Seeing Angel Olsen live for the first time was an enthralling experience. Walking into the venue, one wouldn’t think that such a classy, captivating and cohesive performance with undertones of 1960’s nostalgia would gel so well with the grimy, industrial appeal of Motion. Olsen’s band were decked in their trademark grey-suit-and-bolo-tie combination which, combined with […]
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Live Review: The Hunna – Thekla, Bristol
The Hunna are blowing up. After a summer of festivals including Reading and Leeds, and the holy grail of the Radio 1 playlist, the debut album has arrived and they have embarked on a tour of the UK. I had seen The Hunna at Reading; they produced the most exciting daytime set that I witnessed […]
Goons, Country Classics, The Occult – An Interview with All Them Witches
Bristol, Somerset. I descended the stairs of the ominous black ex-warship known during the colonial crusades as “Her Majesty’s Enslaver” – THEKLA. Huddled behind the stage in the galley of the vessel I found a gang of noble pioneering rockers from Nashville, USA (ex-British colony). They called themselves All Them Witches. As I gazed upon […]
Live Review: All Them Witches – Thekla, Bristol
It was 6:30pm on a Sunday in Brizzle, and the autumn sun was shining right in my eyes as I peered down at Google Maps. Where was Thekla? Somewhere by the river, okay. Plodding on, some church bells stared ringing from somewhere – apt, really, as I turned the corner and, like some spooky cartoon, my […]
Honey, lemons and an interview with Ry X
Ry Cuming is pottering around a makeshift backstage at Bristol’s St. Thomas the Martyr church. There’s no tap – (“where do they get the holy water from?”) – practicality, perhaps, a reason why the building hasn’t seen a great many gigs in its lifetime. Regardless, he’s managed to pull together the few ingredients needed for […]
Review: Bristol Comedy Garden
Cast your minds back to the week following the EU Referendum result. It was a turbulent one, to say the least. Crashes and resignations, speeches and revelations: everything that could have happened seemed to happen. So it’s fair to say that my trip to Bristol Comedy Garden on Tuesday 28 June came as a blessed […]
Flock Rock: An Interview with Eagulls
How is the tour going? What was it like playing in the Fiddler’s Club in Bristol? Fiddler’s Club was really good. We tried to play a bunch of shows where we were playing independent venues that aren’t really used as often as they should be and Fiddler’s was one on the list that we wanted […]
In an age like this: An Interview with Louis Berry
Meeting in a cosy room somewhere in the depths of the sprawling upstairs of the Louisiana, Bristol’s prime indie and folk venue, Louis Berry appears calm and collected ahead of the first night of his first ever headline tour. The short tour will see him play five shows around the country, ending with a gig […]
Live Review: NME Awards Tour
It’s been a big last few months for the NME, a former torchbearer in the realm of independent music, representing all that is alternative and against the grain. However, following a big rebranding exercise back in September that saw the magazine be given away for free across the country, alongside some slightly controversial cover stars […]
Live Review: BBC 6 Music Festival (14/02/16)
BBC 6 Music Festival 2016 (Various Artists) Motion, Bristol 14 February 2016 Now in its third year, BBC 6 Music Festival is arguably on its way to becoming a mainstay of the British festival circuit, despite being held at a time of year more associated with coats and scarves than Raybans and flower-necklaces. After […]