What's on in Bristol this Bank Holiday weekend
Posted on: 26 May 2017Another three-dayer! This weekend incorporates the third of three Bank Holidays to fall in quick succession - but it is the last one for a while. Use the handy guide below to make the most of it, with activities taking place both inside and out.
Saturday
Love Saves The Day - Eastville Park
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Saturday of Love Saves The Day, as it tends to, sees a glut of soul-infused pop music, combined with some quality cuts of deep house, take over Eastville Park. NAO, Mura Masa, Crazy P and Fatima Yamaha will play the main stage on Saturday, prior to Swedish headliners Little Dragon (above). Elsewhere, the electronic side will be helmed by a motley crew of quality DJs and produces like Hunee, Bicep, Ricardo Villalobos, Palms Trax and Call Super.
Dot to Dot Festival - Various venues
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Summery indie-poppers Sundara Karma (above), raring from the release of their debut album Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect, are to headline this year’s Dot To Dot, an honour previously bestowed on esteemed graduates like The xx, Peace and Mystery Jets. Ably propping them up are Amber Run and The Growlers, while Honeyblood, Louis Berry and Pinegrove perform elsewhere. Further down the bill, highlights come in the form of Willie J Healey, Low Island and Ardyn. This cohort of indie troubadours will perform across various venues in central Bristol, including the O2 Academy, The Fleece and The Louisiana.
Number Seven Boats trips to Beeses
Join Number Seven Boats and combine an afternoon on the pristine water of the River Avon with a bit of grub in the idyllic gardens of the Beeses Riverside Bar - an ideal way to spend a sunny Saturday in Bristol. The journey is an hour there and back, with boats departing from the Cascade Steps in the city centre at 12pm and 2pm on Saturday. Advance booking is required.
Sunday
Love Saves The Day - Eastville Park
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Those hoping for a bit of hush to rest a heavy head will find little respite on the Sunday of Love Saves, with the festival taking its traditional turn towards the jungly, the grimy and the dubby. One of grime’s elder statesmen Kano headlines the Cloud 9 (this time put on by The Blast) ahead of D Double E, and bass-heavy bursts from My Nu Leng and TQD, while Novelist reps it further below BadBadNotGood on Crack Magazine’s Paradiso stint. Local legends Sherwood and Pinch will bring some dubstep to Brouhaha late on, closing out the festival like only they can. Appearing before Fat Freddy’s Drop on the main stage are poet Kate Tempest, boisterous producer Shy FX and hotly-tipped grime upstart AJ Tracey.
Flipside Cocktail Carnival - Flipside Cocktail Club
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Flipside is hosting a cocktail carnival from Friday to Sunday, with the bar atop Whiteladies Road are putting on three days of delicious drinks and carnival carnage – all in support of a good cause. Money raised from the event will help to fund the university project of student Emily Cavill, who is researching into saving an endangered species of bird. The event is sponsored by FAIR. drinks, so you can rest assured that your taste-buds will be suitably entertained – flippin’ marvellous!
Monday
Simple Minds – Colston Hall
With all of the music happening over the first few days of the bank holiday weekend, you would ordinarily be forgiven for not fancying a gig on Monday evening. But Don’t You Forget About them (Simple Minds)! The ageing ‘80s stalwarts are back in Bristol for an evening at Colston Hall, and you would be simply foolish to miss it.
!!! – The Fleece
!!! (pronounced by thrice repeating any syllable, eg “chk chk chk”, rather than “exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark”) make music as avant-garde as their post-modern moniker might suggest. Check them out down at The Fleece on Monday.
Dinomania - Bristol Zoo
Herbivores beware! The water will be rippling no end at Bristol Zoo this summer, as a life-size T-Rex is to pay a visit, accompanied by a horde of other life-sized dinosaurs, as part of their Dinomania exhibition. Promising ‘roar-some fun’ (ouch), the exhibition is made up of true-to-life dinosaurs, with the horde including appearances from a triceratops, a giganotosaurus and a stegoceras, as well as many others.
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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.
