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Tired. Emotional. Skint: welcome to the last throes of 2019. However it's remembered, in the long run, here's what we'll treasure - 2019's Gigs of the Year.

Gigs of the Year - twenty shows that we have known and loved, with some of the fine words and striking images that we've shared along the way.

Bring on the bank holiday. Say hello to the festival season. Drink in the tunes and jump around like a crazy fool. It's Gigs of the Week time.

Even if you have to get there by dog sled, here are our Gigs of the Week that no power of the elements should drag you away from.

So the Earth moved the other day? Check the intensity of sound waves that are going to be spreading across the city on Thursday alone and wonder whether we're not likely to be prone to a few more tremors.

Valentine's may be done and dusted, but you might just fall more deeply in love with some of the acts below this week. No stalking, though.

Love is in the air - for your Bristol music scene, of course. As we reel from the loss of another venue in The Bierkeller, scene of many a past glory, let's embrace the present, our great venues and promoters, embrace new bands and embrace the person next to us in the crowd (perhaps not the last one).

As Independent Venue Week concludes, we can see the quality of Bristol's venues and shows and decide that it's Independent Venue Week every week. Enjoy your music!

The Free For All Festival concludes. Independent Venue Week begins. The Bristolian beat goes on. There's always a little bit of what you fancy out there. Keep looking for it.

From the brusque and muscular, to the solemn and melancholic, here are some of the best opportunities to appreciate damn good noise in Bristol this week.