Bristol’s Grillstock Festival just got bigger

Bristol’s Grillstock Festival just got bigger

Posted on: 19 Jun 2017

The festival, taking place in central Bristol on the 1st and 2nd of July, is expanding its perimeters to include Millennium Square – meaning more room for the customary meat, music and mayhem.

Grillstock

We have to stop meating like this…

 

In less than two weeks, Grillstock Festival, Bristol’s own symbiotic celebration of meat and music, will return to take over the city centre. And every single festival every single year purports to be ‘bigger than ever’, in this case it is quite literally true.

 

As a result of increased demand, Grillstock’s organisers have made the decision to expand the festival’s site by annexing Millennium Square and adding it to the hitherto home of the Lloyds Amphitheatre. The fiercely-fought King of the Grill competition is now to take place in this new area, allowing more breathing space for the appreciation of music by the river.

 

This will come courtesy of a finger-lickin’ good slew of artists, 

Craig Charles

Joining headliners, The Darkness and The Pharcyde, at the top of the bill is Craig Charles (above), the diminutive scouser whose funk and soul show on 6 Music has become the stuff of legend. Putting it on the road has proved a resounding success, proffering smile-inducing feel-good sets the country over.

 

Warming up for him on the Saturday afternoon are The Hot 8 Brass Band, whose toe-tapping cover of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’ is known to occupy pride of place in the record box of Mr Charles himself.

Hot 8 Brass Band

Appearing opposite them on the Sunday are prankster-rap rascals Goldie Lookin’ Chain, who are on before the suitably named DJ BBQ - who, in turn, is on before headliners The Darkness.

 

Also appearing on the main stage across the weekend are Hayseed Dixie, The 45’s, Legendary Shack Shakers and The Mariachis, with other special guests still yet to be announced. See the full line-up below.

 

Grillstock lineup

 

Weekend tickets start at £50 with day tickets also available for Saturday (£35) and Sunday (£25) and can be purchased here. For more information, head to Grillstock’s website or visit them on Facebook.


Article by:

Sam Mason-Jones

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.