Looks like Commercial Street has gone downhill since I worked there in the 70's.
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must have been doing some beautification projects recently
Looks like Commercial Street has gone downhill since I worked there in the 70's.
The area of Newport near the old entrance to the railway station is pretty decent these days. The indoor market has 20 odd food outlets plus a bar. Then there's Tiny Rebel and the Murenger. Le Pub has probably overtaken the Globe and Clwb as my favourite music venue. They had a couple of mini festivals there and in the street outside this year. Very cool place. The rest of Newport, not so much.
The demolishing of the Newport Centre and TJs closing is really bad for Newport
Is that Friars Walk doing much ? Newports problem is its position in the middle of two far bigger places
Lots of places nearby and some good fishing on the lakes and the canal for the likes of me
Never been to Caerleon though
The Moon Club is decent too. Plus the Gate in Roath is an interesting venue. To be honest I think it's a case of local demand. I've seen the same band play Cardiff and Bristol and the venue/audience is usually larger in Bristol. The next time I see a tour announced, Cardiff is often missing.
Mind you compared to Swansea, Cardiff is awash with small alternative venues. There's a place called the Bunkhouse on the Kingsway holding 120, and that's it. Sin City used to attract the likes of Pete Doherty a few years ago but nobody seems to play Swansea at all these days.
Bloody' ell, the Murenger has been there for years!
Your shoes would literally stick to the carpet walking about within that pub, hopefully they have changed the flooring since.
They also had a lot of premium strength beers on tap in there (late 70s/80s).
I worked at Whiteheads steelworks site for many years. We'd often have our Christmas piss-up starting from the West Of England pub (by the transporter bridge) and work our way towards the centre, via Gilligan's Island.
From a personal point of view, I always found the Newport folk easy to get along with.
Le Pub in Newport is brilliant. I'd love them to open a Cardiff venue.
I've always argued Cardiff lacks much organic 'bottom up' cultural places. A lot of 'top-down' ones like the Millennium Stadium, St Davids Hall, WMC, CIA but a lot less at the grassroots.
Few mentioned in this thread and all credit to them but very little compared to Bristol unfortunately.
Cardiff has a fair number of smaller venues which have music of varying genres. Clwb, The Moon and Fuel in Womanby Street, the Globe and the Gate in Roath, the Earl Haig in Whitchurch. We're not too badly off for a city of our size.
I think the Swansea Arena is about the same size as the CIA or whatever it's called this week, hard to tell. Both bland aircraft hangers imo.
Monkey is long gone, not sure about Sin City I never see anything advertised anymore. Last band I saw there was The Skids about 4 years ago. They did have PIL at the Patti Pavilion recently but that's about it for the alt crowd.
...If you can call John Lydon alt
Friday night, Le Pub or the Murrey, then the Cotton Club or TJs 👍
What was the name of that club up in cheesy lighting you could see on the left hand side as you pulled into Newport Station ?
Sleazy disco sort of place
Late 80s