Paul Bridgewater

4 days ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Paul Bridgewater

The priority with events like these is discovery and the chance to level up – and when everything aligns, they can create canonical moments in the careers of artists, helping them connect to a label, manager, agent or even a humble journalist. Of course it’s a crapshoot for many bands who trek down to the likes of Brighton’s Great Escape, or head over to SXSW in Texas each year with the hope it might just be their big break. Things feel different at FOCUS Wales.

3 weeks ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Paul Bridgewater

SPOT transforms downtown Aarhus into a mini-carnival for 10,000 people each day, with music seemingly everywhere thanks to a handful of outdoor stages that bleed noise of all kinds pleasantly across the day and well into the late night. More than 200 acts will play across 24 venues at an event that’s had more than enough time to find its feet and grow up along with its home.

1 month ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Paul Bridgewater

The 75-year-old London-born Potter actually took her first steps in music with improvised performances and concerts in her twenties – including a stint on vocals and saxophone with the ensemble Feminist Improvising Group in the late '70s. She also composed the soundtracks to many of her films, often working with multi-instrumentalist and avant-composer Fred Frith – who she met during those early experimental performances.

2 months ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Paul Bridgewater

The equivalent of taking acid for the first time was hearing Bob Dylan in that ‘60s period after he went electric. And that just blew my mind; I remember listening to “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” on repeat in my bed and it was like taking a hallucinogenic, because the imagery that he evokes was so wild. For a young mind, they were these bizarre, very vivid images that sent your brain off into all these different directions.

Feb 28, 2025 | thelineofbestfit.com | Paul Bridgewater

Taking place across two stages at the Swan Dive – our home at SXSW since 2018 – the 12-name strong line-up cuts across the genres to offer a glimpse into some of the artists who are forging new directions in songwriting and sonics. Boygenius-produced singer and songwriter jasmine.4.t was the first UK signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label and released her You Are The Morning earlier this year.