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Babyshambles & Roger Daltrey
O2 Academy Bristol (Mon 12 Jan) • A good-natured truce has been declared between the generations for this charity bash raising funds to battle teenage cancer, inspired by the untimely death of 16-year-old Daniel…12.01.2009 READ MORE -
Back to the Lake/ Owen Nicholson / Chandelier Falls
The Louisiana, Bristol (Thu 18 Feb) • Chandelier Falls have plenty working in their favour, not least some neat male and female vocal exchanges and a singer that looks like Sting in miniature, but their acoustic pop is…18.02.2010 READ MORE -
Bare Threads
The Lanes, Bristol (Fri 9 Jan) • Like Start the Bus, The Lanes is a retro-chic offshoot of an established London altbar, bravely staking claim to a prime slice of Bristol’s city centre lager lout heartland. This time…09.01.2009 READ MORE -
Baroness/Big Naturals/Palehorse
The Croft, Bristol (Sun 12 April) • If London volume mongers Palehorse represent the quietest outfit on any bill, then all ears are fairly guaranteed a monumental battering. That is their somewhat unenviable status…12.04.2009 READ MORE -
Bat for Lashes/School of Seven Bells/Caroline Weeks
Anson Rooms, Bristol (Wed 15 Apr) • In a gold silk gown and ringletty bob, Caroline Weeks looks like a Poirot era murderess, tonight singing her way through the poems of Edna St Vincent Millay in a plummy-perfect…15.04.2009 READ MORE -
Bat For Lashes/Yeasayer
Colston Hall, Bristol (Fri 9 Oct) • The stage at Colston Hall is littered with instruments. There are guitars, synths, samplers and percussion all strewn strategically about, awaiting the arrival of Brooklyn quintet,…09.10.2009 READ MORE -
Bath Festival: Classical
Various venues, Bath (from Fri 22 May) • Britannia’s heels were almost as high as her coloratura in Handel’s ‘opera’ ‘The Battle of Quiberon Bay’, and in truth Patricia Rozario was a little wobbly on both. But only the…22.05.2009 READ MORE -
Bath Festival: Classical, Week Two
Various venues, Bath (Fri 29 May-Sat 6 June) • If the figure in the Abbey Churchyard, hands folded, completely engrossed in the activities of the peripatetic trumpeters, seemed more absorbed than most, he had every…29.05.2009 READ MORE -
Bath Festival: Ralph Stanley/Jerry Harmon/Charlie Parr
Bath Pavilion (Fri 29 May) • Charlie Parr makes a steel guitar take flight like a banjo, the cascading purity of notes flowing like sun-backlit drops jumping from a rocky stream. Contrast that with a voice like a bear…29.05.2009 READ MORE -
Bath Fringe: Lo’Jo
Spiegeltent, Bath (Sun 31 May) • Well Lo’Jo may have been the star attraction but, by the time they appeared, I’d already been mightily entertained for several hours. It’s a testament to their compelling uniqueness,…31.05.2009 READ MORE -
Bath Fringe: The Handsome Family/Smoke Fairies
Spiegeltent, Bath Fringe (Thur 28 May) • A humid hush descends over the mirror-pillared and red-velvet draped Spiegeltent as Smoke Fairies take to the stage. They’re a winsome twosome, each rocking back a slender knee…28.05.2009 READ MORE -
Bath International Music Festival
Various venues, Bath (25 May-5 June) // Nothing like the skirl of the pipes. But hang on... Wrong city? Wrong Festival? Edinburgh weeks away, surely? In fact, reedy ‘shock and awe’ proved an inspired curtain-up to…28.06.2011 READ MORE -
Bath Music Festival Jazz Weekend
Bath (Fri 25-Sun 27) Whatever the reason – the leftfield take of Festival director Joanna MacGregor, commercial pressures or just the sheer rightness of the idea – this year’s BMFJW has mostly been delicious fun, with…25.05.2007 READ MORE -
Bats About Bats/Foxes/Distorted Dreams/Four Finger Fuck
The Croft, Bristol (Tue 16 Nov) • Fittingly, Four Finger Fuck get straight to the point. The crowd cower against each wall as the wild-eyed singer – hair shorn save for a big wedge of Phil Oakey side fringe – prowls.…24.11.2010 READ MORE -
Battle of the Bands Final
Moles, Bath (Wed 10 Dec) • Moles is heaving. Subtract all the bands milling around and it’s still heaving, proving the enduring appeal of making pop a competitive sport. Peppermint Hunting Lodge open proceedings by…10.12.2008 READ MORE -
Battle of the Bands Final
Joe Public’s, Bristol (Wed 3 Dec) • It’s only soundcheck, but everybody’s watching. The eyes of potential judges and rivals staring, blinking, sizing up from the first “check one, check two”. This isn’t entertainment -…03.12.2008 READ MORE -
Battle of the Bands Final
Moles, Bath (Mon 11 Dec) A bumper crop of talent this year on the Moles catwalk. Fashion-wise, hemlines are up, nudity is still popular and black remains the new black. Mellowstar kick off proceedings with slinky smooth…11.12.2006 READ MORE -
BBF: Anta/Team Brick/Squeeze Me Macaroni
Royal Oak, Bath (Sat 12 June) • Perched atop a green fibreglass lion, Squeeze Me Macaroni dishes up fractured post-rock textures and choral voice loops filling the lovely Royal Oak with spectral pitch-shifted planes…12.06.2010 READ MORE -
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BEAK>/Thought Forms
Arnolfini, Bristol (Sun 20 Dec) • As a mini-showcase for Geoff Barrow's experimental Invada label, tonight's bill is a bit of a festive treat. With no preamble, Thought Forms launch gently into a deft sonic curveball,…20.12.2009 READ MORE -
Beatpunk/The Shudders
Fleece, Bristol (Mon 6 Apr) • We’ve not seen a CD cover from The Shudders, but 5-1 it features them simultaneously jumping in the air, knees bent. “We are the fools chasing dreams,” they sing in three-part harmony…06.04.2009 READ MORE -
Belle & Sebastian/Daniel Kitson
Colston Hall, Bristol (Thur 16 Dec) • If the average gig-goer earned a quid for every dreary support act they sat through unwillingly, the resulting sum would probably cover their dream band's guarantee. It's a problem…22.12.2010 READ MORE -
Bell’Arte Salzburg
St George’s Bristol (Sat 13 Dec) • No one could charge Bell’Arte Salzburg with lack of enterprise. Their ingeniously-plotted programme tracked the Christmas story from Advent onwards, exploring mostly 17th-century…13.12.2008 READ MORE -
Benn Clatworthy Quintet
Bebop Club, Bristol (Fri 18 Nov) It’s a quintessentially Bebop gig, this, as club mainman Andy Hague sets up players and arrangements for a top quintet to welcome annual visitor Benn Clatworthy. The Los Angeles-based…21.11.2011 READ MORE -
