14th January 2016 In what is obviously a very special year for the Bristol Old Vic the Bristol Old Vic Young Company (BOVYC) have taken on what maybe the most ambitious project they have ever undertaken. For St Joans of… Continue Reading
14th January 2016 MONEY – ‘I’ll Be The Night’ Britain’s working population now having dragged their cholesterol bloated keisters back to the grim realities of 9 to 5 after the rapacious joys of Jesus week, the new single from Manchester’s… Continue Reading
11th January 2016 TIP OF THE WEEKWhat: St Joan of the Stockyards // Where: Bristol Old Vic // When: Weds 13th – Sat 16th Jan // Cost: £12/£8 1920’s Chicago. An economic disaster looms. Manipulation of the stockyards by greedy profiteers and an over-production crisis have… Continue Reading
10th January 2016 After his latest album Something More Than Free built on the promise of 2013’s excellent Southeastern by scoring a number six spot in the Billboard 200 chart last summer, Alabama’s Jason Isbell has emerged as what Rolling… Continue Reading
7th January 2015 Will Young – ‘What The World Needs Now Is Love’ Singles of the Week starts off on a suitably sombre note for the deep midwinter. Pop Idol winner and all round nice guy Will Young has teamed… Continue Reading
4th January 2016 TIP OF THE WEEKWhat: Tamarin Norwood Residency // Where: Spike Island // When: Tues 5th Jan – Sat 31st Dec (9.00pm) // Cost: Various Artist and writer Tamarin Norwood works with text, video and sculptural installation to examine gesture and pictorial figuration in drawing and writing. Throughout… Continue Reading
We run down the best Festivals from the last 12-months, and choose our number one. Bristol is surely becoming the bona-fide festival capital of the UK. Barely a Summer weekend goes by without some weird and wonderful event going on.… Continue Reading
We run down the best Art projects and exhibitions from the last 12-months, and choose our number one. For me, the visual art highlights of the year came from exhibitions that were in a way poles apart. Theaster Gates’ Sanctum was… Continue Reading