THE MOON'S MAY BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND
We’ll be open across the bank holiday weekend with a great selection of live acts, DJs til the early hours and of course open before/after The Boss playing around the corner in the Stadium!
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We’ll be open across the bank holiday weekend with a great selection of live acts, DJs til the early hours and of course open before/after The Boss playing around the corner in the Stadium!
7.30pm-11pm Ages 18 + Pay what you can, suggested minimum £5 (card or cash). Blowout presents.
🍺Bar opens 4pm 🎸Live music 7.30pm 🎧DJs after playing alt rock classics til 3am
Bar opens 4pm, free hip-hop showcase 7pm-11pm, bar open til late. Ages 18+ free entry. Same But Diff Events presents.
We’ll be open from 1pm ahead of The Boss around the corner in the Stadium! Pop in before/after for the best playlists, drink deals, friendliest atmosphsere and to beat the queues!
8pm-11pm Ages 18+ free entry. 60s/70s-tinged psych rock influenced by Neil Young, Black Sabbath, The Beatles & Ty Segall. We’ll be open from 1pm ahead of the Bruce Springsteen show at the Stadium, live music 8pm, then we’ve got DJs after playing classic tracks til the early hours, all free entry!
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ £5.50 adv + booking fee, £7 on the door (card or cash). “Punchlove takes the decades-old architecture of shoegaze and pair it with soaring indie riffs. Its’ Magic”
7.30pm-10.15pm Ages 18+ £6 adv + booking fee / £8 doors (card or cash). Experimental musician THOMAS TRUAX returns to Cardiff, bringing his musical inventions including The Hornicator and Sister Spinster.
7pm Ages 18+ Free entry. DIY Cardiff presents. DIY alt rock, indie pop & punk bands including London pnx Tripsun.
🍺Bar opens 4pm 🎸Live music 7pm 🎧DJs after til 3am.
Ages 18+ £10 adv booking fee / more on the door. Fashion launch with live bands 6.30-11pm. After party with MPC Crew £5 adv / more on the door 11pm-3am.
6pm-9.30pm 18+ £5 adv + booking fee / more on the door. The entirety of the evening will be discussed in Welsh making this the first EVER Welsh Pint of Science, showing that Welsh is a scientific language too! This event will be conducted in Welsh with translation systems in place for those that need them.
New performers always welcome - please sign up to perform at the bar from 7pm, first act starts 7.30pm. Seated event. Ages 18+ free entry.
🎤Event 7-11pm
7pm-11pm. Ages 18+ £8/£4 concessions adv + booking fee, more on the door/donations. Raising money for the BIG QUEER PICNIC (which takes place on 22nd June). Expect great music, rainbows absolutely everywhere and a sense of community!
7.30pm-11pm Ages 18+ £6 adv + booking fee, £8 on the door. Album Launch for ‘On Mercury Sea’. Wall of psych/gaze sound resulting in a mesmeric aural joy to behold, for fans of Spiritualized, Brian Jonestown Massacre and My Bloody Valentine.
7.30pm-10.45pm Ages 18+ Pay what you can (card or cash). Cardiff based John MOuse has been active on the UK indie circuit for over twenty years. Noted for acerbic chronicles of everyday micro-drama and for his performative live act.
🍺Bar opens 5pm 🎸Live music from 7.30pm 🎧DJ Drew Amber playing alternative classics til 3am (free)
7pm-10pm. 333 presents.Ages 18+ £5 adv + booking fee or pay what you can on the door (card or cash). Awesome punk rock noise & trippy psych line up.
10.30pm-3.00am Ages 18+ Groove System x Psyked On Tour. Tickets from £4.50 + booking fee early bird & upwards, more on the door. All things high energy 135-180bpm - UK Garage, Grime, Dubstep, Bassline, Jungle, Drum'n'Bass.
5pm-10pm Ages 18+ FREE ENTRY. FOX BITES BOOK LAUNCH with LLOYD MARKHAM - readings collaborating with experimental live acts TOM EMLYN, CHARLIE MILES, GARETH DAVIES. Plus support from MAES Y CIRCLES, HOWL & JONES, VOIDSHAPES.
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ £4 entry (card or cash). Our monthly intimate night of acoustic & folk sounds. Includes country artists Eleri (headlining with her full band!) and Rosey Cale, father & daughter folk duo The Blessed Crow, and singer/songwriter Jenna Kearns and Katielou.
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ more details soon. With an eclectic range of inspiration spanning genres and art forms, fans of CAN, Broadcast, 70s Iggy and Sonic Youth will love!
(Please note this show has been moved from Bristol to Cardiff so this is the correct listing : )
CARDIFF PSYCH & NOISE FEST returns for 2024! Our celebration of psychedelic, noise, weird & experimental sounds on Womanby Street.
This year we start with a bonus add-on show on Wed 22.05 with HOT GARBAGE (pay what you can, suggested £5-7). Fri 24.05 is our Welcome Party (£5 adv), Sat 25.05 & Sun 26.05 are alldayers (£14 adv each day).
Each night finishes with some great DJs including PURPLE SICK & NEW//NOISE til late (free after the bands)
£3 entry, ages 18+. Safe, fun and inclusive disco & social for adults with additional needs (eg learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health conditions). New attendees always welcome.
🪩 5.30pm-8.30pm
7pm-10pm Ages 14+ £15 adv plus booking fee, £20 on the door. Sonny's stand out vocal and unique songwriting ability have gained him over 60m streams to date and this year he will be releasing his debut album starting with single 'Panorama'. This Pop/R&B outing is Sonny's commentary on how he sees the world today. A lively breakbeat and thumping bass line offset Sonny's soulful vocals, giving throwback 90's vibes. Valid ID required to purchase alcohol.
7pm-10.45pm Ages 18+ £tbc - more details shortly. Y DAIL formed in Pontypridd, South Wales in 2018. The band's songwriter, Huw Griffiths, cites Television, 60s girl-group pop, Joe Meek and early Prefab Sprout as influences.
🍺 Bar opens 4pm 🎸Live music from 7pm 🎧MK DJs after til 3am (free)
11pm-3am. Ages 18+ free entry. Dark electronic club night with a futuristic, post-apocalyptic twist.
🍺Bar opens 5pm 🎸Live music 7pm 🎧MK Clubnight til 3am
New performers always welcome - please sign up to perform at the bar from 7pm, first act starts 7.30pm. Seated event. Ages 18+ free entry.
🎤Event 7-11pm
7.30pm-11pm Ages 18+ This Feeling presents. £9 adv + booking fee, £11 on the door. Indie rock’n’roll bands.
6.30pm-11pm Ages 18+ Blowout presents the final ESUNA show. Pay what you can - online tickets £5+ booking fee.
10pm-3am Ages 18+ £tbc - CALCULATE DRUM’N’BASS clubnight - announcement coming soon!
7.30pm-10.45pm Ages 18+ £8 adv + booking fee / £10 on the door (card or cash). Blowout presents. MASCA sound like the awkward third wheel at a Marina and the Diamonds and No Doubt date. The vocals are classy, the guitar is janky, the bass is saucy and the drums are everything you need them to be.
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ £12 adv + booking fee / £14 on the door (card or cash). THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES is the post-indie project of Glenn Donaldson from San Francisco who releases songs like monthly postcards to a loyal following, amassing a huge catalogue of cathartic guitar pop - releasing 8 LPs over the last 5 years. The band debuts in the UK in June 2024 as a five-piece made-up of musicians from SF's thriving indie-pop underground.
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ free entry. Networking & showcase event for anyone with an interest in electronic music production - new guests always welcome.
7.30pm-11pm Ages 18 £5 entry card or cash. Huge line up curated by Rainyday Rainbow.
We’ll be open all day before WEEZER & THE SMASHING PUMPKINS play in The Castle. We’ve got DJs after til 3am playing all the alternative classics - your perfect night out after the show! We’re just opposite the Castle on Womanby Street, see you there!
7pm-10pm. MOB Promo presents. Ages 18+ £7 adv + booking fee / more on the door (card or cash). Includes 5-piece progressive pop metal riff-makers CHVPTERS from Brighton.
7.30pm 18+ £5.50 adv + booking fee, £7 on the door (card or cash). Philly band WITCHING's sound has evolved into a genre-bending, nightmarish, blackened melodic death metal that embodies the fusion of pitch-black intensity through black metal, sludge, post-metal & more.
Bar opens 4pm, gig 6pm-11pm Ages 18+ free entry. Huge selection of post/progressive sludge, post-metal, metalcore, stoner doom & hardcore.
7pm 18+ £5 adv + booking fee, more on the door. London Hardcore Punk infused with Black Metal. It's the Good stuff.
Ages 18+ free entry. First we open at 1pm before Foo Fighters so pop in for summer drinks before the show.
Then join us after for our PARTY AFTER FOO FIGHTERS with DJ Ed playing alt rock classics til 2am. Free entry! 100% unofficial
2pm-11pm. Ages 18+. Vela Pulsar is a brand new music festival on Womanby Street, Cardiff. Running from 28th - 29th June 2024. Saturday tickets start at £14 plus booking fee, or £22 for Fri/Sat tickets.
MANICSUEDE WEEKEND DAY 1! We’ll be open all day before MANIC STREET PREACHERS & SUEDE play in The Castle. Followed by DJs after playing alternative classics til 3am (free entry all night) - plus some more Manics/Suede related surprises announced nearer the date - we’re huge fans here at The Moon so we’re fully embracing this fantastic weekend!
MANICSUEDE WEEKEND DAY 2! We’ll be open all day before MANIC STREET PREACHERS & SUEDE play in The Castle. Followed by DJs after playing alternative classics til 3am (free entry all night) - plus some more Manics/Suede related surprises announced nearer the date - we’re huge fans here at The Moon so we’re fully embracing this fantastic weekend!
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ First level tickets start from £5 + booking fee / more on the door. Tickets on sale from 11th June. CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KILLER, MORNING STATE, ROOT ZERO, STATE OF DECEIT, VIRTUE IN VAIN.
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ First level tickets start from £5 + booking fee / more on the door. Tickets on sale from 14th June. THE DEAD FLOWERZ, INTERUM, PRIMITIVE SOUL, WYR, ZACK ROBERTSON.
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ First level tickets start from £5 + booking fee / more on the door. Tickets on sale from 18th June. THE HUMBER COLLECTIVE, IDLECHORD, THE LOST CAUSE, THE MULES, SHE DIED IN COVENTRY.
7pm-12am 18+ £10 adv + booking fee, £12 on the door, card or cash. Upbeat funk & passionate soul - coming home for her long-awaited “Big Wales Show”, Helena May’s shows are an unforgettable experience. Celebrating her debut album 'Funkalicious', alongside exclusive-performances from new record 'Puzzle Pieces' - May captivates audiences with her live band, high-powered vocals and vibrant stage presence. Joining the evening is rising-welsh-star, Josh Hicks. With his contemporary, yet timeless sound infused with soulful jazz influences - Josh is making waves and mesmerising audiences throughout Wales.
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ First level tickets start from £5 + booking fee / more on the door. Tickets on sale from 21st June. BASIC STATE, ENABLING BEHAVIOUR, GRAND MIRAGE, KARMEN FIELD, PUZZLE TREE.
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ First level tickets start from £5 + booking fee / more on the door. Tickets on sale from 25th June. BACK IV BLOOD, FRAKARD, GARBAGE DAY MASSACRE, JAMES KENNEDY & THE UNDERDOGS, THE WOODSMAN.
HUB FESTIVAL is back for 2024! The next festival’s dates are 23-25 August bank holiday weekend. Book any travel or accommodation, time off work, and we’ll be making our first announcements and putting tickets on sale in Jan/Feb 2024.
7.30pm-10pm early finish show. Ages 16+ (please bring ID if you’re 18+ and wish to purchase alcohol). Scruff of the Neck presents. £12 adv + booking fee, more on the door. Indie rock quartet from Manchester
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ £10 adv + booking fee / more on the door. Live Nation presents. 2-piece psych alt rock band from Edinburgh.
7pm-10pm Ages 18+ £17.50 adv + booking fee / £20 on the door (card or cash). Keith Streng (The Fleshtones), Clem Burke (Blondie), Michael Giblin (Cherry Twister), Josh Kantor (The Baseball Project), Kurt Bloch (The Fastbacks). This is the story of five men who've been there and done that. Founded in 2011, THE SPLIT SQUAD is one of the finest all-star teams you might never have heard before. They don't get together too often, as they have other gigs too - now they're back with 'Another Cinderella', their first full-length album since 2013's debut 'Now Hear This..". Relentless power-pop beats, deep-fried blues, psychedelia, late-60s-style soulful rock and 70s hard rock.
