Cardiff Twestival 2010, held last night at Buffalo bar, was on fire- literally!  Twestival goers were treated to fire juggling on their way into the venue and the fun didn’t stop there. Senses were tickled by the melodic tones of Spindle and Wit, Under the Driftwood Tree, Ffred Jones and Joshua Caole and dancing shoes were donned as Miss Bethan Elfyn & Lady Fi from the Vinyl Vendettas spun delicious tunes into the wee small hours.

But the highlight of everyone’s night had to be the mind blowing Super Sonic MEGA raffle boasting such prizes as bmibaby flights, Banksy prints, years supply of coffee, free office space, an ipod touch to name just a few of the desirables.

A racous time was had by all 200 plus attendees and the total donations collection skyrocketed to over £1500

Cardiff Twestival would like to thank all that attended and are already on the look out for September’s Twestival local, which they’re planning on being even BIGGER, somehow!

We’d just like to take a moment to show you some beautiful logo’s that belong to some super companies who all donated their time, energy, services, prizes and a whole lot more to this year’s Twestival.  We literally couldn’t have done it without them.  So give them a little click, take a wander around their website and if you feel inclined, say hello!

Fed up with raffles taking forever and still not winning anything? Want to pay a couple of quid and win prizes that will blow your mind? Then you need…

Cardiff Twestival 2010 Super Sonic MEGA Raffle!

We’ve put together 3 totally awesome prize packages that 3 lucky people will be walking away with and all for the measly price of £2 a ticket!

Tickets are available here: http://bit.ly/aP7Hep

Whether you can make the actual event on the night or not you can still enter and do your bit for charity by buying online raffle tickets between now and March 25th.  If you’re not there on the night fear not we’ll first send you a congratulatory message by psychic link, then follow it up with an email/text to let you know how blooming lucky you are & get the prizes to you.

Below is just a small taster of what you can win as prizes are still pouring in now as we type.

FIRST PLACE PRIZE PACKAGE

1 x pair of bmibaby.com flights
One years supply of coffee from The Caffeine Kid
5 x 2 pairs of tickets to Mach Comedy Fest
1 x pair of gig tickets for gig of your choice at Clwb Ifor Bach
40×40 pop art portrait worth £40 from Laura Hickman
Dizzyjam T-shirt of your choice
Meal for 2 at Y Fuwch Goch
Signed Jean Jacques Smoothie CD
Banksy Print

SECOND PLACE PRIZE PACKAGE

1 x pair of bmibaby.com flights
One years office space at IndyCube
Two years worth of premium Wordpress and domain name hosting including all registration and setup fees, worth over £250 from Encryptec
2 x guest-list spaces to a gig of your choice at CAI
Matt Needle limited edition prints
Dizzyjam T-shirt of your choice
£20 voucher to The Pot Cafe

THIRD PLACE PRIZE PACKAGE

1 x pair of bmibaby.com flights
8GB iPod Touch courtesy of Tweetzi
Free SubHub website for a year
2 x guestlist spaces to SUMO Pres. SWAYZAK at Cardiff Barfly
Sweet Billy Pilgrim CD’s
Sleeveface book
Dizzyjam T-shirt of your choice
£45 Mr. Spotless carpet cleaning voucher

Every penny raised will be going to the charity Concern Worldwide who focus on improving the lives of people in third world countries, specifically the money raised at the Cardiff Twestival 2010 will be going towards building new schools.

Don’t forget to get your tickets to the event and raffle soon as we only have a limited amount. So spread the word and get your fingers crossed!

Tickets: http://bit.ly/aP7Hep

Love
Team Twestival x

Come join us at Buffalo bar for a night of fun, frolics and top quality music.

Along with some spine-tinglingly good bands we’ve also got some top class DJ’s pumping out the tunes ’til the early hours AND the super sonic mega raffle to end all raffles; featuring such awesome prizes as bmibaby flights, Banksy prints, meals out, gig tickets, office space for a year, and even a carpet cleaning voucher! What more could you ask for?!

