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05/12/2024

A sprinkling of cheer for the weekend ✨
form and friends of deliver a night to remember, featuring a line-up that includes cult techno producer , snooker legend turned freaky music selector and 🎧🔊

Get a glass in your paws… for a very good cause. On Saturday, will celebrate the launch of a limited-edition new pale ale, brewed to raise money for the amazing team at 🐾🍻

Experiment with inks and papers as you learn the art of linocut in this festive printmaking workshop led by . Leave with Christmassy prints and reliefs that’ll guarantee a special finishing touch for any wrapping paper or cards 🎄🌟

04/12/2024

‘Tis the season of untangling fairy lights, sifting through discarded wrappers in half-empty tubs of Quality Street and… well, loads of other things actually.

In this special midwinter issue of nearfield, we explore the ‘other’ Christmas tradition of ghost stories, seasonal hauntings and eldritch happenings, and point you in the direction of spine-chilling experiences across the region.

There’s NSFW – and slightly more SFW – laughs in our alternative guide to innuendo-packed panto season (warning: there’s swearing), and if you’re bracing for the January blues, we’ve got you covered with a dopamine-boosting survival guide.

And there’s more! We chat to Aardman, Christmas-adjacent folkies The Unthanks and Bristol street art giant Inkie; present you with a Christmas gift guide; get you salivating with food and drink highlights; and list two months’ worth of unmissable events.

All that, plus there’s a special spooky cover designed by the one and only Inkie. Keep your eyes peeled for an exclusive artwork giveaway.

NF07: it’s our gift to you.

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29/11/2024

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The National Trust today announced Alice Park in Bath will be one of 49 national recipients of a foot-high sapling from the much-loved Sycamore Gap tree, which stood in a dip in Hadrian’s Wall for over 100 years until it was brutally cut down in September 2023.

This popular community hub was gifted to the young people of Bath in 1937 and features a café, skateboard park, children’s playground, cycling track, tennis courts, wildlife nature garden and pond and a wide range of sport and wellbeing clubs and events.

📷 James Dobson for the National Trust

28/11/2024

We’ve got all you need for an inspiring and immersive weekend 🌟🧣

A brand-new series of DJ nights is kicking off at in Frome with .hasegawa.creative headlining this Friday. ’s head creative will be bringing his eclectic selection of vinyl, unearthed from Parisian flea markets 🎧🇫🇷

As part of the Keynsham Winter Festival, international concert pianist and local legend will be performing on Temple Street, as well as unveiling a new community piano for 🎼✨

presents its latest exhibition, Sing the Body. Following on from an earlier collection, head to their new space for a chance to explore stories and artworks from around the world. Until 22 Dec 👀🖼️

21/11/2024

Calling all artists, ravers and ceramicists – we’ve got the ideal weekend for you 🙌🏻🌟

Matisse proved that all you need to change the art world is a pair of scissors and a fearless sense of fun. Head to for a bright exhibition of his lithographs and etchings, and seize your chance to buy some of the maestro’s original artworks and prints ✂️🖼️

heads .london’s powerhouse lineup at this Saturday. Deep house and techno will be paired with industrial visuals as some of the scene’s leading selectors hit the booth 🚨🔊

Up next is .workshop’s latest pop-up. Pottery and pints make the perfect combo for a Sunday afternoon at Bath’s . Learn a thing or two from professional ceramicists Naomi and Meredith, and make an artisan bauble with a playful and personal touch 🍻🎄

16/11/2024

We love these autumn cake slices from Hullavington-based micro bakery 🧁

This box costs £25 and includes :

Olive oil pistachio 🫒
Carrot & cardamom 🥕
Apple & almond crumble 🍏
PB&J 🥜
Malted chocolate stout 🍫
Spiced sweet potato (vegan) 🍠

Collection from Hullavington and new distribution coming to Bath and Bristol soon,
for info visit dotdotbakery.co.uk

Get more food and drink inspiration in nearfield magazine and browse local foodie events at thenearfield.com

14/11/2024

Welcome back to our handy weekend highlights 🙌🏻✨

’s solo exhibition opens tonight at in Bruton. She’ll be debuting new collaged landscapes and textural statements on climate change. The show is set to be a must-visit for contemporary art fans 🖌️🌍

Celebrate the history of Bath – one of the country’s most beloved heritage cities. Enjoy a weekend packed full of events as part of their bicentenary programme 🏛️💫

Glastonbury-born, Sub Pop-signed returns to Somerset this Sunday to perform songs from her latest album 🎤🌳

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13/11/2024

WIN TWO PLACES AT THE PONY COOKERY SCHOOL

Take your cooking to the next level in 2025 courtesy of The Pony, Chew Valley.

