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THIS WEDNESDAY
Princess Nokia
— Small Horse Inn
£8.00 + £0.50
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What's On in Bristol
Headfirst is Bristol's leading gig guide with a freshly launched online ticket shop. We work directly with the city's promoters to provide the most up-to-date guide what's on in Bristol you'll find. The events calendar to the left includes all events happening in Bristol tonight and for the forthcoming weekend. If you're a musician, band member or club night organiser be sure to add your event to the Headfirst Bristol calendar.
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Wed 12th/10/2016
LEE 'Scratch' PERRY Lee Perry returns to Bristol for the final leg of his 40th Anniversary tour.
Sat 27th/05/2017
Dot to Dot Festival 2017 The best up and coming indie talent across a selection of the city's best venues
TODAY
NTS presents Princess Nokia (live) NTS Radio presents Princess Nokia LIVE at The Small Horse Social Club
Fri 7th/10/2016
Boogie Nights & Odo - The Court Affair Fort Romeau, Romare, FOLD, Marcel Vogel, Law Courts and Prison Cells...
Sat 15th/10/2016
Gilles Peterson, Mo Kolours & Hidden Spheres Gilles Peterson, Mo Kolours, Hidden Spheres, Colours Dj's & Lemon Drizzle Selectors
Fri 7th/10/2016
Soul Shake Presents: Liem (Lehult) 3 hour Set Soul Shake is back October 7th and this time there bringing over Hamburg's finest, Liem (Lehult) for a 3 hour extended set
Fri 30th/09/2016
Dropout Disco invite // Big Miz Dropout Disco head underground for Glasgow's Big MIz
TODAY
Cult //Lakota // Logan Sama, DRS, Sticky ++ Cult at Lakota with Logan Sama, DRS, Sticky & a special guest
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Wed 12th/10/2016
LEE 'Scratch' PERRY Lee Perry returns to Bristol for the final leg of his 40th Anniversary tour.
Sun 9th/10/2016
Michael Chapman DICTIONARY PUDDING are delighted to bring a finger-pluckingly-good legend to Bristol
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Stop looking at line-ups and band names and start browsing with your ears. Wherever you find events on the Headfirst website, you will also find audio clips from Spotify, Soundcloud and YouTube.
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A New Ticket Shop for Bristol
Starting Small
Currently Headfirst is only working with select handful of Bristol promoters. We know many of you are keen to jump on the exposure that comes with inclusion in the Headfirst Ticket Shop but please be patient. If you're an event organiser you can express your interest in working with us. Currently we are accepting 2 or 3 new promoters each month. Adding an event to Headfirst is still open to everyone, just create an account or login here.
Simple Booking Fees
Our booking fees are the lowest in Bristol:
50p on tickets under £12
70p on tickets under £20
Simpler E-Tickets
We've rethought how e-tickets should work. Here are a couple of the ways we're doing things differently:
Designed to fit your phone (printing optional)
1 E-Ticket per person (arrive separately)
Transfer to a friend (if you can't go)
Fraud-proof Tickets
We've eliminated any chance of counterfeit tickets by creating a secure ticket transfer system for guests who can no longer attend. This service is free.
SEE ALL Buy Tickets
Small Horse Inn
NTS presents Princess Nokia (live)
Salt Café
Residence NonAme / Dan Marshall
Start The Bus
Towers + Youth + Mutant Thoughts + William Poyer
Start The Bus
Jerry Williams + Support TBA
Exchange
Mykki Blanco Live
Cafe Kino
The Cardboard Swords / The Sinking Feeling
SWX
Bob Mould
Start The Bus
LONE + Hazy Lark
The Gryphon
Lazarus Music Presents: Thrones & Lay Siege
Cafe Kino
Michael Chapman
ALL BRISTOL TICKETS Still Independent
Small Bristol Team
Headfirst is run by Harry Wiles, a former promoter and regular gig goer. Harry made the original website in 2008 and still looks after all things technical at Headfirst.
Local Focus
Headfirst aims to put a spotlight on the independent bands and promoters that make Bristol's music scene what it is. Because we are slowly working with more Bristol promoters, you'll be able to buy tickets to more Bristol events as time goes on.
Spotted a bug?
With a project as ambitious as Headfirst, we always expect a few bugs to squash here and there. If you spot something that's not quite right, please let us know.
Live Music in Bristol
Headfirst is the most objective Bristol gig guide on the internet. With no editorial to write, bands to interview or advertisers to please, we can focus on creating the best music listings & ticket shop this side of the Avon. From Bristol University’s music graduates playing a concert at St Georges Hall to an intimate gig at The Louisiana - we believe these events are what make Bristol special.
