25th September 2021 Last weekend saw the return of Dot To Dot Festival’s bonanza of live music – over 120 acts performing on 16 stages across 11 city centre venues during a… Continue Reading
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
2nd March 2020 Just three days since The Orielles’ second album Disco Volador was birthed into the musical landscape, the Yorkshire quartet’s appearance at the 1,100 capacity SWX is a venue upgrade almost exactly a year on from their… Continue Reading
27th February 2020 Fresh from completing their supporting role on Bombay Bicycle Club’s recent UK tour, in addition to a series of dates in support of Pixies during their European dates in 2019, tonight’s sold out show is The Big… Continue Reading
23rd February 2020 “Technically, this will be the first show in a while where it will sound any good.” Spending the first moments of tonight’s performance slowly tuning his acoustic guitar, Washington folk musician Damien Jurado makes reference to… Continue Reading
23rd January 2020 In a week where we endured yet another ‘Blue Monday’ – supposedly the most depressing day of the year – a performance of Emma Rice’s delightful musical is about as effective a panacea for the January… Continue Reading
16th December 2019 Four days after Labour were resoundly defeated in the epochal, Brexit deciding General Election of last Thursday, the sound of “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” (to the tune of ‘Seven Nation Army,’ obviously) emanates from pockets of tonight’s… Continue Reading
14th December 2019 The pre-show layout of this evening’s stage – two acoustic guitars, a chair, a small table holding a glass vase of roses, the conspicuous absence of a drum kit – indicate clearly the impending… Continue Reading