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
• Music Centre Concert Diary
• Musicfest

• Symphony orchestra Philomusica of Aberystwyth
• Aberystwyth Choral Society
• Aberystwyth Choral Union
• University Wind Band
• The Chamber Orchestra University Sinfonia
• Aberystwyth Silver Band
• Aberystwyth Male Choir
• Heartsong Community Choir

• 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
• Ian Pegler Composer and Musician
• Singer, songwriter Bernadette O'Grady NEW
• The Hot Puppies are a five piece analogue synth-heavy punk pop band from Aberystwyth
• Murry The Hump were a popular local band
• Charlotte Sometimes
• Fenks
• My Favourite Runner Up
• Radio Luxembourg now called Race Horses Experimental / Psychedelic Pop Group

• 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
• Aberystwyth Printmakers
• HAUL creating artworks to raise the spirits of Ceredigion's healthcare people
• Ron (Davies's) photo gallery
• Local artist Tracey Jayne Thomas produces fine drawings and paintings NEW
• Aber Photo Gallery - you can also send these as e-postcard

Dance

• Aber Swing Dance Club
• Capoeira Aber Brazilian dance / martial art
• Ravin' Stompers Line Dancing
• Welsh Folk Dance

Theatre

• Arad Goch theatre company
• Castaway Community Theatre
• Showtime Singers
• Wardens Dramatic Society

Media

• Koudelka is a computer game for the Playstation set in Aberystwyth!
• AberMUD

• 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 (2001) is set in . . . . (yes you've guessed it) Aberystwyth.
• also by the same author:
  • Last Tango in Aberystwyth (2003)
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth (2005)
  • Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth (2007)
  • From Aberystwyth with Love (2009)
  • The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still (2011)
• 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
• Aber Prom. Development of the seafront over 150 years with particular emphasis on music and the theatrical entertainers of the early 20th century

• 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 (2002) 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)

• The S4C drama series Zansibar (2011) is set in Aberystwyth NEW