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Gigs In October
Postiwyd gan Sam (Sub-Editor) o Caerdydd - Cyhoeddwyd ar 29/09/2009 am 00:00
It’s been all quite on the Gigs In… front recently but now that summer is fading and setting up camp in a field looks more and more perilous and frost-bite-filled, gigs have started heading back to the city and back indoors.
That’s not to say that the festivals disappear with the summer sun, quite the opposite, with two biggies happening in Cardiff this October. I am of course talking about Swn Festival 2009 and Oxjam Cardiff.
Combine that with the Student Union coming back strong, the imminent reopening of the Coal Exchange, the launch of the Millennium Music Hall and the news that The Globe’s closure has been misreported (there have been complaints, they are soundproofing and they have a date to do it by) and October starts to look like a pretty good month for gigs.
So to begin at the beginning…..
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Joining Dizzee Rascal and Lethal Bizzle in great grime breakout 2009, Tinchy Stryder has had a ruddy good year so far what with a number one single, a number two album and graduating from the University Of East London.
Joining Tinchy Stryder on this tour is Chipmunk.
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Who? - He was the bassist in The Rapture.
Can he mix? I have no idea.
What kind of stuff will he play? – Err…stuff that sounds like The Rapture?
You’re not selling this to me – It’s three quid.
Oh right.
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A 14+ launch party for an 18+ event, a bit cruel if you ask me. My Gambino - performing an Oxtail of pop/rock/punk covers, members of Shaped By Fate and Death of Her Money covering Queens Of The Stone Age, Forkicks - Newport band, with a 70s punk feel and Inconsiderate Parking.
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The saviour of dance music or a tool in a mouse costume? Slap down £15 and find out.
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The Slits – 9th Oct @ Clwb – 7.30pm - £12
If you don’t know who The Slits are, do yourself a favour and buy their seminal Cut album and then get yourself a ticket for this gig.
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Oxjam Cardiff Takeover – 11th Oct @ Womanby Street – 2pm - £8adv
Taking over five venues on Womanby Street (Clwb Ifor Bach, Toucan, Y Fuwch Goch, Dempseys and Revolution) Oxjam Cardiff draft in the cream of the local scene to fight climate change through the medium of partying.
Check out the full line-up in the events calendar.
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Bat For Lashes – 16th Oct @ Great Hall – 7pm - £17
Mercury nominated professional kook-rocker, liked mainly by alt-girls and Mojo readers.
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Swn Fest 2009 – 22nd – 24th Oct @ Various Venues - £45
Cardiff’s very own inner-city-up-and-coming-dashing-back-and-forth festival Swn Fest is back for a third turn.
Cracking bands, cracking venues, cracking value. Click here for line-up
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Tinariwen – 24th Oct @ Solus – 7pm - £18
World music…but in a good way. Well a fashionable way.
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Annie Mac Presents…DJ Mehdi - 24th Oct @ Millennium Music Hall – 10pm - £12
Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac, the grand dame of Friday nights, brings her "Annie Mac Presents..." tour to Cardiff and along for the rid is DJ Mehdi. A stalwart of the Ed Banger crew out of Paris, who are responsible for pushing the "Maximal" sound of electro to the fore of dance music.
Think Justice, Mr Oizo, Daft Punk and you're there.
Also on the bill is the up-and-coming house duo Jack Beats and a DJ set from San Francisco.
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Chase & Status – 25th Oct @ Solus – 7pm - £12
Saul Milton and Will Kennard cover the spectrum of bass-filled dance music. Expect dubstep, drum and bass, jungle, grime and general bass pressure.
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Biffy Clyro – 25th Oct @ Great Hall – 7pm - £16.50
Busy night at the union as Biffy Clyro take the big room and Chase & Status take the smaller one. The mysteriously-named Scot-rockers have taken the long road to mainstream success. Here’s hoping they take a short one back to obscurity.
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YOU KNOW THE SCORE.
2 Comments – Postiwch sylw
rob inconsiderate parker
Rhoddwyd sylw 32 mis yn ôl - 3rd October 2009 - 21:54pm
we are not a covers band lol, and when we do play covers for busking we dont ever play labamba.
Sam (Sub-Editor)
Rhoddwyd sylw 32 mis yn ôl - 4th October 2009 - 12:15pm
Sorry, just grabbed what was on the Barfly/Oxjam sites to fill the article out.