Category: Matt Barnes
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⚠️ Venue: not auto-detected – needs manual entry Date: 2025-05-23T19:29:28+0100 Ten albums in, and somehow, this was my first time seeing Ezra Furman live. Ridiculous, I know. But what better way to make amends than at an intimate, sold-out in-store show at Rough Trade Bristol , celebrating the release of Goodbye Small Head . From…
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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: not auto-detected – needs manual entry Date: 2025-04-15T18:33:04+0100 Bristol’s Old Market came alive on Saturday, April 12th, as the much-loved Outer Town Festival returned for another unforgettable edition. Known for its unique charm and fiercely independent ethos, this one-day multi-venue extravaganza once again proved why it’s a staple in the city’s music calendar.…
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⚠️ Venue: not auto-detected – needs manual entry Date: 2025-04-03T12:12:50+0100 Yippee, it’s here again! A celebration of music hosted at a trio of Bristol independent venues (SWX, STRANGE BREW & SWX), I’m like a kid in a musical sweet shop. Let’s go! Obviously I got there right at the start. Why wouldn’t you? I was…
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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,…