plus support from Stevie Parker
Låpsley's minimalist electro pop radiates an intimate warmth, fuelled by her heartfelt lyrics, tipped by the Guardian as “A one-woman xx or London Grammar”
Born Holly Lapsley Fletcher in Southport, the 18-year-old is a multi-instrumentalist with a classical background, playing the oboe, piano and guitar.
Her ethereal songs were discovered by the most organic of processes - a handful of people engaging so closely with it they couldn’t help but pass them on, write about them or play them. Cue up support from the likes of BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, mentions in the NME and online support from the likes of Disco Naivete and Pigeons & Planes.
Her achingly beautiful voice wowed the BBC Introducing crowd at Glastonbury 2014 and over the course of 2014 she has become one of the most hotly-tipped new UK artists around.
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Performing Live: Julian Cope; Saul Williams
DJ Sets: Dennis Bovell, Adrian Sherwood & Mad Professor; Jah Lokko Soundsystem
In Conversation: Underworld & Lauren Laverne; Misty In Roots & Mary Anne Hobbs; Making Music in the West with Roni Size, DJ Queen Bee, Blanck Mass & Nemone
Poetry with Murray Lachlan Young, Deanna, Holly McNish and Kojey Radical
Comedy with Shaun Keaveny, Mark Watson, Cerys Nelmes and Alice Matthews
Also featuring an exhibition of the Bristol music scene in pictures by local photographer Beezer, an Independent Record fair, screen printing, tea and cake from the Women’s Institute.
Additionally, attendees are welcome to bring their music memorabilia along to be documented for The People’s History of Pop project, a new BBC Four series.
Sunday
Performing Live: Floating Points (live); This Is the Kit; False Lights; Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock; Rozi Plain
Ring The Alarm - The DJ Derek Story: Don Letts will be hosting an exclusive preview of a film about legendary Bristolian DJ Derek which Don has been making alongside Massive Attack’s Daddy G
In Conversation: Geoff Barrow & Gilles Peterson / John Grant & Cerys Matthews
Also featuring an exhibition of the Bristol music scene in pictures by local photographer Beezer, an Independent Record fair, the Jah Lokko Soundsystem, screen printing, tea and cake from the Women’s Institute.
Additionally, attendees are welcome to bring their music memorabilia along to be documented for The People’s History of Pop project, a new BBC Four series.
Some of the acts who’ll be performing at the festival, include Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie as well as Bristol’s very own – Roni Size, Tricky, Beak and The Blue Aeroplanes.
6 Music champions music with an alternative spirit and the Bristol music scene has always encapsulated this like no other. As well as reflecting the city’s extraordinary contemporary music scene and its heritage, the festival will also showcase Bristol’s diverse culture through food, street art and what will be an unmissable 6 Music Festival by Day – packed full of performance, film, speech and comedy events.
The 6 Music Festival will be housed in venues across the city – Motion, Colston Hall, O2 Academy, Basement 45 and Trinity with pop-up events in other venues throughout Bristol, big and small. The full line up will be announced on January 19th along with ticket sales information.
The 6 Music Festival is one of many real gems we have to look forward to in Bristol in 2016 and will give us a unique opportunity to showcase the very best of BBC Bristol and the city to the nation.
Tickets available in person from Bristol Ticket Shop - Monday 1st February!
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Stage times:
King Charles 9.00pm
Ryan O’Reilly 8.00pm
On sale – Thursday 26th November
]]>Line-up:
Braincell (Boom! Records) LIVE
Tongue and Groove (Nano Records) Exclusive 2 hour warm-up set
DJ Liquid Ross (Liquid Records)
Moonquake (Hadra Records/Chrysalid)
Sean Shift (Planet Shroom)
Lurk (Liquid Records/Planet Shroom)
Expect the usual weapons grade decor, lasers and lighting from inOrbit, Ink Junkie and Illumashroom Lasers
Tunes delivered on The Best Rig in Bristol(tm) - the new L-Acoustics in-house trinity sound system which has to be heard to be believed, and even then you have to get your head around it.
Expect the usual weapons grade decor, lasers and lighting and tunes delivered on The Best Rig in Bristol(tm) - the new L-Acoustics in-house trinity sound system which has to be heard to be believed, and even then you have to get your head around it.
]]>DJs TO BE ANNOUNCED play (grown up) dance music on the multi-sensory dancefloor with glitter cannons, bubbles and giant parachute dance. Craft tables with giant colouring mural, themed crafts and playdoh table. Play area with tents and tunnels and baby chillout space with mats and small ballpool.
Licensed bar, free transfer tattoos, glowsticks and Happy Monkeys smoothies at the end.
We’ll also be joined by Monkey Trousers Theatre, who will be performing a very special show just for us! Monkey Trousers Theatre is a new children’s theatre company, producing the original family theatrical sitcom Mr Gotalot's Gotalot Shop, in Bristol and the South West. The colourful and exciting shows, featuring Mr Gotalot the kindly puppet shopkeeper, Ms Barnet the evil landlady, and Sidney the eager shop boy, have been an instant hit with children and adults alike. Previous episodes have included The Pants of Power, The Snot Rocket, and The Chinchilla Thriller, with their special Christmas show, Santa School, coming in January 2016.
