Saturday, January 18, 2025

Bad Moon rising?

Two months since it suddenly shut down, Cardiff venue the Moon is back - well, sort of.

It's been rebranded as the New Moon, complete with a naff logo and even naffer slogan ("Making the DIFFerence"), and is promising to deliver "Motown, Soul, Old School Bangers and the best talent around!" That awful descriptor "urban" has been bandied about too.

Part of the charm of the Moon was that its doors were open to anything and everything. The glorious Cosmic Carnage all-dayers - and, for that matter, the folk nights - are clearly very much a thing of the past.

Such is the state of the live music scene in Cardiff that I'm loath to shit on anywhere new opening up - but this latest venture looks decidedly dubious.

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