Category: Gig Review
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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: Bristol Beacon Date: 2025-03-25T19:57:01+0000 Tonight, Bristol’s Beacon was a rock ‘n’ roll carnival with a surprising theme: the fearless antics of a 50-year-old man embracing comedic vulnerability—Justin Hawkins, ladies and gentlemen, THE DARKNESS. Celebrating the upcoming release of their eighth studio album, Dreams on Toast , They proved that they haven’t mellowed with age,…
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Venue: Loves Cafe Date: 2025-03-20T11:57:40+0000 Walking into Loves Cafe on a crisp March evening, it was already clear that this wasn’t going to be your run-of-the-mill gig. The pre-show festivities, organised by Getdown Services Appreciation founders Andy and Kerry, set the tone perfectly with a peculiar crisp-tasting competition that paid homage to the band’s debut…
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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.…