Fringe 2005 1 - 9 October

Events Listings

On this page you can search by using the shortcut links immediately below to skip to a particular day, you can use the links below each symbol in the blue bar below to see all the events of that type (music, theatre etc.) happening throughout the Fringe, or you can view the listings for the whole festival in order by scrolling down this page.

Please note that listings may be subject to change.

Choose a date: Saturday, 1st October 2005 | Sunday, 2nd October 2005 | Monday, 3rd October 2005 | Tuesday, 4th October 2005 | Wednesday, 5th October 2005 | Thursday, 6th October 2005 | Friday, 7th October 2005 | Saturday, 8th October 2005 | Sunday, 9th October 2005

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1st October 2005:

  • 2.30 pm & 8.00 pm
    The Treasure of the Puta Madre - Swansea's very own Christopher Hood, author of 'Banana Cat' returns from his exile in Barcelona, with this stupendous radio play for the stage.
    Venue: Depot Studio. The Grand Theatre
  • 12.00 pm
    Spectrum Street Theatre - A visual Journey, a vibrant festival of colour and comedy. Ancient Greeks, Poets, Secret Agents, Painters and Paint.
    Venue: Black Box, Castle Square
  • 7.30 pm
    Rory Motion - In 2004, Rory Motion , poet, comic, singer/songwriter and tree impressionist, set about learning a language called Chi Nyanja and in November of that year travelled to Africa to do a tour of prestigious mango trees of N.W. Mozambique.
    Venue: Dylan Thomas Centre
  • 7.30 pm
    David Hughes - Acoustic singer-songwriter-guitarist, one of Q magazines albums of the year in 1997. He has a rich folk pedigree and has toured as the support act for Fairport Convention, Bert Jansch and Pentangle. He has performed with Helen Watson and was a founder member of St Agnes Fountain. His sharp, sardonic vocal delivery and rhythmically-percussive fingerstyle guitar have earned him regular slots on BBC Radio Four's Loose Ends with Ned Sherrin.
    Venue: The Chattery
  • 6.00 pm
    Jonathan Powell   - Swansea based painter, who is a recent graduate of the Institute and current curator/director of The Swansea Guild of Artists. Powell's work keeps getting larger and larger as his confidence grows. The visual impact on the viewer is intense, and the vivid use of colour overwhelms the senses. His one man show at Exposure earlier this year won him much acclaim, this show comes highly recommended and opens on the 1st.
    Venue: The Palace

  • Dead Horse Group - The Dead Horse Group's cutting Edge Work ranges from large scale paintings to installation through to photography and ceramics.  The exhibition opens on Saturday 1st and runs throughout the Fringe. The 6th sees an unpredictable evening drenched in music, art and coffee featuring wonderful musicians like The Felix Subway along with an array of poets and performers.
    Venue: The Black Box
  • 8.00 pm
    ExposureExposure gallery is a dynamic and contemporary artist run venue for visual arts.We provide a platform and vital stepping stone for artists allowing them the opportunity and experience of showcasing their work.  The exhibition opens on the 1st and runs throughout the Fringe and beyond.
    Venue: Exposure Gallery, College Street
  • 9.00 pm
    Leaving the World - Leaving the World’ brings together two artists who work in print. Sian Lile who uses etching and installation and Paul Battenbough who works primarily with relief processes. Neither makes edition prints, they prefer to produce unique, one-off pieces. Together they bring a contrasting and refreshing approach to the modern day print, dispelling the opinion that somehow prints are inferior to other methods of expression. The exhibition opens on the 1st and runs throughout the Fringe.
    Venue: The Tate, The Strand
  • 7.30 pm
    Paul Emmanuel - With Dr. Richard Maggs presents psycho, a live video work using simultaneous video projection, paint and a psychiatrist.
    Venue: South Wales Centre for Movement Therapy, Neath Rd, Swansea
    Venue Map | No Bookings - Free Entry

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2nd October 2005:

 

  • 2.30 pm
    Tony Webb - The first of the Storytellers Series at Tee Total, above Waterstones bookshop, sees Swansea singer-songwriter Tony Webb playing a range of his self-penned songs, with interludes to talk about his music.
    Venue: Tee Total, above Waterstones Bookshop, Oxford Street
  • 7.30 pm
    Count Arthur Strong - An Absolute Must See Event. The Count is the creation of Steve Delaney and has been for a number of years one of the most admired acts featured at the Edinburgh Fringe.
    Venue: Dylan Thomas Centre
  • 8.00 pm
    Antic Theatre Company presents St Abdul's Picturedrome - Fresh from their success in last year's festival, Antic Coporation premiere a new play by Michael Waters commissioned especially by Swansea Fringe. The Company bring their distinctive performance style combining exciting visual theatre and video projection to create a world where everybody can be a in the movies, and the temptation of the voyeuer is too compelling to ignore.
    Venue: Depot Studio. The Grand Theatre
  • 3.00pm
    G&E - Jazz at Swansea's newest addition to the Jazz circuit; Cafe Cesso.  A jazz duo with great vocals and guitar.
    Venue: Coffee Cesso, Bryn Y Mor Road
  • 7.30 pm
    Paul Emmanuel - With Dr. Richard Maggs presents psycho, a live video work using simultaneous video projection, paint and a psychiatrist.
    Venue: South Wales Centre for Movement Therapy, Neath Rd, Swansea
    Venue Map | No Bookings - Free Entry

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3rd October 2005:

 

  • 3.00 pm
    Maria Owen - Recently cast in a forthcoming film about Dylan Thomas, Maria has to date been best known as a singer-songwriter.  She will be performing and talking about a selection of her material as part of the Fringe 'Storytellers' series.
    Venue: Tee Total Cafe, above Waterstones Bookshop, Oxford Street
  • 4.00 pm
    Stiliana - Simple and Stylish’ are the two words that describe Stiliana Alexieva’s art. Her contemporary paintings with unique special colour and 3D texture effects are displayed in modern flats, offices and private collections. The exhibition opens on the 1st and runs throughout the Fringe.
    Venue: Grand Theatre Arts Wing
  • 7.00 pm
    Bruce Risdon - figure based studies, with bold fluid oil strokes on canvas, range from classic nudes to post modern pastiches.  Whilst maintaining the immediate expressionistic style we have come to value from Bruce's past successful exhibitions.  The exhibition opens on the 1st and runs throughout the Fringe at one of the more unusual locations for a visual art exhibition - a pub!
    Venue: The Brunswick Pub
  • 7.30 pm
    Ardal O'Hanlon - One of the festival's headline events, the Fringe is proud to present the comedy giant that is Ardal O'Hanlan.
    Venue: Grand Theatre Main Auditorium
  • 7.00 pm
    Phil Jacobs - Exciting emerging artist, bold fluid impressionistic canvases that capture the essence of Gower Penninsula.   The exhibition opens on the 3rd and runs throughout the Fringe.  Venue: The Dolphin Hotel, Gloucester Room.

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4th October 2005:

 

  • 3.00 pm
    Andy Morse - A powerful brand of acoustic, folk-edged music; part of the Fringe 'Storytellers' series at Tee Total above Watestones.
    Venue: Tee Total Cafe, above Waterstones Bookshop, Oxford Street
  • 6.00 pm
    Independent Filmmaking in the UK - An opportunity to see excerpts from the soon to be released feature fim 'January 2nd'. Follwed by a discussion with both the Producer and Director about Independent Filmaking and a Question and Answer session.
    Venue: The Dylan Thomas Centre
  • 9.00 pm
    Cal Newman - Country-blues, rag time and slide guitar from the Cardiff Blues-man.
    Venue: The Brunswick Pub

 

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5th October 2005:

 

  • 8.30 pm
    Aeronaut - With their tremendous take on American, Rock and Psychedelia, this is one of Swansea's finest musical acts for some time. Support from The Receivers, the new band that has formed from the ashes of the acclaimed folktastic Rag Foundation.
    Venue: Uplands Tavern
  • 9.00 pm
    The Amazing Mr Smith - A whacky comic who proved a huge hit in the Taste of the Fringe event in 2004; he returns due to popular demand!
    Venue: The Brunswick Pub
  • 7.30 pm
    Lloyd Robson - Performance poet Lloyd Robson is rapidly building a reputation as one of the most potent & dynamic of welsh writers.  See him here with support from Swansea actor and poet Peter Read.
    Venue: Coffee Cesso, Bryn Y Mor Road
  • 2.30 pm
    Aggi Thomas - This promising young swansea singer-songwriter has a big, warm, soulful voice (think Joni Mitchell) and heaps of charisma. We expect to see great things from this lady in the future, go see her before fame steals her away.
    Venue: Tee Total
  • 9.00 pm
    Lear - A mixture of full ahead, modern rock songs and memorable, melodic tunes. Support from the energetic Garage Rock stylings of Elysian.
    Venue: The Monkey Cafe

