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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Woi oi! Iconic 'ardkore action incoming from the unrivaled Moving Shadow fold! Reinforced / Altern8 / Shut Up And Dance heads will already have their tickets of course. For everyone else: breakbeat ravestalgia doesn’t come much ruffer than 2 Bad Mice, chopping samples and bombing tha bass like it was the Second Summer of Love all over again.
2 Bad Mice + Friends at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! Harakiri are the only band you need on your post-black sky chariot riding mix. Triumphant melody barely disguising soul-wrenching trauma, blistering blast-beats; BM purists beware, this is pure catharsis stitched with post-rock, post-hardcore, grunge and skramz DNA. With Denmark's impossibly mournful Sunken opening things up, ethereal awakenings await disciples of: Alcest, Deafheaven, Drudkh, WitTR.
Harakiri for the Sky & Sunken at Strange Brew.
Sell out warning! You’ve never heard pipes like this! Queer futurism from visionary bagpiper Malin Lewis, playing self-made instruments and the world’s first wooden Lindsay Chanter. Malin channels their pipes and drones to form a layered, shifting sonic language that lives between binaries.
Malin Lewis at The Jam Jar.
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.