All this and more for the measly advance ticket price of £4 (£5 on the door)

And if you can’t make it on the night why don’t you buy some raffle tickets to be in with a chance to win one of the 3 mega super sonic bags of prizes including flights to any of bmibaby’s destinations!

You can buy tickets and raffle tickets here:
http://bit.ly/aP7Hep

Acts include:

SPINDLE AND WIT (http://www.myspace.com/spindleandwit)
FFRED JONES (ep launch) (http://www.ffredjones.co.uk)
JOSHUA CAOLE (http://www.myspace.com/joshuacaole)

followed by Bethan Elfyn & guest DJs

AND THE SUPER SONIC MEGA RAFFLE!

Thursday 25th March 2010

Doors 8pm-3am

£4 adv/£5 on the door

Every penny raised will be going to the charity Concern Worldwide who focus on improving the lives of people in third world countries

Concern Worldwide
http://www.concern.net

Buffalo Bar
http://www.myspace.com/wearebuffalobar

Twitter
http://twitter.com/CFTwestival

Tickets
http://bit.ly/aP7Hep

Yes people that’s right!

On the evening of March 25th 2010 Cardiff will be taken over once again by Twestival, this time supporting the fantastic charity Concern Worldwide who spend all their time improving the lives of the world’s poorest most vulnerable people.

We are currently looking for volunteers, sponsorship, venues, free beers, printers everything and anything you could possibly imagine we need to run an event, we’re interested!

There’s lot’s of great ways you can get in touch with us:

Facebook

http://bit.ly/CpaPe

Twitter

www.twitter.com/CFTwestival

or Email

twalestival@gmail.com

This year’s Twestival is going to blow your minds.

And hopefully empty your wallets of loose change.

CFTwestival Team x

So we’ve finally announced ALL FIVE of our events which will be taking place every day between September 10th-13th around the city of Cardiff!  Below is the Cardiff Twestival events calendar, letting you know what is on and where, so you can come and help us raise loads lovely buckets of cash for the well deserving local charity Cardiff Mind!  So come on, get offline, dig deep, and let’s do it!

CARDIFF TWESTIVAL

September 10th-13th 2009

***CALENDAR OF EVENTS***

*Thursday 10th September*

TWESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY

Eczematic: The Office Party!
with special Guest DJ KEITH Bishop from the BBC TV show ‘The Office’

@ Fat Cat Cafe Bar

7:30pm-Late

http://bit.ly/DkYJP

*Friday 11th September*

FLIP YOUR WIG

with Canton Space Project and Cardiff Twestival

@ Toucan Club

10pm-4am
http://bit.ly/sV31z

*Saturday 12th September*

NICE LITTLE GROOVERS SATURDAY SWAP SHOP!

@ Gwdihw

2pm-Late
http://bit.ly/ci73V

*Sunday 13th September* 2-6pm

BYOB - BRING YOUR OWN BOARD GAME!

@ Fat Cat Cafe Bar

2pm-6pm
http://bit.ly/APeZm

THE ‘C’ WORD - COMEDY: Mark Olver headline

(+4 other top quality acts)

@ Y Fuwch Goch (Opposite Clwb)

8pm-11pm
http://bit.ly/jxDQu

Artwork by @Sianz Design by @xgfx

For the finalé of Cardiff Twestival we’re doing a night of great comedy at Y Fuwch Goch (The Red Cow), because it’s been scientifically proven** that cows love comedy and so do we. All the money’s going to our ever deserving chosen charity Cardiff Mind and all the cows will be real-ish. Maybe…

***Booooooze***

The lovely people at Y Fuwch Goch have these tasty drinks offers for you:

£2.50 Pint of Amstel
£1.50 Bottle of Kronenbourg

Schnice!

***The Acts***

Mark Olver
Mike Bubbins
Jared Hardy
Dan Mitchell
and
MC Frank Honeybone

AND
ALL the money’s going to Cardiff Mind!

