Promoting Swansea's Live Music & Arts Scene

It is our aim to help local people develop their creativity, especially those who may struggle to find funding. We work particularly with musicians and artists form the less privileged areas of Swansea and throughout Wales in partnership with Community First, Swansea City Council and the Wales Council for Voluntary Action.

We are seeking to create a creative partnership of arts based organisations in and around Swansea to sharing ideas and also to support each other as musicians, artists and dancers regardless of skill level or background. By coming together we can drive forward the creative industry in Swansea and engage in more ambitious projects than we could accomplish as individuals.

We are aiming to provide an audio and visual recording resource for Swansea City Centre.

Over the coming months we hope to provide and facilitate a range of quality contemporary Music, Art and Dance projects.

What we can do for you?

• Help you meet like minded individuals and work on projects together.
• Give you professional advice and support.
• Give you professional advice and support.
• Provide recording time in one of the best studios in town.

What you can do for us?

• Join M.A.D. in Swansea.
• Support our events by attending and/or performing.
• Help to run our committee.
• Help to develop our projects.
  
  

Membership is free and open to all. M.A.D has both
equal opportunities and an environmental policy.

Contact us

Help us change the face of the creative industry and
focus attention on the many musical talents in Swansea!

Music

We are currently running a project called NEXT STEP, which gives deserving bands access to FREE studio recording time in an amazing 24 track industry standard studio in the heart of Swansea.

Dozens of Bands have already recorded with us and have produced some really crackin’ demos!

We also work towards achieving our aims with musicians by promoting gigs, organising music workshops and providing the only online Swansea Gig Guide listing virtually all of the live music to be found in Swansea each night. Furthermore, we have a PA for Sound System available for hire or offered free of charge to worthy musicians.

Arts

We work in conjunction with local visual artists to help organise and publicise art exhibitions. We also work to promote public art projects by assisting in the organisation and funding issues of such projects.

"Come on in my homeless brothers. We all dance in circles now.
Come on in you faithless lovers we all have to dance somehow."

Mick Haigh - local poet