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.

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

Cardiff gigs 2010

Don't let the weather put you off getting into town for a gig or two. You'll just have to worry less about what you look like and more about staying upright on the ice so get your (cool) wellies on!

Email contact@cardifflife.info to get your rock, indie, alternative or punk gig listed here.

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

Saturday Sunday

February

01 - Twenty Twenty + The New Cities + Jody Has a Hit List - Clwb Ifor Bach
01 - Elephants + Cat Mouse Cat + OK + Farthing Wood - Buffalo Bar
02 - Kunt and the Gang + John Q Public + Houdini Dax- Barfly
02 - Viv Albertine + Little Eris - Buffalo Bar
03 - Jesca Hoop + Johnny Cage And The Voodo Groove - Barfly
03 - The Victorian English Gentleman's Club + The Irascibles + Brandyman - Buffalo Bar
04 - Oceansize + Brontide + Vessels - Barfly
04 - Ellie Goulding - Cardiff Arts Institute
05 - Blims + Tidal + Exhibition - Barfly
05 - Strange News From Another Star + Goodtime Boys + Panic Basket - Clwb Ifor Bach
05 - Nu Tone + Jubei - Clwb Ifor Bach
05 - Maple Mountain + Zeuk - Buffalo Bar
05 - Polka Party + Black Russian + Jon Kennedy - Cardiff Arts Institute
05 - Sham 69 + Who Shot Who? + The Sick Livers + The Shortcuts - TJ's, Newport
06 - Johnny Foreigner + Bayonets - Clwb Ifor Bach
06 - The Vinyl Vendettas + Dirty Pop - Clwb Ifor Bach
06 - Haiti Earthquake Benefit Gig feat SugarBrute. Hurricane Joe & OK - TJ's, Newport

08 - Silver Gospel Runners + Lucky Delucci + Alphabet Backwards + Evening Chorus - Buffalo Bar
08 - 7yearsbadluck + Oxygen Thief + Solutions + Question The Mark - 10 Feet Tall
09 - Eternal Ocean + Shortcuts + Here Lies The Enemy + This Is A Setup - Barfly
10 - Zepher + Johnny Hall + Chris Davies - Barfly
10 - Chris Murray + Mouthwash + The Skints + Random Hand - TJ's, Newport
11 - The Brothers Movement + Futuretown + Skeleton - Barfly
11 - Alessi's Ark + Rachael Dadd + Lauren + Hail! The Planes - Buffalo Bar
12 - Iglu and Hartley + New Politics + MLE - Barfly
12 - Vito + Hunters + Among Brothers - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - Twin Atlantic + Canterbury + I Am Hope - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - Fenech Soler - Buffalo Bar
12 - She Keeps Bees + King Alexander - Cardiff Arts Institute
13 - Mentallica + Elsid - Barfly
13 - Shockwaves NME Awards Tour:The Maccabees + Bombay Bicycle Club + The Big Pink + The Drums - Cardiff University
13 - Al Lewis + Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog gyda DJ Meic P - Clwb Ifor Bach
13 - Bad Manners - The Globe
14 - Lights + Doll and the Kicks + Cuba Cuba - Barfly

15 - Internet Forever + The Bumblebees - Buffalo Bar
15 - Here Lies The Enemy + This Is A Setup + Without Your Reflection + The Get Away - Barfly
15 - We're No Heroes + The Afterglow - 10 Feet Tall
16 - The Nines + Kid Keep Dancing + Death Quit Dancing + All For The Fall - Barfly
16 - Chris Hicks + Any Other Day + Kadesha - Clwb Ifor Bach
16 - The Auteur + The calling Card + Lost On Landing + Half Time Chance - Buffalo Bar
16 - Beach House - Cardiff Arts Institute
17 - Soft Pack POSTPONED - Barfly
18 - The Heavy + The Hush + Conductors - Barfly
18 - Mustard Allegro + LT. Meat - Buffalo Bar
18 - Vanguard + Oscar Later - Clwb Ifor Bach
19 - TRC + Heart In Hand + Ironclad + Chains Of Hate - Barfly
19 - JLS - Cardiff International Arena
20 - Bomb Factory - Barfly
20 - Sharks + Dead Formats + Solutions - Barfly
20 - Soft-Heated Scientists - Buffalo
20 - World - Cardiff University
21 - 30 Seconds To Mars - Cardiff International Arena
21 - Sophie's Pigeons + Panda Su - Cardiff Arts Institute

