Review by Hannah Bailey – Photos by Will Fahy (willfahy.co.uk) Roots and jam bands are all about the live performance, and character-filled Australian threesome John Butler Trio did not disappoint when they played to a raucous and sweaty sell-out crowd… Continue Reading
The Bristol Festival of Ideas, which is inviting nearly 100 writers, commentators and thinkers to share their expertise at 60 events over a densely packed May programme, continued with @Bristol’s hosting of Professor Sir David King. King is currently the… Continue Reading
The final Travestees Comedy Club night of the season takes place at Tor Leisure Centre in Glastonbury on Wednesday 21st May and as usual there’s a cracking line up ahead of its summer break. Here’s the line-up: MC for the… Continue Reading
The New Art Club, aka Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, are on a mission to make us feel good about our bodies. The duo combine stand up, dance, straight monologue, song and…nudity…to joyful effect, performing their Feel About Your Body… Continue Reading
The premise for ‘Slap Talk’ is certainly a novel one: Standing under spotlights at either end of a darkened stage and each speaking directly into a camera, a man and a woman rant, threaten and insult each other while their… Continue Reading
Mayfest, Bristol’s unique annual festival of theatre and the performing arts, kicked off in typically idiosyncratic style with the variety showcase of ‘Scottee’s Camp.’ The clue, of course, was in the title but the pre-show soundtrack of Village People’s ‘In… Continue Reading
St George’s welcomed James Lovelock as part of this year’s Festival of Ideas, the burgeoning season of lectures and talks covering topics as far-ranging as contemporary cinema, urbanisation and monetary reform. Lovelock is a seminal thinker, whose once-ridiculed theories of… Continue Reading
Originally part of the American lo-fi guitar ‘scene’ along with bands such as Blank Dogs, Woods and Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls have now been around for so long that their inception occurred when Dee Dee Penny (real name Kristin Welchez)… Continue Reading