As a live Entity, the five strong Revolutionary Minds expertly provide rich, upbeat, hypnotic dub rhythms behind Benjamin’s beloved vocal and lyrical mastery. Amongst these backing vocals are supplied by Amy True, an artist in her own right she is fast becoming one of the most influential and talked about personalities in the UK Hip Hop scene, being equally formidable in both her ability to sing, and her ability to deliver fast paced gritty lyricism. Revolutionary Minds as a body of work tackles the indigestible topic of the world we live in today, political & economic corruption, global warming, rampant racism, fascist patriarchy...unfortunately we could go on & on.
Amid this chaos though Revolutionary Minds, both band and album, are the soundtrack for the modern revolutionist; it will make you feel empowered, hopeful, galvanised to make a difference and make you dance; it’s a dub thing.
Presented as part of Trinity's in-house Autumn Programme
Support from Solomon O.B
14+ (under 16's must be accompanied by an adult)
]]>Trinity presents: is our in house programme of live music and club nights inspired by Trinity’s rich music history; presenting the best of local and national artists whose sounds push new ideas in music.
Internationally revered poet, writer and socio-political commentator Benjamin Zephaniah returns to Trinity on his Spring tour of the re-release of his: Revolutionary Minds album.
Benjamin Zepahaniah is widely celebrated as one of the greatest poets of his generation, Zephaniah is strongly influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he calls “street politics”. His poetry, books and plays have captivated hearts and minds, fuelling imaginations and winning him a legion of fans all over the world.
Though his music is lesser known than his written work it is no less fervent. Created alongside his accomplished producer and collaborator The Sea, Revolutionary Minds album is a deep selection of dub-reggae juggernauts, the essence and style of which fully reinforce the messages projected through Zephaniah’s powerful lyrics
At a seemingly tumultuous and divisive period in our society, Revolutionary Minds revitalises the neglected art of the protest song. By reviving this discipline at this particular point in time, Zephaniah shines a critical light on to a range of activity that currently is taking place around the globe, providing a strong voice to the disenfranchised and displaced.
Revolutionary Minds is a chance to experience Zephaniah’s innovative talent in full force; a triumphant creation of emotional songs that highlight the poignant global issues faced by society today.
Support from Amy True
Tickets are live now
]]>Across the evenings of 19th and 20th November, we invite some of the UK’s finest djs and sharpest dance music provocateurs to raise the roof for our final dance of the year.
Joining Ben UFO on the Friday night are Anz, Shanti Celeste and Toma Kami.
Anz is one of the breakout stars of the past year in UK dance music with her Loos in Twos EP on Hessle Audio followed by the launch of her OTMI label and the band new All Hours EP on Ninja Tune.
Peach Discs boss Shanti Celeste is surely one of the best DJs in the UK. Known for her contemporary U.K. takes on the classic Motor City sound combined with the visions of the early Techno pioneers, she is guaranteed to bring the heat the dance floor.
Warming up the boards on Friday night is Toma Kami who’s releases on Livity Sound and his own Man Band label have gained him a well earned reputation not only as an innovator and visionary producer but also a killer dj.
Saturday night sees a change in pace with Club Fitness, Laksa and Equinox joining Ben UFO on the decks.
Club Fitness is one of the hottest names in the London dance scene known for her high energy house and techno sets and occasional guest slots on NTS.
Laksa returns to his hometown of Bristol, bringing his signature cutting edge sound to the dance. If you’re familiar with his releases on Hessle Audio, Time Dance and Illian Tape, you’ll know what to expect.
Equinox is a legend of the UK Jungle scene having been there from the very start and releasing some absolute classics along the way. An incredible DJ, Equinox is going to rip the roof off.
This is a sound system event with Full VOID arcline 8 system with 12 subs and will be loud, please bring ear plugs!
Friday 19th
Saturday 20th
Please read our COVID-19 Safety Policy for information on attending events during this time.
