Bristol's LGBTQ+ community are a creative bunch organising drag, performance, punk and club nights that make up a huge chunk of what's great about Bristol nightlife. These kind of events are open to anyone who can get down with the vibe, centered on the city's Old Market district.
Crucial promoters include Thorny, Bitch Please, Temptation, PLU, Eat Sleep Drag Repeat, Brizzle Boiz, Wig in the Box Promotions (who recently did a Prince themed drag night). You'll never be short on LGBTQ+ themed and friendly events in Bristol.
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British folk iconoclast Chris Wood graces the candlelit hush of John Wesley’s New Room. His everyday epics sketch sharp-edged portraits of England’s many overlooked lives, from empty nests to minor league football teams to tragedies of industrial decay. Acute compassion ballads FFO: Martin Carthy, Karine Polwart, Billy Bragg, Richard Dawson.
Chris Wood at John Wesley’s New Room.
Marauding Norsemen Agabas charge into town wielding their self-coined ‘deathjazz’: a pummeling uptempo rawk engine with a thrash gallop, horn blasts strafing through the noise, and shredding throat growls atop a storm of riffs and rhythms. A cataclysmic ruin ritual FFO: Kvelertak, Imperial Triumphant, Slipknot, Converge.
AGABAS at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Crazed cumbia meets mutant surf, acid champeta and retro-future radiophonic SFX via Bogotá’s most notorious supergroup (ft. Meridian Brothers mastermind Eblis Alvarez). Astonishingly strange new instrumental worlds FFO: Romperayo, Dengue Dengue Dengue!, Ondatrópica, Frente Cumbiero, Fumaça Preta.
Los Pirañas at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! A Halloween oldie revamped! Two heavyweight purveyors of the midnight mood live-score Nosferatu in a creaky proto-horror symphony of shadows and smoke. Industrial folk-sludge enigma Circuit des Yeux merges with slowcore legend Alan Sparhawk (of Low fame) for a meeting of slow-burning indie grandeur and silent-era nightmare fuel.
Circuit des Yeux feat. Alan Sparhawk presents Nosferatu - Score at Strange Brew.