Bristol's Live Music Highlights: 27th February - 5th March
Posted on: 27 Feb 2017Pop and garage royalty returns to Bristol this week alongside more youthful upstarts in the fields of indie rock, funk and soul, alt-country and post-dubstep, spread evenyl across several of the city's venues. Feast your ears.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bristol Trinity, 28th February
With her chic take on pop sweeping into focus towards the end of the Cool Britannia period, Sophie Ellis-Bextor contributed to the soundtrack of every single party in the early noughties. Fast forward a decade-and-a-half and the country is more uncool than it has been in recent memory, but SEB is still making music as astute as her jawline, with last year’s Familia attracting a warm critical response. Check out the record in the flesh, complemented by her stone-cold classics, when she struts through to the Trinity on Tuesday.
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Julia Jacklin - Louisiana, 1st March
Julia Jacklin’s earliest releases drew favourable comparisons to alt-country songwriters like Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten and Waxahatchee, and the unveiling of her debut Don’t Let The Kids Win saw her pull alongside this esteemed company. The Aussie’s first LP laces woozy, dreaming backing tracks with thoughtful, confessional lyrics and as such as drawn praise from all corners. The Louisiana will be the perfect place to catch this balladry in a suitably intimate surround.
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Lack of Afro - The Lantern, 3rd March
Lack of Afro is the creation of producer Adam Gibbons, who uses the project as a vehicle for some of the sunniest funk and soul music that has seen the light in recent times. Borrowing vocals from the likes of Joss Stone and Juliette Ashby on latest record Hello Baby, the album was voted one of 6 Music’s favourite albums of 2016 and received generous spinning from their resident scouser Craig Charles. See what the funk everyone is talking about when Mr Gibbons arrives at The Lantern on Friday night.
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The Orwells - Thekla, 4th March
The Orwells have been making ratty, bratty indie rock ever since they formed at high school in Illinois. Pedalling the kind of noise that strays between the sunnier cuts of the Black Lips back catalogue and the shoutiest moments from LA punks like FIDLAR and Trash Talk, the quintet have been playing famously rambunctious shows since 2009. Witness one of them for yourself as they get down and dirty below the decks of HMS Thekla on Saturday night.
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Mike Skinner / Madam X - Analog, 4th March
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 post-dubstep upstart Madam X (pictured), who has been hotly tipped to do the same with the next.
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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.