]]>Mercurial singer-songwriter Ben Howard will be performing stripped-back songs from his new album, ‘Collections From The Whiteout’, for the first time in Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds & Kingston this September! An exclusive opportunity to see an arena-headlining artist in such an intimate setting.
Ticket options:
Ticket - £13.99
Ticket + CD - £17.99
Ticket + Vinyl - £29.99
Timings:
Matinee show: 6pm - 8pm - Sold Out
Evening show: 8.30pm - 10.30pm - Sold Out
All tickets remain valid, as purchased
Please note, this is a standing event
Please read our COVID-19 Safety Policy for information on attending events during this time.
]]>In 2 x120, cellist Bela Emerson invites the audience to become live co-creators. This forty-minute piece connects a series of spontaneous interactions between Emerson & individual audience members, who are invited to improvise with her for two minutes each. Participants are offered one of three specific ways of interacting (two sonic, one visual), to generate a unique collaborative flow of sound. Drawing together Emerson’s extensive experience as both improviser and community musician, this is innovative and inclusive work.
Bio: Bela Emerson is an innovative cellist who composes in the moment using electronic processing. She has performed residencies at Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, as well as being commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction as a solo performer, and releasing four solo albums. Her various collaborative works with artists such as filmmaker Tereza Buskova, acrobats Mimbre and musicians Sarah Angliss and Stephen Hiscock have been supported by PRS and Arts Council England and commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and the BFI. Bela also works as a community musician with Open Strings Music and Rhythmix’s Wishing Well, using music as a tool for connection, engagement and wellbeing.
Lisa Mitchell
Bear’s Den will release their Ivor Novello nominated single ‘Above The Clouds Of Pompeii’ on July 27th. Watch the official video on YouTube here.
‘Above The Clouds Of Pompeii’ is taken from Bear’s Den’s debut album ‘Islands’ which is out now on Communion Records / Caroline International, and was written by the band’s Andrew Davie.
Speaking of the song, Davie says, “It’s an amalgamation of many of my feelings growing up. Trying to connect with people and also my first times dealing with loss. My Dad and I went on a trip to Pompeii when I was really young and I was thinking about it one day, nostalgically and also kinda painfully remembering stuff from when I was a kid and trying to communicate how I felt back then. That Pompeii trip made a huge impression on me and seemed to be the right place and time in my childhood for me to try and articulate all those things.
“I wrote Above The Clouds Of Pompeii a few years ago, in the back of a VW camper van, on Bear's Den's first ever tour in America. Ben Howard, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Staves were also on that tour and it was hugely inspiring to be surrounded by so many talented songwriters night after night.”
A feature-length music documentary of this tour, ‘Austin To Boston’, will get its global release on 12th June via Netflix and iTunes, fresh from a successful run of screenings at international film festivals. The film was directed by James Marcus Haney (No Cameras Allowed), produced by Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons) & Ty Johnson (Sideshow Alley), and narrated by Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show).
Watch the trailer for ‘Austin To Boston’ here.
Bear’s Den will embark on a European headline tour this October 2015, culminating with a previously announced show at London’s Roundhouse on 27th October. Tickets go on general sale on Friday 5th June at 10am.
The new dates follow the band’s completely sold out tour earlier in the year where numerous venues upgraded due to ticket demand.
And watch the band performing ‘Think Of England’ live in front of a sold out homecoming crowd at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on YouTube here.
Bear’s Den now have a busy summer of US and European festival appearances ahead of them, including Glastonbury, Citadel, and Reading & Leeds festivals in the UK.
14+ (under 16 yr olds must be accompanied by an adult)
On sale Friday 5th June
]]>Beans on Toast - The prolific cult songwriter is coming to a town near you.
Climate emergency? Boris as PM? Rail-melting heat waves? A No Deal Brexit? Beans’ new album could only ever be called one thing:
‘The Inevitable Train Wreck’.
For now he’s holding his cards quite close to his chest, but he’s promised “a rock’n’roll album about our dying planet”.
