Live Reviews
Martin Green Lighting the Dark – Lantern Hall – December
It’s nearly Christmas. Just a few more days of anticipation, of last-minute dashes, of tinsel and baubles. That also means that it is very nearly the Solstice, the shortest day, the moment when the year turns. Both celebrations fall together – one of light, one of darkness. Martin Green, accordionist with Folk experimentalists Lau, knows…
Kate Rusby – Bristol Beacon – December
Did you ever have a favourite aunt? One who would crash into your house on Christmas day, armed with presents, stories and endless chat. One that would brighten the corners, spread mischievous glee and make life just a bit better? One who, when they left, left a hole that could only be filled next year?…
The Wilderness Yet – Downend Folk & Roots – December
Christmas traditions just don’t come better than this. Once the schools have broken up and Downend Folk & Roots have thrown their festive party, you just know that Christmas is around the corner. You can feel free to crack the seal on the Baileys, sit back and enjoy it all. So, the festivities begin with…
Skinny Lister – The Fleece – December
You wait twelve months for the best gig of the year and then, on a mid-December evening, it comes charging out of the darkness and smacks you over the head. A triple threat, a combination of sucker punches, a holy trinity. Skinny Lister and friends at The Fleece were virtually a religious experience. Only much…
The Magpies – The Folk House – December
“This is our Midwinter tour.” says Ellie Gowers, guitarist with Transatlantic Folk trio The Magpies, “It was going to be a Christmas one but we don’t know enough Christmas songs.” That suggests that this, the first show on this tour, might be a bit bleak with hardly any sparkle. On tonight’s evidence they probably should…
Billy Bragg – Bristol Beacon – December
“You have a lovely room here” says Billy Bragg, “look after it”, and so ends the second “proper” night at the all new, all singing, all dancing Bristol Beacon. It might have cost a couple more quid than originally planned, but Bragg is absolutely right, it is a lovely room. It feels beautifully spacious, sounds…
Holy Moly & The Crackers – The Fleece – November
On a night where Bristol is full to bursting with Folk-y goodness, it speaks volumes that The Fleece is nicely full for a mighty line-up of country/folk/blues/Balkan/noisy mayhem. Bristol’s very own Southern Soul wonder, Lady Nade, plays a short set to start. With just an acoustic guitar and a voice that would stun a jukebox…
Nick Hart & Tom Moore – The Folk House – November
Where better to launch the best English Folk album of the year than Bristol’s Folk House? A room that evokes a wood panelled, velvet draped sanctum. Festooned with lights and full of friends. Somehow it captured, perfectly, the spirit and atmosphere of The Colour of Amber, the wonderful new album by Nick Hart and Tom…
Ward Knutur Townes – Downend Folk & Roots – November
Lockdown did funny things to the music communities. It stopped live music, drove insular people to singing with strangers on Zoom, created unusual alliances. One such was Global Music Match – musicians from around the globe were thrown together to make something new. Derby’s Lucy Ward, Canada’s Adyn Townes and Svavar Knütur from Northern Iceland…
Flook – The Redgrave – November
This year Flook celebrate being together for twenty-seven years. The lineup may be different and that might be a relatively arbitrary number but, quite frankly, Flook will use any old excuse for a celebration. The Anglo-Irish four piece are an absolute powerhouse, a flute and whistle-led, eight-legged jig machine. Sarah Allen, on flute, and Brian…
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