7pm-10.45pm Ages 18+. Indie pop band CUD were critically acclaimed throughout their career, supported the Pixies and recorded sessions with John Peel. Despite this, CUD never broke through to a mainstream UK record-buying audience and remain as one of the most underrated bands from the British music scene in the last 20 years. CUD disbanded in 1995 and reformed in 2006. "Sexy rhythms and memorable sparky lyrics. The music press hated them, the fan’s couldn’t get enough of em!"
This Feeling presents. Ages 18+ £9 adv + booking fee / £11 on the door (card or cash). BAG OF CANS: 5-piece weaving through the musical ranks on a sound described as "a gloriously surrel mix of old school indie, Weimar Berlin cabaret and Kinks circa Village Green".
7.30pm-11pm Ages 18+ Blowout presents. £5 adv + booking fee / pay what you can. Abrasive techno, sinewy electronica, sparkling percussion and cut-glass vocals, drawing on influences from sixties girl groups and chansonnier tradition to pummeling electronics, PC Music and kosmische.
7.30pm-11pm Ages 18+ Tickets £5 + booking fee / £7 on the door. Great selection of South Wales & Bristol alt rock bands!
8pm-12am Ages 18+ We’ll be celebrating making it to 7 years with a week of fantastic events! Thanks everyone for your support over the last year and we hope you’ll come to celebrate with us 🎂 Pop in for a couple of rounds of musical bingo for a chance to win some awesome prizes like merch, gig tickets & bar tab! More details shortly.
6.30pm-11pm Ages 18+ SOLD OUT. Limited unreserved seating/tables available. ISABELLA DORTA will be reading from her brand new book 'The Letters I Will Never Send', as well as previous works.
Doors open at 6.30pm, the show starts 7pm and includes a short interval, support act & open mic. Book signing begins at 9.30pm - bring along your own copies or all four of Isabella's books will be for sale at the end of the show (card/cash).
1pm-5pm All-ages £20 adv + booking fee (early purchase recommended). Limited unreserved seating/tables available. ISABELLA DORTA will be reading from her brand new book 'The Letters I Will Never Send', as well as previous works.
Doors open at 1pm, the show starts 1.30pm and includes a short interval. Book signing begins at 4pm - bring along your own copies or all four of Isabella's books will be for sale at the end of the show (card/cash).
2pm-11pm Ages 18+ £18 adv + booking fee / more on the door. NOIZZEFEST is a celebration of 10 years of Noizze. Line up across both venues: CLT DRP, VEXED, THE SAINT PIERRE SNAKE INVASION, DEATH GOALS, BURNER, EL MOONO, DELAIRE THE LIAR, NIGHTLIVES, WALLOWING, SLASH FICTION, BEYOND EXTINCTION, DE’LOUR, BLANK ATLAS, THE LIARS CLUB. DJ TRISHNA playing alternative party classics til 3am (free after the bands).
🎸Gig 2-11pm 🎧DJ TRISHNA after til 3am
11pm-3am. Ages 18+ free entry. Alternative party classics til the early hours! We’ll be celebrating making it to 7 years with a week of fantastic events.
Bar opens 4pm, live music from 7pm, DJs after til 3am.
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ free entry. Full band show with OPHELIA’S BEARD - part of The Moon’s 7th Birthday Week celebrations!
🍺Bar opens 5pm 🎸Live music from 7pm 🎧DJ COOPER after til 3am
7.30pm-11pm. Ages 18+ £8 adv + booking fee / more on the door. Blowout presents. BRASHER pull influences from Cancer Bats, The Bronx, F*cked Up, Screaming Females, The St Pierre Snake Invasion, Royal Blood.
£3 entry, ages 18+. Safe, fun and inclusive disco & social for adults with additional needs (eg learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health conditions). New attendees always welcome.
🪩 5.30pm-8.30pm
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ £4 entry (card or cash). Our monthly intimate night of acoustic & folk sounds. Unreserved seating & tables available.
