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Trip-Hop, Britpop, soul and funk as Liverpool for the Beat generation of the sixties, is Bristol's music scene today. 50 live bands in small clubs bring every night the old port city on the wings.

 

People love das A two hour concert, the band Sheelanagig in "Jesters Comedy Club" now behind him, a difficult tour de force by Eastern European folklore and earthy rock, and at the end they finally bring the Polish Drinking Song "Skotchne", the Join awaited song.

From wild ecstasy spins the piece down into an offense lyres, the band members are as volltrunken on stage boards fall, the audience also goes into the squat, only violinist Aaron Catlow is still playing, is quieter, very quietly, some women giggle . And then, after a moment of silence, the explosion - band and audience jumping to its feet, the Grand Finale, noisy transition into thunderous applause.

"The music scene in Bristol is unbelievable play here every night about 50 excellent live bands," says Tony Benjamin, 55, music journalist in the city of Venue magazine and organizer of the "Jazz Lounge" at the annual music festival in nearby Glastonbury. "Except as London is not a city on the island to keep pace."

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With approximately 415,000 inhabitants of Bristol has a convenient size, they come to walk quickly from pub to pub, with the car is one in a quarter in the lush green of the counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. The rivers Avon and Frome meet together in Bristol, and from the port is on the Bristol Channel out into the Atlantic and into the world.

From the late 16th Century the city became rich through trade in African slaves, in terms such as Blackboy Hill and Jamaica Street sounds dark chapter today. The merchant Edward Colston earned in the 17 Century a fortune and donated generously to schools, churches and charitable organizations - money that can become a significant part of human trafficking has generated. The controversy over his position is incubating in Bristol's history continues, and it is not the last named after him Colston Hall Concert Hall, with her name repeatedly into the air blowing embers.

From Rachmaninoff to Roxy Music

"They now enter the autobiography of Marianne Faithfull," says Graeme Howell wink, he is the director of the Colston Hall and his voice has the timbre of a proud people, every day of his working week in a modern myth spends.

In this corridor, they have so after a 1966 concert of the Stones hit, Mick Jagger and the girls, their romance is history. The Colston Hall, 1867 opening, has a history, and it sounds like a confused list of the musical elite of the last century: Sergei Rachmaninov has also sat on the grand piano like Oscar Peterson, Bob Dylan was hailed here and Bob Marley, the Beatles have here and rocked Roxy Music, Ella Fitzgerald has sung and Elton John.

But the best time is always now, the latest star polish the luster of the Colston Hall anew, today there are artists like the singer Martha Wainwright and the English band "Goldfrapp", the fresh wind into the stage curtain bring. Renewed these days even the house itself, the concert will be completely overhauled.

"For classical music is the great room, but you hear yes, the Hall is much too strong," lamented Howell and slaps on the stage, according to the hands, stumbles immediately after the echo. "The black fabric on the walls, we have appropriate than 'Motörhead' the last time played, which insulates at least a little, and finally each year. When such music disturbs the Hall yet."

It is not the sound in the hall of a famous British band from carrying out here to play, but the reverberation of the name Colston, the slave trader. "Massive Attack" is the band, they refused to sheer historical outrage, and it comes from - Bristol.

Early nineties, a new musical style, an amalgam of lasziv abrasive beats and dark electronic music, sweet-heavy marijuana for the ears, and the appearance of Drogentrip and Hip-hop gave the trend a name: As a trip-hop conquered the Bristol Sound "the World, he breathed the wanderlust of the old port city, once from the sailing ships in the world went, and he was rooted in soul and reggae, whose origins go back to the black continent.

Finster, such as the mud in the Avon

One of the great exponents of this new style include "Massive Attack", her album "Blue Lines" is for electronic music, which Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue" for the Jazz was a milestone, a classic from day one. And indeed was also the trip-hop forever "kind of blue", sort of melancholy, especially the first albums of the musician Tricky, who for a while with "Massive Attack" cooperated: Tricky aka Adrian Thaws grew up in Knowle West, a socially deprived district Bristol, a good place to be in a poorly lit street corner with a folding knife pierce the spleen and the opportunity to steal the purse to leave.

Here was Tricky 1968 born, father absent, his mother Maxine Quaye brought around, as he spent four was. Your dedicated in 1995 his debut album "Maxinquaye" - dark as the mud at the bottom of the Avon, but sexy as Liz Hurley in lingerie and vibrating with enough compositional strength to Bristol's famous suspension bridge shake it.

It is a popular postcard, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, named after the picturesque district of Clifton, Victorian houses with neat gardens, not a cheap area. Here the sandstone-colored Gothic tower of the Bristol Law School, before it begins gently sloping Park Street, where the lush sophistication Clifton and the youthful freshness of the university district marry.

In low cottages of the 17th and 18 Century kuscheln to book stores, fashion shops and cafes, but after sunset streaks the Park Street on glittering evening dress and shows her otherwise face: The pubs are filled with young, mostly student audience, music and laughter can penetrate into the street, and enjoys all locations the distinctive flower of the British smoking ban: the smirting, a contraction of "smoking" and "flirting".