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The Globe, Caerdydd yn derbyn hyrwyddwyr gigs

Ydy unrhyw un eisiau trefnu gigs neu digwyddiadau yng Nghaerdydd?

Mae’r lleoliad The Globe yn y Rhath yn cau – o yfory tan diwedd mis Awst 2011. Wedyn bydd y lle ar agor eto dan reolaeth newydd. (Mae Alan Jones, cyn-perchennog – a chyn-aelod o’r grwp Amen Corner – wedi gadael.)

Dyma neges gan Owen Bowley, trefnydd newydd:

Hello everyone!

As you may or may not have heard, The Globe as we know it is no more. IT IS NOT CLOSING PERMANENTLY. Simply put, the previous owner is no longer involved with the business and new management has taken over as of this week.

The venue itself is closing for 3 weeks from this Monday (8th) for refurbishment, after generous sponsership from Cardiff estate agents ‘South Wales Estates’. When it reopens it’s going to be bigger and better than ever. In brief, a few improvements are… a new brewery/cellar with new products (draught aspall cider/old speckled hen/peroni to name a few), meaning a FULLY STOCKED BAR, it’s already been vented in the past few weeks and now there will be AIR CONDITIONING, we’re also having an upstairs lounge area, and the list goes on…

Here’s the most important thing, which is where you lot come in…

I am now in control of taking bookings and filling the calender with shows at The Globe. I am going to turn that place around, support local music, bring door prices down, and generally make it the venue that it should have been from day one, but I need your help and support in doing so…

So here’s where I stand…

I believe local bands should get paid for their gigs but I also believe they should promote their shows passionately. Therefore, I’ve devised a system for band payments that quite simply means the more people you pull, the more you get paid. I should also state that I am not interested in putting on nights that pull less than 100 people, I understand that will happen from time to time but my sights are aimed higher. I’ve also placed bonus systems for consistently good shows, your band can make anything from £150 to £1000 depending on how hard you plan on pushing your shows.

On the flip side, if you are confident in the numbers you can pull, or you’re a promoter looking to hire the club, then I’ve also devised a hire fee system that works along the lines of the higher the bartake, the lower the hire fee. This is yet to be cleared by new management but rest assured something will be confirmed in the next few days.

I am open minded, therefore, musically I have no favouritism, whereas previously The Globe has shyed away from certain genres (hip-hop/hardcore/etc), I’m simply interested in putting on good shows and pulling good crowds.

Any gaps that I leave in the calender will be passed on to the owners to fill, and the fact is that they are businessmen looking to make money, they don’t care if it’s a tribute act, kareoke night, or cheesy disco doing that job, and so they shouldn’t. They’re interested in numbers, I’m the one in this new setup who’s passionate about pushing the Cardiff music scene and I’m responsible for keeping it consistent.

So there you have it, I guess the rest is self explanatory… If you are a musician who wants to play, a promoter who needs a venue, or simply have ideas that you’d like to run by me, please get in touch and let’s work together, also, feel free to pass this message on to anyone who you think might be interested, my phone number and e-mail are below…

Owen Bowley

Tel : 07540 566132
E-mail : bowlez malwen gmail.com

Plîs anfona unrhyw ymholiadau iddyn nhw yn uniongyrchol.

Rhys Iorwerth – Cywydd Coffa i’r Bidet (a fideos Bragdy’r Beirdd)

Roedd lot fawr o gerddi o ansawdd yn y noson cyntaf Bragdy’r Beirdd neithiwr yng Nghaerdydd! Yn hytrach na mewnosod pob fideo yma dw i’n argymell y sianel YouTube Bragdy’r Beirdd lle ti’n gallu clywed cerddi gan Catrin Dafydd, Osian Rhys Jones a geiriau difyr am hanes Caerdydd gan y gwestai gwadd Owen John Thomas.

Dyma un ohonyn nhw, Cywydd Coffa i’r Bidet gan Rhys Iorwerth:

Bragdy’r Beirdd – noson newydd yng Nghaerdydd

Bragdy Beirdd

Mae digwyddiadau fel Bragdy’r Beirdd, sef rhywbeth llenyddol o ansawdd sy’n hollol annibynnol gyda phresenoldeb cwrw, yn eitha prin yn fy mhrofiad i – hyd yn oed yn y prifddinas. (Heb sôn am y fwyd Caribïaidd yn y Rocking Chair, sy’n ardderchog.)

Manylion y digwyddiad cyntaf:

Rocking Chair, Glan yr Afon, Caerdydd
nos Iau, 9fed mis Mehefin 2011
8PM
Mynediad am ddim.

Gwestai:
Rhys Iorwerth
Osian Rhys Jones
Catrin Dafydd
DJ Meic P
“Gwestai gwadd arbennig”

Cer i’r tudalen Facebook a digwyddiad Facebook.

