FELLY…here ya go.
I’m still a bit shocked. 😅
Mae swydd newydd gyda fi ❤️
I’ve a new job ❤️
👉
@MICasnewydd
Enabling and promoting the use of Iaith Cymraeg 🏴 yn Nghasnewydd / in Newport!
💡 Oes syniad da gyda ti? Any ideas?
Our next chapter starts here:
👉
@MintysGairGuide
📢 CYHOEDDIAD!
🤝 Hoffai’r Fenter cynnig croeso cynnes i’n Swyddog Datblygiad Cymunedol newydd - Daniel Minty!
🤔 Efalla’u eich bod yn ymwybodol o Minty o’i waith gyda
@MintysGigGuide
💬 Dewch i’n i’n huned a dweud Shwmae 👋
🗞️
something to be said for the value & the care gone into
@thecure
merch tables too.
clear compassion that there is a cost of living crisis.
Could’ve charged £35/£40 a t-shirt, didn’t, only charging £20. Each tee is £20 too.
APPLAUDING THIS 👏
@RobertSmith
@CardiffIntArena
This is Claire, Minty's house mate. After searching across the City we've managed to track him down outside the Museum. He's been found alive and well and is now with family and close friends.
Thanks everybody for your kind words and support and love. Hope he get's better soon.
hi 👋
it’s me. ❤️
just taking an hour with the phone a day to start things off. 🤟
immense gratitude and love to all of you that have taken the time to reach out. 🙏
I have bloody missed you all so much.
an absolute madness to have found my spot to see the icon
@eltonofficial
close down his live career in the UK with his last ever show here on the Pyramid Stage
@glastonbury
🥹
Gonna cry my way the whole way through for a songbook that has been omnipresent my whole 34 year life.
it’s goodbye from us
@MintysGigGuide
❤️
Hwyl fawr pawb! 👋
I will miss you all so much 😪
I hope we helped you all on our journey together.
Minty x
Darllenwch mwy / Read more ⬇️
WHATS BETTER THAN ONE DRUMMER GOING UP OUR STREET TO CELEBRATE
@NHSuk
& FRONTLINE STAFF?!
TWO DRUMMERS GOING UP OUR STREET TO CELEBRATE
@NHSuk
AND FRONTLINE STAFF!
& some bells from our good neighbours for good measure 🔔
🥁 2M APART 🥁
💙
@WeAreCardiff
@ILovesTheDiff
is there any wonder that my face is a puddle most of the time that i am on this farm?! 😭
serenity delivered courtesy of
@NoelGallagher
❤️
I had to put work pencils down and come down to say hello for 5 minutes 👋
#Glastonbury2022
#Glastonbury
RT IF YOU'RE SICK OF THIS.
WITHIN 10 MINUTES OF GOING ON SALE...
this rotten lot have placed
@foofighters
@principalitysta
tickets online on
@viagogo
for these extortionate prices.
@DCMS
- when will this end?! When will you clamp down on this kind of behaviour?!
It punishes
🏰 WE’RE PUTTING
#CARDIFF
BACK ON THE MAP!
💰 Minty’s Gig Guide has been funded by
@welshgocreative
,
@FOR_Cardiff
&
@Welsh_ICE
to produce:
🗺 a 2nd map
📱 an interactive map & digital bilingual platform hosting ALL gigs, launching w/the shows for
@BBC6Music
Festival & Fringe
🚂✈️🚗🚜🛵⛵️🚁🛸🚶
Number of Music Tourists travelling to Wales 🏴
2019: 363,000
2023: 510,000 ⬆️
💰💰💰💰💰 Amount generated as a result of this Music Tourism 🏴
2019: £124 million
2023: £212 million ⬆️
👉 (bearing in mind we’re in the butt end of a Pandemic AND a Cost
🔔👉 JUST ANNOUNCED!!! 👈🔔
no riot necessary 😅
ONLY IN THE
@principalitysta
😱😱😱
@foofighters
come to 🏴🏴🏴 Wales for the first time since 2007 next year with
@wetlegband
AND THE FREAKING
@HimalayasBand
are OPENING!!!! ⛰️🔥⛰️🔥⛰️
WHAT A MOMENT FOR MUSIC IN WALES!
