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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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Venues like Colston Hall and Thekla usually get most of the attention when Bristol's gigs are discussed online. Headfirst aims to put the focus on Bristols smaller live music venues. Here, you can buy tickets for concerts at Bristol's Louisiana and Exchange or browse our entire Bristol gig list.
Venues like Colston Hall and Thekla usually get most of the attention when Bristol's gigs are discussed online. Headfirst aims to put the focus on Bristols smaller live music venues. Here, you can buy tickets for concerts at Bristol's Louisiana and Exchange or browse our entire Bristol gig list.
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What's On: Featured Bristol Events
Harvey Sutherland and Tornado Wallace fans will have noticed the cosmic shift of Australian dance music in recent years, driven largely by Melbourne quartet Mildlife. Like Nu Guinea, London's Rhythm Section and Brownswood jazz revivalists, Mildlife's warm, psychedelic live soundscapes are bound by the inescapable pulse of house and disco, layered with vintage synth lines, fuzzy Hammond solos and wailing wahs that belie the strong influence of Lonnie Liston Smith, Alice Coltrane and The Alan Parsons Project.
As much for the jazz fiends as it is for Tame Impala and BADBADNOTGOOD listeners, Mildlife bring their expansive live show to The Lanes on Thursday, hosted by Erratic Batting.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E51256
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Qu Junktions bring Maria Somerville's hopelessly beautiful pastoral lo-fi to Rough Trade Bristol this Thursday. A huge recommendation for fans of Grouper's ambient-pop perfection or Carla dal Forno's low-slung post-punk. Support comes in the shape of Davey Kehoe's Joe Meek x Suicide stylings.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E52945
One of the leading lights of the contemporary psych-rock realm, Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 return to Bristol thanks to Astral Festival and The Grey Area.
After bursting onto the scene in 2013 with a string of free-flowing, sitar-led ragas akin to Newcastle dronestars BONG - Band UK or Taj Mahal Travellers, they’ve since refined and reigned in the jams. In place of improvisation, there’s a greater focus on songwriting and melody, with jazz licks inspired by placid, watery solos. They play The Lanes on Monday.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E51202
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One of the leading lights of the contemporary psych-rock realm, Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 return to Bristol thanks to Astral Festival and The Grey Area.
After bursting onto the scene in 2013 with a string of free-flowing, sitar-led ragas akin to Newcastle dronestars BONG - Band UK or Taj Mahal Travellers, they’ve since refined and reigned in the jams. In place of improvisation, there’s a greater focus on songwriting and melody, with jazz licks inspired by placid, watery solos. They play The Lanes on Monday.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E51202
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Hosted by Gravy Train, the inaugural Triptych saw the likes of AJA, E B U, and SCALPING deliver searing and triumphant sets. The festival returns with another exceptional line-up with enigmatic Italian noise artist Mai Mai Mai, vociferous alt-rock heavyweights Hey Colossus and hypnotic doom techno courtesy of Justin K Broadrick all to anticipate. Not to mention local off-kilter fuzz-pop legends Pet Shimmers and buoyant psych prodigies The Evil Usses; Triptych looks to cement a reputation as an imperative yearly happening for all experimental/noise fans great and small.
This heady mix of local and international acts is set to explode across Exchange, Stag and Hounds Public House, and The Elmer's Arms on Saturday June 8th
🎫 Final Release Tickets: hdfst.uk/E50252
The interstellar lovechild of Andrew Weatherall and Hardway Bro's Sean Johnston, A Love From Outer Space lends a punky aesthetic to an often clean-cut scene, breathing new life into long-lost balearic, krautrock and komische.
Warping their exquisite collection beyond recognition, ALFOS' chuggy celestial soundscapes belie a slow maturity at odds with the hectic relentlessness of contemporary techno. The iconic pair play the long game with a 5-hour set at Easton’s Boxing Club on Saturday hosted by Club Blanco.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E52974
Electrolyte is a multi-award-winning piece of gig theatre that will powerfully explore mental health for a contemporary audience at The Loco Klub. Written in spoken word poetry and underscored by original music, this explosive production is performed by six multi-instrumentalists who seamlessly integrate live music with expert storytelling.
🎫 Tickets (7th May): hdfst.uk/E52029
🎫 Tickets (8th May): hdfst.uk/E52032
🎫 Tickets (9th May): hdfst.uk/E52033
An ever-vital presence within the Bristol music scene, Noods Radio hosts an inimitable line-up of their residents to raise funds for their new studio (their second forced move now after The Surrey Vaults' closure). With DIRTYTALK’s Deep Nalstrøm and Tender T just announced, Kinlaw & Franco Franco bringing their visceral industrial hip-hop, and wild, hypnotic improvisations courtesy of EP/64, not to mention fellow residents Tilly and Manami. will be serving up choice dancefloor selections, expect a suitably eclectic and raucous affair from the Noods crew.
Recently it's become hard to imagine Bristol's underground without Noods, show your support on Sunday at the The Crofters Rights.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E53241
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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.
