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 2008

Well into the start of a fresh new year with loads of brilliant bands just waiting to burst out of the Cardiff and South Wales music scene. Judge for yourselves.

Email contact@cardifflife.info to get your gig listed here.

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

2008

May

03 - Mystery Jets + Ratty Rat Rat + Dirty Leaves - Clwb Ifor Bach
03 - Cate le Bon CANCELLED - Clwb Ifor Bach
03 - Milano + Tragic Generation + Shooter - Barfly
03 - Discracelands + Blue Gillespie feat Gareth David-Lloyd + Thyrd Eye + Killed By Hollywood + Jack Vs Jill + Wolves of St August - Tommy's Bar, UWIC, Newport Road
03 - Detached + Kid Keep Dancing + Save The Last half-dayer - TJ's, Newport
04 - The Zutons + One Night Only + The Script - Cardiff University
04 - Pedigree Falcon all day show: Taint + The Death of Her Money + Part Chimp + Zail + lots more - Clwb Ifor Bach
04 - Late Of The Pier + KC + Mudflaps - Barfly
04 - First Among Equals - The Club With No Name, Guildhall Place
- New State Radio - TJ's, Newport

05 - Spunge + Hypo Psycho + May Contain Nuts - Barfly
05 - CSS + Futureheads + MGMT - Cardiff University
05 - Midasuno + The Red October + The Archaic Decadence + Rorkes' Drift - Clwb Ifor Bach
07 - Emily Rose + Evita + My Life In The Knife Trade + The Kept - Barfly
07 - Lightspeed Champion + Operator Please + Jamie & The Lionhearts - The Point
08 - Twisted Wheel + The Muscle Club + Picture Books in Winter - Clwb Ifor Bach
08 - Howlin Rain + Zumbar + Yellow Moon Band - Clwb Ifor Bach
08 - Thao Nguyen & The Get Down Stay Down - Barfly
09 - DJ Yoda - Clwb Ifor Bach
09 - Hells Bent - The Point
09 - The Steers + Everfade - Barfly
09 - DJ Yoda - Clwb Ifor Bach
09 - The Heavy Quartet - Tommy's Bar, Howard Gardens
09 - Glassjaw - Cardiff University
10 - Clocks + The Hosts + The Racketears - Barfly
10 - The Wave Pictures + The Spencer McGarry Season + The Jaynes - Clwb Ifor Bach
10 - Save Your Breath - TJ's, Newport
10 - Midasuno - TJ's, Newport
11 - The Argent Dawn - half dayer show! - TJ's, Newport
11 - We Smoke Fags + Royal Treatment Plant + Blue Wall - Barfly
11 - Hadouken! - The Point

12 - Cancer Bats + Johnny Truant + Hexes - Barfly
12 - The Color Fred + Mayday Parade + Meg and Dia + Four Year Strong - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - Shit and Shine + Geisha + Gindrinker - Clwb Ifor Bach
13 - Fighting With Wire + The Xcerts - Barfly
14 - Jonah Matranga + Attention (ex-Gratitude) + Five-0s - Barfly
14 - Lucero + Bedford Falls - Clwb Ifor Bach
14 - First Among Equals - 10 Feet Tall, Church Street
14 - Finch - TJ's, Newport
15 - Royworld CANCELLED - Clwb Ifor Bach
15 - Wednesday 13 + SIGN - Cardiff University
15 - The Envy Corps + The Outside Royalty + Sleepgoodfeelgood - Barfly
15 - Witness To An End - TJ's, Newport
16 - Post 84 + Threat Manifesto + All City Uproar - Tommy's Bar, Howard Gardens, Newport Road
16 - The Donde Stars + Lucky Delucci + El Condor Passa - Clwb Ifor Bach
17 - The Boss Hoss + Christopher Rees - Barfly
17 - Gwyneth Glyn + Brigyn + Clinigol + Messner - Clwb Ifor Bach
17 - First Among Equals - Fuel @ Tafod, Despenser Street
17 - Brabazon - TJ's, Newport
18 - Sarabeth Tucek + Jacob Golden + The Gentle Good - Clwb Ifor Bach
18 - Syn - TJ's, Newport

19 - Times New Viking + Threatmantics + Furry Sound System - Clwb Ifor Bach
19 - The Thirst + A Thousand Suns + El Condor Pasa - Barfly
20 - My Awesome Compilation + Dorp + The Red October - Barfly
20 - Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit - Clwb Ifor Bach
20 - Cobra Starship + All Time Low - TJ's, Newport
21 - The Whip CANCELLED + South Central Live + Friends Electric - Barfly
21 - The Metros + Rum Shebeen - Clwb Ifor Bach
22 - The Quireboys with Dan Baird and Homemade Sin + Diamond Dogs - Barfly
22 - AIDS Wolf + Heck + King Alexander - Clwb Ifor Bach
23 - Souvaris + Beyond This Point are Monsters + Stray Borders + Day for Airstrikes - Clwb Ifor Bach
23 - Today is the Day + Jucifer + Complete Failure + Four Question Marks - Clwb Ifor Bach
23 - The Strange Death of Liberal England - Clwb Ifor Bach
23 - The Guns - TJ's, Newport
23 - Jamie And The Lionhearts + The Muscle Club + Kick Superb - Barfly
24 - UK Subs - TJ's, Newport
25 - Duffy - Cardiff University

