Bridge play The Point @ the Zodiac, 23rd January 2003
	Nightshift review (we'd like to point out that we sound nothing like Steeleye Span...but listen to the MP3s to make up your own mind):
	"Standing in stark contrast to the local music mainstream that increasingly seems to be made up of various shades of grunge, Bridge are one of the most refreshing bands to emerge in Oxford in the past year. Folk-rock and good-time being two phrases that tend to bring us out in a rash, it's a pleasure to report that under their careful guidance, both come good. Steeped in rustic songwriting traditions, both English and Scottish, Bridge take the old world to meet the new, sometimes falling just the wrong side of cheesy and sounding like Elton John fronting Blyth Power, but more often than not, taking folk music into places it had always been afraid to go. I mean, who'd ever have thought you could mix up Steeleye Span and Devo? Or Steeleye Span and Radiohead? How about Steeleye Span crushed beneath the wheels of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 'Tupelo', as on tonight's grinding finale? Strange stuff and little short of a revelation. In sounds like the absolutely gorgeous 'Harvester', Bridge also have an arsenal of misty-eyed tunes that could melt hearts or change lives. All this and they look like a bunch of off-duty civil servants (except the bespectacled pianist who, when he briefly dons singer Colin MacKinnon's fedora, looks the spit of Steve Albini). Bridge could make a fortune playing the folk festival circuit, but equally a bright future could await them on the American or European live scene where fans and press alike are less bothered about ideas of cool. But for now, prog-folk: who'd ever have thought we'd be claiming that was the future?"