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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

Sell out warning! If you suffer from an intense and irrational fear of pipes (submechanophobia apparently), steer well clear of this typically eccentric Tough Sell offering. Featuring the DIY trash tube wheezings of Sholto Dobie, the best/only plumbing themed drag in town (Pipe Bender) + hypnotising post-trad from Uilleann pipe maestros Grace Lemon and Paddi Benson. Piping hot performance from pipers of various stripes

SSP returns from their near death experience to shake Kino with sonic oblivion through the Chewing Glass Subs. Inside: Severin Black’s isolationist drone landscapes and Nic Krog’s spoken word hardware confessionals. Delectable outsider clobber FFO: Pan Sonic, Biosphere, Nick Klein, Pavel Milyakov, Dale Cornish. ...are you healed yet?

Gastr del Sol-founding postmodern post-rock pioneer David Grubbs comes to Kino - biggest booking in IGH history?! Grubbs’ four decades traversing the US underground fuel his revelatory guitar experimentalism and idiosyncratic improvisation – he’s a mercurial mangler without equal FFO: Jim O’Rourke, Tortoise, Slint. Formidable support from Secluded Bronte’s funhouse mirror of no wave absurdism and free improv theatricals. NYC + BEYOND LEGEND WITH AVANT GARDE SUPER GROUP

Transcendental drone ragas and drag country doo-wop from the margins, forever! Vibracathedral’s legendary egodeath ensemble freak-outs are a simultaneous re-enactment/destruction of the entire history of 20th century music. A stupefying, life-changing evening FFO: La Monte Young, Cindy Lee, Flower-Corsano, Jackie-O Motherfucker. Guitar adventurer, free scramble, country drag and lush drone

What our editors say

“There'll be foot-tapping tunes on Uilleann pipes from folk musicians par excellence PADDI BENSON and GRACE LEMON. You'll have to pipe down to appreciate SHOLTO DOBIE and ALANAS GURINAS's exquisitely delicate experimentation via self-built tubes, valves, and vibrating paper. Bristol's premier push-fit plumbing-themed drag king PIPE BENDER will be laying pipe (for real, features actual plumbing). And a one-night-only gathering of players form a drone orchestra of 28 recorders reclaimed from a local school. Plus BENNY DART piping out pipe records in the bar all night long.”
From: PIPE DREAM

“After Shock has been bouncing around the Bristol music scene for fifteen years. After taking a break from music they became Bristol's vocal drag powerhouse in 2021 and since then have become a staple in the scene as a host & producer. Colloquially known as 'The Body of Bristol', if their signature live vocals don't do it for you, their arse certainly will.”
From: TELGATE / THE FREAKSHOW / GHOLA

“Were bringing you a fierce, fabulous and unmissable night of drag cabaret and karaoke, expect an evening with a jaw dropping performance, comedy, high energy entertainment and the chance to grab the mic and belt your heart out!”
From: Drag Cabaret and Karaoke

“Following the sell-out success of their smash hit 2024 tour, drag superstars Ginger Johnson, Michael Marouli and Tomara Thomas will be back out on the road in 2025 with a BRAND NEW SHOW that promises to be out of this world!”
From: Angels of the North

“The Punka Halloween Extravaganza is BACK at Lost Horizon!!! Bring your coven for a queer and darkly spellbinding night of drag, burlesque, live music and DJ sets.”
From: PUNKA HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA