{"id":648717,"date":"2026-06-20T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648717\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:53:11","slug":"from-led-zeppelin-to-oasis-the-promoter-behind-bristol-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648717\/","title":{"rendered":"From Led Zeppelin to Oasis: the promoter behind Bristol Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on Bristol Sounds, Dodds said it remained the most distinctive venue he had worked at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The backdrop to it is the water and the industrial museum on the other side &#8211; you can see St Mary Redcliffe church &#8211; an 800-year-old church,&#8221; Dodds said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He recalled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9een89r4m9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 performance by Skindred<\/a> as a standout moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Benji, the singer, I put on his first gig back in the day. The energy from him in 91 was still there in 24 &#8211; just on a bigger scale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were 3,000 people swinging their t-shirts in the air being commanded by him. That was incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Looking ahead, Dodds said he hoped the festival still had a long future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to get to a point where we can see Bristol Sounds as having done 50 years &#8211; we&#8217;ve done 12 years so we&#8217;re youngsters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a few more years left in me yet,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Bristol Sounds, Dodds said it remained the most distinctive venue he had worked at. &#8220;The backdrop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}