Musical Takeover by Geoff Barrow’s Label Invada Invasion curated by Geoff Barrow featuring Zu, Mogwai, Zun Zun Egui, F**k Buttons Colston Hall, Saturday September 26th Invada Records’ mission statement is to avoid...
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Roni Size’s Reprazent and William Goodchild with The Emerald Ensemble Review Colston Hall Friday September 25th And on the eighth day, God gave us Roni Size. Day eight in Colston Hall’s ten day launch programme for its new...
Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern, The Fleece, Bristol Thursday 10th September Darren Hayman, the one-time frontman of Indie heroes Hefner, has consistently written nuanced lyrics that expose with wit and tenderness the...
Green Man Festival Review 2009 Glanusk Park Estate, Brecon Beacons, August 21st – 23rd Nestled within the rolling hills of the Brecon Beacons, Green Man is a serene festival in every respect. With a line-up spanning folk...
2000 Trees Festival, Upcote Farm near Cheltenham July 17th and 18th As rain teems down on the ancient countryside of Withington, a familiar feeling of doubt rises up – another wet summer festival, will it be worth it? The...
Bristol, July 3rd, 2009 Sometimes gigs just leave you wondering why. Why subject an artist of Howe Gelb’s calibre to the confined, sweaty, and tonight, technically disastrous, Thunderbolt? For over thirty years, Gelb has...
Fiddlers, Bristol June 17th 2009 A Hawk and a Hacksaw (AHAAH), despite being from Albuquerque, New Mexico are obsessively Eastern European in their sound. Multi-instrumentalist and former Neutral Milk Hotel drummer, Jeremy...
AU with support from Frederick Stanley Star The Cube, Bristol, Friday April 24th Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka, the duo that makes up the touring incarnation of AU have not slept. They have driven through the night from Cork to...
1990s live at O2 Second Academy 28 April 2009 Glaswegian trio 1990s released a refreshingly plucky debut album Cookies in 2007; it wore its influences unabashedly on its sleeve and captured the hedonistic glee of drugs and girls...
The Croft, Bristol – April 14th 2009 Chicago’s Casiotone for the Painfully Alone aka Owen Ashcroft has developed considerably as an artist in the decade since his debut album. With an array of instruments bolstering the...