I’m working for a restaurant magazine this week. Here is an account of what I ate for lunch: Day 1 There is no canteen here. The only place that serves food in walking distance is a gargantuan leisure centre, home to a...
George Thomas & The Owls Marlborough Theatre, Brighton Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre is tonight beautifully bedecked with flowers and fairy lights; a fitting locale for Sshh! Promotions and Simple Folk’s line-up...
I came across Yuck just last week and have found myself listening to the same four songs repeatedly ever since. Yuck are a four-piece based in North London who make delicately fuzzed-up shoegaze pop. For such a new band, they...
Best of the Year Blog 2009 Well, it’s 2010. How about it. Arctic winds, bad skin, black ice, hangovers, snow, chapped lips, a pot belly that shows no signs of diminishing, more snow, and it’s only day ten. Now add to that an...
Tommy Emmanuel – Colston Hall, Bristol Saturday December 5th Tommy Emmanuel is a remarkable guitarist, a virtuoso in fact, but more importantly he is a performer. The Australian has been playing guitar since the age of...
The journey lasts twenty-nine and a half steps. I wake. I don’t know if it is night or day. My tongue feels out ulcers and layers of staleness in my parched papyrus mouth. It tastes of, or maybe just is, rotting flesh. I drag...
Staff Benda Bilili Gig Preview The Fiddlers, Bristol Wednesday 18th November Staff Benda Bilili, whose name translates to ‘look beyond appearances’, are a group of paraplegic musicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Handsome Furs, The Cooler, Friday 30th October Bounding onto the Cooler’s stage complete with its cardboard skeletons, the husband and wife duo of Handsome Furs appear genuinely pleased to be here. It may have something to do...
GaBLé Live at the Cube Microplex, Saturday 17th October GaBlé are hilarious. Their performance tonight establishes them as bona fide comedy geniuses. Like artist David Shrigley, the French trio combine naivety with the macabre...
GaBLé with support from A Press of Suspects – The Cube Cinema, 17th October French anti-folk surrealists GaBlé bring their innovative genre-blurring sounds to Bristol’s Cube Cinema this coming weekend. The three-piece...