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Dydd Miwsig Cymru: TWST, Melda Lois & Wrenna

🎶 Join us for an unforgettable night of live music! On Friday, February 7th, celebrate the vibrancy of Welsh music as part of Dydd Miwsig Cymru with a lineup of incredible talent presented by Adlais. Featuring performances by: 🌟 TWST – Known for their innovative sound and electrifying stage presence, TWST blends genres seamlessly, creating […]

Aberration

LGBT+ events in Aberystwyth and on tour: cabaret, music, dance, film, spoken word, discussions, workshops and more. Organised by Ruth Fowler, Jane Hoy and Helen Sandler

NAWR

NAWR (meaning NOW in Welsh) is a multidisciplinary concert series in Swansea and Hay-on-Wye of experimental music, free improvisation, film, lo-fi, free jazz, sound art, alternative folk and new music.
NAWR was founded by Rhodri Davies, Jenn Kirby, Rose Linn-Pearl, Dan Linn-Pearl and Daryl Feehely.
NAWR Swansea is run by Rhodri Davies and Ioan Humphreys.
HAY NAWR is run by Rose Linn-Pearl, Dan Linn-Pearl and Jim Kerslake.
“The aim is to offer an open and reflective space for an audience to experience new music in a welcoming and intimate setting.”

Swansea Music Hub

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The Swansea Music Hub is a collective aiming to community venture with the overall aim of supporting, developing and improving the Swansea music scene. It’s a place where ideas, creativity, events and opportunities can be shared all in one place for musicians and those interested in music.

Twrw

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Welsh language tours and gigs, usually located at Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street.

Right Keys Only

Artist of the Month is a feature where we put the spotlight on the incredible work of one of our members. Our Artist of the Month for January is Rightkeysonly, an E.D.M. artist, known for bringing experimental beats and heavy baselines to the music sector of Wales. Since her start as a busker, Keys has […]

Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025

A dyma chi…Leinyp 2025! Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025 – 03/05/2025 Tocynnau ar werth yma | Tickets here

Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025

A dyma chi…Leinyp 2025! Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025 – 03/05/2025 Tocynnau ar werth yma | Tickets here

NextGen Spotlight: Adlais

Created by Connor Morgans, Adlais, meaning ‘echo’ in Welsh, is a bilingual promoter of contemporary Welsh music.   Having curated two successful events in south and mid Wales before receiving NextGen Fund support, Adlais gives artists and communities in North Wales an opportunity to experience the diverse talent Welsh music has on offer. We caught […]

PYST Music Fund: Guidelines

  About the Fund   This is a new pilot fund dedicated to sustaining and developing grassroots Welsh music activity. Offering support to labels, organizations and individuals currently working with Welsh music, the pilot will also seek to support wider engagement and participation on a community level. The Welsh music scene is flourishing, and this […]

Shares Window Open

The time has come for this unique label to pursue a new path. Fflach has now become Fflach Cymunedol, a new look record label. We will still serve the community that the company always has, but with a new structure and new horizons. As a community benefit society, we will be free to raise money […]

CWYR issue 2 is released today 🔊

Oyez, oyez! CWYR issue 2 is released today 🔊 Presenting a feast of queer creativity, fulfilment is explored in exclusivity. Contained within 44 recycled pages, lie poetry, photography and writing on the Dark Ages 🕯️ Printed and bound by @folium_publishing, the cover is completed with silver thermo powder finishing. Available for purchase through the link […]

CWYR ISSUE 2 LAUNCH FULFILMENT

Get your diary out because we’re launching the second issue of CWYR on Friday 13th of December! Join us from 6:30 pm at Rare Mags to enjoy our latest edition, fresh off the (small) press.  

Plu – Yr Heliwr

7.30pm – 14/12/2024 Dydd Sadwrn / Saturday 18+ Mynediad am ddim / Free entry Gig efo’r triawd gwerin amgen ‘Plu’ A gig with the alternative folk trio ‘Plu’

Martin Jones

3.00pm Rhagfyr / December 29th Dydd Sul / Sunday Mynediad am ddim / Free entry 18+

O Benllyn i Ben Llŷn

Noson efo Tri Gog a Hwntw ac Eryrod Meirion 7.30pm – 18/01/2025 Mynediad am ddim / Free entry

Meinir Gwilym

7.30pm 01/02/2025 Dydd Sadwrn / Saturday Mynediad am ddim / Free entry

Interview with… GAFF

Interview with… GAFF …recorded November 2024

In this interview with Gareth Bryer, GAFF (aka Alun Gaffey) discusses his album ‘Escapism’, the background, the recording process, the themes.

