Cardiff Big Weekend Explained
| Music Festival Name: | Cardiff's Big Weekend |
| Years Active: | 1995–2011, 2017 |
| Dates: | August (exact date varies) |
| Website: | pridecymru.co.uk |
The Cardiff Big Weekend took place annually from 1993 to 2011, and in 2017 as part of the Cardiff Festival organized by Cardiff Council.[1] The event was free, and lasted three days. As well as music over the weekend, there were fair rides on site, and firework displays.[2]
In 2004 the Admiral Group began to sponsor the event, and continued to do so until 2011.[3] This sponsorship led to the event later being titled the Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend.[4]
Alongside the event a competition held by Cardiff Council's event team gave the opportunity for bands to perform at the Big Weekend. The Big Gig was launched in June 2011, and had a category for under 18s and over 18s. In 2011 there were over 60 entrants and the over 18 finalists competed at The Globe, Cardiff.[5] [6]
The Line Up
2017
Pride Cymru brought back the Big Weekend music festival and included their LGBT Pride Parade to reform it as 'Pride Cymru's Big Weekend'. Cardiff City Hall's Lawn, which was located at the end of the official Pride Parade route, was the venue.[7]
2012
The Cardiff Big Weekend, which is usually held the second weekend in August as part of Cardiff Festival, was "rested" for a year in 2012 due to the Olympic Football games taking place at the Millennium Stadium (in Cardiff) on 9 and 10 August.[8] In 2013, the music festival was axed and replaced with a temporary 'Beach' area in Cardiff Bay's Roald Dahl Plass.[9]
2011
| Friday 5 August | Saturday 6 August | Sunday 7 August |
|---|
| Death Before Sunrise | Zong Zing All Stars | Ffred Jones |
| OK | Dom Duff | Edei |
| Attack! Attack | | Jazz Jamaica with Special Guest Myrna Hague | King Charles |
|---|
| Funeral For a Friend | Hayley Scarlett | Friends Electric |
| Horace Andy & Dub Asante | Dodgy |
| Vintage Trouble | Nerina Pallot |
| Gabrielle | The Feeling | |
2010
2009
| Friday 31 July | Saturday 1 August | Sunday 2 August |
|---|
| Save Your Breath | Soukous Koumbele | Steve Appleton |
| The Joy Formidable | Peatbog Faeries | Absent Elk |
| Attack! Attack | | Chancery Blame & The Gadgo Club | The Leisure Society |
|---|
| Kids In Glass Houses | Melopark | Ebony Bones! |
| Orquesta Cache | Camera Obscura |
| Edward II | The Lightning Seeds |
| Imelda May | The Zutons | |
2008
| Friday 1 August | Saturday 2 August | Sunday 3 August |
|---|
| Park Bench Social Club | Pandemonium | Frizbee |
| Juice - with caller Dave Parsons | Natacha Atlas | Yoav |
| The Men They Couldn't Hang | Robert Maseko & The Congo Beat | Beth Rowley |
| Ryland Teifi | Go Audio |
| Grupo Lokito | The Automatic |
| Prince Buster and the Delroy Williams Junction Band | Glasvegas |
| | Young Knives |
| | Ash | |
2007
| Friday 3 August | Saturday 4 August | Sunday 5 August |
|---|
| PeeWee Ellis | SW Storm | Gethin Pearson |
| Bobby Kray | Los Skarameros | Colum Regan |
| Soul II Soul Soundsystem | The Soothsayers | Halflight |
| Sierra Maestro | The Storys |
| Jimmy Cliff | Ben Taylor |
| | Richie Havens |
| | Sandi Thom |
| | Magic Numbers | |
2006
| Friday 4 August | Saturday 5 August | Sunday 6 August |
|---|
| The Selecter | Daisy Blue | Unkle Bob |
| Katrina (formerly of Katrina and the Waves) | Viva Machine | Mukka |
| The Alarm | Alongcameman | Foy Vance |
| Memory Lane Music Mix Winners | Los Pacaminos featuring Paul Young |
| The Poppies | Terri Walker |
| Cord | Stereo MCs |
| The Crimea | Cerys Matthews |
| The Infadels | |
| The Automatic | |
| Kubb | | |
2005
Line up also included Chesney Hawkes, Hazel O’Connor, The Christians and Modern Romance.
2004
| Friday 30 July | Saturday 31 July | Sunday 1 August |
|---|
| Bad Manners | Red Dragon Roadshow | Cherry Falls |
| Chas 'n' Dave | Dynamo Dresden | D?booga |
| Howard Jones | Speedway | The Jews Brothers |
| Zoot Woman | Caramelo Son |
| The Delays | Rhian Benson |
| The Fun Lovin' Criminals | The Brand New Heavies | |
2003
| Friday 1 August | Saturday 2 August | Sunday 3 August |
|---|
| Big Mac's Wholly Soul Band | Red Dragon Roadshow | The Elephant is Gerald |
| Limahl | Ayra | Shod |
| Go West | LSK | King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys |
| The Bees | La Bottine Souriante |
| Athlete | The Proclaimers |
| The Bluetones | The Waterboys | |
2001
2000
| Friday 4 August | Saturday 5 August | Sunday 6 August |
|---|
| Kennedy Soundtrack | Nucleus Roots | Motimba |
| Baby Elephant | Rae & Christian | Kakatsitsi |
| Bench | Chumbawamba | Arrow |
| Manchild | Asian Dub Foundation | Victor Hugo & La Banda Picante |
| Ptang Yang Kipper Bang | Kris Jenkins | Aswad | |
1999
1998
1997
1996
| Friday August 9 | Saturday August 10 | Sunday August 11 |
|---|
| Leighton Jones | James Taylor Quartet | Railroad Bill |
| Flow Motion | Super Furry Animals |
| Pocket Devils | Spice Girls |
| Dog | Pato Banton |
| 4 Man Do |
| Upside Down | |
1995
| Thursday August 10 | Friday August 11 | Saturday August 12 | Sunday August 13 | | |
|---|
| Dub War | A Night At The Opera | Chumbawamba | Carter USM | | |
| 60ft Dolls | Time Flies House Party | Hugh Cornwall | Corduroy | | |
| Super Furry Animals | | The Dharmas | FNAAZ | | |
| | Galaxy 101 Showcase feat Danii Minogue + The Spice Girls etc | Waste Ayinde Marshall | | |
| | The Underdogs | Backbone | | |
| | Fat Barry's Soul Band | H-Kippers | | |
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External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Big Gig aims to give unsigned band a break to The Big Weekend . Wales Online . 11 July 2011 . 27 December 2023.
- Web site: Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend . Capital South Wales . 7 June 2011 . 27 December 2023.
- News: . Beach fun . South Wales Echo . 1 May 2004 . 13 .
- News: . Karen . Price . Stars line up for summer in city . Western Mail . 1 May 2004 . 16 .
- Web site: Big Gig aims to give unsigned band a break to The Big Weekend . Wales Online . 11 July 2011 . 27 December 2023.
- Web site: Ffred Jones gears himself up for his Big Weekend . Wales Online . 4 August 2011 . 27 December 2023.
- Kathryn Williams, This is the line up for this year's Pride Cymru Big Weekend event in Cardiff, Wales Online, 12 May 2017, Accessed 19 July 2017
- Web site: Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend cancelled because of Olympics. 24 March 2012. 26 July 2017. Wales Online.
- Web site: Cardiff Bay to host Welsh capital's first summer beach. 17 June 2013. 26 July 2017. BBC News.
