Live music returned to Clocktower Music last week - and it was brilliant.

Palooka 5 entertained a crowd outside the shop in St Michael's Trading Estate, bringing its upbeat 'sci-fi surf music' to Bridport.

It was also a great opportunity to browse the shop's vinyl and CDs and enjoy a drink from a pop-up bar.

And if you missed it - you missed a great one - but not to worry as there are more events lined up.

Coming up next is a unique event as author Tom Cox will be reading from his latest novel, Villager, on June 30, accompanied by the soundtrack played live, followed by a Q&A.

Villager

In 1968 a Californian musician blows through a West Country village where he writes a set of haunting songs that will earn him a group of obsessive fans and a cult following.

The set of eleven songs form the album Wallflower. The Californian is RJ McKendree, created by the best-selling author Tom Cox from his novel Villager, brought to life by musician Will Twynham.

Villager, Tom Cox's 13th book and debut novel, synthesises his passion for music, nature and folklore into a psychedelic and enthralling exploration of village life and the countryside that sustains it.

Wallflower is a dreamlike, poetic record that reaches through time, rich with metaphor from landscape, soil and rock. Drawing on outsider blues, psychedelia, and the early folk rock scenes of both the US and UK, Wallflower possesses an expansive feel that sometimes turns dark, dense and murky, leaning into the ritual and folkloric mysteries that lurk on the edge of a Dartmoor-esque landscape.

Tom will be at Clocktower Music on Thursday, June 30 from 7.30pm. Tickets coast £10 and are available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre.