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Alltimetop100 feat. Julian Castaldi
Julian Castaldi (Photographer). Julian started snapping in Los Angeles in the early nineties, which is his excuse for some dodgy glam rock tunes that are likely to appear in his top 100. Julian has shot the good the bad and ugly in the music world including, Oasis, Tom Jones, Iggy Pop, Lemmy and many more. His passion is travel photography and his images were described in a 1995 magazine article as “postcards from Jack Kerouac when he was On the Road”, Julian currently has a touring exhibition of photography showing in Habitat stores across the UK.
Chrome Kids 2nd Birthday Party: Get Crunked Up.
Chrome Kids celebrate 2 years since our initial arrival as the ‘digitally mutated bastard offspring of Hip-hop’. Since the blog started in August 2008 to chart the rise of ‘post Hip-hop’ electronic music such as Glitch hop, Aqua Crunk and Future Blap it has grown into a DJ crew consisting of Welsh Dubstep supremos Monky and Stagga alongside myself (Kaptin). It’s been a great couple of years and we’ve recorded mixes for BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra amongst others, had our Elbow bootleg championed by Rob Da Bank and Colin Murray and rocked the Glastonbury Festival two years in a row with a sound which, like the blog, has grown to incorporate the ever blurring boundaries of Dubstep, UK Funky, Grime and Future Garage.
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MMP presents The Janice Graham band
When we are scouting bands for these frankly tremendous, if we do say so ourselves, monthly nights in Cardiff Arts Institute, we open our hearts to all ages, all genres and all eccentricities. The one thing we ask of our bands is to provide you all a rollicking good time at whatever personal cost. Henrys Funeral Shoe, We//Are//Animal. Django Django. All bloody magnificent.
Alltimetop100 feat. Jumbo Cruiser aka Fergal McBride (The Sweet Spots)
Jumbo cruiser aka Fergal Mcbride was reared in the backseat of his mothers car listening to Patsy Cline and Connie Francis until he got his first walkman and a copy of War of the Worlds. In his early teens, he wasted away the days on knackered couches while his ears bled to the sounds of his various mates garage bands.After developing a fine dose of tinnitus during such endeavours he decided to take a more active role in damaging his hearing and started playing (and occasionally singing badly) in bands himself, slowly progressing through metal covers and punk, indie and rock, a little bit of live hip hop, and drum ‘n’ bass, a touch of funk . He started djing around cardiff clubs and pubs a mere 2 years ago and now, along with Joe Lockwood (aka local MC Smithy Blade), he is one half of the creative duo behind Cardiffs newest soul band The Sweet Spots and plays bass for cardiff art rockers The Aviary.
Expect a generous mix of raw sweaty soul, dancefloor friendly indie/rock and plenty of the sort of tunes that you blast out of your speakers while downing drinks and getting pumped up for some altogether tidy weekend wickedness. He may even start with a few slow ones…
Alltimetop100 feat. Owen Griffiths (The Witches Drum/Canton Space Project)
Owen began the Canton Space Project – holding late night jam/acoustic sessions and breakbeat nights at Tafod. During 2009, CSP ran the weekly Flip Your Wig night at the Toucan club, while also working with label/collective UK Roots Movement to promote roots music in Cardiff and the South West – staging shows by the Whistling Biscuits, Wille and the Bandits, Hip Route and more. 2010 saw the CSP Micro-festival at Gwdihw, and also Owen picking up his bass again to form acid drenched barbarian groove rockers, The Witches Drum…His ATT100 will include blasts of psych rock, some heavy weight dub, lush electronica, a dab of old skool hip hop, afrobeat, plenty of 90′s indie stuff, classic funk and soul, and if he’s in a ‘challenging’ mood, the entire 54 minutes of Sleep’s drone rock epic Jerusalem.
Designer Violence Aftershow!
For all the art and illustration fans out there this is not to be missed! Some of the best Illustrators in the country drawing live in the Milgi warehouse on August 14th!A live Art experience will unfold before your very eyes by some of the UK’s most celebrated illustration artists.
John Evans Film Screening
C.U.M. On Fire
This summer has been extra prolific it seems for Cardiff’s burgeoning Electronic music scene. Some top quality releases and a real high quality standard that has many people looking at the scene here as one to watch. Of course it doesn’t always feel like that when you’re here so as with all CUM nights we really celebrate what amazing talent we’ve got in this city.
Celtic Learners Network Summer Courses
Cardiff Arts Institute bids a warm welcomes to The Celtic Learners Network as they lauch a series of Humanities courses from the venue throughout August.
Life Drawing Sessions
Life drawing is something that we dont often get the chance to undertake. Cardiff Arts Institute and Cardiff Life Model Collective can change that!
Alltimetop100 feat. Dafydd Griffiths (Dizzyjam.com/JuJu Nations)
Dafydd is an enigma, a raconteur, a gentleman, and of course bone-crushingly handsome, He also wrote this biography. Outside of third person narcissism, he’s also chosen his top 100 songs. Likely to include secret belters picked up during his time behind the counter at Spillers, or from DJing at nights such as Emerge, Batucada Basics and JUJU Nations all over Cardiff and further afield (Swansea, 2004, once) but mostly they’ll be bought because he liked the cover, and they were cheap in that record shop around the corner from Tesco’s. Dafydd now runs www.dizzyjam.com and won’t tell you what that is.
