{"id":31559,"date":"2016-10-21T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=31559"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T10:24:54","slug":"newports-latest-music-venue-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2016\/10\/21\/newports-latest-music-venue-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport&#8217;s latest music venue is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Newport has a rich background in indie\/rock music &#8211; but with\u00a0Peter Andre playing this Saturday at Newport\u2019s latest venue, does it mean that the\u00a0city\u00a0is changing it&#8217;s tune?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31561\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 468px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/IMG_5713.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31561\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/IMG_5713-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"TJ's was once a legend in Newport's live music scene - now it has become a ruin\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31561\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/IMG_5713-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"TJ's was once a legend in Newport's live music scene - now it has become a ruin\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> TJ&#8217;s was once a legend in Newport&#8217;s live music scene &#8211; now it has become a ruin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new music venue has opened in\u00a0Clarence Place in Newport, where once the legendary nightclub <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TJ\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> played host to many rock bands, such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nirvana. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TJ\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> isn\u2019t much more than a ruin. But on the other side of the road, you can see <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has opened for business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been renovated from the old Odeon cinema with the aim of turning it into a music hotspot. But is it breaking away from Newport\u2019s indie roots by booking a mainstream act like Peter Andre? Nathan Jennings, 29, a film director who is currently making a feature film about the history of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TJ\u2019s,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> says, \u201cI think it\u2019s great that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is now a working venue once more. It\u2019s keeping the spirit of live music open to a new generation and appealing to a much wider audience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31562\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 312px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/IMG_5741.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31562\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/IMG_5741-312x312.jpg\" alt=\"The Neon was once the Odeon cinema, whited opened its doors back in 1934\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31562\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/IMG_5741-312x312.jpg\" alt=\"The Neon was once the Odeon cinema, whited opened its doors back in 1934\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The Neon was once the Odeon cinema, which opened its doors back in 1934<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It seems engaging a much broader audience is a good thing. Newport itself has benefitted from its new mainstream shopping complex, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friar\u2019s Walk<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; so has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">followed in the direction that Newport seems to be going in?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shelly Byers, 39, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">office manager, has said <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> aims to cater to a variety of music genres. They put on acts like tribute bands for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abba<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and rock bands like local Newport legends, Sk<\/span>indred.<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0She didn\u2019t feel calling <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strictly mainstream is fair; Shelly stated, \u201cWe want to bring in more rock music. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TJ\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was just a legendary place to go to, and we want to bring that sort of thing back to Clarence Place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It looks like rock music certainly has a place to stay,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Neon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Newport going in a different musical direction by showing Peter Andre?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":31567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5481,478,5482,1458,5483,5484],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-mainstream","tag-newport","tag-peter-andre","tag-rock","tag-the-neon","tag-tjs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Newport&#039;s latest music venue is here! 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