Features Issue 188 | July 2011 Publishing Nigel Muntz / nigel.muntz@ Director: outofhand.co.uk Editor: Laura Williams / laura. williams@outofhand.co.uk Design: Lucy Reynolds / lucy. reynolds@outofhand.co.uk Advertising: Nigel Muntz, Andy Nelson & Nick Tuckfield sales@outofhand.co.uk
Athlete
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Classical Music Debate
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Compulzion Records
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Radio friendly indie popsters grow old with grace
Is classical music relevant to today’s youth? Stephen Fry says yes
Label owner Louk talks about his latest signings
Contributing Helen Brown, John Barker, Writers: Emma Dance, Emily Knight, Rachael D’Cruze, Chris Williams, Darren Johns, Jamie Atkins, Stephen Morris and Louk PourHashemi Contributing Laura Palmer, Lucy Photographers: Reynolds, John Jeffreys, Nigel Muntz, Sammy Maine & Tom Bleasdale
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This time last year we championed one of the most eyecatching Upfest pieces of street art on our front cover and this year we felt compelled to do the same. The annual festival, which took place in Bristol, last month saw some top artists turning dull walls and boards into masterpieces – this cover shot adorns the side of the Tobacco Factory in Southville. Nice. Snapped features photos from two other festivals which took place that weekend (June 4-5), We The People in Bristol and Wychwood Festival in Cheltenham. Full reviews on www.247magazine.co.uk This month we’re looking forward to Larmer Tree on the Wilts/Dorset border and a cople of London jobbies, including Arcade Fire and Pulp in Hyde Park and ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror, featuring Bristol’s finest Portishead. Rather than bog standard interviews we’ve gone a little different with one of our features this month as we explore the relevance of classical music to young folk today. This was sparked by a jaunt we took to Cambridge University to see Stephen Fry debate the issue with Kissy Sell Out. Intersting to say the least. www.247magazine.co.uk
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Fresh out of his illustration course at the University of Gloucestershire, Jamie Mills is already busy with illustration work. He’s still putting the finishing touches on an animation he was working on as part of his final year, which should hopefully be released later this month. He’s also preparing for an exhibition in Bristol in the autumn. Jamie said: “Most of my inspiration comes from nature; mountains, trees, valleys, wildlife and wide open spaces are all things that I look to. I watch a lot of documentaries and read a lot of books about places that I would love to go. Photographers such as Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Bill Hirst really appeal to me as they can really capture the beauty of nature, and human beings’ intrinsic links to it. I’m also really interested in science and mathematics, particularly fractal and evolutionary theories, and how these can explain the links that are present between all things.” Jamie hopes to one day, set up a publishing house to champion beautifully made and printed books. Website: www.jamie-mills.com Email: Jamie.illomilk@gmail.com
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The Edge BRISTOL WORLD STAGE FESTIVAL You may have thought we had had enough mayhem in Bristol recently, but the Mayhem Poets, who are visiting the city for the first time this July as part of World Stage Festival, are talking about a different kind of revolution. “We are three guys with a pretty dangerous agenda: a deep love and respect for words. And we want to use the power of speech to change your view of poetry. So stand back, that means we want to change lives” says Kyle Rapps, one of the three theatre-trained, comedically gifted, and, what you might call, ‘lyrical virtuosos’ who are heading over from New York to Bristol for the Festival at Colston Hall and the Tobacco Factory on July 8-10. More info at www. worldstagefestival.com GREEN MAN POLL Bands from across South Wales and the West have been urging fans to vote for them in the Green Man Poll. The now annual poll offers one unsigned band the awesome opportunity to open the main stage on the Friday afternoon. It was initially said that the five bands with the most votes would go through to the final, where they get to play in front of a panel of judges but because of unprecedented demand and the quality of the bands, the organisers doubled this to take 10 acts through – including Bristol’s Goan Dogs. Green Man takes place in the Brecon Beacons from August 19-21. Headliners this year are Explosions in the Sky, Iron and Wine and Fleet Foxes. Tickets £135 from www.greenman.net BRISTOL CUBE JAM PACKED JULY The Cube cinema in Bristol is closed for the whole of August, but before they go off radar for the Summer they’ve created a jam-packed July calendar of events. Highlights include Sandro Perri, the wonderful Cabaret of Curiosities goes Mardi Gras, lush folk Rachael Dadd, with support from This Is The Kit and a Supernormal festival preview at the end of the month. More info at www. cubemultiplex.com
News Wales goes festival crazy
Cardiff SWN Festival is back
Cardiff SWN Festival returns for its fifth year as Wales’ premier new music festival with an extra day added, meaning it runs from Thursday October 20 – Sunday October 23. Already confirmed to be in the Welsh capital hosting stages are Regal Records, BBC Radio 1, Bella Union, Clash, Kerrang!, Moshi Moshi, NME, Pink Mist (The Big Scary Monsters / Holy Road / and Blood & Biscuits labels), Propaganda, See Monkey Do Monkey, The Line Of Best Fit and more. And the bands. There will be around 200 acts playing in total, including The Joy Formidable, The Keys, Ben Howard, Herman Dune, The Fall and Pandas and People as well as And So I Watch You From Afar, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Colorama, Creatures of Love, Echo Lake, Elephant, Houdini Dax, Patterns, The Victorian English Gentleman’s Club, The Method, Trwbador and more. A four-day wristband costs £49.50 from www.swnpresents.com Day tickets are also available and start at £10.
UNDERHILL FESTIVAL A brand new electronic music festival is taking to the Wiltshire border this month. Underhill festival takes place at East Knoyle, an hour from Bristol, on July 29-30. It hosts the likes of DJ Erol Alkan, Krafty Kuts, Stop Making Me, Julio Bashmore and Martyn as well as some lesser known DJs and producers. Tickets cost just £46 and include camping. More info at www.underhillfestival.com ST PAUL’S CARNIVAL The biggest carnival in the Westcountry takes place in Bristol on July 2. The St Paul’s Carnival attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the vibrant area of the city for a colourful celebration. There’s musical entertainment, exotic food and plenty of fun to be had. This year, the Red Bull Music Academy is getting on board to host a stage, after a long history of hosting parties at London’s Notting Hill Carnival. They’ve enlisted the help of local label Futureboogie and singer Julio Bashmore to entertain the troops. More info at www. stpaulscarnival.co.uk
As well as SWN announcing it’s autumn line up there’s a bunch of other festivals going on in the motherland this Summer. On July 17-20 there’s The Young People’s Village Music Festival at Builth Wells in Powys. Acts confirmed include Devlin, Beat A Mazz DJ as well as Radio faves Huw Stephens, Bethan Elfyn and Greg James, More info at www.yfc-wales.org.uk The following weekend (July 24 and 25) the Ponty Big Weekend sees boy band The Wanted and Britain’s Got Talent hit and classical singer Paul Potts take to the Ynysangharadwar memorial park to treat the crowd to some diverse music. More info at www.pontysbigweekend.co.uk Then in August (5-7) there is the Cardiff Big Weekend. Artists TBC. More info at www.cardiff-festival.com
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In recent months we’ve given away a whole heap of festival tickets and now we’re here to kit you out in some stylish threads to boot. We’ve teamed up with Weekend Offender to give away hundreds of pounds worth of clothes, including T-shirts, polo shirts and hoodies. See www.247magazine.co.uk for details.
Bristol’s £27million M Shed museum on the waterfront has finally opened. The museum features 3,000 exhibits, which include the usual fare of old bikes, buses, phones, clothes, photos, books etc there are a substantial number of artefacts gathered from local people, including a genuine Teds jacket, old gig tickets and records. There are interactive displays and photos of local folk (though no sign of Big Jeff…yet). The museum, which commands impressive views across Bristol harbour, is divided into three main areas – Bristol People, Bristol Places and Bristol Life. More info at www.mshed.org
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After more than a decade in the industry, indie popsters Athlete are hitting the road again with a stripped back acoustic tour. We caught up with keyboardist Tim Wanstall to find out more… Athlete are one of those bands who, even if you think you don’t know them, chances are you know a lot of their songs. The radio friendly post-Britpop has featured in adverts and on TV shows and on many an indie compilation. From You Got The Style to El Savador and Wires, their songs prove annoyingly catching at times. Tim said: “I feel cool when you hear our songs on ads and football coverage. The music industry is such a difficult nut to crack, it’s an unfortunate fact of life. That’s just part of earning money. Sometimes, between records we were struggling to pay our rent and mortgages then getting an ad for a Russell Crowe film or something was a real lifeline. Saying that, sometimes you do say no. “The fact that we have been doing this for 10 years shows it has been going well. We changed label after our third record. On bad days it feels like you are just an unsigned band like everyone else, then it all comes good. You don’t choose a career in music, to have a career.” But as far as music success stories go, Athlete are up there with the likes of The Thrills, Doves and Elbow for longevity and maintaining a loyal fanbase and they’re looking forward to treating people to a best of type show on this Summer’s tour. Tim said: “It’s not fully acoustic but stripped back versions of songs so we were looking for more intimate places. “It’s about the people who are in the room with us. You don’t just stand in the shadows. For us, the whole thing is like a family atmosphere. We played at the Gloucester venue before and it felt special. We really enjoy playing Bristol and Cardiff. “We want people to have a good time at our gigs. On the Vehicles and Animals tour we would see blokes in rugby tops, with their backs to the stage, hugging each other and
telling each other they loved them. It was great to see. Out first album was full of quirky, cheeky Casio keyboards. The second, with Wires, was a little bit grander. By virtue of the fact that was such a big song, the size of the places we were playing just grew.” He added: “If a song really is great, you should be able to take away the strings and big room and you should be able to sit down next to a piano or with an acoustic guitar and play it. We have got songs where you can do that.” One of the main supports for this tour is 247 Magazine favourites and friends of Athlete, My First Tooth (who we interviewed earlier this year on www.247magazine.co.uk). “We’re looking forward to seeing new bands. When you’re starting out and doing your first record, you need help,” said Tim. “We supported U2 for a few nights which really helped. We also went on tour with Mansun and that was amazing. Lots of our really committed long term fans we picked up on that tour. Even now, we can look back and see people who became fans because they saw us supporting them.” And while the fans may remain the same 10 years on, there are a lot of things that have changed including the way the music is made and the ensuing sound. Tim said: “A lot has changed in 10 years. When we started out we had a digital 12 track, then our manager bought us our first computer. Now Steve brings his laptop for a slightly more electro sound. Before you had one thing and it came with so many limitations now you may have £10,000 of synthesisers and you have to be careful. For the last record we said, we are going to take these two guitar pedals and we are allowed to use one of these 20 sounds. Having access to everything makes it hard to get something that’s your own.”
Athlete play acoustic gigs at Cardiff Globe on July 11, Gloucester Guildhall on July 16 and Bristol Thekla on July 23. More info at www.athlete.mu Words Laura Williams www.247magazine.co.uk
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Classical Music Debate Society is rife with divisions. The rich and poor, old and young, north and south. Music ain’t immune to this with different genres attracting different types of people. There’s emo for angry teens, nu-folk for whimsical, barefooted maidens and dubstep for up for it folk who wanna party hard. But there’s an even bigger divide than this and that’s the one between classical music and popular music. It’s in the name really, popular music is, well, popular. Laura Williams headed to Cambridge University to find out more... You won’t catch many people the right side of 30 spending their hard earned cash on a concerto or tunning into Classical FM instead of 6 Music or digging out new sounds on Spotify. It’s all about modern rock, pop and dance. But does that mean that classical music has had its day? We headed up to Cambridge University to catch a one off debate between TV legend and Cambridge Alumnus Stephen Fry and Radio One DJ Kissy Sell Out – the motion? This House believes that classical music is irrelevant to today’s youth. Unsurprisingly, Stephen Fry nailed this debate. Hell, apart from a handful of hacks, the chamber was full of Cambridge toffs guffawing at Kissy Sell Out as he tried to argue that kids today were never going to get excited about classical music in the way they could about the new cutting edge stuff – including dubstep. He said: “I do love classical music but we are here to discuss whether it’s relevant and the answer is no. I find it remarkable that no matter how famous a piece of classical music is, it’s almost impossible to find out what it’s called. Classical music is an elitist form of artistic expression and is detached from the modern language of popular culture. And it always has been. It’s come from the high classes and it’s aimed at the high classes. Can young people relate to that?” (To which a couple of weedy toffs clenched their fists and tutted.) He then pointed to Christmas Day TV where Eastenders attracted more than twice the amount of viewers that the Queen’s Speech with, before remixing a dance track centred around a section of said speech. Still on the decks, he tried to teach Mr Fry how to spin some tunes, but this failed miserable. Then Stephen Fry took to the posh soap box to argue that if you put the effort into listening to classical music, then you will be rewarded tenfold. He said: “Dubstep is my life. No, seriously. I’m not here to bury popular music – I have to leave early this evening to go and meet Lady Gaga. I love the idea of dance but you can love two types of music at once and not be a hypocrite. And you can make anything sound pretentious if you yourself are pretentious or think you are better because you are young and cool. But listen to a concerto and it will blow your mind. Are you really saying that the youth of today do not deserve to hear that?” Kissy uses some classical cellos in his tunes and was never going to win an argument on classical music being irrelevant full stop. After all, it’s directly influenced the popular music we love today but whether it has any tangible relevance to the 8|
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majority of young folk today is less clear cut. Teenagers aren’t aspiring to be the next Mozart. They want to be Skream or Benga, Jessie J or Katy B and that, with modern technology and a bit of creativity is entirely within reach. Relatively speaking, popular music has way more relevance than contemporary classical music for the majority of youngsters. See footage of the debate on www.247magazine.co.uk Kat Hattersley is fundraising and membership officer for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO). She tells us why she supports Stephen Fry in suggesting that classical music is wholly relevant to the youth of today. “Music as an art form has had a rich history and the sounds we hear today would not have got to this point if music had not developed over centuries. Its influences can be seen over decades of popular music, such as The Beatles’ use of orchestral forces within Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, influences in prog-rock in the 60s, Rob Dougan’s use of the Nimrod theme from Elgar’s Enigma Variations in his track ‘Clubbed to Death’ and Matt Bellamy quoting Rachmaninov in the Muse song Butterflies & Hurricanes. Orchestral music can also be heard in film soundtracks, video games, on adverts and tv shows. Probably the best example currently is Prokofiev’s ballet music from Romeo & Juliet as the opening music for the BBC’s Apprentice. Traditionally, at classical concerts, you sit in silence and clap at the end of a piece whereas due to the different music you sing along, dance, shout at a gig. The concept of classical concerts is already starting to change however, with more outdoor concerts, specific orchestral club night’s, such as Club K put on by the BSO last year, and with new initiatives to invite young adults to get closer to the music in the concert hall what could be seen as barriers towards new classical audiences are starting to be changed, as classical music evolves and slots into a relevant existence for it in the 21st century. There are so many ways that young people can get involved with classical music today, whether it is through the traditional route of seeing a concert or through new interactive ways, such as downloading an orchestra’s App or listening to a podcast. I urge everyone to have a listen or go and see a concert. There is a wealth of new music to explore and get involved with. www.247magazine.co.uk
As more and more DJs and producers are self-releasing or turning to smaller labels, we caught up with Louk from Plymouth-based label Compulzion who tells us why it’s an exciting time to be in the music industry in the South West and Wales.