DIWEDDARIAD: @BragdyrBeirdd ar Twitter

Rhodfa Lloyd George a safleoedd di-bwynt eraill o gwmpas y Bae

Bae Caerdydd

Fel rhyw fath o wrthran i’r erthygl Owen Hatherley am Gaerdydd o’n i’n son am yn diweddar, beth am yr adolygiad heddiw o Fae Caerdydd yma:

One of the main objectives of this grand project was to ‘re-unite Cardiff with its waterfront’. However if you anticipate a pleasant stroll from Central Station to the Blue Lagoon forget it, although the walk is instructive. You can take the no. 6 shuttle bus instead (free with your train ticket). There is also a station at Cardiff Bay but it does not connect to Central – it is part of the Valleys commuter network. For years the CBDC tried to remove this branch line as it stood in the way of the grand plan for the Ceausescu-like Lloyd George Avenue down to the Bay…

CBDC yn golgyu Cardiff Bay Development Corporation uchod, targed o sylwadau negyddol gan Jones. Mwy:

The problem is that Callaghan Square is not really leading anywhere. You will find the unprepossessing start of Ceausescu Boulevard beyond the railway bridge in a chaos of traffic and budget hotels. Given that Bute St runs straight as an arrow from Callaghan Square to the Pier Head, why was the parallel Lloyd George Avenue necessary? Well, you know, Butetown, Tiger Bay – not really the right image is it boy. Lloyd George Avenue defines Butetown as a ghetto just like any London Docklands council estate. Actually Bute St is a lot more fun than Lloyd George Avenue. Firstly there is the wonderful neo-Norman St Mary’s Church (1845) and there are actually people. Lloyd George Avenue is the most boring street in, well at least Cardiff, lined with the most boring apartment blocks you will find anywhere, all smothered with apologetic landscaping. Actually it is lined only on one side; the other is landscaped as a cordon sanitaire to Butetown.

Mae’n werth darllen yr erthygl llawn a sgwennwyd gan Adrian Jones, cynlluniwr sy’n byw yn Nottingham, Lloegr.

llun gan Matthew Black (Creative Commons)

Owen Hatherley ar Gaerdydd / yng Nghaerdydd

Mae Owen Hatherley yn awdur, blogiwr, cefnogwr Pulp a meddyliwr – am y cysylltiadau rhwng pensaernïaeth, cynllunio tref, adeiladau, gofod, gwleidyddiaeth ac ein cymdeithas a diwylliant fel dinesyddion yn yr oes ôl-Llafur Newydd.

Caerdydd gan oddsteph

Dyma rhai o feddyliau Hatherley am Gaerdydd:

Here I have to confess assuming that Arcades were something uniquely found in Paris and Piccadilly, so hence my previous idea that their presence in West Yorkshire was proof of the area’s aptness for flanerie. Cardiff, however, has absolutely loads of iron-and-glass Arcades, albeit all in the same place, which carve unexpected and relatively intrigue-filled pathways through what would otherwise have been some Victorian alleyways. The Market has some great vintage signage on the outside, and the general atmosphere would have been perfect for a ’30s Hitchcock film, at just the right level of seedy.

Not all of central Cardiff is as interesting, but there’s a good line in silliness in some of the architecture, which for the most part – excepting the invariably dreadful towers – can be quite entertaining.Neuadd Dewi Sant gan waltjabsco I’d be especially interested to know what the FAT or AOC neo-postmodernist contingent think of buidings like the Cardiff Cineworld, which without ever quite being good, have at least a bit of fun with our prevailing modernism-on-the-cheap, as does the Millennium Stadium, although it’s a shame the struts are painted white, when black or red would have taken the admirable tastelessness to a more charismatic level. There’s one fine bit of late Brutalism, St David’s Hall, in the middle of this, looking improbably chic and European Grey by comparison.

The St Mary’s Street area is one of two really very good things in Cardiff, the other being the Imperialistic Beaux-Arts pleasures of Cathays Park, lots of Portland stone classical buildings housing sundry museums, assemblies and suchlike, with green space inbetween and boulevards laid through. Interestingly, this was planned decades before Cardiff was designated ‘capital’ of Wales, and yet it is laid out with confident gusto as if it already were…

Rwyt ti’n gallu darllen y cofnod llawn am Gaerdydd ar ei flog neu yn ei lyfr A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, yn ei eiriau “awtopsi’r dadeni trefol”. Byddi di’n edrych at y ddinas gyda llygaid newydd – er enghraifft, wnes i ddim sylwi’r “wal anifeiliaid” gan Gitta Gschwendtner (ar y ffordd i Fae Caerdydd o Grangetown) cyn i mi ddarllen y cofnod yna.

Mae Hatherley yn dod i Gymru i siarad ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd ar y 6ed mis Gorffenaf eleni. Does dim llawer o fanylion i gael eto ond cadwa’r dyddiad achos dylai’r digwyddiad bod yn ddifyr a diddorol iawn.

lluniau gan oddsteph a waltjabsco (Creative Commons)