2018 – The Shonk

JANE WEAVER

Beautiful show tonight by @JanelWeaver@TrinityBristol,to deconstruct and then rebuild her songs in front of us, alone, takes bravery, ingenuity and talent. Class I posted this tweet immediately upon leaving the Trinity Centre, I could have […]

CHATS!

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We’re the chats from Queensland Australia! Taking the reigns from down under punk royalty Cosmic Psychos, The chats put on a punk masterclass in Brighton on Sunday. Banging out tunes of their Get This in […]

JIM GHEDI & TOBY HAY

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A gig in a recording studio, quite a culturally important studio, both Portishead, Dummy and Massive Attack, Blue Lines were recorded here, two iconic moments in the musical history of Bristol, iconic albums which will […]

SUPERSEED

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As I sit here and listen to the bewildering chaos generated by the wind whisking through the woods that wrap around Shonk Towers it brings me to think of forces to be reckoned with, of […]

OH SEES & FLAT WORMS

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From the desk and mind of Arbiter Titan! The Shonk overcomes The Beast from the East to face their psyche quest. Back in March, The Shonk prepared a scouting team to venture to That London […]

GREEN MAN PT3 2018

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I’m going to admit at this point that I’ve lost the second itinerary that I wrote out for this exercise. I lost the one that I made for the festival so wrote out another by […]

GREEN MAN PT2 2018

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Saturday… and my head was pounding! I had spent far more energy tokens than I had intended on Friday night deep into Saturday morning, I even introduced gin into the equation (some peer pressure may […]

GREEN MAN PT1 2018

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Many months ago I got the hankering for a festival. I didn’t fancy the fast paced turbo charged carnage of Boomtown, a festival so amazing that you never see any of the acts you have […]

THE BURNING HELL 1

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The Burning Hell… without doubt are one of the greatest bands to exist in all of time and I can say that with confidence because I have lost count of how many times I have […]

BRISTOL PSYCHFEST 2018

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This was it, the big one! The highly anticipated big event of the year for The Shonk with Arbiter Titan picking up early-bird tickets what feels like an eternity to go. Every event we have […]