What do you think smaller labels offer artists over the majors? That’s quite a tough one really but I’d have to say smaller labels have fewer artists to develop on their label so you have more time and effort devoted to your release, and now especially in the digital age, releasing a track has never been easier. In the South West we have a wealth of very talented labels such as Atmosphere, Digitally Infected, Virus Audio, Hindsight, K405, Audio:Tech, Liquid Pulse, Bionic Digital, Terminal Trax, Pro State Digital, Electrik Shandy, all releasing material for the love of the music more than money, which is a feeling you don’t often get with a major label. Who are your biggest success stories so far? Without a doubt Taunton boys Wragg & Log:One, the track they signed to my label was actually the first production the duo ever did and I had been playing it for the last four years. It was nice to get ‘Evanti’ of Thilo + Evanti from Holland to sign his debut techno productions as ‘Evan Forrest’ to my label, as both himself and Wragg and Log:One are playing some major gigs internationally at the moment. And Compulzion’s fifth release (Tech Fiends EP) an EP full of tracks from five of Plymouth’s very talented producers (Brian Eddie, Joe-E, Esh, TJ Bisto/Callum B and Matt Watering). You’ve just signed Swansea’s Project.Tek, tell us more about that? Through my work I heard a demo of Liam’s a couple of years ago and thought he would be an awesome choice to remix the track ‘Happy Days’. I have played quite a few of his productions in my set and they always receive a very good crowd reaction . His mix of that and the original are the two best selling tracks on my Benefactor imprint and he sent me a demo of ‘Rama’ just before Christmas. Liam is an amazing talent, so young and such a diverse producer, and seriously down to earth as well. A rare quality in this scene, he deserves all the success he can get. You’ve DJ-d all across Europe, what have the highlights been? My favourite European gig so far has to be in June 2009, I was asked to play Defqon 1 and it fell on the same day as my
24th birthday, so to get an all expenses paid trip to Holland to one of the World’s biggest festivals for my style of music, and be asked to play felt so surreal. Quite a few friends from Plymouth also came over so it was a serious party. I also played in an aircraft hanger at Q-Base with Wragg + Log:One in Germany and later the same year, the legendary Tunnel Records asked me to play their 16th Birthday party in Hamburg. How does the current local hard trance and techno scene compare to the glory days of the 90s? Superficially, it doesn’t. At the turn of the millennium we had lots of record shops here and every Friday after school I would visit them all (Plain Grooves, Needle To The Groove, Music Box), and would want eight out of the ten records in each store each week. It’s nice to see Bigga and Really Good records are still going. There are lots more DJs and Producers now, but I think a saturation point has been reached, with lots of smaller nights and DJs competing for an ever smaller crowd. Though there are some amazing DJs locally who are starting to really push their sounds to new heights. How have advances in technology impacted upon the music being made? It has never been easier to make music. The studio set-up here is just a laptop, with a Midi Controller keyboard, some monitors, a variety of samples, and virtual plug-ins and this is a portable. It’s also far easier to release material at a much quicker rate, though this isn’t necessarily a good thing with much less rigorous quality control before music is released compared to the days of vinyl when the expenditure was a lot higher for a release. The fact you can make a track and play it the same evening without having to wait a week or so for a dub plate from Dub Studio to come is certainly much more advantageous as a DJ for road testing your productions. What’s next for you? There are some very interesting releases coming over the summer on Benefactor + Compulzion and you can catch me at Nature One Festival in Germany in August as well as locally at my residency for Premonition in Plymouth.
Catch Louk at Premonition in Plymouth on 30th July, at Hindsight in Torquay on August 12th, Roll The Drums in Plymouth on 26th August and Oxygen in Bristol on 10th September. More details at www.compulzion.co.uk www.247magazine.co.uk
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Food
Seafood BRISTOL
Rockfish Grill, 128-130 Whiteladies Road, BS8 2RS. 0117 973 7384 / www.rockfishgrill.co.uk For arguably the best seafood in Bristol, head to The RockFish Grill on Whiteladies Road. ‘Fish so fresh, tomorrow’s is still in the sea!’ proclaims their website, and their daily deliveries from Brixham ensure that you won’t be choosing from the same menu two days running. The restaurant itself is fairly small, but the layout means that every table can both see and smell the activity in the semi-open plan kitchen to whet the appetite before your meal arrives! The waiting staff are friendly and knowledgeable - while you’re browsing the menu, you’ll be shown a selection of the catches of the day, generally served for a minimum of two people and cooked over the restaurant’s charcoal grill: one of the highlights of the restaurant that adds an amazing barbecue-like smokiness to the fish. The monkfish tail that we ordered (£22 per head) was more than enough for two people and beautifully cooked, and side orders of fennel gratin and fresh samphire were a great complement to the fish. As was the cold, crisp glass of Prosecco we were treated to. Lunchtime and early evening diners can take advantage of an offer of two courses for £12.50 or three for £15 before 7pm, and I’ve heard great things about their recently-launched Sunday lunch menu, which features a range of meats and fish. You should also make sure that you pay RockFish a visit during the day to visit the seafood market attached to the restaurant, selling fresh produce caught and bought daily. A must-visit for fish lovers. (Emily Knight aka Bristol Bites)
SOMERSET Goodfellows
5 Sadler Street, Wells. BA5 2RR. www.goodfellowswells.co.uk Adam Goodfellow knows his fish. And it is undoubtedly this knowledge and his passion for cooking top quality fish and seafood that has meant that Goodfellows has continued to thrive, since it opened seven years ago. Since then, they have built up a loyal customer base from across Somerset and beyond, with loyal staff who share head chef Adam’s passion for both the restaurant and the menu itself. Almost all of the fish on the menu is sourced daily from the Brixham market, and so it often changes depending on the fish available. There is a range of menu options available from special lunch time offers, to a three-course Market Menu in the evenings (£37), a la carte selections or the chef’s tasting menu showcasing the best plates of the day (£55). We tried a selection of dishes including a gazpacho with crayfish that was a real taste of summer, a take on the classic Nicoise salad with soft, perfectly seasoned tuna carpaccio, melt-in-the mouth sea bass with samphire and cucumber spaghetti and sweet and juicy seared scallops which had been expertly paired with earthy black pudding and salty honey roast bacon. Fish can be very easy to get wrong, but every dish was utterly faultless with each element perfectly cooked and flavours and textures well balanced. The whole dining experience was faultless and the obvious pride that Adam and his staff take in providing the best possible food and service absolutely shines through. (Emma Dance) www.247magazine.co.uk
BATH Loch Fyne
Milsom Street, BA1 1DG www.lochfyne-restaurants.com Situated in the very heart of the city the restraint occupies the ground floor of an impressive building. Inside, the Georgian grandeur is perfectly restored with a lovely open kitchen so you can see your food being cooked. The knowledgeable, polite and impeccably presented staff, take the time to talk you through the wine menu, food menu and the specials. As a seafood lover I was spoilt for choice, as the menu is extensive, as well as mouth-watering. I opted for the chef’s recommendation of Loch Fyne fish soup and Aioli to start – which was deeply flavorsome and served with delicious garlic bread. For my main I had King Prawns and Scallops, which were pan-fried with white wine and butter, served with sautéed mushrooms, onions and spinach, fragrant Thai rice and chili jam. It was stylishly presented but more importantly cooked to perfection. The flavours all worked well together and as a result it was an immensely satisfying and moreish meal – no problem as the portion sizes are generous. I was undecided on dessert, again there’s a lot of choice, but settled on crème brûlée, which was exquisite. The location is great, the service is first-class and the food is genuinely wonderful, but perhaps the best thing about Loch Fyne is its ethics. All the seafood is ethically sourced, either farmed responsibly or from sustainable wild stocks, so you can enjoy your food with a clear conscience. Perfect. (Rachael D’Cruze)
PEMBROKESHIRE The Old Point House
Angle Village, Angle. SA71 5AS 01646 641205 Located in the small village of Angle, near Freshwater West on the Pembrokeshire coast, the pub sits on Angle Point (hence the name), opposite the beach. It dates back to the 15th Century, with the oak beamed inn having many of its original features remaining. Reputedly frequented by pirates back in the day, it is also said that the ships biscuits for Nelson’s fleet were baked in the oven here. Pictures of a recent visit by Prince William hang on the wall, among other interesting pub history memorabilia. Inside, it’s flag stoned bar with open fire, small lounge bar, and large outdoor picnic area oozes charm and character. The pub landlord and local lifeboat Coxswain Rob Noble is a true gent, very welcoming and friendly. He also does a lot of the cooking too. All the food served is home-made using locally sourced produce where possible and they specialise in locally caught fresh fish from their own fish business, based in Angle – you really can’t get much fresher and local than that. We visited for a weekend and both our meals where well presented and tasted spot on, complimented by unbelievably good drinks prices. You can stay overnight at the B&B. In fact we were amazed at the low cost having been used conditioned to city prices! All in all, it has a unique ambience and a good place to eat and drink – a true hidden gem in the west of Wales. (Nigel Muntz) magazine | 11
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Style Hunter
The sun’s playing silly buggers, still the Bristol folk aren’t letting it cramp their style…
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Hundreds of street artists from across the UK and beyond headed to Bristol last month for the annual Upfest party. Here are some of our top picks... More info at www.upfest.co.uk
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Music Jamie Atkins
Laura Williams
She Keeps Bees Dig On
(Names Records) For some reason (perhaps because of the slightly twee name) I expected this album to be a lot more folky than it is. While there are sniffs of Sparrow and the Workshop in Jess Larrabee’s stripped back vocals during songs such as All Or None/Dark Horse, there is a lot more to this band than meets the eye. They manage to harness the seductive tones of The Kills in songs like Blind To The Cup, perhaps thanks to the deep looming bass line. Meanwhile, the opening track Saturn Return has the understated excellence and of Wye Oak. It’s a dark brooding, yet oddly uplifting number which wears it’s American influences on its sleeve.
Tom Vek
Leisure Seizure (Island)
Back in 2005, Tom Vek was a proper NME darling. Hailed as an exciting new cutting edge musician he did not fail to impress with his debut album We Have Sound. But then he dropped off the radar. Bizarrely, hardly anyone appeared to notice this and it was only earlier this year when A Chore, one of the highlights of his new album Leisure Seizure, started doing the rounds on the net that Tom Vek mania resurfaced. It has to be said this album has the same signature Vek sound, short and sharp durms, jagged electronic percussion and unmistakable half-spoken, flat yet feisty vocals. So much so that in places you swear you heard this six years ago.
