Monday 18th August 2008 @ Academy 2 With Support From: Roxy’s Wardrobe, Rupert and the Robbers, Young Heart Society
It hardly takes a musical savant to recognise that The Strokesdebut Is This It marked 2001 as Year Zero for opening group, Young Hearts Society. The fingerprints of New York’s finest are all over their set like a cheap suit, but when you’re as startlingly young as Young Hearts Society, imitation is the best place to start and besides, rock and roll has always looked its sharpest when dressed off the rack from the second hand shop. Suspiciously tight - they claim that tonight is their first gig - bass and drums hold the set, and the energetic interplay between the rhythm guitars, together. There’s no lead guitar and vocals are shared, but the groups high-cheek boned, real front-man rightfully stands centre stage, whirling his foppish hair around in the required fashion. Strokes copyists they may be, but they’re every inch as good as numerous more successful bands essentially doing the same thing.
A sold out gig at The Fleece means only one thing; an uncomfortably hot and sweaty night is ahead of us. However just behind Shirley Manson and Franz Ferdinand, tonight’s band are one of Scotland’s finest indie/rock exports – Idlewild, so worth the extreme conditions.
With no support act it seemed like quite a long wait until the band would take the stage. With the heat rapidly rising, it felt as if someone were to spill a drink steam would begin to fizzle and rise and we would be buying shots of wheat grass instead of Sambuca, but I digress.
Screening Friday 22nd until Sunday 31st August 2008 @ Watershed
Framed like a grainy pound-shop disposable camera, Somertown is another example of director Shane Meadow’s talent.
Tomo and Marek’s unlikely friendship is the engine for the plot. They are the epitome of chalk and cheese, Marek representing more of a romantic and Tomo that of the ‘Lad’. Despite their differences they have one thing in common, Maria, a beautiful French lady who waitress’ at their local café, where the boys first meet over Tomo’s bacon butty and Marek’s newly developed photos. Maria is but a subplot against the dominating notion of brotherly love. Stolen wash bags and abandoned wheelchairs alongside sneaky cash in hand jobs for their overweight neighbour, are but some of the swashbuckling adventures these bored teenagers push for. Read the rest of this entry »
Now in its thirtieth year, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta has become something of a cultural jewel in the crown of the South West, bringing people flocking from the far reaches of the entire globe, let alone the UK. Founded 30 years ago by Don Cameron, owner of the world’s largest balloon manufacturer - Cameron Balloons, he was decided to create an event that would draw together balloonists from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
This issue we sail up into the skies with a preview of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. 07-10th August 2008. We also visit ‘Ujima’ radio. Bristol’s newest community radio station. Music featured - ‘String Theory’ by Dub From Atlantis.
Alizé is a French, premium fruit liqueur made from a blend of Alizé V.S Cognac and exotic juices. For its 21st birthday celebrations over the last few months the drink has been fronting a national club tour a DJ tour - Alizé Remixed 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you who are having trouble letting go of Ashton Court Festival, you will be pleased to hear that the weekend in July that would have traditionally seen the grassy plains tuther side of the Suspension Bridge chock-a-block with cider and music lovers managed to hold its own smaller party this year. Sunday 20th July 2008 saw a few hundred Bristolians emigrate for one sunny afternoon across the river in the creation of one giant picnic party in the true spirit of Ashton Court Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
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