Hello! I jag this every year. My friends are involved in organising it. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a multi-venue SXSW style festival for ‘emerging’ bands held in various locations around Cardiff that’s curated by Radio 1’s Huw Stephens. Most of the local ‘DIY’ promoters muck in and help out as well. It’s one of the most fun weekends you can have here in the year.

Ticket details:

3-DAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £45
SATURDAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £25
FRIDAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £15
THURSDAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £10

And you can buy them from the following places:

www.sadwrn.com (no booking fee)
www.wegottickets.com
Spillers Records
Chapter Arts Centre
Catapult Records
Ticketline 029 20230 130
HMV Tickets
Cardiff Box Office www.cardiffboxoffice.com
Stroller wristbands grant you free priority access to shows in the stroller area subject to the individual capacity of each venue.

The first batch of announcements are trickling through. So far announced are:

ARABROT
BELLINI
COLORAMA
CRASH. DISCO!
EVENING CHORUS
FICTION
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HUW M
JOE WORRICKER
JOHN MOUSE
KUTOSIS
PERFUME GENIUS
RIGHT HAND LEFT HAND
SPECTRALS
STANDARD FARE
SUN DRUMS
T3ETH
THE EX
THE LAST REPUBLIC
VIOLAS
WE//ARE//ANIMAL
WICKES
Y NIWL

There’s also a couple of ‘fringe’ shows happening either in bigger venues or slightly outside town, for which you’ll have to buy separate tickets (you can buy wristband + ticket bundles to save some cash if you want). They are:

SWANS / JAMES BLACKSHAW
Millennium Music Hall
Sat 23rd Oct
7.30pm / 18+
£20 adv http://www.wegottickets.com/event/88454

PAUL HEATON
+ support
The Globe, Albany Road
Sat 23rd Oct
7.30pm / 18+
£15 adv http://www.wegottickets.com/event/88455

There’s also a load of music industry seminars and a gig poster exhibition taking place over the weekend. I’ll post details when I know them

Yay, Swn!