Beth Rowley/Vashti
St George’s, Bristol (Tue 9 Dec) • “I’ve been here before… but never with so many people!” Beth Rowley, peering at the sell-out crowd, registered the shift in her profile. It felt an auspicious homecoming at the end of…09.12.2008 READ MORE -
BFF: Lightgarden
Central United Reform Church, Bath (Fri 4 June) • There was a lot resting on the music for this one. The gig had missed inclusion in the Bath Fringe brochure and the unusual venue meant that I nearly didn’t locate it at…04.06.2010 READ MORE -
BFF: Paprika Balkanicus
Spiegeltent, Bat (Fri 28 May) • Ducking through the sports centre car park we found the Spiegeltent, an Art Deco Tardis from the 20s, making its annual appearance in the Rec. It meant two things: the Bath Fringe is…28.05.2010 READ MORE -
Big In Lights/Millionaires/The Other Tribe
Croft, Bristol (Tue 1 June) • Inside the newly bifurcated Croft we scurry like rats through a plywood maze. Our reward is cheese later (Big In Lights.) But first The Other Tribe, a sorted troupe of Bristol Uni teens…01.06.2010 READ MORE -
Big Pink Cake Weekender
Cube, Bristol (Sat 11 July) • From the get-go people are smiling and guitars are jangling like doorbells or pocket change destined for the sweet counter. The Short Stories begin the local, acoustic afternoon offerings…11.07.2009 READ MORE -
Big Walker
The Bell, Bath (Mon 9 Aug) • The inaugural Bath Folk Festival hits the ground running with gigs centred around Widcombe Social Club, The Bell and St James Wine Vaults, workshops for advanced tin whistle, bodhran playing…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Bilge Pump/Lords/The Wailingest Cats
Bristol County Sports Club (Sat 22 Mar) • Satan’s mighty gilded cock! I’d scrawled seven pages about this gig, but 300 words is all I’m allowed so here’s the flying highlights: TWC are a scrotum-tightening sax-driven…22.03.2008 READ MORE -
Bill Callahan
Thekla, Bristol (Wed 26 Aug) • Bill Callahan is very post-Obama Americana. Painfully hip, old-timey, courteous, thoughtful; imagine Bing Crosby fronting an indie chamber folk orchestra. It’s a full house for all things…26.08.2009 READ MORE -
Bill Smarme and the Bizness
Rondo Theatre,Bath (Sat 9 Dec) There are skimpily dressed ladies with pink wigs handing out Wotsits. Thus, it’s already shaping up to be the best gig ever, even before sequin-festooned Bill Smarme, ‘Twerton Superstar’,…09.12.2006 READ MORE -
Billy Bragg
St Georges Bristol (Tue 12 Dec) l Most of the Red Wedge musical lefties who lined up alongside Kinnock in the mid-80s to battle Thatcher knew a lost cause when they saw one, and melted away. One remains. But then, Billy…12.12.2006 READ MORE -
Billy Bragg: Left Field In Motion Tour
The Fleece, Bristol (Nov 28, 2011) Typical of Billy Bragg: he didn't just show up for a mere gig here on Monday but combined it with a stirring call to arms at the Occupy Bristol camp on College Green a few hours…01.12.2011 READ MORE -
Billy Cobham & Asere
Colston Hall, Bristol (Sat 20 May) • You could tell from the start that there could be trouble at this gig. The stage displayed a line of mic stands and instruments across the front and, at the back, an enormous and…27.01.2007 READ MORE -
BIMF: Acoustic Ladyland/Led Bib
Bath Pavilion (Sat 29 May) • This first gig of a much-reduced Bath Fest jazz element started awkwardly with Led Bib wandering onstage unannounced. Happily their vigorous music was its own introduction, a skilled and…29.05.2010 READ MORE -
BIMF: Classical programme
Various venues, Bath • Rumour had it that director Richard Williams had come up with a neat way of representing the plague of hailstones in his Roman-Baths-staging of Handel’s ‘Israel in Egypt’: a fusillade of ice cubes…06.06.2010 READ MORE -
Birdman of Alkijazz & The Blessing
Arnolfini, Bristol (Sun 8 July) • My best Arnolfini moment came when I emerged from the first screening of David Lynch’s ‘Eraserhead’. Lots of people had walked out while those remaining were hotly disputing the film’s…08.07.2007 READ MORE -
Bizali Album Launch
Fiddlers, Bristol (Fri 19 June) • It looked like a party because it was a party, but the chirpiness of the near-capacity crowd also held a sense of anticipation bordering on tension. Fiddlers was branded up for Bizali,…19.06.2009 READ MORE -
Black Bloc / SOX
Fleece, Bristol (Mon 8 June) • They cover ‘Buck Rogers’, so you know where SOX are coming from. Quite whether they’re built to carry off their fiddly breakdowns is open to conjecture – just going hell for leather would…08.06.2009 READ MORE -
Black Lips/The Wailingest Cats
The Fleece, Bristol (Mon 16 Feb) • A skulk of hipsters lurk, undecided, as The Wailingest Cats boom their messy power-blues across the half-empty Fleece, simultaneously shouty and precise. It takes a couple of tracks to…16.02.2009 READ MORE -
Black Roots/Dallas
Fleece, Bristol (Fri 9 Sept) Something in the air’s revived the dormant giant that was Bristol’s live reggae scene and it’s a welcome reminder of just how good those days were. The Fleece fills steadily for the early PA…22.09.2011 READ MORE -
Black Stone Cherry/Rival Sons
O2 Academy, Bristol (Mon 26 Mar) Even when the Academy is sold out, as it is tonight, it's rare to find the place so packed for a support act. But California's Rival Sons have been enjoying extraordinary levels of hype…29.03.2012 READ MORE -
Blakeley's Messengers
Bebop Club, Bristol (Fri 25 Nov) These days there’s so much going on in the name of jazz that it’s hard to get a handle on sometimes, but apart from the original New Orleans ‘Dixie’ sounds, it’s probably the 50s and 60s…28.11.2011 READ MORE -
Bleeding Heart Narrative
The Cube, Bristol (Sat 26 Nov) Watching Bleeding Heart Narrative at The Cube, it's tempting to focus on the adjective 'cinematic' to describe the London sextet's richly layered, wide-angled sweep. Indeed, they bear all…07.12.2011 READ MORE -
BLK JKS/The Ouija Birds
Start the Bus, Bristol (Thu 26 Nov) • I like Start The Bus – it feels like the kids have taken over the house and, when Mum returns from holiday, she’ll be furious about all that scribbling on the walls. I liked…26.11.2009 READ MORE -
Bloc Party
Carling Academy Bristol (Wed 7 Feb) • Bloc Party’s debut album ‘Silent Alarm’ was a study in austerity and remoteness. Often thrilling – crisp, feathery songs powered by a driving rhythm section – its music and lyrics…07.02.2007 READ MORE -
Bloc Weekend
Butlins Resort, Minehead (Fri 14-Sun 16 Mar) • Suited and booted, Roots Manuva looks as authoritative as he sounds. The quality of his beats is variable, though, and early hits like 'Juggle Tings Propa' and 'Dreamy…14.03.2010 READ MORE -
BLOC Weekend
Butlins Minehead (Fri 11-Sun 13 Mar) • Every year, Butlins Minehead plays unlikely host to some of the planet’s finest electronic music, its rows of identikit chalets and dilapidated grandeur making for an odd backdrop…16.03.2011 READ MORE -
Blurt/The Liftmen
Thunderbolt, Bristol (Thu 11 Feb) • The magic Thunderbolt – could any other venue boast Carlene Carter, Will Self, Dr Feelgood and this gig? The respectable, respectful crowd marking the return of the semi-mythical…11.02.2010 READ MORE -
Bob Log III
The Lanes, Bristol (Wed 1 Apr) • Bob Log III takes the stage dressed in a tight golden jumpsuit. On his head is a motorcycle helmet, its opaque visor pulled permanently down. In place of a microphone, there’s an old…01.04.2009 READ MORE -
Bombay Bicycle Club/Melody, Melodica and Me/Lucy Rose
St George’s Bristol (Wed 14 Jul) • First, faultless folk from Lucy Rose, sweet enough but cleaner than a Dawson’s Creek double-date. The word ‘winsome’ could’ve been coined for MM&M, a beguiling sextet led by spritely…14.07.2010 READ MORE -
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Colston Hall, Bristol (Thur 25 Jan) Everything about Will Oldham is designed to obscure: the shadowy, opaque figures and none-more-black graphics on early Palace Brothers albums; the constantly shuffled alter-egos and…25.01.2007 READ MORE -
Boogie For Brizzle
Bristol Zoo (Sat 17 July) • This review could be compressed into one long contented sigh. Picture a bower of green summer grass dotted with picnic coolers, blankets, deck chairs and dozing parents, while toddlers gaze…17.07.2010 READ MORE -
Boogie for Brizzle
Bristol Zoo (Sat 18 July) • “The title of this song translates as 'The Sun Will Shine'...” When I arrive at the zoo, the WorldRoots Voice Ensemble have just embarked on their acapella world tour of traditional music,…18.07.2009 READ MORE -
Boogie For Brizzle
Bristol Zoo (Fri 20 July) • Aka, inevitably, Boogie In Drizzle (or, perhaps, to our friends on the more reactionary Won’t Somebody Pleeease Think About The Animals? wing of critter welfare, Fursome Prison Blues). Glitzy…20.07.2007 READ MORE -
Bookhouse Boys/John E. Vistic Experience
Louisiana, Bristol (Wed 21 Jan) • The Vistics are reaping the benefits of a hard-gigging schedule. Tight, lean and mean, they’ve settled on a four-man formation and it’s the best they’ve ever sounded. ‘Livelong Day’…21.01.2009 READ MORE -
Boomtown Fair 2011
(Thur 11-Sun 14 Aug) Boomtown Fair is a festival on the up. This year it took place from 11-14 August, showcasing over 700 acts and catering for the tastes of over 10,000 festival goers from all over the country. Those…16.08.2011 READ MORE -
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Colston Hall, Bristol (Thur 3 Mar) • Mahler’s 7th Symphony is supposed to be the ‘difficult’ one. The Cinderella of the cycle that only gets taken to the ball infrequently. Yet Listening to James Gaffigan conducting it,…09.03.2011 READ MORE -
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Chorus: ‘Carmina Burana’
Colston Hall Bristol (Thur 19 Apr) Time was when the definition of an intellectual was someone who could listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of The Lone Ranger; these days they’d need to be able to…23.04.2012 READ MORE -
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Karabits
Colston Hall, Bristol (Thu 7 Oct) • With two symphonies in the offing for the Bournemouth Symphony’s new-season debut under Kirill Karabits, it was almost a case of ‘buy one get one free’ - Shostakovich’s massive 10th…13.10.2010 READ MORE -
Boxcutter/Appleblim/Sunken Foal/The Gasman/Etc
The Croft, Bristol (Sat 7 Feb) • Any guilt spawned by inevitable hangovers from tonight’s extravaganza of dubstep and bass-heavy electronica is eased by the knowledge that all proceeds are going to a good cause, the…07.02.2009 READ MORE -
Brass Junkies
Bebop Club, Bristol (Fri 8 Apr) • With the brass band likes of Rebirth, Hypnotic 8 and Youngblood having revitalised the sound and the celebratory TV epic ‘Treme’ on the horizon, the arrival of Brass Junkies on the…13.04.2011 READ MORE -
Bravo Brave Bats/Tesselators/SJ Esau
Louisiana, Bristol (Fri 1 Apr) • A launch party for Bravo Brave Bats’ ‘Green’ EP, tonight starts with a characteristically blinding set from SJ Esau. A kind of one man lo-fi orchestra, it’s long been a mystery that he’s…06.04.2011 READ MORE -
Brecon Jazz Festival
Various venues, Brecon (Sat 7 Aug) • Thanks to a rescue by the Hay on Wye literary festival, Brecon Jazz lives on and thrives, a sunny afternoon making the lawn of the new Christ Church College festival hub happily…07.08.2010 READ MORE -
Brecon Jazz Festival
(Christ College, Brecon & other venues, Fri 12- Sun 14 Aug) Friday Things are already buzzing around the town but the jazz festival action is even more concentrated in the Christ College grounds. My first jazz appetiser…16.08.2011 READ MORE -
Brendan’s Bathroom/Siddy Bennett/Molly Samson
Cosies, Bristol (Wed 7 Apr) • Ever seen a man play four harmonicas at once? It’s all about the nostrils. Brendan’s Bathroom closes Cleverhead’s triumphant triple bill with a set that errs perilously close to chaotic…07.04.2010 READ MORE -
Bristol Acoustic Festival 2009
Folk House, Bristol (Fri 16 Jan, Sat 17, Sun 18 Dec) Friday • Festival Fridays can seem short-changed, lacking an afternoon programme as they generally do, but only the seriously churlish would quibble when the four…16.01.2009 READ MORE -
Bristol Acoustic Music Festival
St George’s Bristol (Sat 15 Jan) • ‘No Woman No Cry’ flutters prettily, siren-like down the stairs. In the main room we find its source, gospel-like in power and control, Vapor’s Onika. Fleet-fingered pianist Colin…19.01.2011 READ MORE -
Bristol Acoustic Music Festival
