Review: The Big Moon’s time transcending show at Tramshed, Cardiff
27th September 2022 In the before times, late February 2020, it was the London born indie rock four piece who provided The Fix with its penultimate live… Continue Reading
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Review: Bristol Holds Tight for emotional final day of Forwards Festival
4th August 2022 After a frantic day of fun on Saturday, Forwards Festival has a lot to live up to on its second and final day. From the outset though it’s clear that any fears are misplaced as the pace… Continue Reading
Review: IDLES reside over The Downs, and a return in earnest of local live music
3rd September 2021 And we’re back. A full 550 days after The Fix covered Halifax indie, space-rock merchants The Orielles at SWX on 2nd March 2020, the recent revival of Bristol’s live music scene – aided by IDLES’ back… Continue Reading
Review: Delectable delta blues at The Louisiana with Daddy Long Legs
18th February 2020 There is something refreshingly raw and untamed about Brooklyn based trio Daddy Long Legs. Fusing everything from rock-n-roll to punk, gospel and delta blues their music cuts through the British invasion adaptation of the genre and strips… Continue Reading
Review: The Bros. Landreth’s blues rock bares all at Fleece
19th November 2019 “I know that it’s not sold out tonight but it would be in Canada” remarks Joey, the youngest of the Brother’s Landreth, about the size of tonight’s audience compared to those the Winnipeg duo… Continue Reading
Review: Chastity Belt’s floaty indie rock aboard revamped Thekla
13th October 2019 Formed in the satisfyingly alliterative origins of Walla Walla, Washington, four-piece indie rock act Chastity Belt arrive aboard Thekla – now sporting a new steel offset hull after its recent £1 million revamp – in support… Continue Reading
Review: Skunk Anansie’s storming, crowd surfing sell out at O2 Academy
19th August 2019 Having experienced their commercial pomp somewhere within the slightly bloated jubilance of Britpop and Cool Britannia, it’s perhaps easy for memories of Skunk Anansie’s politically-tinged hard rock to be somewhat lost within a retrospective haze of… Continue Reading
Review: Results of a misspent youth – Cherry Glazerr at Thekla
4th April 2019 There is a cool glaze of music rock heads crowding towards the stage at Thekla to see the rock band Cherry Glazerr. With an inflatable cherry being blown up I expected that Cherry Glazerr would not… Continue Reading