Neil Young
International Harvesters (Reprise)
I’m going to lay my cards on the table, ever since his mindblowing performance at Glastonbury in 2009, I have been somewhat obsessed with Mr Young. I bought up his back catalogue and even got a tattoo so you would expect me to rave on about this and I will. This record is much more country-tinged than most, with a real working man vibe. Here is a selection of songs recorded in the mid 80s during some live shows and it’s almost enough to make you feel like you were actually there. While you are unlikely to hear any ‘hits’ on this archived series, each song has the energy and poignancy of say Comes A Time or Harvest Moon.
Lady Gaga Born this way
(Streamline/Konlive/Interscope) She burst onto the scene back in 2008 with some cracking tracks and quite frankly, I expected more from this. Instead of the irritatingly catchy, iconic tunes like Bad Romance and Poker Face, what we have here is a stolen songbook of mediocre gym music. Whether she’s robbing the uninspiring synths of the likes of Toscada (Edge of Glory), the Southern twang of Sugarland (You & I), the husky vocal hones of Geri Halliwell (Bloody Mary) or the signature P!nk fuck you attitude (Bad Kids) there is nothing original on this record. And don’t even get me started on the blatant Madonna rip off of the overplayed single and title track Born This Way.
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Danger Mouse/Danielle Lippi Rome
(Capitol) Brian Burton continues one of the more interesting collaborative careers of recent times (MF Doom, Gnarls Barkley, Damon Albarn, Mark Linkous) by teaming up with composer Daniele Lippi to produce an imaginary SpaghettiWestern soundtrack. Perhaps not the most obvious commercial choice yet this meticulously produced record amounts to more than the expected faithful facsimiles of their cherished Ennio Morricone scores. A large part of the record’s success is down to the contributions of special guests Jack White and Norah Jones. Whilst White’s melodramatic yelping ups the dramatic content considerably, Jones just about purrs her way through her slots. It might not quite have the songs to match its ambition but Rome is an unusual distraction worth a listen.
Arctic Monkeys Suck It And See (Domino)
It’s difficult to think of a band that has reacted as well to commercial and critical adoration as Arctic Monkeys. Instead of basking in the enormous success of their debut, Alex Turner has helmed the blistering Favourite Worst Nightmare, publicly crushed on Scott Walker with The Last Shadow Puppets and gamely if unconvincingly appropriated Black Sabbath on Humbug. Now the band have made their most conventional album to date. Despite the luminous likes of Love Is A Lazerquest and the title track, it is also their most ordinary. Turner’s wordplay isn’t quite as clever as he appears to believe and several songs veer into generic indie territory. Not bad, but nothing special.
Wu Lyf
Go Tell Fire to The Mountain
(Lyf Recording) Over the past year or so Manchester’s Wu Lyf have revealed themselves to be absolute masters of media manipulation, creating a deafening buzz without actually revealing much at all. From their obtuse proclamations and shadow-strewn press shots one could be mistaken for expecting something similarly as ground breaking musically. Disappointingly, this isn’t the case. It sounds as if they’ve been locked in an attic since 1995 with only a copy of The Verve’s A Northern Soul and, in singer Ellery Roberts’ case, an unlimited supply of woodbines. Roberts’ unintelligible vocals pose a problem. They seem passionate enough but goodness knows what he’s got himself into such a strop about.
Jolie Holland Pint Of Blood
(Anti) Jolie Holland’s last album,The Living And The Dead, saw the former Be Good Tanya making a confident step forward from the gothic, oldtimey sound of her earlier records. With Pint Of Blood she’s made her most direct offering yet and happily one that loses none of the bite of her previous material. Opener All Those Girls may initially seem like standard country rock but each lyric gets twisted and mangled by her Texan phrasing as she seems to luxuriate in elongating and cutting short syllables. It’s such a consistent set of songs that it’s tricky to pick out highlights but special mention goes to final tracks Honey Girl and Rex’s Blues, testament to Holland’s continuing artistic flowering.
UK Rocka
Tes La Rok Them
(Noppa) Tes La Rok has put together this debut album with a suitably dark edge and crisp production. This has been a much anticipated album from fans of his, as you always know what you are getting from Tes La Rok in regards to quality, but can still cover good ground to bring you a variety of sounds. You get your deep and minimal alongside your futuristic basslines, techno and tribal sounds fused as well as a 140bpm amen roller which looks into his jungle roots. Track 12 Turn It Up has a more upbeat feel to it with a nice bouncing flow. Great debut album if you like the deep and dark side.
Run Tingz Cru Summer Time EP
(Run Tingz Recordingz) Summer Jungle vibes a plenty! Run Tingz Cru have teamed up with the legendary Top Cat, as well as getting Lady MC together with Blackout JA on this release. Lady MC and Blackout JA on ‘I Got Love 4 U’ create an interesting vibe that keeps you listening. A lovers rock feel. If you are not into jungle, you can still sit back and listen to this, gathering the feel good factor whilst nodding your head to the infectious beat. ‘Sweet Sunshine’ featuring the legend himself, Top Cat, starts with some punchy drums leading into a nice breakdown ,then into the dancefloor jungle bounce. This one will be a 2011 summer anthem for the jungle ravers.
Karton
Find The Constant (Sound of Habib)
The Australian duo have done a good job with their second album. They have kept the gates of genre wide open, hitting the dubsteper’s, D&B heads, the deeper side of their musical audience, electro breaks and including some great vocals. Feed the Horde has got to be one of my favorites on this album, covering a slightly harder side of Dubstep to the other tunes. Nowhere Now, the D&B installment alongside Bang, Chase it High and Terrible Machine are up there for me and I am likely to play them out at gigs. Chase it High creeps up on you with the ‘calm before the storm’ effect, will get a good crowd reaction on the dancefloor.
Various
Future Balearica Volume 2: A New Wave of Chill (Needwant Recordings)
Future Balearica provides you with that chill factor music you might find in a nice cafe or bar on a Sunday. If you are looking for something to jump around to, I don’t think this is quite the ticket but it is a nice listen. Personally I like a bit more energy in the music I listen to but it all comes down to having the right time and place for everything. This could even work as background music in a nice restaurant or shop, which I’m sure it will in many establishments. Worth having in the collection for those moments when you want something a little more chilled but in my case, it would probably gather dust
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Music Louk
Artic Origin
www.myspace.com/thatbandok I love Holland! Not only are they the nation that has brought some of the highest quality productions to our shores, but they definitely know how to throw the best parties as well. The pristine production value is evident on Analogue Is Dead, ran by Thilo + Evanti. While I only have one remix of this track from newcomers ‘Arctic Origin’ to hand, (provided by Australia’s ‘The Engineer’), it’s a groovy techno and hard trance fusion that is perfect from switching to one genre to the other. What I really admire is how this breaks boundaries yet stays pumping throughout, and although it isn’t the best release from the label, it still is more than worthy of a play.
Wragg + Log One vs Iain Cross
www.wraggandlogone.com By the time you read this, the Taunton based duo of Wragg + Log:One will have played at the prestigious Defqon 1 Festival in Holland (alongside yours truly!), and to be fair they have had remarkable success during the past few years. Here they have teamed up with Country Club legend (and owner of Audio:tech), Iain Cross, to deliver ‘Run For Cover’ and this has it all. Rather eerie, haunting synth work and sheer amounts of energy make this somewhat special, combined with their trademark driving kick and bass sounds, and a sinister vocal combined within. This is definitely one for the middle of your harder sets to really cause some damage when played!
DJ Husband
www.digitallyinfected.co.uk Looe isn’t exactly the place where you would expect one of the most promising hard trance labels in the UK to reside, but this quaint little seaside town is home to the magnificent Digitally Infected imprint. (OK, to be fair it is also home to the quality ‘Virus Audio’ as well). Owned by local DJ + producer legend Busho, Opulence is release two on the imprint from Australia’s DJ Husband who manages to defy genres with his fusion of hard trance and techno. The winning mix of this package comes from Plymouth’s very own Side E-Fect who manages to turn in a harder, relentless, European styled reworking which has tore the roof off all over Europe for me when dropped!
Mike Steventon vs Tone www.k405artists.com
Mike Steventon vs Tone’s Get Up [K405] is one that certainly has raised a few eyebrows when I have dropped it! As my penultimate track at a gig in Slovenia in May and also a recent playing in Northern Ireland, this was one of the stand out tracks of the set. Cleverly sampling ‘So Get Up’ from ‘Underground Sound Of Lisbon’, this hardstyle track is home-grown, with it being released on Plymouth based K405, (ran by Kidd Kaos), and produced by fellow Plymouthian Mike Steventon. Mike was aided in this production by Tone (winner of the 2010 Hard Dance Awards best newcomer), and this track takes influence from the Dutch and Italian hard style sound and fuses the two together ingeniously with a very powerful break. www.247magazine.co.uk
Stephen Morris
Clumsy
www.myspace.com/clumsyspace Ever come across an emo ska band? You have now. While the cartoon album cover, parping, offbeat tunes and frivolous name suggest a chirpiness to rival Madness or Squeeze, Clumsy are anything but. Lyrics switch between self flagellation (all balls and chains and foolish pride) and berating the self flagellating (Who cares about the trivial little things you do?). It’s all interrupted by a good old dose of preaching platitudes (You cannot borrow what you cannot afford?, It’s a foolish man who builds his life upon the thing you could do without? and so on). A little too much like an over-earnest Radiohead fan has started writing lyrics for UB40.
The St. Pierre Snake Invasion
www.thestpierresnakeinvasion.com If you’re going to do dark, brooding and intense, you might as well go the whole hog. Bristol’s The St. Pierre Snake Invasion do just that. Even their name is enough to strike fear into your very bones. Taking their moniker from an apocalyptic disaster straight out of a Samuel L. Jackson film, TSPSI’s songs are one part punk, two parts grunge: all parts great. Their self released EP, Flesh, writhes in sinister boogie-man lyrics, Jekyll and Hyde vocals and grainy, distorted guitars. But there’s humour in there too with references to the Addams family and jibes at bands whose front men wear trilbies. Creepy, fun and brilliant. I’ll just get my moshing boots out.
Land of the Giants
http://www.facebook.com/ landofthegiantsuk As you read this it is, most likely, raining. Such is the British weather. To introduce a bit of sunshine to your day (or accompany it should a meteorological miracle have occurred) you could do far worse than listen to Land of the Giants. This Devonian indie-ska act sport a rather splendid trombone among the usual line up of guitars, vocals and drums. It’s proper, summery stuff with cheeky sounding songs like the Paulo Nutini-ish Hide the Sausage. At times a reggae themed Smiths tribute (see Love Me If You Dare), LOTG aren’t scared to experiment. The sprawling, world-weary Golden more than demonstrates this. Funky, offbeat stuff; by turns very deep and incredibly shallow.
Nick Rivera
www.labelnetlabel.com/artists/ nick-rivera Who says chill out music has to be electronically generated? The makers of Ministry of Sound compilations probably. Nevertheless, here to prove them wrong is Nick Rivera whose soothing EP features parping brass, mesmerising cellos and gentle guitars. His Happy Song is a Happy Song EP is a set of relaxing yet thoroughly imaginative tunes, mostly instrumental, all entirely compelling. There’s a meandering sense of freedom to the tracks last heard coming from Alfie or Beirut. Pieces like Renee Luise, Horn Y Orgy and the record’s title track lull the listener into a pool of musical bliss. Complex yet also simple, experimental but never pretentious, this will leave you gasping for more.
Backbone
FTO
www.myspace.com/ftodonotplaymetal No Humans No! notwithstanding, Plymouth hasn’t really had its fair share of DIY anarchopunk gangs eating up prejudices and spitting them back in our faces with tortured zeal. Step forward FTO, who have been doling out their righteous diatribes for some time now, underpinned by the kind of rabid music that leaves you with two choices: take sides or fuck off. I’m happy to take sides. Whether the brainscrambling ‘Sexually Transmitted Indigestion’ or the venomous ‘Irony Is The Scene’ will convert fence-sitters is a moot point but I shouldn’t think FTO are fussed. If it was populist acclaim they were after they’d sound like All Time Low. Then I really would have to fuck off.
Gorgeous Bully
www.gorgeousbully.bandcamp.com/ album/i-think Gorgeous Bully is one Thomas Crang: Plymouth resident and purveyor of wilfully lo-fi indie-thrum. The three songs here are brief sonic forays into his time-warped soul, and are garnished with more instrumentation than previous acoustic-orientated offerings, much to their credit. Awash with melodic ingenuity and distorted vocals, lead track ‘I Think’ is a gentle, Cure-like paean; the Eastern lilt of ‘Cast’ bobbles in the lake between Britpop and The Beatles, with a welcome drift towards the latter; while pick of the bunch, ‘Bear In Chains’, revisits the motorik, post-punk throb of Joy Division et al. A ferociously DIY, one-man operation with decent ideas in tow. Now that is a rarity. Cheers!
