Bravo Brave Bats Vlog
Bravo Brave Bats have launched a vlog (a video blog to the uninitiated) on Blip.tv with the inaugural edition live this very day, Easter Monday 25th April 2011. Now the stated aim is to publish a new...
View ArticleThe Purple EP – Bravo Brave Bats
One band, three EP’s, six videos, twelve months, eighteen recorded tracks and 38 live shows. An impressive achievement by anyone’s standard. More impressive yet is the progress and development that...
View ArticlePurple EP Launch – Bravo Brave Bats
All of life is here in Stokes Croft on a Saturday night, and a goodly number of them were at The Croft for the launch gig for Bravo Brave Bats Purple EP. Their third EP in twelve months. I have already...
View ArticleThe Best of 2011
I still know its a bit naff but I am still going to do it – here, in strictly alphabetical order, are my albums of 2011 (followed by my favourite gigs his year) I will instantly regret not including a...
View ArticleBravo Brave Bats – BBC Session and at The Thekla w/ We Are Augustines
Bravo Brave Bats, Bristol’s best band (I will brook no dissent, they just simply are, and I know every Bristol band…) is having a bit of a good start to the year; a new project of writing a song a...
View ArticleBravo Brave Bats – Grain Barge
I promise to shut up about Bravo Brave Bats for a bit now, but before I do, a few words and some grainy pix to mark their support slot for EJ Esau at the Grain Barge last eve hot on the heels from...
View ArticleBravo Brave Bats on BBC6 Music
Just a tiny bloglet here to mark and celebrate the fact that Bravo Brave Bats got their highly deserved first national radio airplay last night on the inestimable Tom Robinson show on BBC6 Music. Tom...
View ArticleThe Night Country
Right-o, counter to my usual blogging activity this isn’t per se about music, although it is related. Its about gig posters/artwork-y sort of stuff and in particular the work of The Night Country the...
View ArticleLooming – Negative Pegasus
After a super ar*e of week I notice a little email poke from Simon at ilikepress encouraging me again to listen to Negative Pegasus so, ever obedient, I do and its just what the doctor ordered, a kick...
View ArticleWe are Serious and We Mean It – Glacials
Sometimes a little bit of wonderful drops into the inbox and so it was with this album from Glacials. A serendipitous bit of six degrees of separation – Glacials are chums with the ever wonderful...
View ArticleUnited Downs – Trelawney
Benjamin Reynolds aka Trelawney, is the possessor of a remarkable voice. In these days of homogenised, tuned and tweaked voices his is one of those rare examples of characterful and distinctive pipes...
View ArticlePurple EP Launch – Bravo Brave Bats
All of life is here in Stokes Croft on a Saturday night, and a goodly number of them were at The Croft for the launch gig for Bravo Brave Bats Purple EP. Their third EP in twelve months. I have already...
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