Saturday 24th April 2010 @ The Prom, Bristol
Featuring Performances From: Henry’s Funeral Shoe, Broken Vinyl Club

I love festival season! The sun is officially out, drinking in the day is officially acceptable (sort of) – and the all day mini-festivals have hit Gloucester Road once again. I started this year with the Prom Bar’s first offering, Gwyll Y Ddraig Goch – an all day Welsh Festival featuring 8 bands playing till midnight, which finished off with the hotly tipped and brilliantly named Henry’s Funeral Shoe, promoting their new album, Everything’s For Sale. There was a massive buffet, oodles of cheap festival offer booze, as well plenty of drunk and indecipherable Welsh rock and metal-heads. What more could you want to kick off the summer?

The line up-included a very catchy performance from Cardiff R&B songsters, Broken Vinyl Club (who had everyone in the mood to party by only half an hour into the event), as well as six more up-and-coming eclectic and energetic performances from various Welsh talents. The sun was out all day and the atmosphere was buzzing. Beer fuelled? Yes. Rowdy and unpleasant? No.

Unlike many of the bars in town, The Prom provided a fun, chilled out, anything goes, friendly brand of fun. Gloucester Road is, in my humble opinion, the perfect location for a summer line-up of music and hippy/rocker type rambunctious-ness. And if the pub scene gets a bit much, you’ve got the new psy-hippie shop, Sticky Neon (recently re-located from Park Street) right next door, as well as St. Andrews park if you need a bit of a lie down in the sun.

Nice work Prom. With a new, younger and more vibrant line-up of bands planned for Wednesday and Friday nights from July, it looks like Prom is set on getting the best new local talent in – and hopefully putting on a few more of these events to keep us all entertained this summer.

www.theprom.co.uk

Natalie Burns