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A DIY Punk Halloween Delight: Inside Bridget's For the Hell of It Ball

In the centre of Ipswich stands The Church; an intimate, atmospheric music venue where DIY punk artist Bridget chose to host her Autumn Ball. Celebrating the drop of her second EP, For the Hell of It, Bridget headlined the gig fittingly dressed in cut-up tartan, protruding black horns, and red-painted teeth. Accompanying her that evening were her support acts: DJ Greebo, playing sets between the other acts, self-described south-east emo band Dollface to open, and the blood-soaked punk performance artists French Toast. An upside-down neon cross sat upon the stage; "we joked something bad might happen for us by putting this in a church," Bridget laughed during her set. But the night was anything but a disaster. Despite the previous night's storm throwing a tree into the middle of the train tracks between Ipswich and Colchester, local infrastructure found itself back up and running just in time for Bridget's Halloween-themed extravaganza. Divine intervention, perhaps.

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