This year Meltdown is proud to offer you 2 completely contrasting seasonal specials!
Sun Dec 14th
Mr & Mrs Clark Present
A Christmas Cabba Hey!
Date and time: Sunday 14th Dec, 8pm till late
Venue: Milgis Lounge Bar, 213 City Rd, Cardiff, CF24 3JD. (In the YURT)
Tickets: FREE or whatever you would like to donate in Meltdown’s magic hat.
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 surprise special guests.
“both absurdly hilarious and heartbreakingly earnest" Theron Schmidt, Live Art UK.
"a performance that retains the pair’s trade mark disturbing edge, while potentially offering their most unabashedly accessible perfromance to date.” Andrzej Lukowski, Metro, Cardiff.
“A short, sharp, mind-battering dream impossible to define and indisputably bizarre, but call this pickled mind sadistic, I enjoyed it!” Amy Stackhouse, Theatre Wales.
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Mr and Mrs Clark have been described as:
“like Terry and June on crack”. Amy Stackhouse.
“Mr and Mrs Clark are not merely characters: they are artworks, constructs, models. Their faces are, literally, masks, but those unnerving semi-transparent masks where you can never really tell what is someone’s real face and what is plastic”. David Adams, Guardian Arts correspondent.
www.mrandmrsclark.co.uk
Sat Dec 20th
The MELTDOWN / SECRET GARDEN CHRISTMAS CAVALCADE
"The Meltdown Christmas Party is always a riot " South Wales Echo
“[Secret Garden Soundsystem are] South Wales prized party starters” Notion Magazine
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 DJ Huw Stephens, Lilywhitesass Dancers, Kareoke Carols with the Helium Choir, All Star Xmas Acoustica 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.
Gideon Conn
following dazzling performances at both the Swn Festival and the Christmas Meltdown in 2007 we're deliriously delighted to welcome back this incredibly charismatic Manchester indie/folk/hip-hop rising star.
“An eccentric, enigmatic genius who performs an unforgettable mix of jazz, funk, hip-hop and scat on acoustic guitar. Astonishing tunes and bewilderingly brilliant stage presence This Mancunian legend-to-be is set for Badly Drawn Boy-esque levels of crossover success."
Glasswerk Manchester
The biggest smiles of the festival could be found at Gideon Conn’s gig at the Buffalo Bar. He lit up the room with his enchanting stage performance, and scat rap, acoustic songs.
www.tastyfanzine.org.uk review of Swn Festival 2007
"simply HAS to be seen. An eccentric, enigmatic genius"
GigsUnlimited.co.uk
"a fantastic hip-hop meets folk rock vibe."
Last FM.
Gideon is easily the most entertaining musician in Britain at the moment. What's not to love? He grooves a hip-hop/folk/pop mash-up, and his shows feature a bit of stand up comedy and audience participation that will always having you leaving with a smile. There's literally nothing to compare it to.
Fuzznut.net.
Gideon strikes the perfect balance between laid-back and lacing up your best dancing shoes. Blending summer time funk with laid-back hip hop, a touch of scatting and the off beat charm of a young Woody Allen, expect the truly unexpected, from slices of stand-up to Barry White and Outkast covers.....
Club Fandango.
Conn’s take on music is that anything can, and should, go: Innovative, fun, and skilful stuff.....
TheFly.co.uk.
www.myspace.com/gideonconn
Wonderbrass
Internationally acclaimed festival-in-a-20-piece-band featuring a hurricane of horns and a whirlwind of irresistible ska/jazz/blues/funk rhythms to tickle your dancing feet.
‘the biggest, boldest, funkiest jazz band in Wales. Marlborough International Jazz Festival....
www.myspace.com/wonderbrasswales
DJ Huw Stephens.
Radio 1’s finest, Swn Festival mastermind, and champion of all that’s excellent in Welsh music.
DJ Matt the Hat eclectic, eccentric, ecstatic grooves.
Secret Garden Cabaret including:
Lilywhitesass Dancers “exotically sensual” Music OMH
Kareoke Carols at midnight feat. Reverend Duncan Pritchard and the HELIUM CHOIR....
Ski Party music & cabaret with Stefan and Yeurgan.
And watch out for even more acts as we confirm them.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS from ALL AT MELTDOWN....