🌆
not posted for a little while, minty is doing fine!
small steps. day by day
he's still not using his phone.
but he has said he wants to be the next person to speak to you all
please all be kind to yourselves and please know there's always someone to reach out to. ❤️
claire
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
I’m speechless and that doesn’t happen a lot…
WE WON THE
@Welsh_ICE
#ChairmansAward
and the £5000!!! 😱😱😱😭😭😭😭😭
I’m so emotional - this is such a gamechanger & this is for the community.
Watch out - big things are coming.
Hug me someone?!
dear
@foofighters
,
This is day 2 of us nagging you to pop a Welsh date on your UK tour 🏴
We have the best voices, the friendliest people & the TASTIEST SNACKS! 🗣️👋🍞
🫵 You know this of course, because you’re advertising your new record “But Here We Are” on our capital city
🏴 MAE CYMRU YN CYMRYD DROS Y BYD!
🏴 WALES IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD!
🎵🔥 through the medium of music, the Welsh revolution is well on its way ✊
@adwaithmusic
who played
@bbcintroducing
@glastonbury
just last year have just closed an IMPECCABLE set opening THE PARK STAGE ❤️
Re: the continued demolition of Guildford Crescent.
It’s no surprise to us that the landlords of the once loved Guildford Crescent have gone against their original word (which was already skewed) and have demolished the remaining facade of the 160+ year old buildings that once
SO POWERFUL. 😭
GODSPEED FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS
THEY JUDGE YOU.
THEY JUDGE CHRIST.
GO ON KENDRICK.
@kendricklamar
Solidarity to all - this field is genuinely pouring with emotion & love right now - hugs and tears everywhere. 🫶
#Glastonbury
#Glastonbury2022
i actually am frickin' crying rn.
finally in amongst this shit storm of a frickin city - there is some positivity out there 😢
@CastleEmporium
has just acquired the Nisa at the top of Womanby St ❤️
WE HAVE A WINDOW TO OUR MUSIC STREET ❤️
COMMUNITY IS EVERYTHING. BELIEVE THAT.
as a kid, I grew up in Pontllanfraith w/ Mum telling me about going to Oakdale Comp w/JDB
My lecturer Tony Wilson
@coleggwent
told me how put out their first single Suicide Alley
& tonight, I stand
@ClwbIforBach
as a boy from Blackwood to see the
@Manics
Shook. 😰
@BBC6Music
This is ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL 🤯😱🤯
A Mari Llwyd has just been unveiled at the top of Womanby Street - drawn by
@UniSouthWales
students & has HIT OUT alongside
@musicdeclares
to call on the music industry & community to become more sustainable
SEE IT NOW!
@MadDogBrewCo
! 🔥🔥🔥
🗺 &&& HERE’S THE MAP.
🗺 &&& DYMA’R MAP.
The
@BBC6Music
#6MusicFestival
& Fringe Map IS HERE! 😱😱😱😱😱😱
we hope you enjoy. joio ❤️❤️❤️
&&& our first ever digital platform
🤯 MGG BETA v1.0 IS NOW LIVE!!! ❤️❤️❤️
👉 & 🏴🏴🏴
CONFIRMED.
@TramshedCF
AS A VENUE IS SAFE. (For now!) ✅
just received confirmation, this morn from the tenant
@tegmjrlive
!
NOT GOING ANYWHERE!
They still need your help. But is the most phenomenal news I’ve had this year.
thanks for all the b’day wishes too!
❤️
🔔👉 JUST ANNOUNCED! 👈🔔
TWO HUGEEEEE SHOWWWWWSSSS
@Manics
just made my day. ❤️❤️❤️
4th Dec: FREE show for
@NHSuk
workers
5th Dec: Public Show with profits going to
@NHSuk
charities!
PUT A SMILE ON YA FACES!!!
🌆
@MotorpointDiff
🎟️ ON SALE FROM 7PM THIS FRIDAY
Just like in 2015, outside
@buffalocardiff
where he hung with fans for an hour taking selfies.
Here in 2020 / two hours over his time -
@stormzy
comes out on the street
@hmvCardiff
to see the kids who have waited (some since this morning) to say thanks & hi. 👋
WHAT A GUY! ❤️
what an icon to the city of cardiff. ❤️🏴
a voice that i longed for each time i went shopping.
condolences to friends & followers affected by this very sad news.
