A View From Dead Of Night: Celavi (Misfit Jax)

Dead Of Night Featuring Celavi, Hangar 18 Venue, Swansea, 07.11.26



Hangar 18 Nightclub/Music Venue in Swansea has a history rooted in both its modern incarnation as an alternative music club/performance venue and its long-standing legacy as a fixture of Swansea’s nightlife, It has gone by many different names in the past, tonight it is the venue at every first Saturday of the month an event called Dead Of Night, an inclusive alternative night that focuses the gothic/industrial subculture and genre which has been going for just over 20 years in which it has been an important and crucial part of south Wales alternative industry and scene.

Now before the DJ's and the dancing, a band takes the stage to open the night, the band for this occasion Celavi (10)!, The Bangor North Wales based band fronted by Sarah and Gwion Griffiths that not only bring loud, hard fast, poetic, passionate, aggressive, cathartic lyrics and music that are sung in the Welsh language, but a bright and dark visual spectacle that they deliver not just seen in their imagery and music videos like bite my tongue, Morgana, Ar Dy Liniau (On Your Knees) and Eyeliner but with a delivered live performance aswell that just give you the feeling, nostalgia and importance of live music,

We get songs like as mentioned as well as Sori, their new song 13, and Plaster, all with a let's fucking go scream and kick from Sarah and shreds and licks from Gwion. Celavi have played castles, they have played download festival, they have played around the UK, Europe, venues of all shapes and sizes

While singing in their Welsh native language and introducing it to a whole new spectrum, but to introduce it to a familiar one tonight at a Welsh venue already just adds that extra fuel to fire and the embers of screams,cheers and applause of the welsh fans old and new colliding with the aggressive enthusiasm of the band delivering such a spectacle of performance visually vocally and musically that is Celavi.