Cardiff Life gigs

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 online and from outlets such as Spillers.

Cardiff gigs 2010

Latest news - Cardiff Barfly has shut "until further notice".

As far as we know, all gigs for the near future will be cancelled or moved. However, Barfly still has gigs from the 14th September listed on their Facebook page.

Speculation is rife, but there are suggestions that the buy-out by HMV and falling audiences are to blame.

**Please check these gigs if you have tickets for them.

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

September

  • 01 - Ugly Duckling - Buffalo Bar
  • 03 - OK + Houdini Dax + Toy Horses - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 03 - Broken Nose + Melophobes + Sharks Don't Sleep - Barfly**
  • 04 - Arkangel + Ark Of The Covanent - Barfly**
  • 04 - Sweet Baboo + Truckers Of Husk + Ceri Frost - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 04 - Hollywood Tease and Kixxstart Kitty - Pure
  • 06 - Action Beat + Brandyman - Buffalo Bar
  • 07 - The Like + El Goodo + The Broken Vinyl Club - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 07 - Bright Light Bright Light - Buffalo Bar
  • 07 - Ladies Love A Superhero + This Isn't Hollywood + Conquer The Decade + Her Game Is Over - Barfly**
  • 08 - Bee To The Itch - Buffalo Bar
  • 10 - Kyshera + Henry's Funeral Shoe + Skeleton Set - Barfly**
  • 11 - Futuretown - Barfly**
  • 11 - Conan + Spider Kitten + Pus - Buffalo Bar
  • 13 - Ladyhawk + Paper Aeroplanes + The Irascibles - Buffalo Bar
  • 14 - Nell Bryden + Paper Aeroplanes + Ivan Moult + Tueur De Lune - Barfly
  • 14 - Pulled Apart By Horses + Strange News From Another Star - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 15 - TRC + Lower Than Atlantis + Chains Of Hate - Barfly
  • 15 - Framing Hanley + Just Surrender + Brooke - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 15 - Framing Hanley - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 16 - I Am Arrows + David J Roch + OK - Barfly
  • 17 - Renegades - Barfly
  • 18 - Brother Steve - Barfly
  • 19 - The Vaselines + Haight-Ashbury - Millennium Music Hall
  • 19 - Heart Of A Coward + The Last Broadcast + The District + Continents - Barfly
  • 20 - Racebannon + A Thousand Arrows + Brandyman + The Milk Race - Buffalo Bar
  • 21 - Hold Your Horses + Shoes and Socks Off - Buffalo Bar
  • 21 - Before The Escape + Dead Fashion + High Demand + The Vehenent - Barfly
  • 21 - Town + Cuba Cuba + Dirty Goods - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 22 - Futures + The Xcerts + Tiger Please - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 23 - Dirty Revolution - Buffalo Bar
  • 24 - The Brute Chorus - Buffalo Bar
  • 24 - Kutosis + Solutions + Circa Regna Tonat - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 25 - Bad Sam + No Choice + Sick Livers - Barfly
  • 26 - Bury Tomorrow + Shadows Chasing Ghosts + Burn The Fleet + Evilive - Barfly
  • 27 - Max Raptor + The Missive - Barfly
  • 28 - Acey Slade & The Dark Party (ex Murderdolls) - Barfly
  • 28 - Divorce + Comanechi - Buffalo Bar
  • 29 - Oceansize + This Town Needs Guns - Millenium Music Hall
  • 30 - A Genuine Freakshow - Buffalo Bar
  • 30 - The Guns + Scholars + Ingratitude - Barfly

October

  • 01 - Kings Ov Leon - Barfly
  • 01 - Mayday Parade / The Main ( co headline) - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 03 - Taint + Shaped By Fate + The Death of Her Money + Sigiriya + Zonderhoof - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 03 - The Union - Barfly
  • 04 - Frankie and the Heartstrings + Summer Camp + The Neat - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 05 - We Are The Ocean + Chickenhawk + Brides - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 05 - No Age + Male Bonding - Barfly
  • 06 - Jean Michel Jarre - Cardiff International Arena
  • 09 - Definitely Mightbe vs Adored - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 09 - Mark Chadwick (The Levellers) - The Globe
  • 10 - Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 13 - Attack Attack! (US) - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 14 - My Passion - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 15 - Fury UK + Darkside - Barfly
  • 16 - SWN - Made in Roath - The Globe
  • 19 - Yeasayer - Millenium Music Hall
  • 20 - Random Hand + JB Conspiracy + John Q Public - Barfly
  • 20 - TwentyTwenty - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 21 - SWN Festival Arabrot + Wounds + Goodtime Boys - The Model Inn
  • 21 - SWN Festival 2010 Gwyl SWN - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 22 - SWN Festival The Ex + Truckers Of Husk + Brandyman - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 23 - SWN Festival 2010 Gwyl SWN - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 24 - Against Me! - Cardiff University
  • 24 - British Sea Power - The Globe
  • 26 - Fenech Soler + Friends Electric - Barfly
  • 28 - Forever Never + Sworn To Oath - Barfly
  • 30 - The Complete Stone Roses - Barfly

November

  • 01 - Cancer Bats + Trash Talk + Vera Cruz - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 02 - Dirty Revolution + Anti-Vigilante + Broken Nose - Barfly
  • 04 - Alexisonfire - Cardiff University
  • 06 - Diamond Rings - Barfly
  • 07 - Attack! Attack! - Cardiff University
  • 08 - Fighting With Wire + More Than Conquerors - Barfly
  • 10 - Failsafe - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 10 - Imogen Heap - Cardiff Coal Exchange
  • 12 - Ellie Goulding - The Great Hall, Cardiff University
  • 12 - Marina and the Diamonds - Cardiff Coal Exchange
  • 14 - Kids In Glass Houses - Cardiff University
  • 14 - Kids In Glass Houses Aftershow Party - Barfly
  • 23 - Sarah Blasko - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 23 - The Wedding Present - The Globe
  • 24 - And So I Watch You From Afar - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 25 - A-ha - ending on a high note - Cardiff International Arena
  • 25 - Black Breath (Southern Lord) + 33 - Buffalo Bar
  • 26 - Thirty Seconds To Mars + Enter Shikari - Cardiff International Arena
  • 30 - Marseille ft Neil Buchanan - Barfly

December

  • 01 - Faithless - Cardiff International Arena
  • 02 - Inme - 'Best Of' Album Show + The Perfect Crime - Clwb Ifor Bach
  • 06 - Scissor Sisters - Cardiff International Arena
  • 08 - 80s Rewind Christmas Tour: Kool & The Gang + Sister Sledge + ABC + Howard Jones + Go West! + T'Pau + The Christians - Cardiff International Arena
  • 09 - Arcade Fire + Devendra Banhart - Cardiff International Arena
  • 10 - Status Quo - Cardiff International Arena
  • 11 - Bullet For My Valentine - Cardiff International Arena
  • 12 - Katie Melua - Cardiff International Arena
  • 13 - Madness + Paul Heaton - Cardiff International Arena
  • 20 - Dopamine - Barfly
  • 21 - Dopamine - Barfly