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
7th December 2016 The Wardrobe Theatre has become renowned for its annual movie mash-up anti-Christmas show, with previous hits including Muppits Die Hard and last year’s Goldilock, Stock and Three Smoking Bears. This year is no different, with the Theatre providing a… 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
21st October 2016 Set in a kind of make-believe pre-Georgian Bristol, The Grinning Man tells the story of Grinpayne, a troubled but loveable young man whose face was carved open when he was a child, leaving him with a permanent and… Continue Reading
20th October 2016 In many ways Goat are a band of anti-modernism. The mystery surrounding them – their identities are unknown, and their faces covered by masks – provides the perfect antithesis to a music entertainment industry that sells itself… 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