Year: 2025

Folk singer-songwriter, Nadia Reid, is touring in support of her fourth album, ‘Enter Now Brightness’ which was released earlier this year. The stop at Strange Brew comes two years after she was last in Bristol, road-testing some of these songs at Crofters Rights. That 2023 performance was solo acoustic but this time the singer has […]

It might have been a Sunday night but The Dare and his audience made it feel like the start of the weekend. The American electropop musician has been credited as one of the artists bringing back “indie sleaze”. His 2023 project ‘The Sex EP’ went viral on TikTok and he gained further recognition for producing, […]

Machine Girl are a difficult band to describe; their music straddles so many genres that it can be quite an assault on the senses. Their latest release, 2024’s ‘MG Ultra’ album, is electronica, hardcore, punk and rave with the songs jumping around between these different sounds. One song can feel like listening to 100 Gecs […]

Irish folk singer, Fionn Regan, brought his O Avalanche tour to a sold out Strange Brew. It’s his first gig in the city in almost 13 years, following his 2011 Trinity show. It’s a peculiar set up in the venue with around 100 or so seats in front of the stage and then other ticket […]