why is it a sizeable city like cardiff has such a dreadful lack of venues for live music

In the old days it was the capitol , sophia Gardens , where I saw UFO and killing joke , and st davids Hall which was useless but at least it gave me saxon , rainbow , motorhead , lizzy , etc

Even newport had tjs and the newport centre........sick of it all, agnostic front , wild hearts, stuck mojo

The coal exchange was a great venue , deftones , will haven , corrosion of conformity , clutch etc but long gone now

Cardiff uni is poor but I have seen mastodon , big black , killing joke , rancid , red fang , feeder , dillinger escape plan etc

Motor point arena , shocking grief hole ........seen slayer , mastodon , Peter gabriel, foo fighters , incubus but only TOOL had a good sound

We have nothing like a 4000 capacity venue with sears at the back for us oldies

We have no smaller places like the venue down the docks or the point

We have no decent arena sized venues for the larger touring bands

Its crap

I go to fuel Rock club occasionally and the welsh club but I think thats it

A population not far off half a million