Simple Things festival review – trance, slow jams and toilet-rattling rock | Music
Amid festivals with homogenous crowd-pleasing lineups and corporate sponsorships, Bristol’s Simple Things is a welcome returnee in its first year back after the pandemic: an ambitious 15-hour programme of forward-thinking music across seven venues, including a bowling alley. It’s perhaps too ambitious – there are plenty of clashes, queues and frustratingly short sets – but it’s still hearteningly different from other festival bills.Lauded multi-instrumentalist L’Rain warms up the day at Strange Brew as she glides through…