Metropolis Music has established the Summer Series concerts at Somerset House with American Express over the past decade, delivering a range of artists in this historic setting and this year launched the first major live events in Bristol's harbourside for ten years.
Flanked by two tall ships with their masts lit for the occasion, Paolo Nutini played a combination of reworked classics and a selection of tunes from his latest album Caustic Love to a sell out crowd of 5000, before heading to Glastonbury for his set on Friday. With Paolo's concert selling out in just three hours, The Pogues were also a hit, attracting 3500 people who danced the night away to their Irish punk-folk classics.
Conal Dodds, Promoter for Metropolis Music explains, "Bristol has an incredible live music and arts heritage that we are proud to be enhancing with the launch of the Bristol Summer Series. Bristol Summer Series will now be an annual event in Bristol, with this inaugural outing setting a very high and exciting benchmark for the years to come."
(Jim Evans)