The new release from the Essex Folk hero will find him searching for hope and change in what may be Earth’s darkest hour. On-track for a 25 date tour across the nation this Winter, catch him playing songs from ‘The Inevitable Train Wreck’ and his huge, well loved back catalogue.
The Inevitable Train Wreck’ will be released on 1st December 2019.
www.beansontoastmusic.com
]]>Fired by his ongoing battle with mental illness, "Shortly After Takeoff" is the final, and finest, chapter of what Christinzio calls his “Manchester Trilogy” and will be released in Spring 2020 in preparation for his UK tour.
Please note, this is a standing event.
Please read our COVID-19 Safety Policy for information on attending events during this time.
]]>Saturday
Performing Live: Julian Cope; Saul Williams
DJ Sets: Dennis Bovell, Adrian Sherwood & Mad Professor; Jah Lokko Soundsystem
In Conversation: Underworld & Lauren Laverne; Misty In Roots & Mary Anne Hobbs; Making Music in the West with Roni Size, DJ Queen Bee, Blanck Mass & Nemone
Poetry with Murray Lachlan Young, Deanna, Holly McNish and Kojey Radical
Comedy with Shaun Keaveny, Mark Watson, Cerys Nelmes and Alice Matthews
Also featuring an exhibition of the Bristol music scene in pictures by local photographer Beezer, an Independent Record fair, screen printing, tea and cake from the Women’s Institute.
Additionally, attendees are welcome to bring their music memorabilia along to be documented for The People’s History of Pop project, a new BBC Four series.
Sunday
Performing Live: Floating Points (live); This Is the Kit; False Lights; Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock; Rozi Plain
Ring The Alarm - The DJ Derek Story: Don Letts will be hosting an exclusive preview of a film about legendary Bristolian DJ Derek which Don has been making alongside Massive Attack’s Daddy G
In Conversation: Geoff Barrow & Gilles Peterson / John Grant & Cerys Matthews
Also featuring an exhibition of the Bristol music scene in pictures by local photographer Beezer, an Independent Record fair, the Jah Lokko Soundsystem, screen printing, tea and cake from the Women’s Institute.
Additionally, attendees are welcome to bring their music memorabilia along to be documented for The People’s History of Pop project, a new BBC Four series.
Some of the acts who’ll be performing at the festival, include Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie as well as Bristol’s very own – Roni Size, Tricky, Beak and The Blue Aeroplanes.
6 Music champions music with an alternative spirit and the Bristol music scene has always encapsulated this like no other. As well as reflecting the city’s extraordinary contemporary music scene and its heritage, the festival will also showcase Bristol’s diverse culture through food, street art and what will be an unmissable 6 Music Festival by Day – packed full of performance, film, speech and comedy events.
The 6 Music Festival will be housed in venues across the city – Motion, Colston Hall, O2 Academy, Basement 45 and Trinity with pop-up events in other venues throughout Bristol, big and small. The full line up will be announced on January 19th along with ticket sales information.
The 6 Music Festival is one of many real gems we have to look forward to in Bristol in 2016 and will give us a unique opportunity to showcase the very best of BBC Bristol and the city to the nation.
Tickets available in person from Bristol Ticket Shop - Monday 1st February!
]]>Barns Courtney
+ Will & The People
Please note this is a standing show
]]>Known for their energetic stage presence and wild shows, Bare Jams is a dynamic collective that blends feel-good pop with elements of soul, funk, jazz and rock.
Come and join us for a seriously fun show and do a good thing for your community by supporting real homegrown independent Bristol music in an independent venue put on by independent promoters.
+ support: Ace Clvrk
Please note this is a standing event, accessible seating is available.
Last entry: 2 hours before curfew
Venue levy: Trinity has introduced a £1 Restoration Levy on every event ticket sold. This income will be used to create a dedicated fund for critical building works that will protect and maintain the Trinity Centre building and grounds.
]]>The band consists of members Nina Cristante, Sam Fenton, and Jezmi Tarik Fehmi. Their name is derived from the Soho café Bar Italia.
