listings Low Steppa
Platform 11, Pontypridd, Sat 13 Nov. Tickets: £21. Info:
facebook.com/platform11pontypridd
Big booking for Platform 11, comfortably the top destination in RCT for house and techno bods with admittedly few challengers, as they mark five years since opening. Low Steppa – Birmingham DJ, producer and label boss Will Bailey – is hot to trot if you like brash-yet-flamboyant upfront house bangers, with his moniker featuring regularly on Defected clubnight posters for example
* – recommended u – repeated
Rescheduled from August. THE MOON
Womanby Street, Cardiff. 029 2037 3022 /
info@themooncardiff.com
Sat 13 Nov Faith: Vibes & Bubble 5-11.45pm, £5. Hip-hop, soul and r’n’b with sets from Lemfreck, Mace The Great, Shantz, Solo Jane, Traxx, Luke RV, Reuel Elijah, Sonny Double 1, The Honest Poet, Eadyth and more.
MOTORPOINT ARENA CARDIFF
Mary Ann Street, Cardiff. 029 2023 4500 /
www.motorpointarenacardiff.
co.uk
Thurs 4 Nov Fatboy Slim 6.30pm, £44.60. The blurb for this makes it sound like a DJ set as opposed to a live one; obvi- ously it won’t be a ‘club night’ as such but I am classifying it as such. Indeed it was previewed in October’s Clubs section.
PATTI PAVILION
Mumbles Road, Swansea. 07703 354418 /
facebook.com/pattiswansea
Sat 6 Nov Martin Kemp: Back to The 80s 8pm-12am, £20.00. Spandau Ballet man plays some songs.
PENARTH EX-SERVICEMEN’S CLUB
69 Windsor Road, Penarth. 029 2070 7530 /
www.penarthexservicemens-
club.co.uk
Sat 13 Nov Penarth Soul Club 7.30pm, £4. Liam Curtin, Shelley Barrett, Simon Rhys-Phillips and Jason Ude spin soul, Motown etc.
PLATFORM 11
11 High Street, Pontypridd. facebook. com/platform11pontypridd
Fridays 9pm-4am. Chart hits, club anthems, house techno and requests from resident DJ Puff, every Friday. Free entry before midnight.
Saturdays Residents Night 8pm-4am. Featuring sets by Dave Eaves, Nathan Jenkins, Dan Howells, Puff and special guests, every Saturday. Sat 13 Nov Low Steppa 6pm-4am, £21. Fifth birthday event for this Ponty club, headlined by Beatport house chugger Low Steppa.
dance festival.
Fri 19 Nov Dazed: Whiney 11pm-4am, £10/ Drum’n’bass headlined by Hospital Records DJ Whiney and also featuring Duskee, Cauzer, Double A Side and more. Fri 26 Nov Ultimate Power 11pm-4am, £6. Power ballad and air guitar-themed club night.
CREATURE SOUND
1 Bethesda Street, Swansea. 07432 061956 /
facebook.com/creature- sound
Sat 20 Nov Old Skool United rave Night 8pm-2am, £5. Featuring sets from, in order, Barry Green, Coxy, Jamo, Inijungle, Booboo and Kelvin, with MCs Saxon, MC2 and Jamie.
FAT CAT
161 High Street, Bangor. 01248 370445 /
facebook.com/fatcatcafebar
Fri 5 Nov Sasha Pre Party 6-10pm, free. Featuring sets from Ramji & Gavin Hogan (Strictly Underground), Ads Lehane & Tom Heyes (Tecnoir), Andrew Ballantine & Louis Hughes, Tom Lids & Kin and Granty. Not sure if you need a ticket for Sasha in Academi to attend this too.
FRONTAL LOBE WAREHOUSE
Unit G, St Catherines Park, Cardiff.
otis@flevents.co.uk / www.flware-
house.co.uk
Fri 19 Nov Twisted Roots 10pm-4am, 60
£6-£18. Drum’n’bass from Skeptical, Fixate, SP:MC, Cauzer b2b Jammez, Riddim Records and residents. See Clubs.
HUSH
19 Bridge Street, Newport. 07949 592769 /
facebook.com/hushnewport
Sat 27 Nov DoBuddy Presents iBeatz 8pm-3am, £15. House from Tommy Vercetti, Lucas Alexander, Kreature, Paige Tomlinson, L.O.R.D.I.E b2b Chad Price and Joey Rich.