Following a three-year renovation, The Pony (formerly The Pony & Trap), in Chew Valley, is now a restaurant with market garden, orchards and a cookery school.

The Pony’s cookery classes – all curated by chef-owner Josh Eggleton, and led by either him or his talented friends – include everything from wild foraging or mastering sauces to cooking the perfect steak.

Because they’re such a lovely bunch, they’re giving a lucky nearfield reader the opportunity to win two places in a cookery class of their choice between January 1 and June 30, 2025.

For your chance to win simply follow .nearfield and , like this post and tag a lucky friend or loved one you’d like to cook up a storm with in the comments below.

The competition runs until 6pm on Wednesday, 20 November, when we will select the lucky winner at random and announce them here. We’ll DM the winner with details of how to redeem the prize.

For more information, check out theponychewvalley.co.uk

Good luck!

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Terms & Conditions:

• Only one entry per user will be entered into the prize draw

• The prize is redeemable for two places on a Pony Cookery School, at The Pony, Chew Valley

• Classes are subject to availability and must be booked by February 28 2025, for classes up to and including June 30 2025

• The two spaces must be used for the same class

• The winner will be chosen at random by .nearfield at 6pm on 20 November

• The winner must be over 18 and have proof of identity

11/11/2024

Get a taste of France this winter – without having to splash out on a Eurostar ticket.

The southwest is home to some incredibly tasty French bistros right now, all bringing hearty warmth and inventive finesse to their menus.

On our Gallic-inspired round-up in NF06 are Frome’s Bistro Lotte, which comes with rooms and live music; Bath’s cosy but glam bistro and bottle shop Comptoir + Cuisine; Bristol-born chef and TV regular Freddy Bird’s North View blockbuster, littlefrench (food critic Marina O’Loughlin is a fan); and the Baffled King, on Bristol’s Chelsea Road – a bistro bathed in golden light and inspired by owner Professor Campbell Craig’s mother’s French restaurants back in Wisconsin.

J’en ai l’eau à la bouche!

Go all oh la la by reading about it in NF06. To find a stockist near you – or read the mag on your device – see 🔗 in bio.

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07/11/2024

Vibrant goings-on for an otherwise chilly weekend 🧣✨

Somerset carnival season begins at Weston-super-Mare. Expect a brilliantly bonkers Guy Fawkes parade, old-school floats and a LOT of bright bulbs as the seafront is brought to light 💡🎇
in.the.woods presents an art installation inspired by folklore and the beauty of the countryside in The Three Fishes – an exhibition for the changing of the seasons 🍂🖼️

has a packed weekend programme celebrating ideas, stories and community for readers of all ages. Author talks, readings, Q&As, live music and more are brought to you by 📚📖

04/11/2024

Frome Boulder Rooms has more than 99 problems and will almost certainly satisfy your climbing itch.

In NF06, we meet Charly Andrew, one half of the climbing couple behind Frome’s celebrated and community-building Boulder Rooms.

To mark three years of providing friendly, finger-finishing fun for the people of Frome and beyond, Charly chats Olympic inspiration, inclusivity, finding your climbing confidence and bouldering’s ever-changing problems – AKA the routes climbers clamber up.

We also meet southwest climbing ace Fred Mead () to get an insight into taking our new favourite hobby to the next level. He also provides us with a helpful jargon buster.

Words: Alexia Loundras
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31/10/2024

Bringing you a trio of dark delights for your Halloweekend 🖤🎃

Toe-tapping music meets the occult in this spine-tingling tale of adventures in the afterlife. Haunt, Pray, Love is the next play to hit the stage . 🎭👀

An eerie overnight experience at is led by paranormal investigators. Explore the most haunted prison in the UK – possibly the world – and see what spirits might say hello… 👻👮🏻‍♂️

bring their raw, spellbinding sounds to on Sunday. Expect foreboding, drone-cloaked and propulsive traditional folk songs from this radical duo. 🔊✨

29/10/2024

“There’s a goodness here... something that clears your eyes.”

So said the author John Steinbeck of Bruton, a town that has quickly become Somerset’s culinary epicentre. And the latest goodness to emerge there is Briar – the new farm-to-table affair from chef and Great British Menu finalist Sam Lomas.

Housed within Claudia Waddams and Aled Rees’s hotel, Number One Bruton, the restaurant draws inspiration from its namesake wild bramble. That means a daily blackboard dictated by the kitchen garden’s growing seasons, foraged ingredients, craft cooking techniques, and a whole lot of inventive tastiness.

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Get the full lowdown on Briar in NF06. To find a stockist near you – or read the mag on your device – see 🔗 in bio.

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21/10/2024

“It should be a duty of the city to show the impact music has had on Bristol. It helped develop it and make it a place people want to be, but the Black community that kicked the scene into gear is not celebrated enough. Bristol owes it to the Black community to recognise their impact.” – Milo Johnson, founding member of Wild Bunch

With a small Beyond the Bassline panel exhibition appearing at Bristol Library until 31 October, in NF06 musician, senior lecturer in sociology at UWE Bristol and founder of PC-Press Pete Webb explores Bristol’s outsized contribution to the story of Black British music.

He chats to Wild Bunch’s and sound system archivist Ashish Joshi about how Bristol’s unique mix of cultures and communities, and its long-held spirit of
independence and rebellion, forged something new.

Words:

Photos:
1. Iquator sound system, Beezer
2. Roni Size, Pete Williams
3. Wild Bunch at St Pauls Carnival, Beezer
4. Knowle West boy Tricky, David Corio .corio
5. Trailblazing Bristol venue The Bamboo Club, MirrorPix
6. Wild Bunch, Beezer
7. Neneh Cherry and Andi Oliver, David Corio
8. Mark Stewart, Beezer
9. Grove, Lucy Werrett .werrett

Read the feature, pick up a copy of NF06 at 500 locations across the southwest. To find a stockist – or read the mag on your device – see 🔗 in bio.

You can also subscribe and support from just £3 per month and get a copy delivered to your door.

19/10/2024

It happened here.

Supergrass (supporting Shed Seven) at Bath Moles, 1994.

📸 .goodacre

18/10/2024

“Next, I want to do a big historical action movie set in ancient Iraq. A real kind of ‘swords and sandals’ vibe. I also want to do a super-violent feminist movie.”

Ahead of a screening of her film Polite Society, including a live Q&A, we caught up with film and TV director Nida Manzoor.

The creator of the hit series We Are Lady Parts, about an all-female, all-Muslim punk band, spoke to us about Singaporean sitcoms, underrepresentation in the industry and her future plans.

Watch Polite Society and join in the Q&A at The Little Theatre, Bath, on 22 October. FilmBath Festival runs until 27 October.

Photo: Saima Khalid

Read our interview with Nida in NF06. Pick up a copy at 500 locations across the southwest. To find a stockist – or read the mag on your device – see 🔗 in bio.

You can also subscribe and support from just £3 per month and get a copy delivered to your door.

18/10/2024

“Next, I want to do a big historical action movie set in ancient Iraq. A real kind of ‘swords and sandals’ vibe. I also want to do a super-violent feminist movie.”

Ahead of a screening of her film Polite Society, including a live Q&A, we caught up with film and TV director Nida Manzoor – the creator of the hit series We Are Lady Parts, about an all-female, all-Muslim punk band – about Singaporean sitcoms, underrepresentation in the industry and future plans.

Watch Polite Society and join in the Q&A at The Little Theatre, Bath, on 22 October. FilmBath Festival runs until 27 October.

Photo: Saima Khalid

Read our interview with Nida in NF06. Pick up a copy at 500 locations across the southwest. To find a stockist – or read the mag on your device – see 🔗 in bio.

You can also subscribe and support from just £3 per month and get a copy delivered to your door.

17/10/2024

Whether you’re a lover of apple pie, sonic vibrations or opera, we’ve got you covered this weekend.

rewind through dub history and unleash floor-shaking vibrations to mark 45 years of Channel One Sound 🔊

Apple-y antics await at ’s Apple Day weekend 🍏. Raise a toast to the nostalgia of harvest festivals and celebrate orchard culture with live music, tastings, tours and apple-centric menus 🍻🌾

Start your halloween celebrations right with a witty and witchy play set in a broom cupboard. 🧹Three witches pull back the curtain and take you backstage for an operatic sitcom-style show called . 🧙🏻‍♀️✨

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