 

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6th October 2005:

 

  • 6.00 pm
    Independent Filmaking worldwide - An opportunity to see a soon to be released feature film by MCT Productions. Followed by a discussion with the Producer about Independent Filmaking and a Question and Answer session.
    Venue: The Dylan Thomas Centre f the sound of Duke Special.
  • 7.00 pm
    Private Peaceful - Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn.
    Venue: The Taliesin Theatre
  • 7.00 pm
    Dead Horse Group - The Dead Horse Group's cutting Edge Work ranges from large scale paintings to installation through to photography and ceramics.  The exhibition opens on Saturday 1st and runs throughout the Fringe. The 6th sees an unpredictable evening drenched in music, art and coffee featuring wonderful musicians like The Felix Subway along with an array of poets and performers.
    Venue: The Black Box
  • 7.30 pm doors open
    The James Taylor Quartet - Distorted Hammond freak-outs from the band for whom the term "acid jazz" was coined.
    Venue: The Patti Pavillion

  • Ian James - For those wanting a more laid back alternative to the JTQ gig, you can't go wrong with the lilting tones of Ian James; he will be performing with his full band on Saturday 8th at the Uplands Tavern but you can catch him in an 'unplugged' solo set in the more intimate surroundings of the Brunswick Pub.
    Venue: The Brunswick Pub

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7th October 2005:

  • 10.30 am
    Private Peaceful - Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn.  Catch the second performance in this matinee slot.
    Venue: The Taliesin Theatre
  • 8.00 pm
    Antic Theatre Company presents St Abdul's Picturedrome - Fresh from their success in last year's festival, Antic Coporation premiere a new play by Michael Waters commissioned especially by Swansea Fringe. The Company bring their distinctive performance style combining exciting visual theatre and video projection to create a world where everybody can be a in the movies, and the temptation of the voyeuer is too compelling to ignore.
    Venue: Depot Studio. The Grand Theatre
  • 8.00 pm
    King of Despair - The Chattery hosts another stunning night of finely crafted melodies in partnership with the Fringe.
    Venue: The Chattery Restaurant
  • 9.00 pm
    Stonewall Confederacy - Now renamed Harpers Ferry. Heavy Metal played in the bluegrass styley, countryfied rock 'classics' by the likes of Bad Company, Judas Priest, Aerosmith and Motorhead.
    Venue: The Brunswick Pub

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8th October 2005:

  • 7.30 pm
    Wednesday PlayOff - The next generation of Dylan Thomases have been showcasing their talents in an X Factor-style competition in Swansea. Budding playwrights are being given the chance to have their work performed.
    Venue: Dylan Thomas Centre
  • 7.30 pm
    Boudoir - From stripper to table dancer, pole dancer to lap dancer, we're back to Burlesque.  Boudoir invites you to experience the dancing female form.
    Venue: South Wales Centre for Movement Therapy
  • 8.00 pm
    Volcano Theatre Company presents 'Hitting Funny' - Hitting Funny is a provocatively filthy one-man show about a stand-up comic on the ropes.  Strictly over 18s.
    Venue: Depot Studio, The Grand Theatre
  • 8.00 pm
    Comfortism - Comfortism is…murder by chocolate roll, feeding your friends to the fish, a Chinese Elvis, and having violent sex on top of a TV showing Ready Steady Cook. Comfortism is also a night of funny film, amusing music, pithy poetry and titillating theatre. "A twisted cabaret, a voluptuous vaudeville."
    Venue: The Brunswick
  • 8.00 pm
    Ian James Experience - The seminal human Juke Box that is Ian James leads his Merry band of Legends down another Cajun fuelled avenue of southern vibes.
    Venue: Uplands Tavern
  • 9.30 pm
    The Lost Boys - It's been 21 years since the Lost Boys last played in Swansea. A band that had a considerable cult following in the heady post punk days of new wave.
    Venue: Uplands Tavern

9th October 2005:

  • 2.30 pm
    Women in Jazz - Swansea's Women in Jazz perform a range of their material and talk about their work with some history of Jazz in Swansea as part of the Fringe Storytellers series.
    Venue: Tee Total, above Waterstones Bookshop, Oxford Street
  • 9.00 pm
    String Whistle - Acoustic music; finish the Fringe seeing a laid back set in the comfy surroundings of the Brunswick.
    Venue: The Brunswick Pub

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Fringe 2005 1 - 9 October

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