Pretty Shitty City

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

Ice Cream Social*

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*a new club night blending indie, electronic, new music, remixes & underground classics:

Justice, Bloc Party, The Rapture, New Young Pony Club, Maximo Park, M.I.A., Cornelius, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Super Furry Animals, CSS, !!! & more!

(+ admission includes access to Spandex Ballet - Sin City’s alternative 80s night)

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Sat 15th Dec @ Sin City

price: £3 (we’re on the top floor)
doors : 11-3.30
more details online : http://www.icecreamsocial.co.uk

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.

This Thursday, 29th November at midday, XFM will be launching their new South Wales based radio station. You can tune in on 106.8-107.3fm or online at http://www.newmusicrising.co.uk/.

Finally, us Swansea folk have a local(ish) alternative to The Wave!

Poq’s debit single ‘Red Admiral’ is available to download now from iTunes and almost all good online record shops.

You should buy this, not just because they’re from Swansea and they’re nice blokes, but because the songs are great and theres a cracking glitchy-electro remix by Lifting Gear Engineer too. The iTunes download costs £3.16, includes 4 tracks and, huzzah!, its DRM free.

Apparently a plastic version is on the way too, and theres a launch party in the big city (Cardiff) - check out Housefly Records for more info.

http://www.houseflyrecords.com/

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/

Cafe Artistique returns to Monkey on Monday for a “culmination of the current series of discussion events featuring artists working with music, club culture and live performance.”

Heres some more information from the promoters, Axis ;

7.30pm at Monkey Bar (upstairs), 13 Castle Street, Swansea

With Mikhail Karikis, an intrepid artist whose work spans experimental music, electronica, performance and installation.

Artist-in-residence for the evening will be video and performance artist David Marchant interacting with proceedings in his unique style.

This event is free and there is no need to book.

For more information:

http://www.axisweb.org/cafeartistiqueswansea

Check out the brand new Monkey Cafe website for venue details and other information.

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