Pretty Shitty City

No Obligation + Guests,
Milkwood Jam, Swansea, June 21st 2008

After supporting awarding winning songwriter Lucie Diamond in February, No Obligation, a four piece female fronted rock band from South Wales, return to music venue ‘Milkwood Jam‘, Plymouth Street, Swansea, Saturday 21st June 2008.

The night kicks off around 8pm, Entry £3 on the door.
Supporting acts include Aggi Thomas, White Dice and Human Breed.

The band have also been confirmed as headliners on the alternative stage at Pontardawe international music festival, which sees its 30th anniversary this year.

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A little late on this one, but by all accounts the gig was great and these photos are definitely worth showing.

Photos by Swansea photographer Tyron Francis of Black Lips playing at Sin City, 2nd May .

Early next month, Ice Cream Social* will be throwing an after party for The Courteeners gig at Sin City.

This means that if you’ve got a ticket for the gig, you get free entry to Ice Cream Social* afterwards, otherwise its £3 as usual to get your monthly fix of indie, electronic and alternative music.

Ice Cream Social*, as always, takes place at Sin City one Saturday a month. This time it’s on Saturday 2nd February, doors are 11pm - 3.30am

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11755161419

Tickets for The Courteeners gig;
http://www.derricksmusic.co.uk/
or http://www.swanseatickets.com/ (No booking fee)

PRK returns with a christmas special.

This event sees Eye of the Storm reform to play the tunes as you sing your favourite punk and classic rock tunes.

It all takes place at The Monkey Cafe on Thursday 27th December, entry is £3 and includes free beer.

http://www.myspace.com/swanseaprk

Its time for Volume 2 of Punk Rock Karaoke the new night where a local Punk band plays classic tracks and you sing!

This month, The Symptoms are your backing band and it takes place Thursday December 6th @ Monkey Cafe from 8pm.

http://www.myspace.com/swanseaprk

Club NME presents: The Crystal Castles at Face/Off this Friday 30th November.

This is one of the most exciting bands that have come to Sin Sity as part of the Club NME presents series, and their chiptune-electro-thrash sounds like Nintendo on acid. (Needless to say; I will be down the front and possibly dressed-up as Luigi).

http://www.myspace.com/crystalcastles

RSVP on the Facebook event page

P.S. Its nice to see the band are supporting Ice Cream Social* with their promo headwear.

Swansea’s annual underground & politically charged film festival is just around the corner.

With a program of events including short movies, radical documentaries, music videos and animation, the festival hosted by Undercurrents reveals truly underground and challenging films that shouldn’t be missed.

“Friday 30th November @ Monkey Cafe
Undercurrents Beyond TV Festival kicks off in style with a party at Monkey to celebrate the launch of their new surf flick On the Push.
Featuring music from;
The Savage Jazz http://www.thesavagejazz.com/
and Kali Mist http://profile.myspace.com/kalimist05

Saturday and Sunday 1st and 2nd December
Follow it up with radical, thought-provoking, funny, shocking indy films at the Taliesin.

Check out the Website for a full program of events: http://www.beyondtvfestival.info/.

Whoops, nearly forgot to plug this.

Its Ice Cream Social* #2 this Saturday at Sin City. We’ve got live music from Pipeworks & The Afterglow, and DJs Chairman Wow!, LGE & me (Benjy).

The £3 entry gets you entry to Sin City’s alt 80s night: Spandex Ballet too, but we’ve got animations and sweets to tempt the kids upstairs.

It all kicks off at 11pm so please arrive early to catch the bands!

http://www.icecreamsocial.co.uk/

Local photographer Ceri Davies has some great shots of Brant Bjork & The Bros, who played at Sin City last week as part of the Dylan Thomas Fringe Festival.

You can see the whole set of photos online here.

The first of Mambo’s new open deck night starts Tuesday November 13th.

If you’d like to catch local DJs playing an hour of their favourite drum n bass, hip-hop, breaks, breakbeat, hardcore, house, minimal, hardcore breaks, grime, dubstep or hardstyle then head down to Mambo.

http://www.myspace.com/mamboswansea