St George’s Bristol (Fri 13-Sun 15 Jan) Who'da thunk it: some folk are dancing – dancing – at this ostensibly sleepy, bums-on-seats affair. But there they are, a couple at the front, blithely shaking their fundaments.…25.01.2012 READ MORE -
Bristol Acoustic Music Festival 2
St George’s Bristol (Sun 16 Jan) • Yawns slip out between fingers for this third day of acoustic endeavour. After the swirling cabaret of Friday and the resin-cloud stomps of Saturday’s The Cedar, St George’s on Sunday…19.01.2011 READ MORE -
Bristol Acoustic Music Festival part 1
St George’s Bristol (Fri 15 Jan) • The timely thaw draws a sigh of relief from the organisers of Bristol’s sixth Acoustic Festival. Transitioning in full from its Folk House birthplace to the grandeur of St George’s,…15.01.2010 READ MORE -
Bristol Acoustic Music Festival part 2
St George’s Bristol (Sat 16, Sun 17 Jan) Saturday • The fabulous North Sea Navigator blend strings, portentous piano, quietly malevolent harmonies and softly abrasive FX. Deliciously pretty but subtly unsettling, like…16.01.2010 READ MORE -
Bristol Ensemble/Freddy Kempf
Colston Hall, Bristol (Wed 20 Apr) • In the first concert of his Beethoven piano concerto odyssey with the Bristol Ensemble under Jonathan James, so all-consuming was Freddy Kempf’s physical encouragement of the…29.04.2011 READ MORE -
Bristol Folk Festival
Colston Hall, Bristol (Fri 29 Apr-Sun 1 May) At last Bristol has a Folk Festival worthy of the name: It was wonderful to see the city’s Colston Hall complex full of energy and life, with none of the formality usually…04.05.2011 READ MORE -
Bristol Music Showcase
St George’s Bristol (Sat 12 Dec) • What should a showcase of Bristol music feature? A cross-section as diverse as the city itself, certainly. But what should a showcase of Bristol music held at St George’s feature?…12.12.2009 READ MORE -
Bristol Pride 2011
Castle Park, Bristol (Sat 16 July) Pride is an oasis of glorious sunshine. We arrive, minds still reeling from the latest vile antics of the Murdoch media empire: how could this man be allowed to poach ‘Glee’ from E4?…18.07.2011 READ MORE -
Bronnt Industries Kapital/Iron Crease/Dagger Brothers
The Croft, Bristol (Fri 24 Apr) • We are first treated to some uneasy listening from Dagger Brothers. One sings along to backing tracks copiously larded with queasy 80s disco synths, the other provides interpretive…24.04.2009 READ MORE -
Bronnt Industries Kapital/Jasmina Maschina/Squeeze Me Macaroni
Folk House, Bristol (Fri 30 Apr)• Gig-goers may recognise Serena Cavalera from irrepressible art-punks Yoshy! but it’s her sensitive side on display tonight. As Squeeze Me Macaroni she serves up a warts and all…30.04.2010 READ MORE -
Bruiser & Julian/The 4th Suit/Recode
Louisiana, Bristol (Thu 5 Nov) • Female-fronted Recode’s Brit pop-punk ticks all the boxes; feisty, melodic and tight, it just needs a little more in the way of originality to distinguish them from the crowd. Unlike The…05.11.2009 READ MORE -
Bryan Ferry
Colston Hall, Bristol (Fri 16 Mar) • Bam! Bam! BAAAM! Irony be damned, he’s opening with ‘The In Crowd’ and it sounds fantastic and huge. A healthily upholstered Ferry dismissing the lines with casual conviction,…16.03.2007 READ MORE -
Buika / Javier Moreno
Komedia, Bath (Fri 21 Nov) • To begin with, having digested my real pleasure at Komedia’s splendidly opulent interior during Javier Moreno’s poised opening set, I wondered if Buika was in hiding. The PA seemed intent on…21.11.2008 READ MORE -
Byron Wallen
St James Wine Vaults, Bath (Thu 16 Sept) • The fortnightly jazz club in St James’ Wine Vaults has been a great addition to the Bath music scene, providing quality jazz and interesting visitors. It’s been a while since…21.09.2010 READ MORE -
Sunn O)))/BJ Nilsen
Trinity Centre, Bristol (Wed 9 Dec) • Immense? Ridiculous? Conclusions can deflect either way witnessing almost thespian American overlords of doom-noise Sunn O))), theatrical by their very nature. First tonight,…09.12.2009 READ MORE -
The Bad Joke That Ended Well/Boo Birds/Aye Aye
Louisiana, Bristol (Wed 16 June) • Beautiful wash of sound, this. Aye Aye are proggily adventurous like ‘OK Computer’-era Radiohead, but with a stronger sense of rhythm. It’s a collective thing. Even when not playing,…16.06.2010 READ MORE -
The Baker Boys
(Tue 24 May 2011, El Rincon, Bristol) • There’s something timeless and placeless about this ‘event’, as if we could be anywhere in Europe in any of the last seven decades. El Rincon’s candlelit tininess is pleasantly…27.05.2011 READ MORE -
The Bays/John Metcalfe/Digitonal
Trinity, Bristol (Wed 4 Apr) • Digitonal sound as though they’re hoping to get used on the next VW Passat ad. Beautiful, Germanic build quality; satin sloping violin and shimmery harp with neat, electric drums…27.03.2007 READ MORE -
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The Big Christmas Gig
Carling Academy Bristol (Sat 16 Dec) There’s a lot to take in tonight - three stages and a right mixed bag of rock and whatnot. Let’s start with the upstairs stage, where Transit Cop slave over earnest chord chomping:…16.12.2006 READ MORE -
The Big Free Bristol Gig
Colston Hall, Bristol (Sat 15 Aug) • The glass is fingerprint-less, the floor carpeted in gray. Suspended walkways cut through the space of the gaping atrium, causing people to look up at them, down from them, and…15.08.2009 READ MORE
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Gary Numan
Mike White muses on the missing link between Kraftwerk and NIN. The same year as ‘Alien’, three years before ‘Blade Runner’, awkward, acne-ridden 21-year-old Gary Webb wrote a song called ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’. It sounded…23.04.2012 READ MORE -
Philharmonia/Ashkenazy
You have to feel sorry for any young pianist braving a Chopin concerto under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy. Poacher turned gamekeeper, Ashkenazy’s glittering career as a pianist was kick-started by success at the Warsaw Chopin…23.05.2012 READ MORE
Live Reviews
The Handsome Family
The Fleece, Bristol (Mon 21 May) There's a warmth about The Handsome Family, a kind of…
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Classical Opera
