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.
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/kalimist05Saturday 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!
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:
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.
With Welsh metal band Right Turn Blind impressing a guy from Roadrunner Records during their gig, it seems Bar,Co’s aim to bring alternative music and live bands to Wind Street is really paying off. With other similar bars popping up, it’s refreshing to see that there is a real appetite for bands in the city.
You can now catch metal, punk, indie & acoustic (amongst others) at Bar,Co which proves you don’t have to play dance music to pull in crowds, even on the weekend.
Check out Bar,Co’s MySpace for more info and gig listings:
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 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.
