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Steve Strong

ONE MAN WOAH!

May 7, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Well… I’m not really sure what to say to be honest, Steve Strong is like nothing I have ever seen before. It’s a rarity to see a single musician on stage playing multiple instruments and […]

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THE POWER OF 28-STRINGS!

May 1, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Dreamy rich reverb soaked trippy, traily wonderous tangent that carries you along. Everything blends but stands out in equal amounts, the vocals become open to interpretation as they rise and fall over the pulsing instrumentation, […]

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OHMYYES!

April 30, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Discovered these on Tuesday, listened to around 1 minute of them and decided to go and see them! The plan was to go to Cardiff but it clashed with another gig so off to Bristol […]

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TANGLED HAIR – THE FLEECE BRISTOL – MARCH 2018

April 30, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Following the train analogy used to describe the opening act these guys add another carriage of jazz to their locomotive and employ the mind-blowingly exception skills of a drummer who I imagine eats other drummers […]

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CHIYODA KU – THE FLEECE BRISTOL – MARCH 2018

April 30, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Connecting a carriage of jazz onto the locomotive of math-esque post-rock these guys will take you on a magical winding journey across a soundscape of built-up, ashen cities, before delving underground into eternal tunnels of […]

OLDEN YOLK

February 9, 2020 0

You can read the full article that this excerpt is from by clicking here! Following a three-for-three success of Jack Cooper sets it was time for Olden Yolk, another Arbiter recommendation. They were comprised of [...]
THE BURNING HELL

January 31, 2020 0

The Shonk just love it when our Canadian Ambassadors come over to party with us and play us their wonderful anti-folk, indie narrative, stream of consciousness, nostalgia-rap! (By our standards is a genre that Mathias [...]
The Dowling Poole

January 30, 2020 0

Exceptional multi-interconnected super genre breaching pop-plug mega band destroying all notions of traditional construct in ‘song world’ with their insane live performance. (Original review lost in a fire) – Note; in this video the drummer [...]
THE BIG DAY OUT PT.2

July 25, 2019 0

Our glorious day of absorbing some incredible music from all around the world was in full swing and after a quick stop at Pret A Manger for some nourishment and sustenance it was time for [...]
THE BIG FAMILY DAY OUT PT.1

July 13, 2019 0

Astral Fest VI was a highly anticipated event this year for The Shonk Family. Last year the Arbiter and I had an incredible time that left us smelly, sweaty and with an accumulated week’s worth [...]
REASONS TO ASTRAL

June 13, 2019 0

If you’re a regular reader of The Shonk you will know that we don’t say anything that we don’t mean, so understand us when we say that if you haven’t bought your tickets for Astral [...]
CAVE

May 2, 2019 0

I have long wanted to see CAVE live; 8 years, I thought my chance had gone, they haven’t toured for some time. When I chanced upon a listing for their only UK show this year [...]

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