St George’s Bristol (Fri11 May) An opera by an 11-year-old … in Latin. Talk about a hard…
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Dave Stapleton
St George’s, Bristol (Thur May 5) There are eight players on stage – and great ones at…
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Simone Felice
Colston Hall, Bristol (Sat 28 Apr) The Felice Brothers came out of New York State with an…
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Dan Baird and Homemade Sin
Beeses Tea Gardens, Bristol (Sun 29 Apr) I used to think I was the sole person who'd ever…
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Neil Cowley Trio with the Mount Molehill Strings
St George’s Bristol (Thur 26 April) It’s the last night of a national tour and Neil…
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Cher Lloyd
O2 Academy, Bristol (Tue 10 Apr) It's a struggle-to-get-through-the-door sell-out…
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Alabama 3: Acoustic and Unplugged
Trinity, Bristol (Fri 20 Apr) The blues came down to Trinity... and blew it away. Alabama…
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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Chorus: ‘Carmina Burana’
Colston Hall Bristol (Thur 19 Apr) Time was when the definition of an intellectual was…
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Filthy Six/Benny Sensus
Mr Wolf’s, Bristol (Fri 20 May) Mr Wolf’s on a Friday night and it’s a bit slow to fill…
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Empty Pools/Schnauser/Glis Glis
Louisiana, Bristol (Wed 18 Apr) The three Glis Glis members repeating crystalline,…
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Ceu/Curumin
St George’s, Bristol (Wed 18 Apr) Electronic bands rarely sound good in St George’s and…
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Meshuggah/Animals as Leaders
O2 Academy, Bristol (Thur 12 Apr) Animals as Leaders are the missing link between The…
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Orange Goblin/Church of Misery/Grifter/Dopefight
Fleece, Bristol (Sun 8 Apr) It's Easter Sunday and a sweaty, sold-out Fleece is…
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The Magnificent Seven
Coronation Tap, Bristol (Sun 1 Apr) OK, it’s the usual suspects, but the discerning…
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Spiro/Cliff Stapleton/Katey Brooks
Fleece, Bristol (Sat 31 Mar) It’s very satisfying when your local heroes get national…
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Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet/Robert Mitchell 3io
Colston Hall 2, Bristol (Tue 27 Mar) “We don’t have much time,” announces pianist Robert…
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Black Stone Cherry/Rival Sons
O2 Academy, Bristol (Mon 26 Mar) Even when the Academy is sold out, as it is tonight,…
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Tall Ships
Thekla, Bristol (Wed 21 March) Tall Ships, originally from the harbourside town of…
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UFO/Heavy Metal Kids
O2 Academy, Bristol (Sun 25 Mar) There are two things every rock trivia freak knows about…
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The Cardinall’s Musick
St George’s Bristol (Sat 24 Mar) When not directing The Cardinall’s Musick, the…
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Earth/Mount Eerie/Ô Paon
Arnolfini, Bristol (Sat 3 Mar) Ô Paon opens with a set of slow burners; her clumsily…
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All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by Jeff Mangum
Butlins, Minehead (Fri 9- Sun 11 Mar) It’s a different line-up almost every time they…
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The Answer/The Union
O2 Academy, Bristol (Fri 16 Mar) Let's hear it for the return of the big-value rock…
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Get The Blessing/Pops Parker/The Liftmen
Arnolfini, Bristol (Thur 15 Mar) Like their seething soup-pond visual backdrop, there’s a…
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Gabrielle Aplin/Hudson-Taylor
Thekla, Bristol (Mon 12 Mar) Still only 19 but nevertheless managing to rack up 1.3m…
14.03.2012
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The Tender Trap
Southbank Centre, Bristol (Fri 24 Feb) The Southbank has many guises and tonight it’s…
12.03.2012
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Ugetsu feat. Damon Brown and Yutaka Shiina
Colston Hall 2, Bristol (Tue 6 Mar) Yutaka Shiina heads straight for the piano as if he…
07.03.2012
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Field Music/Stealing Sheep
The Fleece, Bristol (Thur 23 Feb) A timid ‘hello’ from Stealing Sheep’s Lucy…
28.02.2012
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High Places/The Hysterical Injury/Hesomagari
The Cube, Bristol (Fri 17 Feb) If the idea of a boy/girl duo-themed night makes you feel…
21.02.2012
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Mouse Deer
The Old Bookshop, Bristol (Thur 16 Feb) Lord knows US coffee shop culture took a long…
20.02.2012
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OAE: The Glory of Venice
St George’s Bristol (Sun 19 Feb) With Vivaldi’s ‘L’Olimpiade’ about to be unleashed up…
20.02.2012
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James Morton & Friends
The Prom, Bristol (Fri 17 Feb) Lately, alto sax player James Morton’s career’s demanded…
19.02.2012
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Rich Robinson
Fleece, Bristol (Wed 15 Feb) With the Black Crowes on apparently indefinite hiatus, the…
17.02.2012
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Shinedown/Halestorm
O2 Academy, Bristol (Sun 12 Feb) It demonstrates considerable confidence to take a band…
13.02.2012
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Roots Manuva
Anson Room, Bristol (Fri 3 Feb) Having seen Roots Manuva take to the stage in riding…
06.02.2012
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Gannets/Tamco Trio/Three Cane Whale
St George’s Bristol (Fri 3 Feb) Can you have a game of three halves? It’s a Zen question…
05.02.2012
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Nigel Kennedy/Orchestra of Life
