29th January 2016 “I have never witnessed a performer leave a stage so emotionally spent.” That was what I was thinking as I filed out the doors with the rest of the soft-spoken, slightly startled audience. Aoife Duffin’s one-hour, twenty-minute solo… Continue Reading
28th January 2016 Lunchmoney Lewis – ‘Ain’t Too Cool’ Whether it’s an old fella dive bombing into a pool in the film Cocoon, Sly Stallone fighting crime with his own mother in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot or Madonna… Continue Reading
25th January 2016 TIP OF THE WEEKWhat: Manuelita // Where: The Wardrobe Theatre // When: Thu 28th – Sat 30th Jan (8pm) // Cost: £8 Revolutionary, proto-feminist, underground spy and the beating heart of South American liberation, Manuela Saenz died in poverty, all but forgotten by the history… Continue Reading
20th January 2016 Alabama born singer-songwriter Jason Isbell’s most recent album, last summer’s Something More Than Free, incited both his first top ten placing on the U.S Billboard 200 and a glowing review from Rolling Stone magazine suggesting that Isbell “is… Continue Reading
22nd January 2016 The return of Jane Eyre to Bristol Old Vic for a seventeen night run comes as something of a double celebration. Firstly, it comes as part of the theatre’s 250th Anniversary celebrations which mark the Old Vic as… Continue Reading
21st January 2016 Ekkah – ‘Small Talk’ Hey, this is fun! Birmingham’s Ekkah (the two members are called Rebecca and Rebekah respectively) have come up with the perfect antidote to the January blues. ‘Small Talk’ brings shimmering funk-pop to soothe… Continue Reading
18th January 2016 TIP OF THE WEEKWhat: Jane Eyre // Where: Bristol Old Vic // When: Thu 21st Jan – Sun 6th Feb // Cost: £34-£11.50 First staged at Bristol Old Vic in 2014, Sally Cookson’s acclaimed re-imagining of Brontë’s masterpiece comes back to Bristol Old… Continue Reading
17th January 2016 Red Bull Culture Clash, the ground-breaking live music concept created by Red Bull Music Academy, is set to take the UK by storm once again with a formidable return in 2016. Following almighty success in 2014, this… Continue Reading