This Week's Issue...

Hey, June!

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HEADLINERS - If you’re gearing up for Glastonbury you need Venue’s big feature about it, complete with revealing Michael Eavis interview. Meanwhile, the Hobbs Show, Bristol’s style, music and dance extravaganza is back and the full programme is in Venue.

CUTS - How is the new government going to affect us locally? And how much are the spending cuts going to hurt? Special report.

PLUS - “I had sex on the Downs” - Jeremy Irons interviewed … The West’s best fish joints … Father’s Day ideas … Great gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman on his local exhibition … Win cakes!!! … Job ads … And loads more, including your complete ten-day local entertainment guide.

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FEATURES

Analyze this

Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BCPC) is holding an open day for prospective students on Sun 21 Mar. Founded in 1984, BCPC trains and supports professional counselling and psychotherapy therapists, integrating humanistic and psychoanalytic approaches with a view to…
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THE BIG PICTURE - Alice in Wonderland (PG)

USA 2010 108 mins Dir: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowsa, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Lucas Voices: Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, Christopher Lee l Tim Burton doing Lewis Carroll? It’s difficult to imagine…
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Lotus elite

Mary Ann Hobbs-endorsed hip-hop-tronica maestro Flying Lotus is heading for deep space - via Bristol club night Colours. Adam Anonymous is at ground control. Though hyperbole has become something of a plague on the modern musical landscape, it’s hard not…
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How deep is your sub?

The latest from audiovisual experimenters Sound and Fury lures audiences into the strange, rarefied world of a top-secret submarine mission. Steve Wright’s our man at the periscope.As soon as you arrive you feel you’re in another world. And you realise…
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Democracy Party

The latest exhibition at the ever-stimulating Bristol gallery, down on the harbourside, bears the self-effacing title ‘the art of  Democracy’. And a finelooking show it is too: a group exhibition featuring works by 17 painters, installers and snappers, poets,  sculptors…
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Mother’s pride

Melissa Blease on the best places to give yer dear old mum a gastronomic treat on Mother’s Day. Some mother’s do ’ave ’em - well, yours had you, didn’t she? So go on: when 14 March rolls around, make mother’s…
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This is Poppy

Bristol anti-folkers Poppy and Friends are off around the country to promote debut album‘Beautiful to Me’. Ben Welch grabs a word before the tour bus leaves town. There’s no particular reason you should be familiar with Poppy and Friends, but…
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THIS WEEK

Music: The Bristol Mini Fringe

The live component of this week’s Music South West conference sees the likes of local…

Clubs: Stanton Warriors

Ka-boom! Those purveyors of room-shaking, spine-snapping bass-led breakbeat pound. THE STANTON WARRIORS PLAY BLOWPOP AT…

Music: Daniel Johnston

Freewheeling lo-fihero Daniel Johnston has an incredible life story provide support.DANIEL JOHNSTON PLAYS TRINITY ARTS…

Music: Ugly Duckling

The comical, smart, speed-rhyming three-piece from Long Beach return to Bristol.UGLY DUCKLING PLAY METROPOLIS, BRISTOL…

Theatre: Normal

Notions of what we perceive as ‘normal’ behaviour lie at the centre of this subverted…

Film: The Men Who Stare at Goats

A reactivated US military unit attempts to win the war in I-rak with a suite…

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Looking for Mates

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I'm Sore at You!

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I Saw You

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Dating Agencies

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Speed Dating

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