Different genres of music have an uncanny way of gravitating to venues that are sympathetic to their cause.

In Haverfordwest, back in the day, Minnies hosted rock nights presided over by G and Stretch from sludgecore metallers Grind.

This year the rock night moniker has drifted downstream to the Venue in Quay Street, and the keeper of the cause is Joe of Kryophere.

The rock nights are still as true to the Pembrokeshire metal crusade as ever; the band names may have changed, but the dedication is as positive and sincere as at the turn of the millennium.

Whether you want extreme, jazz, goth, death, old school or thrash metal the Venue is the place to find it, with Toxic Shock, Intensive Square and Der Science Metzger the torch-bearers.

Up at the top of the town at the Stonemason's Arms, Griff, landlord, and drummer of late seventies hardcore punk exponents Picture Frame Seduction (now reformed and touring again), has live music nights most weekends, where rock holds court with The Blackbirds, The Chaos Theory, Gridlock and Twisted Faith, as well as the legendary 'Frames showing the young upstarts how it was done in their day.

Many of these bands can be found on the charity CD Roar Meet in aid of the Paul Sartori Foundation.

The CD is available at outlets around Haverfordwest, as is Sex Wars by the re-purposed Picture Frame Seduction, - "Accept no substitute" as L. Dopa said.

What will he make of the Roar Meet charity CD, featuring 19 of the county's most diverse acts? MOLL