Scout Killers
www.soundcloud.com/scout-killers Scout Killers give off the impression that they mean serious business which, ironically, makes them sound a bit pastiche. The Bath mood-rockers veer between punchy alt rock (‘No Reason’) and epic-lite crooning (‘Shut Your Eyes’) but, infuriatingly, their Soundcloud songs are faded out after 90 seconds or so. Do these tiny bands think we’re all queuing up to download their stuff and leak it online? Do they think their songs are so precious that there’s no way we should be able to hear them in their entirety without paying a few pennies for the privilege? Get real chaps and put the full songs up. In the meantime I’ll give them a taste of their own medicine
The Dirty Grunts
www.myspace.com/thedirtygrunts Exeter’s The Dirty Grunts initially hooked me on two points: that moniker and the title of their first song, ‘Ball Of Shit’. The gruelling sonic concoction that followed only served to pull me in further. Part Crucifucks lunacy, part Gang Of Four anti-melody, part Future Of The Left revelry, the band consciously fall between all stylistic punk stools and probably relish the opportunity to wallow in the spilt beer and urine-soaked footprints below. Other songs like ‘Fuck Facebook’ and ‘Muppet’ are delivered with an artful naivety – if such a thing exists – with the vocalist contemptuously snarling his misanthropic manifesto over every tortured riff. For fans of being really pissed off.
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Culture Key:
Arts Words Helen Brown
2 July Gloucester Guildhall Presents: An Edinburgh Festival Comedy Preview
23 Eastgate Street Gloucester GL1 1NS www.gloucesterguildhall. co.uk 01452 503 050 8.30pm £5 adv, £8 door. Over 18s only . Gloucester gets a flavour of the Edinburgh Festival as the Guildhall lines up an exciting preview show with two rising stars of the comedy world. Josh Widdicombe has made a lot of waves in the comedy circuit over the last three years. In 2010 he won FHM’s Stand Up Hero competition and was named Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year. Also receiving rave reviews across the UK is Andrew Lawrence, the sheer power of his diatribes and his beautiful and impressive use of the English language gaining him recognition as one of the most passionate and talented new acts on the circuit.
Theatre
Comedy
magnificent religious foundations in England. After its closure in 1539, the buildings were systematically stripped of anything valuable and sold into private hands. The site quickly fell into disrepair, becoming a quarry for building stone and a tragic reminder of its former glory. From topographical view to imaginative reconstruction, this exhibition presents the Abbey Ruins as an irresistible attraction to artists between the 1650s and 1930s.
8 - 10 July
The Tobacco Factory 134 Raleigh Road Bristol BS3 1TF 0117 902 0060 http://www.tobaccofactory. com/ Described as ‘The Simpsons meets Malcolm X at a Notorious B.I.G. concert’, these theatre trained, comically gifted, lyrical virtuosos seamlessly blend raw elements of hip hop, theatre, improv and stand-up comedy to tell gut wrenching truths that speak to all of us
The Taming of the Shrew
Romancing the Ruins Glastonbury Abbey in Paintings, Prints and Drawings
Glastonbury Abbey The Abbey Gatehouse Magdalene Street Somerset BA6 9EL 01458 832267 www.glastonburyabbey.com £6 for adults, £4 for under-16s and children under five go free. Before the Dissolution, Glastonbury Abbey was one of the richest and most
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Beacons, Icons and Dykons Presents: A Celebration of the One and Only Elizabeth Taylor The Cube Multiplex 4 Princess Row Kingsdown BRISTOL BS2 8NQ 0117 907 4190 www.cubecinema.com £7/ £5 Elizabeth Taylor, who passed away earlier this year, was dubbed ‘The Joan of Arc of AIDS’. As one of the world’s most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty
and distinctive violet eyes. Beacons, Icons and Dykons is a regular night that celebrates queer icons in celluloid and is curated by Bristol-based performance artist Tom Marshman. A selection of short performances will run around the cinema before the film. The performances are always memorable, trashy, moving and avant garde.
12 July
The Ice House, Kings Road, Swansea,SA1 8PG South Wales 01792 649060 www. theicehouseswansea.co.uk This is an amazing opportunity to see how a top class comedian crafts an hour long show before taking it up to the World famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Though, Sarah will be returning to Swansea in February 2012 to perform this show at the Grand Theatre as part of her nationwide tour.
12 – 16 July Midnight Tango
www.thefestivalplayers.co.uk Flaxley Abbey, near Newnham on Severn (July 9) Havelock 6 - 10 July House in Tidworth, Wilts (July 10) The New Inn Gloucester Mr Stink (July 14) Caerleon Roman Bristol Hippodrome St Augustines Amphitheatre nr Newport (July Parade Bristol BS1 4UZ 0844 871 15) and The Old Rectory at 3012 www.bristolhippodrome.org. Doynton, nr Bristol (July 17). uk £18 Chloe doesn’t like school very much. She Wooing and wedding, music and isn’t as cool as the other kids, no iPhone, masquerading will abound when Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival no DS and no friends. Then she meets Mr Stink – the local tramp. Yes, he smells Players take to the UK’s roads this a bit but he’s the only person who’s ever summer with their 26th touring Shakespeare production – the Bard’s been nice to her, including her mother brilliant comedy, The Taming of the who wants to be the local MP and is Shrew. The inimitable company, who trying to rid the streets of its homeless. About to lose her only friend, Chloe finds aim to make Shakespeare accessible to all, will transport nearly 60 audiences in Mr Stink a secret hiding place…but is there more to him than meets the nose? England, Scotland, Wales – and Berlin – to the colourful Italian world of sunny David Walliams, star of Little Britain Padua with a fun-packed, energetic, and and Come Fly with Me has written the brilliantly inventive production centred smelliest book of all time breaking new ground by being the first ever interactive on Shakespeare’s feisty female creation, Katharina – but this will be a shrew with scratch ‘n’ sniff family show! Each a difference – “Kate” will be played by audience member will be given a free scratch ‘n’ sniff booklet bringing Mr Stink a man! pongingly to life. 10 July
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Events
Swansea Comedy Festival featuring Sarah Millican
Mayhem Poets - USA
9 – 17 July
Dance
Bristol Hippodrome St Augustines Parade Bristol BS1 4UZ 0844 871 3012 www.bristolhippodrome.org.uk Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace have dazzled television audiences for six series of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing with their stunning tango routines. Now, in their new live show, they will bring to life all the drama, sensuality and elegance of this most exciting of dance forms.
16 -17 July
The Pigeon Lady Strike
Everyman Theatre Regent Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HQ. 01242 572573 www.everymantheatre.org.uk A brand new outdoor comedy production in two acts, presented by Valley Clan Collective. In a time of danger (or at the very least distress), who can be trusted to defend pigeonkind when Health & Safety turns bad? One woman and a retired major stand up to the council. Who can withstand the mild menace and slight trepidation when The Pigeon Lady Strikes!
14 July
Dirty Dancing
Komedia, Bath, 22-3 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1 EP £8 / £16.50 / £17 www.komedia.co.uk/bath A tribute to the smash hit movie of a generation. Enjoy a Komedia Canteen Meal, watch the film and then dance the moves with a Dirty Dancing instructor. You’ll have the time of your life!
19 July Les Enfants Terribles: The Infant
Wales Millennium Centre Bute Place Cardiff Bay CF10 5AL 029 2063 6464 www.wmc.org.uk/ £8 - £12 Winners of a Fringe Review award for Outstanding Theatre, Les Enfants Terribles return to the Centre with their production, The Infant. They have a picture that could spell the destruction of society; a plan so devastating it would change the World. They have a suspect. The problem is the suspect claims the picture was drawn by his four year old son...but his wife denies it. Who’s telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more?
20 – 23 July
Bristol Comedy Garden
Queen Square Bristol £10 / £24 www.bristolcomedygarden.co.uk This July come and see comedy’s biggest and brightest stars perform in a picturesque garden-inspired festival set in the cities beautiful Queen Square from July 20-23. Bristol born megastar Russell Howard will join some top class comedians, including Ardal O’Hanlon (who played Dougal in Father Ted), Angelos Epithemiou (of Shooting Stars fame) and the awesome one liner Stewart Francis (Mock the Week) as well as Stephen K Amos, Sean Hughes and Adam Buxton. Flying the flag for female comedians is Shappy Khorsandi. Expect plenty of comedy off stage too with the hilariously groovy antics of Silent Disco (which we first experienced at Wychwood earlier this month). The original Dutch masters will be throwing an awesome open-air danceathon once the comedy wraps up on Friday and Saturday night. If you’ve never been you have to try it and if you’ve been before, we’ll see you again. A must for comedy fans.
30 - 31 July
Geraldine Pilgrim + Dog Kennel Hill Project
Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA www.arnolfini.org.uk Handbag is a celebratory gem with great music, dancing and handbags. Dog Kennel Hill Project are research-led practitioners who explore new contexts and places for dance, to question what dance can be, who can dance, and where it can happen?
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Film HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (TBC)
Released: 15 July Director: David Yates Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint 2011/US/TBC This summer’s conclusion to the seven-strong Harry Potter franchise is sure to be one of the blockbuster season’s biggest hits. Picking up from where Deathly Hallows Part 1 left off we get too see Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) face off against the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). They must find the remaining three horcruxes, which are responsible for making Voldermort immortal. The previously youthful cast are starting to look so old they should have finished studying at the University of Hogwarts, but this should still be an effects packed extravaganza with the magic of the best instalments of this popular series. It also features brilliant performances by Helena Bonham Carter (as Bellatrix Lestrange), Gary Oldman (Sirius Black) and Alan Rickman (Severius Snape).
The Best of the Rest.... HOLLY ROLLERS (15)
CARS 2 (TBC)
PLAYING BURTON (TBC)
Released: 15 July Director: Kevin Asch Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha and Danny A. Abeckaser 2010/US/89 min Fresh from his Oscar bothering performance in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg turns his rather odd on-screen persona to this crime drama. He plays a Jewish youth from a highly religious community who while exploring his cultural and religious links with Israel, rebels against his family and values by becoming an Ecstasy dealer to help his new found friends in the Israeli freedom movement.
Released: 22 July Dir: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis Starring: Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy and Michael Caine 2011/US/TBC This is probably the sequel nobody wanted to be made, as the reception to the first film was nothing short of negative. But director John Lasseter certainly has the comedic talent to turn this franchise around. In this instalment racing car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater go beyond the American Indy Car championship and across the Atlantic to compete in the World Grand Prix race. Their road trip gets complicated as they somehow they get involved in an espionage conspiracy. Should be fun and plus this time it’s all in 3D.
Released: 31 July Dir: Wyndham Price Stars: Joshua Richards 2011/WALES/TBC This biopic picks up where The Damned United and Nowhere Boy left off by focusing on a specific public figure in a tight frame. In this case it’s a young Richard Burton, who goes from a hardas-nails Welsh Valleys upbringing to acting first on the stage and then to the glamour and excess of Hollywood. This challenging and emotional drama will highlight a dearly missed actor’s life in way not seen before.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (TBC)
Released: 29 July Dir: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Stanley Tucci 2011/US/TBC Another balls-to-the-wall comic book adaption that stays preposterously close to the original source material. Its set during the Second World War and Hitler is apparently experimenting with bionic warfare and advanced weaponry, which is affecting the outcome of the war. So the American’s kick start their own nuclear fuelled programme and turn military wash-out Steve Rogers into Captain America. Expect plenty of jingoistic Nazi- bashing and some great action scenes but don’t expect the story to make sense, or for it to be historically accurate.
HORRIBLE BOSSES
(TBC)
Released: 22 July Dir: Seth Gordon Starring: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis 2011/US/TBC ZOOKEEPER (TBC) This is film tailor made for anyone who Released: 29 July has had to deal with a tyrannical boss, Dir: Frank Coraci Starring: Kevin or just a boss they don’t like (Ed. Watch James, Rosario Dawson and Leslie out!). In this comedy Nick (Bateman), Bibb 2011/US/TBC Dale (Day) and Curt (Sudeikis) all decide In this silly summer comedy the lovable that their working lives would be made Kevin James plays zookeeper Griffin, much easier if they all kill their managers, who in a nice twist on the Doctor Doolittle so they form a pact to kill each others format, gets advice from his animals troublesome tyrants. This could be a bit on his love life. They help him gain the of a sleeper hit with the viewing public attention of the shapely Rosario Dawson crying out for more comedy in the same who plays Kate whose animal attraction vein as The Office. leads our zookeeper to take dating Words: John Barker advice from a Gorilla. Not the most sensitive of lovers!