22 - Courtney Pine - The Globe
22 - The Calling Card + No Room For Heroes + Ronnie Rube - 10 Feet Tall
23 - Eight Legs + Kiss Silver + We're No Heroes - Barfly
23 - Hot Club De Paris + Samoans + Town - Clwb Ifor Bach
23 - Accident Music + The Smoking Hearts + System Scare - Clwb Ifor Bach
23 - Acoustic Strawbs - The Globe
23 - Tubelord + Tall Ships - Cardiff Arts Institute
23 - Psychotic Reaction - 10 Feet Tall
24 - Bad For Lazarus + Exit International + Die! Chihuauhua Die! - Barfly
24 - The Straight Lines (Album launch) + Tiger Please + Cuba Cuba + Captain Accident - Clwb Ifor Bach
24 - The God Natured - Buffalo Bar
25 - Hotel Ambush + Shriakumi + Evilive + Signified - Barfly
25 - Xiu Xiu - Cardiff Arts Institute
25 - Tim and Sam's Tim and The Sam Band with Tim and Sam - Buffalo Bar
25 - Tidal + Traitors + OXP + Senturia - TJ's, Newport
26 - Caesers Rome + To Catch A Thief + Ispystrangers + I write Midnight - Barfly
27 - Cate le Bon + Y Niwl + Elliot Jones - Clwb Ifor Bach
27 - Guns 2 Roses - TJ's, Newport
28 - Sylosis + Chapters - Barfly
28 - Hexicon + Beaks of Eagles - Buffalo Bar

March

01 - Amy Can Flyy + CasioKid + Canada Water - Barfly
01 - Richmond Fontaine + The Redlands Palomino Company - Clwb Ifor Bach
01 - Sibrydion - Buffalo Bar
01 - Rose Melberg (The Softies/Tiger Trap) + The Gentle Good + Kellarissa + Ivan Moult - 10 Feet Tall
02 - Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit + Anna Calvi - Clwb Ifor Bach
03 - Lady GaGa + Alphabeat - Cardiff Interntional Arena
03 - Ocean Colour Scene - Coal Exchange
03 - Giggs - Barfly
03 - Twin Atlantic + Special Guests - Clwb Ifor Bach
04 - Eighth Wave + Letters To Leaders - Barfly
05 - Lynyrd Skynyrd + Gun - Cardiff International Arena
05 - Trivium - Cardiff University
06 - Dirty Revolution + Anti Vigilante + Melophobes + Gecko - Barfly
06 - The School (album launch) + Allo Darlin' + Pagan Wanderer Lu - Clwb Ifor Bach
07 - Errors + Right Hand Left Hand - Barfly
07 - Ronan Keating + Lynyrd Skynyrd - Cardiff Interntional Arena

08 - Exlovers + Denuo - Buffalo Bar
08 - Curtis Eller + Chris Hicks - 10 Feet Tall
09 - Colours Of One + Starseed + Firetone - Barfly
09 - Little My + Threatmantics + The Gentle Good - 10 Feet Tall
10 - Blakfish + James Cleaver Quintet + Good Time Boys - Barfly
10 - Chris T-T + Stokes,William + Jon Fazal - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - Strange News From Another Star + Lucky Delucci - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - Tiesto - Cardiff International Arena
12 - Dr Meaker + Word Virus Essay - Buffalo Bar
12 - Eaststrikewest + They Walk Among Us + Echolounge + Brother Steve - Barfly
13 - Katatonia - Barfly
13 - Detached + John Q Public + Captain Accident + Hit or Miss - TJ's, Newport
16 - Boyce Avenue - Cardiff University
16 - Reaper in Sicily + Dirty Youth + Sound The Attack + I am Absolute - Clwb Ifor Bach
19 - The Four Tops + The Temptations + The Drifters + The Three Degrees - Cardiff International Arena
19 - Skindred + Forever Never + Revoker - TJ's, Newport
20 - Captain Accident - Buffalo Bar
20 - GBH + Picture Frame Seduction - TJ's, Newport
21 - Editors - Cardiff University

