Bristol-born singer songwriter Florrie has released a new EP. Appropriately titled Late as it’s been a while coming, it marks the diminutive starlet’s last release before she finally make...
The last time I was in the Duke of York in St Werburgh’s was with two friends as we drunk the lethal pear cider Bee Sting putting the world to rights. Those friends now live in Henleaze with a ...
Tristan Sturrock’s eloquent voice filled the upstairs at the Bristol Old Vic as he read lines from Wild Oats (below), an eighteenth-century comedy by John O’Keeffe about acting and the theatre ...
The Phantom of the Opera opened to enormous success in 1986 and has proved enduringly popular ever since. 25 years on, the question is, can Phantom still deliver? At the Bristol Hippodrome, the answe...
Anyone passing College Green yesterday would have noticed the Marriott on lockdown as feature film Mariah Mundi & The Midas Box, starring Michael Sheen and Sam Neil, filmed some exterior scenes. ...
Monday – Thursday: Bristol Gradfest, Bristol Uni drama department A showcase of emerging talent in 15-20 minute theatre performances and film screenings displaying the work of 2012′s dram...
Mayfest 2012 came to a rousing musical conclusion yesterday evening after a fortnight of theatrical fun and frolics. Goose Party, from Little Bulb Theatre, played a set of musical mayhem in the spit ...
The finale of Magna Mysteria in a big top behind the back of Temple Meads was billed as “the most spectacular showdown Bristol has ever seen”. It wasn’t. In fact, it was neither spe...
Giving Andrew Dawson a rousing round of applause at the conclusion of The Articulate Hand in the Bristol Old Vic Studio, and now tapping away with my fingers on the keys of my laptop as I write this ...
It’s the Pony & Trap versus Casamia in the Best Restaurant category, and Flavourz versus Za Za Bazaar in the battle of the buffet. I may not have many good words to say about the two latter...
So this is what it must be like to be trapped in a David Lynch movie. There are clowns with big red wigs bouncing off one another and throwing a large bomb back and forth. There are cardboard boxes e...
The first task of Garage Band was to find the garage where it was being staged. Turns out that not many garages in St Werburgh’s stage a Mayfest show at 2pm in the afternoon, and if that’...
‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’ It’s an old adage which in Bristol could translate to, ‘Give a filmmaker a...
Small Talk is a one-woman show that features many women. “The women are all me and they are not me,” says our one-woman star Antonia Grove. “They are themselves and they are not the...
Of all things, it is the Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Azerbaijan this weekend that has brought into sharp focus what an oppressive regime in Europe can do to its own people. Human rights p...
A pamphlet produced by Severn Beach Line campaigners Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways (FOSBR) details a mini pub crawl to some of the best real ale pubs nearest the Severn Beach Line stations. My...
It was a very early start for a few hundred plucky souls this morning as the Olympic Torch, having been kept burning overnight at a secret location, recommenced its journey from Bristol, leaving, ent...
The London Olympics came to Bristol yesterday when the Olympic Torch Relay arrived in the city. Beginning in Longwell Green and ending in the Lloyds Amphitheatre, the people of Bristol welcomed the t...
Ed Sheeran will headline festival stages this summer, so to see him play the Fleece made for a very special occasion. All the more so due to the fact that the majority of people in the crowd were the...
Bristol will welcome the Olympic Torch Relay today when it arrives into Longwell Green at 5.25pm. The torch will then travel through Hanham, Redcliffe, Lawrence Hill and Old Market, crossing Castle P...
Monday – Sunday: Of Time and Space, Castle Galleries Rather a coup this for the gallery in Cribbs Causeway, which all this week hosts an exhibition of sculpture by Spanish surrealist artist Sal...
Returning to Mayfest with a brand new show, Con Artist, John Moran explained that this was actually an unfinished piece. Despite being on his to-do list, he hadn’t completed it, so shared that ...
Laura Hart of Hart’s Bakery, and her custard tarts, cinnamon buns, chocolate brownies and Eccles cakes (if you ask her nicely), is back! You can find her wares all next week at the pop-up Mayfe...
Stephen Merchant’s recent stand-up tour, his first ever stand-up tour in fact, was called Hello Ladies. It had the admirable aim of finding a wife for Hanham’s most famous son since 19th-century bare...
Loud, creepy, sexy, disconcerting, weird and wonderful, The Furies put on quite a show, what their publicity material describe as “a theatrical rock gig to get sweaty to”. They are three ...
Sometimes the most bonkers ideas are the best. Floating the ss Great Britain on a sea of jelly is as bonkers as they come, but this is happening, right now in Bristol. Today is your last chance to se...
It’s a busy weekend in Bristol this weekend for street parties, as North Street is closed to traffic for the first time today to host their very first street party, conveniently also coinciding...
Stokes Croft is being taken over by Rave on Avon tomorrow as the Brisfest after-party spreads its wings and gets a day all to itself. Some of the best in dance music from across the South West will b...
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart is sponsored by a whisky, and a few audience members would have needed more than the complimentary dram of Benromach after last night’s performance at the ...
Today is the start of Mayfest, a fortnight-long festival of theatre and more which the Guardian describes as “a mix of work so tasty it makes you want to up sticks and move to Bristol permanent...
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