We’ll be celebrating making it to 7 years with a week of fantastic events! Thanks everyone for your support over the last year and we hope you’ll come to celebrate with us 🎂
7pm-10.30pm Ages 18+ £5 adv + booking fee / more on the door. Organised by a group of university students currently studying events management, raising as much money as possible. Ty Hafan is a charity based in South Wales that provides support & care to children with life-shortening conditions who are not expected to live beyond 18 years. They continue their support for the families during the bereavement stage. The children under Ty Hafan’s care have a range of life-shortening illnesses such as Severe Cerebral Palsy, Cancer and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ £5 adv & booking fee / more on the door. Our lovely bar staff member Ru is returning to Uganda for 3 months with Play Action International, working on 3 different projects between May-Sept, building playgrounds for disadvantaged children and teaching the importance of play in rural primary schools.
7pm-11pm 18+ free entry. Wilding Promotions presents. Heavy rock band from South Wales - expect crushing riffs and thundering drums from Rockabye Reaper!
7pm-10.45pm Ages 18+ free entry. With a sound routed in alternative rock but using broad strokes of colour to fill their music, FEVERJAW are the latest guitar driven band to arrive in the vibrant South Wales scene.
🍺Bar opens 5pm 🎸Gig 7pm 🎧 DJ DREW AMBER playing alternative classics til 3am
7pm-2am Ages 18+ Fresh x Cardiff Outpost presents live acts & DJs til the early hours. Tickets from £4-8 advance + booking fee, more on the door.
7pm-10pm. Ages 14+ SOLD OUT (see event info for the waiting list for spare tickets).
Original tickets (from 05.11.23) remain valid, or if you can’t make this new date you can request a refund from your ticket seller.
6-10pm early show. Ages 18+ £7 adv + booking fee / £8 on the door (card or cash). Brixton-based post-punk power trio exploring a whole mix of genres including jazz, rap, bossa nova, math rock. Their songs are a surreal social commentary packed with punchy rhythms and eclectic time signatures, and their youthful charisma, humour, passion, and sense of fun make for an addictively energetic live show.
10.30pm-3am Ages 18+ £5 entry on the door. NOCS presents. A new clubnight is coming to Cardiff!
6pm-10.30pm - bar opens 4pm. Ages 18+ free entry. CH, CRAKAJAK, GMAN, HASH, JJAMBO, JIMBO, KJ, REPLAY, SAYKRIDD, UNITY.
Followed by CARDIFF DISCO CLUB 10.30pm-3am £5.
7pm Ages 18+ £7 adv + booking fee / more on the door. Up To 11 presents indie rock bands as part of their Big Spring Bash. Followed by DJ Ethan from Team Up! playing emo pop-punk alt til 3am.
Bar opens 4pm, live music 7pm, DJs after til 3am.
7pm-11pm Ages 18+ free entry. Networking & showcase event for anyone with an interest in electronic music production - new guests always welcome. ‘PRODUCT_005_COMFORT’ Various Artists album compilation launch - album sales proceeds in aid of Kidney Wales. Live sets from SUNBANE, SOUPSOUNDS and live visuals from PROCRASTINATRIX.
New performers always welcome - please sign up to perform at the bar from 7pm, first act starts 7.30pm. Seated event. Ages 18+ free entry.
🎤Event 7-11pm
€UROTR4SH clubnight 10.30pm-3am Ages 18+ free entry. DJs playing TECHNO, FOOTWORK, GABBA, CLUB TECH, EBM
3.30pm-11pm. Ages 18+ £15 adv + booking fee / more on the door (card or cash). 333 presents this huge line up as part of Diwylliant Festival. Including THE BLUNDERS who play politically charged dance punk with biting social commentary and savage humour.
After party with €UROTR4SH DJs playing TECHNO, FOOTWORK, GABBA, CLUB TECH, EBM til 3am! (free entry after the bands).
4pm-12am Ages 18+ free entry. Bar opens 4pm, live music 7.30pm-10.30pm, alternative classics til midnight - catch up over a pint after the bands. Alternative rock & ethereal metal bands.
7.30pm-11pm This Feeling presents. Ages 18+ £9 adv + booking fee / £11 on the door (card or cash). Indie rock alternative bands from Cardiff.
7pm 18+ £6 adv + booking fee / more on the door. UpTo11 Events presents. THE CATACOMBS release their new EP ‘Give Us Your Loudest Silence’ - 5-piece indie rock band from Cardiff.