm, 35. Info 029 2089 0862. With students from the Primo School Of Music.
FRIDAY 22 JULY
Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band Miners Institute, Blackwood. 6.30pm, £18. Info 01495 227206. Welsh soul big band. Chaka Demus & Pliers + Big Mountain + Winston Reedy + Faith + Reuel Elijah Vale Sports Arena, Cardiff. 7pm-2am, £25-£35. Info 07955 270870. Two Jamaican reggae acts who had UK chart hits in the mid-90s top the bill. DJs: Love & Harmony Sounds and Carl Bassett. Don Vappie & Jazz Creole Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £16. Info 01792 602060. Jazz banjoist from New Orleans. Jess + Crys + Einir Dafydd + Catsgam Cardigan Castle. 7pm, £15. Info 01239 621200. Welsh language pop and rock acts who have at some point been signed to west Wales indie label Fflach: this gig is a 40th birthday celebration for them. See Music.
Our Nameless Boy + Death Is A Girl + Shortfall The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, free. Info 01495 758597. Headliners are from Bristol.
Primal Scream + Happy Mondays + Peter Hook & The Light + Hot Chip (DJ set) Cardiff Castle. 2.30pm. £38.50. Info 029 2039 1391. Wee Bobby G and his Primal Screamers headline a big outdoor gig of seasoned indie bands with a dance element to their music. Relocated from Alexandra Head in Cardiff Bay. Texas Tick Fever The Cellar, Cardigan. 7.30pm. Info 07818 056599. Americana group who purport to offer “tales of hobos, grifters, bootleggers and drifters from the backwoods of America”. They’re from Stroud by the way. The Bootleg Beatles Grand Theatre, Swansea. 7.30pm, £31.50 . Info 01792 475715. Willets + Dead Method + Voya + Liam J Edwards Tiny Rebel Cardiff. 7.30pm, £6. Info 029 2039 9557. Synthpop guy from Pontypridd headlines.
SATURDAY 23 JULY
Breichiau Hir + French Alps Tiger Cwrw, Carmarthen. 7pm, 34. Info 01267 223230. Brace of Welsh indie/alt-rock bands.
live dub reggae sensations. Rescheduled from July 2021.
Kamikazee Millionaires The Patriot, Crumlin. 7pm, free. Info 01495 247178. Local hard rockers.
Musicfest 22 Gala Opening Concert Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 7pm, £23. Info 01970 623232. Featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alpesh Chauhan with cellist Guy Johnston. Musicfest runs until Sat 30 July. Soulshunks Elysium Gallery, Swansea. 8pm, free. Info 07980 925449. Soul, ska and funk. Tales In The Shade Rhostio, Cardiff. 8pm, free. Info
facebook.com/rhostiocoffee. Promoted by Culture CF24. Tears For Fears + Alison Moyet Cardiff Castle. 6pm, £74. Info 029 2087 8100. Pop sophisticates, visiting as part of a world tour.
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Rudry Parish Hall, near Caerphilly, Fri 8 + Sat 9 July Tickets: £49 adults/£25 13-17-year- olds/ £10 4-12-year-olds/under-4s FREE. Info:
facebook.com/otbtfest
A mildly rebranded (in that they’re still sort of using the old name) and slightly expanded version of Rudry Music Fest, which debuted in 2016 and is set in the grounds of a Caerphilly-region village hall. Off The Beaten Track runs from teatime on its opening day – get there early for Gwenifer Raymond [pictured], whose instrumental folk guitar is an outlier on the lineup – and from midday on the Saturday. Uptempo Cornish folk-circuit festival faves 3 Daft Monkeys top the bill, just above hard-touring acoustic rocker Gaz Brookfield, while locally-sourced names include Matthew Frederick, Blind River Scare and Patrick Jones.
Drill Hall, Chepstow. 7.30pm, £23.50. Info 01291 627122. Tribute show. The Soul Miners Earl Haig Memorial Club. 7pm, £12. Info 029 2062
6015.Soul covers.
Ultimate Floyd Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 8pm, £18. Info 01656 815995. Pink Floyd tribute band. Rescheduled from June 2021.
SUNDAY 24 JULY
Côr Glanaethwy: Gwyn A’i Fyd Pontio, Bangor. 7.30pm, £12. Info 01248 382828. Choral performance featuring the poetry of Gwyn Thomas. Crack Cloud Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff. 7pm, £11. Info 029 2023 2199. Experimental-ish rock from Vancouver. Could be good.
