Who are we?
We are the Bristol Suspensions, and we need YOUR help in supporting the creation of our 10-track album. Following our International win in Italy (2024), and recent success as UK Semi-Final Champions (2025), we are raising money to create an immortalised version of our award-winning set. We are aware this is an ambitious feat, but with your support we hope to make this dream a reality!
Through donating to our album you support
✅ Student community: For many in the group, performing and being part of Suspensions has been the highlight of our university experience. Providing a family away from home, and a community that we can always go back to. The album is an immortalised and tangible memory for us to hold onto after we leave the group.
✅ Student creativity: We are fully student-led and student-funded! The creativity in the tracks is that of our members. Winning: Outstanding Arrangement (Record Player) and Outstanding Soloist (Katie Evans - Vampire and Isabel Fraser - Lose Control).
✅ Student careers in music: The album creates professional experience for our members advancing into careers in music. They will have the opportunity to work with sound engineers, and learn the process of music production.
what we will be able to achieve with the funds raised
Recording, Mixing and Mastering of the Album: £1,250
(Creating the album will take the bulk of the cost; we will be working with multiple sound engineers to bring our vision to life.)
Videographer for Music Video: £100
(We have an amazing choreography team and would love to showcase the performance of some of our songs, which will be released alongside the finished album.)
Marketing: £150
(This will go towards creating the graphics for the cover as well as hiring a student graphic designer to create assets for the campaign.)
The first £500 we raise will be doubled by generous alumni match funding from the University of Bristol, so your support will go even further!
What will we do if we raise more money than expected?
Subsidising Sound Technician Costs - we are fortunate that our sound engineers are providing discounted rates to us (being a student-group), if we were to raise more than expected we would like to subsidise some of this discount that they are offering
Album Release Party - we would love to celebrate all the work that has gone into creating the album, and would host an album release party for our members and listeners (which all of YOU are invited to attend!)
With your help we will be recording the album (getting members from generations 10 and 11 back in Bristol to record their parts!) from April-May, the album will then be mixed and mastered over the summer, to be released in August!
COME TO OUR FUNDRAISING EVENTS!
In the lead up to our album, and to support the initiative, we will be holding fundraising events which you are welcome to attend:
Tuesday 18th March: BTS (Behind the Suspensions) @ The Ships Inn
A showcase of our talented members outside the realm of a cappella. (£6/£7 per ticket)
Friday 28th March: Pub Quiz (University Challenge Themed) @ Den and Terrace
Following the recent success of Bristol’s University Challenge team we thought we would put the rest of Bristol to the test…
Saturday 5th April: Suspension End of Year Show @ Bristol Improv Theatre
Come and watch our annual End of Year Show, celebrating our completed repertoire of the year.
Your support is key in the creation of this passion project. Every donation endorses student creativity, student community and the growth of student careers in music. We could not do this project without you.
Who are we?
Check us out on social media:
Instagram: @brisuspensions
Tiktok: @brisuspensions
Youtube: The Bristol Suspensions
Apple Music/Spotify: The Bristol Suspensions (stream our last EP ‘Dawn’ for a taste of what’s to come)
