Tag: Bristol
REVIEW: BILL CALLAHAN AT BRISTOL TRINITY CENTRE (10/05/11)
Despite being flanked by two impeccable musicians, Bill Callahan cut a lone figure on the stage of one of Bristol’s most underrated venues, the Trinity Centre. As unassuming man whose age is very hard to pin down, his weathered face and dramatic expressions portray a man who has lived, yet his fitted suit and clean [...]
REVIEW: FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS AT BRISTOL FLEECE (09/05/11)
Frankie Francis kicks off the night by exclaiming something is not right, “there is a Jeff-spaced hole here at the front!” pointing at the void between the stage and the crowd, he is referencing to everyone local that knows, if 247 columnist Big Jeff is not at your show it’s not the best gig in [...]
REVIEW: BEST COAST AT BRISTOL THEKLA (01/05/11)
It’s almost a year to the day since Best Coast last played in Bristol and the change is clear to see; they got popular. Last time the touring three-piece played to a barely half-full 100 capacity Louisiana. This year they play to a completely sold out Thekla, capacity around 350 and tickets costing a fairly [...]
KELIS TO HEADLINE BRISTOL PRIDE 2011
Pride Bristol has secured international superstar Kelis to headline Pride Day 2011 on Saturday 16 July at Castle Park, Central Bristol. Kelis has won BRIT, NME, and Q awards and been twice nominated for a Grammy. She is one of the most distinctive artists, musically and visually to emerge in the past twenty years. Constantly [...]
INTERVIEW WITH gUiLLeMoTs
As they prepare to play this year’s Dot to Dot festival in Bristol, we caught up with Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield for a quick chat. Your name relates to seabirds but you come from Birmingham…how did that come about? We needed a name and I like birds. You announced details of the new album, Walk [...]
REVIEW: RAKIM AT BRISTOL 02 ACADEMY (07/05/11)
There was definitely a buzz of nervous excitement in the queue before Saturday nights show at the Bristol O2 Academy. Maybe not the same kind of hysteria as when the Paid in Full LP was first played out by Eric B and Rakim in 1987, but now almost 25 years later the apprehension was at [...]
LEE EVANS TO HEADLINE 40TH BRISTOL HARBOUR FESTIVAL 2011
Bristol Harbour Festival has announced a diverse line-up of evening entertainment at this year’s 40th anniversary event, partnering with the city’s leading venues to carry on the festival indoors when the festival closes at 6pm. The festival will this year feature partnerships with a series of the city’s venues to bring a taste of comedy, [...]
COULD BRISFEST FILL THE VOID LEFT BY BRISTOL ASHTON COURT FESTIVAL?
The organisers of BrisFest have launched a bid to see the festival take place at Ashton Court in 2012 – the site of the infamous Ashton Court festival. Obviously. They say that if 10,000 people buy their advance ticket for £30 for the whole weekend before 31st Dec 2011, they will have the community festival [...]
REVIEW: DRIVE BY TRUCKERS + JOSH T PEARSON AT BRISTOL ANSON ROOMS (06/05/11)
Josh T Pearson entered the stage, looking thin and withdrawn with his massive beard bristling with with age, creating an eye catching and brooding presence. The place falls silent in anticipation for what proved to be a sparse, yet emotionally fraught set. He showcased songs from Last of The Country Gentleman, his first proper album [...]
REVIEW: FUCKED UP AT THE CROFT, BRISTOL (07/05/11)
As the band made their last sound-checks on stage the crowd seem very mellow for The Croft on a Saturday night, then at 11pm suddenly the crowd came alive. Lead singer Damian Abraham, or Pink Eyes as he is known, arrived on stage and burst the room into life with his energy and vigour. Fucked [...]
REVIEW: PETE DOHERTY AT BRISTOL O2 ACADEMY (05/05/11)
‘Why would you pay to see me in a cage which the whole world calls the stage?’ were the words sung by Peter Doherty in Babyshambles anthem, ‘Kilimanjaro’; This line rung strangely true across the shambolic but undeniably enthralling set. There was a reluctance to Doherty’s showmanship that made it all the more hypnotic. Opening [...]
BRISTOL BIG JEFF: CUTTING FROM THE EDGE (MAY 2011)
April was a busy month for me but I must hark back to the end of March to mention how, in one night, I managed to see both John Grant and Patrick wolf, by pegging it half way across Bristol, this even meant me pegging past people I hadn’t seen for years. You see, I [...]
REVIEW: NME RADAR TOUR FEATURING ANNA CALVI & GROUPLOVE AT BRISTOL THEKLA (02/05/11)
Anna Calvi left scores of fans disappointed when she cancelled her gig at Bristol Cooler earlier this year, but we didn’t have to wait long to see her as she returned as part of this relatively low key NME Radar tour. Grouplove on the other hand, have played Bristol before and won a whole new [...]
REVIEW: DAN SARTAIN AT BRISTOL THEKLA (26/04/11)
It is almost a year since Dan Sartain played Bristol. The last time was to a packed out Fleece at the end of Dot to Dot Festival, so when I saw he was playing the Thekla I assumed it would be a standard bottom deck of the boat affair – but it wasn’t. You may [...]
REVIEW: MY FIRST TOOTH AT BRISTOL LOUISIANA (20/04/11)
It can be hard work being band without the backing of a major label behind you, you don’t have the promo machine behind you, the fully air-con tour buses with the blacked out windows and you can’t take for granted that people will be at your gigs. But when the venue forgets to put you [...]
THE CORAL TO PLAY EXCLUSIVE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL WARM UP IN BRISTOL
The Coral have announced two UK warm up shows ahead of their appearance at Glastonbury Festival on 24th June. Following their phenomenal return with their critically acclaimed sixth studio album, ‘Butterfly House’ The Coral have cemented their position as one of the UK’s most valued bands. The new UK shows follow their European tour and [...]
BRISTOL BAND THESE WORDS TO RELEASE MUSIC VIDEO EVERY MONTH FOR A YEAR
After leaving their label, Bristol band, These Words announce they will not be recording an album this year, but rather a monthly single and music video. Citing a need for the music industry to modernise, singer, Niall Everitt, commented on the move: “Nobody really buys albums any more, maybe occasionally but it’s just an outdated [...]
FUTUREBOOGIE RECORD LABEL LAUNCH IN BRISTOL
Bristol’s house scene has been bubbling along nicely for a while now, albeit slightly under the radar but still regularly spawning some amazing nights. Overshadowed, perhaps, in the media by other trends (remember dubstep?), long running nights such as the mighty Just Jack, Monkey!Knife!Fight! and Bugged Out! have been consistently bringing the big dogs to [...]
BRISTOL BIG JEFF: CUTTING FROM THE EDGE (APRIL 2011)
I always find March a bit of a difficult month to sum up really; it’s about this time that my brain gernerally turns into a bit of a marchmallo (sic) and I completely lose myself. The month started with one of the Venue magazine awareness gigs in Bristol at the Louisiana, it was a great [...]
REVIEW: LYKKE LI AT BRISTOL TRINITY CENTRE (12/04/11)
If you only know Lykke Li for her appearance on the latest Twilight soundtrack album then you might just have got the impression that her talents are limited to the staid brooding of ‘Possibility’. But like most acts which feature on the soundtracks of conservative America’s favourite teen angst-fest, there’s more to Li Lykke Timotej [...]
