Gigs in Cardiff

If there is one thing Cardiff is not short of, it's live music. There are venues of every size, from the local pub to the 60,000 gig capacity of the Millennium Stadium. Some small venues may often put on similar types of bands, others will play a wide range of genres. Also have a look at local promotors, the guys that put together most of the smaller gigs and other nights in Cardiff and Newport. Promotors have their own taste in music too, so you may find one who will always put on bands you like.

Like a band you've seen in Cardiff? Buy their music from cardifflife.net.

To buy tickets or to see other listings for the venues below, visit our venues page.
Tickets are also available online and from outlets such as Spillers.

Cardiff gigs 2011

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Want to find out more about a Welsh band? Visit the BBC site to see if their profile is there.

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2012

February

01 - Brigyn + Little Arrow + Ellie Makes Music - Ten Feet Tall
02 - La Dispute + Former Thieves + Goodtime Boys - Clwb Ifor Bach
02 - The Devil Wears Prada - Cardiff University
02 - Towns - 10 Feet Tall
03 - Run, Walk! + No Coast - Buffalo Bar
03 - Echolounge + The Peppermint Hunting Lodge - Clwb Ifor Bach
05 - Alesana - Cardiff University
05 - Reel Big Fish - Cardiff University
05 - Way Through + Peepholes + Gentle Friendly - 10 Feet Tall

06 - Matthias Tanzmann & Leif - Clwb Ifor Bach
07 - The Treatment + The Witches Drum + Buffalo Summer - Clwb Ifor Bach
08 - Terra Naomi + Paper Aeroplanes - Clwb Ifor Bach
08 - Thomas Truax - 10 Feet Tall
08 - Ox - Le Pub, Newport
09 - The Kabadees - 10 Feet Tall
10 - Rams Pocket Radio + Drawings For Paris - Buffalo Bar
11 - New Found Glory + Sum 41 + Letlive + While She Sleeps - Cardiff University
11 - Supergene - Buffalo Bar
11 - Plant Duw + Sen Segur + Blaidd - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - The Neat - Undertone

13 - Errors + Remember Remember + Tom Rogerson (Three Trapped Tigers) - Clwb Ifor Bach
14 - Attack! Attack! + Itchy Poopzkid + Reaper In Sicily - Clwb Ifor Bach
15 - Lights - Clwb Ifor Bach
16 - 14th - Buffalo Bar
16 - Two Bears + The Invisible + Face + Heel - Clwb Ifor Bach
16 - Hysterical Injury + On The Rocks - 10 Feet Tall
17 - Brand New + I Am The Avalanche - Cardiff University
18 - Gauntlet Hair - Buffalo Bar
18 - Llwybr Llaethog + Mr Phormula - Clwb Ifor Bach
19 - NME Awards Tour 2012: Two Door Cinema Club + Metronomy + Tribes + Azealia Banks - Cardiff University
19 - Crocus - Undertone
19 - The Rosie Taylor Project - 10 Feet Tall

21 - Caroline Harrison - 10 Feet Tall
22 - One Happy Island - Undertone
23 - The Wanted - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
23 - UsVThem - Undertone
24 - Rooftop Runners - Buffalo Bar
25 - The Afternoons + Howl Gryff - Buffalo Bar
25- Shrag + Tunabunny - Undertone
26 - King Charles + We Were Evergreen + Ellen & The Escapades - Clwb Ifor Bach
26 - Arthur Rigby & The Baskervylles - 10 Feet Tall

27 - Jason Derulo + Stooshe - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
27 - Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny + Goodnight Lenin - Buffalo Bar
28 - Jonathan Richman - Clwb Ifor Bach
28 - Funeral Suits + The Red Age - Buffalo Bar
29 - Gabrielle Aplin - Clwb Ifor Bach
29 - Allo Darlin' - Buffalo Bar

March

01 - I Am Austin - 10 Feet Tall
02 - Protest The Hero + Long Distance Calling + Blood Command + Uneven Structure - Cardiff University
02 - Peter Bruntell + The Caves + Burning Ferns - Buffalo Bar
02 - Tygers of Pan Tang - Bogiez
02 - The Selector - Bogiez
03 - Supacell - Undertone

05 - Florence and The Machine + The Horrors + Spector - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
05 - Maverick Sabre - Cardiff University
05 - Phantom Limb - Clwb Ifor Bach
06 - Toy Horses - 10 Feet Tall
06 - Natural Snow Buildings + Mars To Stay + Sneaky Earnest - Buffalo Bar
08 - The Acacia Strain + Brutality Will Prevail - Clwb Ifor Bach
09 - Nocturnal Emissions - Undertone
09 - Bastions + No Omega + Goodtime Boys - Clwb Ifor Bach
09 - Misty's Big Adventure - Buffalo Bar
10 - Luke Leighfield + Drawings For Paris - Buffalo Bar
11 - Piney Gir - 10 Feet Tall

12 - Chrisitan Mistress + Salute + Ironbird - Buffalo Bar
12 - Max Raptor + Hildamay - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - Slow Magic + Selebrities - 10 Feet Tall
14 - Golden Fable - 10 Feet Tall
14 - Fleshgod Apocalypse - Bogiez
15 - Vain - Bogiez
17 - The Maccabees - Cardiff University
17 - Y Bandana + Swnami + Helyntion Jos Y Vicar - Clwb Ifor Bach
18 - Amon Amarth - Cardiff University

19 - Exhumed + Anaal Nathrakh - Bogiez
20 - ROOM 94 + 8th Time Lucky + The Ocean's Eyes + Destine - Clwb Ifor Bach
20 - Richmond Fontaine - 10 Feet Tall
21 - Yashin - Cardiff University
22 - Nero - Cardiff University
23 - You Me At Six + Kids In Glass Houses + Mayday Parade + The Skints - Cardiff University
24 - Chimaira - Cardiff University

28 - The Wave Pictures - Clwb Ifor Bach
30 - INME + Mojo Fury + LostAlone - Clwb Ifor Bach
31 - Supergene - Buffalo Bar

April

01 - Sharks + Crowns + Crossbreaker - Clwb Ifor Bach

03 - Charlie Simpson - Cardiff University
05 - Architects + Rolo Tomassi + Stray From The Path - Cardiff University
06 - Your Demise + Trapped Under Ice + Man Overboard + Basement - Cardiff University

11 - Parkway Drive + Miss May I + The Ghost Inside + Confession - Cardiff University
13 - Christiaan Webb and the Sweet Lords + Joshua Caole + Zervas and Pepper - Clwb Ifor Bach
15 - Jay Brannan - Clwb Ifor Bach

16 - We Are The In Crowd + Every Avenue - Cardiff University
18 - Dry The River - Clwb Ifor Bach
19 - Twin Atlantic - Cardiff University
20 - Example + Wretch 32 - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
22 - Laish - 10 Feet Tall

27 - Deaf Havana - Cardiff University
29 - The Subways + Royal Republic + Turbowolf - Cardiff University

May

13 - Alkaline Trio - Cardiff University

20 - The Horrors - Cardiff University