26 - The Displacements + Brandon Steep + Olympian Fall - Barfly
27 - Cute Is What We Aim For + Boys Like Girls - Cardiff University
27 - Ravens Creed (feat members of Orange Goblin / Iron Monkey) + Wraith - Clwb Ifor Bach
27 - Skwad - LAST EVER SHOW + Midasuno + Kick Box Riot - Barfly
28 - Feeder - The Point
29 - Emily Rose + 12 Gauge Alliance + Public Asylum - Barfly
29 - Malefice - TJ's, Newport
30 - Das Wanderlust + The Hazey Janes + Blue Wall - Tommy's Bar, Howard Gardens
30 - The Convictions + Avash Avash + DJ Geraint - Clwb Ifor Bach
30 - Mark Broom (Pure Plastic / Platzhirsch) + Owain K + Ollie Vaughan - Clwb Ifor Bach
30 - The Unsung - TJ's, Newport
31 - Avril Lavigne - Cardiff International Arena
31 - First Among Equals - O'Neills, Trinity Street
31 - Y Rei + Stilletoes - Clwb Ifor Bach

June

01 - Hate Eternal + Cephalic Carnage + Skeletonwitch + Man Must Die - Barfly
01 - Robots in Disguise - Clwb Ifor Bach
01 - From Mars - TJ's, Newport

02 - Flash Flash Flash Photography + The Other Club - Barfly
02 - Zebrahead - Clwb Ifor Bach
03 - Kill The Arcade + Working Class Heroes + WeHaveAGetaway + Matt Sommerville - Barfly
03 - Black Kids + Collapsing Cities - Clwb Ifor Bach
03 - Thomas White + Chris TT - Clwb Ifor Bach
03 - Gary Louris - Barfly
04 - Rosalita + Ejectorseat + Freakunique + Kinky Wizards - Barfly
05 - Endurance of Hate + Sirens of War - TJ's, Newport
05 - Cartel + The Secret Handshake + Farewell - Clwb Ifor Bach
05 - Army of Freshmen - TJ's, Newport
06 - Vetiver - Barfly
06 - Serena Joy + Citizens + Lights to Lead Us - Clwb Ifor Bach
06 - The Other Club + Flash!Flash!Flash! Photography + The Attika State + Targets (formerly Pictures) - Clwb Ifor Bach
07 - The Slowdance + The 255s + Chillerton - Barfly
07 - The Death Of Her Money - TJ's, Newport
08 - Azriel - TJ's, Newport

09 - A Day To Remember + Devil Wears Prada + Alesana - Barfly
10 - 36 Crazyfists + Exit Ten - Barfly
10 - Lostprophets - Cardiff University
11 - The Stone Gods - The Point
11 - Ox Eagle Lion Man - Barfly
13 - Doug Walker - Cardiff University
13 - Short Warning - TJ's, Newport
13 - Fall Of Troy - TJ's, Newport
14 - Sierra Alpha + Zenyth + Karl Morgan - Barfly
15 - Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter play an evening of Hefner songs - Clwb Ifor Bach

16 - The Music - Cardiff University
17 - Deerhunter CANCELLED + High Places - Clwb Ifor Bach
18 - Make Model + The Screenbeats - Barfly
19 - Boys With Xray Eyes + Eleventh Apparition + Kill The Kids First - Barfly
20 - Anti Nowhere League - TJ's, Newport
21 - Kobe - TJ's, Newport
21 - Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs - Clwb Ifor Bach
21 - Kitty Hudson + Emania - Cardiff University
22 - Kill The Arcade + Working Class Heroes + WeHaveAGetaway + Matt Sommerville - Barfly

23 - Journey - Cardiff International Arena
24 - Attack Attack + Said Mike - Clwb Ifor Bach
25 - UK Subs + Guns On The Roof + Haddonfield + Star Terrace - Barfly
26 - Beat Surrender + The Lemons - Barfly
27 - An Emergency + Frommars - Clwb Ifor Bach
28 - The Jan Watkins Band - Barfly

July

01 - Nato + Yashin - Barfly
02 - Johnny Truant - Clwb Ifor Bach
02 - The Rocket Summer - TJ's, Newport
04 - Suns of Thunder + Zumbar + Screaming Eagle - Clwb Ifor Bach
04 - Funeral For A Friend - TJ's, Newport
05 - Attack Attack - TJ's, Newport
05 - The Donde Stars + Circuits - Barfly

08 - Miss Conduct + Failsafe + Dead Against The Rest - Barfly
09 - A470 - TJ's, Newport
11 - Comeback Kid + Shai Hulud + Crime In Stereo - TJ's, Newport
12 - The Happenin + Mudflaps + Butterflies With Beards - Barfly
13 - Clockcleaner + DJ Scotch Egg + The Death of Her Money + The Good Wife - Clwb Ifor Bach - Lesson No.1

14 - Def Leppard + Whitesnake + Black Stone Cherry + Thunder - Cardiff International Arena
14 - We Are The Ocean - Barfly
15 - Fandangle - TJ's, Newport
17 - Death By Stereo + 1000 Hertz - Barfly

21 - Tellison & Tubelord + Kick Box Riot - Clwb Ifor Bach
22 - The Acacia Strain + Annotation Of An Autopsy + Knights Of The Abyss - Barfly
24 - The Story So Far - Barfly

31 - The Quakes - TJ's, Newport
31 - Flamboyant Bella - Barfly

August

13 - Free Fall Felix - TJ's, Newport
16 - This Hidden Switch + Jameson - Barfly

25 - All Shall Perish + Sworn Enemy + Warbringer - Barfly

September

01 - The Toasters - TJ's, Newport
03 - See You Next Tuesday - TJ's, Newport

08 - Detached - TJ's, Newport
11 - Backyard Babies - TJ's, Newport
12 - Wilko Johnson - TJ's, Newport
13 - Keith Caputo (Life Of Agony) - Barfly

18 - All Shall Perish + Sworn Enemy + Warbringer - Barfly

28 - Foals - Cardiff University

30 - DragonForce - Cardiff University

Saturday Sunday