USW Music & Sound

21/11/2025

Free Gig in the SU, next Thursday, November the 27th featuring all the new 1st Year BA Popular and Commercial Bands. The gig has been organised by 2nd Year Music Business students, with support from the Live Music Society.

Doors: 6pm

27/10/2025

🎉 Big news! Meet our new USW lecturers – Kaptin Barrett & Darren Broome!

Kaptin Barrett – 20+ years in the music world as an artist, DJ, promoter, manager, radio host, and festival programmer. Ex-Head of Music at Boomtown Festival, now programming Big Love, performing at Glastonbury & Green Man, and Hip Hop Coordinator at Amgueddfa Cymru / Museum Wales. A true champion of Welsh music!

Darren Broome – long legacy in the music industry as a producer, A&R specialist, promoter, radio plugger, and marketer. Former BBC Cymru Wales Music Producer, festival collaborator, and mentor to emerging talent with encyclopaedic music knowledge.

Together, they know every corner of the music scene & basically know every artist that’s walked the planet.

Welcome to USW! 🙌

07/10/2025

Our students had an amazing evening at the Welsh Music Prize Awards witnessing music and inspiration at its best! Congratulations to our MA Songwriting lecturer Matthew Evans for being nominated, for receiving the Welsh Music Inspiration Award and for receiving the Welsh Music Prize Award ✨🎵

11/06/2024

Brecons Jazz Fest and are looking for young people to be involved in new music opportunities!
Looking for everyone from artists, bands and DJs to creatives, artist managers, designers and photographers and videographers!
Free travel arrangements to the Taster Day on 13th of June as well so please reach out to [email protected] for more information.

14/09/2023

This group is currently inactive, head over & join us on Instagram. www.instagram.com/usw_music/

06/10/2022

This is going to be a great event - register for your ticket to join Huw Stephens next Friday 14th October

Getting Heard! with BBC TV & Radio Presenter Huw Stephens

11/08/2022

☀️☀️☀️ It's going to be a HOT one.

USW Music & Sound staff & students are proud to work in partnership with the organisers of this year's Brecon Jazz Festival. Together we bring you 5 special Atrium USW Stage events taking place at "Muse" & "Northhouse Brecon" which is co-owned by USW Alumnus, Dean Richards. The opportunity to work at Brecon Jazz Festival provides our students with valuable experience, helping them to kick-start their creative careers.

Lineup 👇👇👇
James Chadwick Trio
Tanya Walker & Friends
Freshly Cut Grass (Septet)
Jazzy Thing Trio
Dionne Bennett Quintet

🎟 Info & tickets https://breconjazz.org/

20/06/2022

The USW ‘Create Sampler - Volume 5’ Is Out Now!

We start our week-long USW creative Gradfest celebrations by presenting you with a compilation of some of the greatest music and sounds from the talented students of

Over the last few years, USW Music & Sound have had the privilege of collecting the greatest pieces of music and sound from our students, we have then complied these works onto our Create Sampler records. ‘Create Sampler- Volume 5’ is an expansive record that consists of 16 tracks which vary in styles and genres.

It is available right now on our SoundCloud, tap the link to listen: https://soundcloud.com/user-713545023/sets/create-sampler-vol-5?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Over the coming week we will be posting more ‘Create Sampler - Volume 5’ content so keep a look out for some exciting previews.

More useful links to do with USW MUSIC AND SOUND and GRADFEST can be found here: https://linktr.ee/uswmusic

08/06/2022

Paid opportunities to work at Music & food events this summer

We are bringing back the in-person Food Festival!

03/05/2022

We're excited to be heading to FOCUS Wales & joining the lineup of over 250 global artists for our 1st USW Showcase at the Festival. Find us at the Old No 7 Bar on Saturday 7th from 8pm with this talented lot

21/04/2022

🌍 Happy Earth Day 💚

We've enjoyed working with Music Declares Emergency this year & have made much progress on our sustainability policies, especially around Immersed! Festival. Here's a reel of the amazing artwork from the pop up gallery created by BA IIIustration students for the festival to raise awareness about the climate emergency.

Follow Music Declares Emergency for ways to get involved & updates: Instagram & Twitter

Share the message - we need urgent climate action because there's .

06/04/2022

Our USW Photojournalism students have been flat out covering Immersed. These are some of their favourite shots from the festival. They are incredible, if you use them please give a credit.

Day 1: Tramshed featuring Minas MONIQUE MissFaithee L E M F R E C K Sonny: Double 1 The Honest Poet Benji Wild Afro Cluster Rhi'N'B Ophelia's Beard Terrapins Adrastea USER BUSY Basic State Superficial Heights Mt. Ples N.A.S.H Save Our Ships Live at The Hanbury Swansea (With Support from Guilty Rascals) Femmebug Mari Mathias Claurindo Diakiesse Megan Owen Music

Day 2: CULTVR featuring Motel Thieves SYBS Mr Bewlay Breichiau Hir SHLUG Nookee Silent Forum Nigel/UK/ TELGATE Blackelvis as well as artists from Sound Progression