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Live Fri.01 Bristol THE FUEL O2 Academy, Frogmore St. 6.30pm £5 w Last Rights / Mind Museum / Taking Hayley OK GO Thekla, The Grove. 7pm, £12, 14+ Support Mike Doughty MOSTLY AUTUMN The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £15 MIMAS (ATTACK) The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £5. w Life On Six / Neotropics / Southpaw Fakers DIRECTOR SOUND Café Kino, Stokes Croft, 8pm, £4. Support from Headfall / Kano & Steve PYRAMID The Cooler, Park St, 11pm, £5 w Esion / Playrude / Massive Dynamic / Smithson LONDON AFROBEAT COLLECTIVE Start The Bus, Baldwin St, 10pm, £3 w Matt Hampshire (Duck Collective) + Okay Deejay BRAVO BRAVE BATS Grain Barge, Mardyke Wharf, 8pm, £4 w Mustard Allegro RITA LYNCH Thunderbolt, Bath Rd, 7.30pm, £3 w The Liftmen / DJ Gary Smith
Dukes Of Mumbai. Then from 11pm, High Rankin // La Luka / Krums / Tiki / Smithson NOSAJ THING Start The Bus, Baldwin St, 10pm, £3 w Falling Cardiff Down DJs + Okay Deejay APACHE Buffalo Bar, Windsor KING TUTS REVENGE Mother’s Place. Ruin, St Nicholas St, 8pm, £FREE Support from Muff Said / Room Swansea Cardiff DEAD OF NIGHT Milkwood Jam, 4 1 More EVAN DANDO (THE Plymouth St, 9pm, £3 MOSE FAN FAN AND SOMO LEMONHEADS) The Globe, Albany SOMO Fiddlers, Willway St, 8pm, Swindon Rd, 7.30pm, £15, 14+ w special £12adv HOT CHOCOLATE Meca, Regent guests Circus, 6.30pm, £15. w Mission THE FANZINES The Tunnels, FOLK AGAINST FASCISM Gwdihw, Temple Meads, 7pm, £5adv w Blue. Guildford Cres, 8pm, £2 Featuring Criminal Minds Sun.03 Perkie / Olive Anne MY PANDA SHALL FLY 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff Bristol WHITE NOISE SOUND Clwb Ifor Church St, 10pm, £FREE BATS ABOUT BATS The Croft, Bach, Womanby St, 7.30pm, £4. w Stokes Croft. 8pm, £4. w Lost Thu.07 The Milk Race / Fjords Laika / The Csthersis / Four Finger COLD PUMAS Buffalo Bar, Bath Fuck Windsor Place. w Frendo JENNIFER CROOK Chapel Arts, MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY Start The Bus, Baldwin St, 10pm, £3 w Wilder & Heartbreaker DJs THE DEMOLTIONS Thunderbolt, Bath Rd, 7.30pm, £FREE
THE MURDER SCENE The Louisiana, Wapping Road. £4adv w Curse You Damn Kids / The Dirty Kids THEPETEBOX The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £6. Main room. With The Beacons / Operation A-R-D / The Great Inventor in the front bar (£4 entry).
Cardiff
Lower Borough Walls, £8adv w STEPHEN WHEEL 10 Feet Tall, Church St, 7.30pm w Dai Goodwin Boo Hewedine / Beth Porter Bristol Swansea PARIS SUIT YOURSELF Thekla, SURFACE FESTIVAL Monkey Café, Castle St, 4.30pm, 14+ The Grove. 9.30pm, £3, 18+ Part of One of the 500 national Surface the Pressure clubnight Unsigned gigs, featuring Arketta Cardiff GUANA BATZ The Fleece, St KEITH LITTLE TRIO & MR POTTER + Euphoria + Add-Mission + Thomas St. 7.30pm, £15, 14+ w Red RoomTherapy + Nucleus & Gwdihw, Guildford Cres, 8.30pm, Graveyard Johnnys / The Kings of Distance Within. £3 Part of the Jive’n’Swing Outer Space Discoteque night. MISS ANTHROPIST The Louisiana, BASTIONS Buffalo Bar, Windsor Mon.04 Wapping Road. £4adv w Rhythm Place. Root / Cantina Collective Bath Cheltenham GOURANGA The Croft, Stokes SCARECROW Moles, George St, IRONY Frog & Fiddle, High St, 7.30pm, £FREE w The Blood Choir Croft. 8pm, £6. w Rings Around 7.30pm, £4 w I Am Ryan Saturn / Von Bartha / Deafhorse / Ataraxis Vibration in main room. And Ghast / Bristol Newport BENNY SENSUS The Croft, Stokes Rosicrucian / Two Ravens / Order HOWLIN LORD British Legion Of Tepes in the front bar (£3 entry). Croft. 8pm, £3. w Little Rum Club Club, 8pm. w Loren Balaam SNOWBLIND The Tunnels, Temple DEAD ROCK WEST Le Pub, Meads, 7pm, £5adv w Riot Noise Tues.05 Caxton Place
Swansea
Bristol
CHARLIE SIMPSON (BUSTED) O2 Academy, Frogmore St. 7pm, £SOLDOUT w The Excerts / Sam Sat.02 Gray ISOLA The Fleece, St Thomas Bath EDDY TEMPLE-MORRIS AND TOM St. 7.30pm, £5. Best of Bristol showcase w Day At The Races / MADDICOTT Moles, George St, The New Root / Fire Thesaurus 10pm, £7 THE OTHER ONES The Croft, Bristol ATLAS & I + EVA ROSE Thekla Top Stokes Croft. 8pm, £3. w Casilla / La Heroine / Tainted Orange Deck, The Grove. 7pm, £5, 14+ SANDRO PERRI The Cube cinema, SAM EASON The Fleece, St Thomas St. 6pm, £5. Best of Bristol Princess Row. 8pm, £5adv w Mantler / Alexander Thomas showcase w Craig Sutton / JD Williams / Nife / Jon Sunnott / Rob Cardiff Richings CUBA CUBA Clwb Ifor Bach, DYNAMO HUM The Louisiana, Womanby St, 7pm, £5. w Gunning Wapping Road. £4adv w Jail For Tamar Cake / Jemima Surrender / Bobby BOXES Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place. Anderson BIG PINK CAKE ALL DAYER Wed.06 The Croft, Stokes Croft. 2pm, Bristol £10. w Wake The President / The SCHNAUSER The Fleece, St Parallelograms / Our Arthur / Thomas St. 7.30pm, £5. Best of Arctic Circle / Peru / Heroes of the Bristol showcase w Dead Maids / Mexican Independence / Lonely This Is My Normal State / Squeeze Tourist / Tracey’s Love / Evans Me Macaroni the Death HOKIE JOINT Milkwood Jam, Plymouth St, 8pm, £10adv
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CLAIRE SIMONE & JAMES CHADWICK Gwdihw, Guildford Cres, 8pm, £3 FUTURETOWN + ROB LEAH 10 Feet Tall, Church St, 9pm £FREE
Swindon
GAZ BROOKFIELD The Victoria, Victoria Rd, 8pm £FREE. w Emma Payn / Marky Thatcher
Fri.08 Bristol
SURFACE FESTIVAL SEMI FINALS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7pm, £8adv. The semi finals of this national battle of the bands will see performances from Mad Mandy / Klo Teaze / Brought Into Being / Jack Flash / Julie Baker / Land Of The Giants / Aza SINESTAR EP LAUNCH The Louisiana, Wapping Road. £4adv w C.O.I + special guests THE COMPUTERS The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £5. w Radio Nasties PRESS PLAY The Cooler, Park St, 8pm, £5 w Crinkle Cuts / The
Frome
TURIN BRAKES + TOM MCRAE Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, £14adv
Gloucester
ACORAH EP LAUNCH Gloucester Guildhall, Eastgate St, 7.30pm, £6adv, 14+
Swindon
FIELDVIEW FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY The Victoria, Victoria Rd, 8pm £4adv. Featuring Old School Tie / Picture Book / The Icarus Youth
Sat.09 Bath
PLAY Moles, George St, 10pm, £FREE before 11pm, £5 after. w Man Without Country
Bridgend
TIGER PLEASE Hobos, Queen St, 7.30pm, £4
Bristol
HORACE ANDY & DUB ASANTE O2 Academy, Frogmore St. 8pm, £17.50, 18+ THE HIT UPS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 8pm, £4adv. The Harbour Harlots present the official after party for Painspotting (free with wristband). MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS The Louisiana, Wapping Road. £5adv w Branches / Austere / Joe Garcia / Noah (Archimedes acoustic). JAQUES RENAULT Start The Bus, Baldwin St, 10pm, £3 w Holmes Price + Pardon My French KEREKES Fiddlers, Willway St, 8pm, £12adv
Cardiff
POCKET TREZ Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 8pm, £6. w DJ Guto Price / DJ Blunt / Of Zulum / Derw / DJ Meic P CAKEHOLE PRESLEY The Globe, Albany Rd, 8pm, £5, 14+ w The
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Frome
BOOT HILL ALLSTARS Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, 8pm £FREE
Sun.10 Bristol BLACK BREATH The Fleece, St Thomas St. 6pm, £8adv. W True Valliance / Flayed Disciple / Dopefight / Intensive Square HEY COLOSSUS The Louisiana, Wapping Road. £4.50adv w Merrick / Rings Around Saturn BOUND BY EXILE The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £4. W Black Polaris / Inimisus / Your Last Breath / Malicious Intent
Frome
3 BONZOS AND A PIANO Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, 8pm £17adv
Newport
ROGER DALTRY (THE WHO) Newport Centre, Kingsway, 7.30pm, £45.
Swansea
GALLOWS Sin City, Dillwyn St, 7pm. £13, 16+ w 33 + Bastion
Mon.11 Bristol
/ Loftbeat FINGLEBONE The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £3. w Bambkill / Falling Stacks / Big Jeff. And The State Lottery /Bangers / L Morgan / Lou / Caves in front bar (£5 entry). ROGER DALTRY (THE WHO) Colston Hall, Colston St, 7pm, £40adv
Cardiff
THE FINE LINE Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 7pm, £5. w Alternative Expression / My Gambino / Shooting Moon
Wed.13 Bristol THE HEAD AND THE HEART Thekla, The Grove. 7.30pm, £7.50, 18+ UNSANE The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £10. W Hang The Bastard / Mea Culpa THE RISING The Louisiana, Wapping Road. £4adv Support from Johari OM UNIT The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm. w Dub Boy CUT CHEMIST Fiddlers, Willway St, w Cheeba / Funk From The Trunk DJs
Thur.14 Bath LARGO EMBARGO Moles, George St, 7.30pm, £FREE w The Daturas
Bristol
AVI BUFFALO Thekla, The Grove. 7.30pm, £10, 18+ Support from Admiral Fallow + Tripwires We first caught Avi Buffalo at last year’s Green Man Festival in Wales, then again at End of the Road Festival. Their soaring Americana has a bit more bite than say Fleet Foxes and co but is equally as tuneful.
FOE Thekla, The Grove. 9.30pm, £3, 18+ Part of the Pressure clubnight SHEELANAGIG The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £8. w The Crooked Fiddle Band CHRYSALIS TREE The Louisiana, Wapping Road. £4adv Support from The Dosadi Experiment OWINY SIGOMA The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £10. Main room. And The Beautiful Word / Foxymorons in front bar (£5 entry). RACHAEL DADD The Cube cinema, Princess Row. 8pm, £6adv w Ichi / This Is The Kit DAVID, LINDLEY & MULLAN (STACKRIDGE) Thunderbolt, Bath Rd, 7.30pm, £5adv w Jimmy Goodrich
THE HYPE THEORY The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £3. w Show It Off / Better Left Alone / Down To Science / Social Consent
Cardiff
ICE CUBE Cardiff Solus, Park Place, 7.30pm £25, 14+ ATHLETE The Globe, Albany Rd, 8pm, £18, 14+
Frome
Cardiff
Gloucester
GALLOWS Gloucester Guildhall, Eastgate St, 7.30pm, £13adv, 14+
Tue.12 Bristol JESTER The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £4.w Mollys Confession www.247magazine.co.uk
TOM TOM CLUB Cardiff Solus, Park Place, 7.30pm £25, 14+ LITTLE FISH 10 Feet Tall, Church St, 9pm £FREE SANDI THOM Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, 8pm £14adv
Swindon
£12adv
Bristol
SURFACE FESTIVAL SEMI FINALS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7pm, £8adv. The semi finals of this national battle of the bands will see performances from Blackwolf / One For The Fallen / Heaven Asunder / Cry Havoc / Amos MY FRIEND FRIDAY The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £5. w 7th Suite / Last Casanovas. DOGFACE SOCKETS The Folk House, Park Street, 8pm, £6. ELLY MCCABE The Cooler, Park St, 7.30pm, £4 w Followed by Atomic Drop / D-Ranged / Playrude / Massive Dynamic / Smithson (£5). DR MEAKER Start The Bus, Baldwin St, 10pm, £3
Cardiff
PUNKY GALORE Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
Frome
CARA DILLON Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, 8pm £36 w Queensryche / Rival Sons
Newport
JUDAS PRIEST Newport Centre, Kingsway, 7.30pm, £45.
Swindon
£5, 16+ w Heart of a Coward / Against the Flood / Storm the Walls
Swindon
THE RAMONAS The Victoria, Victoria Rd, 8pm, £6.
