Reviews / Forwards 2025
Review: Forwards 2025, Sunday – ‘Emotional rapport between stage and crowd’
Day two of Bristol's festival of future-facing music and thinking on the Downs
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Music / Reviews
Review: Magdalena Bay, Electric Bristol – ‘A transcendent journey into cyberspace’
An escape from or a meditation on the anxieties of the modern era?
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Music / Reviews
Review: MJ Lenderman, Marble Factory – ‘Stayed cool amid the rising heat’
The former guitarist with Wednesday makes his Bristol debut, and it's a hot one
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Reviews / Reviews
Review: Jam on the Horizon – ‘A tapestry of rhythm and sound’
St Jude's came alive in the first festival of the year with global music, food and dancing
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Music / Reviews
Review: The Dare, Marble Factory – ‘Elvis Presley gone Gen Z’
Provocative indie sleaze was in full swing, much to the Marble Factory's delight
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Music / Reviews
Review: Brian Jonestown Massacre – ‘A warm mellow wash of noise’
It was a surprisingly soothing, herbal tea-infused Sunday night of psych
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Music / indie
Review: Beak>, SWX – ‘Sombre but tinged with charming gruffness’
A fond farewell to one of the greats of the local scene, with humour and self-deprecation aplenty
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Features / bristol music
Turn it up: Bristol’s eclectic music scene
From Portishead and IDLES to chamber choirs and baroque orchestras, our city's music keeps giving
