Music

Music

Blazing the fire: Sound system culture through the generations

Sound system culture arrived with the Windrush Generation and took root in St Paul's and Easton, where speaker stacks became monuments to belonging, resistance, and Black identity.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Features

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

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

Roshan De Stone
Roshan De Stone

Features

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

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

Andy Leake
Andy Leake

Photography

Photoessay: Lakota at 30

The Bristol institution, which has hosted internationally-renowned DJs, celebrated its 30th birthday in June with a night headlined by Bristol's own drum and bass legend Roni Size.

Mark Simmons

Music

Taking back control in a male-dominated industry

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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

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.

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.

Marcus Smith
Marcus Smith

Interviews

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.

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...

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