This year Meltdown is proud to offer you 2 completely contrasting seasonal specials!
Sun Dec 14th Mr & Mrs Clark present a Christmas Cabba Hey! Milgis Lounge Bar, City Rd, Cardiff. FREE! Exorcise the ghosts of everything that’s excruciating about Xmas. A surreal, funny journey into all our festive fears featuring the globally renowned performance duo, the magic of the Milgis YURT, plus Satellite City star Boyd Clack and more surprise special guests. “like Terry and June on crack”. Amy Stackhouse www. mrandmrsclark. co. uk
Sat Dec 20th Meltdown & Secret Garden Christmas Cavalacade A snow-Globe of sumptuous seasonal shennanigans in aid of award winning mental health charity Mind in the Vale of Glamorgan brought to you by two of Cardiff's most adventurous promoters - Meltdown and Secret Garden Soundsystem and including a a 20-piece jazz/ska wall-of-horns, sassy cabaret, top DJs, a seductively bizarre Mancunian collision of hip-hop, folk and scat, and Santa.
Acts include: Gideon Conn, Wonderbrass, Radio 1’s DJ Huw Stephens, Lilywhitesass Dancers, Kareoke Carols with the Helium Choir, and much more. All in a splendid new 350 capacity venue: The Globe, Albany Rd, Roath, Cardiff. £8. All the fun of the annual Secret Garden Xmas Bash with added Meltdownery.
A fabulous 3-floor Clwbfest in aid of Mind and Samaritans. Please help us spread the word! Tickets now available at www.clwb.net and Spillers record shop, the Hayes, Cardiff City Centre
"Emily Breeze comes on like Elvis, Nick Cave and Patti Smith playing a baptist preacher rolled in to one, her striking bequiffed persona rocks,swaggers and plays holy southern hell out of a beautiful white guitar. Later on she plays songs of love and failure and the crowd goes silent.Then she cranks the neck of her guitar ,the bassist bows and the set shifts a gear into a swirling rock n roll climax. There was more sweat and energy in this rock n roll show than a hundred simpering indie boy bands". Artrocker reviewing Emily at peppermintpatti (Sept 07) "there's currently no one in Bristol playing with more sass or authority". Venue magazine Listen and marvel on www. myspace.com/emilybreeze