Aberystwyth Arts, Music & Media

Musical Links

A legacy of the old music department, the large local Arts Centre, the Welsh cultural promotion of performance (Eisteddfods) all help make Aber' a musical sort of place. Oh, and perhaps the lack of much else to do during the wet winter nights has something to do with it too.

• University Music Centre
• Symphony orchestra, Philomusica of Aberystwyth
• Aberystwyth Choral Society NEW
• Aberystwyth Choral Union
• University Wind Band
• The Chamber Orchestra University Sinfonia
• Aberystwyth Silver Band
• Aberystwyth Male Choir
• Ian Pegler Composer and Musician
• Rock Guitarist Uli Jon Roth
• Musicfest
• Singer, songwriter Bernadette O'Grady NEW
• The Hot Puppies are a five piece analogue synth-heavy punk pop band from Aberystwyth
• Locally born harpist Rhodri Davies is an accomplished classical harpist as well as a leading exponent of experimental and improvised harp.
• Locally born harpist Catrin Finch was formally Royal Harpist to The Prince of Wales
• Murry The Hump were a popular local band
• Charlotte Sometimes
• Fenks
• My Favourite Runner Up
• Cerdd Ystwyth Music Aberystwyth music shop
• Julian Shelley Books & musical instruments NEW
• Andy's Records Shop
• Aberystwyth's influence on Led Zeppelin

Arts

Chimney / Bell Tower in front of the Arts Centre

• Arts Centre
• Coliseum Museum & Gallery
• University Art Department Gallery
• A picture by the Irish impressionist painter, Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940) Between the Cliffs, Aberystwyth hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
• Artworks held at the National Library
• National Library Online Exhibitions
• The University School of Art Ceramic Collection
• Cardiganshire Art Society
• Ron (Davies's) photo gallery
• Local artist Tracey Jayne Thomas produces fine drawings and paintings NEW
• Seren y Gem - Michael (Durrant's) community sports photo gallery
• Arad Goch theatre company
• Aber Photo Gallery - you can also send these as e-postcard

Media

• Koudelka is a computer game for the Playstation set in Aberystwyth!
• Directory of AberMUD web sites.
• Often compared to the film 'trainspotting', Grits is a contemporary novel set in Aberystwyth. (Rather worryingly, the author was my neighbour for a couple of years!)
• The crime thriller Aberystwyth Mon Amour is set in . . . . (yes you've guessed it) Aberystwyth.
• also by the same author: Last Tango in Aberystwyth The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth, and Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth
• The humorous novel Stripping Penguins Bare is set around the Overseas Students' Society at Aberystwyth University
• The novel 'Fire and Water' explores student overhang - the 'art' of remaining in Aber long after finishing their studies.
• Siân James' autobiography The Sky Over wales A child's view of growing up around Aberystwyth in the 1930's & 40's
• Tales of an Aber Lad. Nostalgic tales of life in Aber during the 1940's and 50's NEW
• Aber Prom. Development of the seafront over 150 years with particular emphasis on music and the theatrical entertainers of the early 20th century NEW

• The film The Monocled Mutineer (1987) was shot in Borth and Ynys-las
• The film A Mind to Kill (1991), about a serial killer, was shot around Aberystwyth
• The film Undertaker's Paradise (1999) was shot in Aberystwyth.
• Parts of the Bolleywood film Maine Dil Tujhko Diya was shot in Aberystwyth.
• The 'critically acclaimed' short film Against the Dying of the Light (2001) is about what is now the (National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales)