12th January 2015 What: The Champ Experience // Where: Spike Island // When: Thursday 15th January (6.30pm) // Cost:Free (booking advised) “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson Professional boxer cum… Continue Reading
10th January 2015 It’s the story about a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son that had no choice but to keep them all together. It’s Arrested Development – one of the most diverse and clever comedy series… Continue Reading
Track of the Week Dan Shake – ‘Out of Sight’ (2015) Once again Dan Shake proves why he is the first non-Detroit-based artist to release tracks on legend Moodymann’s label Mahogani Music. Dan’s recent single ‘Out of Sight’ is fantastic… Continue Reading
8th January 2015 If Nick Drake had “gone electric” perhaps he would sound something akin to Bristol’s The Lasting Days. The softness of their sound and the intricately layered magic with which they infuse their tunes certainly calls to mind… 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
7th January 2015 To describe The Gigantic Beard that was Evil as a mouthful of a title just doesn’t do it justice. Similarly, to characterise this adaptation of Stephen Collins graphic novel of the same name, by Bristol Old Vic Young… Continue Reading
Returning to Bristol for the last two weeks of January is Ferment, the artist development factory at the Old Vic designed to coax the talent out of the city’s thriving cultural populace. Theatre-makers take their seeds of ideas – storylines,… Continue Reading
For the first Artist of the Week of 2015 we’re rolling back the years…to 2014! Back in December we featured a titillating interview with Brighton newbies Kanzi. In a revealing exposé, founding member Pete Hovard revealed that the music crafted by… Continue Reading