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Croeso x Nightworks is a vibrant programme of bilingual free-entry gigs across the city's grassroots music venues this St David's Day weekend.

Emerging from the depths of Cardiff’s burgeoning music scene, and heirs to their country’s lineage of storytellers, are Slate. The four-piece reimagine the gothic foundations of new-wave, charging their sound with melodic force and the white-knuckled intensity of post-punk. Their introductory singles “Tabernacl” and “St Agatha” found praise in the NME, Clash, So Young, DIY and more, as well as radio champions in Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq on BBC 6Music, and Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1. A reclamation of Welsh identity, and love of poetry which is woven into their live performances, are influences which announce Slate as a fascinating and necessary arrival.

Slate are joined by the melodic slacker-rock of Los Blancos, alt-rock quartet VAIN, and Pypi Slysh, the 6-piece project of Sam Stevens and Siôn Teifi Rees from Ceredigion which also features members of Mellt and Slate.