Category Archives: Music

GRAND COLLAPSE + DROPPING BOMBS – Benefit for Frack Free Wales – June 20th

This Friday at The Red and Black Umbrella we welcome back old favourites Grand Collapse the night before their ALBUM RELEASE in Bristol. Also playing will be Punk all the way from Dublin- Dropping Bombs!

Grand Collapse-
http://grand-collapse.bandcamp.com/
Dropping Bombs-
http://droppingbombs.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvDCoZWs6W8

All profits go to Frack Free Wales.

Some info about what Fracking means to you, and what can be done to help end the disastrous destruction of our environments: http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-hell/frontline/

Doors at 6pm, BYOB, Drink Tolerated, Drunkenness not.

Love And Rage, Share widely! x

ANTIFA SUMMER AT THE RBU! Atterkop, Dead City Riot, Chewed Up and Public Order Act! 5th June

We welcome back Bristol Antifa skacore punks Atterkop back through our doors with special guests, Dead City Riot- Hardcore ska all the way from the USA, on the first day of their European tour!
Also playing will be Chewed Up and Public Order act, so don’t miss out

Atterkop- http://www.riotskarecords.com
2014 will see them continue to tour while fundraising for causes close to their hearts.
Atterkop have one simple goal, to make music for social change not fashion or profit.

DEAD CITY RIOT EUROPEAN TOUR 2014 -
http://riotskarecords.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-dawn-ep-re-release
The “anarcho punk/skacore” force to be reckoned with, DEAD CITY RIOT, hailing from Connecticut, USA are heading back to Europe for the second time this year. On this occasion they will be armed with a full length record and a shed load of new tunes.

Chewed Up – http://www.chewedup.co.uk
A DIY Anarcho-ska project from Sheffield. Bits of Choking Victim hammered together with bits of UK82, 80s Crust. and US 80s HC.
Played with the likes of Discharge, Subhumans, Dogsflesh, Morning Glory, Restarts, Barb Wire Dolls and many more.

Public Order Act-http://www.facebook.com/carnivalpunks
Dub Punk from Bristol!

Suggested donation of 3quid
Profits split between South Wales Antifa and The RBU Social Centre funds-
Give what you can!

Drink tolerated DRUNKENNESS NOT
BYOB

Doors at 5pm

Love and Peas. E. xX

KilnAboy album launch – with Firepit!

The RBU is excited to announce that KilnAboy will be launching their new album Prison Bars and Battle Scars with us – in ‘The Den’, with very special guests Firepit Collective!

Firepit Collective, with Jay from the Terrestrials and Chezney from Tofu Love Frogs, traditional/protest acoustic punk folkers…

Also the night features the return to the RBU of …Spanner and …Taffy Twp!

Friday 9th May // 7pm doors

BYOB – Drink tolerated, drunkenness not.

Suggested donation £5 with any money made going to the recent SWAFA demo in Swansea.

Support you local antifa & get down on the 9th to see these folks! L&r x

Perkie and the Perkettes, Efa Supertramp, Olive Anne + more!

At our next event at the brolly we welcome PERKIE and the Perkettes in the middle of their tour…
Supported by local acts Twisted (ft. Olive Anne), Efa Supertramp and Emy Lou!

The night will be to raise some funds for the Red and Black Umbrella Social Centre with proceeds to be put towards fixing various holes, leaks, cracks and general DIY.

14th April (Mon)
Suggested Donation £3, Doors at 5.30

BYOB, drink tolerated, drunkenness not!

If you don’t know what Perkie sounds like with a band, but would like to find out, then you would do well to go get yer lug’oles round this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HvSsNw8ow or check the bandcamp if you’ve got a longer attention span.

The Rail Yard Ghosts, Peasants and Bandit the Panther + more! April 6th

With great pleasure we announce the line-up of our next gig at the Umbrella, we are excited to welcome some International, Boot Stomping Bluegrass from-

RailYard Ghosts

http://railyardghosts.bandcamp.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ND7AMgVwc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdWS4PWUTs

+ Support from
Peasants! (USA), Bandit the Panther (UK) and Ash Victim!

With food and a short film to open the night.

The event will raise ABC funds for our fallen friend and Comrade who passed away earlier this year. Profits will go to prisoners he was in contact with and supporting from outside the cage, who need funds as their legal aid has been dropped. For more information you can keep an eye on this site and come along to one of our next Cardiff ABC meetings.

“So, farewell for now, my friend, until the next round of magic and mayhem against civilisation.”

Suggested Donation £3

Doors at 5pm.
BYOB- drink tolerated, drunkenness not!

‘Stop NATO Cymru’ Benefit Gig

Hi everyone, Roo here with a heads up on an upcoming gig…

In aid of ‘Stop NATO Cymru‘
on 15th March we’re proud to host a live evening at the Red & Black …

Doors open @ 17:30 with a suggested donation of three pounds

(nobody will be turned away for being skint, but this *is* for a good cause and they deserve the money)

Watch this space for news of another gig a week later on 22nd March!

