Cinema Soirée present stop making sense

Circomedia, Bristol | 16 January

The buzz around the Crack office for Cinema Soiree’s first event was palpable, in fact, we could barely sit still all day for anticipation. We were about to be sitting in an offbeat venue watching the spectacular Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads on a huge screen. We’d been assured we’d be eating bagels courtesy of Bristol’s Bagel Boy and sipping Talking Heads themed cocktails. As 6 o clock rolled around we shut down our laptops and charged for the door making our way across town to Circomedia Circus School’s head quarters, an historic church on Portland Square.

We entered the vast space to the sound of Futureboogie mainstay Christophe playing out some new wave and disco classics to a quickly filling room. The round tables laid out around the church made the room feel like a 1920s vaudeville theatre and as we drank our Psycho Killers and tucked into our Bagels the lights went down and David Byrne took to the screen. The famous scene in which Byrne arrives with his portable cassette player and acoustic guitar held the audiences gaze and a quiet appreciation crept over everyone present.

At first, there was a very slight sense of unease about how we should take it all in, no-one wants to be the first to start dancing at the school disco. But as the story so often goes it just took a few pretty young ladies to get up and start dancing to see the room take to it’s feet. Before long we could have been anywhere and the fact we were in an old church in Bristol came second to the fact we were all enjoying the music of Talking Heads and dancing our asses off. The collective spirt made Cinema Soiree everything we’d hoped for and even more. We can’t wait for their next event, watch out for Cinema Soiree; coming soon to a disused building near you.

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Words: Billy Black