Get your Gigs in The Guardian: A Guide
Some information for any promoters out there, if you’d like to get your events into publications like Metro, The Guardian and The Independent, please have a look at the guidelines and contact info below.
Love Music Hate Racism: How I Became The Bomb @ Sin City
How I Became The Bomb are playing at Face/Off this Friday as part of the NME / Love Music Hate Racism tour.
Some official word about the night;
“Reacting against the BNP’s active recruitment campaigning in schools using white power music, NME teamed up with LMHR to put together an album. The 29 tracks represent the unprecedented support of artists, labels and publishers who have given their time, and work for free.
The Groundnuts & Independents @ Exist
The Groundnuts & Independents are performing live at the exist.outlet this friday from 7pm - 9.30pm. The event also includes a new photographic exhibition from Natalie Hemingway-Main.
Punk Rock Karaoke @ Monkey Cafe
Punk Rock Karaoke is coming to Monkey Cafe on Thursday November 8th!
Featuring members of Dead Rails and The Arteries playing all the best punk rock tunes and more, except YOU sing.
The event starts at 8pm and costs £3, checkout the PRK Swansea MySpace for tracklistings and to request songs.
Dylan Thomas Fringe Festival
The Swansea fringe festival is back with a new name, and a range of alternative events including music, comedy, art & film; all happening across venues in Swansea from the 26th of October until the 9th of November.
Potential highlights include; experimental jazz from Led Bib at S.I.H.E Townhill campus on the 26th of October; local indie pop from Everyone Else But Bert at Monkey Cafe on the 29th; and multidisciplinary artist collective, Framework, help launch the new Elysium Gallery on the 2nd of November.
Check out the full lineup on the official website http://www.dylanthomasfringe.com/.
Welsh Gigs
Pretty Shitty City certainly tries to keep it’s events calendar up to date, but its a tough old game. For a bigger, user-powered guide that specialises in gigs from accross Wales, why not check out Welsh Gigs?
If you’re a promoter or a band, you can log in to add events yourself, or if you’re a music lover you can browse the gigs and check out the ‘form a band’ section. You can even suggest a music related news item for inclusion on the homepage.
Club NME comes to Sin City Swansea
Face/Off has joined forces with Club NME, bringing touring bands to Swansea every Friday night. The launch is tonight (Friday 28th September) with Cardiff’s Future of the Left, featuring ex-members of Jarcrew and Mclusky.
Other bookings includes Soho Dolls (5th Oct), Six Nation State (12th Oct) and The Delta Fiasco (19th Oct).
Check out the brand new Sin City website for more info.
Ice Cream Social* Launch Night
The Ice Cream Social* launch night is nearly upon us; with live music from Poq and Tony Tapwater, DJ sets from Outsider (electropunk), LGE & TwoHeadedBoy, plus short films, animations, sweets. Pretty Shitty City expects you all there with bells on. 
Heres an example playlist so you can get a feel for the style of music on offer;
Hot Chip, The Gossip, Bloc Party, CSS, The Clash, MIA, Pixies, Arctic Monkeys, Maxïmo Park, LCD Soundsystem, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Animal Collective, The Go! Team, Ian Brown, Interpol, The Postal Service, Daft Punk, Sage Francis, The Libertines, Aphex Twin, New Yong Pony Club, The Knife etc.
So if you like that kind of music, pop down to Ice Cream Social* on Saturday 13th October, entry is £3 and its all happening upstairs at Sin City.
Kanye West to play Sin City?
According to the Derricks Music website; Kanye West will be playing Sin City in Swansea on the 27th November.
This would surely be the biggest act that the club has booked so far, and probably the biggest act to play Swansea since the Stereophonics went shit. 
Lets hope it gets officially announced soon.
Boo! Looks like it was just a typo. 
Review: Bloodhound Gang @ Sin City
The Bloodhound Gang came to Swansea last Sunday; headlining a weekend of bands and music put together by Sin City as an alternative to the short notice cancellation of Fflam.
I arrived a little late and missed the first support act Kiddo 360, but its okay I’ve seen them before… Next up were the Illegal Amigoz, the Swansea / Llanelli based pop punkers were tight and full of pop-hooks, ska beats and sing-along choruses with a whiff of nu-metal. Vocalist Alex is a strong frontman and their combined experience shows, despite them being relatively young.
An enthusiastic crowd gathered, waiting for the Bloodhound Gang, hungry for music and entertainment in the form of dumb white rap. A Jägermeister machine sat waiting for abuse on the side of the stage. When they arrived on stage, the screen at the back read ‘Good Evening, Pretty Shitty City’ and I can only assume that they were referring to this site.
For a few songs, I tried to keep my amateur-journalistic cool and stand appreciatively at the back, but this got boring very quickly so we pushed forward and ended up at the deepest, darkest, sweatiest bit of any gig; the moshpit. The gang’s unique style of comedy-punk-techno-rap went down well and between songs the crowd’s screams were ringing in my ears.
You can’t really judge the Bloodhound Gang on serious musical merit, but they are certainly masters at referencing and executing low-brow popular culture. Between songs they kept us all entertained with anecdotes and jokes. Jared, the bassist who is prone to getting naked, spoke of beautiful Welsh girls, and even though he thought that Charlotte Church had put on more weight than the entire band put together, he’d still like to “take a shit on her tits”.
I left feeling sweaty and happy. Roll on more gigs at Sin City.
