Cardiff University Students' Union - Nightlife

Nightlife

The Union has an in-house nightclub, Solus, which holds events throughout the week. Many artists have performed live on stage, such as Euro-Trance trio Cascada. Nights currently being run are "The Lash" on a Wednesday night, branded and targeted for the university sports societies as a night of getting together as a team and getting up to no good, which often plays chart hits, RnB, and cheese. "Boombox" is Friday nights, playing electo pop, wonky pop, indie and dance music in memory of Alex Grivas. Saturday night is the final night of the week with the longtime "Comeplay", playing all the top hits of the past month to dance to.

The capacity of Solus is 2200. The Union can link both the Taf bar and Solus with the Great hall to make a "superclub" of 4000, making it the biggest nightclub in Cardiff, and also one of the largest in Wales.

The union's pub is called "The Taf". This is commonly mistaken to be a reference to the River Taff which runs through Cardiff, but it is actually a contraction of "Tafarn", the Welsh word for "pub". Having undergone a facelift in the year 2009 it now serves pub food at student prices, and also offers the cheapest drinks tariff all year round to students, as well as providing grounds for regular pool hustling.

The Union's Great Hall has attracted bands and musicians since the 1970s, such as The Runaways, Deaf School, David Bowie, Midge Ure, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, The Nirvana's, John Lennon, Max Boyce, The Manic Street Preachers, The Rolling Stones, Kaiser Chiefs, The Darkness, Beck, Motörhead, Super Furry Animals, KT Tunstall, Sum 41, Pendulum, Bloc Party, Madina Lake, Billy Talent, the annual Kerrang tour and Cascada, La Roux, We Are Scientists, Editors and many more.

In addition to the main union building, there is a smaller, alternative function room, known since 2005 as CF10 (after the postcode in which the Union is located). CF10 is the Union's student restaurant/café, and has formerly been known as Seren Las, the Finistere and "The Dyfed". This can also be opened as a separate nightclub venue.