For more information on Monkey Trousers Theatre:
Website: http://monkeytrouserstheatre.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/monkeytrouserstheatre/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/monkey_trousers
For families with younger children (8s and under) though older siblings are welcome. Adults are not admitted unless accompanied by a child. A max of 3 children per adult. A max of 4 adults per child (and such groups must be pre-approved by emailing infosw@bigfishlittlefishevents.co.uk before buying tickets).
Tickets are non-refundable but if anybody with tickets finds they cannot attend a sold-out event please email infosw@bigfishlittlefishevents.co.uk and BFLF will attempt to put you in touch with people seeking to buy tickets Each member of your group must have a ticket, adults £7.00, child £7.00 and pre-walking infants free (but must be ticketed). More on the door (if available).
]]>Join us for an intimate evening of live music, festive drinks and mince pies. Kicking off Temple Records second year and celebrating an exciting new release from Alice Brewer ‘ashes in sparks’
with acoustic performances from
Acoustic performances from
Alice Brewer
Polly Rorison
Stay Hungry
Plus
Friends Of Temple
& 3rd Space
templerecords.org.uk/home/events
Support from: Sundara Karma & Black Foxxes
RIVRS
MATT WILLS
14+ (U16s must be accompanied by an adult)
Stage Times: George Cosby 8.00 - 8.30pm / Boy & Bear 9 pm
Quintet from Sydney, Australia playing "a combination of drivey indie folk and choral harmonies". The band are achieving huge success their home country, winning five awards at the 2011 ARIAs - Group of the Year; Breakthrough Artist - Single (for 'Feeding Line'); and Breakthrough Artist - Album; Best Adult Alternative Album and the coveted Album Of The Year award for their debut 'Moonfire'. Boy & Bear are: Dave Hosking (vocals/guitar), Jake Tarasenko (bass), Killian Gavin (vocals/guitars), Tim Hart (drums/vocals) and Jon Hart (banjo/mandolin/keys).
14+ (U16s must be accom by an adult)
]]>Asian Arts Agency presents Aadhunik: a new Asian Music night exploring the best of contemporary South Asian music. Launching this December, Aadhunik brings a night of explosive, Bhangra-infused rhythm and music to Bristol and London. We’re delighted to present DJ Rekha from New York City’s long-standing and amazing Basement Bhangra at the forefront, accompanied by UK-based The Dhol Foundation and more exciting artists yet to be announced.
DJ Rekha’s long-running and famous Basement Bhangra nights have been a part of the New York scene since 1997, along with her weekly radio show Bhangra and Beyond. Named the “Ambassador of Bhangra” by the New York Times, DJ Rehka’s set will combine visual elements with her unique Bhangra sound to send audiences wild!
The Dhol Foundation’s explosion of drum and bass, table, hip-hop, and Bhangra rhythms have made them a favourite around the UK, while master Dhol Drummer Johnny Kalsi has played with artists from all around the world, including the Afro celts, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Avril Lavigne. The UK’s finest rhythm machine will set Trinity alight!
DJ Bobby Friction has represented the British Asian sound all over the world, from Asia to the US, from the Middle East to the whole of Europe. He’s built his reputation as a genre-mixing musician at a range of incredible shows, from an outdoor New Year’s Eve gig in Bangalore to playing for such festivals as Glastonbury, Bestival, WOMAD, the World Music Festival in Chicago, and Burning Man.
Come along and celebrate contemporary South Asian music at its best in this brand new music night that will set itself at the forefront of British Asian sound, produced and presented by Asian Arts Agency.
Tickets on sale Wednesday 21st October
]]>+ Frankie Lee
Grammy award winner Patty Griffin is equally acclaimed as an extraordinarily talented singer and musician, and as an uncommonly perceptive songwriter with a genius for character driven story telling. Her work has been covered by the likes of Emmylou Harris, The Dixie Chicks, Joan Baez and Bette Midler. Her tenth album, Servant of Love, is widely regarded as the highlight of an outstandingly rich career – the product of influences ranging from country, folk, blues, gospel and jazz with echoes of North Africa. A modern classic from one of the greatest contemporary singer songwriters.
“A thing of such striking and beguiling beauty... practically impossible to take for granted.” Glide magazine
Frankie Lee- "Echoes of Springsteen, Dylan and Ryan Adams...beneath the familiar glow of his beautifully burnished Americana lurks a restless, angry soul" ****Guardian 2015
Click here to view Frankie's debut
Tickets available from www.wegottickets.com, www.crhmusic.com and Bristol Ticket Shop.
]]>Gates open 6pm
Lockjaws exhibition from 6pm - 6.45pm
Invisible Youth: 6:40pm
The Ambling Band: 7:00pm
Fireworks: 7:30pm
Inside:
Blind Bat: 8-8:30
Mr Benn ft Eva Lazarus: 8:30pm- 10pm
Mr Benn: Reared on a tasty diet of Aswad, The Specials and King Tubby, 90s hip hop, plenty of jungle and hi-life rhythms, the musical influences behind DJ / producer Mr Benn’s sound are vast and wide but always rooted in a passion for the heavy, heavy bass that his home town of Bristol is so renowned for.
Eva Lazarus: A love of many different styles show to be a key part of her writing and performance, this has become an identity stamp for her in her chosen collaborations, showcasing her as writer who can credibly handle different genres.
Suggested donation £2
Please note priority will be given to those with flyers which are used as tickets - these can be picked up one week before event