Bristol is an increasingly exciting place for jazz and improvisation at the moment, with a recent influx of musicians from London and other areas leading to new collaborations with established heavyweights of the Bristol music scene. Alex Merritt, a lyrical, creative and extremely well-read tenor player is one of the most exciting of these new...
Stand Up For The Weekend with Pierre Novellie featuring Josh Jones plus compare Meryl O'Rourke. One of the UK's finest up-and-coming comedians, Pierre Novellie was a correspondent on BBC2’s The Mash Report hosted by Nish Kumar and performed on the most recent series of Stand Up Central on Comedy Central. He previously had a regular role...
Desi Central Comedy Tour brings laughter to Bristol. Acts on the night: Hyde Panaser Sukh Ojla Nabil Abdulrashid Imran Yusuf Desi Central is brought to you by LuvEntertainment, a Multiple Award Winning provider of comedy events since 2009. Desi Central comedy tour hosts memorable, quality shows all over the UK and feature the very best...
THE BEST STAND-UPS IN THE WEST Our new South West showcase evening featuring the best talent the Westcountry has to offer. Over the years some of the finest comedians on the UK comedy circuit emerged from the South West including Russell Howard, Stephen Merchant, Jayde Adams, Bill Bailey, John Robins, Joel Dommett and Josh Widdicombe....
Damon Brown is one of the UK's top jazz trumpeters, who released his debut album A Rhythm Indicative back in 1998 to great acclaim. He went on to work alongside most of the UK's best-known players such as Peter King and Don Weller and began to forge international links with players from Europe, Japan and the...
Stand Up For The Weekend with Jimmy McGhie featuring Marlon Davis plus compere Ross Noble. Highly acclaimed stand-up Jimmy McGhie performs all over the world when the world is behaving normally! He is “a brilliant talent” (The Scotsman) and with “an easy charm and appealing relaxed manner” (Chortle), he has performed 10 solo shows at festivals globally including the Edinburgh...
It was only a matter of time before Cuban born trumpeter and trombonist Michel Padrón crossed paths with ‘gringo’ Jim Blomfield, one of the South West’s best-known Jazz and Latin pianists. Two brilliant exponents of the Afro-Cuban and Salsa genres, the pair bring together some of their favourite musicians to play a dynamic set of...
Coming Winter 2021, Long Live Chainsaw reveals the incredible true story of the meteoric rise, untimely death and long-lasting legacy of Canadian downhill mountain bike legend, Stevie Smith. On September 22 2013, Stevie realized a seemingly impossible dream and took the UCI Downhill World Cup Overall title in Leogang, Austria. Today, 8 years since that...
Stand Up For The Weekend with Sara Barron featuring Tom Lucy plus compere Robin Morgan. Sara Barron is a relentlessly honest and desperately funny comic, relating brutal and sometimes filthy truths in a warm and welcoming way. She is an American writer turned stand up living in London. While Stateside, she wrote for Vanity Fair, published...
Born in the UK but raised in New Zealand, Cordez has lived and worked in London, Madrid and New York before settling in Bristol where he has become a major presence in our music scene, both as a performer and as a lecturer at BIMM music college. Over the course of three CD releases Greg...
Stand Up For The Weekend with Roger Monkhouse Featuring Plus compere Tom Toal. Roger Monkhouse is one of the most original and distinctive acts on the comedy scene. A consummate stand-up who employs a deadly combination of charm and menace to exert a masterful control over any audience. A highly original and quirky performer, Roger's trademark stage-prowling...
Guitarist Dan Waldman is well known both in Bristol and London, where he has presented his own band at Ronnie Scott's. He spent several years living in New York and has returned to the USA several times. In 2020 he released Sources and Angles, his debut recording as leader, recorded in Brooklyn and featuring international...
