Cob Records
320 High Street
Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
VAT reg: 636 5810 29
Shop Opening Hours:
Mon to Sat 9:30 - 17:30
Tel/Fax:
+44 (0) 1248 353020
Ticket Information
Tickets can be purchased directly from the shop.
Openings hours are 9.30-17.30, Mon - Sat.
Our Address:
Cob Records
320 High Street
Bangor
Gwynedd
LL57 1YA
North Wales, UK
Directions:
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Local Gigs
12th February 2010
New Rope String Band + Calan
Neuadd Powis, Prifysgol Bangor
The New Rope String Band play invigorating music from various traditions around the world with exuberant theatrics and boundless energy - Highly recommended !
Calan are a young, dynamic Welsh quintet who have everything you could want from a folk band - stunning use of instrumentation, gorgeously crafted songs, sprightly foot-tappers, verve and raw excitement.
7.30pm Tickets £10 available from us and from 01248 382141
13th February 2010
Holy Coves
Rascals, Bangor
After spending most of last year recording their debut album with Producer/Engineer, ‘David Wrench' at ‘Bryn Derwyn Studio's', the band is now ready to take to the road and promote a single release, due at the end of February this year, with the anticipated release of the album, expected to follow later in the year.
Holyhead based band ‘Holy Coves' are lining up for a series of 17 dates, and will be returning to Bangor for the first time since changing their name from "The Lizzies". ‘Holy Coves' will be travelling the length and breadth of the UK as well as playing a number of intimate "free" shows in North Wales. A full listing of dates can be found at; http://www.myspace.com/holycoves
18th February 2010
Viv Albertine
Blue Sky, Cafe Bangor
Viv Albertine from The Slits visits Bangor for a question and answer session at Bangor museum as part of the "Punk Forever" exhibition and is then set to play a solo gig at the Blue Sky Cafe at 8pm. Now back recording and performing her own material, Viv was closely associated with both The Clash and The Sex Pistols in the very earliest days of the London punk scene and then went on to join The Slits in 1977 as their new guitarist.
8pm Tickets £8 available from us soon
26th February 2010
Leuwen Steffan a'r band + Jochen Eisentraut Trio
Neuadd Powis, Prifysgol Bangor
Leuwen Steffan's rich but lyrical voice forges a unique fusion of jazz and Welsh folk. She has studied jazz in the USA and performed in numerous jazz clubs including the legendary Ronnie Scotts and the Vortex in London and in jazz festivals across the world from Malaysia to Mexico. This is a rare Welsh gig for Lleuwen who currently resides in Brittany.
The Jochen Eisentraut Trio is led by the experienced composer and jazz pianist accompanied by his hotshot young rhythm section.
7.30pm Tickets £10 available from us or from 01248 382141
27th February 2010
Bhangra Aye ! with the Dhol Foundation
Hendre Hall, Tal-y-Bont
A celebration of Asian music, dance and food.
Led by effervescent showman Johnny Kalsi (Afro Celt Soundsystem, The Imagined Village), the Dhol Foundation are the ultimate groove machine of flailing arms and booming beats !
Tickets : Afternoon £5 Evening £12 All Day £15
On sale from us, Palas Print Caernarfon and Speakers Corner Colwyn Bay
1st March 2010
Steve Eaves a Rhai Pobl
Y Caban, Brynrefail
Gig acwstig ar Ddydd Gwyl Dewi gan Steve a'i fand gwych yn y caffi lleol cyfeillgar yma.
Tocynnau: £14 sydd yn cynnwys pryd o fwyd dau gwrs neu £6 am y gig yn unig. I gadw lle cysylltwch gyda Caban ar 01286 685500.
19th March 2010
Sierra Maestra + Banda Bacana
Neuadd Powis, Prifysgol Bangor
Sierra Maestra are an outstanding nine-piece son band from Havana who are one of the finest and most popular musical ensembles performing in the Spanish Caribbean today. They were the first group, and remain the best, to play in the old-style son line-up: tres, guitar, trumpet, bongo, güiro and vocals--as during the great days of the 1920s and '30s. They have been the pioneers in reviving this style for new generations and re-introducing it into the Cuban mainstream.
Support is provided by local Afro-Latin funksters Banda Bacana, currently riding high following the release of their chart-topping debut album.
7.30pm Tickets £12 available from us and from 01248 382141
23rd March 2010
Woody Pines
Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge
A bunch of good ol' boys from Asheville, North Carolina, Woody and his band play everything from jazzy swing band struts to old country blues. Pines and his cohorts might be described as a group that makes the type of American roots music that sounds good coming out of a busted AM radio speaker. In a tinny but effective voice that would make Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan proud, Pines croons about rounders, trains and good gals long gone, over a swinging and unhurried blues picking style that keeps toes tapping with ease. The band's motto -"Born in the mountain, raised in the bluff, we came to shake our feet and strut our stuff" says it all !
"A delightful group with a rock solid sexy old time vaudville hill-billy groove" -Sxip Shirey
26th March 2010
Bob Hall and Dave Peabody - Meetings with Remarkable (Blues) Men
Galeri, Caernarfon
Multi-award-winners Bob Hall (piano, mandolin, vocals) and Dave Peabody (guitar, harmonica, vocals) travelled thousands of miles with John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Honeyboy Edwards, Charlie Musselwhite and a host of other legends, giving them a unique insight into the blues.
In Meetings with Remarkable (Blues) Men they perform the music and tell stories of their travels, some poignant, some hilarious, but all from personal experience.
Tickets £10
£8.50 PRIMA members
£8 Students | Disabled
www.galericaernarfon.com
16th April 2010
Henry Priestman
Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge
Another great songwriter - this time from a bit nearer home ! Henry has been successfully writing songs and performing since the late seventies, originally with The Yachts, then It's Immaterial before hitting the big time with The Christians (writing all songs on their 1987 triple-platinum debut) in the late eighties and early nineties. In 2008 he released his first solo album "Chronicles of Modern Life", a little gem packed with witty, pithy lyrics and catchy hooks which became one of the surprise hits of that year. Here's what people had to say about it...
"This is Grumpy Old Men set to music...fantastic" - The Guardian
"...It's just great, it's real...got great songs on it" - Johnnie Walker
"It's absolutely brilliant...he's found his voice" - Bob Harris
"A solo album full of wit and love and disappointment and vitriol...perfect pop decorated with spikiness and anger" **** - Rock n Reel