Calling all activists, accomplices and the curious to Swansea’s Radical Community Festival!
We invite you to another day of conversations, workshops, ideas and sharing materials and resources. Gŵyl y Gwrthsafiad will be held at Down By Here on the 7th of November, 2026.

Future Blood is a Music Development Project for 14- 21 year olds held weekly on Wednesdays between 6-9pm.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Big Flavours & Bold Brews. One Long Weekend. Join us November 12-15.

Raise a glass to Wales’s independent breweries, great live music, and a weekend made for beer lovers.

MWSOG are a seven-piece Welsh collective reshaping contemporary folk through a bold, ritualistic lens. Drawing deeply from Welsh traditional music, 1970s acid folk and psychedelic rock, they forge a sound that feels ancient in spirit yet resolutely modern - hypnotic, visceral and distinctly their own.

Following their triumphant debut performance, Around About Dusk return for a night of New Orleans-inspired folk, jazz & blues

Formed in 2022 and featuring ex-members of Prosperina & The 9ine, Night On The Sun is a powerhouse 4-piece band that draws inspiration from Psychedelia, Grunge, Progressive Rock and more.

With an energetic and powerful angle, they craft a sound that resonates with both nostalgia and innovation - as if your favourite 90s records got filtered through the lens of the 21st century.

Gaudy Orde deliver a raucous, wonderfully daft night of "Anarchic Acoustic Comedy." Fronted by UK Musical Comedy Award winner Jeff Japers, this South Wales 6-piece cooks up a chaotic live mix of ukuleles, bass, clarinet, spoons, washboard, and cajon (expect a drumming bunny and a tribute to Brian Blessed!).

“A once-a-generation talent” Henry Yates (NME, Guardian)

Growing up inside a cult, Katey Brooks found refuge in song. A rebellious artist that resists formula, the powerful (Evening Standard) award-winning singer, songwriter & producer brings a seamless blend of Americana, Folk and Pop to listeners’ ears, which has earned her radio play from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, 6music, Canada’s CBC, Jazz FM, and Amazing Radio amongst many others.

Future Blood is a Music Development Project for 14- 21 year olds held weekly on Wednesdays between 6-9pm.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Ever wondered where the word hoo-ha comes from? Why there ain’t no party like a double negative party?  And why bead doesn’t rhyme with bread, machine doesn’t rhyme with nine, and don’t get me started on yearly and early? This is the event for you!

Berlin/Lisbon based Aniqo joins French artist Love Supreme on this double bill - expect an intimate night based around voice, guitar, synth & subtle electronics

Learn Swansea’s songs in a relaxed environment/Dysgwch ganeuon Abertawe mewn amgylchedd hamddenol.

Bring your own instrument – all abilities welcome. £15 for a two-hour session/Dewch â’ch offeryn eich hun – croeso i bob gallu. £1 am sesiwn dwy awr.

Fortnightly on Saturday at 12:00/Bob pythefnos ar ddydd Sadwrn am 12:00

Cosmic Cornish psychedelia - six-piece collective Blind Yeo blend sun-bleached folk, desert blues, krautrock & north African trance-rock

Future Blood is a Music Development Project for 14- 21 year olds held weekly on Wednesdays between 6-9pm.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Talisman is Swansea's longest-running poetry & spoken word open mic night, expertly curated by Rebecca Lowe.

Held on the last Thursday of the month anyone can sign up, and featured poets are regularly hosted. Sign up from 7.30pm ahead of readings starting at 8pm.

Swansea Fringe returns for it’s 2026 instalment, and this year’s Funk @ The Fringe has a distinctly Afrobeat feel with N’Famady Kouyaté, Kasai Masai & Maryama Cham and Xempa, plus Funked Up! DJs until late!

South Wales’s funkiest DJs bring their stacked vinyl selections to Swansea Fringe, keeping the party going following Funk @ The Fringe!

Old Spot push the boundaries of stringband tradition; digging deeper into the roots of old-time while crafting a live show that’s equal parts intimate & electrifying

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Another barnstorming booking this month as Stuart Laws headlines our monthly comedy night! Plus Alex Perkes, MC Chris Barnes and more!

A free, relaxed creative drop-in at Down By Here, Swansea.

Creation Station is a space for artists, musicians, performers, filmmakers, writers, makers and other creatives to come together, work on ideas, meet people and collaborate.

Learn Swansea’s songs in a relaxed environment/Dysgwch ganeuon Abertawe mewn amgylchedd hamddenol.

Bring your own instrument – all abilities welcome. £15 for a two-hour session/Dewch â’ch offeryn eich hun – croeso i bob gallu. £1 am sesiwn dwy awr.

Fortnightly on Saturday at 12:00/Bob pythefnos ar ddydd Sadwrn am 12:00