Robin Askew

Back at its spiritual home after six nomadic years, the Slapstick Festival Gala pulled a full house of punters desperate for relief from the seemingly relentless tide of depressing news.

Just what we needed in these grim times

While lesser celebrities gathered in London for the BAFTA Awards ceremony, the real action was taking place at the Bristol Old Vic on Sunday night, where

Unassuming New Yorker Randy McStine is in Bristol for the first time on the second date of his first ever UK solo tour, supporting old chums The Pineapple Thief.

He'll be talking about his eventful life, as recounted in a new memoir

Cannibal Corpse, Soulfly, The Dead Daisies, Nile, Heriot, Battlesnake

The late Eagles hitmaker played a tiny hall in Bishopston in 2007

The Swedish hard rockers make a welcome return after a lengthy break

It's the first night of the tour, ‘production difficulties' are delaying the kick-off, and a long queue of remarkably patient metalheads – many of

Back in 1987, an absolute classic of the vampire genre was released. So too was Joel Schumacher's rather cruddy The Lost Boys . But mysteriously it