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Bravo Brave Bats – BBC Session and at The Thekla w/ We Are Augustines
Bravo Brave Bats, Bristol’s best band (I will brook no dissent, they just simply are, and I know every Bristol band…) is having a bit of a good start to the year; a new project of writing a song a month with … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Introducing Bristol, BravoBraveBats, Gig, Thekla, video, We Are Augustines
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The Best of 2011
I still know its a bit naff but I am still going to do it – here, in strictly alphabetical order, are my albums of 2011 (followed by my favourite gigs his year) I will instantly regret not including a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Winged Victory for the Sullen, A.A. Bondy, Ólafur Arnalds, Bill Callahan, Bon Iver, BravoBraveBats, Erased Tapes, Jon Hopkins, Justin Vernon, King Creosote, Koko, Low, Mono, Nils Frahm, Okkervil River, Scott Matthews, The Boxer Rebellion, Thekla, Trinity Centre, Turin Brakes, villagers, White Denim
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Scott Matthews – The Thekla, Bristol (and a little bit of Glee Club, Birmingham)
Arriving too late to eat yet too early to queue, Mrs HC, the Lad, the fair Natalie and I sauntered past the Thekla en route to a slightly over priced drink at the River Station. As we did, I had … Continue reading
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Tagged Gig, Lotte Mullan, Plain Janes, Scott Matthews, Thekla, video
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Go Tell Fire To The Mountains – Wu Lyf
Wu Lyf (World Unite -Lucifer Youth Foundation; but you will know that already for sure…) feel like a bundle of contradictions. Determinedly ‘other’, mysterious and ‘apart’ but at the same time the nagging feeling that you may have been this way … Continue reading
Andrew Bird at The Thekla
Noble Beast has been the default album of choice these last few months, rapidly working its way into the old psyche so that frequently one its songs will be rattling around my heading in the morning. The prospect of seeing … Continue reading