23 - Arusha Accord + Terakai + Monday Massacre + In The Firing Line - Barfly
23 - This is Hell + More Than Life - Clwb Ifor Bach
23 - Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady) - 10 Feet Tall
25 - The Computers + Outcry Collective + 1 - Clwb Ifor Bach
25 - Strung Out - TJ's, Newport
26 - Hold Your Horse Is + Crokked Mountain, Crooked Sea - Buffalo Bar - Buffalo Bar
26 - Metal Carnical - TJ's, Newport
27 - Joy Formidable + Baddies + Bleech - Barfly
27 - Chris Brokaw and Geoff Farina + Ratatosk - Buffalo

29 - Walter Schreifels (Rival Schools/Gorilla Biscuits/Quicksand) + Nic Dawson Kelly - Barfly
29 - Rat Attack - Die! Chihuahua Die! - 10 Feet Tall
30 - Emery + Moneen + Deaf Havana - Clwb Ifor Bach
30 - Brooke + Dead Fashion - Barlfy

April

01 - Lawrence Arms + Under Stars and Gutters + The Arteries - Barfly
02 - Before The Escape - Barfly
03 - Drongos For Europe - TJ's, Newport
04 - MC Lars + K.Flay - Barfly

05 - Bad Company + Joe Perry Project - Cardiff Interntional Arena
05 - Christopher Rees + Stephen Light and the Old Arcane + Winter and Williams Band - 10 Feet Tall
08 - The Frantics + Raphelites + Solice Awaits - Barfly
09 - Glamour of the Kill + Yashin + The Missive - Barfly
10 - Viatrophy + Chapters + Crown of Athos - Barfly
10 - Bowling For Soup - an acoustic evening with Jaret and Erik - TJ's, Newport
11 - And So I Watch You From Afar + Lafaro - Barfly

12 - Laish + Kristen McClement + Evening Chorus - 10 Feet Tall
13 - Jim Jones Revue + Cowboy and The Corpse - Barfly
15 - Crookes - Barfly
16 - Tiger Please + special guests - Clwb Ifor Bach
16 - The Dave Cooper Experience - TJ's, Newport
17 - Ellie Goulding - Barfly
18 - Angel Spit - TJ's, Newport

19 - Pharoahs + The Calling Card + Good Librarian - 10 Feet Tall
20 - Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip + B Dolan - Barfly
20 - Idlewild - Clwb Ifor Bach
20 - Adelaide's Cape + Jon Fazal - 10 Feet Tall
21 - Brigade + Telegraphs + Samoans - Barfly

27 - Ono Palindromes + Saturdays Kids + Goodtime Boys - Barfly
28 - Dying Fetus + Beneath Yhe Massacre + Origin + Revocation + Man Must Die - TJ's, Newport
29 - Hijak Oscar + Mudjack - Barfly
30 - Claude von Stroke - Clwb Ifor Bach

May

01 - Black Russian + Los + Glass Diamond + Science Bastard - Barfly
01 - Lostprophets + Kids In Glass Houses - Cardiff International Arena
02 - The Temper Trap - Cardiff University
02 - The Bluetones + special guests - Clwb Ifor Bach

06 - The Gold Tour: La Roux - Cardiff University
09 - Chuck Prophet - Clwb Ifor Bach
09 - Chase & Status - Cardiff University

14 - 2 Rude - TJ's, Newport

21 - Los Campesinos! - Cardiff University

29 - Pendulum - Cardiff International Arena

June

03 - Argent Dawn + Avarus - Barfly
04 - Crowded House - Cardiff International Arena

12 - Agent Orange + No Choice - Barfly

23 - Hot Water Music - TJ's, Newport