29th June 2016 Bristol’s excellent annual feast of comedy continued with the second of six consecutive nights at Queen Square. Here’s how another top line up of standup comedians faired at the festival: John Robbins (compere) Vindicating… Continue Reading
28th June 2016 (Photo by Colin Hutton) The mighty Bristol Comedy Garden is back and newly expanded with over 40 of today’s finest comedians making their way to Queen Square to deliver six nights of laughter at the South West’s… Continue Reading
24th June 2016 (Photo by Zackery Michael/Press) The evening after the morning before. In Bristol – where 62 percent of voters were left disappointed by the outcome of the EU Referendum – the first day of Britain as a prospective… Continue Reading
25th June 2016 Catfish and the Bottlemen are riding a wave. Where and when that wave will reach its peak and wash back is hard to say. What isn’t a surprise is their belief that playing to arena size crowds… Continue Reading
23rd June 2016 The Bristol Summer Series has returned, and, just as last year, The Fix has been devouring each night’s performances with the sole purpose of telling you exactly what we saw go down. Sadly, down is where the… Continue Reading
18th June 2016 It was a recent viewing of the excellent documentary Dig! that led me to the broiling Saturday evening atmosphere of the cult psychedelic rock band’s appearance at Bierkeller. Some of what was thrown up in Ondi Timoner’s… Continue Reading
2nd June 2016 Focusing on the romance between Russian Jewish artist Marc Chagall and his first wife Bella Rosenfeld – the subject of many of Chagall’s paintings – this new production from Cornish theatre company Kneehigh is an attractively visual… Continue Reading
28th May 2016 Though it’s not quite the glorious, almost unseasonably hot bank holiday sunshine that resided over last year’s tenth anniversary event, it’s nonetheless a lovely spring day which greets festival goers queuing up early at the Thekla wristband… Continue Reading