It is the Spencer McGarry Season Album Launch this Wednesday in Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff (I play Bass in this band)
I, Sweet Baboo, am then playing in Northampton this Saturday, then in Caernarfon (North Wales) week Friday and Llanfrothen (North Wales) a week Staurday
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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.
Magical multi-instrumentality, superb songcraft, new comedy and award winning performance poetry, all from some of Wales' most charismatic women performers in the biggest Yurt in Wales, on an Autumn evening! And no credit crunch excuses for not being there - the price is whatever you want to put in the Meltdown Hat!
STACEY BLYTHE A one-woman meltdown, Stacey Blythe plays harp/whistles/keyboard/ accordion etc in internationally acclaimed Welsh folk band Ffynnon. Stacey has performed with Billy Bragg, Meredith Monk, Michelle Shocked, and rising American singer Pamela Wyn Shannon (at last months amazing Meltdown) to name but a few. "Blythe's versatility shines at every note" Radio 2 Folk Reviews.
RACHEL TAYLOR BEALES Her latest album Red Tree - produced by Welsh troubadour Martyn Joseph - takes British folk as its starting point, adding in hypnotic, echoing vocals, subtle strings and country/blues tones to create something entirely new. 'Highly Recommended" BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris "hauntingly beautiful’ Acoustic Magazine www. myspace. com/racheltaylorbeales
CLARE POTTER One of Wales’s most successful performance poets, lived and taught in New Orleans for many years and has won the John Tripp award for spoken poetry. "Crackling with wry humour, affection and defiance".Rachel Trezise
COMING SOON Mr & Mrs Clark & Meltdown present A CHRISTMAS CABBA HEY! Sun 14th Dec at Milgis “like some crazed darkly surrealistic cosmic guerrilla attack” David Adams
MINT II bringing you filthy electronic music wrapped up in tekno with dash of rock& roll sauce.
JUILIAN LIBERATOR acid tekno form London's favorite free party crew -stay up forever
STAEDLER AND WALDORF ,the original beat muppets unveiling a new set before invading the USA with their hypnotic brand of live breaks, and supaphat bass.
BOMB CULTURE giving you an onslaught of rotten rock n roll, bleeps,squeaks&blistering beats
NO SLEEP POLICE straight outta blackwood with kick ass hip hop to rock~&shock the nation PROJECT SERPO giving us the best in electro acoustic fun and bleeps
DR NITROGEN from critical mass on the decks DUBSTEP GROOVES ON THE ROOF TERRACE FROM MONDO, ONE MAN DUB SLIPPERS THE DARKSIDE GALLERY VISUAL SLUT
20/11/08 at the MEZE lounge ,market street,newport 8;30 -3;00am
MINT II bringing you filthy electronic music wrapped up in tekno with dash of rock& roll sauce.
JUILIAN LIBERATOR ,acid tekno form London's favorite free party crew -stay up forever
STAEDLER AND WALDORF ,the original beat muppets unveiling a new set before invading the USA with their hypnotic brand of live breaks, and supaphat bass.
BOMB CULTURE giving you an onslaught of rotten rock n roll, bleeps,squeaks&blistering beats
NO SLEEP POLICE straight outta blackwood with kick ass hip hop to rock~&shock the nation PROJECT SERPO giving us the best in electro acoustic fun and bleeps
DR NITROGEN form critical mass on the decks DUBSTEP GROOVES ON THE ROOF TERRACE FROM MONDO, ONE MAN DUB SLIPPERS THE DARKSIDE GALLERY VISUAL SLUT
20/11/08 at theMEZE lounge ,market street,newport 8;30 -3;00am
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