Sun.17 Bath PARTY IN THE PARK Bath Racecourse 11am £8adv Featuring Gareth Gates + Let Loose _ Leon Jackson + The Mend + Marvell + Leah McFall + Sean Rumsey + Of Kings And Captains
Bristol
LOCAL BAND ALL DAYER The Fleece, St Thomas St. 5pm, £5adv Featuring Sloppy Joe / Tonight We Run / We Become Heroes / A Bit Too Far / The Following Announcement / Genetic / Johari / Shiny Rainbow / Control The Storm / Rasta Man Time EVITA The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £2. w Giants / Heart In Hand / Mallory Knox / Acorah GLASS CITY VICE Mother’s Ruin, St Nicholas St, 5.30pm £FREE Support from Fjords / Iveree
Cardiff
THE SHUDDERS The Victoria, Victoria Rd, 8pm £3adv. w Black Sheep Apprentice / The Bateleurs
JAMES TAYLOR Cardiff Motorpoint Arena, Mary Ann St, 7.30pm, £50. Y BANDANA 10 Feet Tall, Church St, 7.30pm, £4 w Ryan James
Sat.16 Bridgend
MATTHEW KILFORD The Victoria, Victoria Rd, 8pm £3adv. w Kicaberry / Oliver Wilde
BROKEN CITY SKYLINE Hobos, Queen St, 7pm, £3
Mon.18 Bath
SURFACE FESTIVAL SEMI FINALS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7pm, £8adv. The semi finals of this national battle of the bands will see performances from Base 11 / White Knuckle Bride / The Helm / Falling Into Difference / The Minke Whales / Lily McCauley FALTYDL Start The Bus, Baldwin St, 10pm, £3 w Lone / Morgan Zarate / Kelly Twins (UFO) / Spooks (Works). THE RAASKALBOMFUKKERZ Mother’s Ruin, St Nicholas St, 5.30pm, £FREE Support from The Dagger Brothers BIG NIGHT OUT Fiddlers, Willway St, 8pm, £6adv
ACOUSTIC ARRAY Moles, George St, 7.30pm, £FREE Acoustic showcase featring Jake Morley / Matt Woosey / Jake McAllister
Bristol
Cardiff
SEA OF BEES + SYBRIDION + THE KEYS Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 8pm, £7. THE BLIMS Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
Frome
ALEX TAYLOR The Victoria, Victoria TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND Rd, 8pm £FREE. w Zoe Mead / Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, Austin Shepherd 8pm £15adv
Fri.15 Bath
Gloucester
THE PRODUCERS BLUES BAND Chapel Arts, Lower Borough Walls,
Swansea
ATHLETE Gloucester Guildhall, Eastgate St, 7.30pm, £18adv, 14+ HEIGHTS Sin City, Dillwyn St, 7pm.
Swindon
Bristol
DD/MM/YYYY The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £6. SARAH JAROSZ St Bonaventure’s, Egerton Rd, £11
Cardiff
FIRE SEASON Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
Tue.19 Bristol LITTLE INTENTIONS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £5adv. w Your Bitter Pill / Within Reason / Everone Knows / Joe Reed XRISING FROM DEATHX The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £4. w Lost Boys / Fletcher FRANKO The Cooler, Park St, 7pm, £6 w Tonight We Run / Mind Museum / All About Flux
Cardiff
KRYOPHERE Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
Wed.20 Bristol TWO GALLANTS Thekla, The
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Live VIVIAN GIRLS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £8adv LARS FREDRIKSON & THE OLD FIRM CASUALS The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £11. w Pressure 28 / Booze & Glory CANDY CLAWS Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
Thekla, The Grove. 7pm, £20, 18+ THE CASUALTIES The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £10adv. w Moral Dilemma / Officer Down / The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £6. ARCHIMEDES Thunderbolt, Bath Rd, 7.30pm, £3
Thu.21 Bristol
THE ROSEVILLE BAND Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
Cardiff Grove. 7.30pm, £11, 18+ Support
from Peggy Sue.
Well June what can I say, my brain particles have started to separate due to lack of sleep, I cant help myself when it comes to live music, I feed off of the rhythm. Well, my brain pretty much imploded after this year’s Dot to Dot musical spectacle, which included a pumped up show from And You Will Know Us By The Trial of The Dead. There were also amazing shows from the frenetic Danananakroyd, Colourmusic and The Phoenix Foundation. June kick started with my almost by monthly dose of The Computers. As per usual they were doing a support slot. they were supporting the Duke Spirit who were pretty cool. As many times as I have seen them live, they never get boring. Their singer did the usual climbing on the back of me and riding me through the audience. I also saw the Bookhouse Boys swoon in the Louisiana with their Tom Waits meets the Bad Seeds rock’n’roll, all dressed in super suave suits. Alice Gold was supporting and after spending ages talking to me before the show she went on to perform with such a sweet and a great voice. Talking of good singers the following night, I saw Sparrow and the Workshop, a band I have real soft spot for. There is something about psychedelic indie Americana music that always touches me. But I have to say they were pretty much outdone by Meursault. You could see his blood vessels on the vocalist’s face virtually bursting when letting rip with some of the notes he was hitting. Imagine a Scottish mixture of Josh T Pearson and Arcade Fire. It took about 10 minutes for my rib cage to stop rattling. Japanese classical post rockers Mono made me cry at the Fleece. I have never heard a guitar sound so orchestral and I felt like the conductor. It was just so breath-taking, I found myself whimpering with tears pouring down my face, I openly admit to being someone who cries a lot to certain music. It was so intense that it actually made me post the slightly sarcastic Facebook status saying it was the best sex I had never had! Then there was the pure joy Indie pop of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, a band who’s name seems to sum me up perfectly as they sing about being slightly sad and lonely and always wanting love! The following Monday saw me watch and completely fall in love with The Pierces. There is something about beautiful women making Carpenters style pop music that always gets to me and makes me smile, I dont what it is, but hey, I got hugs off the pair of them! Also spent a weekend reminiscing about old music, firstly there was a one off re-union from Bristol pop rockers Halo, if you were around 8 or 9 years ago then you could not miss this band they were everywhere, they were hyped as the next big thing out of Bristol, so this brought me back many fond memories of me being in my late teens early 20s. I bumped into so many faces I hadn’t seen for ages. Tune Yards, or tUnE-yArDs as how its written, was more then a bit special!. She was doing things with her voice I hadn’t heard since the last time I saw the Dirty Projectors play, a Mongolian form of chanting where she could split her voice into chords. It sounds incredible, plus she was really skilled musician layering loop upon loop of amazingness. July equals festivals, festivals and more festivals. Topping my list is the wonderful Truck festival in Oxfordshire, with a line-up that includes Graham Coxon, Gruff Rhyse, St Etienne, Edwyn Collins, Bellowhead, Dive Dive, Jonquil, Mitchell Mueseum, John Grant, Tunng, Gabriel Prokofiev amongst many other names. It was one of my favourite festivals last year, and while the line-up isn’t quite so eclectic as it was last year, but it looks pretty damn good! On the gig front, I am going to be doing my improv rap over Finglebone’s electronics, we are playing the Croft on July 12 and the Fleece on the 27th with Goan Dogs. Finally, one of my favourite bands EVER is playing the Fleece this month, Trans Am on July 11. A must. 24 |
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MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY Thekla, The Grove. 9.30pm, £3, 18+ Part of the Pressure clubnight THE REASONING The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £10adv w Also Eden DIRTY TRICKS The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £4. w Good Looking Dead / The Sonic Fires / Poundshop Life JOHN AMOR BLUES BAND Thunderbolt, Bath Rd, 7.30pm, £5 w Jo Harman Band
Cardiff
ELECTRIC ARMS Gwdihw, Guildford Cres, 8pm, £3 ROCKETNUMBERNINE Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
Newport
Cardiff
Sun.24 Bristol 10 BAND ALL DAYER The Fleece, St Thomas St. 3pm, £5adv Featuring Kryosphere / Ventflow / Fell on Black Days / Bats About Bats / Malicious Intent / Ashestoangels / Hold To This / Hostile Theory / Skarf / Senseless STRUNG OUT The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £11. w Random Hand / Out Of Bounds / Messi THE ROSEVILLE BAND The Tunnels, Temple Meads, 7.30pm, £5adv w Six Seconds
Mon.25 Newport
FIRST BLOOD Le Pub, Caxton Place, 8PM, £9 w Ninebar
TIGER PLEASE Le Pub, Caxton Place. w Drafts
ED SHEERAN The Victoria, Victoria Rd, 8pm, £SOLDOUT. w Kal Lavelle
Tue.26 Bristol
Swindon Fri.22 Bristol
SURFACE FESTIVAL SEMI FINALS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7pm, £8adv. The semi finals of this national battle of the bands will see performances from Vanadum / Between The Embers / Bloodstorm / Temple Circus / Pickpockets Love Tourists GOAN DOGS EP LAUNCH The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £5. BRAVO SIERRA The Cooler, Park St, 8.30pm, £5 Followed by Trevor Loveys / Constant Pitch / Mark Harris / Mars Vertigo / Smithson (£5). CHUCK PROPHET AND THE SPANISH BOMBS Polish Club, St Paul’s Rd, £15
BABE SHADOW Thekla, Top Deck The Grove. 7.30pm, £5, 18+ FORGERY LIT The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £4adv. w Nonpology / Sinestar / Under The Influence KAT MARSH (KING BLUES) The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £4. w Sarah Waddington / Ed Cesar / Elle Bailey
Cardiff
EDDIE SPAGHETTI (SUPERSUCKERS) Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 7pm, £7adv MITCHELL MUSEUM 10 Feet Tall, Church St, 8pm, £4
Wed.27 Bristol
Cardiff
STHC Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 7pm, £3. w Dividers / Hip Flask / Forrest / The Strike Fades
Swansea
BAMBI KILLERS Sin City, Dillwyn St, 7.30pm. £5, 16+ w 21 Against / Heavy Petting Zoo IAN PARKER Milkwood Jam, Plymouth St, 8pm, £7adv
Sat. 23 Bristol TYLER MAE O2 Academy, Frogmore St. 7pm, £5, 14+ w Clear The Coast / Ruins To Rise ATHLETE + MY FIRST TOOTH
GOAN DOGS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £5. Best of Bristol showcase w Fixtures / Holy Stain / Finglebone A must see gig for fans of 247 Magazine as 247 Faves Goan Dogs are joined by 247 columnist Big Jeff who plays with Finglebone.
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Live ANTA The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £5. w The Dosadi Experiment / Isola / Dead Elms in main room. And in front bar, Nexliva / The Finest Bloodlust / Act of Luncacy (£4 entry). PHILIP SAYCE The Tunnels, Temple Meads, 7.30pm, £12.50adv
Cardiff
NO CHOICE Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 7.30pm, £4. w Oui Messy / Zinc Bukowski
Swansea
VINTAGE TROUBLE Sin City, Dillwyn St, 7.30pm. £6, 16+ w Buffalo Summer / Kings of the Gutter
Thu.28 Bath
Fri.29 Bristol EDDIE SPAGHETTI (THE SUPERSUCKERS) Thekla, The Grove. 7pm, £8, 14+ TERMITES The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £5. Best of Bristol showcase w Ulysses / Radio Nasties / Bravo Brave Bats WORLD INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £8.50adv. w Dirty Revolution / Cassette Culture in main room. And Uphills / Yellow Groove in front bar (£4 entry). REKTCHORDZ // THE FREERANGE DJS The Cooler, Park St, 11pm, £5 w Playrude / Esion / Massive Dynamic PIONEERS Thunderbolt, Bath Rd, 7.30pm, £3
Cardiff
THAT SUNDAY FEELING Cardiff Solus, Park Place, 7pm £6, 14+ w Go-X CLEOME Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place.
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Sat. 30 Bristol MISS SKARLET O2 Academy, Frogmore St. 7pm £5 14+ w That Sunday Feeling NEO RITMO The Fleece, St Thomas St. 4pm, £5adv. w Hello Lazarus / Flights / Lights & Clockwork / Between The Embers / St Pierre Snake Invasion / Alto Rising / Minotaur & The Maze C.O.I The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £5. w The Diversions / Model Boat
Cardiff ASH Komedia, Westgate St, 7.30pm, £15 A rare visit from one of the pioneers of Britpop. Ash gained fame for their catchy indie pop with songs such as Oh Yeah and Girl From Mars. Their song A Life Less Ordinary was used in the film of the same name, starring Cameron Diaz. Their last trip to the region saw them play Cardiff Barfly before it closed last year. RECODE AND ROUNDABOUTS Moles, George St, 7.30pm, £4
Cardiff
DEADBOY Buffalo Bar, Windsor Place. GOOD LIBRARIAN 10 Feet Tall, Church St, 9pm £FREE
Bristol
THE WILD GULLOOTS The Fleece, St Thomas St. 7.30pm, £5. Best of Bristol showcase w Jebo / Gargantuant / The Joe Public THE CARRIER The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £8adv. w All Teeth / Landscapes / Bats About Bats / Failure To Follow
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4 STREET TRAFFIC Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 8pm, £5, 18+ Plus special guests.
Gloucester
MOSTLY AUTUMN Gloucester Guildhall, Eastgate St, 7.30pm, £14adv, 14+
Newport
ERIN BRAZILL AND THE BRAZILLIONAIRES Le Pub, Caxton Place.
