Venues

VENUES/PROMOTERS I LIKE

Bristol's wide-ranging waterfront multi-purpose art center with fine eats and drink too.

The very active club that inhabits a great venue, Widcombe Social Club, and books exceptional performers

Bath Fringe
Biggest Fringe south of Edinburgh and still struggling

Bath International Music Festival
Three weeks in an open mind: contemporary music of every kind under the leadership of Joanna MacGregor

The Bell

Bath's renowned and historic music pub, with a booking policy that encompasses world-class jazz, folk, world and especially music that fuses the three.

CRH Music
Introducing great Americana for the last 14 years

Purr
Introducing great new pop for the last 8 years

St Bonaventures

Bristol venue for CRH bookings; Americana in the huge living room you wish you had with a fine and ineexpensive barin the corner.

St Georges, Bristol Phil Johnson's Late Night series presents new and intriguing jazz, Americana, folk and more

Start The Bus

Hip DJ and funky dance mecca

Moles Club
Bath's historic rock club – everone who's anyone, as well as anyone who is no one, has passed through this dark vault

Porter Cellar Bar
Veggie pub, very studenty, with excellent grub and really interesting weeknight music

The Prom
The Bell of Bristol, but with more country music

St James Wine Vaults
Great intimate venue, especially for jazz and folk

Thekla Great venue in a (big) boat with excellent booking policy

MUSICIANS/BANDS I LIKE

The Avengers
My first ('77), and a truly great, punk band

The Blessing
Creative, Ornette-inspired jazz

T he Blood Choir

Darkish rockish Anglo-Americana

Herman Dune
Swedish Americana, genuine and intimate

The Handsome Family

The greatest and strangest songwriting band – a duo, really,of Brett and Rennie Sparks, who write and record songs in the American country music tradition on a Mac in their Albuquerque house.

Leon Hunt

World-class banjo player, a master of taste and elegance on an instrument not associated with those descriptives,

Jenny Lewis
Great songs, great singing

Kate Lissauer
Old Time country fiddler-singer and fount of knowledge

James Morton
Alto sax player who fuses Maceo & Charlie Parker

Jason Rebello
Extraordinarily gifted jazz pianist

The Sadies
Where rock&roll and country meet and have babies

Clare Teal
Terrific singer and down-to-earth person

Venus Bogardus
Where art music and Rock meet