Colston Hall, Bristol (Wed 18 Jan) Telephone-hold to elevator music, ‘The Four Seasons’…
25.01.2012
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Bristol Acoustic Music Festival
St George’s Bristol (Fri 13-Sun 15 Jan) Who'da thunk it: some folk are dancing – dancing…
25.01.2012
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Howler/Man Made
Louisiana (Mon 23 Jan) Support act Man Made arrives on stage wearing the kind of gold…
24.01.2012
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
St George’s, Bristol (Thur 19 Jan) ‘Sir Henry’ distilled and squandered the late Viv…
22.01.2012
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Arabella Sprot Quartet
Bebop Club, Bristol (Fri 6 Jan) Given the styereotype of the lazy, time-wasting student,…
09.01.2012
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Denny Ilett plays Led Zeppelin
Coronation Tap, Bristol (Thur 5 Jan) There’s an inevitable sense of laddishness about…
06.01.2012
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The Peters
Coronation Tap, Bristol (Tue 3 Jan) Here’s a mind-boggling little collective of young…
04.01.2012
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The Hook 'Em Boys
The Croft, Bristol (Wed 21 Dec, 2011) It’s the longest night and it’s slipping by very…
22.12.2011
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Mike Willox Quartet
Bebop Club, Bristol (Fri 16 Dec) Mike Willox has long been master of the element of…
20.12.2011
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La Nuova Musica/Messiah
St George’s Bristol (Sun 18 Dec) Anyone nervous about the one-to-a-part line-up promised…
19.12.2011
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Oxford Philomusica/Schiff
St George’s Bristol (Thur 8 Dec) Intriguing to see Andras Schiff in front of an orchestra…
19.12.2011
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Holy Stain at Festive Fest
Thekla, Bristol (Sun 18 Dec) It’s Holy Stain’s second to last ever show, so we can…
19.12.2011
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Hawthorne Heights/The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus/Failsafe
Thekla, Bristol (Wed 14 Dec) Golly, when Thekla say ‘early show’, they mean it. Failsafe…
19.12.2011
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Get The Blessing
(Thur 15 Dec, Canteen, Bristol) They’ve clearly been missed. Get The Blessing’s 2011…
16.12.2011
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Little Dragon/White Hinterland
Thekla, Bristol (Fri 2 Dec) Despite the name, ‘White Hinterland’ is not a right-wing…
14.12.2011
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Ginger Wildheart and Friends
Fleece, Bristol (Tue 13 Dec) Ginger's guitar is out of tune and the drum monitor isn't…
14.12.2011
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The Magic Band
Thekla, Bristol (Sun 4 Dec) When rock visionary Captain Beefheart passed away in December…
07.12.2011
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Bleeding Heart Narrative
The Cube, Bristol (Sat 26 Nov) Watching Bleeding Heart Narrative at The Cube, it's…
07.12.2011
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Uriah Heep
O2 Academy, Bristol (Mon 5 Dec) When a band has been around as long as Uriah Heep, it's…
06.12.2011
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Emily Wright & The Royals
The Old Bookshop, Bristol (Sat 3 Dec) A nice new band in a nice new venue - Christmas has…
06.12.2011
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Wire/Talk Normal
Thekla, Bristol (Tue 29 Nov) At the merch stand, sales of the Wire shopping bag appear…
02.12.2011
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Zappa Plays Zappa
Colston Hall, Bristol (Wed 30 Nov) This is weird. There's a biggish band on stage – two…
01.12.2011
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In:Motion – RBMA & Futureboogie
Motion, Bristol (Sat 26 Nov) Tonight sees two of Bristol’s biggest dance music beacons,…
01.12.2011
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Billy Bragg: Left Field In Motion Tour
The Fleece, Bristol (Nov 28, 2011) Typical of Billy Bragg: he didn't just show up for a…
01.12.2011
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John Cooper Clarke
The Fleece, Bristol (Sun 27 Nov) Like a wizened stick-insect love child of 60s-era Bob…
29.11.2011
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Blakeley's Messengers
Bebop Club, Bristol (Fri 25 Nov) These days there’s so much going on in the name of jazz…
28.11.2011
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Claudia Aurora
The Folk House, Brisrtol (Fri 26 Nov) It’s packed down in the Folk House’s hall basement…
28.11.2011
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John Pearce & Mike Willox Classical Duo
El Rincon, Bristol(Sun 20 Nov) I ring Mike Willox shortly before this lunchtime gig is…
23.11.2011
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C.W. Stoneking & The Primitive Horn Orchestra/Howling Lord
Trinity, Bristol (Tue 22 Nov) It’s a remarkable crowd both in numbers and style, and the…
23.11.2011
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WNO: Don Giovanni
Bristol Hippodrome (Tue 8 Nov) Hearing Leporello’s ‘black book’ aria (in which he lists…
22.11.2011
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St. Vincent
The Fleece, Bristol (Fri 11 Nov) There’s always been a tension about St. Vincent’s live…
22.11.2011
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Benn Clatworthy Quintet
Bebop Club, Bristol (Fri 18 Nov) It’s a quintessentially Bebop gig, this, as club mainman…
21.11.2011
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Gillian Welch
Hippodrome, Bristol (Tue 15 Nov) “I learnt this from Doc Watson,” she says, before…
17.11.2011
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The Melvins
The Thekla, Bristol (Fri 4 Nov) Just when you thought The Melvins couldn't get any more…
11.11.2011
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Balkanarama feat. The Destroyers
The Fleece, Bristol (Fri 4 Nov 4) It's an inspired way to start proceedings: they've put…
07.11.2011
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This Is My Normal State/Tomorrow We Sail
The Cooler, Bristol (Sat 5 Nov) A wrapt, standing-down-the-front crowd for a support act?…
