24th August 2019 While keen festival goers may soon be experiencing some pre-autumn blues with festival season soon grinding to a halt, Bristol music fans can seek solace in the fact that the city’s largest one-day music extravaganza is still… Continue Reading
19th August 2019 Having experienced their commercial pomp somewhere within the slightly bloated jubilance of Britpop and Cool Britannia, it’s perhaps easy for memories of Skunk Anansie’s politically-tinged hard rock to be somewhat lost within a retrospective haze of… Continue Reading
6th August 2019 Part send up, part love-letter to those who enjoy the sonic sledgehammer that is heavy metal music, Finnish comedy ‘Heavy Trip’ is the light-hearted story of four friends who, after many years of practise – a… Continue Reading
19 July 2019 Twenty-four hours ago within this very amphitheatre, Bernard Sumner was predicting that it was going to “piss down” for tonight’s Specials performance. Last night’s New Order gig was in the context of a sun-baked Bristol harbourside… Continue Reading
25th June 2019 The fact that he responded personally from his own email account to arrange my +1 guestlist slot for tonight’s show highlights something rather unique about Jeffrey Lewis. While also not adverse to stewarding his own merch… Continue Reading
24th April 2019 “I’ve been here before; I played The Louisiana and there were about four people there” says sprightly Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly as she expresses her gratitude for the significantly larger crowd she’s drawn this evening. If… Continue Reading
16th April 2019 Peter Shaffer’s intense psychodrama – inspired by a bizarre real life crime in a small town near Suffolk– is given a dynamic and assured renewal in this co-production between the English Touring Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford… Continue Reading
4th April 2019 There is a cool glaze of music rock heads crowding towards the stage at Thekla to see the rock band Cherry Glazerr. With an inflatable cherry being blown up I expected that Cherry Glazerr would not… Continue Reading