Free live music at Galeri

Friday Live Music

Friday 8th October 2010

At night in two venues on the Maes, Caernarfon

9pm     Morgan Lloyd –         Colorama / Alun Tan Lan

10pm   Y Castell         –           Sian James / Gwilym Morus

Both gigs free entry

Thursday Live Music

Thursday 7th October 2010

Galeri, Caernarfon

19:00     Yucatan

Performance in the bar by Yucatan, who will surely envelope Galeri with their etheralethereal wall of sound. Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/yucatanambyth

Saturday Live Music – TONIGHT!

Saturday 11th September 2010 – TONIGHT!

Doors – 7pm
Wales Millennium Centre
FREE entry
First come until capacity
No age limit

Event sponsored by PRS for Music and Wales Millennium Centre

Free concerts as Welsh Music Foundation takes over the foyer area of Wales Millennium Centre. It will be a fantastic way to spend a Saturday night, all free, all splendid.

Spencer McGarry Season

Spencer McGarry Season is a solo project with the aim to record six albums in sixdifferent styles. Following on from the 3 piece basic rock of last year’s Episode 1, Spencer returns with Episode 2, a baroque musical taking in Rogers & Hammerstein, Sondheim and Sparks along with SMiLE era Brian Wilson, the minimalism of Steve Reich and Sufjan Stevens. A 12 piece mini orchestra will attempt the cavalcade of increasingly intricate and wildly tangential song cycles and medleys.

“Awash with deft pocket-symphony touches, brassy asides and slivers of strings” Paul Lester,  The Guardian

“Eccentric and flamboyant” — Bethan Elfyn Radio 1

”Inventive, delightful, very musical, maybe slightly off kilter and out of time, both of which are compliments, yes?” David Leaf (Director ‘Beautiful Dreamer- Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile’)

www.myspace.com/spencermcgarry

El Goodo

Hailing from inside the valleys surrounded by the majestic mountains of South Wales, five piece multi-instrumental group, consisting of the talents of Pixy, Jason, Lewie, Matty and Elliott, El goodo, combine the mellow and melodious psychedelic sounds of the Beach Boys,The Byrds and Love, with beautiful and lusharrangements that call upon the mystical countryside from whence they came. The result is the creation of a mysterious, sweepingly grand, and at times whimsical approach to their already eclectic soundscape.

In 2005 they released their first self-titled, self-produced album, on the Super Furry Animals label Placid Casual, where they also opened for the Welsh psychedels, on their UK tour.El Goodo are a band worthy of critical and mass appeal; they have received accolades from both their home isle and the United States, touted as Artist of the Month by Spin Magazine in 2005 – their intoxicating second album: Coyote, received both a US and a UK release.

Coyote is both sprawling and hauntingly deserted, evoking a sonic landscape both richly cultivated and desolate, with intensely poetic harmonies and darkly articulated instrumentation.Coyote was produced by the band in a deserted theater and has brought together Cian Ciaran of the Super Furry Animals’ fame, to mix the album, as well as renowned artist Pete Fowler to capture the eloquence of the music for the album’s artwork. Coyote is a beautiful piece of darkly rich psych-pop perfection, brought to you 
by the new breed of Welsh pop wizards–El Goodo.

www.elgoodo.co.uk

Jonathan Powell

Jonathan has been in demand not only as a performer but also as a songwriter having recently co-written and recorded several tracks on Charlotte Church’s new album. His music has been described as ‘urban folk’ and whilst there are elements of country, punk, jazz and out-and-out pop, his music carries an immense emotional weight through lush melody and engaging story telling.

There is also a strong classical influence having studied the viola at the Royal Academy of Music, London from the early age of 16. For the past 6 months, Powell has been touring the UK and recently headlined at the ‘How The Light Gets In’ at Hay Festival followed by a performance at ‘The Marylebone Summer Fayre’, the ‘Beach Break Live’, ‘Hop Farm Festival’ and more recently the’Green Man Festival’.

www.myspace.com/jonathanpowellmusic

Friday Live Music

Friday 10th September 2010

Doors – 7pm
Wales Millennium Centre
FREE entry
First come until capacity
No age limit

Event sponsored by PRS for Music and Wales Millennium Centre
Evening’s compere: Radio One Introducing in Wales’ Bethan Elfyn
Presented in association with SWN and GRAB productions

Future Of The Left

On one hand, Future Of The Left are a band much like many other bands are a band. Four men, wielding bits of wood and metal strung with strings and skin, often to be found playing to rooms of other men mildly intoxicated on watery dilutions of strong lager. On the other hand, however, you can take that most basic factual definition and dispose of it by any means deemed socially and legally acceptable by local fly-tipping laws.

Future of the Left is led by singer/guitarist Andy Falkous, formerly of Mclusky and joined by a new line-up. Their second studio album, Travels with Myself and Another (4AD), received 9/10 from Drowned In Sound and Clash and 8/10 from Pitchfork – not that any of that matters. They are based in Cardiff and this will be both loud and splendid.

www.futureoftheleft.com

We Are Animal

WE ARE ANIMAL hail from North Wales near Mount Snowdon where they trek off into the Welsh wilds to walk, contemplate and put together the music and melodies that make up the bands sound. Impressively accomplished song writing and a knack for a great hook do everything to convince you that there is no way this band can only be a few months old.
But that’s the long and the short of it, the band started in December 2009 and has been prolific both in their output and their live presence ever since. In keeping with this work ethic the band record all the songs the day they are written, bar one or two vocal parts, on a BOSS 8 track in various locations such as old quarries and abandoned buildings dotted around their native Welsh country side. This unpretentious approach towards DIY methods of making and producing recordings means that the sum total of their output is something exciting, entrancing and shot through with a melodic cool it’s hard to quantify.WE ARE ANIMAL are hoping to test their sound on the festival scene this summer as well as continuing their never ending scattered tour of the UK.
‘1268’ was released on June 7th through TOO PURE SINGLES CLUB
‘Idolise’ (the debut album) is available now through iTUNES and will be released in CD format by October
Here is the video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z70FbdPVN8
www.myspace.com/weareanimal

Exit International

Formed from the debris of Midasuno and The Martini Henry Rifles, The Cardiff based, duel-bass lead trio EXIT_INTERNATIONAL (E_I) drop their ‘Sex W/ Strangers E.P’ in July 2010 on Undergroove Records. Starting the band purely as an experiment to perform a support slot for The Melvins (From which the band – then under a different moniker – were removed from the bill on the day due tour support), The band now have taken a very limited musical palette and absolutely run screaming into a burning building with the idea. Less is definitely more in the case of E_I. Following a number of ‘Bands to watch in 2010′ style pieces, Eli Janney (of Girls Against Boys fame) having heard E_I online, personally arranged for Alternative Press to feature the band in their own forecast.

By making a load of noise – taking influence from a shared love of Girls Against Boys, Nirvana, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Pixies, and The Blood Brothers, E_I have become a devastating live prospect – capitalising on the lack of the good ol’ six-string guitar in the process, which has caused many a talking point in the rave reviews and press the band have received thus far. The band’s choice performances have included performances at SWN festival 2009, a Headline show for Rock Sound Magazine, an Artrocker Club night, as well as shows alongside The Bronx, Pulled Apart By Horses, The 80’s Matchbox B-line Disaster, The Computers, Cri me in Stereo, Baddies and The King Blues. The most recently were selcted to play the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading and Leeds Fesival

“….Two bass guitars which duel each other for supremacy using a deadly arsenal of fuzz boxes. I’d hazard a guess that the band’s hobbies include audio terrorism, and eh…well, that’s probably it – but they’re definatly worth seeing!” Artrocker Magazine Oct 2009

‘It’s plain to see by the hoard of snappers hovering around the tiny stage that there’s already a buzz surrounding them….The three piece smash out tunes into oblivion with rip-roaring ferocity’ (8/10) Rock Sound Oct 2009

www.myspace.com/exitinternationalmusic