“Is everyone in here taking refuge from the zombie apocalypse?” It’s a valid question that sprightly bassist, Eddie Myer, poses. Although, whilst that heady brew of drunken ghouls and giddy pumpkins are invading the pavements outside, inside Bristol’s Fleece most… Continue Reading
Review by Abby Render – On a Saturday night in Bristol the scope and variety of things to do are huge, especially when it comes to live music. Yet in the intimate upstairs room of The Lousiana, Manchester’s The Travelling… Continue Reading
The Travelling Band are a Manchester folk-collective who are at first glance seem unremarkable and whose ambitions remain distinctly unambitious. The name doesn’t help, harking back as it does to an imagined sixties nostalgia land of Woodstock and Monterey; reconstituted… Continue Reading
“Good things come to those who wait” – it would appear that George Ezra obviously didn’t get that memo. Since the release of his first EP Did You Hear the Rain? in October 2013, Ezra has ridden the back of… Continue Reading
“Who the fuck are you?’ asks one ignorant onlooker, with the impertinent indifference that is so commonly witnessed in a support acts audience. Soon though this ennui turns to a hushed, but focused, silence as Rhodes begins to win over the initially… Continue Reading
When we heard that Timber Timbre were playing Bristol, it’s fair to say that we got a little bit excited. The Canadians, after all, were responsible for arguably 2014’s best track, the seductive “Hot Dreams” (“I wanna dance…I wanna dance…I… Continue Reading
When, after the fey slowness of her opening track, Canadian songstress Gianna Lauren dubs her role at The Canteen as simply to provide “afternoon lullabies during your Sunday roast,” it is as apt a phrase to describe her delicate, half… Continue Reading
“I hate festivals, no one’s really up for crying at festivals,” jokes Luke Sital-Singh as he introduces the evening’s fourth track, ‘Inaudible Sigh.’ Further expressing his imaginings of starting his own annual event by the name of “Depressed-tival,” these are… Continue Reading