Music – Weston-super-Mum

Bristol Hippodrome theatre review: Motown the Musical

Vivienne Kennedy reviews Motown the Musical, playing at The Bristol Hippodrome until Saturday 2 February 60 years ago today, on

19/10/2018 Becky Condron 1 Comment

This half-term holiday, Wild Words is back at St George’s Bristol with its bubbling cauldron of music, storytelling and educational

On this unseasonably warm and sunny autumn day, I sit on Bristol’s bustling Harbourside, legs dangling over the River Avon.

50 years on from the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have all the Luck – The Rod Stewart Story is

Best to start this review with a simple confession … until 21st September, I was technically a Blues Brothers virgin! Yes,

When, in 1974, ABBA stormed Eurovision with their smash hit entry, ‘Waterloo’, I was five years old. By the time

I was intrigued by the performance I was heading to see at St Georges in Bristol on Friday night. Billed

The Devil’s Violin returns to Tobacco Factory Theatre for more mesmerising storytelling fused with live music, the two so interwoven

In another St George’s first for this old punk I find myself joining a somewhat smaller audience than I’ve seen

“Simple assignment”, I’d thought beforehand, “Just a good old sing-along show to exercise my lyrics’ recall and tonsils”. Well, in