Trip hop may have originated in the mid-1980s in Bristol, UK, during a time when American hip hop started to gain increasing popularity there along with the then exploding popularity of the house music and dance scene.

As the hip hop scene matured in Bristol and musical trends evolved further toward acid jazz and house in the late ' 80s, the golden era of the soundsystem was ending.

More significantly, the period marked the debut of two acts who, along with Massive Attack, would define the Bristol scene for years to come.

In Britain 2-litre sports cars were initially popular ( the Bristol engine being readily available and cheap ), subsequently 1100 cc sports racers became a very popular category for young drivers ( effectively supplanting 500 cc F3 ), with Lola, Lotus, Cooper and others being very competitive, although at the other end of the scale in the early to mid 1960s the national sports racing scene also attracted sophisticated GTs and later a crop of large-engined " big bangers " the technology of which largely gave rise to Can-Am but soon died out.

One of the first homegrown soundsystems in the UK, The Wild Bunch became dominant on the Bristol club scene in the mid-1980s.

The media started to refer to the " Bristol scene ".

Crowded street scene prior to the Bristol Fourth of July Parade.

The hotel scene was filmed at the HTV West studio on Bath Road in Bristol, England and the cemetery scenes were filmed outside Bristol.

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Escape into the Park and Bionic Events are examples of the Welsh Hard Dance scene. On 16 July 2011 Sian Evans of Trip Hop, Synthpop Bristol based band Kosheen had a No. 1 Official UK Singles Charts hit in collaboration with DJ Fresh.

Evan Shaw Parker ( born 5 April 1944, Bristol, England ) is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.

Mallingford station in the closing scene was Bristol Temple Meads.

Often, Bristol races are the scene of the highest number of yellow-flag caution laps in the NASCAR season ; with so many cars in such a small space, contact is almost inevitable.

The scene is centred around the ' typical ' village of Pendon Parva, which is served by a railway station on the main London to Bristol GWR main line that runs through the Vale, and another on the M & SWJR that became one of the constituent companies of the GWR in 1923.

The external shots for the famous " bank-robbing " scene in the last episode were filmed outside the now closed Bristol North Swimming Baths on Gloucester Road.

In early tracks, the punk-like fracturing of language and spikiness of the sound were held together by more lyrical melody than the more austere music of other left-field groups from the post-punk scene, such as Gang of Four, London art-rockers This Heat or the Bristol based The Pop Group.

On September 11, 2008, Stanhope re-entered the election scene with the creation of www. savingbristol. com, a web site dedicated to raising money to pay for an abortion for Bristol Palin, daughter of staunchly pro-life, then-current Alaskan governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Actually, by the time Peel had discovered them, Steveless had been reduced to a one-man band in the form of Dan Newman, now at university in Bristol and a respected member of the thriving Bristol music scene.

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The exterior shots of the pub scene were filmed at the Westbury Park Tavern in Bishopston, Bristol.

** Bristol is part of a street art scene, due in part to the success of Banksy.

A railway station on Brighton Road ( on the Birmingham to Bristol line ) led to further expansion, and the end of the 19th century saw a proliferation of high-density small terraced houses.

This engine saw little use, but the simpler nine-cylinder version known as the Bristol Jupiter was clearly a winning design.

In the period since Benn's defeat in Bristol, Michael Foot had stepped down after the general election in June 1983 ( which saw Labour return a mere 209 MPs ) and was succeeded in October of that year by Neil Kinnock.

The following year saw the first of five Bristol 170s being received.

The Scottish Argyll company used its own, much simpler and efficient, single-sleeve system in its cars, a system which, after extensive development, saw substantial use in British aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre and Bristol Hercules and Centaurus, only to be supplanted by the jet engine.

It also saw Bristol become a private company and marked a return to quality to the exclusion of output: no more than three cars a week were to be made.

2007 – 08 saw another mid-table finish for Barnet ; 12th with 60 points, and a second run to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup, where they lost 1 – 0 to Bristol Rovers, with Jason Puncheon missing a penalty for the Bees.

1990 saw Andy's profile further raised when he began collaborating with Bristol trip hop pioneers Massive Attack, going on to contribute to all five of their albums ( the only artist to do so ), most notably with " Angel " ( a new version of " You are My Angel ") released on their third album, Mezzanine and most recently on their 2010 release Heligoland, on the tracks " Splitting the Atom " and " Girl I Love You.

The first match after work was finished took place on Christmas Day 1908, when 36, 000 fans saw City host Bristol City.

In 1927, the Victor Talking Machine Company conducted a series of recording sessions in Bristol that saw the rise of musicians such as Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and are thus often called the " Big Bang " of country music.

They once again enjoyed success in the FA Cup which saw them beat Championship teams Bristol City at home and Hull City away both 1 – 0.

The official re-opening of the redeveloped ground saw Albion beat Bristol City 1 – 0 on Boxing Day in 1994.

In school, Nicholas played the trumpet, and was in his first band, Sweet Leaf ( named after a song by Black Sabbath, who were Grant's favourite band in his school years, and the first he saw play live, at the Colston Hall in Bristol ).

From May to December 1941 also saw the arrival of the first Bristol Blenheim units ( No. 113 Squadron RAF and No. 105 Squadron RAF ) and Bristol Beaufighter units, 252 and 272 Squadrons.

Company mergers and takeovers with Hawker Aviation and Bristol Aero Engines saw the continuation of the car production but the production of cars ceased in August 1960.

) At the Paris Auto Show in 1955, an up and coming actor, Lee Marvin, saw the Arnolt Bristol coupe and purchased it.

A hat-trick in a 4-0 home win over Bristol City saw him reach the 11-goal mark in the league by 6 October, and he reached the 20-goal margin ( for the fourth reason running ) on 26 February as they beat Port Vale 3-1 at home.

His second season in south London saw him limited to appearances for Palace's reserve team, and so Dorman made the move to League Two side Bristol Rovers on a loan deal in November 2011. Dorman had initially signed until January the 2nd and then it was extended by a further month. On the 27th of January 2012 he signed for the rest of the season.

The 1997 – 98 season saw Rotherham improve on their first Division One season to fourth, while the next year 1998 – 99 saw Rotherham finish equal on points with first place Bristol, the West Country side prevailing on points difference, setting Roth up for a promotion playoff.

Italy's Super Tuscans were leading the revolution and could almost be regarded as the first European " New World wines "; around the same time, the Wine Olympics saw French wine lose to Grange and to Torres ' Gran Coronas from Spain, and Château Musar from Lebanon broke through at the Bristol Wine Fair of 1979.

Moving into management, Jordan's first job was at Bristol City which saw the club reach the semi-finals of the League cup.

The early months of 1643 saw a " crushing " defeat of the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Adwalton Moor, while the Battle of Roundway Down left Parliament without an effective army in the west of England, the lack of which allowed the Royalists under Prince Rupert to storm Bristol with the Western Army and Oxford Army.

1641 saw a complete reconciliation between the two men: Bristol with the Earl of Bedford became leader of the moderate Royalists in the House of Lords, working to achieve a compromise with John Pym, and save the Earl of Strafford's life.