December's here. As usual, town is full of Christmas Market shoppers, day-trippers, and mulled-wine sippers.
There's also an extra flavour of football fans out and about, given the out-of-season World Cup we're having. It means the city is bouncing.
Sadly, for music lover, it also means we've got fewer gigs on. But even though many venues are choosing to show Three Lions games over getting an act in - an honourable move in itself - we've still found some cracking grassroots gigs to go to this month.