Neville was always out with a paper 🗞️
& his best voice 🗣️
& ALWAYS brought joy!
@BHMWales
coming to the farm this year, I made a promise… 🙏❤️
that, after the festival was over, I’d sit at the Pyramid & pay gratitude to this wonderful space with a song 🎵
& I really wanted that song to be Fel i Fod by
@adwaithmusic
First time I’ve sung in 🏴! 🎥
#Glastonbury2022
1/
WE DID IT! 😱
thought its fitting seeing as I’m here
@FocusWales
to announce that:
@MintysGigGuide
is OFFICIALLY REGISTERED as a Community Interest Company!
To all those that believed in me & this guide these past 5 years - diolch o galon ❤️
time to GO GIG or GO HOME! 🔥
THE FUTURE. ⚡️
first mock-up images of the new 15,000 capacity Cardiff Arena released today...
Very pretty - what are your thoughts?
#ArenaCaerdydd
🏴
🔔👉 JUST ANNOUNCED! 👈🔔
😱😱😱
THIS. IS. NOT. A. DRILL.
I AM SHAKINGGGGG 🥹🥹🥹
@welovepulp
❤️❤️❤️
PULP ARE COMING TO CARDIFF!
BY THE GREAT BEARD OF ZEUS - THIS IS PULPTASTIC ❤️❤️❤️
🌆
@CardiffIntArena
📅 12th July 2023
🎟 ON SALE NEXT FRIDAY, 4th Nov @ 9am!
legit saw 3 kids sat outside big Tesco on Swansea beach road last night eating a tub of Ben & Jerry’s each; discussing this exact moment and how out of the world it felt. 🍦
it’s these little nuances that make gigs special. ❤️
@wolfalicemusic
@SinCitySwansea
@musicvenuetrust
😱 overjoyed to share that ive been asked to Worthy Farm by my
@worthyfm
family ❤️
to produce a special 3-part Gig Guide to the biggest festival on 🌍
WHERE TO EVEN START?! 😂
WHO IS GOING?! 👋
Tell me who you’re excited for!? 💬👇
Starts THIS Saturday at 3pm!
@glastonbury
will spend the next few weeks reaching out to you all to let you know how much I incredibly appreciate you all. ❤️❤️❤️
I am so grateful for this community.
I am so grateful for you.
Let’s get back on this journey together then, yeah? ❤️😘
BLUE SKY THINKING COMING THROUGH ☀️
I’ve gotta say that I am so super emotional now. One of my best friends has FINALLY after 20+ years of broadcasting has been recognised for being totally brilliant! 😢
Say hello to
@CDFMusicAwards
“Best Radio Show” winner
@BethanElfyn
! ❤️
Be proud
@BBCRadioWales
@BBCWales
!
🔔👉 JUST ANNOUNCED! 👈🔔
😱😱😱
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SCREENS. 🤣
ITS LEGIT! ✅
as just announced by the almighty
@steve_lamacq
& JDB on
@BBC6Music
For the first ever time in their entire career - the
@Manics
PLAY CLWB! 🏴🏴🏴
🌆
@ClwbIforBach
📅 31st March
#6MusicFestival
🏴
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
shocked beyond belief!
I won pitch of the night
@Welsh_ICE
@5to9Club
🍾🙈
Really must thank the wonderful ICE community for their kind support and mentorship
ANYONE who wants to start a business in 🏴 - hit them up!
Pitch 2 of 2 on Tuesday - deep breaths 😱💰
🚨 BREAKING NEWS:
@Tafwyl
2021 to have an audience of 500 in
@cardiff_castle
on Saturday 15th May.
The first live music to an audience in Wales since March 2020.
