BrisFest

BrisFest moves to Ashton Court!

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:32:23 +0000

Bristol City Council has given BrisFest, Bristol’s community music festival, the green light to move the event to Ashton Court Estate later this year. The festival, which will take place on September 22nd and 23rd, has been running for four years on the harbourside, attracting 25,000 visitors in 2011.

This announcement marks the beginning of a new era of music festivals at Ashton Court. BrisFest began after the much loved Ashton Court Festival, which started in 1974, went bankrupt in 2007. A group of local volunteers felt it was vital for Bristol to retain an accessible, affordable music festival so the not-for-profit Bristol Festival Community Group was set up.

The Bristol Festival Community Group created BrisFest, a new festival with a unique mix of music, street art, theatre, comedy and circus, and a distinctly “Bristol” feel. The event showcases the best of the South West with something for everyone from toddlers to talent scouts.

As a not-for-profit festival BrisFest is almost entirely run by volunteers and all profits are reinvested back into the festival to make it bigger and better each year, year, supporting local artists and training volunteers in everything from stage management to recognised qualifications in health and safety.

Now in its fifth year, BrisFest’s rapidly increasing popularity means that is has outgrown its city centre site. The move to Ashton Court will increase the festival’s capacity to 40,000 over two days.

“Having started off on a smaller scale, we’ve built BrisFest from the ground up over the last four years,” said Poppy Stephenson. “We now have the people, the resources and the systems we need to bring us home to Ashton Court, our ‘spiritual home’!”

Tickets for BrisFest 2012 have been on sale since last year, when the public was asked to pledge its support for the festival’s move to Ashton Court by buying their tickets in advance.

“Ticket sales are going really well,” said Poppy Stephenson. “We’re well on our way to 10,000 and we expect a sell-out event.”

“BrisFest 2012 at Ashton Court is going to be an extravaganza of music, street art, theatre, comedy and circus, the likes of which Bristol has never seen before. We’re going to give this great city a festival it can be proud of.”To mark the festival’s move to Ashton Court, a limited number of special “Swiftpass” tickets have been released available for those who purchase a ticket in the coming weeks. People holding these tickets, priced at £30 for the weekend (the same price as a normal ticket), will get special wrist bands which allow them to skip queues at the gate, bars and toilets all weekend. “Swiftpass” tickets are available on a first come, first served basis here for a limited time only.

BRISFEST FUNDRAISER @ MR WOLF’S WITH ONE SHOT, TITUS TWELVE & VAMOS

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:40:17 +0000

January is looking up…with the first BrisFest fundraiser of 2012!

Thursday, January 19th @ 8pm

We’ve got three acts who are sure to bring a bit of cheer to this most miserable month of the year!

One Shot – Playing a mix of rocksteady dub grooves along with kick driven bass heavy steppa’s, One Shot are new to the Bristol Reggae Scene http://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Shot/172930546131162?sk=info

Titus Twelve – Titus is a DJ/producer living in Bristol, using various instruments, vinyl samples and found-sound to bash out some interesting takes on Dub and Reggae primarily, but has been known to switch the tempo…
Titus also hosts a fortnightly show on Ujima 98 FM, every other thursday 11pm – 1am. listen to the show and get previous shows as podcasts from www.ujimaradio.com
http://www.myspace.com/titustwelve
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Titus-Twelve/216892478374051

Vamos – An international member band with Spanish, English and French roots, born as a need to give happiness, movement and love to people. We just want the audience to have a good time, by playing easy to listen, cheeky, fast rhythm songs with positive viewing lyrics… We give good times to all with folk, funky rumba, latin and also some romance!!
http://www.myspace.com/vamosband

‘Bustle Around the World’ launch night, a BrisFest fundraiser

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:17:34 +0000

One of our beloved volunteers, Cyrille, is launching a new project ‘Bustle Around the World’ as he embarks on a round the world trip, collating music as he goes. Global sounds will be heard on his new blog as he documents everything from street performers to club nights.

In celebration of the adventure, and to raise funds for BrisFest 2012, we invite you to Mr Wolfs on Thursday 15th December for an evening of live music, DJs and party tunes. All proceeds go towards BrisFest, registered charity 1124722.

Line up includes:

MaDMAndy (live) – upbeat, big beats and truthful lyrics
Ben Daley
Fireman Sam
C-REAL

Mr Wolfs,
St Stephen’s Street, (Off Balwin St), Bristol
8pm – 3am
£3

See www.facebook.com/events/289957424382904/

Free T-shirt with all ticket bookings before Christmas

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:22:09 +0000

What a great Christmas gift…. supporting BrisFest’s move to Ashton Court!

For the month of December* you’ll receive the following with every ticket purchase:

A physical ticket gift voucher
A ‘thank you for helping to bring a community festival back to Ashton Court’ card
A BrisFest T-shirt

…All posted to arrive in time for Christmas so you can give it as a gift!