Kumar Chopra / James Saldivar Rhostio, Cardiff. 2-4.30pm, free. Info
facebook.com/rhostiocoffee. Jazz. Mid Wales Opera: Gregynog Garden Concert Gregynog, near Newtown. 5-8pm, £16. Info 01686 614555. Pianist Charlotte Forrest leads a host of young MWO singers. Presented by Theatr Hafren. Musicfest 22: Evening Concert Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £18. Info 01970 623232. Featuring Guy Johnston (cello), Karen Jones (flute) and Edward Leung (piano).
Musicfest 22: Lunchtime Recital Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 1-3pm, 38. Info 01970 623232. With saxophonist Kyle Horch and pianist Anya Fadina. Sleep Outside + Gergo + Save Our Ships + Shortfall + Strange Company Bunkhouse, Swansea. 6pm, £10. Info 07716 767651. Presented by High Tide. Your Song Acapela, Cardiff. 8pm, £17. Info 029 2089 0862. Elton John tribute.
MONDAY 25 JULY
Musicfest 22: Evening Concert Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, 318. Info 01970 623232. Featuring the Solem Quartet with Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Musicfest 22: Lunchtime Recital Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 1pm, £8. Info 01970 623232. With Anthony Friend (clarinet) and Edward Leung (piano). World Of Harps St David’s Hall. 7.30pm, £5-£38. Info 029 2087 8444. World Harp Congress event featuring Calan, Maya Youssef, Sura Susso, Leonard Jacome, Hiroko Sue and Rachel Newton.
TUESDAY 26 JULY
Capital City Jazz Orchestra Whiteheads Sports & Social Club, Newport. 8pm, £10. Info 01633 893227. A South Wales Big Band Society night. Musicfest 22: Evening Concert Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £18. Info 01970 623232. Billed as being in memory of Peter Kingswood, this features the Sacconi Quartet with Stephen Upshaw (viola).
Country Stormz Bunkhouse, Swansea. 6pm, £10. Info 07716 767651. Country- rock tribute band.
Ethyrfield + Smiling Tigers + N.A.S.H The Dragonffli, Pontypool. 7pm, free. Info 01495 758597. Rock bands. Headliners are on a neo-prog tip I think. Fat Freddy’s Drop + David Rodigan & Lord Echo Motorpoint Arena Cardiff. 6.30pm, £26.50. Info 029 2022 4488. Kiwi
The Bundred Hundred The Met, Abertillery. 7.30pm, £8. Info 01495 355945. Featuring Abertillery Orpheus Male Choir, Abertillery Ladies Orpheus Choir and conductor Steve Bard. The Dead South Tramshed, Cardiff. 7pm, £22.50. Info 029 2023 5555. Canadian ho-hey mandolin types. “The album is a perfect fit to the genres Folk, Neo-Folk and Bluegrass-Folk or even alternative Country with refreshing tunes to it.” Confident that whoever wrote that is not familiar with the actual music subgenre neofolk. Rescheduled from June 2021.
The Incredible Shoe Shine Shuffle The Cellar, Cardigan. 7.30pm, £8. Info 07818 056599. Rock, blues etc veterans from Aberystwyth.
The Popguns + Give Me Memphis Lande Hekt Le Public Space, Newport. 7.30pm, £9. Info 01633 221477. Headliners are a reformed indie band from the early 90s.
The Simon & Garfunkel Story The
Musicfest 22: Lunchtime Recital Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 1pm, £8. Info 01970 623232. Piano duets by Libby Burgess and Anya Fadina. The Living Harp St David’s Hall, cardiff. 7.30pm, £5-£38. Info 029 2087 8444. World Harp Congress event featuring double concerto performances from Mercedes Gomez & Lucrecia Jancsa and Catriona Mckay & Chris Stout, and solo concerto performances from Emily Mitchell, Liucile Vilimaite, Gabriella Dall’Olio and Anne- Sophie Bertrand. Tickets: £5-£38.
WEDNESDAY 27 JULY
Musicfest 22: Evening Concert Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 8pm, £18. Info 01970 623232. Featuring the Sacconi Quartet with David Campbell (clarinet) and Guy Johnston (cello).
Musicfest 22: Lunchtime Recital Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 1pm, £8. info 01970 623232. With a programme TBC. Toploader + Sarah Brown + Dai Faulkner & David Williams Romilly Park, Barry. 4.30-10pm, £10. Info
mackevents.co.uk. Described as a “VIP welcome event” ahead of tribute band fest Glastonbarry, which takes place here on Sat 30 and Sun 31 July.
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