Live Music
The Bell has live music three times a week (Monday from 9pm, Wednesday from 8.30pm and Sunday lunchtimes from 1pm) ranging from jazz to blues to folk to roots to some things we are not sure what to call.
 You can watch recordings of previous gigs at the pub on Ustream.
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May/June 2012 Listings
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"...a record deck was placed on the bar and plugged in, an LP placed on the turntable and the wonderful sounds of "Almost Cut My hair" by CSN&Y flowing through the speakers. You just don't EVER get that in today's plastic pubs and JDW's. Sublime! :-)" MisterX - Beerintheevening.com
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Wednesday 16 May
Blackberry Wood
Lunatic Canadian festival band - it must be summer already, hooray! - gather up a bundle of music they like - cabaret, theatre, circus and folk - heap it high, see what balances, what falls off, and what makes an interesting flavour mixed together. They've been different every visit: about the only thing we can guarantee is the good time! [myspace link]
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Sunday 20 May (lunchtime)
Mambo Jambo
Name the style, they can play it [tho there's a lot of South America as well as Europe in there]; name the audience, they'll entertain them. Everyone comes out with the big smiles Pete & Frankie came in with. [website link]
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Monday 21 May
Flux Capacitor PLUS Marina Zetl
FC are from Philadelphia and play very groovy leftfield rock with a lot of bounce and instrumental panache; MZ is from Vienna, has a stunning voice, plays classical piano and sings contemporary-into-jazz. Two more unique treats from the CMEAS project. [myspace link] [website link]
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Wednesday 23 May
Tamco
Bristol music artistocracy behind the leadership of one of the first vocalists [and musical intelligences] in the SouthWest, Tammy Payne, on an eclectic and clever string of covers and other leftfield gestures. Utterly premium quality. [myspace link]
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Sunday 27 May (lunchtime)
Paul Wassif
That he's backed Bert Jansch and Sylvain Sylvain tells you he's no ordinary country-blueser; rising above the current climate-change induced flood of Americana he's an island of quality topped with a mountain of vision. [website link]
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Monday 28 May
Jez Hellard PLUS The 32-20s
Another solid new hope for Britfolk (great writing and multi-instrumentalist) meets alleged cowboy-jazzers from the curious village of Pilton. Straight to the Bell's acoustic heart. [myspace link]
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Wednesday 30 May
Poppy Perezz
Sparky and funky with a dash of overproof latin, a lot of fizz and lashings of POP! Sounds like one of the pub's new cocktails. With fireworks. [website link]
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Sunday 3 June (lunchtime)
Fable of the Bees
Quintessentially English Folk/prog/rock. That the band is named after an early 18th century foundation text of economics, in verse, tells a lot too. Beards & Cloaks not obligatory. [myspace link]
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Monday 4 June
Praying For The Rain
Magical acoustical tribal festival favourites for nigh-on a couple of decades, and still making new albums and new friends. Lovely songs and still lovlier singing. The Bell will be officially the most chilled place in the cosmos tonight. [myspace link]
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Wednesday 6 June
Backbeat Sound System
Surfer party doods come in hard on Reggae and funk and mob-handed [8 of them!]. This ainโt gonna to be much like your jubilee street party vibe, thank Bod. [myspace link]
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Sunday 10 June (lunchtime)
Attila the Stockbroker with Rory Ellis
Frightening double-header: anarchic folk-poet road-rat meets weatherbeaten Aussie blues acoustician. The fans of either would be enough to fill the place, so together is going to be mayhem. In a good way. [myspace link]
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Monday 11 June
Matt Woosey
Oh he's good this boy: appealing equally to lovers of stoner jamerama and old-school blues, with a sharp sideline in memorable writing; Matt's in it for the long haul and will be worth watching every step of the way. [myspace link]
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Wednesday 13 June
TopShelf Jazz
It shouldn't be allowed. Bad behaviour accumulated since the 1920s [you think you're a little louche? you need to read some history] all set to jaunty retro tunes your aunty would like - as long as she wasn't listening to the words... [website link]
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