For more information on Stop NATO Cymru, please see below:

https://network23.org/stopnatocymru/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2014/01/514865.html

Love and Peas x

– Roo

People’s Kitchen back again!

People’s Kitchen is back again tonight at the Red and Black Umbrella.

Come by at 7pm for a hot home-made vegan meal, tea, coffee, and more!

Acoustic guitars and other instruments at the ready, we might have a bit of a jam afterwards. Our Radical Library and free shop will also be open. Event is free but donations welcomed to cover costs. This will be the last People’s Kitchen before January. x

Birthday Festival Announcement! 1st-2nd November 2013

We are very pleased to announce that our friends Will Tun and the Wasters will be travelling down to play our 2 year birthday party this Saturday!

(There will be a zine program for the event up online this week with more information and updated times, there are sure to be some changes to times and acts, so keep an eye out)

Here is a vague outline of what is to come this weekend!

Friday 1st November

4pm Doors open.
4.15-5pm Squat cracking workshop/ Q+A. What better way to break open the event?
6pm Onwards, Live music. The night will be opened with a short open mic session/jam, then we welcome various local support acts including Emma Musty, Emy Lou, Chili, Tree of sound and Taffy Twp to play. Also travelling down to open is Ash Victim- A DIY folk-punk singer-songwriter not to be missed!
The night will be headlined by Special Guests TBA.

Saturday 2nd November

4pm Doors open.
Vegan food will be provided by Food Not Bombs.
There will be a Badger Cull info stall with people present to answer any questions you may have about the cull or being in the cull zone.
Ble Mae Ellen Mai? will launch the new edition of ‘Bitch’ zine.
The free shop and Radical Library will be open as usual.

4.15-4.55pm Anti-raid workshop/Q+A. Updates about what the UKBA have been up to recently, including new laws and tactics being used. What we as individuals can do to help Asylum seekers and Refugees.
5-5.55pm- Screening of ‘Coconut Revolution’. The Coconut Revolution is a 2001 multi-award winning documentary about the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island.
The movement is described as the “world’s first successful eco-revolution“.

6pm Onwards Live music from more local support TBA and Daf and Jay of Kilnaboy.

9.45-11pm- Will Tun and the Wasters. Don’t miss it!

Sunday 3rd November

12pm Sustainable energies workshop.
3pm Film screening of ‘Gasland- part 2′.
5.30pm Relaxed board games and open mic.

If you would like to volunteer at this event please contact us [07596821368]

Volunteering can be anything from helping to cook, stewarding for half hour on the door or behind the bar, helping to keep communal areas tidy by litter picking or just being around to help if and when we may need it.

The festival is suggested donation, nobody will be turned away if they cannot afford to pay.
Drink tolerated, drunkenness not.
We ask that nobody smoke indoors before 9pm.

Any profits made will be split between Cardiff squat funds and Freedom press bookshop in London.

We hope you can make it! Emy xx

The Red and Black Umbrella Collective Cordially Invite you to our Two Year Anniversary Birthday Shenanigans….

If you’re organised enough to carry ’round a diary (I am definitely not) penciling in the
1st AND 2nd of November is highly advisable as it will see our first festival!

A two day event ending on the 2nd November to celebrate 2 YEARS of the occupied building in Cardiff. Easy enough to remember, right?

Beginning as a vague plan to host an Anarcho-Folk festival in Cardiff; the event has now evolved into a two day celebration of the ‘Brolly.
The space it has provided us has been invaluable to many, so we invite anyone and everybody who has shared the space with us to come, in particular any guests we have had to stay, musicians who’ve played and individuals who’ve led any lessons or workshops. Please come and celebrate with us!
This is an open event and will be donation upon entry to pay the acts who are travelling. Any excess money donated to us will go towards Cardiff squat funds and to Freedom Press Bookshop (who are still raising money to repair their shop and replace up to 700 books lost after fascists petrol-bombed their shop earlier this year).
Nobody will be refused entry if they cannot pay.

We will be releasing more information over the next two weeks to keep you all in suspense, just know that you will need your best dancing boots and both headliners will be supported by amazing local acts and musicians.

If you would like to play at the festival, run a stall or workshop on either of the days get in touch.
Also, any help with cooking or supplying skipped/vegan food for the festival would be much appreciated as we will have many mouths to feed!

Doors TBA
Drink tolerated after 7pm, Drunkenness not.
No drugs, no thugs!

Love and Peas, Emy xx

The truth is in there, as zombies take over RBU…

A one-night zombie-invasion came to the RBU last week as zombies filled the bar and the gig-room…luckily some nifty folks got it on film and turned it into a music video for that artist known as Cosmo…

You can watch the music video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4a6srwA4M

And find out more about the illustrious work of Cosmo here: http://cosmoguitar.net

Thankfully by the end of the weekend, most of the zombies had cleared off, possibly to take on some other act, (like the status quo? or maybe even queen?), and usual social centre milarky resumed shortly afterwards…to continue into the winter…something really sending a shiver down our spines!

Thanks again to all for the great night!

All power to the un-dead!

Red and black umbrella

Social Centre, Cardiff