With the promise of successive nights of quality acts, and blissful summer evenings astride Bristol’s scenic harbourside, Bristol Sounds continues to provide a late June treat for local live music aficionados. This year’s event, featuring five headline acts and a… Continue Reading
Perhaps it’s an indictment on my loosening grasp as to the joys lurking within the smaller corners of the local music scene that it took something of a personal vanity project – akin to a Dave Gorman stage show –… Continue Reading
Nearly sixty years after his controversial world tour of 1966, it seems rather ludicrous that Bob Dylan’s embracing the concept of plugging in a guitar and appearing with a full band should result in fans revolting in a volley of… Continue Reading
Surrounding Newcastle-born singer-songwriter Andrew Cushin is a rather unique and conflicting aura of vibrant youth and a deference to all that is vintage. This is certainly reflected amidst tonight’s sold out audience; within the stark intimacy of the 250 capacity… Continue Reading
(Photo by George Salisbury) If one weren’t already familiar with the band’s usual stagecraft, the signals are immediate in regard to the visual spectacular to be imminently offered up by The Flaming Lips; a sign outside the hall details ‘Special… Continue Reading
Thirty three years after the release of their debut record, tonight finds us just two months in from the release of the Welsh rock group’s fifteenth studio album Critical Thinking. While we’re going all the way back to 1992 for… Continue Reading
(Photo by Dave Sausins) Sporting a black, rhinestone old school military jacket, eyes doused in kohl, and wearing thick black lipstick, frontman Thomas Hawtin appears something akin to a gothic Sgt Pepper. Considering their ingeniously off-kilter name and self-description as… Continue Reading
The name of rave-infused, electro-punk oddballs Snapped Ankles’ upcoming album offers up an appealingly straightforward recourse for regular folk in a time of crisis. Tonight’s show arrives eight days before the release of the London-based group’s Hard Times Furious Dancing.… Continue Reading