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Arcadia Live

Adrian Utley & Will Gregory

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This event includes a pre-concert talk 
7.10pm – 7.40pm in the Main Hall

Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at the Watershed, discusses the inspiration behind Arcadia, the footage featured and the soundtrack, with the composers Adrian Utley and Will Gregory.

This event is free to concert ticketholders: please present your ticket to the main concert for entry.

A live performance and screening of the acclaimed film Arcadia by BAFTA-winning director Paul Wright.

Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) keyboards/sounds/soprano sax
Adrian Utley (Portishead)  guitar/keyboards
Ross Hughes  Musical Director/keyboards/clarinet/flute/drums
Lisa Knapp  lead vocals
Victoria Oruwari  vocals
Emma Smith  violin/guitar/whistle/vocals
Francesca Simmons  violin/keys/vocals
Zami Jalil  viola/keys/vocals
Drew Morgan  cello/bass/vocals

Join us for this fabulous evening captivating Will Gregory and Adrian Utley’s  extraordinary soundtrack to BAFTA-winner Paul Wright’s Arcadia. With a specially curated 9 piece band featuring folk singer Lisa Knapp and a line up of exceptional musicians and singers.

Released to outstanding reviews in 2018, Arcadia, is an exhilarating study of the British people’s shifting relationship to the land. Through 100 years of archive footage the film explores the changing face of the British countryside over the last century.

Footage of landscapes, pre-industrial farming, and plants are interwoven with that of people, mythology, pagan and orthodox rituals. It tells of forgotten times with a riveting blend of poignancy, humour and the surreal.

Set to Adrian and Will’s powerful score of folk, classical, electronic dance music and archive recordings, Arcadia captures the beauty and brutality, the magic and madness of rural Britain.

Produced by Sound UK. Funded by Arts Council England

Check out the trailer:

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Pre-event Food & Drink

Enjoy delicious drinks and light bites from our Café Bar ahead of the event.

Available to pre-order when booking your tickets, you can choose from a selection of house drinks on arrival, accompanied by a mezze board of bread, dips, olives, stuffed peppers, falafel, feta cheese and garden salad (all vegetarian). Just select which option – for one or two people – you would like, before checkout. Or if you’ve already booked, please email boxoffice@stgeorgesbristol.co.uk to add your food to your order.

Your pre-ordered food and drink will be available to collect from the Café Bar from 90 minutes before the event. It’s the perfect way to begin your event experience at St George’s!