Reviews

• 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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• Reviews / Forwards 2025

  Review: Forwards 2025 – ‘Rosy cheeks and flailing arms’

  In only its fourth edition, the festival has all the gravitas of a seasoned veteran

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Gavin Higgins, Bristol Beacon – ‘Unexpected moments of joy’

  Britten Sinfonia shone during day two of the BBC Proms residency in Bristol

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Symbiosis, Bristol Beacon – ‘A tour de force of catharsis, healing and affirmation’

  The award-winning Paraorchestra raised the curtain of the Bristol leg of the BBC Proms

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• Restaurants / Reviews

  The Raj, King Street: ‘I wonder if I’ve ever eaten a vegetable this good’

  The old favourite has sat on King Street since 1980

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: ArcTanGent 2025, Fernhill Farm

  The region's loudest music festival takes place in a heatwave

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Daisy Rickman, Strange Brew – ‘Daisy is a wizard, a mystic and a true star’

  Daisy Rickman is a painter, filmmaker, photographer and musician from Mousehole, Cornwall

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• Theatre / Reviews

  Review: Hedda, Theatre Royal Bath – ‘An absolute masterclass’

  Matthew Dunster directs and Lily Allen stars in this adaptation of the Ibsen play

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