5th September 2015 The problem with meeting up for pre-drinks at 6pm for an event that begins at 5pm is the inevitability of your own lateness. And so, like any good journalist with a sturdy disregard for professionalism, an early… Continue Reading
4th September 2015 A contemporary adaptation of German playwright George Kaiser’s 1945 play ‘The Raft of the Medusa, ‘Life Raft’ adeptly captures the bleakness of its source material’s story of thirteen children stranded at sea at a time of… Continue Reading
25th August 2015 Though perhaps best known for her directing of 1992 box office smash ‘Wayne’s World’, and it’s less commercially successful sequel, Penelope Spheeris true legacy as a filmmaker is her 1981 documentary ‘The Decline of Western Civilization’… Continue Reading
28th July 2015 Being as we are in the middle of summer, the Bristol music scene seems a little bereft considering the many artists and music fans currently in the midst of festival season hibernation. However, tucked away for… Continue Reading
12th July 2015 With the city already having seen some of the country’s biggest comedic talents over four successive evenings, it was time for the fifth and final night of Bristol Comedy Garden 2015. Whereas the previous four nights featured… Continue Reading
9th July 2015 “Poor little woman! She is gaping after love like a carp on a kitchen table.” This quote from ‘Madame Bovary’ appears projected on to one of the stage’s two big screens as the audience await the… Continue Reading
8th July 2015 Returning for the fourth time since 2011, Bristol Comedy Garden once again is transforming Queen Square’s into a tented comedy utopia for five unforgettable nights, with a host of the biggest and best names in the industry performing.… Continue Reading
2nd July 2015 When a band and audience work in unison it’s one of the real wonders of the musical world to behold, and there can be few proponents of said art that are better skilled than The Cat Empire.… Continue Reading