Review: Liars + Happy Meals – The Lantern, Colston Hall
Liars continue to take old genres to new lengths whilst also shaking up their own sonic foundations. The Lantern could be regarded as the treasure trove of Colston Hall’s multi-venue building. Acting as one of its prized features, its intimacy is not one limited in size and grandeur, with bands from all over the world […]
Bristol Women In Music To Host ‘Sound Industry’ Conference
Sound Industry, South West UK’s newest music conference dealing with issues of diversity, wellbeing and politics, will comprise of an all-day conference being held around Bristol on Thursday March 30th. Spearheaded and curated by Bristol Women In Music (BWIM), the showcase aims to challenge and inspire individuals working across all aspects of the musical landscape, […]
Review: Submerge Festival 2016
Submerge is a brand new, multi-venue festival that takes place in Bristol over a late November weekend. It presents an innovative combination of music and arts across a handful of novel institutions in the city, such as Church of St Thomas The Martyr and The Tunnels underneath Temple Meads train station. Placing emphasis on the […]
Review: Simple Things Festival 2016
With Simple Things celebrating its 6th year of the multi-venue, city-wide commemoration of left field music, we weigh up the festival that appears to tick all the boxes. Things we expected: 1. A wide variety of Bristol venues would be used. In previous years, anything from the city’s most mainstream venue to its underground police […]
Review: Cate Le Bon + Alex Dingley – Colston Hall
Endearing pop-eccentric, Cate Le Bon, plays Bristol’s Colston Hall during her European tour of Crab Day, her most left-field release to date. Cate Le Bon, hailing from Penboyr, Wales, came into the public realm when she supported Gruff Rhys of Super Fury Animals back in 2007. Since 2008 she’s been making records, both in Welsh […]
Kayla Painter, Luke Abbott, Plaid + more perform for LAU’s residency at Colston Hall
Revered British folk trio LAU curated a residency at Colston Hall this weekend, where they presented some of the musical acts that inspire them. From world music to the electronic, they all added to the already stellar track record that the venue has for showcasing innovative, thought-provoking events. There was even a build-your-own synth workshop. […]
Sound System Culture: A Photographic Exhibition in Bristol
An exhibition documenting Bristol’s rich history of reggae sound systems will be presented at Colston Hall on the 13th June. Funded by Let’s Go Yorkshire and curated by Al Newman and Mandeep Samra, the exhibition is part of a nationwide project documenting sound system culture in the UK. The exhibition began with a look at the thriving sound system […]