Category: Bristol247
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Venue: THEKLA Date: May 14, 2025 You only get one debut album. Luckily, Bristol’s KNIVES have smashed it. Thus making their album launch for GLITTER a punk party. They treat a sold out Thekla crowd to the album in full on a night that feels like a culmination of years of hard work and celebration…
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Venue: ELECTRIC BRISTOL Date: May 12, 2025 After 12 years away, a completely new musical landscape awaits the Scissor Sisters. Luckily, they have a band packed with elite performing powerhouses and haven’t aged a day in the meantime. This evening was guaranteed to be filled with effervescent joy: it marks 20 years since their self-titled…
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Venue: EXCHANGE Date: May 7, 2025 I’ve been keeping tabs on Dominie Hooper’s immense talents since she opened for the delight that is This Is The Kit at the Bristol Beacon last year. The Exchange ‘dungeon’ offers quite a contrast, but it’s the perfect venue to premiere new material and for an intensely intimate musical…
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Venue: BRISTOL BEACON Date: May 1, 2025 The Manics celebrated the release of their 15th studio album Critical Thinking as they played a sold out show in the Bristol Beacon on Saturday night. As frontman James Dean Bradfield remarked during the show, this is familiar territory for the Manics. He recalled sitting on the Beacon…
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Venue: LOUISIANA Date: May 1, 2025 Oh, the Louisiana. A venue dripping with live music history and, tonight, the future. I was buzzing for this one. Dreamwave played a sold-out show on the release day of their sparkling new EP Moon Dogs. As exciting and as fresh as it gets for any band or music…
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Venue: BRISTOL BEACON Date: Mar 26, 2025 Who would have thought the main theme for the night would be a 50 year old man soiling himself onstage? Well, maybe that’s not so far-fetched at a Darkness gig… The Darkness bring the rock ’n roll fun to the Beacon as they celebrate the forthcoming release of…
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Venue: STRANGE BREW Date: Jan 27, 2025 Saturday night saw a Bristol Band Bonanza at a packed-out Strange Brew with Mould at the top of the tree of a pay-as-you-feel gig designed to sustain independent music venues and artists in the current treacherous climate. Of course, Big Jeff is beaming at the front of the…
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Venue: SWX Date: Dec 24, 2024 I was well prepared, and under orders (from myself) to glam up or shut up for this one. I have more sequins than sense as I twinkle my way from the cracker-littered Christmas Steps pub to join a hyped crowd of DD’s biggest and most excited fans in SWX.…
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Venue: SWX Date: Dec 1, 2024 Katy J Pearson is huge in Bristol. There she is on a 20-foot-tall screen, staring back at me as I ascend the stairs into SWX. She is back home as part of her UK tour to celebrate her epic third album Someday, Soon. The room is packed with friends,…
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Venue: THEKLA Date: Nov 25, 2024 Shanty punk on a boat? Yes please! I can’t think of a more fitting place in Bristol to see Skinny Lister smash open the first show of their UK tour than the iconic Thekla. Fresh from their European dates they were back, ready to rock the boat in front…