24th January 2015 Over four years since the release of their debut album October, Looking South, Bristol quintet The Lasting Days marked the launch of follow up album We Simplify with a celebratory Saturday night of live music at the… Continue Reading
Song: Thunder RoadArtist: Bruce SpringsteenYear: 1975 With modest sales from his first two albums and under pressure from Columbia Records to deliver a record that would produce a greater commercial impact, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’ kicked the doors wide open… Continue Reading
21st January 2015 Bristol Ferment is a department based at Bristol Old Vic which leads a programme of artistic development throughout the local area. Inviting artists with a varying range of creative talent to forge exciting and innovating theatrical possibilities,… Continue Reading
14th January 2015 The sisters Soderberg first brought their precocious folk talents to the quaint city of Bath late into the summer of 2012; a performance at the 220 capacity Moles where those blessed with an early inkling as to… Continue Reading
Song: This Will Be Our YearArtist: The ZombiesYear: 1968 One year after Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked psychedelic rock’s pinnacle amidst the salubrious flower power vibes of 1967’s Summer of Love, some would argue that a little known five-piece… Continue Reading
Song: Just Walking in the Rain Artist: The Prisonaires Year: 1953 It can sometimes be confounding when expressions of exquisite artistic expression are produced by those for whom it is quite clear that egregious flaws lie at the heart of… Continue Reading
Song: Guns of BrixtonArtist: The ClashYear: 1979 By the time they reached the end of the 1970s, The Clash were no longer mere home-grown punk rock sensations but versatile professionals approaching the impending uncertainty of the 1980s with a musical… Continue Reading
Song: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)Artist: Darlene LoveYear: 1963 It’s Christmas time. A time when a long and tedious countdown of yuletide ubiquity gets shoved down our consumerist cake holes only to be expelled in a wet fart of anti-climactic… Continue Reading