In a city full of brilliant people with dead-end jobs and dampened by bitter-cold winters, playing music offers a cheap outlet. Protomartyr’s taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Short songs made for short practices, and the band learned quickly not to waste time. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter.
Having made her debut live appearance at the prestigious Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands off the back of a self-titled EP, A.A. Williams has since toured across the globe with the likes of Cult of Luna, Explosions In The Sky, Russian Circles, Sleep Token and The Sisters of Mercy, as well as establishing herself as a headline artist - including a show at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Hall inside London's Southbank Centre.
Get ready to giggle, gasp and get silly!
Our show is a wild storytelling adventure where kids are the creators! We take your ideas - footballing dinosaurs, magical cupcakes, ninja broccoli - and turn them into side-splitting stories LIVE on stage. No script, just pure imagination and tons of laughs!
Perfect for ages 4 - 14. Bring your best ideas and your loudest laughs - because the story can’t start without YOU!!!
Tickets are just £5
Free tickets for under 3’s and primary school teachers! Just get in touch!
There is no reason for GHOSTWOMAN’s fourth album to exist. Welcome to the Civilized World is born to a broken world; a corrupt inheritance – Evan Uschenko and Ille van Dessel are under no illusions about its futility – and yet, this thing is alive. It’s an allergic reaction to the times we are living in: a welt that screams to be itched, the purging of a modern sickness they could no longer stomach. Beyond rationality, this record came from a place of gut feeling and a lack of any other option. Hell may have cracked wide open – but GHOSTWOMAN will not go quietly.
The quartet of Zack Borzone (vox), Jack Tobias (synth), Sam Pickard (drums), and Saguiv Rosenstock (guitar) display an innate ability to translate a primitive spirit into a modern form. Born during the lockdown as an experimental project between Borzone and Pickard in Philadelphia, the group expanded as the two moved to New York, adding Tobias for their debut self-titled EP, which was produced by Rosenstock, who was then integrated into the band. That first collection is one of self-discovery, of finding the tools necessary to make songs within the band’s own ecosystem.
Elizabethan theatre is flourishing. But will a brand-new Tudor musical romp, in which Good Queen Bess takes to the stage herself, be the making of this heroine or spell the beginning of her downfall?
The stage is set for regicidal rivalries, devious dramatics, and plotting playwrights. Beset by misunderstandings and a script that…let’s just say…needs some work, this production promises to be largely historical, always hysterical.
As the old saying goes…thy show must go-eth on!
As the end of the first quarter of the 21st century inches ever closer, our planet precariously teeters from one crisis to the next. Rather than passively sit back and watch, the high-energy Irish guitar quintet Gurriers are firing on all cylinders and confronting the ills of the modern world on their debut album, Come and See, a truly thrilling collection of razor-sharp progressive punk songs.
Made up of Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth and Nick Berthoud, alongside visual artist Jason Baker. SCALER have been hailed as “Bristol’s next national breakthrough” by critics (The Guardian) and “legends in the making” by fans (per the always-honest YouTube comment section).
Founded in Falmouth, Cornwall by songwriter and producer Benjamin Woods, The Golden Dregs released two albums in quick succession—Lafayette (2018) and Hope Is For The Hopeless (2019)—before signing to 4AD for 2023’s On Grace & Dignity.
With a love of storytelling delivered in a lulling baritone often compared to Leonard Cohen and Bill Callahan, Woods’ music blends sardonic wit with existential unease. As The Line of Best Fit put it, The Golden Dregs sound like “a soundtrack to happy hour in some smoke-ridden edge-of-town bar.”
On Saturday 28 June from 1PM head to HEART to watch some short films all about nature and the environment! PAYF raffle too!
These are the shorts you will see on the afternoon in two sections. There will be a draw a long from Alicia Hayden who made THE LOST SONGSTRESS so we can all draw curlews
PRAISE SONG FOR AN ACORN - animation celebrating the acorn
THE MAN OF TREES - about the brilliant Daniel Balima who has polio but has planted more than a million trees