‘Escapism’ comes out December 6 on Recordiau Côsh Records.

Presenter: Gareth Bryer
Camera: Lois Jones

Mair Tomos Ifans

3pm 07/01/2025 – Dydd Mawrth / Tuesday Prynhawn o ganu gwerin a chwedlau / An afternoon of folk songs and folk tales. Mynediad am ddim / Free entry

Adwaith – Miliwn

‘Miliwn’ is the third single taken from Adwaith’s album ‘Solas’

‘Miliwn’ ydy’r drydedd sengl wedi ei gymryd o album Adwaith ‘Solas’

‘Solas’ – Is released on 7/02/25

Music video shot & edited by Rhys Grail

Fideo wedi’i ffilmio a’i olygu gan Rhys Grail

The Gentle Good – Tachwedd

Written in an off-grid cottage during a year-long residency in the Cambrian Mountains, The Gentle Good’s new album ‘Elan’ is a psychedelic portrait of the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. Featuring songs in both Welsh and English, ‘Elan’ explores the landscape, history and politics of this remote valley, which was flooded to provide water for Birmingham at the end of the Victorian era. The first single from the album, ‘Tachwedd’ (Welsh for November) is an upbeat psychedelic celebration of autumn and a reminder to hold onto the light through the coming dark

EXCLUSIVE : GAFF ‘Chefchaouen’ video premiere

We may be heading toward end-of-year list time, but quality albums are still drifting down on us like autumn leaves. The forthcoming Escapism from GAFF, multi-instrumentalist and former guitarist in Race Horses Alan Gaffey, is a case in point. Tomorrow, second single ‘Chefchaouen’ the follow up to ‘If You Know, You Know’ is shared, and […]

GAFF – Chefchaouen

From the album ‘Escapism’ – out Dec 6 on Recordiau Côsh Records.

Music by GAFF.

Video by Nic Finch.

Talulah – Galaru

Alawon jazzy, breuddwydiol a chymysgu iaith a genre yw’r elfennau nodweddiadol i’w disgrifio yng ngwaith yr artist unigryw, Talulah. Nhw oedd enillydd haeddiannol gwobr Triskel yn seremoni Welsh Music Prize yn 2023, gan fynd o nerth i nerth ers hynny a rhyddhau eu EP cyntaf yn ddiweddar.

Dyma fideo cerddorol i gyd-fynd â’r trac ‘Galaru’ o’r EP – ‘Solas’ sy’n edrych ar bŵer mewn pherthynas, a hunaniaeth.

SHLUG + Bad Shout + Lacross Club + MORN Tickets

Saturday 14 December 2024
Doors Open: 19:30
Starts: 20:00

Tickets 

SHLUG // BAD SHOUT // LACROSS CLUB

“An industrial meat grinder lugging noise between the teeth of gears.”

December marks the overdue return of SHLUG to CWRW – better still, they’ll have Bad Shout and Lacross Club in tow.

The death-coaster that is SHLUG is the unmusical bone saw of mechanical dissonances and distortions with a dubious and violent soundscape prepared to make your eardrums shatter and bleed. The noisy cutthroat non-barbershop quartet create an industrial atmosphere that will evoke primal instincts to its captivated audience, turning CWRW into a pit of rabid dogs. After the success of The Scent of Roy Keane and Self-Hate Portrait came BF/FM and Baby Teef, then debut EP Split The Grin. Don’t trust us, listen to these clever folk:

CLASH Magazine – Tom Morgan

“The abrasive and downright-feral SHLUG are, on the surface, not the band you’d expect to serve as the city’s de facto scene leaders. Think of them as the reprobate older brothers who bought you booze when you were underage. Their noise-rock/post–punk brew is best consumed live. Transgressive and primal fun from a band that have become a totem of Cardiff’s music scene.”

Buzz Magazine – Emma Way

“An ensemble who could have stepped out of the 1980s LA punk scene, in their weight SHLUG bring endless, side-splitting, noisy immediacy; on a floor-level stage like this one, it’s concentrated like a bubble about to explode at any given minute.”

BBC Radio Wales – Adam Walton

“They’re concentrating on noise, the refining noise. They’re making noise even darker and fuzzier than it’s been before. Sharp, blistering and everything I love about noisy music.”

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Bad Shout are exponents of raw, howling pync Cymraeg! Think The Damned meets early Husker Du with flecks of Oi and 60s garage…frenzied old-school punk rock!