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A bold new event from Simple Things Festival - Bristol founder and Colston Hall programmer Matthew Aitken will take place in a private forest this June. For their first public outing (the event follows a private pilot last year), the organisers of Camp Elsewhere are being extremely cautious with the 'festival' label instead likening the weekend to more of a camping-trip-with-a-lineup and placing it's stunning coastal-forest location centre stage alongside a solid music and arts programme.
It's enthusing to find a tiny event with proper toilets, hot showers and no queues where an emphasis on relaxation is not at odds with a vibrant music lineup - and proof that a holistic ethos does not mean booking a bunch of worn out hippy bands... Punctuating a weekend of workshops, beach walks, talks and glowing campfires are these artists:
The Wave Pictures
Daniel Blumberg
Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay
Gwenifer Raymond
bell lungs
Ben Vince
outsidefilm showcase
Boss Morris
Rozi Plain
Juan Wauters
Pet Shimmers
SNAPPED ANKLES
Yosi Horikawa
Breakfast Records
Leafcutter John
Alabaster dePlume
Rachael Dadd
ICHI
+ Ambient Forest
+ Nature Disco
TICKETS
Early-Bird £50
General Release £67.50
Kids 5-15yrs £20
Kids 0-5yrs free
Buy here:
www.facebook.com/events/831500243868103/
www.campelsewhere.co.uk
A bold new event from Simple Things Festival - Bristol founder and Colston Hall programmer Matthew Aitken will take place in a private forest this June. For their first public outing (the event follows a private pilot last year), the organisers of Camp Elsewhere are being extremely cautious with the 'festival' label instead likening the weekend to more of a camping-trip-with-a-lineup and placing it's stunning coastal-forest location centre stage alongside a solid music and arts programme.
It's enthusing to find a tiny event with proper toilets, hot showers and no queues where an emphasis on relaxation is not at odds with a vibrant music lineup - and proof that a holistic ethos does not mean booking a bunch of worn out hippy bands... Punctuating a weekend of workshops, beach walks, talks and glowing campfires are these artists:
The Wave Pictures
Daniel Blumberg
Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay
Gwenifer Raymond
bell lungs
Ben Vince
outsidefilm showcase
Boss Morris
Rozi Plain
Juan Wauters
Pet Shimmers
SNAPPED ANKLES
Yosi Horikawa
Breakfast Records
Leafcutter John
Alabaster dePlume
Rachael Dadd
ICHI
+ Ambient Forest
+ Nature Disco
TICKETS
Early-Bird £50
General Release £67.50
Kids 5-15yrs £20
Kids 0-5yrs free
Buy here:
www.facebook.com/events/831500243868103/
www.campelsewhere.co.uk
THIS FRIDAY: MUSU X COLOURS
Musu x Colours return to Band Studios for 8 hours with My Own Jupiter's Nicolas Lutz - a true leader and survivor of Berlin's old guard whose revered mixes posses a truly cosmic vision within the house/techno continuum. NTS Radio juggernaut and pioneer of "frozen balearic gay biker house" Ivan Smagghe supports alongside Rough Draft's rising resident Ellie Stokes.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E52387
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Strictly Yes’s razor-sharp, industrial vision brings exceptional sound and setting to Bristol nightlife - Benjamin Damage and Stephanie Sykes are now followed by recent Discwoman signing, VTSS. Leading Warsaw’s experimentalist shift, the Brutaż affiliate’s productions span from slower, Tzusing-esque stompers on her Intrepid Skin debut, to the distorted, speedy weirdness of 2019’s Self Will EP.
Her recent Boiler Room debut showcased the boundless nature of her sets too, blending pummelling percussion with rave-inspired breaks, glittering discordance and the raw vocals of hard-drum and dancehall - she plays all night on May 4th.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E52121
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Charge up your Nokias and hold on tight, a true trance legend takes the helm of Planet Fun’s cruise to the Four Pillars of Paradise tomorrow. DJ Cammy soundtracked noughties childhoods alongside Alice Deejay and Scooter, the beating heart of Britain's bluetooth-connected, emotionally vulnerable hardcore renaissance.
PC Music’s sugarsweet ice queen Hannah Diamond takes control as second headliner; her heartfelt, ethereal ballads the perfect complement to Cammy’s millennial nostalgia. They’re joined by nightcore fiend SURATI, DJ FINGERBLAST, I Am A Raver’s own Garry MCF and Bristol's only 'ardkore raffle queen Peggy Viennetta.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E52454
Like a delightfully broken Ben Webster, Alabaster dePlume's fragile, breathy saxophone playing is as immediately captivating as it is extraordinary. Expect delicate solo work, warm ensemble and spoken word in turmoil from the Mancunian's bitter tongue.
Hot off recent collabs with cosmonaut jazz trio The Comet is Coming, DePlume joins Peluché for an evening of unconventional jazz/folk/classical music at The Jam Jar Bristol courtesy of it's peachy.
🎫 Tickets: hdfst.uk/E51897
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