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In Depth

Supersonic 2009: The DiS Review

Capsule's best festival to date? We think it might be - certainly the Saturday of this year's Supersonic was as fine a run of music on a solitary day as we can remember in a jolly long while. Which means there is no room here to wax lyrical about awesome »

End of The Road Festival

In Depth by Mat Hocking

It can’t be that hard, can it? Find a field, book some bands, keep everything low-scale and independent, and hope it stays warm enough to relax in the sun drinking quality cider in your shirt and sandals. At least, that’s possibly what Sophia and Simon, the organisers behind the very first End of the Road Festival, had running through their minds last summer...»

Venn Festival 2006

In Depth by Rachel Cawley

Venn 2006 was three years old - the festival first brought experi(mental) joy to this corner of Bristol in 2004. Venn is based around existing venues in the Stokes Croft and St Pauls area of Bristol, many of which are literally next door to each other, making long walks non-existant. The venues are as diverse as the area housing them - Casablanca is a morrocan themed shisha bar, the Malcolm X centre is a polkda-dotted hall with jamaican lager-slash-beer, the Full Moon is a punkish pub. Diversity applied to the musical line-up too, dub-step to hip-hop to shouty girl punk; the linking factor being the high quality of everything on offer. Despite the intense sunshine and the presence of premier pie shop 'PieMinister' in Stokes Croft, DiS made it to gigs. In fact, we made it to many gigs. The musical policy at Venn was so all-encompassingly fantastic, that weather and food paled into insignificance with the excitement of bands weird and wonderful in venues small and large. Now our ears throb, our eyes squint and our legs ache from dashing from gig to gig, but we're still here to comment on our quite incredible findings.

Venn Festival Preview

In Depth by Rachel Cawley

Venn Festival is three years old this year. If you follow the playground adage of “first the worst, second the best”, this will be the Venn with a hairy chest. A festival with a hairy chest is not all that much of a proposition, but to peruse the line-up, would suggest this year will be ‘third time lucky’, so delectable is the extensive list of bands, persons and machines involved.»