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Bristol's Drag Scene

With a strong LGBTQ+ scene and love of theatre/the arts, Bristol is a hotbed for drag events and all kinda of gender fluid action. Most nights of the week you can see someone lipsync til they drop at the Queenshilling, Old Market Assembly or Zed Alley's own Punka drag show.

Expect and inclusive environment at most drag events, Bristol tends to be a very LGBTQ+ friendly environment with due care built up around its drag nights. Some of our favourite drag queens and drag kinds include: Ursula Major, Brizzle Boiz's Isaac Dix - veritable Ru Paul's of the West.

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Our recent drag recommendations

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.

What our editors say

“Get ready for a night that's all about the OG drag - no death drops stealing the show here! We're talking classic, old-skool drag where the talent is bigger than the stage itself! Expect laughter, sass, and performances that'll have you singing along and tapping those toes all night long.”
From: Thank Drag it's FriGay

“Join us for an evening filled with the kind of drag that's as legendary as a Dolly Parton high note! Our amazing talent is set to take the stage, followed by our resident DJ spinning tunes that'll keep the party going until the stars go to bed!”
From: Thank Drag it's FriGay

“So, gather your crew, leave those death drops at the door (because we like our stage intact!), and let's celebrate laughter, music, and the art of drag in its most fabulous form! Get ready for a night where the only drops you'll see are tears of joy from all the laughter!”
From: Thank Drag it's FriGay

“There will be spooky surprises, killer jokes, and enough laughs to raise the dead. Don’t miss out on the fiercest, spookiest, and most fang-tastic drag bingo of the season! WHEN: Saturday 31st October, 6:00pm Doors, 6:30pm start WHERE: The Crafty Egg, Fishponds COSTUME: Highly encouraged (but not mandatory!) PRIZES: A Fabulous £50 Bar Tab and plenty more!”
From: Halloween Drag Bingo

“Blending sardonic, confessional lyrics with hooky guitars, Aderyn mixes indie and pop into something she describes as ‘Beabadoobee if she had a lot of caffeine’. Inspired by love, dating and being skint, her music has the feel of a classic 90s movie soundtrack, while her live shows combine camp art-pop, indie and drag queens into something truly infectious. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRESENTED BY GRAVY TRAIN & BLG PROMOTIONS. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━”
From: MOON IDLE + GRACK MACK & THE PACK + ADERYN