Glastonbury Festival: Emerging Talent Competition Final 2016

17th April 2016 Photos by Will Fahy and Carly Dutton It’s an honour to be stood in the crowd and sharing what is most likely the biggest moment in the music careers of eight artists. That’s not over exaggerating the… Continue Reading

Review: A fine retelling of the bards ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ closes Tobacco Factory’s Shakespeare season in style

  11th April 2016 Following hot on the heels of their performance of Hamlet earlier this year, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory (SATTF) returns with a genteel take on the bards ‘All’s Well that Ends Well” Perhaps not one of… Continue Reading

Review: ‘Trainspotting’ at the Loco Club recaptures the shocking rawness of the Irvine Welsh 90’s classic

 7th April 2016 When Trainspotting first hit our shelves back in the early Britpop days of 1993, it was part of a wave of frighteningly accurate portrayals of Heroin addiction (see Robert O’Connor’s Buffalo Soldiers and Edward St Aubyn’s Bad… Continue Reading

Must See Monday – Events of the Month: March 2016

29th Feburary 2016 This months Must See Monday looks ahead to Jeremy Irons’ return to Bristol, Bristol’s new Film Festival and a man punching gravity in the face: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 WEEK 1 TIP OF… Continue Reading

Review: ‘Hamlet’ at the Tobacco Factory shows there’s more to the Danish play than just the mad Prince

16th February 2016 Following last season’s inaugural co-productions of the Bard’s work, the Tobacco Factory and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory have come together once again this year to explore another of his most popular and most quoted plays, Hamlet.… Continue Reading

Must See Monday – Events of the Week: BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, The Odyssey & The Room

8th Feburary 2016 TIP OF THE WEEKWhat: BBC Radio 6 Music Festival  // Where: Various // When: Fri 12th – Sun 14th Feb // Cost: £25 The BBC Radio 6 Music Festival 2016 will take place at venues across the city from 12 to 14 February. The festival will… Continue Reading

Glastonbury Calling: 4 Venues, 1 Day, A Whole Lotta Live Music – 27th February 2016

8th February 2016 30 acts will grace the stages of Glastonbury’s top venues for a 12-hour feast of live music with one £10 ticket granting access to them all… “For years I’ve gone to events like Dot to Dot and… Continue Reading