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Bristol's Experimental Music Listings

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Bristol's Experimental Music Scene

It’s Bristol’s dance music that has earnt Bristol’s music scene international recognition, but the city’s playful experimentation between musicianship, electronics and sound art that is starting to gain the most traction. It's with a sigh of relief that we bid farewell to loop-pedal-powered hippies of the past and embrace the patch bays, compressors and modular synths of the future. All Bristol’s experimental music events are listed on this page.

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What our editors say

“Other influences included “contemporary productions like Foodman’s ‘Yasuragi Land’, a Japanese experimental manic scatter sample electronica artist who blows my mind. Kate NV: I love her bass sounds and twisted melodic rhythms. Also, I was listening to Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s ‘Keyboard Fantasies’,” he continues. “His voice just wraps around me, transporting me entirely to other places, and I only know one other person who can do that and that’s Anna B Savage.””
From: Mike Lindsay presents supershapes w Anna B Savage

“Following the release of his critically acclaimed and expansive album Music For Animals in September 2022, Nils made his return to the live stage for the first time since 2019 with his current global tour, Music For. Since then, he is back touring all over the world, presenting brand-new music moving between the worlds of experimental, ambient and electronica.”
From: Music For Bristol

“Crafted as ‘jukebox worthy singles’, their songs fuse Radio Wolf’s soulful electric guitar, soaring synths, atmospheric experimental SFX, pulsating electro-dance beats and of course the haunting vocals of NINA.”
From: Hotline Bristol Part Deux

“Boasting an intense work ethic and a wildly experimental outlook that reaches from synth prog to folk-rock, the stats on Australian psychedelic collective King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s colourful career are stacking up fast, with 25 albums thus far – 13 of which charted in Australia’s Top 20.”
From: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

“Join us at Bristol's southbank">SouthBank for an evening of folk and experimental acoustic music with Buck Curran, Holly Blackshaw & Toby Hay and Glenn Kimpton.”
From: Buck Curran Holly Blackshaw Toby Hay GlennKimpton

Trending Experimental Music Gigs

NikNak at Dareshack
— Dareshack
turntablism experimental
BNM: Edward George & Kevin Martin in Conversation at The Cube
— The Cube
techno dub experimental
HAAL  w/ Jerome & Ekhidna at Rough Trade Bristol
— Rough Trade Bristol
alternative rock post rock experimental industrial trip hop
The Book Club + Clemencie & Half Happy at Rough Trade Bristol
— Rough Trade Bristol
synthpop alternative rock indie rock shoegaze psych
TWIN TRIBES + WINGTIPS at Dareshack
— Dareshack
post-punk dark wave
Sunnbrella at The Louisiana
— The Louisiana
experimental pop synthpop indie rock shoegaze experimental

Bristol's Trending Live Music Venues

Exchange The Louisiana Jam Jar The Trinity Centre The Marble Factory Rough Trade Bristol
أحمد  / Josephine Foster / Skylla at Strange Brew
— Strange Brew
freak folk experimental
QWAK Club presents.. at The Cube
— The Cube
experimental
Keeley Forsyth at Bristol Beacon
— Bristol Beacon
experimental
Ryoji Ikeda presents ‘ultratronics’ +  Jlin at Bristol Beacon
— Bristol Beacon
art pop footwork experimental
Klein / Aho Ssan / Penumbra at Bristol Beacon
— Bristol Beacon
experimental
Elaine Mitchener/ Jules Reidy/ Lonnie Holley at Bristol Beacon
MINAMI DEUTSCH / 南ドイツ at Dareshack
— Dareshack
experimental rock rock alternative rock psych
Bristol New Music 2024 at Various venues
— Various venues
contemporary classical experimental festival
GROUP LISTENING at Dareshack
— Dareshack
contemporary classical experimental
DRAHLA at Dareshack
— Dareshack
alternative rock punk post-punk noise rock experimental
BIG BRAVE + AICHER at Dareshack
— Dareshack
metal alternative rock experimental noise
Yellow Days at The Trinity Centre
— The Trinity Centre
psych soul
The Rain Parade + special guests at Strange Brew
Oh, The Guilt & HAVVK - double album launch gig at Rough Trade Bristol
— Rough Trade Bristol
post-punk grunge shoegaze lgbtq+ drag