Music

Sisterhood of sound: 10 years of Saffron

Founded in Bristol in 2015, Saffron is a non-profit organisation working towards gender equality in the music industry. A decade on, its founder and one of its alumni reflect on its successes and what still needs to be done

Moyah: Sound of survival

Blazing the fire: Sound system culture through the generations

A group of people dancing together in a nightclub with pink walls

Features

Joy as resistance: Inside the club night changing Bristol’s queer scene

With violence and political hostility towards trans and queer people on the rise, club night Soft Butch has become a vital space for community, connection, and liberation

Image at the The House of Savalon, Bristol (credit: Charley Williams)

Features

Meet the new queer collectives pushing the boundaries of Bristol’s nightlife

Photography

Photoessay: Lakota at 30

Taking back control in a male-dominated industry

Bristol’s Saffron Records continues to break barriers for women in the music industry.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on if Drill music is driving knife crime with youth worker Darren Alexander

In the wake of the tragic death of 18-year-old Dontae Davis in Lawrence Hill, what’s behind youth violence? And as Avon and Somerset Police have said recently, is drill music a concern?

Music learning is fading out from schools. We’ll lose more than the screech of recorders.

Music lessons were some of my fondest moments of school. But in a city renowned for live music and across the country, music learning is under threat.

She Makes War is a Bristol musician who wants her country back

Laura Kidd aka She Makes War on her journey from putting on her own nights to crowdfunding entire albums.

Idles: the Bristol band making it big talk music, masculinity and mental health

Men talking about their feelings shouldn't be groundbreaking, but it is.

MC Idren-Natural’s life in a sound system culture

An evolving UK movement through the eyes of a musical warrior.