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Music video provides glimpse inside Bristol Beacon’s new spaces
The building site that is currently much of Bristol Beacon provides the backdrop for a new video by Grove.
The video acts as a behind-the-scenes tour mid-transformation, with the refurbished venue due to open its doors in autumn 2023.
It’s not just the main Beacon Hall either with Grove also performing in the cellars and the smaller Lantern Hall.
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These three performance spaces will be at the heart of newly refurbished venue, along with a new education centre, new restaurant and bars, and improved backstage facilities.
The video was shot in September by Plimsoll, the Whiteladies Road-based production company of which Bristol mayor Marvin Rees is a non-executive director.
Bristol City Council has now written off £69m refurbishing the Bristol Beacon.
Bristol Beacon artistic director Todd Wills said that “music is at the heart of everything we do as a music charity”.
“The transformation of our venue will create new and greater opportunities to make space for everyone to enjoy and participate in music – from live performance to education programmes to spaces for communities to connect.
“In the meantime, we wanted to take the opportunity to collaborate with Grove, an incredible artist we’ve worked with a number of times now, and see how they could bring our evolving spaces to life.
“We wanted to inject some of the energy and vibrancy that we will play host to every day as a venue to celebrate what we’re all working so hard to make a reality.”
Grove said: “The eclectic, bass-heavy and high-quality music communities are what drew me to living in Bristol in 2019.
“I hope that this renovation will contribute and give space to that eclecticism that I love the city for. I wish for it to cultivate cross-cultural connections in meaningful ways.
“More than ever now, opportunities for developing artists are vital, and I hope for the well-funded cultural institutions to rise to the challenge of uplifting those most vulnerable during this tough socio-political time.
“Experiencing the work-in-progress building for this video was good fun, but the real life will be brought by the communities that have access to and inhabit the space.”
Main image: Plimsoll
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