10th December 2016 With last year’s Bristol installment of Dot To Dot Festival incredibly boasting nearly 160 live acts across 20 stages in 15 of the city’s best loved music venues, the annual fiesta of live music is set to… Continue Reading
29th November 2016 It’s been twenty or so years since enduring indie pop outfit Teenage Fanclub enjoyed their finest commercial moments in the 1990s. Praise arrived from such nineties rock alumni as Kurt Cobain who called them “the best band… Continue Reading
24th November 2016 Whether inspired by the political malaise of our current times, or more likely just for the sake of pre-show dramaturgy, it’s a soundscape of violins and doomy voiceovers of a dystopian future that intros tonight’s set by… Continue Reading
20th November 2016 On the road once again in promotion of their sixteenth studio album – released last week and boasting the characteristically quirky title Bamboo Diner in the Rain – the Leicestershire trio have seemingly become one of the… Continue Reading
12th November 2016 As the diminutive frame of Regina Spektor breezes on to the Colston Hall stage, the broad smile emanating from the Russian born singer-songwriter sets an unmistakably salubrious tone that effortlessly sustains for the duration of a highly… Continue Reading
8th October 2016 After Sheldon Renan and Leonard Schrader’s lurid anthology of the United States’ history of violent crime premiered in New York City in 1982, their film subsequently failed to receive a commercial release; thus ‘The Killing of America’… Continue Reading
1st October 2016 (Kitty Kane. Photo by Stefan Hinc) Upon arrival at The Fleece, the long queue of colourful revellers – adorned in a wide ranging display of burlesque and themed costumes – spilling out from the venue’s entrance is… Continue Reading
28th August 2016 After the defeat of the British army in Northern France and their subsequent retreats from the beaches of Normandy in 1940, it would be another four years before Britain – this time with her US allies in… Continue Reading