First Quarter Highlights: Analog Bristol
Posted on: 13 Jan 2017To most students the rebranding of their favourite haunt to Analog, when it took place at the beginning of this academic year, meant little more than the loss of the plosive alliteration from the Monday night moniker ‘Bed at Bunker’. However since the reintroduction of the Triangle nightclub, change has occurred that reaches far beyond the merely syntactical, with a number of seriously good bookings occupying Analgo's new year diary. The top trio are listed below.
Psyched Presents DJ Q - 21.01
Last time we hung out with Psyched, the local cross-genre party throwers, they had packed out the Small Horse Social Club for a DJ set from Tom Misch which drew from the jazzy Dilla-esque hip hop which has become the producer's trademark. Their latest bash couldn’t be more different, with their extending an invitation to bassline bossman DJ Q. It’s going to be one hell of a knees-up.
AJ Tracey - 11.02
With a Sound of 2017 longlist spot and an appearance on Benji B’s radio show just two of the recent stops off on his road into grime’s big leagues, AJ Tracey’s star is well and truly in the ascendant. The London MC was last in Bristol at the turn of the new year, when he ripped the roof off Lakota alongside Devlin and ONEMAN. Similarly adept support for this one comes from the bass-heavy stylings of Slimzee and Murlo.
Mike Skinner and Madam X - 04.03
In 24 Hour Party People, Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson proclaimed that music works as a double helix, meaning that when one artist is in latter reaches of their career, another is in the ascendant. This show represents the meeting of the two waves, as Mike Skinner, who, as The Streets, brought us some of the best music of the previous decade, shares a bill with Manchester dubstep upstart Madam X (pictured), who has been hotly tipped to do the same with the next.
For more information, or to buy tickets for any of these events, visit Analog's Facebook page.
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An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.
