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