***The blurb you can skip past if you don’t need to know more***

So what have we got for you lovely people. Well we’re lucky enough to have scored Mr. Mark Olver hot off supporting Russell Howard on his national tour of the Great British Isles, alongside him we’ve got the comedy styling of Mr. Mike Bubbins who has not yet unpacked from the successful run of his one man show at Edinburgh.

And as if that wasn’t enough for you we’ve got Welsh comedy circuit favourite Mr. Dan Mitchell and fast rising Bristolian funny man Jared Hardy showing you he’s a lot more than just a Sue Perkins lookalike.

Wait! There’s more!

All this is being expertly overseen by MC Mr. Frank Honeybone - He’s only the bloody team captain on Ruth Jones’ new BBC Wales radio panel show ‘What’s the story?’

WOW! And all this just for a FIVER?!? We’re literally giving this away to you! And every penny is going to Twestival Cardiff’s chosen charity Cardiff Mind!

***A bit about our acts…***

**Mr.Mark Olver**

(http://markolver.com/)

“Four stars” - Chortle
“Olver has a great story to tell” - The List
“Cheerful and funny” - The Guardian

**Mr.Mike Bubbins**

(http://www.mikebubbins.com/)
“Bubbins is hilariously gifted…beneath his Welsh gristle, lie some truly funny bones” - Rhod Gilbert

**Mr.Dan Mitchell**

(http://www.comedycv.co.uk/danmitchell/index.htm)
“Natural funny bones”- Chortle
“a very good act with tons of charisma” - Budweiser Legends of laughter

**Mr.Jared Hardy**

“Uplifting, daft observations on life, delivered like an even smaller Russell Howard.” - Camelot

and our glorious MC

**Mr.Frank Honeybone**

(http://www.honeybone.net/frank)
“Very, very funny. One to watch.” - The Stage
“He is a b**t*rd. A funny b**t*rd..” - Chortle Comedy

*Cows subject to availability
**May not have been real scientists

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This event is part of Cardiff Twestival. Twalestival is events organised in Cardiff which will be taking place between September 10th-13th via Twitter, which bring people offline for a great cause, Cardiff Mind! http://www.mind.org.uk/mind_cymru

For up to date news please join our group http://bit.ly/CpaPe
and follow us on Twitter @Twalestival

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Remember the days before Napster and iTunes? You do? Swell!

Well you see that dusty collection of quality cd’s and vinyl? No, over there, behind all those unread books.

How super cool would it be if you could SWAP some of those with someone else?!?

That’s right come and be SUPER COOL at Gwdihw!

On September 12th 2-6pm at Gwdihw we’re hosting a Swap Shop!

Bring what you want. Take what you want.
But we think 3 is indeed the magic number.

*Forgotten Vinyl and Spanking New Shiny Discs*

*Hidden Gems and Guilty Pleasures*

*Dusted Off Classics and Newfangled Wonders*

Original discs only please.
Oh and NO Arctic Monkeys thankyouverymuch

There’ll also be mind-blowingly good DJs from 2pm, Artisan beers, the best chocolate brownies I’ve ever tasted, and at 9pm you’ve got Nice Little Groovers, Gwdihw’s regular Saturday night foray into the music.

Phew. What a day!

**DJs include but are not limited to**

Geraint (Baz) (Boobytrap)

Dafydd & Neil (Dizzyjam / Phantom Beats / Spillers)

Jumbo Cruiser (Funk / Soul)

*Plus LOADS More TBC*

Gwdihw’s lovely website
www.gwdihw.co.uk

How to find Gwdihw, it’s at the end of Churchill Way dontchuknow…
http://www.gwdihw.co.uk/find_us.html

Keith just called from his private jet in Miami and said if you’ve got any requests for him to play please post them on the wall of the Facebook event, here, on our Twitter or you can even message me with them!

He likes to listen to his play list on constant repeat for 4 days prior to the event and meditate to the tracks. He calls it getting into ‘THE ZONE’

This is the best way to get your favourite song played by Keith on the night, as you can imagine he is always inundated with requests and his secret service bodyguards are pretty hard to get passed.

Get your tracks in….NOW!

Beth @bethc
Cardiff Twestival Team @twalestival