Music

Edition 41

Moyah: Sound of survival

MoYah — rapper, Afrofusion artist, activist — sits down with The Cable to trace his journey from Mozambique to Portugal to the UK, and how that path shaped his sound and sense of self

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from Wigan to LA, via Eastville, with Bristol Northern Soul Club

Alex Turner George Colwey Neil Maggs
Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs

Music

Blazing the fire: Sound system culture through the generations

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie
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

Roshan De Stone
Roshan De Stone

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Sound against the system – punk, rave and Dave from Faithless

George Colwey Priyanka Raval
George Colwey, Priyanka Raval and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
A women sits at a desk. On the wall behind are various art works.

Features

After the crowdfunder: how can cultural spaces not just survive, but thrive?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Features

Olga and Maria at a recent Altered States event

Vladimir, vapes and defending democracy: when the Cable met Pussy Riot in BS3

Celebrating the subversive, we spent an evening with the legendary Russian dissidents to get behind the balaclavas to discuss all things protest.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Features

‘He was our godfather’: Bristol musicians remember Mark Stewart

It’s a year since the Pop Group singer, a revered figure of the post-punk era, died aged 62. Beyond the uncompromising legacy of his own releases, his influence remains etched into his home city’s musical DNA.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

Image of Danny Lydon, who says music gave him an outlet that helped him work through losing his dad

When words fail: Meet the Bristol group nurturing male musicians’ mental health

The Seed Sessions project combines counselling and music mentoring to help young men express themselves. We heard from its founder, one of the participants and a counsellor working with the group about the power of music as a therapeutic tool.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Love Her – how Weekenders made space for women’s music

As part of this series of podcasts about underrepresented parts of Bristol’s history, this is a homage to Weekenders, a women's music night that started in the late 90s.

Mary Milton

Features

Image of young people on the streets of St Pauls Carnival in 1985 (credit: Andy 'Beezer' Beese)

‘Crazy summers, days of rage’: how Beezer’s camera immortalised 1980s Bristol

Long before the ‘Bristol sound’ label was applied to the potent sonic brew bubbling from the city in the 90s, Andy ‘Beezer’ Beese moved with the bass-heavy beats of the 80s to photograph the era's pulses, parties and protests.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

Image of Iain Aitchison of Longwell Records at his shop in Keynsham (credit: David Griffiths)

‘Trust in the grooves’: how Bristol’s independent record shops are navigating an uncertain world

The vinyl revival has provided an unlikely bright spot amid a bloodbath of UK high street closures. Bristol’s indie music retailers explain how they are keeping locked, innovating and creating communities to help them survive and thrive.

Jim Ottewill
Jim Ottewill
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