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Lacross Club play loud, fast, catchy punk music that will make you break everything.

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RHYDD – BETSAN

Côsh Records is delighted to announce that singer-songwriter, Betsan, is joining the label ahead of her new creative chapter as an artist.

Out now on all streaming platforms, ‘Rhydd’ is the first in a series of singles that Betsan will release over the coming months. Here’s a special video, funded by Lŵp and PYST Music Video Fund, to accompany the track.

Mari Mathias a Lo-Fi Jones

16/11/24 7:30yh

Tickets HERE

We are delighted to present an evening of contemporary folk music in partnership with ‘Y Parlwr’

Mari Mathias won the prize for ‘Best Welsh Traditional Song’ at the Welsh Folk Awards in 2023 and Lo-Fi Jones won the Battle of the Folk Bands at The National Eisteddfod in 2023.

General Admission £12 Concession £10

Baudelaire + FUBELT + Marionette Tickets

Baudelaire are a six-piece post-punk band from Birmingham. Through noisy, goth-tinged soundscapes, they write songs about the darker side of the human condition. Their previous singles have received airplay from BBC Introducing and BBC Radio 6 and they’ve supported artists including Frank Turner, Heartworms, Crows and Egyptian Blue. They’ve headlined sold out shows in Birmingham and Paris.

Baudelaire’s next single drops on October 4th. ‘No Future’ is an upbeat track that pits dour lyrics against a flurry of dance beats, driving basslines and swirling synths. FFO: IDLES, Nine Inch Nails, The Murder Capital, Protomartyr, Gilla Band and DITZ.

FUBELT channel a sonic urgency, encapsulated by their dual-guitar attack, angular grooves and cathartic live performances. Influenced by late-1970s post-punk bands as well as contemporary artists such as Shame, TV Priest and Protomartyr, FUBELT have created fierce and unrelenting sound embodying elements of post-punk, noise rock and shoegaze. Their songs brood over societal discord whilst exploring the sullen underbelly of the human condition. Through a philosophical perspective, their words are bound by the anxieties of modern society and contentious political upheaval.

Formed by Alex Harries (Vocals/Guitar), Emile Driscoll (Guitar), Sam West (Bass) and Sam Fairclough (Drums), the Cardiff four-piece have played to packed-out crowds whilst supporting established acts Other Half, Seneca and Penny Rich. FUBELT are establishing themselves as a live staple on the post-punk scene as they prepare to debut new music in the coming months.

Returning to CWRW in support of Baudelaire, brand new South Wales outfit Marionette recently announced their ace new debut single ‘Your Hand’, out 27th September. Mixed and mastered by Charlie Francis this track has been a favourite in the band for a while and will be loved by fans of 60ft Dolls, The Strokes or Mini Mansions!

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Alberta Cross + Corntown Orchestra +Laila Woodward

Alberta Cross will be joining us at CWRW as part of ‘The Thief and The Heartbreaker’ Re-imagined solo tour.

Alberta Cross were formed by Swedish-born lead singer and guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee and his London pal Terry Wolfers in the mid-00s. Their anthemic Americana-tinged songs possess a vulnerability and earthiness, and it soon showed in how hugely their debut record ‘The Thief & The Heartbreaker’ began to connect with fans.

2024 will see a reworked re-release of this album featuring of wealth of musical collaborations including Katie Melua, Jack Savoretti and Band of Skulls.

This solo tour will celebrate the album and the man that helped bring it to life, Petter Ericson Stakee.

Support comes from Casper James and the Corntown Orchestra, plus rising Swansea-based singer songwriter Margo Thirlwell.

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard + Jack Jones + Papa Jupe’s

Fresh from the release of their new album Skinwalker on Communion Records, we’re delighted to announce the CWRW debut of Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard.

Skinwalker follows the Welsh Music Prize-nominated debut Backhand Deals and was written and recorded at frontman and producer Tom Rees’s Rat Trap studio, the room where Rees has previously recorded and produced tracks for emerging talent – Panic Shack, Do Nothing and The Bug Club. The material – as previewed on Therapy and their earlier single Chew – showcases a heavier and more disquieting sound than anything the band have released to date.

This darker sound and aesthetic take inspiration from found-footage horror and the Navajo concept of the Skinwalker – a legendary malevolent shapeshifter – from which the album takes its name. Thematically, each track on the record is designed to take you through descending floors of Rees’s mind each becoming more horrific than the last with the Skinwalker at the final floor, representing his inner fears, self-sabotage, hatred, and self-doubt. It’s a deeply intimate record of self-analysis and personal growth told through heavy fuzz-drenched guitars, a crushing rhythm section and fevered vocals.

