The Bluetones review – Academy Bristol 21/9/11

 

Major music scenes pretty much follow the same pattern – a few big names at the top above a sea of chancers and imitators.

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Mr Big review – Bristol Academy 12/9/11

 

Mr Big may not be a familiar name to everyone, but the band enjoyed worldwide success with their single, To Be With You, which topped the charts in 15 countries in 1991.

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Toots and the Maytals review – Bristol Academy 11/9/11

 

Reggae has to be one of the most reliable forms of music there is.
If that’s a polite way of saying it all sounds the same, that’s not such a bad thing.

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Robyn review – Bristol Academy 10/9/11

 

There’s a fine line between critically-acclaimed credibility and the indistinguishable line  of bands that might be at T4 on the Beach one year and  a footnote in pop history the next.

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East 17 review – Academy 1/9/11

 

 

Timewas turned back two decades upstairs at the Academy  as East 17 took us back to the ’90s and the songs that made this band achieve 18 top-20 hits, four top-10 albums and sales of more than 20 million records.

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