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This Big Weekend
Posted by Editor from Cardiff - Published on 30/07/2009 at 13:30
- Tagged as Festivals, Music
Irish rockabilly and blues singer Imelda May (pictured) will headline this Saturday at the Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend.
Her appearance on the big stage on City Hall lawn also features The Zutons, The Lightning Seeds, and a Welsh bands' night led by Kids In Glass Houses.
She headlines Saturday night at the Big Weekend after Third World were unable to appear. Saturday also features the Cardiff MAS Carnival, and there is a fantastic line-up of live music plus all the fun of the fair across the weekend.
Councillor Nigel Howells, Executive Member for Sport, Leisure And Culture said: “Thanks to the generous support of Admiral, who have been our title sponsor for the past six years, we have another great line-up for Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend, with fantastic live music, our very own Caribbean carnival and the ever-popular funfair again packing the streets to celebrate summer in the city.”
Nic Weng Kan, Head of UK Operations in Admiral Group said: "With an impressive line up of acts across many musical genres and the biggest traveling fairground in the UK, this year’s event promises to be one of the biggest Big Weekends ever! As always it has something for people of all ages and we're delighted to be sponsoring it for a sixth consecutive year.? It’s definitely the highlight of the summer for Admiral’s employees!"
Kids In Glass Houses, a support act for the Manics and Lostprophets in the past, head up the Friday night programme, which promotes up and coming Welsh talent in a bill that also features Save Your Breath, The Joy Formidable, and Attack! Attack!
Liverpool favourites, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award nominated The Zutons bring the weekend to a close on the Sunday night.
They are joined on Sunday’s programme by The Leisure Society who were big news recently when they were in the running for a prestigious Ivor Novello Best Song award for their folk ballad The Last of The Melting Snow, the first unsigned band to be recognized in this way.
The SWICA (South Wales Intercultural Community Arts) 20th Cardiff MAS Carnival on Saturday 1 August is themed Here Be Dragons to mark the50th Anniversary of the official adoption of the red dragon onto our national flag.?
The annual procession will dance its way from Cardiff Bay via St Mary's Street, which will be turned into a riot of colour for Wale's first ever Carnival Street Jam, and onto the lawn of City Hall for revellers to enjoy the rest of the day’s big stage line-up.?
And of course Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend would not be complete without the white knuckle rides and traditional family attractions of the UK’s largest travelling funfair all weekend around the avenues of the Civic Centre.
The full Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend line-up is:
FRI 31 JULY?
9.20 - 10.20pm Kids In Glass Houses
8.30 - 9.00pm Attack! Attack!
7.45 - 8.15pm The Joy Formidable
7.00 - 7.30pm Save Your Breath
SAT 1 AUG?
9.30 - 10.30pm Imelda May
8.00-9.00pm Edward II
6.30-7.30pm Orquesta Cache
5.10-6.00pm Melopark
4.10-4.50pm Chancery Blame & The Gadgo Club
3.05-3.50pm Peatbog Faeries
2.00-2.45pm Soukous Koumbele
2.00pm MAS Carnival arrives at Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend?
11.30am MAS Carnival departs Cardiff Bay
SUN 2 AUG
9.30 - 10.30pm The Zutons
8.10 - 9.10pm The Lightning Seeds
7.00 - 7.50pm Camera Obscura
6.00 - 6.40pm Ebony Bones!
4.50 - 5.40pm The Leisure Society
3.40 - 4.30pm Absent Elk
2.40 - 3.20pm Steve Appleton
Due to licensing laws, no alcohol, bottles or cans are allowed to be brought onto the site of Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend.