07.11.2011
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WHY? Acoustic Grand Piano Tour
Colston Hall 2, Bristol (Sun 23 Oct) There is usually something jarringly civilised about…
01.11.2011
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Anna Calvi
Trinity Centre, Bristol (Mon 31 Oct) Anna Calvi released her self-titled debut album at…
01.11.2011
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Alice Cooper
(Colston Hall, Bristol, Wed 26 Oct) Considering that this was billed as Alice's Halloween…
27.10.2011
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The Union/Fighting Wolves
Fleece, Bristol (Sun 23 Oct) The huge cheer that greets Fighting Wolves' announcement of…
27.10.2011
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Oxjam Takeover
Various venues, Bristol (Sat 22 Oct) It may well be an overcast Saturday afternoon, but…
27.10.2011
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Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
O2 Academy, Bristol, Sept 25 2011 New Jersey r’n’b stalwarts Southside Johnny & The…
27.10.2011
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Laura Marling
Bristol Cathedral (Tue 25 Oct) Spotlit columns vaulting to the heavens, a stage backed by…
27.10.2011
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Christian Wallumrod Ensemble
St George’s, Bristol (Mon Oct 24) He’s all in black at the piano and there’s a general…
25.10.2011
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The Duval Project
The Bell, Bath (Mon 10 Oct) “There are some people that, when they tell you they have a…
21.10.2011
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The Pierces/Marcus Foster
Anson Rooms, Bristol (Thur 20 Oct) Hadn’t heard Marcus Foster’s ‘Nameless Path’, but knew…
21.10.2011
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CD Reviews
Kid Carpet
‘Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals’ (LP, self-released) // Few things are more intoxicating…
20.04.2012
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Million Way
‘Your Circuitry’ (EP, self-released) // Dream Continuum release the ‘Reworkz’ EP and,…
20.04.2012
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Paul Garry
‘With Love Comes Rescue’ (EP, BMS Records) // Offensively inoffensive and supremely…
18.04.2012
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Dave Stapleton
‘Flight’ (LP, Edition Records) // Dave Stapleton's Cardiff-based Edition Records is fast…
17.04.2012
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Hello Lazarus
‘Hello Lazarus’ (EP, Scylla Records) If there's a theme for this EP, it's that it implies…
26.03.2012
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Lady Nade & The Silhouettes
‘All I Am’ (EP, unsigned) Lady Nade’s deep-hued voice adds archaic credibility to…
22.03.2012
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Caroline Martin
‘For All That I Do Not Know’ (LP, Smalldog) Second album ‘proper’, and still like being…
22.03.2012
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Island Audio
'The Drift' (Single/Sink & Stove) It's early days for glam-y, knife-edged post-punkers…
15.02.2012
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Rock In Your Pocket
‘Gutterdub’ (LP, Artscare Records) There are Riot Grrrl-invoking essays to be written…
15.02.2012
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Get The Blessing
‘OCDC’ (LP, Naim Jazz) Bish bash bosh, here they come, but there’s a sparkling new…
14.02.2012
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Experimental Pop Band
'Little Things' (Single, Wear It Well) Since 2007 EPB have written, recorded and scrapped…
13.02.2012
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Phantom Limb
‘The Pines’ (Album, Naim Edge) The title could’ve been swiped from a new-build…
19.01.2012
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Josh Arcoleo
‘Beginnings’ (Album, Edition Records) It takes practice and inspiration to become a…
19.01.2012
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The Hysterical Injury
‘Dead Wolf Situation’ (LP, Crystal Fuzz) Yes, Hysterical Injury brandish nothing more…
19.01.2012
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Silent Tides
‘Silent Tides’ (EP, self-released) This is Silent Tides’ debut EP and, as such, serves as…
19.01.2012
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The Liftmen
‘Troubled Teens’ (Single, Twisted Nerve) It’s disappointing that the first pressing of…
19.01.2012
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Francois & The Atlas Mountains
'E Volo Love’ (LP, Domino) Whilst the minutiae of the human condition might not present…
19.01.2012
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Mouse Deer
‘The Mouse Deer EP’ (EP, self-released) Girl-group harmonies forged from a single vocal…
14.12.2011
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Radio Banska
‘The Balkan Courtesan’ (LP, Get Real Records) Who knew John Zorn was composing 13-time…
14.12.2011
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Sarah Menage
‘In A Mood’ (LP, Independent) Just ‘a’ mood? There’s a range on offer in Sarah Menage’s…
14.12.2011
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The Short Life of Gracie
‘The Short Life of Gracie’ (EP, self-released) There’s a moment on opener ‘How to Kill…
14.12.2011
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Bleeding Heart Narrative
‘Bison’ (EP, Brainlove Records) As opening gambits go, 'Shoals' has to be one of the…
07.11.2011
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The Hit Ups
‘Unforgivable'/'66 Sexy’ (Free download, self-released) The Hit Ups: ‘parties, death,…
21.10.2011
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Follow The Sun
'The Evening Light’ (EP/self-released) Pushed just beyond ambient loveliness by gentle…
21.10.2011
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The Groove Farm
‘I Know It’s Only Indie Pop… But I Like It’ (LP, Big Pink Cake) From ’86 to ’90, South…
21.10.2011
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The Bad Joke That Ended Well
‘The Meteors Are Coming’ (LP, Little Paradise Records) Zips in on an express banjo…
30.09.2011
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Smile, LOOKALIVE!
