Latest research undertaken by PRS for Music, the leading copyright and royalty collection society representing 65,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, has revealed that Bristol has ‘produced’ more musicians by size of population than any other town or city in the UK. PRS for Music conducted the research to see which regions produced the most musicians as opposed to where they currently live. Whereas London has the greatest number of musicians living there, it didn’t make the top 20 for musical births, coming in at number 26.
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Friday 5th until Thursday 25th March 2010 @ Watershed, Bristol

Not content with dominating the art world, it seems the infamous Banksy has now turned his hand to cinema. On the face of it, his film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, is a colourful documentary about the rise of street art and its explosion in popularity over the last 5-10 years. We’ve got interviews with several of the big players (and some of the smaller ones), tales of their exploits and narrated segments of various “key” moments in the scene’s (and Banksy’s) history like the spraying of the West Bank wall and the placing of a Guantanamo Bay detainee model in Disneyland. Holding all this documenting together is the story of one man, a certain Thierry Guetta, and how his love of street art slowly took over his life and changed it beyond recognition.
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Friday 26th and Saturday 27th February 2010 @ Metropolis and Motion, Bristol
Featuring Performances From: Pee Wee Ellis, Andreya Triana, Dubkasm, Minotaur Shock, King Midas Sound, The Bug, Theo Parrish, Dixon, Appleblim, Headhunter

The Global Music Academy took a weekend off its month-long London ‘term’ to festoon Bristol’s keen beat enthusiasts, head-nodders and vinyl spinning elite with a celebration of the city’s inspirational musical heritage and potential.

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The last couple of years have seen a surge in Westcountry, and particularly Bristolian, comedians slowly taking over our screens, radios and stages. Has something happened to warm the public at large to the Bristol twang or is it all a massive, hilarious coincidence? Who knows, but let’s find out a bit more about some of Bristol’s funny sons…

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Sunday 14th February 2010 @ Academy, Bristol
Featuring Performances From: The Maccabees

In a way, The Maccabees are the perfect Valentine’s Day fluff. Orlando Weeks’ wistful, quivering croon matched with the band’s cutesy innocence is enough to set young hearts everywhere aflutter. But tonight the Brighton quintet prove they are bigger and bolder than the thumb-sucking juvenileness of 2007’s album, Colour It In. Back then they sang in a vaguely romantic register about such sweet-nothings as swimming pools and Lego. Now, however, they are a stronger, more stirring outfit with justifiably credible songs to match.
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Nothing says I love you but I am both boring and unoriginal than a dozen red roses on Valentine’s Day. Really boys, there is nothing wrong with flowers, we adore them but has life really got that pathetically predictable that the only way you are able to express your love is through a tired wasteful cliché? All a girl really wants is for the man in her life to express his love, to show her she is understood and appreciated. It does not have to cost anything, it’s not about money, of course we love diamonds but that’s not really the point.

Here are some cheap ideas on gifts that will wow the lady in your life, seriously just pull your finger out your arse are do something special:
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8.30am - I get into work and fire up all the computers in the office for the staff, then make a cup of coffee to wake up!

9am - The office meeting. The 3 bookers catch up about the jobs they are dealing with so that everyone knows what’s going on around the desk. A booker needs to be aware of all the modelling jobs happening in the agency. Clients have emailed perhaps from the night before wanting lists of models to be put forward for up and coming jobs. The jobs have to be prioritised along with emails that have to be dealt with. The phone starts to ring about now; it could be models wanting directions to jobs, clients needing models yesterday or potential models needing information about joining the agency.
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The Brewery Theatre Opens

Suit Yourself Magazine arrives at the Tobacco Factory Theatre on a mild evening at the end of the summer in search of the launch night of a curious new theatre called “The Brewery”. We are politely re-directed down North Street and told to lookout for the old garage on the left covered in graffiti.

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