the bristol suspensions are an award-winning mixed voice a cappella group formed in october 2014 by joe pickin, eve robertson, and rafaella barratt. in their first year of existence, they performed in the voice festival 2015, released a hit music video, sang on bbc radio, recorded an album, and brought a show to the edinburgh fringe, with a sell-out final night. in their second year, they placed third in the icca semifinals, as well as achieving an award for outstanding arrangement in aliak bedirian's 'madness/magic' and outstanding vocal percussion for scott lechleiter, and in 2016 won the voice festival uk university competition. in 2017 the group completed a tour america as well as performing on bbc one's "pitch battle" and releasing their debut album "landmark". for three consecutive years (2017-2019), the group have placed in the top three groups at the icca uk finals and were runner-up in 2019 (missing first place by one point). from 2018-2019, the group have won special awards for outstanding choreography and outstanding vocal percussion two years in a row.