JACOB’S ANTIQUES
West Canal Wharf, Cardiff. www.
jacobsmarket.co.uk
Fri 26 Nov Fam Jam: Truly Madly 10pm-4am, £14. Cardiff club promoters Fam Jam with their debut night, headlined by respected eclectic house DJ Truly Madly and also featuring Lewy, Murder, Aled Wynne and Alex Taylor. See Clubs. Sat 27 Nov Teak: Genesis 9pm-4am, £10. Headliner for this one is Purple Taiko, who does some sort of live AV DJ set with a wall of monitors. Esther, David J Bull, Seka and James Teak also feature.
JAC’S
Bryngolwg House, Wind Street, Aberdare. 01685 882198 / www.
jacsaberdare.co.uk
Fri 5 Nov Bez 7-11pm, £11. A DJ set from Bez out of the Happy Mondays, famous for being a DJ of course.
PATTI PAVILION
Mumbles Road, Swansea. 07703 354418 /
facebook.com/pattiswansea
Sat 6 Nov Martin Kemp: Back to The 80s 8pm-12am, £20.00. Spandau Ballet man plays some songs.
PRYZM
Greyfriars Road, Cardiff. 029 2023 3854 /
www.pryzm.co.uk/cardiff
Sat 13 Nov Lyfecode: Sigalaland 10pm-3am, £8.50. The Cardiff leg of a UK tour for Sigala and Navos.
Fri 19 Nov Fix Fridays: Nathan Dawe 10pm-3am, £6. Mersh dance DJ who I think has played here a few times. Fri 26 Nov Fix Fridays: French The Kid 10pm-3am, £6. The special guest on this bill is some sort of rap artist from Essex. Good job choosing a name that makes people (me) hesitant to Google it, even when using the same work-issue PC used to input this listing.
TRAMSHED
Clare Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. 029 2023 5555 /
www.tramshedcardiff. com
Fri 5 Nov Roni Size x LTJ Bukem 11pm, £9.50. Two drum’n’bass OGs on one bill, with Dynamite MC and Aperture DJs. Mon 22 Nov Grandmaster Flash 7pm, £26. Hip-hop progenitor.
THE VAULTS / PORTLAND HOUSE
The Old Natwest Bank, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. www.
vaultspresents.com
Fri 26 Nov Chris Liebing 10pm-5am, £15. Big techno bosher guy. Played here before in 2018, then was booked for 2020 which ended up being this show. Sat 27 Nov Jungle Cakes 10pm-5am, £10. Bass music, breaks, drum’n’bass and jungle from Deekline, Ed Solo, Serial Killaz, Benny Page, Buckfast Boys Club and Canopy Soundsystem. Sat 4 Dec Journey 2-10pm, £10. Trance from Mark Sherry, Daniel Skyver, Tasso, Hywel Matthews, Richie Knight and Joe Byrne in room 1; room 2 is TBC.
events TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER
Sir David Hare Art Shop & Chapel, Abergavenny. 7pm, £10. Info 01873 736430. Noted playwright and filmmaker, appearing as part of the Conversations At The Chapel series.
SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER
John Lydon The Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen. 7pm, £30. Info 0345 2263510. Spoken word show, titled I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right, from Sex Pistols frontman turned [your choice of thing John Lydon turned into here]. VIP seat options for £40 available. In Porthcawl, Mon 8 Nov.
MONDAY 8 NOVEMBER
John Lydon Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. 7.30pm, £30. Info 01656 815995. VIP seat options for £40 and £75 available.
TUESDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Cardiff Left Bookclub Bub’s, Cardiff. 7pm, free. Info
facebook.com/cardiffleft- bookclub. A talk about Shon Faye’s new book The Transgender Issue, over some drinks in this bar.
WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER
Alice Roberts St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £30. Info 029 2087 8444. TV historian plugging her new book Ancestors, which you can can get a signed copy of for £15 extra on your ticket. Sir Ranulph Fiennes Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. 7.30pm, £20. Info 029 2063 6464. Spoken word show titled Living Dangerously.
SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Swansea Prosecco Festival Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. 12.30-5pm, £11.50. Info 01792 635432. uWrexham Tattoo Show Glyndwr Sports Centre, Wrexham. 6pm, £10. Info
facebook.com/wrexhamtattooshow. Two days of tats and related cultural ephemera (on tomorrow also). Tickets are £10 per day or £20 for both days; under-16s are free entry but have to be with an adult.
MONDAY 15 NOVEMBER
Tim Peake St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.30pm, £28. Info 029 2087 8444 Spoken word show titled My Journey To Space, reasonably enough considering Tim did do that and probably won’t lamp you if you say to his face it never happened, like Buzz Aldrin did. In Swansea tomorrow.
TUESDAY 16 NOVEMBER
Jamie Roberts Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7pm, £25. Info 01600 775572. Rugby icon of Wales speaks and sells his book. Price is £25 for a ticket with a book, or £30 for two tickets and one book. Tim Peake Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.
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