Bristol
Album: Billy Nomates - CactiSaturday, 14 January 2023
As second-wave feminism vouched in the late 1960s, the personal is political. For Billy Nomates, the moniker of Sleaford Mods-approved musician Tor Maries, that sentiment is rife.Entrenched in her eponymously titled debut in 2020, the songwriter... Read more... |
Dr Semmelweis, Bristol Old Vic review - dazzling but overloadedFriday, 28 January 2022
Dr Semmelweis, a star vehicle for Mark Rylance, one of Britain’s most versatile and talented actors, fills the Bristol Old Vic with a dizzying kaleidoscope of words, sounds and images. Tom Morris – the theatre’s energetic and inventive director –... Read more... |
Showtrial, BBC One review - drama a cut above the restMonday, 15 November 2021
This latest offering from the ubiquitous World Productions (creators of Line of Duty, the farcical but strangely popular Vigil, Bodyguard etc etc) is a whodunnit, a howdunnit and a whydunnit, as it explores the mysterious disappearance and death of... Read more... |
Album: Idles - CrawlerWednesday, 10 November 2021
Perhaps surprisingly for a band famed for the raw, tightly wrought, balled-up fury of their music, the most affecting moments of Idles’ fourth album are slower numbers. Chief among these is “Progress”, whose looping, repeated lyrics may reflect... Read more... |
A House Through Time, Series Finale, BBC Two review - timely series reaches uneven conclusionWednesday, 17 June 2020
Setting his third series of A House Through Time in Bristol (BBC One) was a stroke of inspired prescience for historian and presenter David Olusoga. His chosen house, Number 10 Guinea Street, had been built in 1718 by the slave-trafficking Captain... Read more... |
A House Through Time, Series 3, BBC Two review - Bristol under the microscopeWednesday, 27 May 2020
David Olusoga’s A House Through Time concept (BBC Two) has proved a popular hit, using a specific property as a keyhole through which to observe historical and social changes. After previously picking sites in Liverpool and Newcastle, this time he’s... Read more... |
Album: Hodge - Shadows in BlueSaturday, 11 April 2020
For underground music producers, there almost always comes a phase in life when they accept they're no longer young guns and embrace either massively complicated synthesisers, floaty new age music, or both. For Bristol-based Jake Martin aka Hodge it... Read more... |
Cyrano, Bristol Old Vic review – comedy with emotional intelligenceMonday, 21 October 2019
Tom Morris’s production of Cyrano starts with a procession of nuns, some of them bearded, chanting verses from the medieval mystic Hildegarde of Bingen. In this original and lively version of Edmond Rostand’s late 19th century classic, Morris has... Read more... |
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Bristol Old Vic review - Jane Austen as shallow romcomMonday, 16 September 2019
It is a truth perhaps not quite but almost universally accepted that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, beloved of GSCE English Lit examiners, and often adapted for the screen, is a part of the canon, waiting to be re-interpreted according to the... Read more... |
Train Your Baby Like A Dog, Channel 4 review - an animal behaviourist tackles tantrumsTuesday, 20 August 2019
Animal behaviourist Jo-Rosie Haffenden, who lives in Spain, has some very good dogs (and a charming toddler, who knows how to sit). Can she transfer her training skills to three-year-old Graydon in Bristol, who has six tantrums a day, and 14-month-... Read more... |
I Fagiolini, Hollingworth, St George's Bristol review - Leonardo and music, immortal, invisibleSaturday, 04 May 2019
Having started their tour at the Barbican on Sunday, I Fagiolini descended on Bristol with their Leonardo da Vinci celebration on precisely the 500th anniversary of the great man’s death, a fact that earned them an extra round of applause from the... Read more... |
Massive Attack, Steel Yard Bristol review - propaganda and pompMonday, 04 March 2019
Massive Attack have travelled a long way from the Dugout, the Bristol bar where the collective first tried their hand at spinning discs for a crowd whose cultural mix reflected the constant ferment of one of Britain’s most vibrant cities. The city... Read more... |
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