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10 things to do this week, Jan 26 – Feb 1
Monday: Save Your Breath, Exchange
The shouty Newport pop-punkers bounce into town to blast through their back catalogue on their farewell tour.
www.exchangebristol.com
Tuesday: Jessie Ware, Colston Hall
She’s worked with SBTRKT and Bristol dubstep lynchpin Joker, and their crisp electronic production has clearly rubbed off.
www.colstonhall.org/shows/jessie-ware/
Wednesday: Burger night, Birch
A burger, chips and salad will set you back £10 at this splendid Southville neighbourhood restaurant.
www.birchbristol.co/events/
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Wednesday-January 31: Grounded, Arnolfini
Lucy Ellinson stars in this compulsive new play that flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence.
www.bristololdvic.org.uk/grounded.html
Thursday: Novel Nights, The Lansdown
Literary agent Juliet Pickering from Blake Friedmann shares her expertise and local writers read the first pages of their novels.
www.facebook.com/novelnights
Thursday: Dejeuner Disco, The Big Chill
Bristol’s only lunchtime disco allows you to dance your lunch hour away in the company of like-minded folk and DJ Tommy Popcorn.
www.facebook.com/dejeunerdisco
Friday & Saturday: Bristol Winter Cider Festival, Brunel’s Old Station
This two-day bender promises 100 ciders and perries to sample, soaked up by hog roast rolls and cheese platters.
www.clstickets.co.uk
Saturday: King Creosote, Marble Factory
Fife’s finest songwriter Kenny Anderson plays his signature wry, heartfelt folk balladry at Bristol’s newest live music venue.
www.motionbristol.com/events/single-event/464-king-creosote
Sunday: Bristol Sportive
A new sportive cycle ride that take riders from Hengrove to Kenn, towards the Mendip Hills, Cheddar Gorge and Chew Valley.
www.evanscycles.com/pages/rideit-bristol-sportive-ride-1st-february-2015
Sunday: Wood Job + Q&A
A coming-of-age comedy about an 18-year-old Yuki who abandons the big city and enrols as a forestry apprentice in the sticks.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/6363/wood-job-qa/
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