Tues.31 Bristol LEMURIA The Croft, Stokes Croft. 8pm, £8adv. w Cheap Girls / Caves / Sundials
Cardiff
GENTLE GOOD Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, 4pm, £5, 14+ w Gindrinker / John Mouse / The Evening Chorus / Barefoot Dance Of The Sea / Prince Edward Island / Ratatosk / Them Lovely Boys
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Clubs MONDAY Bath
BRUKOUT, 8-9 North Parade, £3/£2 NUS/£1 before 11pm, Resident DJs play dubstep, electro, drum’n’bass and garage. STUDENT NIGHT. Back To Mine. 7 Bladud Buildings. The Paragon. £free. DJ Asian Hawk mixing Funk, Soul, R’n’B, Hip Hop, Jazz, D’n’B, Reggae & more. THE STUDENT SOCIAL. Po Na Na. North Parade. 10pm-2am. £3 (Remember your student card please.) The biggest & best party anthems from RockerRoller & The Deviant. FLAUNT. Celsius Ice Bar and Club. 1-3 South Parade. 10pm- 3am. £3 B4 10.30pm/£4 after. Bath’s premier student night. DIVERSION. The Weir Lounge. St Saviours Road. Two house DJs playing popular Dance & Indie Rock MY MY MY. Second Bridge. 10 Manvers St. Bath’s premier student night.
4am, £various. Live music upstairs and party tunes in the bar JUST DANCE. Clwb Ifor Bach. Womanby St. 10.30–2am. £free B4 11pm/£3. A mixture of modern day Pop, Rock & R&B. BUFFALO IN SESSION 8pm-4am, £free. Showcasing the best promoters, DJs & bands along with visuals, giveaways, turntable skills, shooters & cocktails.
Newport
TORN. Meze Lounge. 6 Market St. £3. 9pm-3am. Torn residents play Metal, Hardcore & old school 80’s rock anthems. The F’n’K crew play Industrial, Punk & Goth in the Atti
WEDNESDAY Bath
DISCORD. Po Na Na. North Parade. 9.30pm-2am. £3 B4 11pm/£4 after/£2.50NUS. Rock, metal, punk, industrial & classic alternative anthems from DJ’s itBoy & Davo WEDNESDAYS. Back To Mine. 7 Bladud Buildings. The Paragon. £free. Read Jones playing Rare Groove, funk & Dancehall.
St. 10pm-3am. £3. DEAL OR NO DEAL. Odyssey. Salbrious Place, Little Wind St. 10.30pm-3am. £free B4 11.30pm/£2. Deal: £5 & get 5 free drinks! Visit www.odysseynightclub.co.uk for details. EXPLOSION, Lava Lounge, Swansea, SA1 1DZ, 7pm. Midweek explosion of dance and cheap drinks FUNKED UP. Bar Sigma. 1 Northampton Lane. 10pm-3am. £free B4 10.30pm / £2/3 after 10pm. Funk Soul Disco Latin & Hip Hop. DROP THE BOMB. Bliss. 43/45 East St. 10pm-3am. The biggest dance tracks, RnB tunes & party favourites.
THURSDAY Bath
THIRSTY THURSDAYS. Po Na Na. North Parade. 10pm-2am. Girls go free b4 11pm / £3 b4 11pm / £4after / £1 off with TT flyer. The Deviants play Hip Hop, House, RnB, Indie, Rock & Rave! MONKEY LIKE BANANA. Back To Mine. 7 Bladud Buildings, The Paragon. £free before 11pm. DJs mixing Breaks, Funk, DnB &Eclectic. GLAMOUR PUSS. Club XL. 90B Walcot St. £1 B4 11pm. Student night. KITSCH. The Weir Lounge. St Saviours Road. The massive London night straight from Embargo 59.
after/£4 NUS. MrSteveBob plays the best Electro, Pop & Indie & The Snugs play Reggae, Funk & Soul upstairs. SQUEEZE THE CHEESE, Pa Na Na, 8-9 North Parade, 10.30pm, £5/£4 NUS. The best of the retropop and cheese that everyone knows iPOP! Komedia. Westgate St. 10.30pm-1.30am. Expect the BEST BritPoppin & Chart-Topping anthems. DELIGHT. Club XL. 90B Walcot St. £2 B4 11pm. House, Dance, Electro & Chart Hits. SAVED BY THE BELL. Celsius Ice Bar and Club. 1-3 South Parade. 10pm-3am. £4 B4 11pm/£5. When the bell sounds, ALL drink prices are drastically reduced ! ELEMENT. The Weir Lounge. St Saviours Road. £free. DJ Touch delivering the hottest new tunes.
Bristol
EDEN, Syndicate, 10pm, World’s best DJs and cheap drinks – all a student needs for a night out MELTING POT. Mbargo. The Bristol Triangle, Clifton. 8pm – 2am. Funk, BOUNCE. Mbargo. The Triangle, Disco & R’n’B with DJ Suisse Tony. Clifton. 8pm -2am. £free. fun & funky PHUCT. Bristol Bierkeller. All Saints’ feel good grooves. Street. 9pm-3am. £3 B4 10pm/£4 Cardiff from 10pm-11pm/£5 after. Metal, Punk Bristol BUFFALO LIVE 8pm-4am, £free. Live CONTRBAND SESSIONS, The & Rock to make your spine tingle. bands and DJ’s RAMSHACKLE. Carling Academy. Golden Lion, £free, 9pm – late. JAGERFEST, Glam, 9pm-4am, £tbc. Bristol’s only weekly live fuink and hip hop Frogmore St, 10pm-3am. £3/5. Jager bomb deals for only £1.25, dance Bristol’s biggest alternative night with night, with special guests every week, music and more. resident DJ Dan. supported by resident DJ Skint. LATE NIGHT LIVE, 10 Feet Tall, ROCKABILLY BLAST. The Lanes, PROPAGANDA, Syndicate, 10pm, Bristol 8pm-4am, £various. Live music upstairs 22 Nelson Street, BS1 2LE, 8pm, £4/£3 NUS. Classic and new, Indie and and party tunes in the bar DAFT FUNK. Mbargo. The Triangle, £4. 50’s themed rockabilly club night. Last alternative sounds from DJ Dan and guests. Clifton. 9pm–2am. £free. modern & classic Friday of the month only. Swansea SLAM ON THE BREAKS, Mbargo, takes across all genres. THE FRIDAY PROJECT. Thekla. CHAKA CHAKA. Bar Sigma. 1 The Triangle, Clifton, 8pm – 2am. PRESSURE. Thekla. 9pm–3am. £4/ 10pm–4am. £various. The Friday Northampton Lane. 10pm-3am. £free. Benny Kane with a solid mix of Hip- free B4 10pm. Bristol’s best indie and Project introduces a new breed of £free. Funk Reggae Dancehall Dub & Hop, R’n’B, Dubstep & Drum & Bass! alternative club night. Guitar-orientated indie promoters and nights to the Thekla for Hip Hop Cardiff rock and alternative anthemas with resident 2011, along with some old favourites, see BLENDER Buffalo Bar 8pm-4am, www.fridayproject.co.uk dancefloor-decemating DJ MrSteveBob TUESDAY £free. A blended-up clash of pop culture, TRUE BRIT. The Cooler, 48 Park SUCK YU MUMMA, The Croft, Bath fashion, music, bands and truely unique Street, 10pm, £free. Get nostalgic and 117-119 Stoke’s Croft, 10pm, £5. !CRASH! - THE POP! INDIE! come down for some ultimate Britpop bands parties. WANTED RECORDS, The Big Chill with the likes of Oasis, The Stone Roses DISCO! SMASH-UP! Po Na Na. LISTEN UP! Clwb Ifor Bach. 11 Bar, Small Street, BS1 1DE. £free. and Blur. North Parade. £3/£2.50 NUS. 10pm Womanby Street. CF10 1BR. 10pm. Bristol’s record store takes up weekly - 2am. Pop, Indie & Electro party anthems. £3. Indie, Electro, Pop, Soul, Disco, Funk. 8th BURNOUT Lakota 10pm-4am residency, bringing you all manner of vinyl £7/£5 in adv. Mash-up of underground THE BIG CHEESE. Moles, George LIVE LOUNGE, Kirkhouse, Merthyr delights. Featuring DJ’s John Stapleton, sounds featuring Circomedia supplying the St. 10pm-2am. £4/£3.50 NUS. Expect Tydfil, 9pm, £free before 10.30pm, Andy Payback HIFI and others. fire festivities. DJ’s Kanti Kinetic, Kanser, Zaiall the cheesiest tunes & drinks offers. Live music, cheap drinks. What more could Cardiff Hieghts, Mr E Man, Minamus & Pato. you want. TNT. Celsius Ice Bar & Club. 1-3 DISCORD Metros, 10 Bakers Row SHOTGUN RULES, Revolution, South Parade. 10pm-2am. £5 all 8th Fiftyone27 Basement 45 10pm-3am £3 Alternative night of rock, Castle Street, CF10 1BS, 9pm, 10pm-4am, £5 B4 12am Disclosure, night £4 Student indie, punk & metal. Skinnz and more. £2 before 10.30pm with flyer / £3 Bristol ON THE ROCKS Ten Feet Tall before 12am / £4 after 12am. Dress 10pm– 4am, £free Rock’n’roll, alternative 15th BRISTOL D’N’B MAFIA DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. to impress and dance the night way from Lakota 10pm-6am £10 Jungle and mash-ups, guitar anthems, party riffs. Mbargo. The Triangle. 8pm – 2am. some of the top hits right now SIGNATURE 9pm-4am, £free. D’n’B with Sly, Logan D, Fatman D, MRK £free. With DJ Jewell SUGARDROP, 10 Feet Tall, 8pmExperimental, electronica, new music. and more over 2 rooms. KANDI TUESDAYS. Joe Publics. 4am, £various. Midweek dancefloor Swansea 15th HOSPITALITY Motion 10pm3 Queens Avenue. Clifton. £5/£4. dose of roots, electro, dub, party breaks, 5am, £16. Massive 4 room show with S.A.M.P.L.E. Bar Sigma. 1 10pm – Late. Commercial, R’n’B, hip-hop, dubstep, drum’n’bass and all round floor guests including London Elektricity, Netsky, Northampton Lane. 8pm-12am. funky house. filling mashups. Regular guest DJs, live Camo & Krooked, Nu:Logic, Fabio, Photek, £free. Acoustic Music & Live THE BITCH’S BOLLOCKS. Mr acts & more. Distance and many more. Always busy, big Performance. Wolfs. 33 St. Stephens St. £4with/ Newport night expected! £5without NUS. Taunton POUNDED WEDNESDAYS. Meze 15th ONE:SIX TAKEOVER Pt 5 New lesbian night every 2nd Tuesday! BLISS THURSDAYS. Bliss. 43/45 Lounge. 6 Market St. 9pm-4am Basement 45 10pm-late, £4 Drum & Old Skool, Hip Hop/ Indie/ Electro plus East St. 10pm-3am. £5 B4 11pm £free. Mista ifsta presents 3 rooms of Bass & dubstep with B-Tek, Woz, J-Man, guest DJs. includes your first 3 drinks on us! Biggest Rock, Indie, Electro, Ska, Punk & more. Bazla & Freddy P THE MASH UP. The Bunker, 78 student friendly night playing Dance, Urban, WEDNESDAYS. Mojo. Market 22nd DIRTYTALK Timbuk 2 Queens Road, Clifton Triangle. R & B & Anthems. St. £8/£7Nus. 9pm-2am. With DJs 11pm-6am, £6/£5 in adv Special guest £4/£3 guestlist b4 11.30pm/£3 with spinning R&B, Hip Hop, Funk, Cool Indie, Intergalactic Gary from Holland, expect FRIDAY VIP Bristol card. Resident DJ’s smash Club Bangers with Electronic Dance & house, disco and Detroit techno. out the best Drum ‘n’ Bass, Dubstep, Classic Party Anthems! Bath Electro & Breakbeat producers. 22nd RADITION Basement 45 CONFESSION. Moles, George St. Swansea 10.30pm-4am, £6.75 in adv. D’n’B Cardiff 9.30pm-4am. £free before 11pm/£5 ALLSORTS. Monkey Cafe. Castle night with Majistrate, Corruption, Woz, 10 FEET LIVE, 10 Feet Tall, 8pm-
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Clubs Freddy P and many more. 29th BOUNCE V’S FUZE Basement 45 10.30pm-4am, £tbc. Hosue, electro and techno with Mark Davies & guests.
Cardiff
BUMPER 9pm-4am, £4/£3/£free B4 11pm. Bumper’s resident DJs and regular special guests mash the best Friday feeling mix of jump-up party anthems and underground tunes. FUTURE FRIDAYS, Cardiff Arts Institute, £2 before 11PM / £4 after. Music from a range of the most exciting DJs today who are going to lead us into the future of sound. PROPAGANDA, Glam, 10pm-4am, £3. The UK’s best weekly Indie night in the heart of Wales. FANCY FOOTWORK Ten Feet Tall 6pm– 4am, £free B4 10pm Future funk, electro pop, disco, rock, party anthems, mashups, new music and everything in between! FRIDAYS, Soda Bar, Mill Lane, 10pm-3am, £5/£3 B4 12am. Sexy R’n’B from old skool classics through to big floor fillers. 1st BIONIC Millennium Music Hall, 10pm-6am £tbc Hardstyle inght with BASS BANDITS (aka Rob the Red VS Tekno Tom) and residents.
