Music Archive

Fresh from the release of her latest single ‘To Belong’ (new beautiful video released last week!) China Bowls will be playing with Hal Sutherland on…

“Folk/ singer/songwriter”, Men Diamler unravels from the deepest and darkest of Wales through woozy operatics and wild and weird song/stories. A misshapen musical chair with…

There isn’t much Henry ’Slimline’ Slim doesn’t know about the blues harmonica which is why he’s such a mainman on the Bristol blues scene. Whether…

Born into a bluegrass family (albeit in Birmingham, UK) Hannah Johnson has crammed a whole heap of American-flavoured musical experience into her life to date….

Freesoul Familia ✨ This new seven-piece outfit has crafted a life of its own, thanks to their tight-as-a-nut rhythms and commanding stage presence. The exceptional voice…

The spirit of the late, great Ali Farke Toure hovers close to Waaju’s original instrumental music, albeit expressed through exploratory tenor sax as well as…

Ross Couper & Tom Oakes 🎻 Now these two are folkies with a capital F: contemporary stars of the Scottish traditional music world, fiddler Ross is…

Jazz piano in the classic modern mode from Andrew Christie and his team mates Greg White on drums and Adrian Smith on bass. Hints of…

This fledgling folk collective comes in many variants of Herons, but centres upon the song stories of mandolin-toting singer/songwriter Bethany Roberts. With a well-received debut…

This Monday’s jazz session features special guest, New York Saxophonist Stefan Zeniuk 🔥 With his exciting new latin lounge project ‘Green Mambo’, Stefan will be…

The Lowest Pair A brace of banjos don’t have to duel, you know, and when they fit together as nicely as these do, with the…

  Gather your mates for a quiz night Stokes Croft style, with a different theme each month it’s gearing up to be one of the…

Malika Collective Like anthropologists of the beat, this bunch of South Londoners have scoured the world for what makes dance music irresistible. Then, like master…

The Soul Ingredients This powerful gang of seven packs a proper big band punch thanks to its all-star line-up of seasoned players and the mighty…

Sheffield prog-jazz outfit King Capisce are celebrating the release of third album Memento Mori by coming all the way to Bristol to play it for…

Nu jazz piano trio led by Emily Francis influenced by late 60s/70s electronic jazz, progressive rock/pop. Flavours of Go Go Penguin, Herbie Hancock and the current young London…

Toddler Prodigious singing bass player Stevie-Jo Dooley’s three-piece of voices, percussion and bass. They balance intensity and lightness through their creative use of instrumentation, and…

DeCyphers MCs Goose and Social Conscience put out their lyrics but they openly welcome all MC and vocal styles from around the city (and beyond)…

Celebrating Brazil’s folk tradition of choro, Brejeiro’s jousting mandolins and soaring flute evoke the lush tropical world of the country’s northern jungles, while the supple…

Six gents from Ghent who make spacious instrumental jazz-dub – just what you want on a Saturday night, we think. Belgium’s Kosmo Sound come with…