Music

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

Features

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

For a city of its size, Bristol is not overrun with dedicated queer nightlife spaces. But since coronavirus restrictions have eased, several new groups of creatives have set out to change things.

Andy Leake
Andy Leake

Photography

Photoessay: Lakota at 30

Mark Simmons

Music

Taking back control in a male-dominated industry

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Youth worker Darren Alexander on if Drill music is driving knife crime

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?

Neil Maggs Rosa Eaton Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Voices

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

Marcus Smith
Marcus Smith

Interviews

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

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Interviews

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.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

City

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

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

Shaun Clarke

City

A people’s history of St Pauls

St Pauls is a famous neighbourhood. But newcomers to Bristol are most likely to have heard of it for one of two reasons.

Michele Curtis

Edition 2

Video: Conscious Hip Hop in Bristol

Local artists D-Red, Lowdose and Ben reflect on the origins, meaning and challenges of conscious hip hop. Filmed and Produced by D-Red Edited by Alec for...

D-red

Edition 2

Politics and Hip Hop in Bristol

Does politics still have a place in hip-hop? D-Red, a local rapper and a selection of Bristol’s other artists mull the question over What is...

D-red