Drum roll, new name, Bristol Beacon

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On Wednesday 23 September 2020 Colston Hall changed its name to Bristol Beacon. City poet Vanessa Kisuule wrote this poem to unveil the new name, spoken by the people of Bristol.

Bristol
that brick and that car and that house
And that streetlight strobing concrete
slabs to restless disco

A beacon
bright, blink twice, look up, out and over
new lick of paint, rhythm switch,
cymbal shimmers and bubbling riffs

Bristol
Chaos chrysalis curled like a treble clef
Familiar, mysterious, that song kept
under your tongue like a sugar lump

A beacon
The first gig that took you by the collar,
how the light and the bass boiled over
Its thin lid, everyone sharing a heartbeat

Bristol
obvious and elusive, myth and
mundane, surviving the strange,
emerging shed of shame and sonorous

A beacon
you and you and you and especially
you, constant tapper of tables and kneecaps,
come bless this place with graceless noise

Bristol
our home, because of, in spite of, in
light of, in thrall to, in time with,
in debt to every single one of you

A beacon
wink of prism, trill of ivory
two drumsticks in a kid’s hands
Galaxies exhaling with the arc of an arm

Drum Roll.
Held breath.
New name.
Bristol Beacon
It’s Time.

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CREDITS
Poem by Vanessa Kisuule

Director: Oliver Kendall
Director of Photography: Remco Merbis
Sound Recordist: Rob Saunders
Editor: Matt Harris
Audio Mixer: Filmsat59

Composer: Brian Hargreaves

Produced on behalf of Bristol Beacon

List of contributors:
Mo Ali, Ngaio Anyia, Marti Burgess, Edson Burton, Emma Champion, Makala Cheung, Lloyd Coleman, Kathryn Davis, Mike Evans, Beth Griffin (Grove), Lucy Hunt, LaToyah Mcallister-Jones, Nadine Gingell, Roger Griffiths, David Ogden, Siggy Patchitt, Alice Towle, Abi Ward, Laura Welti, Daniel Wood

Find out more about the new name here