PLAY. Moles. George St. 10pm– 4am. Live bands & late night DJ’s playing your favourite Dance & House tunes. SCANDAL. Po Na Na. North Parade.10.30pm-2.30am. £5 b4 12pm/£6after. DJ Ross Deviant with an eclectic mix of quality anthems from a variety of musical genres KLUB KUTE.The Cooler Music Venue. 48 Park St. 10pm. £5. The Best Indie night in Bristol with DJ George. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. ClubXL. Walcott St. 10pm-3am. £4.50 B4 11.30pm/£3 NUS/£6 after/£4.50 NUS. DJ Paul James blending a commercial, tunes. SATURDAYS. Back To Mine. 7 Bladud Buildings. £free entry b4 11. £5/£3 mem. DJs on rotation playing Old Skool Beats & Nu Skool flavours as well as Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, DnB, RnB, Hypnotic Breaks & Progressive Beats. LUSH. The Weir Lounge. St Saviours Road. DJ Touch (Coco Loco, Twice As Nice) & Rudeboy Marcus play party tunes.
Bristol
POP CONFESSIONAL Thekla. East Mud Dock. 9.30pm-4am, £5 B4 12am/£free B4 10pm Playing pop classics from all eras, think Hall & Oates and David Essex! HIGHER GROUND. Mbargo. The Triangle, Clifton. £free until Newport 10.30pm. With DJ Jambo. RETRIBUTION. Meze Lounge. PURE PRIVE. Prive, King St. 10pmMarket St. 9pm-5am. Rock night late, £tbc. Stylish clubbing with ladies free with the lastest Metal, Metal Hardcore and before 11pm and free cocktail - not bad. Death Metal. R’n’B, house and club classics with Squire, KISS & MAKE UP. Revolution. 8-11 Scott Kirby, Soul Kid, Subz, Miguel & C-Sar Griffin St. 9pm-6am. £free. on rotation. Swansea FRISKY FRIDAYS. Odyssey. 2nd ST PAULS CARNIVAL Salbrious Place, Little Wind AFTERPARTY Lakota 9pm-6, £5 St. 10.30pm-3am. £free B4 in adv. Six rooms open with huge line-up 11.30pm/£3. Chart, Party, Dance & RnB. inc 2 Kings, Laid Back, Dr Meaker, nicky FRIDAY FIX. Lava Lounge. Little Blackmarlet, Run Tingz Crew, Serial Killaz, Wind St. Till 10pm. Dance to tunes Vinyl Junkie, Goldie, Doc Scott, DJ Die from the last two decades with drinks prices and more. to match. 2nd WERK Timbuk 2 10pm-late, SHINFO. Bar Sigma. 1 £6/£5 B4 12am Special appearance from Northampton Lane. 8pm-12am. Marc Vedo (Koolwaters), supported by Mark £free B4 10.30pm/£3. Punk Rock Metal Harris, Old School Scotty, Clair Napierski, Indie Electro Ska D&B & House. Duncan Crane, Ben Wood & Lyle Kay. 8th FORBIDDEN Club Oxygen Expect House of all types. 11pm-5am £tbc. Hard style night with 9th WONKY Basement 45 Scorpio, Louk, Busho, D Grove and many 11pm-4am, £6/£5 B4 12am. Indie, more. Electro-pop, Synth, Alt 80s & 90s, 22nd ADDICTION DRUM & Decent Pop and Discerning Guilty BASS Club Oxygen 11pm-5am Pleasures... £tbc. Drum and Bass night with Nicky 9th HEADRUSH Timbuk 2 11pmBlackmarket, Dirt-E, Secrets, Active, D-Bass, 5am, £tbc House and techno with Szare & Transgessor & Steve Hollands. Gerry Read, and dubstep in the back room Swindon with Disco Jaz, Buck Wilder. CASSETTE PLAYER. Suju 9th HORACE ANDY Academy Nightclub. 28 High St. 11pm-4am, £3 b4 11.30pm/£5. DJ’s Downstairs: 9pm-late, £17.50 in adv Heavyweight roots and reggae legend, playing live, Enjoy a mix of indie/rocknroll/choice pop supported by his band, The Dub Asante cuts/electro/funk/soul with Rob The Mod & Phil Dirt.The Lounge: Smooth RnB, Hip Hop Band and other guests Roots Prescription & Mr Benn. & classic hits with Shane Fuller 9th PROMOTER LINK-UP Lakota Taunton 10pm-5am £5/£free B4 11pm Jungle BLISS FRIDAYS. Bliss. 43/45 East St. 9pm-3am. The biggest tunes around! Dubstep & rave with promoters Jungle Syndicate Neverlution, Acidic Records, Happy Daze, Peng Sound, Omen Audio & SATURDAY Bad Bass battling head to head. Bath 16th PRIDE FESTIVAL Castle MOTORCITY, 22-23 Westgate Park 12pm-10pm, £10/£8 in adv All Street, 10.30pm, £3/£5. A classic mix dayer of music and DJ’s, with Kelis playing of funk, soul with some disco thrown in for a live, and other guests include Clare Maguire, great Saturday night out Bright Light, Bright Light, Dr Meaker and
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many more. Full info at www.pridebristol.org 16th STAYHARCORE V’S REACTIVATION Lakota 10pm-6am, £10. Celebrating their 3rd birthday with 3 arenas featuring DJ’s M-zone, Force 9, Hixxy, Gammer, DJ SY, Joey Riot, Marc Smith and many more. 16th ONE Basement 45 10pmlate, £6/£5 Pride after-party with soulful house tunes. 23rd HIJACK PARTY Timbuk 2 11pm-6am, £5 Over 25 DJ’s playing from across Bristol, see hijackbristol.co.uk/board/ the-forum/hijack-party/ for full line-up 23rd SECTION 18 Basement 45 10pm-late, £10/£8 Hardcore and techno with Producer, D-Stroy, Hektek, Kev D and more. 23rd SHIPWREAKED Canvas 10pm-6am, £tbc Celebrating their 1st birthday with Werk and guests Leon Henry, Craig Brown, Matt Langson and more. 30th DAS IST PRESENTS Timbuk 2 11pm-6am, £5 in adv Legowelt (live), expect house, technofunk and deep Chicago trax... 30th POP, BUBBLE, ROCK! The Lanes. Nelson St. 9pm-3am. £5/£4 in adv. Cheap drinks adn good tunes from the likes of Blink 182, Weezer, Beatie Boys and such like. 30th OFF GRIDS FREE PARTY Basement 45 10pm-late, £free
Cardiff
SATURDAYS. Club X. 35-37 Charles St. 8pm-6am. £free B4 10pm. Residents Kevin Williams & DJ Mandy B playing Dance & Dirty Electro, DJ Dan playing party anthems & DJ Tyler playing sexy Soul & RnB. DIRTY POP/ VINYL VENDETTAS/ MR POTTER. Clwb Ifor Bach. 11 Womanby St. £5. 10pm – 3am. Offering three floors of the best tracks from a variety of genres. THE BEATBOX BALLROOM. Buffalo Bar. 11 Windsor Place. 8pm-4am. £free B4 11pm £3/4 after. Celebration of everything new & old school. ME AND YOU CLUB 10 Feet Tall 8pm– 4am, £free B4 10pm FAn Unruly Rock’n’Roll Party” - good time weekend indie rock’n’pop, new music & classic alternative tunes with legend MIKE TV
Chepstow
MUSIQUE 10. The Kings Head. Welsh St. 8pm-1am. £free. Every 3rd Saturday of the month Musique brings you House, Breaks, Electro, Classics & Urban.
Fablu Meah, Dave Eaves and more. over 2 rooms. 16th RESIDENTS SHOWCASE Club Oxygen 11pm-5am tbc. J-Me Griffiths, Jason Pufal, Dirty Duo & Martin Special - dance night. 23rd RESIDENTS 100 SHOWCASE Club Oxygen 11pm-5am tbc. Andrew Hartley, David J, Fablu Meah & Dirty Duo - dnace music. 30th SUBVERSION Club Oxygen 11pm-5am tbc. Techno night with D.A.V.E the Drummer, JLD, Steve EP & Robb EJ, supported by Jamie B, Milton & SUSS Twins.
Swindon
VARIOUS. Suju Nightclub. 28 High St. 11pm-4am, £various. Different events each week. July incoudes 2nd: Design with Jordan Peak and friends playing R’n’B, hip hop and more. 9th is the official Big Arts Day afterparty with Kandifunk DJ’s. Love Love taken over on 16th with The Chief, Matryn Davies and moreplaying house and R’n’B. MEET present the Shit Shirt party on 23rd with Danny Unkut and support playing tech, minimal, jackin & electro. 30th hosts the Suju Sessions with James Hannan playing house and supporting DJ’s on a R’n’B and hip hop tip.
Taunton
BLISS SATURDAYS. Bliss. 43/45 East St. 9pm-3am. The biggest tunes around!
SUNDAY Bath
STOOPID FRESH! Back To Mine, 7 Bladud Buildings, The Paragon. £3 (cheaper if you dress up) Break dancing, Hip Hop, Scratching & Graff!! DJ’s Asian Hawk, slick wizard slim & special agent chuck Rock. SUNDAY SELECT. The Weir Lounge. St Saviours Road. A party mix of RnB, Old Skool, Soul, Funk, Pop, Funky House & more.
Bristol
DJ LUNCH BOX. Mr Wolfs. 33 St. Stephens St. £free. A night of Reggae, Ragga, Hiphop, Ska, Swing & Balkan beauties! REFORM, The Big Chill Bar, Small Street, BS1 1DE. £free. The Big Chill brings you relaxing Sundays with 25% off all drinks, every week.
Cardiff
10 FEET SUNDAY SOCIAL 10 Feet Tall 8pm– 4am, £free B4 10pm Industry night. Alternative party mashup with Newport SWITCH. Meze Lounge. Market St. electropop & new music downstairs, rock/ 9pm-6am. Alt,Indie, Rock, Hip-Hop, D&B, alternative party upstairs NO SWEAT, Cardiff Arts Institute, Dubstep, Old Skool, Emo. 9pm, £free. Weekly treat of live bands Swansea ALLSORTS MASSIVE. Kirkhouse. DESIRE. Odyssey. Salbrious Place, Merthyr Tydfil. 8pm-late. £free Little Wind St. 10.30pm-3am. £free B4 9pm. With Sean Jay & Thunderbolt B4 11.30pm/£4. Tommy Dean. Chart, Party, Dance & RnB. MOCKA SUNDAYS. Mocka MARVEL. Monkey Cafe. 13 Castle Lounge. 1 Mill Lane. £3 after 11pm. St. 9pm – late. £ free B4 10pm. Sexy RnB. Funky & Soulful House. Classics Fortnightly. Urban Night, playing the best of & Old Skool. Funk, Hip-Hop, Drum and Bass, Rare Grove, DJ KAPTAIN & FRIENDS Buffalo Jazz & those guilty pleasure anthems. Bar, 11 Windsor Place. 8pm-3am. SHINFO. Bar Sigma. 1 £free. Playing the best new tunes & Northampton Lane. 8pm till 3am. alternative classics in the bar. £free B4 10.30pm / £3/£5 after. Punk Rock Metal Indie Electro Ska D&B & House. 9th FUNKAGENDA Club Oxygen 11pm-5am tbc. Dave Spoon, Dirty Duo,
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FARMFESTIVAL UK 29TH--30TH JULY 2011
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Farmfestival started as a music festival for friends, and has stayed that way 6 years on. It’s a festival that doesn’t believe in queues and inflated prices. We believe in our favourite selection of amazing alternative music, a down-to-earth but energetic atmosphere, local produce & donating to charities. Our
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Dodg y, Vadim (Dj Set), Scubaroots, Man Like Me, Fiction, Soul of Man (Fingerlickin’ Records), Onlyjoe, Polock, Doyle & the Fourfathers, The Disablists, Black Friday, Pope Joan, Boy Mandeville, Real Fur, Pardon My French Lace on Lipstick, Size Nine, Buoyancy / Lukas... and more Buy tickets & view our full line-up on our website w w w . f a r m f e s t i v a l . c o . u k
Illustration by Julien Decaudin
2 days of music on a farm nr Bruton, Somerset
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WE THE PEOPLE FESTIVAL
Bristol’s first ever We The People festival (June 4-5) saw a gloriously sunny day followed by a rain-filled grey day but that mattered not to the up for it festival goers who partied hard to the likes of Chase and Status, Annie Mac, Example, Beardyman and The Streets. Full review, gallery and video online at www.247magazine.co.uk Photos: Laura Palmer
WYCHWOOD FESTIVAL
The refined surroundings of Cheltenham Racecourse played host to an equally refined festival on June 3-5 with a Britpop-tastic line up featuring The Charlatans, The Bluetones and Cornershop as well as some more contemporary up and coming acts, Revere, The Epstein and My First Tooth. Full review, photos and videos online at www.247magazine.co.uk Photos: Laura Williams 30 |
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