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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
Entertainment
Heather Pickstock & Emma Grimshaw

Massive Attack drummer playing in little-known speakeasy bar on edge of Bristol

A little-known music venue is expanding after just six months - with huge names from the music industry lining up to perform there. The Riff Corner in Old Church Road, Clevedon opened in a former 19th-century temperance cafe where alcohol was banned last September.

The bar, a modern-day version of a Chicago 1920’s speakeasy, is the brainchild of lifelong musician, Steve Treble. The 60-year-old opened The Riff Corner with business partner Sylvie Dagaillier who also own Bristol's Fringe live music bar in Clifton Village for 11 years, reports Somerset Live.

They spent months transforming the former office supplies unit, which was a temperance cafe in the late 1800s, into a music venue .The quirky bar now has guitars hanging from the walls and a 1960’s jukebox.

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