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard have appeared at Glastonbury, Eurosonic, Latitude, All Points East, SXSW and Green Man. They’ve made of end-of-year lists with NME, DIY and Dork, and earned plaudits from the likes of The Guardian, The Telegraph, MOJO, Uncut, Record Collector, The Needle Drop, The Independent, CLASH, The Line Of Best Fit and So Young, amassing radio support from BBC Radio 1, NPR and Radio X.

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Jack Jones joins us at the very start of his UK solo tour. Jack has enjoyed Top 10 success with Trampolene on the Independent Album Charts with three Top 10 Albums, hit the road as special guest to Liam Gallagher, supported The Libertines and had the honour of being the first act to headline Swansea Arena.

South Wales daydream believer Jack Jones is a compulsive wordsmith and obsessive jotter-down of phrases. Across three studio albums over the past decade, his work with Trampolene has always drawn from this humungous, ever-accumulating verbal resource. He has also published a novel (2023’s ‘Swansea to Hornsey’) and recited poems and delivered spoken-word onstage.

For his solo album, Jack has put away his guitar and embraced a fresh and highly contemporary sound in which to couch his hard-hitting state of the nation poems of existential fear and loathing. His lyrics tackle many of today’s burning issues: mental health, drug addiction, mortality and the tortuous demands of technology. There’s also joy and hope in there.

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With post-punk, surf, disco and gospel influences, Papa Jupe’s T.C.’s sleazy and theatrical live performances lampoon masculinity, politics and power. The Cardiff 7-piece are an emerging force in the vibrant Welsh music scene. As well as being shortlisted for the Green Man Rising competition, the band has also supported indie front-runners English Teacher on their UK headline tour and played a string of sold-out headline gigs.

Papa Jupe’s T.C. invite you to join the cult of Papa Jupe. Redemption comes to those who wait. Join the Taurus.

Dwi Ar Gau – Lleucu Non (Official Video)

Official music video for ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ (I’m closed off). Combination of animation and film by Lleucu Non, including footage from Sion Roberts personal archive.

Funded by Lŵp x PYST Music Video Grant

Lleucu Non – Dwi Ar Gau

Quick on the heels of Cyn Cwsg, BERIAN and Ffion Campbell-Davies, Lleucu Non is the fourth artist to release via UNTRO, as her debut single, ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ (I’m Closed), is set to arrive next Friday 11th October.

Thematically, ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ is a track that captures the complexities and challenges that come with long distance relationships, as Lleucu samples lost conversations she found buried in her phone’s voicemail. Slipping between the raw and the dreamy, the track was produced by London-based producer and Welsh Language Album of the Year 2022 winner, Sywel Nyw, as his favoured subtle beats are planted beneath Lleucu’s infectious melodies. Both artists came together to record the track at London College of Contemporary Music as part of a longstanding collaboration between Klust and Youth Music.

Hailing from Dyffryn Nantlle but now calling Cardiff home, ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ draws on inspiration from the likes of Thallo, Mazzy Star and Cate le Bon as Lleucu crafts her own slice of dream pop. Lleucu explains: “I started writing songs around four years ago during lockdown so it’s really exciting to finally being able to release my first single!”

She adds: “Recording in London and collaborating with Sywel Nyw was a special experience and I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to work with such a talented producer. The track’s lyrics are open to interpretation, but to me, it conveys the angst many people feel after graduating, among other ideas! I’m looking forward to seeing how the single is received.”

Dwi Ar Gau – Lleucu Non

Official music video for ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ (I’m closed off). Combination of animation and film by Lleucu Non, including footage from Sion Roberts personal archive.


Funded by Lŵp x PYST Music Video Grant

Beach of Dreams

TAPE is currently part of an exciting project called Beach of Dreams; we are part of a network of organisations, artists, and communities in a shared mission to explore and respond to the pressing climate challenges facing the UK’s coastal regions. 

We have been working with Jason Singh, an artist, nature beatboxer, producer, DJ, curator, facilitator and performer. He has worked with the likes of the BBC, Tate Britain, and the National Trust to name a few! 

TAPE Sound will work alongside Jason to capture sound from various sources in Colwyn Bay and the surrounding areas to be part of an immersive sonic experience. He will also be looking to capture stories and perspectives from the local community. 

TAPE is proud to be part of this coastal celebration alongside commissioned artists and local communities across the UK!