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[Live Review] The Lemonheads, O2 Academy, Bristol, 28th September 2022

Taking to the road on a 30th anniversary tour of early 90s classic It’s A Shame About Ray, The Lemonheads bring the nostalgia roadshow to a packed Academy where the audience are united in affection for this music. The entrance song is a recording of Cole Porter‘s Miss Otis Regrets, a song covered by Evan…
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[Live Review] M(h)aol, The Louisiana, Bristol, 23rd August 2022

Immediately after their set at the Green Man Festival two days previously, singer Róisín Nic Ghearailt was approached by an audience member, who told her she is precisely the role model she would want for her daughter. It’s a wonderful compliment, but it also highlights the atmosphere of care that the band create in their…
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[Live Review] Sóley – The Bristol Beacon, Bristol, UK, 19th November 2021

Bathed in monochrome lights, Sóley in quartet form beguiles in the hushed, intimate setting of the Bristol Beacon. New album Mother Melancholia weaves a tale of the end times, the playing out of the impacts of an ecocidal patriarchy, and of those that rise against it. It is a weighty and anxiety-inducing topic, not to…
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[Live Review] Ichiko Aoba, Strange Brew, Bristol 15th November 2021

It’s difficult to know where to start. No less a talent than Owen Pallett once said that he had “never been so blindsided by a musician as I was by Ichiko Aoba”, and seeing her tonight I can fully understand why. A decently sized crowd are gathered tonight, sat in assembly-room rows of seats and…
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[Live Review] M(h)aol + Slug Puppie, Rough Trade, Bristol 1/11/21

It still feels like springtime in the world of live music, with so many bands that have been releasing music finally able to share it with us live. For m(h)aol (pronounced ‘male’ I’m told), it’s been a longer break than for most, as tonight is the start of their first tour after a five year…
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