{"id":773573,"date":"2026-09-17T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773573\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:54:11","slug":"why-are-pink-plaques-appearing-across-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773573\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are pink plaques appearing across Bristol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazen have erected 11 pink plaques. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those responsible said they deliberately did not ask permission, but said they can be easily removed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One is outside The Golden Lion, where Bristol band IDLES held their first gig. Another is at Aardman&#8217;s Banana Warehouse to celebrate Creature Comforts, and another in Stoke Gifford highlights the creation of the online movie database IMDb. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other venues marked by the plaques are no longer there, including the former Bristol Bierkeller where Nirvana opened their Nevermind Tour in 1991 and the legendary nightclub the Dug Out, which was important in the development of trip hop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brazen team is also organising a new five-day festival of technology, creativity and culture in Bristol from 9 to 13 November; it will feature talks, debates, technology showcases and performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazen have erected 11 pink plaques. Those responsible said they deliberately did not ask permission, but said they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773573","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\/773573","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=773573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}