+ support tba
Doors: 19:00
Last entry: 21:00
Curfew: 23:00
Please note this is a standing event, accessible seating is available. To reserve a limited seating spot contact Trinity, but to arrange a companion ticket, please contact info@trinitybristol.org.uk
Last entry 2 hours before curfew
Venue levy: Trinity has introduced a £1 Restoration Levy on every event ticket sold. This income will be used to create a dedicated fund for critical building works that will protect and maintain the Trinity Centre building and grounds.
]]>LA’s Banks ploughs a polished furrow in deeply personal themes delivered as powerful sultry vocals over often fervently moody electronica.
On this UK tour she has been joined by LuckyMe’s resident DJ and darling of Rinse FM and Radio One, Eclair Fifi, here ushering in the audience with a selection that mines the seam where r’n’b meets bleeding edge, post-dubstep production. It’s an at once accessible and thrilling alliance - and the perfect fanfare for a visiting artist that has leant so heavily on the production values of the UK’s taste-making underground.
Taking the stage to sinister scene-setter Before I Ever Met You, backlit and misted in dry ice, the slight American cuts a gothic silhouette as she sashays back and forth from the shadows.
On stage, Banks is flanked by two musicians, one at a drum kit, the other alternating between keys and guitar, augmenting the backing track. There is a synergy at play here, and with a lighting production that perfectly encapsulates the intensity of her sound, the show is at once intimate and powerful.
Following the haunting This Is What It Feels Like Now the more upbeat Change reveals a little of the true vocal power our host can wield. Then just when it seems the whole evening might be trotted out in the same vain she lets rip on Brain.
Perhaps because this is the first night of the tour, from this point we see a more relaxed and confident performance. We are treated to a debut airing and a little more in the way of conversation as the mood gradually lightens through Warm Water towards something of a soulful, even sunny, groove.
The dark and light of ‘Waiting Game’ brings the night full circle before our host announces her last of the evening is to be another 'world premier', a mild disappointment of crude r’n’b-informed pop, perhaps hinting at a more American aesthetic for the forthcoming album.
This would be a shame, for us in the UK at least, as it is through the unapologetic intelligence and atmospherics of her material to date that she stands a greater longevity in hearts and minds over here.
by Mark Edmundson
]]>Riz La Teef
Kahn & Neek
Boofy
Hi5ghost
Drone
LUCY
Sir Hiss
Bengal Sound
Mic duties: SGT Pokes
'Caution: excessive sound levels' - earplugs are available at the bar for 50p
]]>Bringing elements of the musical traditions of Scotland, Ireland, England and even Turkey, this band have come together in two iconic venues to celebrate the life and works of Scottish National Poet Robbie Burns in a truly unique way. Fitty Gomash will also be playing a Ceilidh.
The night in two halves will take you on a beautifully crafted journey through a collection of the poet's best known works and hidden gems with an intricately arranged mixture of seven voices and thirteen instruments. Also, it will be the first chance to hear in public new compositions built from some of Burns' poems never before set to music.
Band of Burns is the culmination of many musicians playing with and around each other for years, and taking the step to come together for a small time to create something extraordinary in honour of this much-loved artistic icon. In the words of the man himself …
But pleasures are like poppies spread
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed
Or like the snow falls in the river
A moment white then melts for ever
Adam Beattie - Guitar, Bass, Voice
Alastair Caplin - Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals
Dave Tunstall - Bass, Bagpipes
Dominie Hooper - Cello, Voice
Dila Vardar - Voice
Ellis Davies - Guitar
Ewan Macdonald- Fiddle, Cittern
John Langan - Guitar, Cajon, Voice
Lewis Murray - Fiddle
Mikey Kenney - Fiddle, Voice
Ríoghnach Connolly - Voice, Irish Flute
Musical Director - Alastair Caplin
Production Team - Dila Vardar, Sophie Bostock
A Firefly Productions and Dila V Production