The road to recovery for live music in Wales, is on! 😢❤️
…my Dad said to me today after the crazy past few days:
“
@eltonofficial
was there at the beginning to start your life & let you know you were loved. And, at the end of his career - you were there
@glastonbury
to make sure he knew he was loved ❤️”
A privilege to speak to
My goodness - THIS FIELD IS FULL OF LOVE! ❤️
A field made up of many from all walks of life united together to celebrate the beauty of
@Cymraeg
through the glorious sound of
@adwaithmusic
🏴
So tangibly powerful 🥹
INCREDIBLE. AN-FREAKING-HYG-OEL!!! ❤️🏴
AWN NI! LETS GO 🔥
Following today’s decision from
@cardiffcouncil
’s planning committee to approve development of flats opposite The Flute & Tankard without a Noise Officer present
I have handed in my resignation of my seat on the council’s Cardiff Music Board to the chair
#SaveOurVenues
👇
😱 CLWB IFOR BACH EXPANSION! ANHYGOEL!
The ambitious expansion of a new 500 cap and 1,000 cap all floor venue
@ClwbIforBach
has been a point of discussion for some time…
UNTIL NOW… ⚠️
❤️🏴 The venue has officially just submitted a planning application to
@cardiffcouncil
to
some news. ❤️
I have just enrolled onto an intensive 40-week cwrs Cymraeg with
@Cymraeg
ENFAWRRRR 🔥🔥🔥
Being able to speak confidently in our native tongue has been a lifelong goal for me and now the journey to that
FINALLY begins 🏴🏴🏴
DYMA NI MYND. 🚀🚀🚀
I have been out every night the last 14 days.
In that time, our guide handed out over 5,000
#6MusicFestival
& Fringe maps ❤️
Proper emosh & seriously indebted to our extended
@BBC6Music
family for creating this opportunity for us.
OUR EXCITING PARTY HAS ONLY JUST STARTED. 🏴🗺
I’ve not been able to sit down for half hour - as a proud
#Blackwood
boy ima absolutely brimming with both pride and excitement.
My opinion maybe worth jack but I must say.
There’d be no-one prouder of the
@manics
right now than old Nye Bev himself!
ALL OF THE FEELS AT THE MO.
Fascinating peak behind the scenes at the old Howells
#Cardiff
and inside Bethany Chapel. Good to see the developer opening the doors to the public early on. Here’s hoping that some of our heritage assets can be brought back to life.
New venue coming to Womanby St. in April 2020. 😱
@JackRussellsCDF
🐶
Totally welcome this news! 🙌
I just hope there’s opportunities for grassroots music and artists to exist in this venue. ❤️
Let’s keep the street where it should be. 👌
bore da everyone ✌️✌️✌️
we’ve been asked to give a special shout out to Welsh music legend and silent hero Ceri Collins who popped up on stage with the
@Manics
@glastonbury
🏴🏴🏴
Sending love out to you Ceri and hope you had the best day! ❤️
People should not be penalised for staying out late and enjoying themselves by having to pay extortionate prices to get home or being made to leave somewhere early because there is no other way home.
It’s 2023, not 1825. That’s it, that’s the tweet.
BREAKING THREAD;
tl;dr:
@CastleEmporium
are being asked to leave their home.
Absolutely disgusted to hear that our lovely friends at The Castle Emporium have been given just THIRTY DAYS NOTICE to leave the premises.
🥳 so last night we announced our board of directors!
we’ve such an INCREDIBLE group of people pushing forward our community initiative, towards our bold 5-year mission of getting 100,000 people off to a gig they otherwise may miss!
👋 let’s introduce you to them
This guy. ❤️
a delight to meet & reconnect earlier for the first time since our interview prior to the show
@ClwbIforBach
promoting “Brutalism” in ‘17
Thank you for all you stand for
Thanks for giving 🏴 artists an opportunity
ill ALWAYS ROOT for
@idlesband
.
#Glastonbury2022
97% 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Dwi wedi pasio!
386/400
Derbynais i fy nghanlyniadau o fy arholiad am gwrs Mynediad gyda
@learncymraeg
Does dim geiriau gyda fi. 🤯
Diolch o galon i fy niwtoriaid Meliyr ac Elin. Dwi mor ddiolchgar i nhw.
Bydd Sylfaen bod nesaf! ❤️
———
I AM NOT MY BODY. I AM SOMEBODY.
These words are the reason that the
@DreamWifeMusic
vinyl still takes pride of my place in my life. A band with such incredible energy and such incredible morals.
