Roberta Carsley

Gone are the times when art is confined to the restriction of gallery walls. You find it while walking along roadsides, staring at you from neighbouring street walls. But the artistic habitat that has cultivated the growth of a specific, potentially overlooked, art genre is that of raves and clubs. The art I’m referring to? Psychedelic.

Article for Bristol 24/7 student guide

By Bobbi Carsley, First Year English LiteratureFlytrap is a play full of firsts.It is the debut play from Eightball Productions, a new theatre company set up by University of Bristol students, and it is also writer Emma Morgan’s first full length theatre piece. It tackles sex in an equally fresh way. The intimate nature of the play is initially created by its characters, Georgie (Emma Morgan), Lola (Louisa Marshall), and Felix (Stan Abbot-Stacey), proximity to the audience. Opening the play sat...

A new diner takes inspiration from the backgrounds of its Scottish and Aussie co-founders.Hotplate Diner, the latest venture from Left Handed Giant, has opened on Stokes Croft serving breakfast, brunch, burgers, coffee, tea, milkshakes, cocktails and beer.
Left Handed Giant co-founder Bruce Gray told Bristol24/7 that the diner’s menu is a “real mashup of the Scottish-Aussie breakfast scene” from his own Scottish background and business partner Jack Granger’s Aussie roots.Gray hopes that the late...

A book lover who spent much of her childhood in a funeral home is fulfilling her lifelong dream of opening a witch-themed bookshop.Monika Killer, who previously worked in marketing at an app development company, is bringing the Haunted Bookshop to Bristol, where “the weird and unusual will be embraced with open arms”.
Her new venture, opening on Stokes Croft in mid-July what used to be Shambarber, will be a shop and venue specialising in horror, fantasy and folklore books, as well as “witchy” gi...

By Bobbi Carsley, First Year English LiteratureThe entrance to the Loco Klub may be hard to find, yet upon entering the intimate arts and music space I felt myself grateful for having seemingly stumbled into a hidden world. Situated underground in an old tunnel complex by Temple Meads’ passenger shed, the Loco Klub may appear an unconventional performing space that upcycles the abandoned. But the intimacy of the night’s performance of Ladyfriends was apparent before the play had even begun. A st...