Save The Fleece
Needless to say, we at The Fix are big fans of live music, and we feel honoured to be based in and around Bristol, one of the UK’s best cities for gigs. From festivals like Love Saves the Day to… Continue Reading
Author: Conal Dougan
Mayfest Review: Feel About Your Body, Tobacco Factory Theatre
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
Festival of Ideas: James Lovelock interview
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
Album Review: Tune-Yards, ‘Nikki Nack’
‘Nikki Nack’ is the third studio album by Tune-Yards, aka New England’s Merrill Garbus, a project largely undetected by the mainstream music press, yet an incredibly engaging and rewarding one nonetheless. Her debut release, Bird Brains (2009) was a low-fi, tightly-financed solo… Continue Reading
Album Review: Little Dragon, ‘Nabuma Rubberband’
Following 2011’s excellent ‘Ritual Union’ album and the single “Sunshine”, one of the standout tracks of 2012, expectation has been high for Little Dragon‘s fourth studio album, ‘Nabuma Rubberband’. The Swedish band have gained a reputation for combining quirky, often ambiguous,… Continue Reading
The Fix’s Favourite Drummers
Drummers are the oft-neglected musicians, hidden at the back of the stage behind their kits and subjected to derisory jokes. How do you tell if the stage is level? The drummer is drooling from both sides of his mouth. However, forget the… Continue Reading
Mayfest, 15-24 May 2014
From May to September, life in Bristol can seem like one long festival. Every single Summer weekend is packed with events for music, food, performing and visual arts…and, of course, hot air balloons. This month is no different, and sees… Continue Reading
The Fix’s Most Overrated Albums
Considering the lengths at which we discuss music, we at The Fix decided it was high time to put together a list, not of the greatest albums of all time, but of the most overrated albums of all time. Yes,… Continue Reading