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
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
16th June 2016 Flo Rida ft. Jason Derulo – ‘Hello Friday’ After a laborious working week of being fellated by groupies, smoking weed and composing half-baked lyrical scribblings about how much money he has, the weekend really can’t come… 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
19th May 2016 The French Revolution, The Plague, Orson Welles “fucking up his second film” are – as Canadian born theatre producer and playwright Deborah Pearson suggests – all contingent factors on which our individual existences are predicated. A straightforward… Continue Reading