Bristol Nightlife & Nightclubs
Electronic music produced in Bristol has a knack of rewriting the rules and penetrating the international club scene. From Tectonic to Apple Pips to Eats Everything & Arkist - Headfirst has seen Bristol’s music scene grow and evolve since our humble beginnings in 2008.
Now Headfirst is working with Bristol’s best dance music promoters and providing a secure place to buy tickets for Bristol club nights. While Motion may catch most of the attention, Headfirst is the place to buy tickets for all Bristol's clubnights and maybe even the next Alfresco Disco party. Over the coming months we'll be adding buy tickets buttons to many of our what's on listings.
You can buy tickets to most Bristol clubnights on Headfirst. The most recent tickets to go on sale are shown below:
Cult //Lakota // Logan Sama, DRS, Sticky ++ at Lakota Garage vs Disco w/ DJ Sticky at Analog Acid Fantasy Bristol #01 at The Doghouse Dropout Disco invite // Big Miz at Secret Underground Location, Bristol City Centre Bristol In: Motion Opening Party at Motion Utopia Launch w/ Allister Whitehead at The Doghouse Community Payback - Time to Retaliate at The Black Swan Wide Eyes at Lakota Active Inertia at Nova Gen_X Every Friday Night at The Trap (Under The Crown)
Blue Mountain & The Black Swan Tickets
Made famous by the legendary Lakota, Bristol's warehouse events are the keystone to the city's clubbing culture. These no-frills venues are the place to see Bristol's house and techno at it's best. If you need addmission to forthcoming warehouse parties, you can buy Blue Mountain tickets here.
Tickets for Live Music in Bristol
Venues like Colston Hall, usually get all the attention when Bristol's gigs are discussed online. Headfirst aims to put the focus on Bristols smaller venues, selling tickets for venues like The Lousiana and Exchange and including all Bristol's gigs in our live music listings. The best-selling events in our Bristol events calendar are:
NTS presents Princess Nokia (live) at Small Horse Inn Moscow Drug Club at Fringe Jazz Mura Masa at Thekla Estrons at The Louisiana Dobet Gnahoré at The Trinity Centre James Acaster at The Lantern Eddie Martin’s Blues Club at The Gallimaufry LeftBank Open Mic! at Leftbank Continental circus Berlin at Durdham Downs Mr Wolfs Open Mic Night at Mr Wolfs
What's On in Bristol
Bristol has always had it's fair share of what's on resources. While paper-based listings magazines like Venue and forums like Hijack Bristol favoured certain musical niches, Headfirst was Bristol's first truely comprehensive what's on resource. Our listings not only go far into the future (click on a date in the calendar) but also provide some great last minute resources. If you're planning a night out at short notice please see our list of live music tonight and events listings for this weekend.
Best Selling Tickets
SHOW CALENDAR
LIVE MUSIC: 11 EVENTS
Small Horse Inn
NTS presents Princess Nokia (live)
NTS Radio presents Princess Nokia LIVE at The Small Horse Social Club
Fringe Jazz
Moscow Drug Club
1930's Berlin Cabaret meets Gypsy Jazz and more.
Thekla
Mura Masa
Mura Masa performs at Thekla
The Louisiana
Estrons
Cardiff's finest Estrons perform at The Louisiana
The Trinity Centre
Dobet Gnahoré
FORWARD’s ‘Musicians Unite to End Female Genital Mutilation’ presents: Dobet Gnahoré
The Lantern
James Acaster
James Acaster: Reset tour
The Gallimaufry
Eddie Martin’s Blues Club
Weekly residency from Eddie Martin plus guests
Leftbank
LeftBank Open Mic!
Celebrating 8 years of Open Mic on Stokes Croft!
Durdham Downs
Continental circus Berlin
Continental Circus Berlin with an amalgamation of brilliant Circus acts
Mr Wolfs
Mr Wolfs Open Mic Night
Mr wolfs til late
The Canteen
Whocat -
They do cool in Brussels and Whocat do it to perfection, slipping and rolling from funk to skank and back again, busy double bass and drifti
CLUB NIGHTS: 1 EVENTS
Lakota
Cult //Lakota // Logan Sama, DRS, Sticky ++
Cult at Lakota with Logan Sama, DRS, Sticky & a special guest
NON MUSIC: 4 EVENTS
Bristol Old Vic
The Rivals
A lively comedy of manners
Trinity-Henleaze United Reformed Church
Kairos Bristol Sahar Vardar
Sahar will talk about her work in challenging the militarisation of Israeli society
The Matthew of Bristol
Sea Shanties and Fish and Chips - Harry Browns
Sea Shanties and Fish and Chips on the Matthew
The Robin Hood
The Robin Hood's Quiz Night
The only Quiz with all winners!