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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 […]

THE SHONK 100 CHRISTMAS BAND LIST

December 6, 2018 0

If you clicked on the link for this article expecting an actual list you are about to be sorely disappointed. There is no way that we can articulate a list of bands in any kind [...]
SCARE A TORY, READ THIS!

November 11, 2018 1

It was almost two years ago when a good friend of mine and I were hot-boxing our ceremonious shed, courtesy of a late friend of ours when I was first introduced to Idles. Chef Rhys, [...]
LOOPS IN THE SECRET SOCIETY

November 10, 2018 0

Beautiful show tonight by @JanelWeaver@TrinityBristol,to deconstruct and then rebuild her songs in front of us, alone, takes bravery, ingenuity and talent. Class I posted this tweet immediately upon leaving the Trinity Centre, I could have [...]
SONS OF KEMET

November 6, 2018 0

Before the show the nervous excitement was palpable in a sold out Fleece, the crowd was here to dance and dance they would. I have always loved the sound of two drummers, it allows one [...]
I’M ON JOURNO!

November 1, 2018 0

We’re the chats from Queensland Australia! Taking the reigns from down under punk royalty Cosmic Psychos, The chats put on a punk masterclass in Brighton on Sunday. Banging out tunes of their Get This in [...]
JIM GHEDI & TOBY HAY

October 31, 2018 0

A gig in a recording studio, quite a culturally important studio, both Portishead, Dummy and Massive Attack, Blue Lines were recorded here, two iconic moments in the musical history of Bristol, iconic albums which will [...]
SUNFLOWERS

October 24, 2018 0

Portuguese psych band Boy and girl, guitar and drums Lots of hair also

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