'Ringside Seats’ (EP, self-released) Smile, LOOKALIVE! (or SLA, for those with…
30.09.2011
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Centrefolds
'Fresh Air’/’Jennifer’ (Single, self-released) Fiercely mixed to fizz with high end,…
30.09.2011
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Call The Doctor
‘Riots.’ (EP, Fear of Fiction) Patti Aberhart’s living the dream: black bob, lip gloss…
30.09.2011
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Chatterbox & Samuel Otis
‘Hard Graft’ (Killamari Records) Hip-hop is always at its most convincing when you can…
30.09.2011
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Curse You Damn Kids
‘Sorta Like An Epiphany’ (EP, Screamlite Records) There’s much to admire in this youthful…
27.08.2011
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Echo Park Orchestra
'Hymns of the Black Flag’ (LP, self-released) Echo Park Orchestra mainman Peter…
27.08.2011
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Rossanne Hamilton
'Attic Tapes/Live At The Thunderbolt 09’ (Double EP, self-released) Classically trained…
27.08.2011
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Baobinga & Co
‘Joint Ventures’ (LP, Build Recordings) DJ, producer and blogger Sam ‘Baobinga’ Simpson…
27.08.2011
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The Weary Band
‘Office Doodles’ (LP, self-released) At last! We’ve waited almost a decade – and a couple…
29.07.2011
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Planting_Claymore
‘Re-Gen’ (EP, self-released) Not, as the name suggests, a Clifton estate agent but a…
29.07.2011
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Electric Contradiction
‘Gold Mind EP’ (EP, self-released) This Bath-based five piece describe themselves as an…
29.07.2011
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The Minke Whales
‘Turncoat’ (LP, Tandem) The Minke Whales – possibly named in honour of that doomed…
29.07.2011
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The Divided Circle
‘The Divided Circle’ (LP, Lonely City Records) • Why isn’t everyone talking about The…
30.06.2011
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Edenheight
‘Peaceboy’/‘Trouble’ (Single, Breakin’ Bread Records) • One of Bristol’s…
30.06.2011
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Hi Fiction Science
'Hi Fiction Science' (LP, self-released) •A lass with a high, folksy voice ponders aloud…
30.06.2011
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Zero Pilot
‘XY’ (EP, self-released) If ‘Ice Road Truckers’ were a record, it’d be this ballsy,…
27.05.2011
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James Hollingsworth
‘Two And Two’ (EP, self-released) Awful cheesecloth rock channelling mawkish Chris De…
27.05.2011
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Oxygen Thief
‘Destroy It Yourself’ (LP, Broken Tail Records) Bristol’s Barry Dolan, in-your-face raw…
27.05.2011
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Maps and Legends
‘Maps and Legends’ (EP, self-released) Perhaps appropriately given their name, M&L…
27.05.2011
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Hello Lazarus
‘All Alliteration’ (LP, self-released) • It whizzes. It buzzes. Noisy and precise guitar…
29.04.2011
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The Short Stories
‘Small Mercies’ (LP, The International Lo-Fi Underground) • A lo-fi thrum of songs…
29.04.2011
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Cemlyn Jones
‘All These Dreams’ (LP, Kargo Records) • Clevedon-based singer-songwriter and former…
29.04.2011
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The Carny Villains
The Carny Villains (EP, Unsigned) • The seven-piece band from the heart of Bristol’s…
29.04.2011
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Narco Lounge Combo
‘Music for Ice Rinks’ (LP, self-released) • “She got freckles and a blow-job nose, kitten…
20.04.2011
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The Cheaterslicks
Rev Up, Burn Out’ (LP, Western Star) • Here’s a blistering debut mixing up rockabilly,…
20.04.2011
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Heg Doughty
‘Little Red’ (EP, self-released) • Ah, the sadly defunct Dartington College in the green…
20.04.2011
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Centrefolds
'Is Anyone There?’ (EP, self-released) • All hail Centrefolds for their unashamed pursuit…
13.04.2011
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Okus Dolphin
‘Spiritual’ (LP, self-released) • With its Glastonbury candle shop sleeve, ham-fisted…
13.04.2011
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Rachael Dadd ‘
'Elephee’ (EP, Broken Sound Music) • Rachael Dadd is a songwriter in thrall to nature,…
13.04.2011
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Elliot Hall
‘Adults Are Stupid’ (LP, self-released) • The title is just one affable feature of this…
06.04.2011
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James Brewster
‘As a Hovering Insect Mass Breaks Your Fall’ (LP, Make Mine Music) • Now living in Malmö,…
06.04.2011
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The Naturals
‘Gifthorse’/‘He Has An 80ft Tarantula’ (double A-side single, self-released) • The thing…
06.04.2011
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Principal Participant
‘Principles’ (Download LP, self-released) • “Minotaur Shock is my regular outlet for…
30.03.2011
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Emily Teague
‘Emily Teague’ (LP, self-released) • Bristol’s folkies have some bad habits – ‘spiritual’…
30.03.2011
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Pat Nicholson
‘Roll With It’ (LP, Pan Records) • Australian Pat Nicholson’s debut arrives with some…
30.03.2011
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The Egret Seacrow
‘Imaginatively, A Silk Wasp’ (LP, self-released) • A slight, delicate release – our copy…
23.03.2011
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Tony Harris
‘Choices’ (LP, self-released) • There is something of the madrigal about these simple,…
23.03.2011
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Color Of The Sun
‘Solong Suckers’ (LP, self-released) • Multi-instrumentalist Aron Ward is a Californian…
16.03.2011
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Honour Your Pain
'Between Blood and Pride' (EP) • Metal's such a crowded marketplace these days that you…
16.03.2011
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The Get-Outs
‘Exit’ (LP, Kitchen Rock Records) • The Get-Outs, currently celebrating their tenth year…
09.03.2011
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The Zen Hussies
‘Troubled Feet’ (LP, Musique DaDA) • If you’ve ever stumbled across a Zen Hussies gig the…
09.03.2011
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Badgertrap
‘Agony of Choice’ (EP/download, Kangaroo Kourt Records) • Product of Hal Camplin/Barry…
02.03.2011
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Central Spillz
'Space Travel' (LP, Durkle Disco) • In the increasingly boundary-bereft territory between…
23.02.2011
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TwoManTing
‘Legacy’ (LP, self-released) • Formed from Afro-dance outfit Le Cod Afrique, duo…
23.02.2011
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David Britton
'The Oldland Commoner Album’ (LP, self-released) • David Britton is a gent from Bristol’s…
23.02.2011
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Caricatures
‘Fire In The Womb’ (Single, Anticreation Productions) • Down-tuned strings, irregular…
16.02.2011
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Secret Shine
‘The Beginning and the End’ (LP, self-released) • Hard to believe these passionless…
16.02.2011
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