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No Sweat presents Bang Bang Eche
Bang Bang Eche were never going to let being from New Zealand’s South Island impede their success. So ‘No Sweat ‘ have only gone and collared these Kiwi sensations as they hit the UK on a string of summer shows and festivals on our fair isle.With a hunger for touring and a ferocious approach towards the live show these darlings will rock up and display their wares on WEDNESDAY 28th JULY.
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THEE VICARS
The festivals are all in full flow. Crazy parties in over-populated fields. Losing your tent amidst a sea of others. Meditating at a tree somewhere in Suffolk. But don’t let all of these far-flung moments of excitement distract you from the incredible things happening before your eyes here in Cardiff. Over the last two months we have brought together some genuinely shit-hot talent to enthrall and entertain. We’ve seen the psych-art-pop powers of Django Django give us a full-on lip-kiss, not to mention the immensely gifted electro-drone-rock of We//Are//Animal. However, we at MMP are simply unrelenting in our desire to make going to live music as exciting as possible, so this time we have invited down R ‘n’ B, garage spanglers Thee Vicars to step into our sauna of the scintillating.
As always, we are sourcing our bands from the ripened well of musical talent across the country. Widely acknowledged as one of the finest, most filthy sounding rock acts rising through the ranks, Thee Vicars may dress like respectable gentlemen but are capable of summoning enough live energy to power the Caribbean. Recent album Psychotic Beat saw NME claim that they were ‘approaching a revelation’ giving it 8/10 in the process. MOJO and The Guardian have also acknowledged their tight but lairy garage beats. The Miniature Music Press now invites you to opens your arms and hearts to their rip-snorting, tail-sporting, leg-contorting, shuffle-courting stomps.
Edinburgh Preview #2-’Love is Darkness, Baby!’
The Glass Trebuchet and PBH’s Free Fringe present:
“Love Is Darkness, Baby! (Get Used To It!)”
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010
Written and performed by Darren J. Coles, Scott Hadley, Susie Holden-White, Will Palmer, Luc Tudor and Glenn Wade.
Love Is Darkness, Baby! (Get Used To It!) is a story of sex, drugs, death and celluloid. Seasoned sketch performers The Glass Trebuchet are bringing to this year’s Fringe Festival a full-length comedy play about the fallout from an ill-fated cult film. The play takes the form of a question and answer session that quickly descends into a darkly comic game of whodunit. The production crew of ‘The Final Mistake’ are hiding a terrible secret – and they’re not hiding it very well. Gun-running in El Salvador, human slave trafficking, prescription drug abuse, racist sitcoms, widespread environmental destruction and sexual excess to the nth degree are just some of the crimes these men are guilty of. But it is the mysterious disappearance of the beautiful teenage actress Fleur Devilleneuve that they are most keen to hide.
“Cracking”, Andy Parsons, sketch performed Darren J. Coles, Will Palmer and Luc Tudor, 2010.
“Scott Hadley’s generally commendable additions to Marlowe’s text saddle the doctor with an additional complex [...] a bold attempt to question our understanding of the tale with fresh frames of reference”, The Scotsman, ‘The Tragical History and Glorious Demise of Doctor John Faustus’, adapted and directed by Scott Hadley, starring Luc Tudor and Glenn Wade, Edinburgh 2009.
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Swap til you drop
Recycle your wardrobe in a charity clothes swap to raise money for the Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales.
EDINBURGH COMEDY PREVIEW – TOM CRAINE
Choirboy To Addict & Back Again Aged nine, Tom Craine was a solo chorister in the classical charts, and touring Europe as the Head Choirboy of Bath Abbey Choir. A decade later he was failing university and addicted to marijuana. Drawing on his background in Developmental Psychology, this is a show about the importance of what makes you happy as a child, and of not forgetting it… *Top 50 Edinburgh picks 2009 (Edinburghisfunny.com). Creator of ‘The Sharp End’ (BBC Radio 2 sitcom), star of ‘Phil’s Ill’ comedy shorts on Dave, ‘Tom Craine show’ (BBC Radio Bristol), Songs Of Praise (head soloist, aged 9). Sell Out Edinburgh ’09 show Superclump (“Disgustingly talented” Guardian).
WAXJAM! Kaptin’s getting a birthday wax for Oxjam. Ouch.
Sponsor Kaptin at www.justgiving.com/waxjamcardiff
WAXJAM!
*No jam will be used in the staging of this event…
Join the Oxjam Cardiff team at Kaptin’s Birthday celebrations on Saturday 17th July for some hair raising entertainment!
For one night only, our lovely Kaptin (promoter/producer/DJ/party legend/general nice guy) has bravely agreed to be waxed to help raise funds for the Oxjam Cardiff team. Continue reading “WAXJAM! Kaptin’s getting a birthday wax for Oxjam. Ouch.”
The Bop is Back!! Rock N Roll Night
ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN
ARKADE – empty shop project this weekend 2-4 July
ARKADE Empty Shop - Front
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OFFICIAL LAUNCH- PIZZAMAN
“Come to the monumental launch of Cardiff’s First Internet Drama Series Tuesday 29th June, 8pm @ The Cardiff Arts Institute, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BA. Its the thing that will bring Cardiff into the new age. A series for all to interact with and enjoy – Taj a Welsh Asian Pizza delivery driver is in the worst two weeks of his life, not only does his girlfriend no longer want to go travelling with him but his crash with a Welsh Assembly Minister turns up some surprises along with him being black-mailed by a very dubious Pizzashop Boss. Each episode is named after an area of Cardiff so watch out for your street popping up not to mention your house or your neighbours, maybe you even know someone in it. Get involved with the future, get involved with WWW.PIZZAMAN.EU”
Love Handles
BLING!BLING!