If they’re in your town soon - book that ticket now!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@SwnIsSound
🔔👉 JUST ANNOUNCED! 👈🔔
ARGHH! 😱😱😱
🌇 unbelievable for our city.
🏴 anghredadwy i’n gwlad
🌍 THE WORLD IS WATCHING WALES.
croeso
@BBC6Music
i Gaerdydd! 👋👋👋
The
@BBC6Music
Festival is COMING TO CARDIFF!!! 🔥🔥🔥
❤️😱
more to follow
📅 1st April - 3rd April
YES CARDIFF! 🏴
This year we're THRILLED to be hosting the 6 Music Festival in this glorious city from Friday 1st April - Sunday 3rd April 2022 💫
Stay tuned for the full line up! 👇
#6MusicFestival
once again
#Cardiff
is a beacon of red 🔴
the events industry crumbles whilst those with the keys watch it burn. 🔥
imagine a life with no events, no gigs, no festivals, no art, no culture, nothing to look back on or look forward to.
NOW tell us you won’t help?
#wemakeevents
TW: mental health
🌪 it doesn’t matter how FAST you run.
📈 it doesn’t matter how FAR you run.
IT IS THE FACT
👟 that you LACE UP THOSE SHOES.
🩳 get on THOSE SHORTS
🌳 and get out HERE.
full disclosure from me this morning
love this community ❤️
@runningpunks
x
😱😱😱 was it a dream?!?!!
last night I watched
@BombayBicycle
in somebodies KITCHEN in Cardiff. 🤯🤯🤯🤯
felt immensely privileged and humbled to be asked by
@MoleyHoleyMain
to be their +1 - BEST FRIEND OF THE GIG GUIDE NOW FOR SURE! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
😂 Tried to play it cool and
2020 robbed me of completion (did 26)
2021 was a non-starter
& 2022 was my blip
in 2023, I’m reminding myself why I started this gig guide to begin with…
🚀 local ones
🔥 big ones
💦 sweaty ones
😭 emotional ones
🎈 I’m going to 100 Gigs in 2023!
Find me at a venue near you
“This next song is a dedication to the next generations in the hope that they look after the planet, better than what we did!” 🌎
A few new songs put out into the ether from
@aha_com
ahead of a documentary set to come later this year featuring the gorgeous natural world of 🇳🇴
update:
@RobertSmith
@thecure
just dropped the last day of summer at their first Cardiff gig for years and I just lost my absolute collective shit!
@CardiffIntArena
Forget the greatest hits, you have to listen to
@thecure
- bloodflowers - it’s sonic mastery 😍😍😍
EUPHORIA.
well this is blooooooominnnnn well exciting!!!!!! 👀😱👀😱👀😱
NEW 40,000 CAP FESTIVAL TO LAUNCH IN WALES @ MARGAM NEXT YEAR
In It Together launches June 2022!
I’m really sorry if you don’t like the running stuff gig guide friends & fam. 😓
I’m not trying to out do or make you feel bad
I’m trying to empower me. And chatting about it publicly helps
An empowered me = a productive me.
A productive me = a consistent and reliable guide ❤️
“nobody loves you when you’re 33!”
(sorry blink)
thank you so much for all the birthday love today!
deepest of gratitude for your kindness
just the one thing I’m wishing for this year ❤️
now who wants a slice of this delightful coffee & walnut before polo tries to gobble it?!
💚
@GreenManFest
GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT 💚
IT IS HAPPENING
absolutely emotional and overjoyed for the artists who are to play, the organisers, the staff and you, the festival goers
WHO GET TO SEE GREEN MAN 2021 ❤️😭❤️
@mogwaiband
@fontainesdublin
@caribouband
& MORE AWAIT YOU!
⚠️❤️ PLANNING APP GONE IN ON WOMANBY STREET ❤️⚠️
& it’s one we support!
An office block that’s taken considerate steps acknowledging the heritage & the protections of the it’s businesses
That looks COOL ASF
& shuts down any possibility of residential spaces.
WE’RE ON BOARD!
🤯 Mindblown to wake up and find my all-time hero
@RobertSmith
has RT'd us for sharing their compassion w/their merch table & prices during
@thecure
@CardiffIntArena
in a cost of living crisis
Sending you cuddles Robert - diolch for your support to this little community guide ❤️