Live Music Venue

• 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: BBC Proms in Bristol: Italian Summer – ‘From rousing crescendo to aching sunset’

  The last of five BBC Proms concerts at the Beacons sends postcards from Italy

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• Music / News

  The Croft releases launch party lineup tease

  Live acts and club nights have been announced for the first season of the reopening

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• Music / in photos

  In photos: IDLES, Queen Square

  The first night of IDLES Block Party weekend went off in style

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• Music / folk

  Bristol’s month in Folk & Roots – August 2025

  A quiet month for gigs means the more intimate events take the spotlight

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• Music / Save The Croft

  The Croft fundraiser tips over £1m with one day to go

  The campaign hopes to reopen the venue under a community ownership model

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Les Caravanes, Bristol Folk House – ‘A folk revolution’

  A roving folk club drops in to Park Street

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Deerhoof, Strange Brew – ‘A sound uniquely theirs’

  The venue goes big guns with this superstar show, and it pays off

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