To claim your free gifts simply purchase a ticket from our online shop here, and you’ll receive an email with a choice of T-shirts still available; we have a range of sizes and colours. We’ll then post it out in time for Christmas and you can pop them under the tree. Easy!
If you’re worried about the Christmas post drop us a line as we could arrange for you to collect your items from our centrally based office at times to suit (by prior arrangement only).

BUY TICKETS HERE.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at BrisFest!

*All purchases up until 20th December. One free t-shirt per purchase.

Jelli Records BrisFest fundraising concert!

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:34:06 +0000

Tuesday 24th January 2012 8pm – Colston Hall 2

Featuring…

Sadie Fleming
Paul Garry
Rebecca Cant
Heg Doughty & the Wolf Chorus

Plus foyer performances from 6pm from:

Lindsay Bullamore www.linziandthelimpetts.bandcamp.com
Rebecca Cullen www.tinyurl.com/rebeccadawnfacebook

Click here for more info & tickets!

BrisFest open meeting for anyone wanting to get involved

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:29:18 +0000

We are holding an open meeting for anyone who wants to get more involved in BrisFest!

Come along and find out more about The Bristol Festival Community Group, the festival plans for the future, why we are a charity and how you can get more involved.

Lots of our current committee members will be there to answer your questions, and we’ll be able to let you know what opportunities there are with us, including partnerships with local businesses, venues and organisations as well as individuals.

We welcome everyone to join the team, whether you have experience already or would like to gain some! It’s a great way of meeting people, giving something back to the community, gaining experience in events, building skills for your CV and having fun!

We need people for: Promotional Team, Web Design, Graphic Design, Copywriters, Décor Team, VIP Area Coordinator, Stage Teams, plus lots of other roles (and obviously lots of stewards!).

So, we hope to see you there on Tuesday 8th November at 7pm.

Hamilton House is the building above The Canteen (on Stokes Croft) and we will be in a meeting room upstairs. There will be someone in the main foyer to point you in the right direction.

If you can’t make this one, but would like to get involved then please email our Volunteer Managers, Alice & Xenie on getinvolved@brisfest.co.uk

Lots of love from

The BrisFest Team xxx

BRISFEST @ ASHTON COURT Halloween Fundraiser! 28th October

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:25:06 +0000

- A Nightmare on York Street ╸ The Black Swan – FRI OCT 28th -

Help us take Brisfest 2012 to Ashton Court with Bristol’s biggest, bloodiest Halloween party at THE BLACK SWAN. Some of the hottest underground artists around will be playing out well past the witching hour so you can shake your undead flesh into a spectral trance and celebrate the ‘Ween with a proper grave-rave to make Satan proud.

Fancy dress gets you extra bonus points, and the theme is Zombie Celebs: we want to see famous people and fictional characters too – but zombified! So get busy dreaming up some gory home-made costume ideas, there’ll be trophies for our fave costumes and Lakota will be creeped out with spooky decor and installations to set the mood.

With……

- Ikonika
- Arkist
- DJ Rum
- Komonazmuk
- Wascal

Live graffiti, fire performers & fancy dress!

Tickets £7 ADV (+booking fee) / £10 on the door

BCfm RADIO SHOW!

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:22:13 +0000

BCfm Radio

BCfm Radio will be broadcasting their recordings from the Acoustic Stage at BrisFest from Monday 21st November at 11pm each night. You can listen on 93.2 (Bristol ) area or Listen online & Podcast from www.bcfm.org.uk

BrisFest 2011 – a huge success!

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:08:43 +0000

BrisFest 2011 was amazing – with a packed amphitheatre, alongside city centre Rave on Avon venues and the exclusive Underground party!

We would like to say a huge thank you to all our crew, volunteers, sponsors, artists and the thousands of attendees who made this years festival so enjoyable!

Click these links to read some of this years reviews -

VU Guide

Venue

Evening Post

A huge thank you to all our photographers at this years event for the wonderful photos shown below.

All that’s left to say is……bring on Ashton Court 2012, show your love for BrisFest & buy your ticket here!

Bristol Music Industry Network

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:39:08 +0000

Invitation to the Bristol Music Industry Network meeting.

Wednesday 14th September 2011, 12:30pm
Hall 2, Colston Hall
Refreshments provided

The Bristol Music Industry Network (B-min) is designed to be an open forum
for music industry professionals based in the region to network, discuss
issues we all face, and work together to develop our strong and thriving
music scene in and around Bristol. This is an open invitation to all those
involved in the local music industry, from venue managers, record labels and
recording studios, to journalists, radio presenters and promoters, with
musicians and producers also welcome, to attend this informal meeting.

After a short break from the Bristol Music Industry Forum we’ve decided to
return to the lunchtime meeting dates at the Colston Hall, with a new name
and open agenda. This first meeting will focus on up-coming musical events
in the city, a presentation from Louise Mitchell C.E.O. of the new Bristol
Music Trust and Colston Hall and a discussion on what we would all like from
our future network meetings. The meetings will be chaired by Steve Parkhouse
of Jelli records with support from Poppy Stephenson of BrisFest, and
administrative support (and lunch) provided by the Bristol Music Trust. We
look forward to seeing you there.