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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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  • Marina and the Diamonds/Alan Pownall

    The Cooler, Bristol (Mon 22 Feb) We’re promised diamonds but the night opens with rhinestones. Alan Pownall, a self-proclaimed troubadour with deliberate eye-twinkles, delivers “laidback grooves” and tales of mild heartache from behind his guitar. Aiming at a middle-ground between… READ MORE

  • Turin Brakes

    The experimenting acoustic duo probably wouldn’t have a new album if it wasn’t for Take That. Kid Pensioner finds out why. l “The name is two unrelated words stuck together to create what we hoped would only mean our music.… READ MORE

The Big Gig

  • Bristol artist on an unplanned adventure

    “There’s a wealth of music, wit and wisdom in this excellent album and a fine, intelligent (and rather nice) personality holding it together.” So concluded our five-star review of slam-hopster… READ MORE




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Sounding off - Geek Pop

Tell us a little about the history of/thinking behind geek pop. I was working at an online science magazine and we’d come across a lot of artists with geeky or scientific influences. We wanted to get them together somehow, but they were from all over the world, so we had…

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