Stanley Brinks and Freschard – Bristol Live Review At The Well, Stokes Croft, Bristol 11th April 2016 Anyone walking past and looking in through the window of At the Well on Stokes Croft tonight would think: “Well that...
Would you be able to beat a monkey with a stick? I mean really beat it. Hit it more than once, repeatedly in fact. Disable it. More than one monkey too. A handful. A gang. An army of monkeys? These were the questions I had been...
We have been lost on the island of Gulangyu for hours in the dark, humid night. … It did not occur to us that this island would actually be free from all transport. It was something nice to write in the guidebooks and...
You had to climb up over two hundred stairs to reach the room where I lived in Hanoi. There was no bathroom, no toilet or sink on the top floor – just my little room with its narrow bed and a single window overlooking the...
The path has tracked the river for miles. Straight and unwavering, without deviation. No detour made around an immovable geographical feature, no alternative route trampled by foraging animals, no hastily carved track to...
1. George Clinton – Parliament / Funkadelic O2 Academy, Bristol 17th April 2. Richard Dawson Polish Club, Bristol 14th May 3. Doldrums Louisiana, Bristol 22nd May 4. Destroyer The Lantern...
1. Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again Inhabiting a hazy other-world, this shape-shifting retro folk has the ability to transport you in the same way that Astral Weeks did decades earlier. 2. Port St. Willow...
I had to stop the shower early the spider I had spotted a couple of days previous was making his way, with the gait of a giant, across the ceiling, on his way to turn the power off, before his limbs slowed to stationary with...
The insects had been killed on the way to the miniature model village. Victims of circumstance, splatted upon the car windscreen by forces incomprehensible to them. It was raining now too. Pinhead domes, light-carriers from the...